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• Professor of Economics, Lehigh University, College of Business and Economics
• Director, Health and BioPharmaceutical Economics Program (since 2005)
• Director of Lehigh in Prague, (since 1994)
  Senior Associate Dean of the Faculty, CBE (1999-2003)
• Research and teaching in the Czech Republic, United Kingdom, Taiwan, Canada

Research Interests

• Applied Econometrics
• Health and Biopharmaceutical Economics
• Comparative Economic Systems
• Transition Economics
• Regional Economics

Publications and Working Papers

• "Assessing Labor Market Inefficiency in Poland -- a Transition Economy and a New Entrant to the EU," forthcoming International Journal of Business and Finance Research (with V. Adamchik). 
• International Journal of Manpower, Vol. 24, No. 8, 2003, pp. 916-946.
• "The Wage Structure and Wage Distribution in Poland, 1994-2001," (with V. Adamchik and T. Hyclak).
• "Inflation Bias and Productivity Shocks in Transition Economies: The Case of the Czech Republic," Economic Systems, Vol. 24, No. 2, 2000, pp. 119-38, (with Josef C. Brada and Ali M. Kutan).
• "Industrial Economics of the Transition: Determinants of Enterprise Efficiency in Czechoslovakia and Hungary" (with J.C. Brada and C.Y. Ma), Oxford Economic Papers, Vol. 49, pp. 104-127, 1997.
• "Differences in the Technical and Allocative Efficiency of Private and Socialized Agricultural Units in Pre-Transformation Poland," Economic Systems, Vol. 18, No. 4, December 1994, pp. 363-376, (with J.C. Brada).
• "The Privatization Experience in Eastern Europe," World Economy, Vol. 17, No. 4, pp. 529-550, 1994, (with T.J. Hyclak).
• North American Health Policy in the 1990s, editor, (Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, 1993), 1993, 284 pages, (with T. Hyclak, S. McMahon and R. Thornton).
• "Is Private Farming More Efficient than Socialized Agriculture?" Economica, Vol. 60, 1993, pp. 41-56, (with J.C. Brada).
• "Central Planners as Market Stabilizers: Evidence from Poland and the Soviet Union," The Review of Economics and Statistics, February 1992, pp. 1-13, (with J.C. Brada).

Spare Time Activities

• Board of Directors, Visiting Nurse Association of St. Luke's, a $12-$18 million non-profit home health care provider (since 1986; president 1997-2000; 2007-present)
• Academic Committee, Chair, Knudson Churchill Scholarship Trust (since 2004)
• National President, Phi Beta Delta, International Scholars Honor Society (1999-00)
• English sports cars, especially MGs

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