David Arseneau is an economist in the Division of International Finance at the Federal Reserve Board. His research interests include monetary economics and macroeconomics, in particular the implications of real rigidities for optimal monetary and fiscal policy prescriptions. He received his PhD from the University of Virginia.
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Daniel Barth is a PhD candidate in the Department of Economics at Johns Hopkins University. His research interests include labor economics and household finance.
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Mark Beardsell is a Director of Credit Research at Fannie Mae focusing on loss reserve and loss forecast modeling. Prior to Fannie Mae, he spent 3 years at the residential mortgage analytics and data company LoanPerformance as Director of Risk Model analytics. He has also held risk management and quantitative modeling positions at Citigroup, Hibernia National Bank, and Fleet Financial Group since 1996. He enjoys running, hiking, and snow skiing. He received his Ph.D. in economics from Brown University.
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Ron Borzekowski [rborzeko "at" jhu "dot" edu] is an economist in the Financial Studies Section at the Federal Reserve Board. His research examines historical and recent developments in the payments industry; the adoption and impact of new technologies; and the strategic interactions among financial institutions. He received his PhD from Stanford University.
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Allan Brunner [allan "underline" brunner "at" yahoo "dot" com] is in the European Department at the International Monetary Fund. He serves as the desk economist for Sweden, and conducts research on various topics in applied macroeconomics. He received his PhD from Duke University.
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Cory Capps is a principal in the Antitrust Practice Group
at Bates White, an economic consulting firm. He formerly worked for the
Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice, was on the faculty at
Northwestern University's Kellogg School of management, and on the faculty of
the the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His research is on
Industrial Organization, with a particular focus on antitrust and the economics
of healthcare. He holds a PhD from Northwestern University.
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Curtis Carlson works for the Department of the Treasury as a tax policy analyst, specializing in corporate tax issues, and has worked as a Senior Economist for the Council of Economic Advisors. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Maryland.
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Sanjay Chugh is Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Maryland. Prior to his appointment there, he spent three years as a staff economist at the Federal Reserve Board. His research interests are in the theory of optimal monetary and fiscal policy and in developing quantitative macroeconomic models that allow for coordination frictions. He is an avid runner, having completed several marathons. He received his Ph.D. in economics from the University of Pennsylvania.
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James Cooper is the Deputy Director for Policy Planning at the Federal Trade Commission, where he focuses on state-imposed restraints on competition. His research interests include vertical relationships, the economics of information, and antitrust immunities. He received a Ph.D. in Economics from Emory University and a J.D. from George Mason University.
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Chris Dockins manages the Science Policy and Analysis Division at EPA's National Center for Environmental Economics. He has been at EPA since 1997, leading the agency's revision of its Guidelines for Preparing Economic Analysis, and developing regulatory analyses for air and water programs. His research has concentrated on the economics of health and risk. In his spare time he enjoys guitar playing and songwriting, and camping with his wife and two boys. He received his PhD from Duke University.
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Julia Driessen is a PhD Candidate in Economics at Johns Hopkins University. Her research interests include health economics and applied econometrics.
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Eric Emch is an economist at the Antitrust Division of the US Department of Justice, where he analyzes firms' competitive interactions in the context of merger and monopolization investigations. He recently worked as a Senior Economist at the Competition Division of the OECD, where he helped young competition authorities in Asia develop the antitrust and economics expertise of their staffs. His research has focused on antitrust economics and price-setting strategies, including aftermarket pricing and price-matching policies. He received his PhD from the University of California at Berkeley in 1999.
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Anna Fruttero is an economist at the World Bank. Her research includes work on distributional impact of fiscal reform, female migration, and inclusion of indigenous populations. She received her Ph.D. in Economics from New York University.
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Christopher Garmon is an economist with the Federal Trade Commission where he currently specializes in the economic analysis of hospital mergers. In addition to Johns Hopkins, where he won the 2007 Applied Economics' Excellence in Teaching Award, he has taught at Kenyon College and at the University of Florida. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Florida.
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Andrew Gillen is the Research Director of the Center for College Affordability and Productivity, a non-profit organization that focuses on education policy. He received his Ph.D from Florida State University.
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Nathan Goldstein [nate "dot" goldstein "at" verizon "dot" net] is Research Economist with the U.S. Department of Justice, Antitrust Division, where he conducts federal antitrust investigations and specializes in empirically intensive matters in network industries, such as telecommunications and electricity. He received his Ph.D. from Stanford University, where he has also taught.
