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Economics Faculty Research Interests
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Thomas Breslin: inflation, economic growth |
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David Letcher: student learning and technology |
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Bozena Leven: economics of transition (formerly socialist) countries |
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Donka Mirtcheva: economics of health care, religion and economics |
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Michele Naples: macroeconomics, history of economic thought, gender issues, labor economics |
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Subarna Samanta: economic development, international trade, international finance |
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Donald Vandegrift: economics of law, behavioral economics, economics of land use, medical care spending |
Some Representative Publications
- Letcher, D. W., "Computer Skills of Entering Business School Students: Trends and Curriculum Implicatons," International Business Schools Computing Quarterly 11(1): 51- 58. 2003.
- Leven, B. 2005. "Corruption and Reforms: A Case of Poland's Medical Sector," Communist and Post-Communist Studies 38: 447-455.
- Leven B. 2005. "New Developments in Poland's Emigration – the EU Factor," Journal of East-West Business 12.
- Leven, B. 2008. "Poland's Transition and the Search for New Opportunities for Women, " Feminist Economics 14: 123-136.
- Naples, Michele I. 2008. "Labor Demand under Strategic Competition and the Cyclical Profit Squeeze," in Jon Goldstein & Michael Hillard, Eds., Heterodox Macroeconomics: Keynes, Marx and Globalization, London: Routledge.
- Powell, Lisa M., Sandy Slater, Donka Mirtcheva, Yanjun Bao, and Frank Chaloupka. 2007. "Food store availability and neighborhood characteristics in the United States, " Preventive Medicine 44(3): 189-195.
- Samanta, S. K. and Breslin, T. 2007. "Corruption and Economic Performance in several African Countries: An Analysis, " with S.K Samanta, Asian-African Journal of Economics and Econometrics 7: 417-428.
- Samanta, S. K. and Breslin, T. 2008. "Investment Flows, Economic Growth, and Corruption in African Countries: An Empirical Investigation, " with S.K. Samanta, Journal of African Business, (forthcoming).
- Vandegrift, D. and Brown, P. 2003 "Task Difficulty, Incentive Effects, and the Selection of High-Variance Strategies: An Experimental Examination of Tournament Behavior," Labour Economics 10: 481-497.
- Vandegrift, D. and Datta, A. 2006. "Prescription Drug Expenditures in the U.S.: The Effect of Obesity, Demographics, and New Pharmaceutical Products," Southern Economic Journal 73: 515-529.
- Vandegrift, D., Yavas, A. and Brown, P. 2007. "Incentive Effects and Overcrowding in Tournaments: An Experimental Analysis," Experimental Economics 10: 345-368.
