Public Policy Analysis & Public Finance

Advancing research on policies in the public sector

In addition to collaborating on research dealing with policy analysis and public finance, we also invite the best minds from around the world to make presentations covering their expertise in these areas.

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Faculty Members

Osita Afoaku Clinical Professor	osafoaku@indiana.edu (812) 855-0749	International and sustainable development, democratization, and state reconstruction in Africa, U.S.-African/Third World relations U.N. Security Council reform
Lisa Blomgren Amsler Distinguished Professor	lbingham@indiana.edu (812) 855-4556	Collaborative Governance Comparative Governance Dispute Resolution Dispute System Design Mediation Administrative Law Labor and Employment Law
Shahzeen Z. Attari Associate Professor	sattari@indiana.edu (812) 855-1467	Human behavior and resource use Environmental psychology Social dilemmas
David B. Audretsch Distinguished Professor	daudrets@indiana.edu (812) 855-6766	Economic Policy Entrepreneurship Innovation Globalization Regional Economic Policy
David Bell Clinical Associate Professor	davabell@iu.edu (812) 856-4514	Leadership and accountability involving public organizations Entrepreneurship and capital flow in developing countries Program evaluation, nonprofit management, organizational leadership, and cross-sector collaboration
Sanya Carley O'Neill Professor	scarley@indiana.edu (812) 856-0920	Energy Policy and Economics Energy Justice Just Transition Electricity Markets Electric Vehicles Energy-based Economic Development
B. Andrew Chupp Senior Lecturer	chuppa@iu.edu (812) 855-1375	Public Choice Public Economics Environmental Economics Energy Economics Public Policy International Macroeconomics
Ashley Clark Clinical Assistant Professor	afbowers@indiana.edu (812) 855-4517	Survey Methodology Human Resource Management Including Management of Contingent Employees Positive Organizational Scholarship
Daniel H. Cole Professor	dancole@indiana.edu (812) 855-2426	Environmental and Natural Resources Law and Economics Property and Polish Law
Sameeksha Desai Associate Professor	desai@indiana.edu (812) 856-4647	Entrepreneurship, innovation and economic development policy Political economy and allocation of entrepreneurship in areas of political instability, conflict, and disaster Postconflict reconstruction Social entrepreneurship
Aaron Deslatte Assistant Professor	adeslatt@iu.edu (812) 856-4647	Local government sustainability Organizational decision-making Metropolitan governance
Denvil R. Duncan Associate Professor	duncande@indiana.edu (812) 855-7493	Public Economics Labor Economics Economic Development
James Farmer Associate Professor	jafarmer@indiana.edu (812) 856-0969	Community food systems and sustainable agriculture Natural resources and protected areas conservation/sustainability Environmental and sustainable behavior Rural landscapes and people
Seth Freedman Associate Professor	freedmas@indiana.edu (812) 855-5054	Health Economics Public Economics Labor Economics
Beth Gazley Professor	bgazley@indiana.edu (812) 855-1464	Nonprofit management and policy Intersectoral relations and collaboration Volunteerism Coproduction
David Good Associate Professor	good@indiana.edu (812) 855-4556	Quantitative policy modeling Productivity measurement in public and regulated industries Urban policy analysis
Kirsten Grønbjerg Distinguished Professor (O'Neill Bloomington)	kgronbj@indiana.edu (812) 855-8835 or (812) 856-4647	Nonprofit and public sector relationships Scope and community dimensions of the Indiana nonprofit sector American welfare system, nonprofit funding relations, and nonprofit data sources
John D. Graham Professor	grahamjd@indiana.edu (812) 855-3933	Government reform Energy and the environment The future of the automobile in both developed and developing countries Presidential studies
Bradley T. Heim Executive Associate Dean	heimb@indiana.edu (812) 855-9783	Impact of income taxes on individual behavior Impact of audits on tax compliance Affordable Care Act and labor market outcomes Causes of increasing income inequality
Diane S. Henshel Associate Professor	dhenshel@indiana.edu (812) 855-4556	Ecological and human health effects of pollutants and chemicals Holistic and cumulative ecosystem, human health, and ecosystem services risk/vulnerability assessment and modeling Risk communication Sustainability modeling Cyber security risk assessment modeling
Alex J. Hollingsworth Associate Professor	hollinal@indiana.edu (812) 856-4647	Health economics Regulation Environmental economics
Craig Johnson Associate Professor	crljohns@indiana.edu (812) 855-0563	Capital markets and financial intermediation Financial management, public budgeting, and finance Financing e-government Financing economic development Environmental and infrastructure finance
David Konisky Professor	dkonisky@indiana.edu (812) 855-6990	Environmental politics and policy Regulation and compliance Public opinion on energy and climate change State politics and policy
Robert Kravchuk Professor	kravchuk@indiana.edu (812) 856-7888	Public Finance Macro-budgeting Public Debt Markets U.S. Defense Department Procurement Management Political Economy of Reform in Formerly Socialist Countries
Kerry Krutilla Professor	krutilla@indiana.edu (812) 855-0492	Theory and practice of benefit-cost analysis Environmental and natural resource modeling and policy evaluation
