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Visiting Scholars
Visiting scholars come to REAL from all over the world under various financial support schemes. During their stay at REAL they have the opportunity to exchange and discuss research views with REAL and University of Illinois faculty and students, which often leads to a joint publication of academic papers. In addition, at REAL faculty and students present their research in a weekly REAL seminar and visiting scholars are fervently invited to take part in it.
Below is a list of Visiting scholars profile and contact information, by alphabetical order of their last names.
Visiting scholars Spring 2013
Flaviane Souza Santiago
Mauricio Marins Machado
Liu Xinjian
Linxiu Huang
Kenia Barreiro de Souza
Huong Nguyen
Yanping Tian
Igor Maciel Silva
Yasna Cortes
Laura Varella Candamio
Fernando Rubiera
Elena Lasarte
Lorena Garcia-Alonso
Previous Years:
Ana Salomé García (Fall 2012)
Begoña Cueto (Fall 2012)
Elena Lasarte (Fall 2012)
Flaviane Souza Santiago (Fall 2012)
Lan Fei (Fall 2012)
Liu Xiuli (Fall 2012)
Metehan Yilgor (Fall 2012)
Sun Xu (Fall 2012)
Tian Yanping (Fall 2012)
Breno Augusto da Silva e Silva(Spring 2012)
Admir Betarelli(Spring 2012)
Cristina Miller(Spring 2012)
Joaquim Gillihoto(Spring 2012)
Xingxin Ren(Spring 2012)
Blanca Moreno Cuartas(Fall 2011)
Christian C. Ganzert(Fall 2011)
Lucy Abosede Kehinde(Spring 2011)
Sofia Aroca Ortuzar(Spring 2011)
Jeroen Bakker(Spring 2011)
Enlinson Carvalho de Mattos (Spring 2011)
Fernanda Satori Camargo da Cunha(Spring 2011)
Gustavo S. Cortes(Spring 2011)
Carlos Guevara Aguirre(Spring 2011)
Euijune Kim(Spring 2011)
Aline Souza Magalhaes (Spring 2011)
Dieter Pennerstorfer(Spring 2011)
Lei Ping(Spring 2011)
Rafael Terra(Spring 2011)
Hongxia Zhang(Spring 2011)
Elif Alkay (Spring 2006)
Birgit Aigner (Spring 2009 / Summer2010)
Giuseppe Arbia (Spring 2007)
Antonio Avedaño (Fall 2009)
Roberto Basile (Spring 2010)
Andre Fernandes Tomon Avelino(Spring 2006)
Pedro H. M. Bertolo (Spring 2009)
Johannes Bröcker (Spring 2010)
Muhammed Farooq Faisal Butt (Fall 2002)
Charles Carmona (Fall 2006)
Pedro G. Carvalho (Spring 2000)
Manuel Alejandro Cardenete Flores (Spring 2002)
Luiz Ricardo Cavalcante (Fall 2003)
Kerlyng Cecchini (Fall 2003)
Wen Chen (Fall 2006)
Fernanda Satori Camargo da Cunha (Fall 2006/Fall 2010)
Begoña Cueto (Summer 2010)
Sandy Dall'erba (Fall 2001)
Eduardo Simoes de Almeida (Fall 2001)
Edson P. Domingues (Fall 2000)
Mauro Ferrante (Fall 2006)
Esteban Fernandez Vazquez (Spring 2010)
Gabriela Sanchez Fernandez (Spring 2006)
Ricardo daSilva Freguglia (Fall 2006)
Josefina Flórez (Fall 2005)
Maria Angela Furlan Antigo (Spring 2009)
Fernanda Furuta (Fall 2008)
Ferhan Gezici (Spring 2001)
Barbara Grings (Spring 2001)
Ho Un Gim (Spring 2006)
Carolyn Dong Guo (Spring 2001)
Marcos Minoru Hasegawa (Fall 2001)
Sonny Harry B. Harmadi (Fall 2003)
Motonari Hayashida (Fall 2006)
Shiro Hioki (Spring 2004)
Yiannis Kamarianakis (Spring 2003)
Lucy Abosede Kehinde (Spring 2007)
Luiz Kehrle (Summer 2003)
Celia Kerstenetzky (Spring 2007)
Euijune Kim (Spring 2002/Fall 2010)
Mauro Borges Lemos (Fall 2002)
Eveline van Leeuwen (Fall 2009)
Guohua Liu (Spring 2007)
Xiuli Liu (Fall 2008)
Isidoro Romero Luna (Spring 200)
Erik Rego (Spring 2007)
Miguel A. Márquez (Spring 2001)
Daisuke Nakamura (Spring 2007)
Changgui Park (Spring 2005)
Jaehwa Park (Fall 2006)
Seungkyu Park (Fall 2003)
Lihong Peng (Fall 2006)
Marco Percoco (Fall 2002)
Fabiano Pereira (Fall 2008)
Gianfranco Piras (Spring 2005)
Jose Irineu Rangel Rigotti (Fall 2003)
Jose Irineu Rangel Rigotti (Spring 2009)
Janderson Damaceno dos Reis (Spring 2010)
Alejandro Rici Risquete (Summer 2009)
John Roy (Spring 2003)
Julie Le Gallo (Fall 2002)
Fernanda F. C. Perobelli (Fall 2002)
Fernando S. Perobelli (Fall 2002)
Roberta Rocha (Fall 2006)
Claudia Rodrigues (Spring 2009)
Luciano Sampaio (Spring 2009)
Gervasio F. Santos (Spring 2009)
Raul Santos (Spring 2009)
Silvia Harumi Toyoshima (Fall 2005)
Simone Uderman (Fall 2003)
Esther Velázquez Alonso (Fall 2003)
Andre Arruda Villela (Spring 2007)
Ana Viñuela (Summer 2010)
Masayo Wakabayashi (Fall 2001)
Zhenquan Wang (Spring 2009)
Rong Xu (Fall 2006)
Binjiang Yan (Fall 2009)
Yan Yang (Spring 2009)
Hee Sang Yu (Spring 2006)
Huayi Yu(Spring 2009)
Wen Yuyuan (Spring 2009)
Nian Yang (Spring 2005)
Gerold Zakarias (Spring 1999)
Ph.D. Candidate
Department of Quantitative Methods and Economic Theory
University “G. d’Annunzio” of Chieti-Pescara, ItalyDomenica Panzera is a Ph.D. Candidate in Economics and Statistics at the University of Chieti-Pescara, Italy. In 2003 she graduated in Economics and in 2009 she received her Master’s Degree in Methods of Evaluation, Forecasting and Control of Socio-Economic Systems at the University of Chieti-Pescara. Her main research interests are in spatial statistics and econometrics. Her first contact with REAL is in October 2011, as a visiting scholar, to work on a research project concerning the missing spatial data problem.
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Metehan Yilgor, Ph.D., Assistant Proffessor
Bandirma Faculty of Economics and Administrative Science
Department of Econometrics, Balikesir University, Turkey
Email: myilgor@gmail.com
Metehan Yilgor is an Asst. Prof of Econometrics at Balikesir University, Turkey. His PhD research is focused on the analaysis of twin defict in OECD Countries by using panel data models, advised by Prof. Dr. Selehattin Guris. He is also interested in panel data analysis and time series analysis. His current research concentrates on describing economic growth and analyzing regional economy in OECD countries and developing countries with adoption of panel data model.
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Özge Öner, PhD Candidate
The Centre for Entrepreneurship and Spatial Economics
Jönköping International Business School in Sweden
Email: Ozge.Oner@jibs.hj.se
Özge gained her BA in Economics from University of Marmara in Istanbul in 2008 prior to moving to Sweden for her graduate studies. She obtained her MSc in Economics with a focus on 'Creative Industries and Experience Economy' in June, 2010 at Jönköping International Business School. The very same year she started her PhD under the supervision of Johan Klaesson and Charlotta Mellander. Her research deals with several issues in relation to space of consumption, particularly focusing on the location dynamics of retail markets. Özge is also in close collaboration with Swedish Retail Research Institute (HUI). She has recently received a grant from Swedish Hospitality Industry's Research and Development Fund to conduct research on hospitality industry clusters in Sweden together with her supervisors. Özge has been a nomad over the past 6 years. She has visited Universidade Catolica Portuguesa in Porto, Portugal during her bachelor studies, University of Groningen in the Netherlands during her master studies. She has been living in Sweden for over 4 years where she calls her second home. Today she joined the REAL team at University of Illinois as a visiting scholar and she is ever happy to be a part of the team.
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PhD student University "G. d'Annunzio" of Chieti
Faculty of Economics
Department of Economic studies (DEC)
Viale della Pineta, 465129 Pescara (PE) Italy
Anna Gloria Billé is a PhD student at the Economics Department (DEC), University of “G. D’Annunzio” of Chieti, Italy. Her PhD research is advise by Professor Giuseppe Arbia and the research is on Spatial Discrete Choice Models and Spatial Limited Dependent Variable Models with an empirical application into health economic field. She is currently developing R codes to simulate data from a spatial autoregressive logit/probit model (SALM/SAPM) to compare different kind of estimation techniques (i.e. GMM, linearized GMM, FML, unilateral approximation of ML) and to prove their properties for large samples. She is also interesting in Bayesian inference for the same models. The application will be focus on describing individual choices of health care services in Italy with the adoption of a spatial multinomial model according to random utility theory.
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Roberto Benedetti is Full Professor in Economic Statistics at the University of Chieti-Pescara (Italy). In 1989 he joined Telespazio SpA were he worked on remotely sensed data. After spending one year as a visiting researcher at the National Centre for Geographic Information Analysis of the University of California at Santa Barbara and receiving a Ph.D. in Methodological Statistics from the University of Rome in 1994, from 1994 to 2001 he has held positions at the Italian National Statistical Institute as the head of the Agricultural Statistics Service. His current research interests focus on spatial data analysis, sample design and small area estimation.
