Rodney Smith

+1 612 625 5724

Subject Areas

Agricultural Policy
Development and Growth
Poverty and Welfare
Regional Economics
Water Economics

Education

Ph.D., University of Maryland, 1992 

Areas of Interest

Government regulation and policy, economic development and growth, resource economics, mechanism design theory, production economics

Professor
337A Ruttan Hall
1994 Buford Avenue
St. Paul, MN 55108
smith142@umn.edu
Rodney Smith

Teaching

Teaching interests: intermediate macroeconomics; macroeconomics and growth (M.S.); production economics (Ph.D.). 

Past teaching: applied game theory and mechanism design

Research

Current research: Examining links between economic growth, development, and natural resource management; macroeconomic issues in transnational and transboundary water resource managements; HIV and AIDS, and economic growth; policy design in the presence of asymmetric information with emphasis on environmental and natural resource policy; the economics of surface and groundwater management; applied production economics.