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Faculty

Faculty

Prusa, Thomas

  • Prusa, Thomas
  • Position: Professor of Economics
  • Specialty: International Trade, International Trade Policy
  • Location: New Jersey Hall 309
  • Phone: 848-932-8646
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Thomas Prusa is Professor of Economics at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey. Prior to joining Rutgers University he was a professor at State University of New York, Stony Brook. He also is a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge, Massachusetts. He received his PhD from Stanford University in 1988. He has published numerous articles in leading journals and books and has received “best article of the year” by Economic Inquiry and Review of International Economics. He has lectured in conferences and seminars to the World Trade Organization, European Union, the World Bank, the Federal Reserve, the World Trade Institute, the CATO Institute, the American Enterprise Institute, United Nations, Stanford University, Princeton University, New York University, and many others.  His research has been featured in The New York Times, The Economist, and Investor's Business Daily.  Prusa received the Rutgers University FAS Award for Distinguished Contributions to Undergraduate Education in 2001. While at Stony Brook he was recognized for outstanding contributions to undergraduate education in 1993 and awarded mentor of the year in 1992. He has provided expert testimony before the U.S. International Trade Commission on many occasions.

Selected Publications

  • Dumping and Antidumping Trade Protection (joint with Bruce Blonigen), 2019, Edward Elgar.
  • "The Hazardous Effects of Antidumping," (joint with Tibor Besedes) Economic Inquiry. 55(1) 2017, 9-30.  (Lead article).
  • "Ask for the Moon, Settle for the Stars: What is a Reasonable Period to Comply with WTO Awards?" (joint with Petros C. Mavroidis. Niall Meagher, and Tatiana Yanguas) World Trade Review, (2017) 16:2, 395-425.
  • "Are the Unfair Trade Laws Fair?", Harvard Economics Review, Fall 2016, 27-30.
  • "Dumping and Antidumping Duties" (joint with Bruce Blonigen) in Kyle W. Bagwell and Robert W. Staiger (eds.), Handbook of Commercial Policy, Volume 1B. Amsterdam, Netherlands: Elsevier, North Holland, 2016, 107-59.

Sjöström, Tomas

  • Sjöström, Tomas
  • Position: Distinguished Professor of Economics
  • Specialty: Game Theory, International Relations, Neuroeconomics
  • Location: New Jersey Hall 301C
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Tomas Sjöström is a Distinguished Professor of Economics at Rutgers. He did his undergraduate studies in Stockholm and received his Ph.D. from the University of Rochester. He taught at Harvard and Penn State before moving to Rutgers in 2004. He is a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and served on the economics Nobel prize committee for 12 years (2007 - 2018). His current interests include theories of conflict and behavioral economics.

Campbell, Colin

  • Campbell, Colin
  • Position: Associate Professor of Economics and Undergraduate Program Director
  • Specialty: Microeconomic Theory, Economics of Information
  • Location: New Jersey Hall 302
  • Phone: 848-932-8642

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Mizrach, Bruce

  • Mizrach, Bruce
  • Position: Professor of Economics
  • Specialty: Market Microstructure, Financial Crises, Behavioral Finance, Nonlinear Time Series
  • Location: New Jersey Hall 301D
  • Phone: 848-932-8636
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Bruce Mizrach is a professor in the Department of Economics at Rutgers University. He has held appointments at Boston College, the Wharton School, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, and NYU Stern. Mizrach is the founder and editor of Studies in Nonlinear Dynamics and Econometrics, which is devoted to using nonlinear analysis to understand economic and financial markets. His most recent work is on the market microstructure of electronic limit order markets in bonds, equities and greenhouse gases.

Selected Publications

  • Chung, Huimin, Cheng Gao, Jie Lu, and Bruce Mizrach, An Empirical Analysis of the Shanghai and Shenzen Limit Order Books, Economic Modeling, forthcoming.
  • Mizrach, Bruce, Leverage and VaR as Measures of Bank Distress, in Joseph Haubrich and Andrew Lo (eds.), Quantifying Systemic Risk, Chicago: U. Chicago Press for NBER, forthcoming.
  • Mizrach, Bruce, Jumps and Cojumps in Subprime Home Equity Derivatives, Journal of Portfolio Management, 38, 2012, 136-46.
  • Mizrach, Bruce, Integration of the Global Carbon Markets, Energy Economics 34, 2012, 335-49.

Piehl, Anne Morrison

  • Piehl, Anne
  • Position: Professor of Economics and Department Chair
  • Specialty: Law and Economics, Labor Economics
  • Location: New Jersey Hall 407/409
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Anne Morrison Piehl is Professor of Economics, Director of the Program in Criminal Justice at Rutgers University, and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. She conducts research on the economics of crime and criminal justice. Her current research analyzes the causes and consequences of the prison population boom, determinants of criminal sentencing outcomes, and the connections between immigration and crime, both historically and currently. Piehl is serving on two committees of the National Research Council of the National Academy of Sciences, a standing Committee on Law and Justice, and an ad-hoc committee on the Causes and Consequences of High Rates of Incarceration. She has testified before the United States Sentencing Commission and the U.S. House of Representatives subcommittee on Immigration and served on the New Jersey Commission on Government Efficiency and Reform (GEAR) Corrections/Sentencing Task Force. Before joining Rutgers in 2005, Piehl was on the faculty of the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. She received her A.B. from Harvard University and her Ph.D. from Princeton University, both in economics.

Selected Publications

  • “Sentencing Guidelines and Judicial Discretion: Quasi-experimental Evidence from Human Calculation Errors” (with Shawn D. Bushway and Emily G. Owens), Journal of Empirical Legal Studies 9(2) June 2012, 291-319.
  •  “Immigration, Crime, and Incarceration in Early 20th Century America” (with Carolyn Moehling), Demography, 46(4) November 2009, 739-763.
  • Prison State: The Challenge of Mass Incarceration (with Bert Useem), Cambridge University Press, March 2008.
  • “Testing for Structural Breaks in the Evaluation of Programs” (with Suzanne J. Cooper, David M. Kennedy, and Anthony A. Braga), Review of Economics and Statistics, 85(3), August 2003, 550-558.
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