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Dr. Thomas R. Saving is the Director of the Private Enterprise Research Center at
Texas A&M University. A University Distinguished Professor of Economics at Texas
A&M, he also holds the Jeff Montgomery Professorship in Economics. Dr. Saving
received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago and served on the faculty at the
University of Washington at Seattle and Michigan State University before moving
to Texas A&M University in 1968. Dr. Saving's research has covered the areas
of antitrust economics, monetary economics, and health economics. He has served
as a referee or as a member of the editorial board of the major United States economics
journals, and as co-editor of Economic Inquiry from 1997-2006. His current research
emphasis is on the benefit of markets in solving the pressing issues in health care
and Social Security. He is the co-editor of Medicare Reform: Issues and Answers,
University of Chicago Press, 1999, and the co-author of The Economics of Medicare
Reform, W.E. Upjohn Institute, 2000, and The Diagnosis and Treatment of Medicare,
AEI, 2007. In addition, he has many articles in professional journals
and two influential books on monetary theory. Dr. Saving has been elected to the
post of President of the Western Economics Association, the Southern Economics Association
and the Association of Private Enterprise Education. In 2000, President Clinton
appointed Dr. Saving as a Public Trustee of the Social Security and Medicare Trust
Funds. On May 2, 2001, President Bush named Dr. Saving to the bipartisan President's
Commission to Strengthen Social Security. On April 19, 2006, President Bush appointed
Dr. Saving for a second term as a Public Trustee of the Social Security and Medicare
Trust Funds.
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Andrew J. Rettenmaier is the Executive Associate Director at the Private Enterprise
Research Center at Texas A&M University. He received a B.S. in Finance and a
Ph.D. in Economics from Texas A&M University. His primary areas of research
are labor and public policy economics. Dr. Rettenmaier, along with Dr. Saving, has
presented the Center's Medicare Reform proposal to U.S. Senate Subcommittees and
to the National Bipartisan Commission on the Future of Medicare. Their proposal
has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, New England Journal of Medicine, Houston
Chronicle and Dallas Morning News. He is co-author, along with Thomas R. Saving,
of The Economics of Medicare Reform, a 2000 publication from the W. E. Upjohn Institute
for Employment Research. He is also an editor of Medicare Reform: Issues and Answers,
published in 1999 by the University of Chicago Press. He is also co-author with
Thomas R. Saving of The Diagnosis and Treatment of Medicare, published in 2007
by AEI Press. Dr. Rettenmaier is the co-principal investigator on several research
grants, serves as the editor of the Center's two newsletters, and is the author
of several academic articles and numerous monographs. |
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Liqun Liu is a Research Scientist at
the Private Enterprise Research Center. He joined the Center after earning his Ph.D. in Economics
(Texas A&M University, 1998). Originally from China, he also received a B.S. and M.S. in
Applied Mathematics from Huazhong University of Science and Technology. Dr. Liu's primary
research interests are elderly entitlement reform, costs of
public funds, the social discount rate, and medical cost-effectiveness analysis. He has published in the European Economic Review,
National Tax Journal, Journal
of Theoretical and Institutional Economics, Economic Inquiry, Southern Economic Journal, and
Journal of Public Economics, among other economics journals. |
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Zijun Wang is an Associate Research Scientist at the Private Enterprise Research
Center. He received his Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Economics from Renmin (People's)
University of China. After receiving his Ph.D. in Agricultural Economics from Texas
A&M University, he joined the Center in August, 2000. His primary research interests
are applied econometrics, health economics, and financial/monetary economics. He
has published papers in the Journal of Econometrics, Econometric Theory, Journal
of Applied Econometrics, Journal of Health Economics, Health Economics, Journal
of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Journal of International Money and Finance, and
Journal of Banking and Finance, among others. Dr. Wang has worked extensively on
the Center's Medicare and Social Security research. |
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