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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. |
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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.
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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Sebastien Oleas is an Instructor of Economics
at the University of Minnesota Duluth on a two-year term appointment.
He is from Ecuador, where he received his undergraduate degree
in Economics. He is wrapping-up his Ph.D. in Economics from
Arizona State University. He teaches Principles of Economics,
Statistics, and Microeconomic Analysis.
Mr. Oleas’ research interests are health economics,
insurance, industrial organization and information economics.
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Jerrold M. Peterson is a Professor of Economics
at the University of Minnesota Duluth. He earned his B.A.
degree in Economics from Knox College and his M.A. and Ph.D.
degrees in Economics and Finance for the Univeristy of Illinois
at Urbana-Champaign. He joined the faculty of UMD's Economics
Department in 1969, was promoted to associate professor with
tenure in 1974 and to full professor in 1980. His research
and teaching interests include macroeconmic theory, money
and banking, monetary economic theory, public finance, and
public economic policy.
Dr. Peterson was instrumental in establishing the National
Resources Research Institute (NRRI) at UMD and served as
its first coordinator in 1983-84. He also served as director
of UMD's Bureau of Business and Economic Research from 1980-83.
To date Dr. Peterson is the only UMD faculty memberto ever
be invited to speak before a joint session of the Minnesota
State Legislature; his expert testimony, which was broadcast
statewide on public radio and public television, helped make
the case for establishing the NRRI. He also has been quoted
widely in regional, state, and national news media on a wide
range of econmic issues; has served as a consultant to numerous
corporations and state/federal agencies; has generated $12.5
million in research and capital improvement grants; has written
over over 230 published articles, including "Estimating and
Effluent Charge: The Reverse Mining Case," which appeard
in Land Economics (August 1977) and has been cited
and paraphrased in both introductory and intermediate-level
microeconomic textbooks; and has developed a number of computer
simulations of the U.S. economy for use in his classes.
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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.
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Jennifer Schultz is an assistant
professor in the Department of Economics and Director of
the Health Care
Management
Program
at the University of Minnesota Duluth. She received her Ph.D.
in Health Services Research from the University of Minnesota
and her M.A. (ABD) in Economics from Washington State University.
Dr. Schultz’s research is in the area of health economics,
pharmacoeconomics, and health policy. She is currently
evaluating
the effects of health insurance benefit costs on demand
for full-time and part-time labor and retirement decisions.
Prior
to joining the University of Minnesota, Dr. Schultz was
a faculty member at Cornell University where she analyzed
consumer
decision-making in health care, use of health care information,
and perceptions of quality differences across health care
providers. She has published articles in the Journal of
Health
Economics, Health Services Research, Medical Care, American
Journal of Managed Care, and Milbank Quarterly and has
presented
research at academic and professional conferences.
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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 a steward.
In her spare time, Becky enjoys sewing, cooking, gardening,
shopping, and collecting stuff of all kinds. She is a charter
member of the Lake Superior Rose Society. |
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Bedassa Tadesse is Assistant Professor of Economics
at the University of Minnesota Duluth. He received his B.Sc.
Degree in Economics in Ethiopia, M.Sc. Degree in Development
Economics in India, and M.A. and Ph.D. in Applied Economics
from Western Michigan University, U.S.A. With his vast travel
and training experience from different parts of the world (Africa,
Asia, Europe and the United States), Dr. Tadesse's teaching
areas concentrate on International Economics, Economterics,
and Development Economics.
Dr. Tadesse's research areas focus on International Trade,
Foreign Direct Investment, and Economic Development problems
of the developing countries. His recent publications have
appeared in the Journal of International Trade and Development
Economics, Eastern Africa Social Science Research Review,
Journal of Rural Development, and Agricultural Economics.
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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.
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