Shreveport native to discuss
German labor market reforms
04/07/06

Dr. Michael C. Burda, a Shreveport native and professor of economics at Humboldt University in Berlin, Germany, will discuss “Labor Market Reforms in Germany” in a presentation at LSUS from 2 to 3 p.m. on Thursday (April 13) in Room 105 of the Business-Education Building. The presentation is free and open to the public.

The LSUS College of Business Administration is hosting Burda’s second visit to the campus by the then-Jesuit High School graduate who received a Ph.D. degree in economics from Harvard University in 1987. He has been a visiting professor of economics at the U.C. Berkeley Haas School of Business and was twice a guest instructor in the Advanced Studies program at the Kiel Institute for the World Economy in Germany. He has authored several textbooks and dozens of articles and textbook chapters.

For information about the presentation, contact Sibylle Mabry, an LSUS instructor of management, at 318-797-5055 or SMabry@lsus.edu.