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	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 Telephone: 817-272-3061 Office: 312 Email: donb@endersolutions.com Research Interests: Computer Forecasting Models and Processes, Actuarial and Reinsurance Operations, Predictive Analytics, and Cost Measurement and Monitoring Software.
	C.Y.Choi, Assistant 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, Associate 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: 309 Email: himarios@uta.edu Research Interests: Economic Analysis, Macroeconomic Theory and Policy, Monetary Policy, and Applied Economics
	Jane S. Himarios, Senior Lecturer 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
	Cagatay Koc, Assistant Professor Ph.D., The University of Texas at Austin, 2000 Telephone: 817-272-3383 Office: 317 Email: ckoc@uta.edu Research Interests: Health Economics, Applied Econometrics, and Applied Microeconomics
	Courtney LaFountain, Assistant Professor Ph.D., Washington University, 2003 Telephone: 817-272-1218 Office: 328 Email: cllafountain@uta.edu Research Interests: Public Finance, Public Choice, Urban Economics, and Microeconomic Theory
	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
	Melissa S. Lind, Visiting Assistant Professor Ph.D., The University of Texas at Arlington, 2006 Telephone: 817-272-3284 Office: 320 Email: lind@uta.edu Research Interests: Corporate Finance, International Finance, and Managerial Economics
	Roger E. Meiners, Professor Ph.D., Virginia Polytechnic University, 1977 J.D., University of Miami, 1978 Telephone: 817-272-3116 Office: 321 Email: meiners@uta.edu Research Interests: Legal and Economic Aspects of Environmental Law
	Shushanik Papanyan, Assistant Professor Ph.D., University of Houston, 2005 Telephone: 817-272-3061 Office: 326 Email: papanyan@uta.edu Research Interests: Time Series Econometrics, Applied Macroeconomics, and International 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
	Charles Steen, Part-time Lecturer Ph.D., University of Virginia, 1998 J.D., University of Virginia, 1991 Telephone: 817-272-3148 Office: 312 Email: docsteen@mindspring.com Research Interests: Law and Economics
	James W. Turkett, Part-time Lecturer M.S., Operations Research, Southern Methodist University, 1984; M.A., Economics, The University of Texas at Arlington, 1977 Telephone: 817-272-3061 Office: 312 Email: turkett@uta.edu Research Interests: Generational Differences in the Workplace; Government Accounting Procedures, Energy Markets, Environmental and Agricultural 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, Graduate Advisor 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, Visiting Assistant Professor 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