Brock Blomberg

Brock Blomberg
Brock Blomberg
17th President of Ursinus College
Assumed office
2015
Preceded by Terry Winegar (interim)
Bobby Fong
Personal details
Born (1967-03-21) March 21, 1967
El Paso, Texas
Alma mater University of Tampa (BA)
Johns Hopkins (MA and Ph.D)
Website Ursinus College President's Office

S. Brock Blomberg is a macroeconomist and former Professor of economics at Claremont McKenna College. On July 1, 2015 he became the 17th president of Ursinus College.[1] Blomberg is best known in academia for his work on the economics of terrorism and is an investigator for CREATE at University of Southern California with a blog.[2]

Early life and education

Blomberg was born in El Paso, Texas, the son of an Army officer who spent much of his early years moving from place to place.[3] He graduated from The University of Tampa magna cum laude in 1989 with a Bachelor of Arts in economics. He spent the next several years working on his Doctor of Philosophy at Johns Hopkins University. He worked as an intern economist for the Federal Reserve Board of Governors in 1992, foreshadowing his later position as a staff economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.

Career

Prior to his appointment as president of Ursinus College, he served as the Dean of the Robert Day School of Economics and Finance at Claremont McKenna College, where he received the David Huntoon Senior Teaching Award. Previously he has held appointments on the President's Council of Economic Advisors, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, the International Monetary Fund and World Bank, Harvard University and Wellesley College. He also served in the United States Military for eight years and been the United States representative to the Economic Committee for Asian Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC).[4]

Macroeconomics Consequences of Terrorism

Over the past 20 years, he has published over 30 articles and book chapters in such top economics journals as the American Economic Review, Journal of Econometrics, Journal of Law and Economics, Journal of Monetary Economics, Journal of International Economics, Journal of Public Economics and the Review of Economics and Statistics.[5]

His research shows that terrorism has a modest but statistically significant impact on the economy and trade is one area particularly sensitive to attacks.[6][7] He estimates the cost of the September 11 attacks to be approximately $60 billion.[8] The responsiveness of policy-makers and the resiliency of the United States economy are two reasons these impacts are not larger.[9]

Innovations in Education

Shortly after Claremont McKenna College (CMC) graduated its first class of masters students in Finance in 2010, Blomberg became Dean. The one year Master's Degree has been seen as a new alternative in graduate education.[10] Over the next few years, the CMC also began offering an accelerated degree so that students could earn both bachelor's and master's degrees over a four-year period. "CMC joins Stanford University, Harvard University, Northwestern University, Emory University and Brandeis University as one of just six schools to offer a four-year B.A./M.A. program, according to the online newspaper The Strategic Sourceror."[11] These programs along with similar accelerated programs have led to speculation that the master's is the new bachelor's degree.[12]

In 2012, the Claremont Colleges enrolled the first off-campus study program in Silicon Valley. The Silicon Valley program is affiliated with the Robert Day School of Economics and Finance and allows students to complete a full-time internship at a technology company, along with two academic courses and a research paper related to the internship for a total of four academic credits.[13]

On April 30, 2015, Ursinus College, a liberal arts college in southeastern Pennsylvania, announced that Blomberg would become the 17th President of the College.[14]

Selected works

S. Brock Blomberg and Roz Engel. “Lines in the Sand: Border Effects, Economic Integration and Disintegration of Post- War Iraq” Journal of Law and Economics (2012): 503-538.
S. Brock Blomberg, Khrusav Gaibulloev, and Todd Sandler. “Terrorist Group Survival: Ideology, Tactics, and Base of Operations” Public Choice, Vol 149. Numbers 3-4 (2011): 441-463.
S. Brock Blomberg, Gregory D. Hess, and Yaron Raviv. "Where Have All the Heroes Gone? A Rational-Choice Perspective on Heroism." PublicChoice 141.3-4 (2009): 509-522
S. Brock Blomberg and Gregory D. Hess. "How Much Does Violence Tax Trade?." Review of Economics and Statistics 88.4 (2006): 599-612.
S. Brock Blomberg, Gregory D. Hess, and Athanasios Orphanides. "The Macroeconomic Consequences of Terrorism." Journal of Monetary Economics 51.5 (2004): 1007-1032.
S. Brock Blomberg, and Gregory D. Hess. "Is the Political Business Cycle for Real?." Journal of Public Economics 87.5-6 (2003): 1091-1121
Asea, Patrick K., and Brock Blomberg. "Lending Cycles." Journal of Econometrics 83.1-2 (1998): 89-128.
S. Brock Blomberg, and Gregory D. Hess. "Politics and Exchange Rate Forecasts." Journal of International Economics 43.1-2 (1997): 189-205

References

  1. ↑ "Economist Brock Blomberg is 17th President". ursinus.edu. Retrieved 2015-05-06.
  2. ↑ http://create.usc.edu/about/investigators/s_brock_blomberg.html.
  3. ↑ http://www.claremontmckenna.edu/rdschool/discover/mckenomics/march2004.pdf
  4. ↑ http://www.cmc.edu/academic/faculty/profile.php?Fac=371.
  5. ↑ http://www.cmc.edu/academic/faculty/profile.php?Fac=371.
  6. ↑ http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424127887323789704578445121245795736
  7. ↑ http://www.lowyinterpreter.org/post/2010/06/08/Globalisation-and-war-Whats-the-evidence-for-Pax-Mercatoria-%28I%29.aspx?COLLCC=4165175269&
  8. ↑ http://news.yahoo.com/costs-9-11-attacks-still-haunt-us-economy-154303735.html
  9. ↑ http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2011/05/the-cost-of-bin-laden-3-trillion-over-15-years/238517/
  10. ↑ https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2011/04/20/master_s_degrees_in_finance_management_accounting_expand_at_wake_forest_elsewhere_for_non_business_students
  11. ↑ http://tsl.pomona.edu/articles/2012/10/5/news/3069-cmc-offers-dual-degree-program-at-robert-day-school
  12. ↑ http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/24/education/edlife/edl-24speed-t.html
  13. ↑ http://tsl.pomona.edu/articles/2012/2/16/news/2514-cmc-to-offer-semester-in-silicon-valley
  14. ↑ "Economist Brock Blomberg is 17th President". ursinus.edu. Retrieved 2015-05-06.

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