Economics Faculty News

Fall 2023

Professor Natalia V. Czap published a co-authored paper (with G.Lynne) “Towards Dual Interest Theory in Metaeconomics” in the Journal of Interdisciplinary Economics. She also made a presentation “Wellbeing and Policy: An Overview” at the IAREP-SABE Conference in Nice, France. She is working with Marie Briguglio (University of Malta) and Kate Laffan (London School of Economics) on a book “Wellbeing and Policy: Evidence for Action”.  Natalia recently received the Distinguished Faculty Governance Award. 

Professor Hans J. Czap made a presentation “Environment and Wellbeing” at the IAREP-SABE Conference in Nice, France. 

Profs. Natalia and Hans Czap are also collaborating with colleagues from the College of Engineering and Computer Science (Areen Alsaid, Azeem Hafeez and Alireza Mohammadi) on a Bold Challenges boost grant “Air Quality and Human Wellbeing: Assessing Emotional Impact of Lower Air Quality Using Autonomous Artificial Intelligence (AI)-Based Distributed Sensing Systems."

Profs. Natalia Czap, Hans Czap, and Ilir Miteza  published the paper “Learning to Trust: Does Trust Change Over Time in a Collaborative Project-Based Learning Environment?” in the Review of Behavioral Economics.

Professor Antonios Koumpias, published an article with a large Michigan Medicine team.  A.  Lyu, Xiru, Galit Levi Dunietz, Louise M. O’Brien, Ronald D. Chervin, Antonios Koumpias, and Kerby Shedden, (2023). "Disparities in sleep-wake patterns by labor force status: Population-based findings." Chronobiology International : 1-12., https://doi.org/10.1080/07420528.2023.2253904. He also presented at the Energy Data Analytics symposium at Duke University where he also met with UM-Dearborn alum, Billy Toth, now completing an MS degree in Economics and Computation at Duke University.

Professor Warren Anderson presented a paper co-authored with Prof. Koumpias on the Detroit Riots of 1967 in Dublin, Ireland. 

Fall 2022

Professor Suzanne Bergeron published a co-authored paper "Care in Times of Pandemic: Rethinking Meanings of Work in the University" in Gender, Work & Organization. Open access publication available here. She also published the entry "Feminist Economics and the Social and Solidarity Economy" for the United Nations Task Force on Social and Solidarity Economy, open access publication available here. Prof. Bergeron was reappointed to the Helen Mataya Graves Collegiate Professorship by the University of Michigan Board of Regents in July 2022. She was invited to serve on two advisory boards: Revaluing Care in the Global Economy project being run out of Duke University; and the Diverse Solidarity Economies Collective being run out of the University of Toronto. 

Professors Natalia V. Czap and Hans J. Czap published the paper “Behaviorally-informed framework for encouraging COVID-19 vaccinations” in the Journal of Behavioral Economics for Policy. Their chapter “Conserve the Planet, NOT Empathy! Revising the Empathy Conservation Framework” will appear in the Handbook of Behavioral Economics Methodology (Ed. M. Altman).

As SABE’s education coordinator, Natalia invites students interested in behavioral economics to check out the webpage dedicated to graduate programs and workshops in the behavioral and experimental economics fields. During the last academic year, Natalia served as the chair of UM-Dearborn’s Faculty Senate for a second term.  

Natalia and Hans teamed up with Professor Ilir Miteza on a project examining the effect of taking a PBL class on individual decision-making. They conducted an economic experiment in economics classes on that. Stay tuned for next year’s newsletter to learn about the project results. 

Professor Antonios Koumpias published two first-authored articles: "Trust in Government Institutions and Tax Morale" at FinanzArchiv, and "Housing Bubbles and Land Planning Corruption: Evidence from Spain’s Largest Municipalities," accepted at Applied Economic Analysis. He is currently reviewing The Power of Creative Destruction; Economic Upheaval and the Wealth of Nations (Harvard University Press) by Philippe Aghion Céline Antonin Simon Bunel for the The Independent Review (TIR). The book touches upon new and old themes in Economics such as inequality, globalization, technological revolution, and climate change among others. 

