Jeffrey B. Nugent

  • Professor of Economics
Office: (213) 740-2107

Expertise Summary

Expert in signal and image processing, as well as the perceptual quality of digital video

Expertise

  • old-age security and population growth in developing countries
  • Costa Rica, Tunisia, Greece, Korea, Lebanon, Mexico and other Latin American nations, Spain, Egypt and Bahrain and economic development of those countries
  • land reform
  • small and medium manufacturing plants in developing countries, their problems and conditions for success
  • common markets and free trade areas of developing countries
  • property rights in tribal societies
  • property rights and controversies over grazing fees in the U.S.
  • institutions and development
  • foreign aid
  • oil and economic development, especially in the Middle East
  • exchange rates of developing countries

Additional Information

      Author of

The New Institutional Economics and Development

      (1989) and

Does Intervention Work? The Role of Government in SME Success

    (forthcoming)