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Eric C. Thompson, director of the Bureau of Business Research at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, examines the sources and consequences of state and local economic growth and the economics of infrastructure. Through his work at the bureau, Thompson provides economists with practical opportunities to conduct applied economic research and trains economics and business students to conduct applied research on timely economic and business topics.
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James R. Schmidt, a three-time recipient of the College of Business’s Distinguished Teaching Award, is expert in regional econometric methods, sub-state projections, applications of artificial instrumental variables, and the dynamics of blended learning environments. He teaches business statistics and econometrics and has served on the thesis and dissertation committees for more than 100 graduate students from many academic disciplines.
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Daniel Tannenbaum is an assistant professor of economics at the University of Nebraska. Tannenbaum’s research is in the field of labor and public economics. He studied evictions in Chicago using large administrative datasets. He can speak on the economics of housing and labor markets, including the impact of eviction on families. He received his Ph.D. in economics from the University of Chicago and his B.A. in economics-math from Columbia University.