I am a Visiting Assistant Professor in the College of Business at Montana State University. With a M.S. in Mathematics and a Ph.D. in Economics, my strength is in quantitative analysis as applied to a variety of problems relevant in economics and business. So far, I did work in the areas of Public Finance, Health Economics, and Risk and Uncertainty. My research was published in the National Tax Journal, Mathematical Social Sciences, Southern Economic Journal, and Journal of Studies on Alcohol. Currently, I am working on three main projects: factors that affect the quality of finance research, reasons for states to change alcohol taxes, and analysis of adverse effects of alcohol consumption in Poland. I have been successful in winning grants from the National Institutes of Health (with Douglas Young) and the National Academy of Sciences. I am currently leading the CoB Research Group in the College, which discusses various issues in business.

I love teaching. In 2007, I received the MSU President’s Excellence in Teaching Award. I have taught courses in the Economics Department and in the College of Business, including macro, micro, introductory economics, public finance, statistical methods for business, managerial accounting, and a freshman seminar for business. I am a mentor for new MSU tenure track faculty members that are starting their first academic job.

In my free time I love to ski, windsurf, bike, hike ... or anything outdoors.