Mark M. Levin Clinical Associate Professor	levin2@indiana.edu (812) 855-6989	Local government management Local economic development Municipal budgeting Ethics in the public sector
Antung Anthony Liu Associate Professor	aaliu@indiana.edu (812) 856-4647	Climate change policy Environment in developing countries Pollution issues and the interactions between the environment and the economy in China
Antonette McCaster Senior Lecturer	mccaster@indiana.edu (812) 856-7811	Accounting Project Management Audit Information Systems Financial Reporting Budgeting
Vicky J. Meretsky Professor	meretsky@indiana.edu (812) 855-4944	Landscape-level conservation Conservation under climate change Ecology and management of rare species Integrating ecosystem research and endangered species management within adaptive management
Siân Mooney Dean	simoon@iu.edu (812) 855-1432	Environmental change Economics and policy Greenhouse gases
Andrea Need Director, Undergraduate Academic Affairs	aneed@indiana.edu (812) 855-0635	Public Law Environmental Law Administrative Law
Ashlyn Aiko Nelson Associate Professor	ashlyn@indiana.edu (812) 855-4944	Causes and consequences of inequality in housing and education Social justice School finance Housing finance
E. Shawn Novak Clinical Associate Professor	shanovak@iu.edu (812) 856-3462	Taxation Public administration Public policy
Alberto Ortega Assistant Professor	alorte@iu.edu (812) 855-4944	Risky Behaviors Health Crime
Victoria Perez Assistant Professor	vieperez@indiana.edu (812) 855-0563	Private and governmental financing of healthcare Insurance economics, finance, and regulation
Daniel Preston Clinical Associate Professor	prestond@indiana.edu (812) 856-4925	International Affairs Poverty Alleviation Corporate and Public Sector Strategy Country Competitiveness Financial Markets Economic Development Education Good Governance and Policy Analysis
Avram G. Primack Lecturer	aprimack@iu.edu (812) 856-2603	Land use management and human impact analysis using GIS and remote sensing Documenting biodiversity using GIS Estimating the impacts of climate change on vegetation using hydrologic modeling
Terri L. Renner Senior Lecturer	trenner@indiana.edu (812) 855-0563	Financial management Information systems Entrepreneurship
Rafael Reuveny Professor	rreuveny@indiana.edu (812) 855-4647	International political economy with emphasis on globalization Rise and fall of major powers Political conflict and how it interacts with international trade, democracy, and the environment Sustainable development Middle East political economy
Kenneth R. Richards Professor	kenricha@indiana.edu (812) 855-1461	Domestic and International Climate Change Policy Environmental Policy Implementation Carbon Sequestration Economics and Law Energy Law U.S. Forest Service Organizational Design and Management
Justin Ross Professor	justross@indiana.edu (812) 856-7559	State and local public finance topics Property taxes Property assessment Local income taxes Zoning, local governance coordination, and tax amnesty programs
John A. Rupp Clinical Associate Professor	rupp@indiana.edu (812) 855-1323	Energy Systems Carbon Sequestration Alternative Energy Energy Policy
Michael Rushton Professor	mirushto@iu.edu (812) 855-2947	Cultural economics, policy and administration Nonprofit organizations Tax policy Current research concerns cultural districts and tax policy towards nonprofit organizations and charitable donations
Jennifer Silva Assistant Professor	jensilv@iu.edu (812) 856-4647	Political culture Social class and inequality Qualitative methods Family and intimate life
Daniel Simon Associate Professor	simond@indiana.edu (812) 856-0492	Competition and Firm Strategy Customer Satisfaction Policy Analysis
Kosali Simon Herman B Wells Endowed Professor	simonkos@indiana.edu (812) 856-3850	Health economics and policy The impact of state and federal regulations attempting to ease the availability of private and public health insurance for vulnerable populations Health and labor market outcomes
Shellye Suttles Assistant Professor	shelsutt@iu.edu	Sustainable food systems Agricultural and resource economics Environmental impacts of agricultural production
Anh Tran Professor	trananh@indiana.edu (812) 855-0563	Institutions and behavior of bureaucrats, entrepreneurs, and workers in developing countries
Coady Wing Associate Professor	cwing@indiana.edu (812) 855-0563	Health and Social Policy Regulation of Labor Markets Causal Inference Applied Econometrics
Joanna Woronkowicz Associate Professor	jworonko@indiana.edu (812) 855-0401	Cultural Economics Nonprofit Organizations
J. Landon Yoder Assistant Professor	yoderl@indiana.edu (812) 856-7290	Human dimensions of environmental change Institutional analysis and collective action Farmer adoption of conservation practices Collaborative watershed governance
Nikolaos Zirogiannis Assistant Professor	nzirogia@indiana.edu (812) 856-8323	Applied Econometrics Time Series Environmental and Natural Resource Economics Environmental Policy
C. Kurt Zorn Professor	zorn@indiana.edu (812) 855-0563	State and Local Finance Transportation Safety Economic Development Gaming Policy

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Advancing research on policies in the public sector

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