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Economics Department Staff

Pedro H. Albuquerque is an Assistant Professor with the Department of Economics since Fall 2007. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Wisconsin - Madison. Before joining us he spent five years as an Assistant Professor at Texas A&M International University and worked as Economic Researcher and Advisor with the Central Bank of Brazil and the International Monetary Fund. His teaching and research interests are in the fields of Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics, International Economics, Econometrics, Public Economics, and Law and Economics.

Dr. Albuquerque has articles published in the Journal of Applied Econometrics, the International Tax and Public Finance, and the Crime, Law and Social Change, among others. Some of his research has extrapolated the academic domain; for example, his work on bank account debits taxation and Mexican-American border crime has received the attention of the general and specialized press in different countries, contributing to the public debate on these matters.

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Curt L. Anderson is a Professor and Morse-Alumni Distinguished Teacher of Economics and Director of the Center for Economic Education at the University of Minnesota Duluth. He completed both his undergraduate and graduate work at the University of Wyoming, receiving his Ph.D. in Economics in 1980. His teaching interests are natural resource and environmental economics and economic education.

Dr. Anderson's research interests are also in natural resource and environmental economics and economic education. He has articles in the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, The Journal of Economic Education, and others. He also has written several curriculum books including Economics and the Environment, A Yen to Trade, and Seas, Trees, and Economies and has provided economic education workshops throughout the world including Australia, Central Asia, Eastern Europe, Japan, and Russia. He is currently President of the National Association of Economic Educators.

David Doorn is an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Minnesota Duluth. David has been on the UMD Economics faculty since 2004; he joined us after working for two years at the Bureau of Labor Statistics in Kansas City. He received his undergraduate degree in Economics from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. David received his Ph.D. from North Carolina State in December 2003 with a specialization in econometrics. His teaching interests are in the area of macroeconomics and econometrics.

Dr. Doorn’s research activities focus on macroeconomics, applied time series econometrics, wavelet analysis of time series, and business cycle behavior.

Wayne A. Jesswein is Associate Dean of the Labovitz School of Business and Economics and Professor of Economics at the University of Minnesota Duluth. He has been on the UMD Economics Faculty since 1968, including 5 terms as Chair of the Department. He received his B.A. in Government from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale and his M.A. and Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Illinois at Urbana. Jesswein's teaching activities have focused primarily on international economics, intermediate economic theory, and introductory economics.

Dr. Jesswein received the UMD Student Association Outstanding Faculty Award in 1979. His research interests have focused primarily on regional and applied economics as well as some pedagogical studies dealing with the role of economics in business school curricula. He has published a number of articles and research reports in these areas.

Susan Janssen is an Assistant Professor in the Sociology-Anthropology Department at the University of Minnesota Duluth. She teaches Statistics on an adjunct basis in the Department of Economics. She received her B.S. in Sociology from the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh in 1986; her M.S. in Sociology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1978; and her Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1982. She has taught at UMD since September, 1982. Her teaching interests are Statistics and Research Methods; Marriage and Family; Children, Youth, and Adolescents; Women's Issues; Social Inequality; Social Organizations; and Social Demography.

Dr. Janssen received a UMD College of Liberal Arts teaching award in 2002. Her research interests are marriage and family; youth and adolescence; families in comparative context, teaching statistics.

Richard W. Lichty is currently a Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Minnesota Duluth. He received his B.S.B Degree in Business Administration from Kansas State Teachers College and his M.A. and Ph.D. in Economics from Kansas State University. His teaching interests are regional, urban, and general economics.

Dr. Lichty is a past president of the Mid-Continent Regional Science Association and was the program chair for the June 2001 conference held in Duluth. He has recently co-authored a book, Urban Regional Economics, published by Iowa State University Press. He has served as the principal investigator for over $2 million in funded research. His awards and recognitions include two Joint Council on Economic Education national citations for innovative teaching of Economics and admission into the University of Minnesota Academy of Distinguished Teachers.

Christopher McIntosh joined the Department of Economics in Fall 2006 as an Assistant Professor. Chris recently received his Ph.D. from the University of Wyoming. He received his undergraduate degrees in Economics and Mathematics from the University of Minnesota Duluth in 2001. His teaching interests are in the areas of Industrial Organization, Government Regulation, and Managerial Economics.

Dr. McIntosh's research interests are in the areas of Experimental Economics, Industrial Organization, and Environmental and Natural Resource Economics. He has articles published in Agricultural and Resource Economics Review and Economic Letters.

A. Maureen O'Brien is a Morse-Alumni Distinguished Teaching Professor of Economics and Head of the Department of Economics at the University of Minnesota Duluth. Maureen has been on the UMD Economics faculty since 1983. She did her undergraduate work in economics at Auburn University. Her M.A. in Economics is from Oklahoma State and her Ph.D. in Economics is from West Virginia University. Her teaching activities have focused primarily on labor economics, statistics, and introductory economics. She teaches courses in the areas of managerial economics, history of economic thought, and the economics of poverty.

Dr. O'Brien's research activities, which have resulted in a number of published articles and research reports, have focused on regional employment issues as well as some studies investigating the process of teaching and learning in higher education.

Raymond L. Raab is a Professor of Economics at the University of Minnesota Duluth. He holds a B.A. Degree in Business Administration from Oakland University, an M.A. in Economics from the University of Denver, and a Ph.D. in Economics from Colorado State University. His teaching areas include microeconomics, statistics, government policy relating to business, and industrial organization.

Dr. Raab's recent research interests focus on issues of efficiency and the application of Data Envelopment Analysis in public and private applications. Recent work has appeared in the Journal of Regional Science, The Journal of Regional Analysis and Policy, Socio-Economic Planning Science, and The Journal of the Minnesota Academy of Science.

Becky Skurla is an Executive Administrative Specialist (or, as she prefers to be referred to, the Department Secretary) in the Department of Economics. She began working at UMD in 1975 and joined the Economics Department in 1982. In addition to being the clerical support person for the terrific faculty in the Department, she also has the pleasure of working with the UMD student community. She is an active member of AFSCME Local 3801 and is currently Chief Steward.

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