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REGIOlab, Laboratorio de Análisis Económico Regional
Dpto. de Economía Aplicada, Universidad de Oviedo
Avda. del Cristo S/N, 33006 - Oviedo (Asturias)
Tel: 985 10 4997 Email: avinuela@uniovi.es
Ana Vinuela received her Master in European Economics from University College Dublin and since then has a teaching position in University of Oviedo, in Spain, where she got her BA in Economics. After her intense and first visit to REAL in June 2010, she finished her thesis dissertation, titled "Surpassing the Administrative Division Limits on Regional Analysis: Three Essays on Labour, Urban and Regional Economics". Using Spanish data at micro level and creating an alternative spatial aggregation based on the importance of agglomeration economies and location, some spatial patterns beyond the administrative division can be detected when studying topics such as the distribution of employment or internal migrations. Her current research deals with the definition of local labour markets and their possible applications in Regional Economic.
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Professor
Faculty of Economics
Universidad del Rosario
Bogota, D.C., Colombia
Email: luis.arguello@urosario.edu.co
https://sites.google.com/site/ricardoarguellocuervo/
Ricardo Arguello holds a PhD degree in Regional Science (Cornell University). His research interests delve around international trade issues and agricultural economics. He is currently working on a CGE model specialized in agriculture, to appraise the expected impact of further trade liberalization and sectoral policy changes in Colombia. He also has experience as a government official, as a consultant for international organizations, and in the private sector.
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Fei Lan
PhD, Lecturer
School of Management, Wuhan University of Technology
Wuhan, China, 430070
Email: flylancy@163.com; feilan@illinois.eduDr. Fei Lan received her PhD. in Management Science and Engineering in 2009 from Wuhan University of Technology. The topic of her dissertation was “Industrial Independent Innovation Capability: Evolvement and Evaluation”. Her major research interests are regional and industrial innovation system and platform; regional and industrial innovation capability; economics for innovation and technology; and innovation strategies for strategic emerging industry. Her first contact with REAL is in June, 2011, as a visiting scholar at REAL to do research on Co-evolutionary Game analysis on main actors of Regional Innovation System, and comparative analysis on China’s typical RIS and America’s typical RIS.
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Breno Augusto da Silva e Silva
Ph.D Candidate, Federal University of Viçosa (UFV), MG, Brazil
Department of Agricultural Economics
Viçosa, MG, Brazil
E-mail: breno.silva@ufv.br ; dasilvae@illinois.edu
Web: http://lattes.cnpq.br/0012656515535381
Breno Augusto da Silva e Silva is a Ph.D candidate in Applied Economics at the Federal University of Viçosa (UFV), MG, Brazil, currently in his third year. He received a B.A. degree in Economics in 2007 and a M.Sc. degree in Economics in 2009, both at the Federal University of Viçosa (UFV), MG, Brazil. His dissertation focuses on “The intersectoral redirecting of the foreign direct investment in the Brazilian Industry: impacts on the national economy”. The dissertation aims to verify if the redirection of the foreign direct investment to key sectors of the Brazilian Industry could result in the expansion of the national economy and, by gains in scale, in greater international competitiveness. Specifically, aims to analyze how the institutional factors affect the decision process concerning to the implementation of foreign direct investments in Brazil; determine the potential gains in terms of competitiveness and exportation growth related to the redirecting of the investments to key sectors of the Brazilian economy; and evaluate the contributions of this restructuring in the Brazilian industrial product in terms of employment, income and external balance of the national economy. For the purpose, he will utilize a General Equilibrium Model. Currently, he is a Visiting Scholar at the REAL, spending one year (from September 2011 to August 2012), sponsored by National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq), from Brazil.
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PhD, Assistant professor
University of Oviedo
School of Economics and Business
Department of Applied Economics
Avda. del Cristo s/n, 33006, Oviedo (Spain)
E-mail: morenob@uniovi.esDr. Blanca Moreno received her Ph. D. in Economics from the University of Oviedo (Spain) in 2005. The topic of her dissertation was ‘Economic Forecasting combination and forecasting evaluation methods: new approaches based on information theory measures”. Her areas of interests include the use entropy techniques to time disaggregation of economic series and also to the regional and energy modelling and forecasting. She is also interesting in environmental economics focusing in the economic impact of the transition to a low carbon energy sector. Her first contact with REAL is in September 2011, as a visiting scholar to estimate quarterly regional accounts by using an information theoretic approach.
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PhD. Candidate
University of São Paulo
Faculty of Economics, Administration and Accounting of Ribeirão Preto.
Ribeirão Preto, BrazilChristian Carvalho Ganzert is a PhD. candidate in Administration at University of São Paulo (USP). The visiting scholar has a MSc. in Administration (USP-2010) and a B.A. in Information Sciences (USP-2007). He is the coordinator of the Local Development Chapter of the Systems Thinking Group, directed by Prof. Dante P. Martinelli, his PhD Advisor, at FEARP-USP. Christian is spending four months at REAL to accomplish his PhD Dissertation, by the title "Systemic Development, Equity and Interdependency: The Search for a Conceptual Model for the Balance of Relationships of Regional Economic Agents by the Multidimensional Social Networks Analysis Approach". His latest works are related to Multidimensional Social Networks Analysis; development conceptual models; balance of the economic agents' relevance; political economics of information, communication and culture; competitive and environmental intelligence; IT management; regional innovation systems; systems thinking and systems theory. He worked at Bank of Brazil and at the Company of Data Processing of São Paulo State. Also teached in 5 private colleges in Brazil. His co-advisors from University of Illinois are Prof. Geoffrey Hewings and Prof. Werner Baer.
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PhD. Candidate
Email: diemer@wifa.uni-leipzig.deMr. Diemer received a Diploma degree in Economics (equivalent to the Master degree) from the University of Leipzig, Germany, in 2009. He is a Ph.D. candidate in Economics at the University of Leipzig. His research interests are Monetary Policy and Bank Regulation, especially in the European Monetary Union.
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Elif Alkay, Ph.D.
Research Assistant
Istanbul Technical University
Faculty of Architecture
Department of Urban and Regional Planning
Taskisla, 34437, Taksim, Istanbul , Turkey
E-mail: alkayel@itu.edu.tr
Dr. Alkay received a M. S. degree in Urban and Regional Planning from Istanbul Technical University in 1995. The topic of her dissertation is "Coastal Areas as a Landscape Element ". She received her Ph. D. in Urban and Regional Planning from the same university in July 2002. The topic of Ph. D. dissertation is "Measurement of Urban Green Areas Economic Values by Using Hedonic Pricing Method ".
Since December 1995 she has been working as research assistant at the same department of Istanbul Technical University. She has been a member of Turkish Section of Regional Science Association since 2004. Her research interests include urban economics, land economics.
Her first contact with REAL is in May 2006, as a visiting scholar to do research and develop models for economic development of urban areas, development corridors in urban areas and opportunity areas in urban areas.
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Birgit Aigner,
School of Management of CUAS
Carinthia, Austria
E-mail: B.Aigner@fh-kaernten.at
Birgit Aigner received her Diploma in Public Management in 2005 at the Carinthia University of Applied Sciences. Since then, she has been working as a research and teaching assistant at the School of Management of CUAS. In spring 2008 she has made first contact with REAL as a visiting scholar and returned to REAL in summer 2010 to do research for her dissertation. It focuses on the effects of ageing on private consumption in Austria and includes the development of an AIDS model for Austria. Further research interests are in the fields of regional economics (location decisions, promotion of economic development) and public finance (alternative forms of financing, PPP, privatization).
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Giuseppe Arbia, Full Professor of Statistics
University G. D'Annunzio of Chieti (Italy),
"LUISS (Libera Università Internazionale degli Studi Sociali) Guido Carli" in Rome,
University of Italian Switzerland in LuganoMore info at the personal website: http://www.unich.it/~arbia/
E-mail: arbia@unich.it
Giuseppe Arbia was born in Rome in 1958, graduated in Statistics in Rome, obtained his Ph.D in Cambridge (UK) and a post-doc at the University of California at Santa Barbara, USA. He is currently Full Professor of Statistics at the University G. D'Annunzio of Chieti (Italy), at "LUISS (Libera Università Internazionale degli Studi Sociali) Guido Carli" in Rome, and at the University of Italian Switzerland in Lugano. He was formerly Full Professor of Economic Statistics at the University of Padua and Associate Professor of Statistics at the University of Trento. He is a member of the International Statistical Institute, of the American Statistical Association, of the Royal Statistical Society, of the Regional Science Association and of the Italian Statistical Society. He is one of the founders and currently the Chair of the Spatial Econometrics Associations. He has obtained many prizes, awards and grants from NATO, NSF, Italian National Research Council and British Council amongst the others. Since 1995 his name is quoted in the Marquis Who's Who in the World.
During his career he has written 4 books and more 100 articles on scientific journals.
His research interests are mainly in the fields of spatial statistics and econometrics, GIS and image analysis, sampling techniques, environmetrics and the quantitative analysis of economic growth and poverty. Among the other research interests there are quantitative archaeology, quantitative finance and spatial epidemiology.
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Mariangela Furlan Antigo, Ph.D. Candidate
University of Minas Gerais
Department of Economics
Belo Horizonte, Brazil
E-mail: maantigo@illinois.edu, maantigo@cedeplar.ufmg.br
Mariangela is a Ph.D. candidate in Economics at Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil. She received a B.A. degree (2002) in Economics from Federal University of Viçosa, Brazil, and a M.S. degree (2005) in Economics from Federal University of Minas Gerais. Her dissertation focuses on the "Earnings Mobility and Inequality in Brazil ". Her research interests include social economics and labor. She has a fellowship from National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq) and her first contact with REAL was in Fall 2008(Fall 2008/Winter2009), as a visiting scholar to develop her Ph.D. dissertation.
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Antonio Jose Avendaño Arosemena, Ph.D. Candidate
Universidat Autònoma de Barcelona
Department of Applied Economics
Barcelona, España
E-mail: AntonioJose.Avendano@uab.cat , antoniojosea@gmail.com
Antonio received his bachelor’s degree in economics from the Universidad Nacional de Colombia in 2003, and his M.Sc. in Applied Economics from Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona in 2008, He is currently working for his Ph. D degree on Applied Economics at the same university from which he also holds a scholarship. His research interest includes urban economic and dual labor market theory. His first contact with REAL was in Fall 2009, like a visiting scholar.
