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Economics, Finance
and Global Business
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Dr. Alexandros Panayides
Chair /
Associate Professor
EDUCATION:
Ph.D. -
Economics, SUNY Binghamton
M.A. -
Economics, SUNY Buffalo
M.S. -
Mathematics, University
of Frankfurt
SPECIAL
INTERESTS:
How improvements
in telecommunications technology affect urban concentration and the
growth of cities; how globalization affects the determination of wages
and employment; mathematical models with applications to economics.
COURSES
TAUGHT:
Managerial
Economics (ECON705 & ECON/FIN415); International Economics (ECON370);
Macroeconomics (ECON201)
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Dr. Giuliana Andreopoulos
Professor
EDUCATION:
Ph.D. - Economics, Cambridge University
M.Phil. - Economics, Cambridge University
B.A. - Political Science, University of Bolognay
SPECIAL INTERESTS:
Developmental economics and, in particular, growth and changes in the structure of production. History of economic thought; early mathematical formulations of classical economics. Gender economics and, in particular, female economists in academia, unpaid work and consumption, women and development.
COURSES TAUGHT:
Economic Growth and Development (ECON360); Money and Banking (ECON/FIN310); Macroeconomics (ECON201) |
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Dr. Sam N. Basu
Dean
of the Christos M. Cotsakos College of Business /
Professor
EDUCATION:
Ph.D.
– Business Administration (Finance),
University of Houston
MBA
– University of Saskatchewan
B.
Technology (Honors) – Indian Institute
of Technology, Kharagpur
Certificate in Management Accounting
SPECIAL
INTERESTS:
Banking,
Corporate Finance, New Venture Finance, Economic Deregulation, Retirement
Finance, Strategic Financial Management.
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Dr.
Francis Cai
MBA
Director / Professor
EDUCATION:
Ph.D. -
Financial Economics, The City University of New York
M.S. -
Management, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
B.S.- Automation
Control, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
SPECIAL
INTERESTS:
Investment
Analysis; Asset Valuation; Corporate Finance; Capital Structure
Analysis
COURSES TAUGHT:
Investment
Management (MBAE777); Advanced Managerial Finance (FIN430); Corporate Finance
(FIN320); Business Statistics (ECON210)
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Dr.
Haiyang Chen
Director: Global Financial Service Institute/Professor
EDUCATION:
Ph.D. -
Finance, Kent State University
M.A. -
Economics, Kent State University
M.I.M. -
Master of International Management, American Graduate School of
International Management (Thunderbird)
B.S. -
Economics/International Trade, University of International Business and
Economics
SPECIAL
INTERESTS:
Corporate
Finance; Personal Finance; International Business
COURSES
TAUGHT: International Economics and Finance (ECON/FIN755)
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Dr.
Richard Fosberg
Professor
EDUCATION:
Ph.D. -
Texas A&M University
MBA --
Texas A&M University
BBA ----
Southwest Texas State University
SPECIAL
INTERESTS:
Corporate
Governance and Managerial Compensation
COURSES
TAUGHT:
Corporate
Finance (FIN320); Microeconomics (ECON202)
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Dr.
Berch Haroian
Professor
EDUCATION:
Ph.D. -
Economics, New York University
M.A. -
Economics, New York University
SPECIAL
INTERESTS:
Economic
history; Money and banking
COURSES
TAUGHT:
Money and
Banking (ECON/FIN310); Microeconomic Principles (ECON202); Macroeconomic
Principles (ECON201)
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Dr. Taghi Ramin
Professor
EDUCATION:
Ph.D. - Economics, New York University
M.A. - Economics, Long Island University
B.S. - Economics, National University
SPECIAL INTERESTS:
Problems of less developed countries, urban problems, and environmental problems.
COURSES TAUGHT:
Managerial Economics (ECON415); Microeconomic Principles (ECON202); Macroeconomic Principles (ECON201) |

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Dr.
Martin Gritsch
Assistant
to
the Dean / Associate Professor
EDUCATION:
Ph.D.
- Economics, Texas A&M University
Dipl.-Vw.
- Economics, University of Siegen
SPECIAL
INTERESTS:
Immigration,
executive compensation, teaching of economics and statistics.
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Dr. Tricia Snyder
Associate
Professor
EDUCATION:
Ph.D.-
Economics, The University of Tennessee
B.S. -
Marketing/International Business, Florida State University
SPECIAL
INTERESTS:
Macroeconomics;
Monetary Policy; Financial Regulation, Public Finance and Tax Policy;
Efficiency Effects of Horizontal Bank Mergers
COURSES
TAUGHT:
Microeconomics
(ECON202); Macroeconomics (ECON201)
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Dr. Paul Swanson
Associate Professor
EDUCATION:
Ph.D. - Economics, Columbia University
M.Phil. - Economics, Columbia University
M.A. - Economics ,Columbia University
B.A. - Political Science, Iowa State University
SPECIAL INTERESTS:
The determination of occupational wage rates. I am also writing a quasi-textbook on the U.S. economy.
COURSES TAUGHT:
Business Statistics (ECON 210); Diversity in Organizations (ECON355); Macroeconomic Principles (ECON 201) |

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Dr. Lukas Dean
Instructor
EDUCATION:
Doctoral candidate in Personal Financial Planning, Texas Tech University
M.S. in MFHD, Brigham Young University (2005)
B.S. in MFHD w/ Minors in Business Mgmt & English, Brigham Young University (2003)
COURSES TAUGHT:
Intro to Personal Financial Planning (FIN 360)
Principles of Investments (FIN 435)
Retirement/Employee Benefits Planning (FIN 455)
Insurance/Risk Management (FIN 460)
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