Mark Zupan (academic)

Mark Zupan is the dean of the University of Rochester's Simon School of Business Administration. He succeeded Charles Plosser to the position in January 2004. Zupan also holds seats on the Boards of Director's of Constellation Brands, The Farash Corporation, and The Harley School.

MARK ZUPAN Dean and Professor of Economics and Public Policy

Biography Dean Zupan assumed his duties at the Simon School on a full-time basis on January 1, 2004. He is responsible for the administrative and academic functions of the Simon School, and serves as the leading advocate of the School’s faculty, programs and students to the business community and other external constituencies.

Zupan served as dean and pro¬fessor of economics at the University of Ari¬zona’s Eller College of Management from 1997 to 2003. Among his accomplishments at Eller were highly successful fundraising efforts, a record of promoting scholarship, fostering innovation in academic programs and enhanced community outreach.

Before his appointment at Arizona, Zupan taught at the University of Southern California’s Marshall School of Business, where he also served as associate dean of master’s programs. He was a teaching fellow in Harvard’s Department of Economics while pursuing his doctoral studies at MIT, and he has been a visiting faculty member at the Amos Tuck School of Business Administration at Dartmouth College.

Research Zupan’s research interests include water policy, the influence of economics and ideological preferences on the political behavior of voters and elected officials, industrial organization, regulation and political economy. He has received research grants from the National Science Foundation and the Center for International Business Education and Research at the University of Southern California. He is the co-author of two books: Microeconomic Theory and Applications (with E. K. Browning), published by John Wiley and Sons, and Microeconomic Cases and Applications (with T. W. Gilligan and A. M. Marino), published by HarperCollins.

Zupan is also the author of numerous scholarly articles which have appeared in leading publications including the American Economic Review, Journal of Law and Economics, Rand Journal of Economics, Public Choice, and Journal of Regulatory Economics. His opinion pieces have appeared in such outlets as The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, the Financial Times of London, Los Angeles Times, Arizona Republic, BusinessWeek.com, Democrat and Chronicle (Rochester, NY) and San Francisco Chronicle. He has served as co-editor of the journal Economic Inquiry, and has also been on the editorial boards of Public Choice, Journal of Business Economics and Research in Law and Economics.

Academic History Fields of Specialization:

Industrial Organization

Regulation

Political Economy

Research Grants

International Development Award, Center for International Business Education and Research, University of Southern California, 1995-1997

Dean’s Fellowship, School of Business Administration, University of Southern California, September 1989-August 1992

Zumberge Innovative Research Fund Grant, University of Southern California, July 1990-June 1991

National Science Foundation Fellowship, September 1981-May 1984

Professional Affiliations and Activities

AACSB Board of Directors, 2010-Present

AACSB Re-Accreditation Committee, McDonough School of Business, Georgetown University

GMAC, Board of Directors, 2006-2009

Economic Development Strategy Team of Monroe County, 2004-2006

LEAD Council of Deans, January 2001-2005

AACSB Re-Accreditation Committee, Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota, 2002

Teaching Team, FACS Summer Institute for Journalists, 1999-2000

Co-Editor, Economic Inquiry, 1992-1997

Member, Editorial Board, Economic Inquiry, 1990-1992

Member, Editorial Board, Journal of Business Economics, 1992-2000

Member, Editorial Board, Public Choice, 1990-2003

Member, Editorial Board, Research in Law and Economics, 1993-1999

Coordinator, Economic Inquiry-sponsored conference on Economics and Sociology in honor of Gary Becker and James Coleman, 1995

Coordinator, Economic Inquiry-sponsored conference on Empirical Advances in Political Economic in honor of George Stigler and Gordon Tullock, 1993

Referee for American Economic Review, Econometrics, Journal of Law and Economics, Journal of Political Economy, Journal of Public Economics, National Science Foundation, Quarterly Journal of Economics, and Rand Journal of Economics

Community/Corporate Involvement

Board Member, Harley School, 2008-Present

Board Member, Constellation Brands, 2007-Present

Board Member, Farash Corporation Board, 2007-Present

Board Member, PAETEC, 2006-2011

Board Member, The Communications Institute, 2006-2009

Board Member, Stocker-Yale, 2005-2007

Member, St. Michael’s Development Committee, 2000-2003

Board Member, Greater Tucson Economic Council, 1998-2003

Board Member, Northern Trust Bank of Arizona, 2000-2003

Member, Tucson Breakfast Club, 1998-2003

Chair and Cabinet Member, United Way of Tucson and Southern Arizona, Campaign 2000

Board Member, University of Arizona Science and Technology Park, 1998-2003

Awards and Honors

Burlington Resources Foundation Faculty Achievement Award for Outstanding Scholarship, University of Southern California (campus-wide), 1992

Golden Apple Teaching Award, School of Business Administration, University of Southern California, 1989

Beta Gamma Sigma Faculty Initiate, School of Business Administration, University of Southern California, 1988

Joseph R. Levenson Memorial Teaching Prize, Harvard University (campus-wide), 1985

Allyn Young Teaching Prize, Economics Department, Harvard University, 1985

Allyn Young Teaching Prize, Economics Department, Harvard University, 1984

Education Zupan earned a BA degree in economics from Harvard University and a PhD in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.