Fred Abraham
Professor and Head of Economics
Director, Center for Economic Education

Education
Ph.D. (Economics) University of Oregon; M.S. University of Wisconsin-Madison; M.A. University of Oregon;B.S. (Highest Honors) University of Wisconsin-La Crosse.

Teaching Interests
Principles of Macroeconomics. Econometrics

Research Interests
Public Finance; Forensic Economics.
Recent Publications

Responsibilities
Fred has administrative and evaluative responsibility for the faculty in the economics department. This includes annually evaluating faculty on their on their tripartite mission of teaching, research and service and making salary recommendations. In addition, department heads are responsible for overseeing the search process by which new faculty are hired and making tenure and promotion recommendations on existing faculty. Fred is responsible for overseeing the curricular process in the department and also creates the teaching schedule for each semester including the three months of the summer session. Unique to the economics department, he is the Director of the Center for Economic Education and oversees staff connected with the Center. He also administers funds to the international programs associated with the Jepson endowment.

Professional Accomplishments
Professor Abraham has been teaching economics at UNI since 1973 when he started as an Assistant Professor. Since that time he has accumulated a long record of publications in journals such as the Journal of Economics, Journal of Post Keynesian Economics, Journal of Forensic Economics and the Journal of Sports Economics. In addition, he has authored a text Graphs of Macroeconomic Principles and presented numerous papers at research conferences. He has served as the Head of the Department of Economics since 1990.