Areas of Interest:

• Economics Growth
• Trade and Technological Change
• Governance
• Public Finance
• Risk Analysis
• Economics of Supply Chains

Education:

• Ph.D., Economics, University of Michigan, USA, 1983
• M.S., Applied Physics, Columbia University, USA, 1975
• BS, Physics, Miami University, Oxford, OH

Experience:

• Professor, Economics Department, University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee, 2003-present
• Co-Director and Visiting Professor, Center for Food Industry at the Dept. of Applied Economics, University of Minnesota, 2006-2007
• Associate Professor, Economics Department, University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee, 1990-2003

Latest Publications:

• “Heat Waves, Climate Change and Economic Output” forthcoming, Journal of the European Economic Association (with Kenn Chua, Jay Coggins, Steve Miller)
• “Catastrophe and Rational Policy: The Case of National Security” Economic Inquiry 2021. 59(1): 140-161 (DOI:10.1111/ecin.12925) (with Bryan Weber).
• “Kleptocracy and Tax Evasion under Resource Abundance” Economics and Politics 2019:1-51 (with Michael Ross, Uchechukwu Jarrett and Stefan Ruediger) 
• “Oil Price Volatility, Financial Institutions and Economic Growth” Energy Policy:2019, 126: 131-144 (with Kamiar Mohaddes and Uchechukwu Jarrett).
• “Natural Resources, Incentives and Human Capital: Reinterpreting the Curse” Middle East Development Journal 2018, 10(1): 1-30 (with Salim Araji)
• “Risk Mitigating Policies and Adversarial Behavior: Case of Backlash” Risk Analysis 2017, 37(3): 459–470