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Roberto Basile
Senior Researcher
ISAE, Institute for Studies and Economic and Analyses
E-mail: r.basile@isae.it
Home Page: http://www.economiamc.org/ospiti_scheda.php?ID=112
Roberto Basile received a PhD in economics in Naples (Italy) and a M.A. degree in Economics at the University of Maastricht (The Netherlands). He is currently senior researcher at ISAE and contract Professor of Regional Economics at the University of Macerata. His research interests include: regional economics, spatial econometrics and firm behavior. His first contact with REAL was in Fall 2005, as a visiting scholar.
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Economic Geography
Department of Spatial Sciences
University of Groningen, the Netherlands
E-mail: j.c.t.bakker@student.rug.nl
Finished bachelors in Social Geography and Urban Planning in 2010, and now participating in the Network for European and United States Regional and Urban Studies (NEURUS) – program. Taking courses in the Department of Urban and Regional Planning, and doing research in the Regional Economics Applications Laboratory. This thesis research concerns the spatial decentralization of population in Detroit, Michigan, and the changing place of residence/ place of work ratios in the suburbs and central city.
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Student
Department of Economics at Universidade de São Paulo
E-mail: r.basile@isae.it
B.A. in Economics at Universidade de São Paulo (USP), in 2009. His field of research is the ethanol market in Brazil. In 2006, he made your first scientific initiation about the deregulation process of the Brazilian sugarcane sector occurred in the 1990’s decade. His final paper was about a Box-Jenkins forecast modeling for ethanol prices, internalizing the effects brought through its deregulation process. In 2008, he was visiting-scholar at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign sponsored by Lemann Institute. He wrote and presented a paper at REAL about the Inflation Targeting in Latin America. Currently, Pedro studies in a Broad Sense Graduation Program in Business Administration at Fundação Getúlio Vargas, Sao Paulo, Brazil.
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College of Economics and Management
Nanjing Agricultural University
Nanjing, China, 210095
E-mail:yanbinjian@hotmail.com, ybj83872@illinois.edu
Yan Binjian is a Ph.D. candidate in the college of economics and management, Nanjing Agricultural University. He received a B.A. degree(2005) in Management Science from Northwest University and a M.S. degree(2008) in Economics from Jiangsu Administrative Institute. His has published some papers in area of productivity analysis, regional economic growth and Computable General Equilibrium(CGE) on academic journals in China, such as Journal of Management Sciences in China, Statistical Research, Management Review, World Economic Papers, Systems Engineering. His first contact with REAL is in December 2008, as a visiting scholar at REAL for one year. He plans to explain and simulate the development of agribusiness in China using general equilibrium methods.
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Institute for Regional Research
and Department of Economics
Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel
Germany
E-mail: broecker@economics.uni-kiel.de
Professor Bröcker got his Doctor degree and his habilitation from the University of Kiel, Germany. He was professor of Macroeconomics and Regional Science at the Department of Transport of the Technical University Dresden, Germany, from 1993 to 2000 and has been professor of International and Regional Economics since 2000 at the University of Kiel. He is managing director of the Department of Economics and The Institute for Regional Research of Kiel University. He has widely published in regional and transport economics. His current interest is in dynamic spatial CGE modelling, applied to European cohesion and transport policies.
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Fernanda Sartori Camargo da Cunha,
E-mail: satori.f@gmail.com
Web: http://lattes.cnpq.br/3435514105292039
Fernanda Sartori Camargo da Cunha received her Bachelor and Master degrees in Economics from the University of São Paulo, Brazil, in 2003 and 2006. Most of her research uses applied economics in a structural analysis of the economic trends, regional analysis and Input-Output approach. She was a teacher assistant for Applied Input-Output Analysis and Microeconomics at the University of São Paulo (Brazil) in 2005 and 2006 and since April, 2007 to July, 2009, she was a teacher at Mackenzie University, College of Economics, Marketing and Business, where she taught courses in Microeconomics and Macroeconomics and was an advisor for several undergraduate theses. She also worked as an academic coordinator at BM&FBOVESPA S.A. the Brazilian Securities, Commodities and Futures Exchange where she developed and managed specialized courses to students and professional. Currently she is a Visiting Scholar at Regional Economics Applications Laboratory (REAL/UIUC).
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Muhammed Farooq Faisal Butt, Phd Candidate, MA, BSc (Hons)
School of Geography
University of Leeds
Woodhouse Lane
Leeds, West Yorkshire
UK LS2 9JT
E-mail: f.butt@geog.leeds.ac.uk
Tel: +44 113 343 6756Mr. Butt received a M.A. degree in Geographical Information Science from the University of Leeds in 2000. He is a Ph.D. candidate in Population Geography at the same university, currently in his second year. His thesis focuses on "Minority Ethnic Groups In Bradford: Monitoring and Understanding Their Demographic and Socio-Economic Profiles at Small Area Scale for Policy Formulation: ". His research interests are; social exclusion, ethnic segregation, small area estimates and policy formulation. His first contact with REAL was in Fall 2002, as a WUN (World Universities Network) visiting scholar to develop models for small area estimates and a comparative analysis between the UK and the US.
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Charles Ulises De Montreuil Carmona, Ph. D.
Professor of Finance
Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE)
Business Administration Department
Av. Professor Moraes Rego, 1235 Recife Pernambuco- BrazilE-mail: carmona@ufpe.br
Home Page: www.dca.ufpe.br/nefiProfessor Carmona received his Ph.D. in Finance from Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio) in Brazil in 1997. Since 1998 he has been working in Business Administration Department of Federal University of Pernambuco. He has been a member of Brazilian Finance Society, Brazilian Association of Post-Graduate Studies and Research in Administration, and Brazilian Operational Research Society. His research interests include: Risk Management, International Finance and Emerging Markets. Professor Carmona is also coordinator of Group of Finance Studies at Federal University of Pernambuco (NEFI). His first contact with REAL was in Fall 2006 as a visiting scholar to develop a research about Brazilian electric energy sector.
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Pedro G. Carvalho, Assistant Professor
Universidade da Beira Interior
Department of Economics and Management
6200 - Covilhã, Portugal
E-mail: pguedes@alpha2.ubi.ptDr. Pedro G. Carvalho had his first contact with REAL as a visiting scholar in Spring 2000, to do research and develop "social network analysis methodologies". The main goal was to look for pattern explaining differences in small towns performances. He ran a comparative study between Portugal and the US.
Dr. Carvalho received his Ph.D in June 2002 from Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal. His dissertation title was "Institutional Networks, Small Towns and Territorial Competitiveness". Dr. Carvalho received a M. A. degree in European Economics from Universidade de Coimbra in 1995, the topic of his thesis was "Housing Market in Portugal: cross section analysis in 1990". He is currently teaching regional and urban economics classes in the economics department of the Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal. Dr. Carvalho is still collaborating with REAL and is co-running a US-EU project to extend his empirical work to other European countries.
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M. Alejandro Cardenete Flores, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
University Pablo de Olavide at Sevilla
41013 Sevilla, Spain
E-mail: macarflo@dee.upo.es
Homepage: http://www.cardenete.da.ru
Professor Cardenete earned his B.S. in Economics and Business (1994) from University of Seville, Spain, and a Ph. D. in Economics (2000) from University of Huelva, Spain. The topic of his dissertation was "Applied General Equilibrium Models for Andalucía". Actually he is currently teaching at University Pablo de Olavide at Seville various undergraduate and graduate classes. His research interests include Input-Output Models, SAM Models and Regional Computable General Equilibrium Models. He is a member of American Economic Association and Spanish Economic Association. Actually he is sub-director of Universidad Internacional Menéndez Pelayo at Seville.
Professor Cardenete authored and co-authored some research papers and technical papers. His first contact with REAL was in Spring 2002, as Visiting Research Scholar, to develop CGE models for Spanish regions. Some of Dr. Cardenete research conducted at REAL appeared in Spanish and international journals of regional science.
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Luiz Ricardo Cavalcante, PhD Candidate
Federal University of Bahia, Bahia, Brazil
Luiz Ricardo Cavalcante received an M.S. degree in Administration from the Federal University of Bahia (Brazil) in 1997. Currently he is PhD candidate at the same University. His doctoral dissertation focuses on the role of the financial institutions on regional development. His main research interests are regional development, financial system and economic growth. He first came in touch with REAL in Fall 2003 when he become involved in a research project about fiscal incentives and regional development.
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Wen Chen, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Economics
School of Economics
Xiamen University
Xiamen City, 361005
Fujian Province, ChinaE-mail: wendych@xmu.edu.cn
Dr. Chen received her Ph.D. in Economics in June 2002. Her dissertation was Trade Effects of ASEAN Regional Trade Cooperation. She earned her MBA degree in 1999. She is currently an associate professor at Xiamen University, China. Her research interests are International Trade, Industrial Organization, Development Economics and East Asian Economy. Her first contact with REAL is in July 2006, as a Freeman Fellow to do research, to develop CGE models for China-ASEAN and to apply spatial quantitative methods for analyzing Chinese issues.
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Sandy Dall'erba, Ph.D. in Economics
University of Pau
Avenue du Doyen Poplawski,
Pau France
E-mail: dallerba@uiuc.edu
Mr. Dall'erba received a M.S. degree in International Economics from the University of Pau et les Pays de l'Adour in 2000. He received a Ph.D. in Economics at the same university. His thesis focuses on "The role of European regional development policies in the process of regional catching-up". His research interests are; inequality studies, economic geography, regional policies, industry location. His first contact with REAL was in Fall 2001, as a Fulbright visiting scholar to develop models for industry location and a comparative analysis between the EU and the US. One paper written by Mr. Dall'erba while at REAL was selected as Finalist in the 17th Annual Competition on the Charles M. Tiebout Prize in Regional Science 2003, Western Regional Science Association.
