Experts Directory: Economics

Linda A. Bradley

Department of Family and Consumer Sciences
work: (818) 677-3023 / 3051
email: linda.bradley@csun.edu

Family and personal finance
Resource management
Consumer issues
Coping with economic stress
Financial behavior and socialization

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CSUN Blazes Trail in Financial Literacy Education

Inga Chira

Department of Finance, Financial Planning and Insurance
work: (818) 677-4615
email: inga.chira@csun.edu

Financial planning
Retirement planning
Passive investments
Saving and budgeting
Student job placement

Vicentiu Covrig

Department of Finance, Financial Planning and Insurance
work: (818) 677-6079
email: vincentiu.covrig@csun.edu
Also speaks: Romanian

International investments
International currency markets
Portfolio management
Behavioral finance
Institutional investor trading
Finance in Eastern Europe
Currency markets
Forecasting volatility
Valuation of international projects

Steve Graves

Department of Geography
work: (818) 677-3517
email: steve.graves@csun.edu

Popular culture
Predatory lending
Social justice
Landscapes
Geography education
Author: “Landscapes of Predation, Landscapes of Neglect: An Analysis of Banks and Payday Lenders”

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CSUN Faculty Published in Comprehensive Historical Atlas of Los Angeles

Robert Krol

Department of Economics
work: (818) 677-2430 / 2462
email: robert.krol@csun.edu

International economics
State budget and tax issues

Marta Cristina López-Garza

Department of Gender and Women’s Studies
Department of Chicana/o Studies
work: (818) 677-6488 / 4785
email: marta.lopez-garza@csun.edu
Also speaks: Spanish

Economic development
Ethnographic field research
Formerly incarcerated women
Immigration and public policy
Race and class studies
Urban sociology
Women’s/feminist studies
Documentary filmmaking from a social science perspective
Visual sociology (photography)
Member, Community Coalition for Substance Abuse Prevention and Treatment, South Los Angeles
Member, Institute for the Renewal of the California Draw
Co-author: “Regions That Work: How Cities and Suburbs Can Grow Together”
Co-editor: “Asian and Latino Immigrants in a Restructuring Economy: The Metamorphosis of Los Angeles”
Documentary: “ ‘When Will the Punishment End?’ Formerly Incarcerated Women Rebuilding Their Lives”

Brian T. Malec

Department of Health Sciences
work: (818) 677-3143 / 4081
email: brian.malec@csun.edu

Health information management systems
Healthcare economics and health policy
Autor: "Careers in Health Information Technology"

G. Michael Phillips

Department of Finance, Financial Planning and Insurance
work: (818) 677-2409
email: mphillips@csun.edu

Econometrics
Financial analysis
Statistics
Applied economics
Online education
Internet commerce
Law & economics

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CSUN Finance Professors Win Globally Prestigious William F. Sharpe Award