Progress Magazine Annual Report 2011 - Eller College of ...
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Mauricio Varela Photo<br />
“I am very excited to<br />
join the University <strong>of</strong><br />
Arizona, since the<br />
Department <strong>of</strong> Economics<br />
has a group <strong>of</strong> researchers<br />
with whom I share an<br />
approach to industrial<br />
organization, labor,<br />
and econometrics.”<br />
Tiemen Woutersen<br />
Assistant Pr<strong>of</strong>essor<br />
<strong>of</strong> Economics<br />
Ph.D., Brown University, 2000<br />
Tiemen Woutersen comes to<br />
the <strong>Eller</strong> <strong>College</strong> from Johns<br />
Hopkins University, where he<br />
has served as an assistant<br />
pr<strong>of</strong>essor <strong>of</strong> economics since<br />
2004. His research focuses on<br />
unemployment and other<br />
duration models. “Research<br />
keeps one's teaching up to<br />
date and helps to develop real<br />
life examples that, in my case,<br />
use unemployment data,”<br />
he added. A Dutch native,<br />
Woutersen was an assistant<br />
pr<strong>of</strong>essor in the economics<br />
department <strong>of</strong> the University<br />
<strong>of</strong> Western Ontario and a<br />
visiting pr<strong>of</strong>essor at MIT before<br />
joining Johns Hopkins.<br />
Mauricio J. Varela<br />
Assistant Pr<strong>of</strong>essor<br />
<strong>of</strong> Economics<br />
Ph.D., Northwestern<br />
University, 2010<br />
Before pursuing his doctoral<br />
studies at Northwestern<br />
University, Mauricio Varela<br />
worked as an associate<br />
consultant for the Boston<br />
Consulting Group in its<br />
Monterrey <strong>of</strong>fice. His research<br />
interests include industrial<br />
organization and health<br />
economics. “My research<br />
focuses on understanding the<br />
forces underlying market<br />
structure: supply, demand,<br />
and conduct,” he said.<br />
“Business strategy is about<br />
targeting these forces with<br />
specific actions to improve<br />
one’s position in the marketplace.<br />
I use the insights<br />
from my research to paint a<br />
picture for the students, in<br />
which they can visualize how<br />
strategy can shape the market<br />
by utilizing these market<br />
forces in one’s favor.” Some<br />
<strong>of</strong> his recent work examines<br />
individual health plan<br />
exchange and welfare<br />
consequences <strong>of</strong> health<br />
plan choice by employers<br />
versus employees.<br />
“The faculty here is<br />
great –they do state<strong>of</strong>-the-art<br />
research and<br />
are also very friendly.<br />
The students are bright<br />
and hardworking, which<br />
makes the teaching more<br />
challenging, but also<br />
more interesting and<br />
more fun. Finally, Tucson<br />
is an amazing place to<br />
live, with its outdoors<br />
and beautiful skies.”<br />
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