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CEPA Staff

Current CEPA staff are listed below, followed by the members of CEPA's Executive Board. We also maintain a separate list of former CEPA staff.

Lance Taylor
Director
taylorl@newschool.edu
Lance Taylor is the Arnhold Professor of International Cooperation and Development and Director of the Center for Economic Policy Analysis at the New School University. He received a B.S. degree with honors in mathematics from the California Institute of Technology in 1962 and a Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University in 1968. He has been a professor in the economics departments of Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, as well as being a visiting professor at the University of Minnesota, the Universidade da Brasilia, Delhi University, and the Stockholm School of Economics. He moved to the New School in 1993. Lance Taylor has published widely in the areas of macroeconomics, development economics, and economic theory. His most recent book is Reconstructing Macroeconomics: Structuralist Proposals and Critiques of the Mainstream, Harvard University Press, 2003. In addition to these activities, he has been a visiting scholar or policy advisor in over 25 countries including Chile, Brazil, Mexico, Nicaragua, Cuba, Russia, Egypt, Tanzania, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Pakistan, India, and Thailand.

Chris Rude
Assistant Director
rudec@newschool.edu
Christopher Rude is a Ph.D. candidate in the Economics Department. He is the Assistant Director of CEPA and teaches the Department's Mathematics for Economists and Introduction to Econometrics courses. He has research interests in open macroeconomics, finance, and political economy. His dissertation is a theoretical application of Bayesian probability theory and information theory to asset pricing. Preliminary results suggests that investors allocate their capital according to their subjective assessments of securities' expected returns and that the resultant equilibrium relative price for a risky financial security is a weighted average of all investors' evaluations of that security's expected return and thus a probability itself. Prior to becoming a student at the New School, he worked as an economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and then in the private sector. He has been a lecturer in economics at NYU. He has a BA and MA in Political Science from the University of Chicago.

David Howell
Faculty Research Fellow
howell@newschool.edu
David Howell directs CEPA's research project on Liberalization and Employment Performance in the OECD, (funded by the MacArthur foundation).

Will Milberg
Faculty Research Fellow
milbergw@newschool.edu
Will Milberg directs the Program on Markets, Equality and Democracy at CEPA and teaches in the Graduate Faculty's Department of Economics.

Per Gunnar Berglund
Research Fellow
bergp867@newschool.edu
Per Gunnar Berglund is a Ph.D. student in the Economics Department and he is currently a Research Fellow in CEPA's project "Enhancing Market Transparency." His main fields of work are: theory of aggregation and index numbers (dissertation topic), national accounting, macroeconomic modeling, monetary theory and the political economy of full employment. Per is from Sweden and his academic background involves studies in economics, statistics, and political science at the universities of Uppsala and Stockholm.

Massimiliano La Marca
Research Fellow
lamam532@newschool.edu
Massimiliano La Marca is a Ph.D. student in the Economics Department. His research interests have focused on distributional issues in alternative growth models and open economy macroeconomics. More recently his field of work has included international finance, financial instability and crisis models. Massimiliano worked briefly as an officer in the Italian Finance Department and Department of Defense in the finance planning division. He obtained his B.A. in Economics and Business in Pisa, Italy, and recently completed his M.A. at New School. He also studied in Graz, Austria, as an undergraduate and in the Ph. D. program at the University of Pavia, Italy.

Rex McKenzie
Research Fellow
MckeR971@newschool.edu

Hugo Navarro
Research Fellow
NavaH458@newschool.edu
Hugo Navarro is a MA student in the economics department and a current Schwartz research assistant for the program on Markets, Equality and Democracy. His current research interests are in credit and liquidity issues in business cycles, as well as non-renewable critical resource management and trade. Hugo will be assisting with the fall conference on pension and social security reform. Prior to registering at the New SchoolHugo worked for two years as Chief Operations Officer for a technology firm in New York. Hugo is from Montreal, Canada where he completed his Bachelor's at McGill University with studies in Economics, Philosophy and Commerce.

