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BRIEFINGSNEW FACULTYAT THE ELLER COLLEGEGAUTAM GOWRISANKARANAssociate Professor of EconomicsPh.D., Yale University,1995IVALINA KALCHEVAAssistant Professor of FinancePh.D., University of Utah,2007OLIVER ZHEN LIAssociate Professor of AccountingPh.D., The University of Arizona,2003NATHAN PODSAKOFFAssistant Professor ofManagement and OrganizationsPh.D., University of Florida,2007PAUL W. RHODEProfessor of EconomicsPh.D., Stanford University,1990CRAIG SMITHAssistant Professor of PublicAdministration and PolicyPh.D., University of Georgia,2007Gautam Gowrisankaran joins the EllerCollege faculty full time after servingas a visiting professor in the spring.Previously, Gowrisankaran was anassistant professor of economics atWashington University, and a seniorfellow at the University’s Center forHealth Policy. His research interestsinclude industrial organization, healtheconomics, and applied econometrics.Recent papers have examined thedynamics of pricing for durablegoods industries and issues relatedto competition among hospitalsand health care providers.Ivalina Kalcheva holds a Ph.D. fromthe University of Utah, an MBA fromSaginaw Valley State University, and abachelor's degree from the Universityof Economics in her native Bulgaria.Her research interests fall into theoverlap between market microstructureand the classical fields in finance.Her co-authored paper "InternationalEvidence on Cash Holdings andExpected Managerial Agency Problems"is forthcoming in The Review ofFinancial Studies. Kalcheva’s teachinginterests include corporate finance,investments, institutions, andinternational finance.Oliver Zhen Li earned his Ph.D. atThe University of Arizona’s EllerCollege of Management, and returnsto teach here from the Universityof Notre Dame, where he served asassistant professor of accountancy since2003. Li also holds an MBA from IllinoisState University and spent three yearswith HSBC Holdings as a credit analystand assistant division manager. Lihas co-authored several papers withEller accounting department headDan Dhaliwal, including “Taxes, Leverage,and the Cost of Equity Capital,” and“Did the 2003 Tax Act Reduce the Costof Equity Capital?”Nathan Podsakoff comes to the EllerCollege from the University of Florida,where he earned his Ph.D. and taughtcourses in human resources andorganizational behavior. His areas ofresearch interest include organizationalstress, leadership, and researchmethods related to the measurementand modeling of constructs. Currentpapers examine scholarly influencein the field of management and themediating effects of employee justiceperceptions. Podsakoff earned hisundergraduate degree in psychologyfrom Princeton University.Paul W. Rhode came to the Eller Collegein Spring of 2007 from the Universityof North Carolina — Chapel Hill. He isa noted expert in American economichistory, and teaches courses includingmicroeconomics at Eller. Rhode iscurrently studying the role of biologicallearning in American agriculture beforethe advent of hybrid corn and syntheticfertilizers in the 1930s. The topic isthe subject of a forthcoming book,Biological Innovation and AmericanAgricultural Development 1700-1960,co-authored with Alan Olmstead.Craig Smith’s research explores theareas of contract management, collaborativeand network management, quantitativemethods, organization theoryand behavior, and environmental management.Smith earned his Ph.D. at theUniversity of Georgia, and also holds anMPA and a master’s in environmentalscience, both from Indiana University.After earning his undergraduate degree,Smith spent a year teaching English inPrague. His recent paper “Employment,Privatization, and Managerial Choice:Does Contracting Out Reduce PublicSector Employment?” was publishedin the Journal of Public Policy Analysisand Management.4 ELLER PROGRESS THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONAWWW.ELLER.ARIZONA.EDUFALL / WINTER 2007 5