Jonathan E. Leightner, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Economics
Augusta State University, Augusta, GA 
College of Business Administration: 706.737.1560
Research:
I am an Asian specialist who has publications on technology  transfer to Japan, income distribution to South Korea, and pollution abatement in Thailand.  My most recent research focuses on the causes and consequences of Asia's financial crisis.  My current project utilizes a new technique which eliminates the influence of unknown, unmeasurable, and omitted variables to estimate the effectiveness of monetary policy under fixed and flexible exchange rate regimes.

Background: My connection to Thailand began in 1981 when my wife and I taught English as a second language at Lampang College of Commerce and Technology for a year.

Office: 706.667.4545

 

 created by Molly F. Jackson
updated by Anubha Bansal
last version 01/22/2006