People Group Archives: Business Analytics Faculty

Dr. Dean Jens is an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Central Florida. He completed a Ph.D. in Economics from Rutgers University. His interest lies in the study of behavior under strategic and exogenous uncertainty and the function of markets, especially with regard to the behavior of market thickness/liquidity. In addition to research, […]

Dr. Lealand Morin is an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Central Florida. He completed a Ph.D. Economics from Queen’s University in Canada. His research interests are focused on empirical and theoretical techniques in econometrics. Dr. Morin brings a great deal of teaching experience aimed at challenging students for analytical work in business. […]

Harry J. Paarsch was born in Ashcroft, British Columbia, Canada, and grew up in British Columbia, first in the village of Clinton, in the Cariboo region, which is located in the southern interior of the province, and then in the village of Qualicum Beach, on Vancouver Island. After attending grade schools in Dog Creek, as […]

My Teaching Philosophy I take teaching very seriously and for the most part, view teaching as important as research. I have high expectations of the students, which is generally something they haven’t encountered in their prior education.  I eschew grading on a curve, for I find a curve unpalatable inasmuch as any true curve, e.g., a […]

Eric Schmidbauer is an Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Central Florida. He completed his Ph.D. from Indiana University in 2014 and received his undergraduate degree from the University of Michigan. His research interests include the economics of information, industrial organization and marketing. He principally teaches courses in microeconomics and game theory at […]