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Campbell, Colin

  • Campbell, Colin
  • Position: Associate Professor of Economics and Undergraduate Program Director
  • Specialty: Microeconomic Theory, Economics of Information
  • Location: New Jersey Hall 302
  • Phone: 848-932-8642

Colin Campbell is an Associate Professor of Economics at Rutgers University.  His research has been in areas that include auction theory, mechanism design, formal models of voting, and the value of information.  He holds an A.B. from Columbia University and a Ph.D. from Northwestern University.

Selected Publications

  • “Blackwell’s ordering and public information,” Journal of Economic Theory 114 (2004), 179-197.
  • “Large Electorates and Decisive Minorities,” Journal of Political Economy 107 (1999), 1199-1217.
  • “Coordination in Auctions with Entry,” Journal of Economic Theory 82 (1998), 425-450.

Mizrach, Bruce

  • Mizrach, Bruce
  • Position: Professor of Economics
  • Specialty: Market Microstructure, Financial Crises, Behavioral Finance, Nonlinear Time Series
  • Location: New Jersey Hall 301D
  • Phone: 848-932-8636
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Bruce Mizrach is a professor in the Department of Economics at Rutgers University. He has held appointments at Boston College, the Wharton School, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, and NYU Stern. Mizrach is the founder and editor of Studies in Nonlinear Dynamics and Econometrics, which is devoted to using nonlinear analysis to understand economic and financial markets. His most recent work is on the market microstructure of electronic limit order markets in bonds, equities and greenhouse gases.

Selected Publications

  • Chung, Huimin, Cheng Gao, Jie Lu, and Bruce Mizrach, An Empirical Analysis of the Shanghai and Shenzen Limit Order Books, Economic Modeling, forthcoming.
  • Mizrach, Bruce, Leverage and VaR as Measures of Bank Distress, in Joseph Haubrich and Andrew Lo (eds.), Quantifying Systemic Risk, Chicago: U. Chicago Press for NBER, forthcoming.
  • Mizrach, Bruce, Jumps and Cojumps in Subprime Home Equity Derivatives, Journal of Portfolio Management, 38, 2012, 136-46.
  • Mizrach, Bruce, Integration of the Global Carbon Markets, Energy Economics 34, 2012, 335-49.

Piehl, Anne Morrison

  • Piehl, Anne
  • Position: Professor of Economics and Department Chair
  • Specialty: Law and Economics, Labor Economics
  • Location: New Jersey Hall 432

Anne Morrison Piehl is Professor of Economics, Director of the Program in Criminal Justice at Rutgers University, and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. She conducts research on the economics of crime and criminal justice. Her current research analyzes the causes and consequences of the prison population boom, determinants of criminal sentencing outcomes, and the connections between immigration and crime, both historically and currently. Piehl is serving on two committees of the National Research Council of the National Academy of Sciences, a standing Committee on Law and Justice, and an ad-hoc committee on the Causes and Consequences of High Rates of Incarceration. She has testified before the United States Sentencing Commission and the U.S. House of Representatives subcommittee on Immigration and served on the New Jersey Commission on Government Efficiency and Reform (GEAR) Corrections/Sentencing Task Force. Before joining Rutgers in 2005, Piehl was on the faculty of the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. She received her A.B. from Harvard University and her Ph.D. from Princeton University, both in economics.

Selected Publications

  • “Sentencing Guidelines and Judicial Discretion: Quasi-experimental Evidence from Human Calculation Errors” (with Shawn D. Bushway and Emily G. Owens), Journal of Empirical Legal Studies 9(2) June 2012, 291-319.
  •  “Immigration, Crime, and Incarceration in Early 20th Century America” (with Carolyn Moehling), Demography, 46(4) November 2009, 739-763.
  • Prison State: The Challenge of Mass Incarceration (with Bert Useem), Cambridge University Press, March 2008.
  • “Testing for Structural Breaks in the Evaluation of Programs” (with Suzanne J. Cooper, David M. Kennedy, and Anthony A. Braga), Review of Economics and Statistics, 85(3), August 2003, 550-558.