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Eduardo Simoes de Almeida, Ph.D Candidate
University of Sao Paulo
Department of Economics
Sao Paulo, BrazilE-mail: edualmei@usp.br,
Mr. de Almeida received his MA degree from University of Sao Paulo. The topic of his dissertation was "Institutional and Structural Changes in Brazilian economy in the early 1990s". He won the "BNDES Award of Economics" in 1997. He is a PhD candidate in Economics from the University of Sao Paulo. The topic of his PhD dissertation is on spatial computable general equilibrium. He has been a research assistant of the Institute of Economic Researches of University of Sao Paulo (FIPE-USP) since 1994.His research interests include Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) models, spatial economics, spatial econometrics, applied econometrics, spatial analysis and transportation economics.
His first contact with REAL was in Fall 2001, as a visiting scholar, to develop spatial models and to apply spatial quantitative methods for analyzing Brazilian issues.
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Edson P. Domingues, Ph.D. Candidate
University of Sao Paulo
Department of Economics
Sao Paulo, SP, Brazil
E-mail: epdomin@usp.brMr. Domingues received a M.A. degree in Economics from Fundaçao Getulio Vargas-Sao Paulo in 1998. The topic of his Thesis is "Consumer Durables Imports in Brazil: 1975-1997". He is a Ph. D. candidate in Economics from University of Sao Paulo. His current research area is regional economics and applied general equilibrium models.
His first contact with REAL was in Fall 2000, as a Fulbright visiting scholar to do research and develop models for regional impact in Brazil.
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Janderson Damaceno dos Reis, Ph.D. Candidate
Federal University of Ouro Preto - (UFOP)
Applied and Exact Science Department
Minas Gerais, Brazil
E-mail: jandersonreis@decea.ufop.br, dosreis@illinois.edu , r_janderson@yahoo.comJanderson Damaceno dos Reis received a M.S. degree in Applied Economics from the Federal University of Viçosa (UFV - Brazil) in 2002. Currently he is Ph.D. candidate at the University of São Paulo (USP – Brasil). He is assistant professor at the Federal University of Ouro Preto (Brazil) since 2005. His Ph.D. thesis assesses the possible welfare loss in the steel market in Brazil. His main research interests are Industrial Organization and Agricultural Economics. His first contact with REAL was in Fall 2009, as a visiting scholar.
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Weslem Faria, Ph.D. Candidate
University of Sao Paulo
Department of Economics
Sao Paulo, BrazilE-mail: wfaria@usp.br
Weslem Rodrigues Faria is PhD candidate in Economics at University of Sao Paulo (Brazil). He received B.A. degree (2006) at Federal University of Juiz de Fora and M.S. (2009) at Federal University of Minas Gerais both also in Economics. His research interest is in Energy Economics, Land Use and Climate Change focused on spatial aspects and in his dissertation is evaluating the “Assessing the economic effects of global climate change in Brazil” using an Energy-Land Use Interregional Computable General Equilibrium Model. He is spending one year at REAL (from March 2011 to February 2012) sponsored by National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq) from Brazil.
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Mauro Ferrante, Ph.D. Candidate
Università degli Studi di Palermo
Dipartimento di Metodi Quantitativi per le Scienze UmaneE-mail: mferrant@uiuc.edu
Mauro Ferrante received a B Sc. in Economics at University of Palermo , where he is currently a PhD Student in Tourism Sciences. His main research interests and dissertation topics are related to tourism economic impact evaluation, tourism statistics and to the application of GIS and spatial analysis on tourism.
His first contact with REAL was in Fall 2006 as a visiting scholar.
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Student
University of Sao Paulo
Department of Economics
Sao Paulo, BrazilE-mail: andre.tomon@terra.com.br
CV: http://lattes.cnpq.br/5814357560799425Andre Avelino is an undergraduate student of Economics at University of Sao Paulo and researcher from Nuclear and Energy Research Institute (IPEN). His research interests include I-O analysis, spatial economics, integrated resources planning, complex systems modeling, energy and environmental economics. He has been working with spatial analysis applied to energy planning since 2007.
His first contact with REAL was in Spring 2009, as a visiting scholar, to develop a project for FIPSE/CAPES scholarship “Global Talent Development for Sustainable Agricultural & Environmental Sciences Fields”.
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Esteban Fernández Vázquez, Ph.D.
University of Oviedo
Department of Applied Economics
33006, Oviedo (Spain)E-mail: evazquez@uniovi.es
Dr. Fernández received his Ph. D. in Economics from the University of Oviedo (Spain) in October 2004. The topic of his Ph. D. dissertation was ‘The use of entropy econometrics in decomposing structural change’. The concern of the thesis was to alleviate the degree of arbitrariness present in decomposition problems by applying entropy econometrics techniques. His current research interests focus in the use of such entropy techniques applied to spatial analysis, regional modeling and estimation of input-output tables. He is currently teaching Applied Econometrics in the Department of Applied Economics at the University of Oviedo. Dr. Fernández 's first visit to REAL was in Spring 2010 as a Visiting Research Scholar.
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Gabriela Sanchez Fernandez, Ph.D. Candidate
Polytechnic University of Madrid
Department of Agricultural Economics
Madrid, SpainE-mail: gszfz@eco.etsia.upm.es
gbszfz@gmail.comMs. Sanchez earned her B.S. in Agricultural Engineering (2000) from University of Sao Paulo , Brazil . She holds a M.S. degree in Agricultural Economics (2002) from Polytechnic University of Madrid, Spain. She is currently a Ph.D. Candidate in Agricultural and Environmental Economics at the same university. The topic of her Ph.D. thesis is "Economic Analysis of Water Tariffs within a Computable General Equilibrium Framework: an Application to a River Basin Area". Her main research interests among the environmental economics field are: welfare analysis of alternative economic instruments to assess environmental protection policies, economic growth and environmental quality issues, technology adoption and voluntary approaches to pollution control, green accounting and applied general equilibrium modelling of economy and environment. During the Spring 2006, she had her first contact at REAL as a research scholar to develop a subnational environmental CGE model for her Ph.D. thesis.
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Ricardo da Silva Freguglia, Ph.D. Candidate
University of Sao Paulo
Department of Economics
Sao Paulo, BrazilE-mail: ricfreg@usp.br ricardo.freguglia@ufjf.edu.br
Mr. Freguglia received his M.S. degree in Economics from the Federal University Fluminense - Brazil , in 2000. He is a Ph.D. candidate in Economics at University of Sao Paulo - Brazil . He has been an Assistant Professor at Federal University of Juiz de Fora, Brazil since 2000. His dissertation focuses on inter-regional and inter-industrial wage differentials and migration of workers among Brazilian states. His research interests are Labor Economics, Regional Economics and Applied Econometrics. His first contact with REAL was in Fall 2006, as a visiting scholar, to develop his dissertation topic.
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Fernanda Furuta, PhD. Candidate
University of Sao Paulo
Department of Accountancy
Sao Paulo, Brazil
E-mail: furuta@illinois.edu
fernanda_furuta@hotmail.com
Fernanda is a Ph.D. candidate in Accountancy at University of Sao Paulo, Brazil. She received a B.A. degree (2002) and a M.S. degree (2005) in Accountancy from the University of Sao Paulo. Her dissertation focuses on the " Impact of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act on the Brazilian Financial Market". Her research interests include accounting, internal control and corporate governance. She has a fellowship from The State of Sao Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) and The Research Institute of Accounting, Actuarial and Financial Foundation (FIPECAFI). Her first contact with REAL was in Spring 2008, as a visiting scholar to develop her Ph.D. dissertation.
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Josefina Flórez, Professor
Universidad Simón Bolívar
Departamento de Planificación Urbana
Apto. Postal 89.000
Caracas -1080. VenezuelaE-mail: jflorez@usb.ve
Dra. Josefina Flórez is a Professor at the Urban Planning Department of the Simon Bolivar University, in Caracas, Venezuela where she teachs in Urban Studies Program (under graduate) and Urban Transportation Master Degree. Her research interests are focused on: residential location choice, transportation and land-use interaction, accessibility and mobility patterns, pedestrian behavior and smart growth.
Josefina has a Degree in Urban Studies (Simon Bolivar University), a Specialization degree in Real Estate (Simon Bolivar University), and a Specialization on Urban Planning and Management (Spanish National Institute of Public Administration and Alcalá de Henares University, 1991). Josefina received her Doctoral degree from Polytechnic University of Catalonia (Barcelona, Spain) in 1998. Her dissertation title was Residential location choice, a function of accessibility, urban quality and socio-economic characteristics of neighborhoods. The case of Caracas (In Spanish). Honorific Mention European Doctor.
She spent part of her sabbatical year at REAL -September and December 2005- where she was researching on pedestrian behavior.
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Ferhan Gezici, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Istanbul Technical University
Faculty of Architecture
Department of Urban and Regional Planning
Taskisla, 80191, Taksim, Istanbul, Turkey
E-mail: gezicif@itu.edu.tr
Dr. Gezici received a M. S. degree in Urban and Regional Planning from Istanbul Technical University in 1991. The topic of her dissertation is "An Evaluation of Development of the Growth Centers in Thrace Sub-region". She received her Ph. D. in Urban and Regional Planning from the same university in July 1998. The topic of Ph. D. dissertation is " Effects of Tourism Activities on Sustainable Regional Development: A Comparative Study on Turkey".
Since December 1998 she has been working as assistant professor at the same department of Istanbul Technical University. She has been a member of Turkish Section of Regional Science Association since 1990. Her research interests include regional development, regional policy, tourism planning and development and tourism-environment.Her first contact with REAL was in Spring 2001, as a visiting scholar to do research and develop models for regional differences, competitive performance of regions and centers in Turkey.
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Carolyn Dong Guo, Ph.D. Candidate
Department of National Accounts
National Bureau of Statistics of China
Beijing, P.R.China
75 Yuetan Nanjie
Sanlihe, XiCheng District
Beijing, 100826-P.R.China
E-mail: dguo@uiuc.edu
Mrs. Guo received her Bachelor of Engineering in 1990 and a M.S. in Economics in 1995. Since 1995, she start working in the National Bureau of Statistics of China, engaged in macroeconomic analysis, GDP calculation and related research on methodology, input-output table compilation and input-output analysis. Her current research areas are regional economics and input-output analysis. Her first contact with REAL was in Spring 2001, as a visiting scholar to do researches in input-output analysis applied to China. In Spring 2002 she become a PhD student in the Department of Urban and Regional Planning and become a research assistant in REAL.
