Paul J. Pieper
Associate Professor, Director of Graduate Studies
Ph.D., Northwestern University, 1984
Phone: (312) 996-5214 Fax: (312) 996-3344
E-Mail:pjpieper@uic.edu
Homepage:http://www.uic.edu/depts/cba/cba-depts/economics/pieper.html
Fields of Interest : Applied Macroeconomics, Labor Economics, Economics of Education.
Selected Research :
Do Economics Departments with Lower Tenure Probabilities Pay Higher Faculty Salaries, (with Ronald Ehrenberg and Rachel Willis), in The Review of Economics and Statistics, November 1998, pp. 503-512.
The Economics Major: A Cross-Sectional View, (with Rachel Willis), in The Journal of Economic Education, Fall 1996, pp. 337-349.
"Federal Deficits and National Saving," (with Robert Eisner, in James Gapinski ed.), The Economics of Saving, Kluwer Press, (1992), pp. 109-133.
The Measurement of Construction Prices: Retrospect and Prospect", in Fifty Years of Measurement: Proceedings of the Fiftieth Conference of Research in Income and Wealth, University of Chicago Press and NBER, 1991, pp. 293-327.
"The World's Greatest Debtor Nation?", (with Robert Eisner), North American Review of Economics and Finance, (Spring 1990), pp. 9-32.
"A New View of the Federal Debt and Budget Deficits," (with Robert Eisner), American Economic Review, 74 (March 1984), pp. 11-29.
Current Research Interests:
Effects of budget deficits, economic measurement, the academic labor market
Other Significant Accomplishments :
Elected member of the NBER's Conference on Research in Income and Wealth.
Member of China Statistics Archives Advisory Board, 1986-1991.
Elected member International Association for Research in Income and Wealth.
NSF grant "Inflation and the Measurement and Impact of Fiscal Variables," 1986-91.
Consultant, Argonne National Laboratory.
College of Business Administration Alumni Award for Service, 2001.
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