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Co-Directors of the South Bay Economic Institute
Dr. Jose N. Martinez is currently a Professor of Economics at the School of Business Administration and Public Policy. He is a graduate of the University of California San Diego, where he received his Masters and Ph.D. in Economics. His dissertation research focuses on measuring the stock on Mexican migrants in the U.S. and the main drivers of migration from Mexico to the U.S. His latest research focuses on the health status of Mexican migrants living in the U.S. and the spatial contagion effects of crime at municipality level in Mexico. His main research interests are labor economics, applied economics, and time series modeling.
Curriculum Vitae [PDF]
Contact jnmartinez@csudh.edu
Dr. Fynn Prager is currently Associate Professor of Public Administration, Director of School of Public Service and Justice at CSU Dominguez Hills, College of Business Administration and Public Policy. Previously, he was a Postdoctoral Research Associate at USC’s Price School of Public Policy and Center for Risk and Economic Analysis of Terrorism Events (CREATE), and he remains affiliated with the Center. He received his PhD in Policy, Planning, and Development from the Price School, and his research has focused on the policy and economics of disasters, particularly environmental and terrorism policy. Since joining CSUDH, Fynn has also conducted extensive research on the Southern California economy and transportation systems.
Curriculum Vitae [PDF]
Contact: fprager@csudh.edu
Faculty Researcher
Dr. Jennifer Brodmann is an Associate Professor at California State University, Dominguez Hills teaching undergraduate courses in Business Finance, Entrepreneurial Finance, and Personal Finance. She received her Ph.D. in Financial Economics, M.S. in Financial Economics, and M.B.A. from the University of New Orleans (UNO). Her main research interests are in corporate finance and entrepreneurial finance, where she explores topics relating to corporate governance and access to capital.
Dr. Brodmann has presented her research at several conferences, which include the Eastern Finance Association, Southwestern Finance Association, Southern Finance Association, Academy of Financial Services, Academy of Economics and Finance, Western Decision Sciences Institute, the Gulf Research Council, and Financial Management Association. Her research has been published in several peer-reviewed academic journals, which include the International Review of Economics and Finance, Accounting & Finance, Applied Economics, Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance, Finance Research Letters, Applied Economics Letters, Journal of Economics and Business, International Journal of Bank Marketing, Review of Behavioral Finance, Journal of Business Accounting and Finance Perspectives, Journal of Economic Cooperation and Development, The Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance, and Business Ethics: A European Review.
She has served as a committee member for the Southern Finance Association, Eastern Finance Association, Financial Management Association, and Omicron Delta Kappa Honor Society, as a Board Member for the Accounting and Financial Women's Alliance, and as a Reviewer for Accounting & Finance, International Journal of Managerial Finance, Review of Behavoral Finance, Academy of Financial Services, Academy of Economics and Finance Journal, Global Finance Journal, Research in International Business and Finance, International Journal of Emerging Markets, and the International Journal of Islamic and Middle Eastern Finance and Management. She currently serves as a Board Member for and has been recently elected as the VP Program-Elect for the Southwestern Finance Association.