Valerica Vlad, Ph.D.

Teaching

Courses Taught *

• ECON 104 (formerly ECON 004): Introductory Macroeconomic Analysis and Policy
• ECON 304: Intermediate Macroeconomic Analysis
• ECON 470 (formerly ECNS 470): International Trade and Finance
• ECON 481 (formerly ECNS 460): Business Forecasting Techniques 

Service

Participation in Seminars and Workshops

• China in a Global Economy and Economic Issues Between China and U.S. Session Chair and Panel Discussant. MBAA International, annual meeting, Chicago IL, March 2011.
• Missouri Valley Economic Association, annual meeting:
  • Chair, International Finance. Kansas City MO, October 2007.
  • Discussant:
    • Foreign Direct Investment, Infrastructure, and Globalization: Theoretical and Empirical Analysis. Kansas City MO, October 2007.
    • An Empirical Analysis of House Prices: Hedonic Valuation. Minneapolis MN, October 2006.
• Penn State College Teaching Seminar Series. Center for Teaching and Educational Technologies, Penn State Erie, Erie PA: 
  • Recipient, College Teaching Workshop Certificate, 2007.

Speaking Engagements

• Lifeless Incentives and Failure of Command Economies. Jefferson Educational Society, 2011.
• Suppressed Markets, Black Markets and the Collapse of Communism in Romania. Economics and Liberty Lecture Series, 2011.

Other Activities

• Research assistant, Rural Development Opportunities. A project funded by Illinois Council on Food and Agricultural Research to build regional general input‑output models to gauge the impact of changes in regional economic variables on the economy of the region.