Current Visiting Professors

Yao Lu

Recent Visiting Professors

Fall 2008 - Winter 2009:

Giuseppe De Arcangelis

Giuseppe De Arcangelis is a Visiting Professor of Public Policy at the Ford School on leave from "Sapienza" University of Rome where he is a Professor of Economics. He consults as a senior economist with the Italian Trade Commission and with Italian NGO Prometeia to "fine-tune" a highly-disaggregated econometric model of world export and import flows for forecasting purposes. His current research focuses on fiscal policy regimes and effectiveness in OECD countries; empirical studies on the "reaction functions" of fiscal authorities in OECD countries; pull and push factors of international migration; and international transmission of business cycles. De Arcangelis previously taught at the University of Michigan, University of Bari, and at the MA in "Economics of International Trade and European Integration." He earned his Ph.D. in Economics at the University of Michigan.

Insan Tunali

Insan Tunali is a Visiting Associate Professor in the Economics Department and a Visiting Scholar at the Ford School. His regular appointment is at Koc University in Istanbul, Turkey, where he teaches courses on Econometrics, Labor Economics and Statistics. His recent research focuses on population and labor market dynamics in Turkey & the Middle East, and household survey methodology. He has keen interest in economic policies that concern labor markets and contributes to policy discussions at various national and international platforms. Tunali earned his PhD at the University of Wisconsin, Madison and held regular faculty positions at Middle East Technical University, Cornell and Tulane and visiting positions at the University of Chicago and UCLA.

Sujata Visaria

Sujata Visaria is a Visiting Assistant Professor at the Ford School from Boston University. Her research concentration is on understanding institutional constraints to development. Sujata's current work focuses on the longer-term consequences of religious violence, informational constraints to the marketing of agricultural produce, and the influence of information and "social audits" in public accountability. Her previous work examined the impact of legal reform on credit market outcomes, demonstrated an alternative approach to computing global poverty estimates, and investigated the patterns of communal violence in urban India. She teaches microeconomics at the Ford School. She earned her Ph.D. in Economics from Columbia University.