Landon-Lane, John

  • Landon-Lane, John
  • Position: Professor of Economics
  • Specialty: Bayesian Econometrics, Applied Macroeconomics, Growth and Development
  • Location: New Jersey Hall 303A
  • Phone: 848-932-8657

John Landon-Lane is a Professor in the Department of Economics at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. He holds a B. Sc(Hons) and a M.Comm(Hons) from the University of Canterbury, New Zealand and a Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota. His research includes work in econometric theory, applied macro-econometrics, growth and development, and economic and financial history. He has published widely in internationally recognized economic journals. His current research includes models of growth and development that include the informal sector and applications of Bayesian methods to the estimation of these models.

Selected Publications

  • “Vulnerability to Poverty: Tajikistan during and after the Global Financial Crisis,”
    (joint with Ira Gang, Ksenia Gatsova, and Myeong-Su Yun) Social Indicators Research, Vol. 138, Number 3, 925 – 951, 2018
  • “An Index of the Yields of Junk Bonds: 1910-1955,”
    (with Hugh Rockoff, Peter Basile, and Sun Wan Kan) Journal of Economic History, Vol. 77, Number 4 (December), 2017
  • “Does Expansionary Monetary Policy Cause Asset Price Booms; Some Historical and Empirical Evidence,”
    (with M.D. Bordo) in S. Bauducco, L. Christiano, and C. Raddatz (eds) Macroeconomic and Financial Stability: Challenges for Monetary Policy, Central Bank of Chile, Santiago, Chile, 2014, ISBN 978-956-7421-45-9.
  • “What explains house price booms: History and empirical evidence,”
    (with M.D. Bordo) Macroeconomic Analysis and International Finance, Vol 23, Emerald Group Publishing, Feb, 2014.
  • “Droughts, Floods, and Financial Distress in the United States,”
    (with H. Rockoff and R. Steckel) in The Economics of Climate Change (G.D. Libecap and R. H. Steckel (eds)), National Bureau of Economic Research Conference report, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2011, ISBN 978-0-226-47988-0.
  • “The banking panics in the United States in the 1930s: some lessons for today,”
    (with M.D. Bordo) Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 26(3), pp486-509, Autumn 2010.
  • “Deflation, Productivity Shocks and Gold: Evidence from the 1880-1914 Period,”
    (with M.D. Bordo and A. Redish) Open Economies Review, 21(4), pp515—546, September 2010.
  • “Long-Run Growth in the OECD: A Test of the Parallel Growth Paths Hypothesis,”
    (with Peter Robertson) Explorations in Economic History, 46(3), pp 346-355, July 2009.
  • “Factor Accumulation and Growth Miracles in a Two-Sector Model Neoclassical Growth Model,”
    (with P. Robertson) The Manchester School, 77(2) pp 153-170, March 2009.
  • “Bayesian Estimation and Evaluation of the Segmented Markets Friction in Equilibrium Monetary Models,”
    (joint with Filippo Occhino) Journal of Macroeconomics, 30(1) pp 444-461, March 2008.
  • “The origin and diffusion of shocks to regional interest rates in the United States, 1880—2002,”
    (with Hugh Rockoff) Explorations in Economic History, 44(3), pp 487—500, July, 2007.   
  • “Reassessing the Impact of Barriers to Capital Accumulation on International Income Differences,”
     (joint with Peter Robertson) International Economic Review, 48(1), pp 147-161, 2007.  
  • “Hope springs eternal… French bondholders and the Soviet Repudiation (1915-1919),”
     (joint with Kim Oosterlinck) Review of Finance, 10(4), 2006.  
  •  “Inter-State Dynamics of Invention Activities, 1930-2000,”
    (joint with Catherine Co and Myeong-Su Yun) Journal of Applied Econometrics, 21(8), pp 1111-1134, 2006.
  • “How Could Everyone have been so wrong?: Forecasting the Great Depression with the railroads.”
    (with Adam Klug and Eugene White) Explorations in Economic History , 42 p. 27-55, 2005. 

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