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The University of Texas at Arlington

Economics

                                       
Amacher

Ryan C. Amacher, Professor
Ph.D., University of Virginia, 1971
Telephone: 817-272-3888        Office: 323
Email: amacher@uta.edu                 
Research Interests: International Economics, Public Finance, and Price Theory

Don Blackburn, Part-time Lecturer
M.A., Economics, The University of Texas at Arlington, 1985
Office: 313
Email: donb@endersolutions.com               
Research Interests: Computer Forecasting Models and Processes, Actuarial and Reinsurance Operations, Predictive Analytics, and Cost Measurement and Monitoring Software.

Tara Larson Brown, Visiting Assistant Professor
Ph.D., UT-Dallas, 2010
Telephone: 817-272-3284        Office: 320
Email: tara@uta.edu                
Research Interests: Experimental Economics, Behavioral Economics, Public Economics and Policy

C.Y. Choi, Associate Professor
Ph.D., The Ohio State University, 2000
Telephone: 817-272-3860         Office: 316
Email: cychoi@uta.edu                   
Research Interests: Open Economy Macroeconomics and Time-series Econometrics

William J. Crowder, Professor
Ph.D., Arizona State University, 1992
Telephone: 817-272-3147        Office: 314
Email: crowder@uta.edu                 
Research Interests: Open Economy Macroeconomics, International Finance, and Time Series Econometrics

Jeffrey DeSimone, Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Yale University, 1998
Telephone: 817-272-3286        Office: 331
Email: jdesimone@uta.edu                
Research Interests: Education, Health, Labor, and Public Economics

Daniel Himarios, Professor
Ph.D., Virginia Polytechnic University, 1984
Telephone: 817-272-3278        Office: 325
Email: himarios@uta.edu                
Research Interests: Economic Analysis, Macroeconomic Theory and Policy, Monetary Policy, and Applied Economics

Jane S. Himarios, Clinical Professor
Ph.D., Virginia Polytechnic University, 1988
Telephone: 817-272-3293        Office: 315
Email: jhimarios@uta.edu               
Research Interests: Principles of Macro- and Microeconomics, Money and Banking, Public Finance, and Labor Economics

Kathy A. Kelly, Lecturer
A.B.D., M.A., Southern Methodist University, 1989
Telephone: 817-272-3330        Office: 311
Email: kkelly@uta.edu                   
Research Interests: Money and Banking, International Trade, and Public Finance

Ronald W. Liggett, Lecturer
M.B.A, The University of Texas at Arlington, 1989
Telephone: 817-272-2635        Office: 318
Email: liggett@uta.edu                  
Research Interests: Economics of Crime, Money and Banking, and Economics of Social Issues

Roger E. Meiners, Professor
Ph.D., Virginia Polytechnic University, 1977
J.D., University of Miami, 1978
Telephone: 817-272-3116        Office: 309
Email: meiners@uta.edu                
Research Interests: Legal and Economic Aspects of Environmental Law

Roger LeRoy Miller, Research Professor
Ph.D., University of Chicago
B.A., Economics, University of California at Berkeley
Telephone: 817-272-3061        
Email: rogerleroy33031@yahoo.com                
Research Interests: Economic Education and Law and Economics

Craig Vincent Mitchell, Part-time Lecturer
Ph.D., Southwestern Baptist, Fort Worth
M.A. Economics - University of Texas at Arlington, 2011                                   
Telephone: 817-272-3383        Office: 317
Email: cvmitchell@uta.edu                   
Research Interests: Philosophy of Economics, New Institutional Economics and Environmental Economics

Joshua Price, Assistant Professor 
Ph.D., Cornell University Chicago, 2010
Telephone: 817-272-3221      Office: 326  
Email: japrice@uta.edu                
Research Interests: Economic Education and Law and Economics

Aaron D. Smallwood, Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Florida State University, 2001
Telephone: 817-272-3062        Office: 327
Email: smallwood@uta.edu            
Research Interests: Time Series Modeling with Application in International Finance

Christy Spivey, Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of Texas, 2006
Telephone: 817-272-1218        Office: 328
Email: cspivey@uta.edu           
Research Interests: Labor Economics, Applied Microeconometrics, and Health Economics.

Charles Steen, Part-time Lecturer
Ph.D., University of Virginia, 1998
J.D., University of Virginia, 1991
Office: 313
Email: docsteen@mindspring.com       
Research Interests: Law and Economics

Michael R. Ward, Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1993
Telephone: 817-272-3090        Office: 330
Email: mikeward@uta.edu             
Research Interests: Adoption and Competition in High Technology Industries, and Telecommunications and Pharmaceuticals

Roger E. Wehr, Lecturer
M.A., The University of Texas at Arlington, 1996
Telephone: 817-272-3287        Office: 301
Email: wehr@uta.edu                  
Research Interests: Money and Banking, Transportation, and European Economic Theory

Timothy Wunder, Assistant Clinical Professor, Graduate Advisor
Ph.D., Colorado State University, 2003
Telephone: 817-272-3257        Office: 319
Email: tim.wunder@uta.edu          
Research Interests: History of Economics, Thought and Methodology, Technology and the Economy, and International Economics

Mahmut Yasar, Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2002
Telephone: 817-272-3290        Office: 329
Email: myasar@uta.edu               
Research Interests: Trade and Investment, Productivity, Technological Change and Transfer, and Applied Microeconometrics

Ray (Rui) Zhong, Research Professor of Financial Economics
Ph.D., Cornell University,1998
Email: Rayzhong2@yahoo.com               
Research Interests: Corporate Finance, Financial Derivatives, Private Equity, and Venture Capital