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Frank Mottek
Mottek on Money
KABC 790
Frank Mottek is the voice of business news in Los Angeles. An award-winning broadcast journalist with more than 25 years of experience, Mottek is the senior money anchor at KNX 1070 Newsradio and provides listeners with 鈥淵our Money鈥� reports weekdays at 20 and 50 past each hour between 6 a.m. and 1 p.m.
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Economics Panel
Dr. Jennifer Brodmann
Co-Director
CSUDH South Bay Economics Institute
Dr. Jennifer Brodmann is an assistant professor of finance at 好色先生 Dominguez Hills. She graduated from the University of New Orleans with her Ph.D. and M.S. in Financial Economics. Her research focuses on corporate and entrepreneurial finance. Dr. Brodmann has presented her research at several conferences, including the Eastern Finance Association, Southwestern Finance Association, Academy of Financial Services, Academy of Economics and Finance, and the Gulf Research Council. Dr. Brodmann鈥檚 research is published in several peer-reviewed journals, including the International Review of Economics and Finance, Journal of Economics and Business, International Journal of Bank Marketing, Journal of Business Accounting and Finance Perspectives, Journal of Economic Cooperation and Development, and Borsa Istanbul Review.
Dr. Brodmann has multiple years of experience teaching and mentoring students. She has served as a mentor for the CSUDH Innovation Incubator, faculty mentor for the South Bay Economics Forecast Student Research Competition, and a research mentor to undergraduate students for the Privateer Undergraduate Research and Scholarly UNO Experience (PURSUE) program. Her students and mentees have published their work with her in peer-reviewed journals and presented their research at the South Bay Economic Forecast, Academy of Economics and Finance, CSUDH Student Research Day, and Innovate UNO, an annual student research conference at the University of New Orleans.
Dr. Fynnwin Prager
Co-Director
CSUDH South Bay Economics Institute
Fynnwin Prager, Ph.D., is co-director of the Economics Institute at CSU Dominguez Hills, College of Business Administration and Public Policy. Previously, he was a postdoctoral research associate at USC鈥檚 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 Ph.D. in policy, planning, and development from the Price School. His research has focused on the policy and economics of disasters, particularly environmental and terrorism policy, and the impacts to regional economies and transportation systems.听Dr. Prager鈥檚 dissertation focused on climate policy, and used Computable General Equilibrium modeling to analyze the economic and distributional impacts of US federal emissions trading policy. He has also worked on similar assessments of California鈥檚听Global Warming Solutions Act (AB32) and co-founded Carbon Retirement, an innovative London-based carbon offsets company.
Dr. Jose Martinez
Co-Director
CSUDH South Bay Economics Institute
Jose Martinez, Ph.D., received his bachelor's degree in economics from 好色先生, San Marcos and his master's and Ph.D. in economics from the University of California, San Diego. He is currently teaching microeconomics and macroeconomic principles and international business in the Accounting, Finance, and Economics Department at CSUDH. His research interests are labor economics, applied micro, migration, crime, and time series econometrics. Dr. Martinez also is co-director of the CSUDH Economics Institute.
Nestor Garza, PhD
Associate Professor
Nestor Garza holds a Ph.D. in Land Economy from the University of Cambridge and specializes in spatial economic analysis, land markets, and public policy. His work has been published in journals including Urban Studies and Land Use Policy, and has been supported by organizations such as the World Bank and the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy. He has held academic appointments in the U.S. and Colombia and consults on economic and policy-related issues.