Faculty and Staff

Department of Economics and Management

Teaching and mentoring students is the first priority for Albion's Economics and Management faculty. Because of Albion's small class sizes, we get to know our students well.

Recent scholarly research by faculty addresses such topics as fighting botnets with economic uncertainty, ethical reasoning in management decision making, "zombie" lending by Japanese banks, networking to develop a professional identity, equity market liberalization, cost-effectiveness of video conferencing to diagnose stroke patients in rural areas, and decisionmaking principles of labor arbitrators in employment grievance cases.

Two Albion E&M professors have received prestigious fellowships from the National Science Foundation, and two have received Fulbright grants.

Jon A. Hooks, Department Chair and Professor

B.S., 1984, Cameron University
M.A., 1985, University of Texas at Dallas
M.A., 1987, Ph.D., 1989, Michigan State University
C.F.A., 2000
Appointed 1989
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Phone: 517/629-0530; Office: Robinson 103

Scholarship: Articles on mutual fund returns, asset allocation, and the stock market in Journal of Business Research and elsewhere. Author of a textbook, Economics: Foundations for Financial Services Providers.

Courses: Principles of Microeconomics, The Economy and Financial Markets, Intermediate Macroeconomics, Government Economics and Policy, Money and Banking, Portfolio Theory, Financial Management, Financial Markets

Advisor: 2012 Fed Challenge Team, Investment Club, ODE-Omicron Delta Epsilon International Honors Society in Economics

Vicki Baker Vicki L. Baker, Associate Professor - Off Campus 2013-2014/Sabbatical

B.S., 1999, Indiana University of Pennsylvania
M.B.A., 2001, Clarion University of Pennsylvania
M.S, and Ph.D., 2007, Pennsylvania State University
Appointed 2007

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Phone: 517/629-0238; Office: Robinson 111

Scholarship: Development of professional identity and professional networks among doctoral students in business, education, and engineering. Moral disengagement and ethical decision making in business. Articles published in Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Higher Education, Studies in Higher Education, and elsewhere; chapters in scholarly books.

Courses: Managing People and Organizations, Human Resource Management, Women in Business and Leadership, Management, Lessons Learned at "The Office," Management Consulting, International Management

Advisor: Delta Sigma Pi fraternity

John B. Bedient, Associate Professor

B.A., 1975, Alma College
M.B.A., 1978, Indiana University
CPA, 1977
Appointed 1985

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Phone: 517/629-0343; Office: Robinson 118

Courses: Financial Accounting, Managerial Cost Accounting, Intermediate Accounting I and II, Auditing, Accounting Information Systems, Governmental and Not-for-Profit Accounting, Marketing Principles and Decision-Making, Business Functions, Management

Advisor: VITA (Volunteer Income Tax Assistance); Site Coordinator, Accounting Society

John M. Carlson, Assistant Professor

B.S., 1979, Ball State University
CPA, 1982
C.M.A., 1984
M.B.A., 1999, University of Cincinnati
Ph.D., 2012, University of Cincinnati
Appointed 2012

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Phone: 517/629-0424; Office: Robinson 112

Courses: Financial Accounting, Managerial Cost Accounting & Federal Income Taxation

Advisor: American Institute of CPA's (AICPA), 2012 Accounting Competition, Team Albion, VITA (Volunteer Income Tax Assistance); Site Coordinator, Accounting Society.

Daniel S. Christiansen, Professor

B.A., 1969, Willamette University
M.A., 1971, Ph.D., 1975, Stanford University
Appointed 1981

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Phone: 517/629-0425; Office: Robinson 100
Web: http://people.albion.edu/christiansen

Scholarship: Articles on temporary equilibrium in Journal of Economic Theory and on oil supply in Resources and Energy. Working on a textbook manuscript on intermediate microeconomics with calculus.

Courses: Principles of Microeconomics, Intermediate Microeconomics, Economic Statistics, Environmental and Natural Resource Economics, Mathematical Economics

Mark Garrison, Adjunct Instructor

B.A., 1971, Albion College
J.D., 1974, University of Detroit
Appointed 1986

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Phone: 517/629-0419; Office: Robinson 113

Courses: Business Law

Bojan Ilievski, Visiting Assistant Professor

B.A., 2006, Southern Illinois University Carbondale
Ph.D., 2012 Southernn Illinois University Carbondale
Appointed 2012

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Phone: 517/629-0423; Office: Robinson 116

Scholarship: Tax Revenue and Financial Development: Theory and Evidence in the Journal of Public Economics.

Courses: Principles of Microeconomics, The Economy and Financial Markets, Econometrics

Advisor: 2012 Fed Challenge Team

Zhen Li, Associate Professor - Off Campus Spring 2013/Sabbatical

B.A., 1996, Peking University
M.A., 1999, Ph.D., 2004, Princeton University
Appointed 2004

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Phone: 517/629-0490; Office: Robinson 102

Scholarship: Economics of computer networks and computer security, equity market liberalization and economic development. Articles in Journal of Security and Communication Networks and in Journal of Economic Development; papers in peer-reviewed conference proceedings; chapter in scholarly book.

Courses: Principles of Microeconomics, The Economy and Financial Markets, Intermediate Macroeconomics, The Chinese Economy, International Finance, International Trade

Gregory M. Saltzman, Professor

S.B., 1976, S.M., 1976, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Junior year, 1974-75, London School of Economics
M.A., 1978, Ph.D., 1982, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Appointed 1986

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Phone: 517-629-0422; Office: Robinson 101

Scholarship: Union-management relations, labor and employment law, labor arbitration, health insurance, occupational safety and health, health care cost-effectiveness. Articles in Industrial and Labor Relations Review, Transportation Journal, Neurology, Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, and elsewhere. Chapters in scholarly books, including a National Bureau of Economic Research conference volume. Scholarly book: Truck Driver Occupational Safety and Health.

Courses: Principles of Microeconomics; Issues in Modern Political Economy; Labor Law, Unions, and Management; Labor Economics; Human Resource Management; Health Economics; Negotiation and Dispute Resolution; Health Policy in the U.S. and Canada; Economics, Politics, and Environmental Policy

Renée Harlow, Department Secretary

B.A., 2012, Albion College

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Phone: 517/629-0419; Office: Robinson 109