Schwartz CEPA

Teresa Ghilarducci
Director
ghilardt@newschool.edu
Teresa Ghilarducci is the Irene and Bernard L. Schwartz Chair in Economic Policy Analysis at the New School for Social Research and the Director of SCEPA. She was most recently a professor of economics and director of the Higgins Labor Research Center at the University of Notre Dame. Her forthcoming book, When I'm 65: The Plot Against Pensions and the Plan to Save Them, for Princeton University Press, investigates the effect of pension losses on older Americans. Her book Labor's Capital: The Economics and Politics of Employer Pensions, MIT Press, won an Association of American Publishers award in 1992. She co-authored Portable Pension Plans for Casual Labor Markets in 1995. Ghilarducci publishes in referred journals and testifies frequently before the U.S. Congress. She holds a PhD in economics from the University of California, Berkeley.

Jeff Madrick
Director of Policy Research
jgmadrick@aol.com
Jeff Madrick is the editor of Challenge Magazine and former contributing economics columnist to The New York Times. He is a regular contributor to the New York Review of Books. His most recent book is Why Economies Grow. He is also the author of The End of Affluence and Taking America, both New York Times Notable Books of the Year. A former NBC News correspondent and WNBC-TV news commentator, he is the winner of an Emmy Award. He has contributed to The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, The New York Times Sunday Magazine, The Nation, and Newsday, among many other publications.

William Milberg
Program Coordinator
milbergw@newschool.edu
Will Milberg is Associate Professor of Economics and SCEPA's Program Coordinator. His research focuses on the implications of changes in international trade and investment flows for employment and income distribution. He has worked as a consultant to the UNDP, UNCTAD, and ILO. He is the co-author (with Robert Heilbroner) of The Crisis of Vision in Modern Economic Thought and The Making of Economic Society. He received his PhD in economics from Rutgers University in 1987. Click here to visit Will Milberg's personal homepage.

Nancy Barthelemy
Assistant Director
bartheln@newschool.edu
Nancy Barthelemy is the Assistant Director. She handles the day to day operations for the center, and serves as the main liaison to all university administrative offices. Her prior experience includes several years at Princeton University, during which she held various positions, including Assistant Director for the Niehaus Center for Globalization and Governance.

Mamadou Bobo Diallo
Research Assistant
dialm523@newschool.edu
Bobo is currently working toward a PhD in economics at the New School for Social Research. In 2001, he received a BS in mathematics and economics from Salem State College (Massachusetts). After working for the investment company Manulife Financial for two years, he decided in September 2003 to pursue his graduate education in economics. His primary interests are growth, development, and income distribution in Sub-Saharan Africa. Other interests include microeconomics and monetary theory. Bobo has been a teaching assistant for "Mathematics for Economics" and "Introduction to Econometrics."

Michelle Holder
ResearchAssistant
holdem97@newschool.edu
Michelle Holder is a PhD student in economics, and her research interests focus on race, incarceration, and wages. Her dissertation area of inquiry examines the dramatic rise in African American male incarceration rates over the last three decades. Michelle received her M.A. in economics from the New School for Social Research in 1997, with concentrations in race, class, and gender, and prior to returning for the doctoral degree worked for over a decade as a high level fiscal professional in the nonprofit sector in New York City. She has also worked as an Economist/Associate Financial Analyst for the State Deputy Comptroller’s Office for New York City where she wrote extensively about the low-wage labor force in New York City.

David Howell
Research Working Group Leader
howell@newschool.edu
David Howell is Professor at Milano The New School for Management and Urban Policy, where he chaired the Urban Policy Program from 1994 to 2001. His research focuses on labor markets at the local, national, and international levels. Recent publications have examined the effects of immigration on the economic status of foreign and native-born workers in New York City; the nature of recent changes in skill requirements and the determinants of relative wage trends in the U.S.; and the extent to which labor market institutions and social policy explain patterns of unemployment in Europe and the United States.

Johann Jäckel
Research Assistant
johann.jaeckel@gmail.com
Johann Jaeckel is a PhD student in the Economics Department at the New School for Social Research. His primary research interest lies within the Political Economy of Trade and Development. Prior to coming to the New School, he studied at the University Of Exeter (UK) and the University of Muenster (Germany), where he received a MA equivalent in Political Science.

