Ted Temzelides

Ted Temzelides, Ph.D., is a professor of economics, a Baker Institute Rice scholar and the master of Martel College at Rice University. Before coming to Rice, Temzelides had taught at the University of Minnesota, the Tippie College of Business at The University of Iowa, the University of Pittsburgh and the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. He has consulted for the Federal Reserve as well as the European Central Bank. His research concentrates on macroeconomics and energy economics; he currently studies the effect of R&D in renewable energy sources on economic growth and the design of emissions trading mechanisms. Temzelides’ research has received funding from the National Science Foundation and has been published in some of the leading academic journals in economics, including Econometrica, the Journal of Political Economy, the American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings, and the Journal of Monetary Economics. Temzelides regularly serves as a referee for academic journals and is on the editorial board of the journal Economic Theory. He earned a bachelor’s degree in economics in Greece and a doctorate in economics from the University of Minnesota.

Courses

• ECON 303 - Macroeconomics
  
• ECON 502 - Macroeconomic/Monetary Theory I
  
• ECON 593 - Workshop in Microeconomics
• ECON 594 - Workshop in Economics I