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Mieke Meurs

Professor
Department of Economics

  • Professor Meurs has recently taught Comparative Systems, Heterodox Microeconomics, Transition Economies, the Economics of Gender, and the Doctoral Dissertation Seminar.

  • Degrees

    PhD, Economics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
    BS, Political Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison

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Research Interests

  • Recent publications and research examine market development and social outcomes in the transition economies of Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. Field research has been supported by grants from the MacArthur Foundation, National Council for Soviet and East European Research, National Research Council, and the National Science Foundation for work in Hungary, Bulgaria, Romania, and Poland.

Professional Services

  • Member; Executive Board & Finance Committee, National Council for European + East European Research
  • Member; Editorial Board, Politics + Society

    • Teaching Interests

    • Recent courses taught include Comparative Systems, Heterodox Microeconomics, Transition Economies, the Economics of Gender, and the Doctoral Dissertation Seminar

    Selected Publications

     

  • "Market Reform and Infrastructure Development in Transition Economies,” Review of Development Economics, OnlineEarly, August 2007, with Robert M. Feinberg.
  • ‘‘Changing Preschool Enrollments in Post-Socialist Central Asia: Causes and Implications,’’ with Lisa Giddings and Tilahun Temesgen, forthcoming in Comparative Economic Studies, 2006.
  • ‘‘Declining Child Care Enrollments in Post Socialism: Causes and Implications in the Bulgarian Case,’’ European Journal of Social Policy, with Lisa Giddings, 16(2) 2006.
  • ‘‘Market Reform, Infrastructure and Exchange Rate Passthrough in Central and Eastern Europe,’’ Post-Communist Economies, 17(1), 2005, with Robert Feinberg.
  • ‘‘De-development in Post-Socialism: Conceptual and Measurement Issues,’’ Politics and Society, 31 (1), 2003, with Raskia Ranasinghe.
  • ‘‘Are Markets Like Mushrooms and Other Neo-Liberal Quandries,’’ Review of Radical Political Economics, 2001.
  • The Evolution of Agrarian Institutions: A Comparative Study of Post-Socialist Hungary and Bulgaria (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2001).

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