"We Shall Overcome!" | A Professional Journey
FACULTY NOTES
Lee Alston recently published
the following papers: “Pork
for Policy: Executive and
Legislative Exchange in
Brazil” (with Bernardo
Mueller), Journal of Law,
Economics, and Organization
22, Number 1, Spring 2006:
87–114; “Career Mobility in
Agriculture, 1890–1938”
(with Joseph Ferrie), Journal
of Economic History, December
2005: 1058–1081.
Lee has made the following
keynote addresses: at the
Sorbonne, University of
Paris, Invited Lecture Series,
Paris, France, May 2006; at
the European Society for the
New Institutional Economics,
Invited Lecture, Corsica,
France, May 2006; and at the
15th Congress of International
Land Registrars, Fortaleza,
Brazil, November 2005.
During the past year Lee
attended seminars and made
presentations at the following
events: Economic History
Association Annual Meeting,
Toronto, Canada, September
2005; International Society
for the New Institutional
Economics, Annual Meeting,
Barcelona, Spain, September
2005; Latin American and
Caribbean Economics
Association, Paris, France,
October 2005; 15th Congress
of International Land
Registrars, Fortaleza, Brazil,
November 2005; Harvard
University, Research Group
on Political Institutions and
Economic Policy, Cambridge,
MA, Dec 2005; The
Sorbonne, University of Paris, ATOM Seminar, Paris,
France, May 2006; American
University in Paris, Seminar,
Paris, France, May 2006;
University of Carlos III,
Seminar, Madrid, Spain, May
2006; University of Illinois,
Program in Law and Economics,
Invited Workshop;
“The Future of the Commons
and AntiCommons,”
Chicago, IL, June 2006.
Ann M. Carlos presented three papers at the XIV International Economic History Conference held in Helsinki, Finland, August 2006. This international conference is held every four years. Also, Ann is the recipient of the 2006 Boulder Faculty Award, Excellence in Service. Faculty service is defined as all of those professional activities other than teaching and research that are performed by faculty members as part of their university and departmental responsibilities or as community outreach. In addition, Ann has accepted the appointment of the faculty director of the Sewall Residential Academic Program effective August 2006. The Sewall Program is for first- and second-year students interested in the American West and a liberal arts education. Finally, in September 2006, Ann was elected vice president of the Economic History Association.
Nicholas Flores hosted the 7th Annual CU Environmental and Resource Economics Workshop on September 23 and 24, 2005 in Vail, Colorado. He has served as the 2006–2007 program committee chair for the Association of Environmental and Resource Economics; on the Ford Foundation Minority Fellowship Selection Panel, which is administered by the National Research Council, March 2006; and as a grant selection panelist for the National Science Foundation. Also, Nicholas was a participant at the North American THORPEX Societal and Economic Research and Applications Workshop, August 2006. He presented papers at seminars at the Colorado School of Mines, the National Center for Atmospheric Research, and the University of Minnesota.
Frank Hsiao attended the 2006 Allied Social Science Associations (ASSA) Annual Meeting in Boston, and served as a discussant at a session on economic development sponsored by the Association of Indian Economic Studies (AIES). In July he presented a paper on“FDI, Exports, and Growth in East and Southeast Asia— Evidence from Time-Series and Panel Data Causality Analyses” (with Mei-Chu W. Hsiao) at the 2006 International Conference on Korea and the World Economy V at the Korea University in Seoul, South Korea. After the Korean conference, he was invited to speak at the Asia Program of the Woodrow Wilson International Center or Scholars, where he talked about Taiwan’s foreign direct investment in China and Taiwan–China trade relations. Currently, he is an invited member of the U.S. Student Fulbright National Screening Committee East Asia Program of the Institute of International Education, New York. His previous paper, “‘Miracle Growth’ in the Twentieth Century— International Comparisons of East Asian Development” (with Mei-Chu W. Hsiao), originally published in World Development, February 2003, 31(2), pages 227–257, was in the Elsevier’s ScienceDirect TOP25 (12th) Hottest Articles for World Development. The TOP25 HottesArticles are determined quarterly and based on downloads from the preceding quarter. The paper can be downloaded free of charge from http://top25.sciencedirect. com/index.php?cat_id=6 &subject_area_id=23&journal_ id=0305750X.
Murat Iyigun became a fellow
of the Institute for the Study
of Labor (IZA) in Bonn,
Germany, last academic year.
He also became a research
fellow at the Center for
International Development
(CID) at the Kennedy School
of Harvard University. He will
spend spring 2007 at Harvard
and will receive $22K as a fellowship
stipend. Murat presented
or will present papers
at the following venues: NYU,
Columbia, Northwestern,
USC, Queen’s University
(Canada), Sabanci University
(Turkey), AEA 2006, AEA
2007, Society for Economic
Dynamics Meetings, Vancouver,
Canada, 2006, Economic
History Association
Meetings, Pittsburgh, 2006.
