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Armando E. Rodriguez, Ph.D., is a tenured Professor of Economics and Business Analytics in the Pompea College of Business at the University of New Haven, where he has served since January 2001. Internationally recognized as an authority in forensic economics and competition policy, he founded the University’s Economics Collective and the New Haven Economic Performance Laboratory, and created the bachelor’s program in business analytics and the behavioral economics concentration.
Education:
- Ph.D. in Economics, University of Texas, 1991
- B.S. in Chemical Engineering, University of Texas at Austin, 1981
Research Interests:
Dr. Rodriguez’s scholarship focuses on forensic economics, employing econometric and machine-learning techniques to quantify economic damages in litigation. His work on competition policy and regulation examines antitrust enforcement, market power, and regulatory effectiveness across developed and developing economies. He also explores behavioral economics to understand decision-making biases in markets and public policy, and develops business analytics methodologies to extract actionable insights from large-scale economic rankings and indicators.
Publication Trends:
Across more than 30 refereed articles, books, and monographs, his recent output (2019) centers on regional labor-market recovery and explainable machine-learning frameworks for state-level rankings. Earlier work spans antitrust policy in transition economies, empirical assessments of wrongful-termination damages, and critical evaluations of international competition networks. The corpus integrates rigorous econometric modeling with policy-oriented insights spanning law, economics, and public administration.
Scientific & Professional Recognition:
- Co-author, The Limits of Competition Policy (Kluwer Law, 2010)
- Member, National Association of Forensic Economists
- Member, American Economic Association
- Former Staff Economist, U.S. Federal Trade Commission (1990-1997)
- Economic Advisor to Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal
Consulting, Grants & Advising:
For over 18 years, Dr. Rodriguez has been principal of A.E. Rodriguez Consulting, providing expert economic analysis in antitrust, discrimination, wrongful-death, and franchise-termination litigation. He has delivered capacity-building programs on competition policy to governments in Honduras, Ethiopia, Mozambique, and Indonesia under USAID and other multilateral initiatives. He routinely serves as an expert witness and has trained attorneys and economists in forensic methods.
Labs & Teams:
He directs the New Haven Economic Performance Laboratory, which produces the New Haven Economic Performance Index, and mentors students through the Economics Collective, an online, student-run platform for policy blogs and peer learning.
