Speaker to address Alaska’s fiscal choices
March 22, 2016
Economist Gunnar Knapp will speak about Alaska’s current fiscal situation on Monday, March 28, in Schaible Auditorium. He will give presentations at 2:15 p.m. and 6 p.m. and take questions after each.
Knapp is an economics professor and director of the Institute of Social and Economic Research at the University of Alaska Anchorage. He is an expert on Alaska’s economy who is in high demand for his ability to explain the complex realities of the state’s financial challenges. The Alaska Dispatch News recently featured a column on Knapp's quest to explain the state budget situation and a video of Knapp delivering a condensed, nine-minute version of his talk.
Knapp has worked at ISER since receiving his Ph.D. in economics from Yale University in 1981. He has conducted wide-ranging research on Alaska resource management and market issues, and is internationally recognized as an expert on world salmon markets. Since becoming ISER director two years ago, Knapp has focused his research on critical policy issues facing Alaska, including the fiscal challenges resulting from the recent precipitous fall in oil prices.
These free events are sponsored by the student organization Students Who Enjoy Economic Thinking.
For more information, contact Sherri Wall, economics instructor in the School of Management and SWEET’s faculty advisor, at 907-474-6526 or slwall@alaska.edu.