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Economic Policy
Focal points for economic policy expertise at Washington University include the departments of economics and political science in Arts & Sciences and various interdisciplinary research centers, including the Weidenbaum Center on the Economy, Government and Public Policy, the Center for Research in Economics and Strategy, the Center for Political Economy, the Center for Social Development and the Center for New Institutional Social Sciences.
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Sebastian Galiani
Associate Professor of Economics
Direct contact: (314) 935-9278
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galiani@wustl.edu
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Michele Boldrin
Joseph Gibson Hoyt Distinguished Professor in Arts and Sciences, economics
Professor Boldrin is an economist with a broad range of interests. His work includes research in business cycles and asset pricing; growth and demographic change; innovation and intellectual property; and public policy and the welfare state. Boldrin is a fellow of the Econometric Society. He is also ...
Expertise: Public policy, economic growth, innovation, business cycles, intellectual property, welfare, property rights, …
Direct contact: (314) 935-5636
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mboldrin@artsci.wustl.edu
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Gerrit De Geest
Professor of Law
De Geest specializes in comparative law and in law and economics. As a member of the European Group on an Integrated Contract Law and of the Economic Impact Group of the Common Principles of European Contract Law, De Geest has delved extensively into these issues and has served as the president of ...
Direct contact: (314) 935-7839
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degeest@wulaw.wustl.edu
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Cheryl Block
Professor of Law
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Cheryl Block is an expert in tax law and policy. Author of a leading book on corporate taxation, she has also written numerous articles on taxation, public policy relating to federal bailouts, legislative voting rules, social choice theory, federal budget process, and the interplay between tax and ...
Expertise: tax law and policy, corporate taxation, federal bailouts
Direct contact: (314) 935-6444
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cblock@wulaw.wustl.edu
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Carolyn Lesorogol
Assistant Professor of Social Work
Carolyn Lesorogol's main interests are in international social development and the dynamics of social change processes. She has studied these issues among African pastoralists in Kenya where she has conducted long term fieldwork examining the political and economic processes resulting in privatization ...
Expertise: international social development, capacity building and participatory development, institutional change, political economy, ethnographic research
Direct contact: (314) 935-8232
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clesorogol@wustl.edu
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Ignoring 'geologic reality'
Geologist decries floodplain development
April 1,
2008 --
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Midwesterners have to be wondering: Will April be the cruelest month? Patterns in the Midwest this spring are eerily reminiscent of 1993 and 1994, back-to-back years of serious flooding. Parallels this year include abnormally high levels of precipitation in late winter and early spring, early flooding in various regions, and record amounts of snow in states upstream. One thing Midwesterners have not learned is "geologic reality," says Robert E. Criss, Ph.D., professor of earth and planetary sciences in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis.
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We haven't yet hit bottom
Recession's root cause is consumer debt, expert says
March 31,
2008 --
While consumer spending once helped keep the economy healthy, rising consumer debt is the reason it's getting sick. The root cause of the current economic slowdown in the U.S. goes back several decades, according to an economics professor at Washington University in St. Louis.
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Missouri earthquake awareness month
Seminar to address ways to lessen earthquake damage
Feb. 6,
2008 -- The Department of Mechanical, Aerospace and Structural Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis is presenting a series of seminars and workshops on the topic of reducing the damage that would occur when a strong earthquake strikes the New Madrid fault area again.
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Wall Street roundup
Los Angeles Times
May 6,
2008 -- SEC member Paul Atkins is stepping down.
President Bush may nominate WUSTL law professor Troy Paredes for the post, said three people briefed on the matter who declined to be identified because the White House hasn't announced the choice.
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Backed patent bill in trouble in U.S. Senate
The Guardian (UK)
and 10 others
April 15,
2008 -- A long-negotiated patent overhaul bill sought by technology companies and opposed by big pharmaceutical makers ran into trouble in the U.S. Senate. Scott Kieff, WUSTL law professor and patent law expert, comments.
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Consumer Debt, Not Housing Bubble, May Be Root of Economic Woes
ConsumerAffairs.com
April 2,
2008 -- WUSTL's Steven Fazzari, economics professor, comments on rising consumer indebtedness and it's role in the economic slowdown. Fazzari sees fundamental changes in the economy that are reducing the effectiveness of consumer spending as an economic driver.
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Fed Bank Appoints Bullard as President
The Wall Street Journal
March 26,
2008 -- The Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, has appointed as president James Bullard, an 18-year veteran of the bank's research staff and an adjunct faculty memeber at WUSTL.
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Order in the jungle - Economics and the rule of law
The Economist
March 17,
2008 -- Article refers to the theory of WUSTL economist Douglass North and his view that stable, predictable laws encourage investment and growth.
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Commentary: Let The Markets Regulate Microsoft
Forbes.com
March 12,
2008 -- WUSTL law professor Scott Kieff writes a commentary about regulating Microsoft.
He is also a research fellow at Stanford University' s Hoover Institution, where he runs the Hoover Project on Commercializing Innovation, which studies the law, economics and politics of innovation.
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Analysis: Debate Unlikely to Change Race
Associated Press
and 66 others
Feb. 27,
2008 -- WUSTL's Wayne Fields comments on final pitches by Democratic presidential candidates as they head into the last weeks of primary elections.