He also published an article: "Long-haul COVID: healthcare utilization and medical expenditures 6 months post-diagnosis" at BMC Health Services Research with web media coverage at First Report Managed Care , co-authored with Economics alum Owen Fleming, currently an Economics PhD student at Wayne State University.

Professor Koumpias is also collaborating with Samantha Marulli (economics senior) on an empirical study examining the determinants of Walmart Health market entry in continuation of their work from the Summer Undergraduate Research program. 

He is also collaborating with Economics and Applied Statistics major Stuart DiDonato on an policy evaluation study of the impact of property tax portability on migration flows in U.S. counties in continuation of their work from the 2022 Summer Undergraduate Research program.

Professor Bruce Pietrykowski’s book Work (What Is Political Economy?) was translated into Spanish, “Trabajo: Un enfoque desde la economía política.” Here is a short interview of professor Pietrykowski with UM-Dearborn’s Reporter about his book.

Fall 2021

Professor Bergeron co-authored the book Liberating Economics: Feminist Perspectives on Families, Work and Globalization (University of Michigan Press). Read UM-Dearborn’s Reporter article “Glass ceilings and plastic barriers: Will COVID’s impacts pave a path to pay parity?” featuring Professor Bergeron’s work. 

Profs. Natalia V Czap and Hans J Czap presented the joint paper “Behavioral Economics Insights for Encouraging COVID-19 Vaccination” at the joint conference of the  Society for the Advancement of Behavioral Economics and the International Association for Research in Economic Psychology. As SABE’s education coordinator, Natalia invites students interested in graduate school and in behavioral economics to check out SABE’s webpage dedicated to the graduate programs and workshops in the behavioral and experimental economics fields:  https://sabeconomics.org/education/. In the past academic year Natalia has served as the chair of UM-Dearborn’s Faculty Senate and was reelected to serve for a second year.  

Professor Koumpias published two first-authored articles: "Trust in Government Institutions and Tax Morale" at FinanzArchiv, and "Housing Bubbles and Land Planning Corruption: Evidence from Spain’s Largest Municipalities," accepted at Applied Economic Analysis. He is currently reviewing The Power of Creative Destruction; Economic Upheaval and the Wealth of Nations (Harvard University Press) by Philippe Aghion Céline Antonin Simon Bunel for the The Independent Review (TIR). The book touches upon new and old themes in Economics such as inequality, globalization, technological revolution, and climate change among others. 

Professor Koumpias is also collaborating with Samantha Marulli (economics senior) on an empirical study examining the determinants of Walmart Health market entry in continuation of their work from the Summer Undergraduate Research program.

Professor Miteza was on sabbatical during winter 2021 working on monetary policy research, particularly on the question of whether the real exchange rate acts as a shock absorber or a shock reverberator for important business cycle variables such as output and inflation. The answer to this question can be very important for the choice of exchange rate regime, as well as for decisions to join a currency area. 

Professor Pietrykowski gave a talk on July 14 to graduate students and faculty at the University of Duisburg-Essen (Germany) Mercator Graduate Programme Open-Mindedness, Tolerance and Public Engagement.  The talk was titled "Participatory Action Research: Methods, Strategies and Benefits Across the Disciplines." https://www.uni-due.de/de/mercator-graduiertenkolleg-weltoffenheit/events_en.php. Read UM-Dearborn’s Reporter article “Needed labor reform or driving a hard bargain?” featuring Professor Pietrykowski’s work. 

Professor Smith, as some of you may know, retired at the end of the winter term after a long and impressive career at UM-Dearborn. She made numerous contributions to economics with many published articles and a monograph, generally focusing on issues about which she cared deeply such as poverty, obesity, and health. Over the years, she was a mentor for many colleagues and a role model for countless students. Professor Smith was also known as an exceptional teacher, for which she recently received the prestigious Campus Distinguished Teaching Award. She will be missed!