Associate Professor, EconomicsDirector, Bureau of Business and Economic Research
John
Deskins serves as Assistant Dean for Outreach and Engagement, Director of the
Bureau of Business & Economic Research, and as Associate Professor of
Economics in the College of Business & Economics at West Virginia University.
He leads the Bureau’s efforts to serve the state by providing rigorous economic
analysis and macroeconomic forecasting to business leaders and policymakers
across the state. He received his PhD in Economics from the University of
Tennessee.
Deskins’ academic
research has focused on economic development, small business economics, and government
tax and expenditure policy, primarily at the US state level. His work has
appeared in outlets such as Contemporary
Economic Policy, Public Finance
Review, Economic Development Quarterly, Small Business Economics, Public
Budgeting and Finance, Regional Studies, Annals of Regional Science, Tax Notes,
and State Tax Notes, as well as in books
published by Cambridge University Press and the Lincoln Institute of Land
Policy. He has delivered more than 100 speeches to business, government, and
community groups and his quotes have appeared in numerous media outlets such as
The New York Times, The Washington Post, Bloomberg, CNBC,
National Public Radio, and PBS. He has served as principal investigator or
co-principal investigator on more than $1 million in funded research.
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