Claudio Puty
Research Fellow
PutyC822@newschool.edu
Claudio Puty is a Ph.D. candidate in the economics department and a Schwartz Dissertation Fellow at CEPA. His current work studies non-neoclassical theories of competition (classical 'free competition' and 'heterodox' versions of imperfect competition) and aims at fashioning empirical tests of its competing claims, specially those with direct consequences for macroeconomic modeling. He has done research in the fields of industrial organization,  macroeconometrics, macroeconomic theory, history of economic thought and political economy. Claudio did his undergraduate studies at the UFPA in BelÈm, Brazil. He holds a M.A. in Economics and Public Policy from the University of Tsukuba, Japan and has been a research fellow at the Yokohama National University and at the University of Sienna.

Codrina Rada
Research Fellow
radac@newschool.edu
Codrina Rada is a Ph.D. student in the Economics Department and she is currently a Research Fellow in CEPA's project "Markets, Equality, and Democracy." Codrina's main research interest is the reform programs implemented in the transitional economies of Central and Eastern Europe during the 1990s. Her research deals with the different aspects of structural adjustment programs and liberalization policies adopted in these countries. She is presently working on how transitional economies can take advantage of participating in the global economy without falling into traps in international trade agreements. Codrina is from Romania and she holds a BA degree in Economics from the Universitatea de Vest Timisoara and MA degree in Sociology from UMASS Boston.

Mitchell Strohminger
Research Fellow
strohmim@newschool.edu
Mitchell Strohminger is an M.A. Candidate in Economics at the Graduate Faculty of the New School. He is currently working with Dr. Barbara Samuels on a Ford Foundation-U.N. sponsored program on development finance, the Clearinghouse Project. This project focuses on making financial decisions more transparent so as to reduce market failure through the centralization of credible, quality and timely information. Mitchell Strohminger received his B.A. in International Affairs from Northern Arizona University, and holds an M.S. in Urban Policy from Milano Graduate School. He is interested in how developing countries can establish credible, healthy financial institutions by which to alleviate poverty and the dependence on foreign aid.

Eric Sunol
Research Fellow
SunoE009@newscool.edu
Eric Suñol is a Ph.D. student in the New School Department of Economics and a Research Fellow in CEPA's project "Markets, Equality and Democracy." Eric is from Barcelona, Spain, and holds a B.Sc. degree in Economics from the Autonomous University of Barcelona. He was previously project manager in a Spanish investment bank, mainly working on energy supply projects in the Caribbean. His main interest is the political economy of public goods and the environment; he has also concentrated on applied Econometrics.

Jinluan Wei
Research Fellow
WeiJ086@newschool.edu
Jinluan Wei is a Ph.D. student in Economics at the Graduate Faculty of Political and Social Science and a research fellow at CEPA. Her research interest has been international economics, in particular, international trade. She is currently working with Professor William Milberg on “ Modeling Global Commodity Chain” and on “US-China Bilateral Trade”. Jinluan Wei received her BA and MA degrees in economics from China. She was previously a lecturer in the department of economics at Shanghai University, China, and a visiting teacher at the Central Ostrobothnia Polytechnic, Finland. Her publications include The Theory and Practice of International Trade (co-author), the Higher Education Press, Beijing, China, 2000; International Trade: Theory, Policy, and Practice (co-author), Li Xin Accounting Press, Shanghai, China, 1998 (second edition, 2002); “Impacts of North-South Type Regional Economic Integration”, World Economic Study, Issue No. 6, 2001. She has received several awards and honors from China.

CEPA Executive Board

John Eatwell
Chair, Executive Board, Center for Economic Policy Analysis; President, Queens' College, Cambridge University

Clark Anderson
Goldman Sachs & Co.

Eugene Canjels
Assistant Professor, Economics Department, New School University

Duncan Foley
Chair and Leo Model Professor of Economics, Economics Department, New School University

William H. Janeway
E. M. Warburg, Pincus & Co., Inc.

Edward Nell
Malcolm B. Smith Professor of Economics, Economics Department, New School University

Richard J. Bernstein
Dean, Graduate Faculty of Political and Social Science, New School University

Barbara Samuels
Samuels Associates

Lance Taylor
Director, Center for Economic Policy Analysis; Arnhold Professor of International Cooperation and Development, Economics Department, New School University

Richard Weinert
Leslie, Weinert & Co.

Michel Kervyn
Graduate Student, Economics Department, New School University