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Marcos Minoru Hasegawa, Ph.D. Candidate
University of Sao Paulo
Departament of Economics, Administration and Sociology, SP, Brazil
E-mail: mmhasega@carpa.ciagri.usp.brMr. Hasegawa holds a M.S. degree in Agricultural Economics from University of Sao Paulo in 1996. The topic of his thesis was "The slaughter cattle market of Sao Paulo State". Currently Mr. Hasegawa is pursuing a Ph.D. of Applied Economics at the University of Sao Paulo, his current research area is regional economics and applied general equilibrium model. First contact with REAL was in Fall 2002, as a visiting scholar to do research and develop models for regional forecasts in Brazil.
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Sonny Harry B. Harmadi, PhD Candidate
Economics Department
University of Indonesia
IndonesiaE-mail: sonny_harry@yahoo.com
sonnyhbh@uiuc.edu
Mr. Harmadi received a Bachelor degree in economics from the University of Airlangga, Surabaya, in 1997. His Bachelor thesis was about the Economic Integration in ASEAN countries. He received a Master of Science in economics from the University of Indonesia in 2001, his thesis was about the industrial agglomeration analysis in Jakarta (1975-1998). Currently he is a PhD candidate at the University of Indonesia, where he is a lecturer. His doctoral dissertation focuses on the relation between social welfare and interregional interaction in the provision of public goods.
His first contact with REAL was in Fall 2003, as a visiting scholar to research and develop the model for his dissertation.
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Motonari Hayashida, Research Economist
Socio-economic Research Center
Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry (CRIEPI)
2-11-1 Iwadokita, Komae-shi, Tokyo 201-8511 JAPANE-mail: m-haya@criepi.denken.or.jp
Motonari Hayashida works for CRIEPI in Tokyo , Japan . His main research field is the forecast of short-term Japanese economy and the simulation of the alternative scenario by using the macro-econometric model. He received Master degrees in Economics from Chiba University in 2004. The theme of his master's thesis is "Improvement of Japanese Business Index by Dynamic Factor Model (in Japanese)". Recently, he is also working in the issue of regional economics. During his stay in REAL, he is planning to develop the regional business indices in Japan .
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Shiro Hioki
Associate Professor
Graduate School of Economics and Management
Tohoku University
Sendai , JapanE-mail: hioki@econ.tohoku.ac.jp
Dr. Shiro Hioki has been in REAL as a visiting scholar in January 2004, to fulfill his research program, analysis on the interregional input-output structure of Chinese economy. He earned his B.A. (1992) and M.A. (1994) in Economics from Tohoku University , Japan . After that, he obtained Chinese government Scholarship and got Ph.D in Renmin University of China (Hons) in 2000. He majors in Area Study (Chinese Economy) and teaches studies on Asian Economies in Tohoku University . He had joined in the research group organized by State Information Center ( China ) and Institute of Developing Economy-JETRO ( Japan ) to construct the interregional input-output model forChina 2000. His current interests are in (1) the market integration of Chinese economy and (2) the economic integration of Asian economies, and (3) trade and the development of Chinese economy.
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Associate Professor
Economics and Trade College
Hunan University
ChinaE-mail:hjh@illinois.edu
Jianhuan Huang is an associate professor in Economics and Trade College of Hunan University in China. The university is one of the oldest institutions of higher education in the world, dating back to Yuelu Academy founded in 976 A.D. He received a PH.D degree in 2006 in Economics from Jinan University, Guangzhou, China. He used to work in a famous investment bank after his graduation from South China University of Technology with a Master degree in Investment Economics in 2001. He has published more than 30 papers in area of financial industry analysis, company governance, investment on academic journals and international conference. He will work as a visiting scholar at REAL for one year from Nov.2009 to Nov.2010. He plans to do some research in regional finance. You can get more information from this website: http://blog.sina.com.cn/jamehuan.
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Yiannis Kamarianakis
Research Associate
Regional Analysis Division
Institute of Applied and Computational Mathematics
Foundation for Research and Technology - HellasVasilika Vouton
P.O. Box 1527
GR - 71 110 Heraklion Crete, GreeceMr. Kamarianakis received a bachelor's degree in Mathematics from the University of Crete in 1998, and a M.Sc. in Statistics from the joint M.Sc. program of the Athens University of Economics and Business and Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in 2000. From 1999 to 2001 he was a graduate scholar at the Regional Analysis Division of the Institute of Applied and Computational Mathematics of the Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas. Since 2002 he is research associate at the aforementioned institute. In Fall 2001 he became a Ph.d. Candidate in the Department of Economics of the University of Crete. His first contact with REAL was in Spring 2003 as a visiting scholar, to do research and develop models for regional forecasts in Greece.
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Lucy Abosede Kehinde, Ph. D.
Visiting Research Assistant Professor
Regional Economics Applications Laboratory
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Email: kehinde@uiuc.eduLucy Abosede Kehinde earned her Ph.D. degree in 1994 from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Central to her work is the advancement of research in the dynamics of human group formation for economic development and change processes. With emphasis on the concepts of cognition, motivation, resource organization and the frameworks for responding to change in human needs and social conditions, Dr. Kehinde works with the premise that structural arrangement and resource (functional, fiscal and logistics) capacity is cognitive pattern dependent. In her research, she examines how the pattern of cognition, roles and relations shape the archetype and the goals of development policies and, in turn, shape the character of implementation and performance and the eventual outcome of policy decisions. As a Visiting Research Assistant Professor at Regional Economics Applications Laboratory (REAL) with Dr. Geoffrey J.D. Hewings, Director of REAL and Professor of Economic and Regional Science, Urban Planning and Geography, Dr. Kehinde presently focuses her work on African Development and the use of social accounting models to link macro and micro analysis and to enrich performance capacity in analytical modeling for public policy decision-making for economic development, growth, prosperity and security. For more information on Dr. Kehinde's biography, click here.
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Celia Kerstenetzky
Professor
Economics Department
Universidade Federal Fluminense ( Fluminense Federal University )
Niteroi, Rio de Janeiro, BrazilEmail: celiakersten@gmail.com
Professor Celia Kerstenetzky is full professor of Economics at the Universidade Federal Fluminense, Niteroi , the editor of the Brazilian Economics journal Economica, and vice-coordinator of the Economics PhD. Program in the Department of Economics at the Universidade Federal Fluminense. She is also a CNPq (Brazilian National Research Council) researcher. She holds a masters degree in Economics from Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro and a PhD. degree with distinction from the Political and Social Sciences Department at the European University Institute, Florence, Italy. Her main areas of research include economic methodology, the history of economic thought, with emphasis on contemporary thought, and normative economics and distributive justice theories. Her current research topics include the economic rationality assumption, inequality, welfare states and social policies. She is currently working on two projects: on possible notions of an enveloping rationality assumption in Economics; and on the relationship between contemporary social policies and conceptions of justice against the backdrop of different welfare state regimes, in order to argue for a reclassification of regimes. She stayed at the REAL from 14 January 2007 to 14 February, as a visiting scholar invited by the Economics Department.
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EuiJune Kim, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Development
Seoul National University, 599 Gwanak-ro, Gwanak-gu, Seoul Korea 151-921
E-mail: euijune@snu.ac.kr
Professor Kim holds a Ph.D. in Regional Science from Cornell University. He is currently teaching Urban and Regional Economics and Modeling at undergraduate and graduate level in Seoul National University. He is one of co-editors in Annals of Regional Science and his research interests include development of Computable General Equilibrium Models, and economic analysis of infrastructure investment strategies. He has spent sabbatical years in REAL as a visiting scholar in 2002-2003 and 2010-2011.
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Guohua Liu, Professor
School of Economics
Shandong University of Technology
Zibo City, 255049, Shandong Province, ChinaEmail: lgh9@163.com
Professor Liu received the Bachelor of Engineering in July 1982 and the M.S. in Economics in July 2000. She started working at the Shandong University of Technology in China in July 1982. Since July 2001, she has been working as the dean of School of Economics in Shandong University of Technology until she joined REAL recently. Her research interests are development economics and private economy development in China; she is particularly interested in small enterprises development and comparative analysis between China and USA. First contact with REAL was in early 2006 as visiting scholar.
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School of Economics
Department of Spatial Economics
VU University Amsterdam, the Netherlands
E-mail: eleeuwen@feweb.vu.nlEveline van Leeuwen was born in 1978 in the Netherlands. After finishing her bachelor and masters education at Wageningen University she went to the VU University in Amsterdam, to work as a junior researcher on mainly EU-funded projects. At the same time she started working on her dissertation about the importance of towns for the rural economy. In this thesis, a wide range of quantitative methodologies have been used such as: discrete choice analysis, meta-analysis, social accounting matrices and microsimulation. The final chapter of her thesis, in which micro-and macro approaches are integrated, was awarded with the best paper award for young scientists (Epainos Prize) at the ERSA conference in Liverpool, 2008.
The current work of Eveline consist of participating in several EU-funded projects about European agriculture (AG2020), different dimensions of sustainability (SMILE), and e-services for advanced access to cultural heritage in cities (ISAAC). In addition, she works on a nationally funded project about adaptation to climate change. Her main interests lie in combining existing operational methods, such as SAMs and microsimulation, and adding (a stronger) spatial component to this framework. In addition, she is interested in rural and regional development issues. Apart from a strong research task, Eveline also has various teaching activities.
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Associate Professor
Institute of Systems Science
Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS)
Beijing, China, 100190
E-mail: xiuli.liu@amss.ac.cnDr. Xiuli Liu, Associate Professor of Chinese Academy of Sciences, graduated from AMSS, CAS in 2004 with PhD degree majored in Management Science and Engineering.
Her research fields are mainly focused on input-occupancy-output analysis, econometric models; natural resources and sustainable development; macroeconomic forecast and decision support. She was a visiting scholar of REAL during 2008-2009 to make research on the “Economics Impact of Energy Consumption and Greenhouse Gas Emissions”. In July 2012 she visited REAL again for half a year to develop the Regional Water Security Integrated Multi-strategy Simulation Model.
