Roger C. Kormendi

Roger C. Kormendi is currently Adjunct Professor of Business Administration at the University of Michigan Business School. He is also together with Cyrus J. Gardner principal of "Kormendi \ Gardner Partners" which was founded in 1991 (web site: www.kgpartners.com).

Education
 * 1971: B.A. in Economics from the University of Virginia
 * 1977: Ph.D. in Economics from U.C.L.A.

Roger Kormendi was since 1975 active at the University of Chicago. He was one of the six people hired by the Tobacco Institute (TI) through Ogilvy & Mather (O&M) to deliver a testimony against excise taxes. He held his testimony for the U.S. Treasury Department in Springfield on June 28, 1984. 

Patricia Milita of O&M wrote to Peter Sparber (TI Vice President) on September 6, 1984 in the 'August Monthly Report'"'&bull; Hired Roger Kormendi to prepare testimony for submission to the Senate Finance Committee.'"

An excerpt of his written statement for the Senate Finance Committee was published in 1985 in a TI booklet called "Excise Taxes: the Fairness Issue" together with excerpts of statements from other people including several members of the 'Committee on Taxation and Economic Growth'. At that time he was an associate professor of economics at the University of Chicago. 

Mr. Kormendi co-founded in 1984 the Mid America Institute for Public Policy Research (or 'The Mid America Institute' for short) in Chicago, which was a public policy think tank focusing on financial markets and financial crises.

Roger Kormendi joined the Michigan Business School faculty in 1985 and became a tenured professor of business economics and public policy in 1987.

Several documents (co-)authored by Roger Kormendi were published by 'The Mid America Institute' of which he was in 1993 the managing director. That same year it was renamed to Catalyst Institute. 

Related Links

 * "Roger C. Kormendi, biography," University of Michigan Business School
 * "Information about: Roger Kormendi," IDEAS