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Group says it has mapped corn genome
Associated Press
and 76 others
Feb. 26,
2008 -- Richard Wilson, director of WUSTL's Genome Sequencing Center, comments on the successful mapping of the corn genome.
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In time of tumult, obscure economist gains currency
The Wall Street Journal
Aug. 20,
2007 -- The recent market turmoil is rocking investors around the globe. But it is raising the stock of one person: a little-known economist named Hyman Minsky, whose views have suddenly become very popular.
Minsky, who taught economics at WUSTL and died more than a decade ago, spent much of his career advancing the idea that financial systems are inherently susceptible to bouts of speculation that, if they last long enough, end in crises. At a time when many economists were coming to believe in the efficiency of markets, Mr. Minsky was considered somewhat of a radical for his stress on their tendency toward excess and upheaval.
Former WUSTL economics professor Laurence Meyer and current economics professor Steven Fazzari comment.
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Cashing in on the market chaos
ABC News
Aug. 17,
2007 -- There is opportunity in chaos. People with an appetite for risk can still make money in the rocky financial markets and rest assured many are trying.
So how do so-called smart people make money when everyone else is sweating it? Simply stated, they buy things that no one else wants and get a steep discount in the process.
WUSTL business professor and former business school dean Stuart Greenbaum comments.
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What's Lacking in 'Sicko'
The New York Times
and 3 others
July 9,
2007 -- WHEN it comes to economic decisions, there are always trade-offs. Gain one thing and you lose something else. This is particularly true in health care, a market in which a scarce good is ridiculously expensive, but needed by everybody.
WUSTL economist Charles Courtemanche looks at the economic points in Michael Moore's movie 'Sicko.'
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Hopes for a Renaissance After Exodus in St. Louis
The New York Times
and 3 others
April 17,
2007 -- Article looks at St. Louis' effort to rebuild its image in the face of population loss and public school accreditation problems.
WUSTL architecture professor John Hoal, who has been involved in numerous municipal planning projects, comments on the redevelopment effort.
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Microsoft's European experience troubling for U.S. companies
SiliconValley.com
and 9 others
March 15,
2007 -- WUSTL law professors Scott Kieff and Troy Paredes along with a Stanford colleague write that the latest regulatory actions by the competition unit of the European Union against Microsoft could have a profound impact on other U.S. companies doing business in Europe. Consumers may end up paying the freight for runaway regulation.
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In N.Va., Let Down By a Rising Economy
Washington Post, Seattle Times
and 5 others
Feb. 28,
2007 -- Article looks at a growing underside of the vibrant, rapidly shifting economy of northern Virginia, where the high cost of housing and the unpredictable nature of the job market can plunge workers into poverty and homelessness.
The situation in northern Virginia is similar to those surfacing nationwide.
WUSTL social work professor Mark Rank is one of the experts commenting.
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Big Oil headed for tougher Congress
The Christian Science Monitor
Nov. 15,
2006 -- The Democratic leadership has already indicated it will try to repeal earlier tax breaks for oil companies. A gusher of new legislation could develop as well, as Democrats get a chance to see their energy bills move past the trash can. In fact, the Democrats will try to put together their own version of a comprehensive energy bill that tackles everything from gas-mileage standards to tax breaks for alternative energy sources, some congressional analysts believe.
WUSTL political science professor Steven Smith comments.
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U.S. research making great leap
Philadelphia Inquirer
Nov. 6,
2006 -- Eager to tap into China's pool of dirt-cheap engineers and technical employees who earn $5,000 to $10,000 a year, hundreds of European and U.S. companies have opened research centers throughout China in the last two years.
WUSTL political science professor Andrew Mertha warns that companies should be careful because of the seriouis problem of intellectual property piracy.
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Commentary: Laureate Phelps
The Wall Street Journal
Oct. 18,
2006 -- Hoover Institution research fellow David Henderson writes about the work of Edmund Phelps, this year's Nobel laureate in economics. Phelps collaborated with Robert Pollak on his capital formation research. Pollak is now an economics professor at WUSTL.
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Judge again blocks flight attendants from striking against Northwest Airlines
Associated Press, Chicago Tribune
and 5 others
Sept. 22,
2006 -- Northwest Airlines Corp. flight attendants on Thursday asked to be released from federal mediation so they can strike the carrier after a federal judge ruled they couldn't walk off the job. WUSTL law professor and labor relations expert Neil Bernstein comments.
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Republicans tense as voter disillusionment sets in
USA Today
Sept. 5,
2006 -- Iraq is one of several tides running against GOP candidates, driving away independent voters and some party faithful. Except for Missouri, independent voters in five Senate races polled by USA Today were swinging toward the Democrat. Party loyalty was stronger among Democrats than Republicans in every state but Ohio. Michael Minta, professor of political science in Arts & Sciences, comments on how the stem cell research issue is dividing Republicans in Missouri.
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Bird extinction pace worries scientists
Kansas City Star
and 19 others
July 5,
2006 -- New research shows that birds are becoming extinct faster than scientists have thought.
A group of scientists that included WUSTL biology professor and conservationist Peter Raven, president of the Missouri Botanical Garden, revised the existing extinction estimate to take into account ongoing fossil discoveries of extinct species and missing birds not yet classified as extinct. The results of their study appear this week in the online early edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
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