is the Executive Associate Director at the Private Enterprise Research Center at Texas A&M University. His primary research areas are labor economics and public policy economics with an emphasis on Medicare and Social Security. Dr. Rettenmaier and the Center’s Director, Thomas R. Saving, have presented their Medicare reform proposal to U.S. Senate Subcommittees and to the National Bipartisan Commission on the Future of Medicare. Their proposal has also been featured in the Wall Street Journal, New England Journal of Medicine, Houston Chronicle and Dallas Morning News. Dr. Rettenmaier is the co-principal investigator on several research grants and also serves as the editor of the Center’s two newsletters, PERCspectives on Policy and PERCspectives. He is coauthor of a book on Medicare, The Economics of Medicare Reform (Kalamazoo, Mich.: W. E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, 2000) and an editor of Medicare Reform: Issues and Answers (University of Chicago Press, 1999). Dr. Rettenmaier is a senior fellow with the National Center for Policy Analysis.

is an Assistant Research Scientist at the Private Enterprise Research Center. He received his Bachelor and Master degree in Economics from Renmin (People’s) University of China. After receiving his Ph.D. in Agricultural Economics from Texas A&M University, he joined the Center in August 2000. His primary research interests are econometric forecasting, empirical consumption analysis and health economics. He has published several papers on Chinese economy, and has several papers published in the Journal of Forecasting, Applied Economic Letters, and Agricultural Finance Review. Dr. Wang has worked extensively on the Center’s Medicare and Social Security research and on our Initiative for the Study of American Banking & Credit.