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Western Economics researchers are expert in a number of areas of economics and would be pleased to speak to the media, students or other researchers about their work.
Experts in their Fields
Audra Bowlus: Unemployment; Job Search; School-to-work Transition; Wage Differentials; Human Capital; Economic Impacts and Costs of Violence Against Women and Children
Tai-Yeong Chung: Government Contracts; Industry Policy
Simona Cociuba: Macroeconomics; Labour Economics.
Tim Conley: Statistics/Econometrics; Stimulus Spending; Economic Development in Developing Countries
Maria Goltsman: Game Theory; Strategic Analysis of Communication
Nail Kashaev: Econometric Theory; Applied Econometrics; Industrial Organization
David Laidler: monetary policy, monetary thought and monetary history
Lance Lochner: Effects of Education on Crime; Financing Higher Education; Early Childhood Development
Nirav Mehta: Competition in Public Education
Salvador Navarro: Crime; Discrimination; Productivity
Sergio Ocampo Diaz: macroeconomics with a focus on taxation (like wealth, capital, and income taxes), labor markets, and concentration (such as industry concentration or wealth concentration).
Greg Pavlov: Collusion; Optimal Selling Strategies; Price Discrimination
Ananth Ramanarayanan: International Trade; Sovereign Debt
Baxter Robinson: Entrepreneurship, Wealth Inequality, Firm Dynamics, Aggregate Productivity
Chris Robinson: Human Capital; Skills
Terry Sicular: China’s Economy; Developing Economies; Income Distribution
Al Slivinski: Charities and Charitable Giving; Competition Policy
Lars Stentoft: Financial Econometrics and Computational Finance
Todd Stinebrickner: Higher Education; Educational Attainment
Peter Streufert: Game Theory; Use of Mathematics in Economics
Ronald Wintrobe: Public Choice, Political Economy, Dictatorship
Charles Zheng: Auction Theory; Chinese History