SPEA - School of Public and Environmental Affairs

Economic policy, entrepreneurship, innovation, globalization, regional economic policy, industrial restructuring and government policy, small enterprises in Europe and the United States

Public Economics, Labor Economics, and Economic Development

Health Economics, Public Economics, Labor Economics

Quantitative policy modeling, productivity measurement in public and regulated industries, urban policy analysis

Behavioral impact of tax policies on labor supply, consumption, income and earnings, employment mode, health insurance purchases, charitable giving, and retirement savings; analysis of labor, business, and household income dynamics.

Sublethal health effects of environmental pollutants, especially pollutant effects on the developing organism, including the effects of polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins (PCDDs) and related congeners on the developing nervous system of birds exposed in the wild and under controlled laboratory conditions

Governmental and Non-Profit Accounting and Reporting. Financial Management in Non Profit Organizations. Governmental Budgeting and Finance. Financial (Corporate) Management.

Capital markets and financial intermediation, financial management, public budgeting and finance, financing e-government, financing economic development, environmental and infrastructure finance

Theory and practice of benefit-cost analysis, environmental and energy policy analysis, environmental and energy program evaluation; natural resource management in developing countries.

Ecology and management of rare species, landscape-level conservation under climate change, obstacles to conservation under climate change, integrating ecosystem research and endangered species management within adaptive management

Governmental finance, especially questions of policy and administration of sales and property taxation; state lotteries; public budgeting; public finance in countries of the former Soviet Union

Poverty and income maintenance with emphasis on child support enforcement, welfare reform, adolescent parenting, and methods of policy evaluation.

Financial management, information systems, and entrepreneurship

International political economy with emphasis on globalization; rise and fall of major powers; political conflict and how it interacts with international trade, democracy, and the environment; sustainable development; Middle East political economy

Domestic and international climate change policy, environmental policy implementation, carbon sequestration economics and law, energy law, U.S. Forest Service organizational design and management.

State and local public finance topics: property taxes; property assessment; local income taxes, zoning, local governance coordination, and tax amnesty programs

Urban and regional economic development and impact analysis, state-level energy policy analysis and modeling, state-level impacts of global climate change, quantitative analysis of local government management and labor relations issues, statistics and quantitative methods, econometric modeling, and strategic planning and management.

Health economics and policy—investigates the impact of state and federal regulations attempting to ease the availability of private and public health insurance for vulnerable populations on health insurance, health and labor market outcomes

Public and Nonprofit Financial Management, State and Local Government Finance, Quantitative Methodology

State and local finance, transportation safety, economic development, gaming policy