Nikolaos Papanikolaou
Research Assistant
papan103@newschool.edu
Nikolaos is a PhD candidate in the Economics Department at New School for Social Research. His principal interests are in the fields of Classical Economics, Applied Macroeconomics, and Applied Econometric Analysis focusing on Business Cycle Theory within the scope of Dynamic (nonlinear) Economic Systems. Nikolaos received a BS from Salem State College in Salem, Massachusetts and an MA from City College/CUNY, New York in economics.

Amr Ragab
Research Assistant
ragaa932@newschool.edu
Amr Ragab is a PhD student in the Economics Department and is currently a Research Assistant on the Schwartz Center's project on income inequality. His main research interests have focused on income distribution. Amr is originally from Egypt and worked for over five years in the fast moving consumer goods sector. He earned a BA in economics from the American University in Cairo in 2001.

Miriam Rehm
Research Assistant
rehmm151@newschool.edu
Miriam Rehm is a PhD student in the Economics department at the New School for Social Research. She obtained an MA equivalent at the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration, and subsequently received a Fulbright scholarship to study in the US. During her studies in Austria. Miriam has worked at the Central Bank, at the Institute of Economic Research, and for the Chamber of Labor. Her main research interests focus on public policy issues, including migration, labor market policies, fiscal policy, and taxation.

Armon Rezai
Research Assistant
rezaa391@newschool.edu
Armon Rezai is a PhD student in the Economics Department and is currently a research assistant on the Schwartz Center's project on economic growth and employment. His main research interests have focused on macroecononomic and labor theory. Before receiving a Fulbright scholarship to study in the US, he obtained a MA equivalent at the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration. During his education Armon also studied at the London School of Economics and Georgetown University.

Daniel Samaan
Research Assistant
samd01@newschool.edu
Daniel Samaan is a PhD student in the Economics Department at New School for Social Research. He is originally from Germany and holds an MA in Economics & Business Administration from Passau University. His principal interests are in microeconomics and finance, particularly agent-based modeling and bounded rationality.

Sheba Trejani
Research Assistant
tejas004@newschool.edu
Sheba Tejani is currently a PhD student in the Economics Department at the New School for Social Research. She has an M.A. in Economics from the New School and a B.A. in International Relations from Mount Holyoke College, MA. Originally from India, Sheba worked at the Economic and Political Weekly, a social science journal in Mumbai, before returning to the U.S. to obtain her PhD. She is currently a University Fellow. Sheba is interested in the relationship between trade and inequality, with a particular focus on the impact of trade liberalization on the informal labor market in developing countries and on gender inequality. She is also interested in researching the nature and causes of international financial crises and the policy tools that can be employed to effectively manage international capital flows.

Willi Semmler
Research Working Group Leader
semmlerw@newschool.edu
http://www.newschool.edu/gf/econ/faculty/semmler/
Willi Semmler is Professor of Economics at the New School for Social Research and is on the Board of Directors at the Center for Empirical Macroeconomics at Bielefeld University in Germany. He studied economics, mathematics, and social sciences at the Universities of Hamburg, Munich, and the Free University of Berlin and holds a PhD from the Free University of Berlin. He became Associate Professor in 1987 and Professor in 1993 at the New School for Social Research. He has been a Visiting Professor of Columbia University and Stanford University and the CEPREMAP in Paris and lectured at UNAM in Mexico City, University of Orléans, and at numerous French, Japanese, Italian, and German universities. He frequently teaches in a network of European doctorate programs and at the BIGSEM Bielefeld.

Anwar Shaikh
Faculty Research Fellow
shaikh@newschool.edu
http://homepage.newschool.edu/%7EAShaikh/
Anwar Shaikh is Professor of Economics at the New School for Social Research and Senior Scholar and member of the Macro Modeling Team at the Levy Economics Institute of Bard College. He has written in a variety of areas, including international trade, finance theory, political economy, U.S. macroeconomic policy, growth theory, inflation theory, and crisis theory. With E.A. Tonak, he is the author of Measuring the Wealth of Nations: The Political Economy of National Accounts, Cambridge University Press, 1994. He is also an Associate Editor of the Cambridge Journal of Economics. Shaikh earned his PhD from Columbia University in 1973 and has been teaching at the New School since 1972.

