Farrokh K. Langdana
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Bio:
Dr. Langdana's areas of specialization include monetary and fiscal theory and international economics. His research deals with macroeconomic experimentation and the role of stabilization policy in an expectations-driven economy. He has published several articles as well as four books in this area. His most recent book is Macroeconomic Policy: Demystifying Monetary and Fiscal Policy, and his fifth book, Global Macroeconomic Policy: Demystification and Analysis, c0-authored with Peter Murphy, is forthcoming in 2012.
Dr. Langdana is the recipient of the Horace dePodwin Research Award as well as over twenty-five teaching awards that include the highest possible teaching award at Rutgers University--the Warren I. Susman Award and Rutgers Business School's Paul Nadler Award for Excellence in Teaching. He recently received the 2009 Professor of the Year Award from the Singapore Executive MBA Class of 2009 and the Most Outstanding Professor Award from the full-time MBA class for 2008-2010. From 2011, the Award for Excellence in Teaching in the MBA Program was named the Farrokh Langdana Teaching Excellence Award.
He currently teaches Macroeconomic Policy as well as International Trade and Global Macropolicy in the EMBA and MBA programs at Rutgers Business School. Prof. Langdana has taught extensively in China, Singapore, and France as well as in Iceland and India, in addition to the US, and his courses have a genuinely global outlook.
His lectures integrate solid theory with actual ongoing developments in the global economy. Some topics in the macroeconomics course include the current US budget and trade deficits and the capital inflows that finance them, Fed policy, the Stability Pact and European Central Bank Policy, the dollar-yuan peg and Chinese monetary policy, and in the trade class topics such as outsourcing, US R&D and intellectual property violation, the outlook on trade and employment, and exchange rate dynamics in Europe, China, India and the US.
