Asked and Answered

What classes do you teach?
Managerial economics in the graduate program and macroeconomics, a junior level course in the undergraduate program

What do you research?
A) The Economics of Casino Gambling (book published by the University of Michigan Press): Casinos in America 
B) Financial transparency and its impact on foreign direct investment 

Other on-campus activities?
A monthly economic podcast on campus
Two monthly surveys of businesses in 13 states
Publish an economic newsletter

Off-campus activities?
Visiting scholar with the Congressional Budget Office (2004).
Board of Directors Mosaic Foundation
Joint research projects with University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Volunteer with Little Brothers

Hobbies?
For fun I like to bike, and drive and appreciate foreign sports cars. 

Favorite music?
Leonard Cohen, Joni Mitchell

Favorite TV shows?
Seinfeld, any and all baseball games

Favorite movies?
Cabaret, Macabe and Mrs. Miller, All that Jazz, Blue Velvet

Favorite books?
Ada by Nabokov, Grapes of Wrath by Steinbeck, Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Hardy