Gregory Brock

Professor Georgia Southern University

  • Savannah GA

Gregory Brock is a professor of economics specializing in economic development, transition economies, and regional economics.

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Biography

Professor Brock has taught economics at Georgia Southern University since 1999. Additional teaching experience includes teaching at Southern Federal University (Feb./March 2015, Taganrog campus – RUSSIA), Vilnius University (Jan. 2015 & Fall 1990, LITHUANIA), Veracruz University (Fulbright Scholar, May/June 2010, Xalapa, MEXICO), Moscow State University (Fall 1995, Journalism Faculty, RUSSIA), Volgograd State University (Spring 1991, RUSSIA), Kent State University (1989-1994), The Ohio State University (1985-1987). Courses taught include principles of microeconomics, principles of macroeconomics, international business (mba), international trade, comparative economic systems, and soviet economy. He has seven years consulting experience in K-12 settings in Georgia and Ohio with teachers/students to improve pre-college economics education with workshop/activities/curriculum changes. Foreign languages: Russian and Spanish.

Areas of Expertise

Macroeconomics
Regional Economics
Economic Development
Transition Economies
Microeconomics

Accomplishments

Donald D. Howard Excellence in Business Fund Award

2016

Georgia Southern College of Business Bank of America Faculty Award

2012

Volunteer Service Appreciation Award

2009

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Education

Ohio State University

Economics

Ph.D.

1989

Ohio State University

Economics

M.A.

1985

University of Michigan

Economics

B.A.

1983

Languages

  • Russian
  • Spanish

Media Appearances

DFW Fail

Inside Higher Ed  online

2018-05-31

“Its use lowers the quality of the institution and promotes the idea that we are just a diploma mill,” Brock said of such a policy. “The fact that some administrators created an arbitrary 20 percent line to get below is central planning worthy of the defunct Soviet Union.”

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Research Grants

Georgia Southern College of Business Research Grant

Parker College of Business

2018

Vilnius University (LITHUANIA) Teaching Grant

Vilnius University

2015

Southern Federal University (RUSSIA) Travel Grant

Southern Federal University

2013

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Articles

Energy Efficiency Management across EU Countries: A DEA Approach

Energies

2021

We examine energy efficiency in the European Union (EU) using an integrated model that connects labor and capital as production factors with energy consumption to produce GDP with a limited amount of environmental emissions.

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Are Mexican Manufacturing Workers Underpaid? Some Quarterly Time Series Evidence

The Journal of Developing Areas

Vicente German-Soto, Gregory Brock

2020

The quarterly empirical relationship between Mexican manufacturing labor productivity and salaries 1993-2015 is examined for causality and whether first order labor market equilibrium is evident. An equilibrium would mean salaries and labor productivity are cointegrated. Wages above productivity levels may lead to calls for government intervention in the labor market.

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A remote sensing look at the economy of a Russian region (Rostov) adjacent to the Ukrainian crisis

Journal of Policy Modeling

Gregory Brock

2019

Satellite data used in combination with a stochastic production function method reveal an inefficient formal economy in rural Rostov Oblast 2013–2015 embedded in an overall (formal and informal) relatively efficient economy with the measurement of both important to better understand non-economic impacts of sanctions. Increased military activity may have insulated the formal economy of the border area from poor economic performance and the deindustrialization that characterizes adjacent areas.

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