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Elise Gould works at the Economic Policy Institute, where she specializes in health and labor related research.. She has published in academic journals, and in addition to her Health Economics class at Johns Hopkins, she teaches Econometrics to public policy students at George Washington University. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin.
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Patrick Greenlee is a Research Economist in the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice. His duties there include investigating proposed mergers and potentially anticompetitive business practices. His recent research has focused on loyalty pricing programs. In addition to the Applied Economics Program, he has taught at the Universities of Maryland and Virginia. He earned his PhD at Northwestern University.
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Charles Griffiths is an Economist at EPA's National Center for Environmental Economics. His research includes work on risk and benefits assessment, evaluation of voluntary programs, and air pollution and health impacts. He recently worked as a Senior Economist at the Council of Economic Advisers. He received his PhD from the University of Maryland.
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Danny Gubits is a researcher at Abt Associates Inc., where he works on projects in the areas of housing, self- sufficiency, and healthy marriage. He holds M.P.Aff. and M.B.A. degrees from the University of Texas at Austin, and a Ph.D. in economics from the Johns Hopkins University.
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Mina Kim [mkim98 "at" jhu "dot" edu] is a research economist at the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Her current research centers on international trade, labor, and industrial organization. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin.
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Thomas King is an economist in the Division of Monetary Affairs at the Federal Reserve Board. Prior to his appointment there, he spent several years at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. His research interests are in applied econometrics, macroeconomics, and finance. He received his Ph.D. in economics from Washington University.
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Robert Kneuper is a Senior Managing Economist with LECG where he provides consulting services relating to antitrust, damages and regulation. He previously spent more than 10 years at the Federal Trade Commission where he worked on various antitrust matters, including a number of major antitrust cases. He received his PhD from Clemson University.
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Matthew Knittel is an economist in the Office of Tax Policy, US Department of Treasury, where he specializes in corporate and business tax issues. Prior to his employment with US Treasury, heworked as an economist for the Michigan Department of Treasury specializing in business, property and tobacco tax issues. He received his Ph.D. from Michigan State University, where he also served as an instructor.
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Sang-Sub Lee is Risk Modeling Director at Freddie Mac. He has taught at the University of South Florida at Tampa, and at the Northern Virginia Campus of Virginia Tech as an adjunct, and was fellow at the Korea Insitute of Public Finance in Seoul, South Korea. He received his Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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Michael Lettau is a research economist at the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, where he works on issues related to employment and the level of compensation for workers. He has been teaching at the Applied Economics Program since 1999; he won the program's Excellence in Teaching award for 2008. His Ph.D. is from the University of Wisconsin. In his spare time, Mike enjoys playing softball.
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Kurt Lewis is an economist in the Division of Monetary Affairs at the Federal Reserve Board. In addition to undertaking research on forecasting methods, he has an interest in uncertain or information-constrained models of economic decision-making. Recently, much of his work has focused on financial markets and their relationship to broader macroeconomic conditions. He received his PhD from the University of Iowa.
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Bin Li is an economist in the Research Department at the International Monetary Fund,where she specializes in monetary policy and finance, in particular macro-financial linkages. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Chicago, where she also taught.
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Ahmed Mahmud is an economist whose research focuses on applying microeconomic theory in the fields of economic development and political economy. He obtained his PhD from Cornell University. In his spare time, he is an avid film buff.
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John McClelland [jdmcclelland "at" yahoo "dot" com] is in the Office of Tax Analysis at the Department of the Treasury, where he specializes in corporate tax issues. He has taught in the Applied Economics Program since 1998, and is the recipient of the program's 2005 Excellence in Teaching award. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Maryland.
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Robert McClelland is currently the Chief of the Price Index Research Division at the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Previously, he was with the Congressional Budget Office. He has published in journals such as the American Economic Review, the Review of Economics and Statistics and the Journal of Applied Econometrics. He has taught econometrics at Hopkins since 1999, receiving the Applied Economics' Excellence in Teaching award in 2006. He received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Davis.
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Aditi Mehta is an economist with the Antitrust Divison at the U.S. Department of Justice. She works on evaluating mergers and potentially anticompetitive business practices. Her research is primarily empirical and focuses on health care markets. She received her PhD from Boston University.
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Christopher Metcalf [chis "dot" metcalf "at" jhu "dot" edu] is a staff economist in the Bureau of Economics at the U.S. Federal Trade Commission. His research interests include industrial organization and applied microeconomics. He received his Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University.
