Economy

As director of the Bureau of Business Research, Eric Thompson oversees the development of various economic analyses and indexes, such as the consumer confidence index, the business confidence index, and Nebraska’s leading economic indicators. He also has analyzed the impact of various businesses and industries upon the Nebraska economy. Recent research has included studies of the economic impacts of the insurance industry, the manufacturing sector and of ethanol production in the state. Through his work at the bureau, Thompson provides economists with practical opportunities to conduct economic research and he trains economics and business students to conduct applied research on timely economic and business topics.

James R. Schmidt, a three-time recipient of the College of Business’s Distinguished Teaching Award, is expert in regional econometric methods, sub-state projections, applications of artificial instrumental variables, and the dynamics of blended learning environments. He teaches business statistics and econometrics and has served on the thesis and dissertation committees for more than 100 graduate students from many academic disciplines.

Daniel Tannenbaum is an assistant professor of economics at the University of Nebraska. Tannenbaum’s research is in the field of labor and public economics. He studied evictions in Chicago using large administrative datasets. He can speak on the economics of housing and labor markets, including the impact of eviction on families. He received his Ph.D. in economics from the University of Chicago and his B.A. in economics-math from Columbia University.