Roger Betancourt

Professor of Economics
Department of Economics
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742
Tel: 301-405-3479
Email: betancou@econ.umd.edu

Roger R. Betancourt, Professor, received his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin in 1970. He joined the faculty at Maryland in 1969. His general fields of interest are applied microeconomics and economic development. His current research interests are in the economics of the distribution sector, the economics of production, the new institutional economics and the study of the Cuban economy. He has been a Visiting Professor on several occasions at INSEAD, Fountainebleau, France, and held the Kermit O. Hanson Visiting Chair at the University of Washington Graduate School of Business in 1996. He is a founder and former President of the Association for the Study of the Cuban Economy and a recipient of two Fulbright Senior Specialist awards. Recent Publications include: The Economics of Retailing and Distribution, Edward Elgar Publishing, Ltd., 2004 (paperback edition, 2006); The Role of the State During a Democratic Transition: Cuba, Cuba Transition Project. Institute of Cuban and Cuban-American Studies. University of Miami, 2004 (translated into Spanish, 2005); “Capital Utilization,” in S. Durlauf and L. Blume The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, 2nd edition, The Macmillan Press, 2007.

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