Hee-Young Shin
Research Assistant
shinh168@newschool.edu
Hee-Young Shin is a PhD student in the Economics Department at the New School for Social Research and he is research assistant for the project, “The US Fiscal Policy and Deficits”. His interests are in modern history of economic thought, the role of the state in economic development, and historical transformation and dynamics of the global financial system. Hee-Young received his MA in economics from the New School for Social Research. He also received his MA in political science from the graduate school of Sogang University and BA in political science and history from the Sogang University in Seoul, Korea.

Lance Taylor
Faculty Research Fellow
taylorl@newschool.edu
Lance Taylor is the Arnhold Professor of International Cooperation and Development. He received a PhD 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 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 for Social Research in 1993. Taylor has published widely in the areas of macroeconomics, development economics, and economic theory. He has served as 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.

Ravi Baghirathan, 2002-2005, Research Assistant
Carlos Bastos, 1997-1998
Nelson Barbosa, 1998-2002. Assistant Director of CEPA from 2001 to 2002.
Janine M. Berg, 2000-2002. Assistant Director of CEPA in 2002.
Per Berglund, 2002-2005, Dissertation Fellow
Josh Bivens, 1996-2000
Thorsten Block, 1995-1998
Heather Boushey, 1995-1996

Ed Chilcote, 1996-1997
Eugene Canjels
Andre Contri, 2001-2002, Research Fellow

Guido De Marco, 1997-1998
Claudio H. Dos Santos, 2001-2002, Research Fellow, project on "Markets, Equality and Democracy"
Margaret Duncan, 1997-1998

Hui Gao, 1998-2000
David Gordon, 1995-1996
Srikanth Gottipati, 1998-2000

Haroon Hassan, Research Fellow, 2002.
Ellen Houston, 1996-1999. After Houston left CEPA she joined the Economic Policy Institute in Washington, DC, where she worked as a labor economist specializing in the economics of crime and unemployment, and job tenure and labor mobility. In 2001, she left EPI to join the Economic Growth and Poverty team at the International Center for Research on Women (ICRW), also in Washington, DC, where she does research on international trade and gender in developing countries.
Friedrich Huebler, Research Fellow, 1997-2003. Huebler was a recipient of the MacArthur Research Assistantship and participated in CEPA's project on Globalization, Technology and Institutional Change. He also maintained CEPA's Web site.

Mika Kato, 2001-2002, Research Fellow, project on "Markets, Equality and Democracy"
Tarron Khemraj, 2005-2006, Research Assistant
Julia Kohn, 2006-2008, Former Assistant Director of SCEPA
Holly Knaus, 1997-1998
David Kucera, 1995-1999. Former Assistant Director of CEPA.

Mahindra Maharaj, 1997-1998
Melissa Mahoney, 2004-2006
Max Maximov, 1997-1998
Rex McKenzie, 2003-2004, Research Fellow
Christopher Meier, 1998-1999
Gabriel Mendoza, 1999-2000
LeRoy Messam, 1997-1998
Mishael Milakovic, 1997-2001
Chelsea Mozen, 2004-2006

Ute Pieper, 1996-1999
Claudio Puty, 2000-2001; 2003-2004, Research Fellow

Louis-Philippe Rochon, 1997-1998
Christopher Rude, 1999-2001; 2003-2005, Research Assistant and Assistant Director

Markus Schneider, 2004-2006, Research Assistant
Frank Schroeder, 1999-2001
Susan Schroeder, 1996-2000
Jana Simonova, 2005-2006, Research Assistant
Eric Sunol, 2003-2004, Research Fellow
R. Jeffrey Susman, 2000-2002, Research Fellow

Matias Vernengo, 1997-2001. Former Assistant Director of CEPA.
Rudiger von Arnim, 2004-2007, Research Assistant