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Isidoro Romero Luna, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
School of Economics and Business Sciences
Department Applied Economics I
Avda. Ramón y Cajal, 1
41018 – Seville, Spain
E-mail: isidoro@us.es
Home Page: http://www.personal.us.es/isidoro/
Dr. Isidoro Romero earned his B.S. in Economics (1996), his B.S. in Business Sciences (1998) and his Ph.D. in Economics (2003) from the University of Seville (Spain). The topic of his Ph.D. dissertation was “Endogenous development and Sectoral interdependence. An analysis of Andalusian production system”. He has been teaching different undergraduates and graduates courses at the University of Seville since 1997. His research interests include production chains in an input-output framework, the role of SMEs in regional development, and entrepreneurship policy. He has also been research visitor at University of Groningen (The Netherlands). His first contact with REAL was in Spring 2007 as a visiting scholar to do research about fragmentation of production systems.
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Miguel A. Márquez, Ph.D.
University of Extremadura
Department of Applied Economics
06071, Badajoz (Spain)Dr. Márquez received his Ph. D. in Economics from the University of Extremadura (Spain) in November 1998. The topic of his Ph. D. dissertation was 'Statistic-Econometric Modelling of a Regional Economy: the Case of Extremadura'. He is currently teaching Applied Econometrics in the Department of Applied Economics at the University of Extremadura in Badajoz.
Dr. Márquez's first visit to REAL was in Spring 2001 as a Visiting Research Scholar. He learned more about Spatial Econometrics under the guidance of Professor Luc Anselin. Additionally, he participated in Regional Economics seminars with the purpose of doing further research in this field and develop models for regional forecasts in Spain. Currently, he is working on regional forecasts, regional development, regional competition and spatial econometrics. During his subsequent stays at REAL, Dr. Márquez has been presenting his recent research papers and interacting with research colleagues there. Dr Márquez has co-authored various research papers in collaboration with researchers at REAL.
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Aline Souza Magalhaes, Ph.D candidate.
Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil.
E-mail: alinesmagalhaes@hotmail.com
Web: http://lattes.cnpq.br/2334700749602128
Aline Souza Magalhaes received a M.A. degree in Economics from the Federal University of Minas Gerais in 2007. She is a Ph.D. candidate in Regional Economics at the same university, currently in her third year. Her dissertation focuses on " Economics Impacts of Carbon Taxation and Cap-and-Trade Policies in Brazil". The dissertation aims to study the potential impacts of climate change and mitigation policies in Brazil, covering the analysis of sectoral and regional impacts. Her research interests are: Regional Economics, Input-Output Model, Computable General Equilibrium Model and Environmental Economics. Currently she is a Visiting Scholar at Regional Economics Applications Laboratory (REAL/UIUC).
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Enlinson Henrique Carvalho de Mattos, Associate Professor
Sao Paulo School of Economics, Getulio Vargas Foundation .
Rua Itapeva, 474 - 13 andar- Bela Vista 01332-000
Sao Paulo, SP
He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from the University of São Paulo-Ribeirão Preto campus, Master’s degree in Economics from the University of São Paulo and Ph.D in Economics- University of Illinois (2006). Research areas: Public Sector Economics, Fiscal Policy, Redistribution, and Federalism.
CV (full): http://buscatextual.cnpq.br/buscatextual/visualizacv.jsp?id=K4767115D1&idiomaExibicao=2
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Email: D.Nakamura@glasgowalumni.net
website: http://netfiles.uiuc.edu/drnakam/index.htm
Dr. Nakamura received his PhD at the University of Glasgow in 2006. The title of the thesis is "An Investigation of Market Areas and Supply Areas: An Integrated Framework". The concern of the thesis is to clarify the structural relevance between market areas and supply areas, applying the concept of spatial duality theory. His particular research interests are price theory, game theory and spatial economics. He joined REAL in February 2007 as a visiting scholar with the aim to work on several issues in location analysis with variety of specialists at REAL.
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Chang-Gui Park , Economist
The Bank of Korea
110, 3-Ga, Namdaemunno, Jung-Gu,
Seoul 100-794, KoreaEmail: changgui@uiuc.edu
Chang-Gui Park received Bachelor and Master degrees in Economics from the Pusan National University in 1986 and 1988. Since 1991, he is engaged in input-output table compilation, input-output analysis and analysis of regional economy at the Bank of Korea. His current research areas are Regional Input-Output models, SAM models, Computable General Equilibrium models and Regional Economics. His first contact with REAL was in spring 2005 as a visiting scholar to conduct research.
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Jaehwa Park, Ph.D., Post-Doctoral Fellow
Institute of Agricultural Science and Technology
Kyungpook National University
1370 Sankyuk-dong, Buk-gu
Daegu 702-701, KoreaEmail: nanaimoo@gmail.com
Dr. Park received his Ph. D. in Agricultural Economics from the Kyungpook National University in February 2005. The topic of Ph. D. dissertation is "A Study on Policy Analysis Model for the Establishment of Government Reinsurance under Crop Insurance Program". His first contact with REAL was in the beginning 2006 as visiting scholar. Recently, he selected as a Post-Doctoral Fellow by Korea Research Foundation in 2006. His project is about development of analytical models for farm income compensation program using computable general equilibrium framework and goal programming. His research interests include regional development, regional agricultural policy, farm income policy and rural - urban migration.
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Seungkyu Park, Ph.D. Candidate
Department of Urban Planning and Engineering
Yonsei University
134 Shinchondong Seodaemun-Gu,
Seoul, Korea 120-749Email: psk@uiuc.edu
Seungkyu Park received a Master degree in Urban Planning and Engineering from the University of Seoul in 2000. He worked for a real estate development company and then the Seoul Metropolitan Institute. Now he is a Ph.D. candidate in Urban Planning and Engineering at Yonsei University. His research focuses on spatial analysis using spatial econometrics and GIS. He is also interested in the study of industrial optimum location using spatial econometrics. His first contact with REAL was in fall 2003 as a visiting scholar, to research on the "Analysis of Spatial Effects of Seaport Investment on the Regional Economic Growth of Busan"
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WIFO - Österreichisches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung
Austrian Institute of Economic Research
Arsenal, Objekt 20 1030 Wien /
1030 Vienna
Österreich / Austria
Tel.: +43-1-7982601-473 Fax: +43-1-7989386
Email: dieter.pennerstorfer@wifo.ac.at
Website: http://www.wifo.ac.at/Dieter Pennerstorfer received his Doctor degree from the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration (WU) in 2008. Between 2004 and 2008 he worked as a teaching and research assistant at department of economics (institute of industrial economics) at the WU. Since 2008 he has been working for the Austrian Institute of Economic Research. His research interests are applied industrial organization, spatial competition and various fields of applied regional economics. He is a Visiting Scholar at the REAL in April and May 2011.
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Lihong Peng, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Renmin University
Faculty of International Economic
Department of Economic School
Beijing China(PRC) 100872Email: penglh@ruc.edu.cn
Dr. Peng received a M. S. degree in Microeconomics from Nankai Universityin 1993. The topic of her dissertation is "The Development of China's Enterprises Group".
She received her Ph. D. in Applied Statistics from Renmin Universityin March 2000. The topic of Ph. D. dissertation is "Theoretic and Empirical Analysis on Competitiveness of China's Enterprises".
Since July 1993 she has been working as assistant, lecturer and associate professor at the statistics department of Renmin University. She has worked as a post doctor at Guang Hua Management School of Peking Universty since November 2000. From January 2003 she has been a faculty of International Economic Department of Renmin University. Her research interests include competitiveness of micro economy, industrial structure.
Her first contact with REAL is in September 2006, as a visiting scholar to do research on industrial structure change in China's central area.
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Marco Percoco, Phd Candidate
University of Genoa and Bocconi University, Italy
E-mail: marco.percoco@uni-bocconi.it
Marco Percoco is a PhD student in Transport Economics at University of Genoa (Exp. 2003) and a research fellow at Bocconi University (Department of Economics and Center for Regional, Transport and Tourism Economics). He has published several papers on infrastructure and transport economics and regional development as well. In particular, his work has focused on the analysis of environmental variables in the context of project appraisal and on the impact of public capital on local economic growth. His first contact with REAL was in Fall 2002 as visiting scholar.
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Fabiano Maia Pereira, Ph.D. Candidate
University of Brasília
Department of Economics
Brasília, Brazil
E-mail: fabianomaia@hotmail.com
fabiano.pereira@fazenda.gov.br
Mr. Pereira received a M.S. degree in Economics from the Federal University of Minas Gerais - MG, Brazil, in 2002. He is Ph.D. candidate in Economics at University of Brasília - DF, Brazil. He has been a Head of domestic desk at National Treasury/Ministry of Finance - DF, Brazil since 2007. His thesis focuses on "Small Open Economy Models for Brazil: Tax System". His research interests are; macroeconomics and finance. His first contact with REAL was in Fall 2008, as visiting scholar..
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Gianfranco Piras, Phd Candidate
Tor Vergata University, Rome, Italy
Faculty of Economics, Dept. of Financial and Quantitative Methods
E-mail: gianfrancopiras@gmail.com
Mr. Piras received a B. Sc in Economics from the University "G.D'Annunzio" of Chieti-Pescara in 2001. He received a Master degree in Quantitative Methods from the University of Rome - Tor Vergata - where actually he is Ph.D. candidate in Econometrics and Empirical Economics. His thesis focuses on the application of spatial methodology to the analysis of the regional convergence process among European Regions. His main research interest are Spatial Panel Data Models, Regional Convergence, Regional Economics and Spatial Econometrics. He has been a research assistant of the Italian Institute for Study and Economic Analysis (ISAE). His first contact with REAL was in the beginning of 2005, as a visiting scholar, to develop spatial panel data models and to apply spatial quantitative methods for analyzing Regional Convergence.
