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Professor Rajeev Dhawan
DR. RAJEEV DHAWAN Director, Economic Forecasting Center Robinson College of Business at Georgia State University Dr. Rajeev Dhawan is director of the Economic Forecasting Center at Georgia State University's Robinson College of Business. As director of the Center, Dhawan develops U.S., Southeast regional and local metro economy forecasts, which are published and presented to business leaders and the media at quarterly forecast conferences. One of the country's leading economists, Dhawan was named to Georgia Trend Magazine's list of the "100 Most Influential Georgians" and is a regular contributor to the Blue Chip Economic Indicators, USA Today forecasters survey, the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia's Livingston Survey, and the Consensus Economics forecast panel in the UK. In addition to his quarterly forecasts, Dhawan serves as an advisor to educational institutions and local and state government agencies including the Atlanta Metro Chamber of Commerce and the Metro Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority (MARTA). He is frequently called upon to brief the boards of private companies and regularly gives keynote speeches at events and gatherings organized by various industry and trade groups. As a business consultant, he has been commissioned to prepare economic impact reports, home price forecast models, and suggest public policy recommendations. A frequent guest on Cable News Network (CNN), Dhawan is sought after by print and broadcast media for his economic analysis and expertise. He has appeared on MSNBC, The Bloomberg Report, CNBC, and local affiliates of ABC, NBC, CBS, and FOX. He has also been quoted in many national and regional publications including the Wall Street Journal, Business Week, Investor's Business Daily, USA Today, the Los Angles Times, Washington Post, San Francisco Chronicle and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Prior to joining Georgia State University in fall of 2000, he served as director of econometric forecasting for UCLA. In this role, Dhawan authored quarterly forecasts for the U.S. and California economies, directed economic impact studies, and taught economics and statistics courses at UCLA and California State University Long Beach. His business cycle research analyzes the impact of monetary policy changes on the growth and survival of small firms and his industrial organization work quantifies the contribution of organizational and technological factors in improving firm efficiency. In his recent work, Dhawan examined factors that enabled Toyota to dominate not only U.S. companies but also its Japanese counterparts. His research has been published in peer-reviewed academic journals such as Economic Inquiry, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Journal of Productivity Analysis and International Journal of the Economics of Business. He is also author of the book, Firm Size, Financial Intermediation and Business Cycles, which explores the effect of liquidity constraints on the U.S. economic performance. Dhawan earned a B.A. from St. Stephen's College in India, a Masters degree from the Delhi School of Economics at the Delhi University in India, and a Ph.D. in economics from the University of California Los Angeles.
