Robi Ragan

About Robi Ragan

I am an Associate Professor of Economics in the Stetson-Hatcher School of Business and Economics at Mercer University. I teach undergraduate and graduate economics courses. My research areas are Social Choice, Public Choice, and Political Institutions. My research centers on trying to isolate how and to what extent political institutions themselves shape policy. I use computational modeling (agent-based and simulation) to gain theoretical leverage on the issue. This approach allows me to place groups of actors with given preferences into different institutional settings in order to gauge what effect the rules of the game have on political outcomes. Most of my research looks at the ways in which legislative processes affect issues of political economy, like income redistribution.

Experience

1. Associate Professor of Economics

   Mercer University

   Aug 2020 — Present

Education

• The University of Georgia

  MA

  2004 — 2007

• The University of Georgia

  BBA

  1997 — 1999

• The University of Georgia

  PhD

  2003 — 2009

Skills

• Agent-Based Modeling
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• Game Theory
• Collective Decision Making
• Teaching
• Data Analysis
• Research
• R
• Microeconomics
• Rcpp
• Mathematical Modeling
• Computational Modeling
• Social Choice Theory
• Econometrics
• Economics
• Politics
• Statistics
• Political Science
• Social Sciences
• Stata
• Computational Economics
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