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Jose Irineu Rangel Rigotti, PhD
Professor
Catholic University of Minas Gerais
Minas Gerais
Brazil
Jose Irineu Rangel Rigotti received a Doctorate degree in Demography from the Federal University of Minas Gerais (Brazil) in 1999. Currently he is Professor at Catholic University of Minas Gerais. His research focuses on migration, education and regional inequalities. His first contact with REAL was in Fall 2003, as visiting scholar to develop a spatial analysis model applied to migration and regional science methods.
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Julie Le Gallo, Ph.D.
IERSO (IFReDE-GRES) - Université Montesquieu-Bordeaux IV
Université de Bordeaux
Bordeaux, France
E-mail : legallo@u-bordeaux4.frDr Le Gallo received an M.S. degree in Economic Analysis and Policy from the University of Burgundy (France) in September 1998. The topic of her dissertation is "Space in econometric models". She received her Ph. D. in Economics from the same university in May 2002. Her dissertation title is " Geographic disparities and regional European convergence among European regions: a spatial econometric approach". Since September 1998, she has been working as teaching assistant at the Economics and Business Department of the University of Burgundy. Her research interests include applied econometrics, economic geography, regional growth and regional development analysis, spatial econometrics and Markov chains analysis. Her first contact with REAL was in September 2002, as a visiting scholar, to work on the application, development and software implementation of spatial econometric methods. Currently she is assistant professor of economics at the Université Montesquieu-Bordeaux IV, France.
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Esteban Lopez Ochoa, Msc.
Research Assistant
Universidad Católica del Norte
Antofagasta, Chile
E-mail: lopezoch@illinois.edu
Esteban has recently graduated from a Master of Regional Science in the Universidad Católica del Norte. His recently research has been devoted to analyze the Regional Inflation of Housing prices in Chile as a tool of generate an approximation of the general regional inflation in Chile. He is currently working in exploring the different methods and implications, of the previously estimated inflation, into the whole economy; and also looking for new ways to improve the actual measures of regional inflation. Finally his is currently applying to the Urban and Regional Planning Ph.D. Program at UIUC to begin next fall.
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Fernanda F. C. Perobelli, Ph.D. Candidate
University of Sao Paulo
Department of Business Administration
Sao Paulo, Brazil
E-mail: ffinotti@labfin.com.br
ffinotti@uiuc.eduMrs. Perobelli received a M.S. degree in Business Administration from Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro - RJ, Brazil, in 2000. She is Ph.D. candidate in Business Administration at University of Sao Paulo SP, Brazil. She has been working at Laboratory of Finance/ University of Sao Paulo since 2001. Her thesis focuses on "Corporate Credit Risk. Her research interests are: financial modeling, risk, corporate finance. Her first contact with REAL was in Fall 2002, as a visiting scholar to develop her doctoral thesis.
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Fernando S. Perobelli, Ph.D. Candidate
University of Sao Paulo
Department of Economics
Sao Paulo, BrazilE-mail: nandosp@usp.br
fperobel@uiuc.eduMr. Perobelli received a M.S. degree in Economics from the Federal University Fluminense - RJ, Brazil, in 1995. He is Ph.D. candidate in Economics at University of Sao Paulo - SP, Brazil. He has been an Assistant Prof. at Federal University of Juiz de Fora - MG, Brazil since 1996. His thesis focuses on "The role of International Trade in the Brazilian states economy" His research interests are; computable general equilibrium models, regional development, international trade and growth. His first contact with REAL was in Spring 2002, in a project between the University of Illinois and University of Sao Paulo sponsord by the Hewlett Foundation.
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Associate Professor of Economics
School of Humanities & Ecomomic Management, China University of Geosciences
Xueyuan Lu 29, Haidian District, Beijing, P. R. C, 100083
Email: leiping@ruc.edu.cn
Lei Ping received his BS in Fudan University, MS in Renmin University and Ph D in Peiking University ( all in China), and was post-doc in Tesinghua University. His interest include regional industry development and tourism economics, within these field dozens of paper published during the five past years. His first contact with REAL is in April 2010, as a visiting scholar at REAL for one year.
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Erik Eduardo Rego, Ph.D. Candidate
University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.
Erik has been teaching at the University of São Paulo in the Economics undergraduate program since 2005, and also has been working in an energy consulting firm since 2003. His research interests are energy auctions, energy economics, electricity markets, and power system planning.
E-mail: erikrego@usp.br, erikrego@yahoo.com
Erik was in REAL as visiting scholar from January to August 2009. He is PhD Candidate in Energy at the Energy and Electrotechnical College from the University of São Paulo and he earned his M.Sc. in Energy at the same College in 2007. Erik received a bachelor's degree in Economics from School of Economics, Business Administration and Accountancy in 2004, and a bachelor's degree in Industrial Engineer in 2000 from Polytechnic School, both at University of São Paulo.
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Alejandro Ricci Risquete, Ph.D. Candidate
University of Extremadura
Department of Economics
ES-06071 Badajoz (Spain)
E-mail:ale-ricci@hotmail.com; risquete@illinois.edu
Alejandro is a Ph.D. candidate in Economics at the University of Extremadura, Badajoz, Spain. He received his B.A. degree in Economics from the University of Extremadura, Spain, in June 2007. His dissertation focuses on the effects of fiscal policy coordination in the European Union. He has a fellowship from the Spanish Ministry of Education. That situation helped him to go to REAL to develop his Ph.D. dissertation for the first time in winter 2009, as a visiting scholar.
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Roberta de Moraes Rocha, Ph.D. Candidate
Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE)
Department of Economics
Rua Algaroba, n 51, Iputinga. CEP: 50670-270 Recife PE, Brasil
E-mail: roberta_rocha_pe@yahoo.com.br
Ms. Roberta Rocha received her M. S. degree in Economics at Federal University of Pernambuco (UPFE), Brazil , in 2004. Her main research interests and dissertation topics are related to urban growth, quality of life in cities and location choice, and Environmental Valuation Methods. In August 2006, she came to REAL as visiting scholar to develop part of her dissertation. She is currently scholarship holder of the CNPq (National Council for Scientific and Technological Development of Brazil).
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Claudia Rodriges, Ph.D. Candidate
Getulio Vargas Foundation
School of Economics
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
E-mail: rodrigs@illinois.edu
claudia_fontoura@yahoo.com
Claudia is a Ph.D. candidate in Economics at Getulio Vargas Foundation, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. She received a B.A. degree (1995) in Computer Science from University of Brasilia, Brazil, and a M.S. degree (2006) in Economics from Getulio Vargas Foundation. Her dissertation focuses on the "Growth convergence among brazilian states". Her research interests include econometrics and computer algorithms used to implement econometrics solutions. She has a fellowship from CnPq. Her first contact with REAL was in Winter 2009, as a visiting scholar to develop her Ph.D. dissertation.
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Gervasio Santos, Ph.D. Candidate
University of Sao Paulo
Department of Economics
Sao Paulo, Brazil
E-mail: gsantos@illinois.edu
Gervasio F. Santos is PhD candidate in Economics at University of Sao Paulo (Brazil). He received B.A. degree (1998) at State University of Maringa and M.S. (2003) at Federal University of Bahia both also in Economics. His research interest is in Energy Economics focused on spatial aspects of energy policy and in his dissertation is evaluating the “Regional Impacts of Energy Policy in Brazilian Economy” using an Energy Interregional Computable General Equilibrium Model. He is spending one year at REAL (from March 2008 to February 2009) sponsored by National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq) from Brazil.
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Rafael Terra de Menezes, Ph. D. Candite
Sao Paulo School of Economics – Getulio Vargas Foundation
Rafael is a PhD candidate in Economics at Sao Paulo School of Economics of Getulio Vargas Foundation. He received his B.A. degree (2003) in Economics from University of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil, and a M.S. degree in Applied Economics (2006) from University of Sao Paulo, Ribeirao Preto, Brazil. His master’s thesis focused on the Effects of the Fiscal Responsibility Law on local expenditures, which earned him the prize of the National Treasury Office in 2005. In several occasions between 2006 and 2010, he worked as consultant on Economics of Education for the UNDP and UNESCO in projects for the Brazilian Ministry of Education. His dissertation focuses on the demand for public provided goods. His research interest includes Public Choice, Redistributive Policies and Economics of Education. He earned a fellowship from CAPES foundation. His first contact with REAL was in the Fall 2010 (Fall 2010/Summer 2011) as a Visiting Scholar to develop his Ph.D. dissertation.
Sao Paulo, Brazil
E-mail: terradem@illinois.edu, rflterra@yahoo.com.br
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Professor of Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN)
Business Department
Natal, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil
E-mail: lsampaio@illinois.edu, luciano.sampaio@pq.cnpq.br
Luciano received his PhD in Economics (in 2004) and his MA degree in Production Engineering (in 2001), both at Federal University of Pernambuco, in Brazil. During his PhD, he spent one year studying at Sorbonne University – Paris 1, in France. He is currently a professor in the Business Department (graduate and undergraduate programs) at Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte. His research interests include game theory - Industrial Organization and Mechanism Design - and Agricultural Economics. His first contact with REAL was in Spring 2009, as a visiting scholar.
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Silvia Harumi Toyoshima, Assistant Professor
Federal University of Viçosa
Department of Economics
University Campus Viçosa 36.570-000 Minas Gerais _ Brazil
E-mail: htsilvia@ufv.brDr. Toyoshima received a M.S. degree in Economics from University of São Paulo in 1986. She received her Ph.D in Economics from State University of Campinas in 1997. The subject of her Ph.D dissertation is Technical progress, technological unemployment and economic growth brazilian economics in the 1990s. The main researcher interests are in economics development, regional development, spatial analysis, industrial clusters and innovation economics.
Her first contact with REAL was in Fall 2005, as visiting scholar, to research about industrial clusters and regional development.
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Simone Uderman, Ph.D. Candidate
Federal University of Bahia, Bahia, Brazil
E-mail: simone@seplan.ba.gov.br
Simone Uderman received a M.S. degree in Economics from the Federal University of Bahia (Brazil) in 1993. Currently she is Ph.D. candidate at the same University. She has been Adjunct Professor at the State University of Bahia (Brazil) since 1990. Her doctoral dissertation focuses on the role of planning in the Bahia industrialization process. Her main research interests are regional development, industrialization and economic growth. Her first contact with REAL was in Fall 2003, when she became involved in a research project about fiscal incentives and regional development.
