Brian Sloboda US Postal Service   475 L'Enfant Plaza SW Washington, DC 20590 USA   bsloboda@email.phoenix.edu     Biographical Sketch: Currently, I am a pricing economist at the US Postal Service. Before this, I was an economist in the US Department of Transportation, Bureau of Transportation Statistics. Prior to that, I was an economist in the US Department of Commerce, Bureau of Economic. While at BEA I was in the industry economics division which prepared the input-output accounts. Currently, my research focuses on the following: 1. Postal pricing and regulatory issues 2. Time Series Analysis (focused on the effects of terrorism on tourism). 3. Performance Measurement (aka multi-factor productivity).   Primary Research Focus: Input-Output Analysis, Time Series Analysis, Labor Economics, and Performance Measurement   JEL Areas: C1 : Econometric and Statistical Methods: General