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Alexandra Minicozzi works for the Congressional Budget Office as a health policy analyst. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin and has taught at the University of Texas, Northwestern University, and George Washington University. When not working, she is an avid soccer player.
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Gabriela Mundaca is a Research Fellow at the Ragnar Frisch Centre for Economic Research at the University of Oslo, Norway, and has been on the faculty there. She has visited at SAIS and at the Central Bank of Norway. Her articles have appeared in many refereed journals, and her teaching spans open economy macro, finance, and financial econometrics. She holds a PhD from the State University of New York at Stony Brook.
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Fabio Natalucci is a Senior Economist in the Monetary & Financial Stability section of the Federal Reserve Board, currently following the syndicated leveraged loan market and structured credit products. He received his Ph.D. in Economics from New York University.
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Richard Prisinzano is at the Department of the Treasury, where he works on the preparation of the President's Budget, and on allocating receipts to various Trust Funds. His research is primarily in the area of labor economics. He received his PhD from the University of Texas at Austin.
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Seth Pruitt is an economist in the Division of International Finance at the Federal Reserve Board. His research interests include monetary economics and macroeconomics, in particular the measurement and theoretical implications of market participants' expectations of monetary policy. He received his PhD from the University of California, San Diego.
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Jeremy Rudd [Jeremy "dot" Rudd "at" frb "dot" gov] is a Senior Economist in the Macroeconomic Analysis section of the Federal Reserve Board, where he forecasts and analyzes price and wage inflation. He received his Ph.D. in Economics from Princeton University in 1997.
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John Schindler [john "dot" w "dot" schindler "at" frb "dot" gov] is Senior Economist at the Federal Reserve Board, currently working on issues related to U.S. trade and trade prices. In 2008-2009, he served as Chief International Economist at the Treasury Dept. He won Applied Economics' 2009 Excellence in Teaching Award. In Spring, 2009 he was a Visiting Scholar at the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean in Santiago, Chile, and was a Visiting Professor at the Pontifical Catholic University there. His PhD is from the University of Pennsylvania.
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Edward Seiler is Senior Economist at Fannie Mae. He is responsible for economic modeling for mortgage loan servicing. He was the lead developer in providing corporate-wide loss estimates resulting from hurricanes Katrina and Rita. He was previously employed as a manager at Bates White, an economics consulting firm, and in the Agricultural Economics department of the Hebrew University. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago, where he was a Fulbright scholar.
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Michael Shelby is Chief of the Economic Analysis Branch in the Office of Atmospheric Programs at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). He analyzes climate policy options and legislative proposals intended to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions. Dr. Shelby also oversees workshops with China , India , Mexico, and Brazil on climate policy and climate economic modeling tools. He has worked on air quality, air toxics, and transportation policy, and is author of numerous publications on energy and environmental policy. His Ph.D. is from Boston University.
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Hugette Sun is a research economist at the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Currently, her research focuses on labor and household decision making. In her spare time, she likes to play tennis, run, and cheer on her favorite sports teams. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin.
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Jonathan Veum is Market/Credit Risk and Strategy Director at Freddie Mac, where he is responsible for analytical models used to value fixed-income securities. He was previously Research Economist at the Bureau of Labor Statistics, where he analyzed job mobility and training. He has extensive teaching experience, including at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, at Greensboro, and at Elon College. He received his Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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David Weiskopf is a Vice President at Compass Lexecon, a leading economic consulting firm. He specializes in industrial organization, microeconomic analysis, consumer behavior, applied econometrics and statistics, and labor economics. He has presented theoretical and empirical papers and industry studies at academic conferences and at the Federal Trade Commission; co-authored studies that were submitted to the Federal Trade Commission, the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice, the Canadian Competition Bureau, and the Bundeskartellamt (German Federal Cartel Office); and published articles on merger simulation, demand estimation, and consumer complaint rates. He received his Ph.D. in economics from Vanderbilt University.
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Elliot Williams is an economist at the Bureau of Labor Statistics. His current research includes econometric theory and applied econometrics, real estate, and finance. He received his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of California, San Diego.
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Dean Williamson [Dean "dot" Williamson "at" usdoj "dot" gov] is Research Economist at the Antitrust Division of the US Department of Justice, where he specializes in the theory and empirical analysis of contracts and the financial structure of long-term exchange relations. He received his PhD from Caltech. In the 2007-2008 academic year he was the Victor H. Kramer Fellow at the Harvard Law School.
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Ran Zhang has research interests and teaching exprience in applied microeconomics, environmental economics, econometrics and corporate finance. She received her Ph.D. in economics from the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
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