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Esther Velázquez Alonso, Ph.D. (economics)
Assistant Professor
Universidad Pablo de Olavide
Seville, Spain
Email: evelalo@dee.upo.es
Tel: 34 95 434 93 61
Fax: 34 95 434 93 39
Professor Velázquez earned her B.S. in Economics and Business (1992) from University of Seville, Spain. She has a Master of Science in Environmental Sciences from the University of Seville (1994) and a Ph.D. in Economics (2001) from Pablo de Olavide University, Seville. The topic of her dissertation was "Water consumption and water pollution in Andalusia. An Input-Output and Graph Theory Analysis". Her research focuses on Input-Output analysis, General Equilibrium Models and theirs applications on natural resources and environment. Currently she is teaching at Pablo de Olavide University "Economy and Environment" and "Water Economics" and other postgraduate courses. She was a Visiting Research Scholar at Imperial College of London (2001) and at Regional Economics Applications Laboratory, University of Illinois (2003). During her stay at REAL, professor Velázquez was working on applying the PyIO software to input-output model of water and interacting with colleagues in REAL.
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Andre Arruda Villela,
Graduate School of Economics
Getulio Vargas Foundation
Rio de Janeiro, BrazilE-mail: aavillela@fgv.br
Mr. Villela majored in Economics at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (1989) and received his M.Sc. degree from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (1993). In 1999 he got his Ph.D. in Economic History from the University of London (LSE), with a thesis on 19th-century Brazilian monetary history. Since 2000 he has been teaching Brazilian and Western economic history to undergraduate students at Getulio Vargas Foundation. His academic interests are in economic history, history of economic thought and development economics. Mr. Villela stayed at REAL from mid-January to mid-February 2007, as a visiting scholar invited by the Department of Economics.
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Masayo Wakabayashi, Senior Researcher
Central Institute of Electric Power Industry
Tokyo, Japan
Email: m-waka@criepi.denken.or.jp
Mrs. Masayo Wakabayashi is a senior researcher at Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry in Tokyo, Japan. Her main field of research is macro economics. She has been concerned in the project of medium and long-term socioeconomic outlook, which is derived applying a combined macro-econometric and Input Output models. Recently, she is also working in the issue of environmental economics, which includes simulation analysis of trading carbon dioxide emission rights.
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Zhenquan Wang, Senior Researcher
Heading Professor
Center of Energy Economics Reseach Economics & Management School,
Beijing Institute of Petro-chemical Technology
Tel. & Fax 86-10-81294364
Email: wangzhenquan@bipt.edu
cn 19# Qingyuan Rd. Daxing, Beijing, P. R. China, 102617
Ph.D. in Management Sc. and Eng., Academy of Mathematics and Systems Sciences, CAS, Beijing, China, July, 2000. MS. in OR and Control Theory, Institute of Systems Science, CAS, Beijing, July 1988. B. Sc., in Applied Mathematics Hunan University, Changsha, Chna, June 1982.
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Rong Xu (Roberto Xu), Ph.D in finance
Assistant professor in School of Finance, Renmin University of China
Freeman Fellow visiting scholar in UIUC (2006-2007)
University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign
1103 Dorner Drive , MC-636
Urbana , IL 61801
Email: rongxu@uiuc.eduRobert received his Ph.D. from School of Finance , Renmin University of China in 2004. His Ph.D. thesis with the title of "Asset pricing and its implication for the macroeconomic fluctuations" won him the outstanding Ph.D. thesis honor in Renmin University. His research interests are mainly in Chinese stock market. He has published five papers in the leading academic journals in China, which mainly talk about the macroeconomic effects of Chinese stock market. Presently, he is working on the empirical analysis of Chinese stock market. He is good at tennis and won several prizes in the tennis matches in Beijing, however, among amateurs.
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Hee Sang Yu
Deputy Director
The Board of Audit and Inspection
Republic of Korea
112 Kaheo-Dong, Jongro-Ku
Seoul, 110-706, Korea
Email: yupine@hanmail.net
Mr. Yu recieved Master of Science in Policy Economics at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2005. He is currently working for the Board of Audit and Inspection, a Central Government agency in Republic of Korea. His major responsibility is to audit the decision making process of SOC projects initiated by central government. His first contact with REAL was in the beginning 2006 as visiting scholar.
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Yan Yang, Ph.D. Candidate
Institute of Regional and Urban Economics
Renmin University of China
Beijing, China, 100872
E-mail: maizeyy@hotmail.com, yyng@illinois.edu
Yan Yang is a Ph.D. candidate in the Institute of Regional and Urban Economics, Renmin University of China. She received a B.A. degree (2004) in law from Nanjing Normal University and a M.S. degree (2006) in Economics from Renmin University of China. Her research interests include regional economic endogenous growth, regional dynamic comparative advantage and the application of several regional economic models. Her first contact with REAL was in fall 2008, as a visiting scholar to do some research in spatial econometrics.
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Mingque Ye, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Economics
College of International Business and Management
Shanghai University
Shanghai 200444, China
Email: ymq@shu.edu.cn ymq@illinois.edu Dr. Ye received her Ph.D. in Management Science and Engineering in 2002 from Tianjin University, China. Her dissertation was “Research on Decision and Game of Complex Economic System based on Viability Theory”. She earned her M.S. degree (1998) with thesis “Simulation Methods and Its Application in Disequilibrium Modelling”. Currently she is an associate professor at Shanghai University, China. Her research interests are complex system theory, spatial econometrics and international trade. Her first contact with REAL is in August 2010, as a visiting scholar, to using spatial econometrics to analyze income distribution dynamics in China and the properties of World Trade Web.
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Huayi Yu, Ph.D. candidate
School of Economics
Renmin University of China
Beijing, 100872, P.R. China
E-mail: rucyhy@163.com and huayiyu@illinois.edu
Huayi Yu received his B.A. in Economics in June 2005 in Nankai University (China). Now, he is a Ph.D. candidate in economics at Renmin University of China. His research interests include applied econometrics, regional economics and China's economic reform. He has published several papers on China's leading academic journals, such as Finance &Economics, Social Science Research, Theory and Reforms and etc. His first contact with REAL is in Aug 2008, as a visiting scholar to do research at REAL for one year. His research is "infrastructure, institution restriction and China's regional growth difference". He plans to give a new explanation to China's regional growth difference in a new view and use spatial quantitative methods to some empirical research.
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Nian Yang , Assistant Professor
Jinan University
Guangzhou , China
Email: nianyang@uiuc.edu
Mrs. Yang received her M.S. in Industrial Economics in 2001 and start working in the The ISEZ which was set up in 1985 to focus on economic development and cooperation within and beyond the Pearl River Delta in South China, where transactions among Mainland China , Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan are most concentrated. Besides academic papers and archiving, she also participates in the work of writing policy recommendations to the local government about this special region economy. Her first contact with REAL was in the beginning 2005 as visiting scholar.
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Wen Yuyuan , Associate Professor
Institute of Regional & Urban Economics
School of Public Administration
Renmin University of China
Beijing, China, 100872
E-mail: wenyuyuan@ruc.edu.cn,wenyuyuan@mparuc.edu.cnDr. Wen received his Ph.D. in Cartography and Geographic Information System in 2002 in Wuhan University. His dissertation focuses on "Research On the Theorey and Methodology of Regional Investment Environment Evaluation". He is currently an associate professor at Institute of Regional & Urban Economics, Renmin University of China. His research interests are FDI and its location decision, investment environment evaluation,and regional economic growth and development. His first contact with REAL was in 2008 Spring, to make research on the FDI location decision.
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Gerold Zakarias, Ph. D. Candidate
University of Graz, Austria
E-mail: gerold.zakarias@joanneum.at
Mr Zakarias first came in touch with REAL during the set up of a regional econometric input-output model for the Austrian state of Styria in 1999. His research interests include Quantitative Economics - Econometric Modeling, IO-Modeling, Environmental and Natural Resources Economics, Regional Economics, and Regulation/Deregulation.M. S. in Economics, University of Graz, 1999 "Econometric Models and Policy Simulations for Selected Countries of the EU"
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Associate Professor
School of Economics, Renmin University of China
Beijing,100872, China
Email: zhanghongxia_c@ruc.edu.cn; hzhn@illinois.edu; zhanghx_c@126.com
Hongxia Zhang received her Ph.D. in Management Science and Engineering in 2004 from Academy of Mathematics and System Sciences, CAS. Her thesis focuses on “Education-Economy input-holding-output model with assets”. Her major research interests are input-output technique and econometric models; economic modeling by operation research; regional economic and macroeconomic modeling. Her first contact with REAL is in September,2010, as a visiting scholar at REAL to do research on environmental modeling in China, and the dynamic multi-sector modeling for the coordinated developments of population, education and economy.
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Associate Professor
School of Statistics, Northeast University of Finance and Economics,
Dalian, China,116025
Email: sunxu@dufe.edu.cn; xusun@illinois.edu
Sun Xu received her Ph. D. in Economics from Northeast University of Finance and Economics (China) in 2010. The topic of her dissertation was ‘Human Capital and the Changes in Total Factor Productivity（TFP）’. She is particularly interested in the development of models for regional forecasting and economic development. Her current research concentrates on analyzing the impact factor of technology growth rate among OECD countries and developing countries.
Associate Professor
Dean, Urban Economics and Management Department, Public Administration School, Zhongnan University of Economics and Law,
Wuhan, China 430073
Email: yptian2000@yahoo.com; typ@znufe.edu.cn
Dr. Yanping Tian, Associate Professor of Zhongnan University of Economics and Law, graduated in 2006 with PhD majored in Regional Economics and had a post doctoral research experience in Institute of Population and Labor Economics, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing. He has visited REAL for 6 months in 2008 mainly focusing on the Impact of Massive Project on Less Developed Regions: Empirical Study of China’s South-to-North Water Transfer. He visited REAL again in August 2012.He will focus his research on Socio-economic impacts of Urban Renewal in transitional China for a period of 12months.
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