Visting Scholars

Current Visiting Professor

Yao Lu


Recent Visiting Professors

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.



Visiting Fellows

"George" Lihui Tian

"George" Lihui Tian is an Assistant Professor of Finance at the Peking University and the Leverhulme/CNEM fellow at the London Business School. Professor Lihui Tian holds the license of legal practices in China after passing the bar exam in 1997. He writes the column "Tian's Talk on China" for Korea Herald Business and serves as a senior fellow for Caijing, a top Chinese magazine. A top Chinese financial group has invited him to be a special consultant for asset pricing. He also served for Hong Kong Government University Grant Committee and the program committee for the Financial Management Association in USA for the past three years. His areas of research include corporate governance, corporate finance and transition economics. His research papers on government ownership, initial public offerings and bank lending have received the best-paper awards from the Global Finance Association, Asia Finance Association, China Finance Association and China Institutional Economics Association, respectively. His work of a U-shaped relationship has been taught in Harvard University and Tsinghua University etc. He has taught undergraduates, postgraduates, MBAs and executives. He was also invited to give model lectures to some professors from other universities, organized by the Ministry of Education in China. He has appeared on Korea Broadcasting System TV, Sunday Times (UK) and Singtao Daily (USA) etc. He was a visiting fellow at the William Davidson Institute of the University of Michigan Business School from 2001 to 2002.

"George" Lihui Tian
Office 309 Phone/Fax: 86 10 84909076
Guanghua School of Management
Phone: 86 10 62757900 Peking University
Beijing 100871, China
e-mail: tian@gsm.pku.edu.cn
url:http://tian.gsm.pku.edu.cn


Evzen Kocenda

Graduated in 1985 from the Prague School of Economics in International Trade Management. M.A. in Economics from the University of Toledo, Ohio in 1992. Graduate studies in Economics at the University of Houston, Texas with a Ph.D. degree in 1996. 1996-1998 Deputy Director for Research at CERGE, Charles University, Prague and the Economics Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic. 1996-1999 Assistant Professor, 1999-2004 Associate Professor at CERGE, Charles University, Prague and a Researcher at Economics Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic. Since 2004 Professor of Economics at CERGE. Research Fellow of the William Davidson Institute at the University of Michigan Business School and Research Affiliate of CEPR, London. Economic Advisor to the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic in 1997. Since 1998 a member of the editorial board of the journal Finance a uver. 1998-1999 a member of the Scientific Council of the Ministry of Transport and Communications. Since 1999 a member of the CERGE Scientific Council. 2002-2003 the Deputy Director for Graduate Studies at CERGE-EI. Citigroup Endowment Professor since July 2002. Since 2004 a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Comparative Economics.

e-mail: evzen.kocenda@cerge-ei.cz
url: http://home.cerge-ei.cz/kocenda