The following is a list of his
recently published papers:“Adaptive Skills, Technological
Progress, and Growth”
(with Ann L. Owen), European
Economic Review, 2006,
50:3, April, 565–79; “Clusters
of Invention, Life Cycle of
Technologies, and Endogenous
Growth,” Journal of
Economic Dynamics and
Control, 2006, 30:4, April,
687–719; “Geography,
Demography, and Early
Development,” Journal of
Population Economics, 2005,
18:2, June, 301–21.
Murat also published a book
chapter in an MIT Press publication
on growth: “On the
Efficacy of Reforms: Policy
Tinkering, Institutional
Change, and Entrepreneurship”
(with Dani Rodrik), in
Institutions and Growth, T.
Eicher and C. G. Penalosa,
eds., MIT Press, December
2005.
Wolfgang Keller started a new research project for which firms in the Mexican detergent industry were interviewed. Sponsored by the World Bank, the project aims at a better understanding of how NAFTA’s trade and foreign direct investment liberalization interacted with the entry of Wal-Mart into Mexico in reshaping the industrial landscape in this market.
James Markusen presented papers in many international cities: Kiel, Germany; Copenhagen, Denmark; Stockholm, Sweden; and Dublin, Ireland. He also gave a keynote address at a conference in Dunedin, New Zealand, in March 2006. Jim plans to continue his travels this fall presenting papers in Copenhagen, Brussels, London, Stockholm, and Tokyo.
Keith Maskus was awarded a faculty fellowship by CUBoulder, which funds a fullyear sabbatical to undertake research on the general issue of the economics of intellectual property for basic science. During his sabbatical, Keith will spend September and October 2006 as visiting professor at the University of Munich, February through April 2007 as visiting professor at the University of Beijing, and May 2007 as visiting professor at the University of Adelaide.
A. Mushfiq Mobarak is the principal investigator for the following grants: National Science Foundation (NSF),“Materials Use: Science, Engineering and Society Grant,” 2006–10, $1,100,000, John Spear, co-principal investigator; and CU/NICHD Population Center Pilot, $10,000, Tania Barham, coprincipal investigator. Mushfiq also has secured grantsfor research on indoor air pollution in Bangladesh: Hewlett Foundation Travel Grant, $2500; Environmental Ventures Program, Woods Institute for the Environment Grant, $150,000, 2006, Grant Miller, co-principal investigator; and Walter Shorensetin Asia-Pacific Research Center Pilot Grant, $30,000, 2006, Grant Miller, co-principal investigator.
Anna Rubinchik-Pessach has
presented her paper “Contests
with Heterogeneous
Agents” (co-authored with S.
O. Parreiras) at the Micro
(Economic) Theory Seminar
at the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill (seminar
jointly sponsored with
Duke University), September
2005; at the Microeconomics
Seminar at Queen’s University,
Kingston, Canada,
October 2005; at the 2006
North American Summer
Meeting of The Econometric
Society, Minneapolis,
Minnesota, June 2006; and at
the 17th International
Conference on Game Theory
at Stony Brook University,
July 2006.
Anna also presented the
paper “Intergenerational
Equity and the Discount Rate
for Cost Benefit Analysis”
(with J-F. Mertens) at a faculty
seminar at Stony Brook
University, New York, in
March 2006; at CORE,
Université Catholique de
Louvain Conference on
Intergenerational Equity in
Climate Negotiations,
Overlapping Generations
Models and Social Welfare,
in April 2006; and at the
2006 North American summer
meeting of the Econometric
Society, Minneapolis,
Minnesota, June 2006.
Thomas Rutherford recently published the following:“The Economic Effects of Border Measures in Subglobal Climate Agreements”( with Mustafa H. Babiker), The Energy Journal,26(4):101–128, 2005; “Trade and Direct Investment in Producer Services and the Domestic Market for Expertise” (with James R. Markusen and David Tarr), The Canadian Journal of Economics, 38(3):758–777, 2005; “Review of Economic Models of Climate Change: A Critique by Stephen J. DeCanio,” The Journal of Economic Literature 43(2), 2005; “Equity and Efficiency Costs of Raising Tax Revenue in Columbia” (with Miles Light, PhD ’01), In Fiscal Reform in Columbia, Problems and Prospects, R.M.Bird, J.M.Poterba, and J. Slemrod, editors, MIT Press, 2005.
Carol Shuie has been asked by
Gary Libecap, president of
the Economic History Association,
to award the Alexander
Gerschenkron prize
for the best dissertation on a
non-U.S. topic at the association’s
2006 meeting in Pittsburgh.
She was a finalist for
this prize herself in 1999.
Also, Carol has been invited
to join the prestigious
London-based research network
Centre for Economic
Policy Research (CEPR) to
continue her work on economic
history and international
trade.