Faculty Notes
Lee Alston gave his presidential address to the International Society for the New Institutional Economics in Reykjavik, Iceland, in June 2007. He recently published the following: “Who Should Govern Congress? Access to Power and the Salary Grab of 1873” (with Jeffery A. Jenkins and Tomas Nonnenmacher), Journal of Economic History, September 2006; “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; “The“Case” for Case Studies in the New Institutional Economics” in New Institutional Economics: A Guidebook, eds, Jean-Michel Glachant and Eric Brousseau, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Cambridge University Press, 2007. During the past year, Lee gave numerous presentations at conferences and universities.

Tania Barham made presentations during the past academic year at the American Society of Health Economists Conference and the Stanford Institute for Theoretical Economics: Health and Development Workshop. Her outreach activities to the Ministry of Education of Yemen included a presentation titled “Randomization for Program Evaluation,” and consultation on the Design of Program and Evaluation for Yemen Girl’s Education Conditional Cash Transfer Program, with research support through the World Bank. Tania has secured the CARTSS Scholar Program Grant and the Population Center Development Grant to investigate the social and economic impacts of electricity provision in Brazil, with A. Mushfiq Mobarak as coprincipal investigator.

Ann Carlos was elected vice president of the Economic History Association. Also, she presented a paper at ‘Credible Commitment’? Re-Examining the Foundations of Trust in the English Public Debt, Sawyer Mellon Conference, University of Cambridge, England, January 2007.

Charles de Bartolomé presented the paper “The Race to the Suburbs: the Location of the Poor in a Metropolitan Area” at the Regional Science Association Meetings in Toronto, Canada, in November 2006; the University of Connecticut in April 2007; and the Association of Public Economic Theory, Nashville, Tennessee, in July 2007.

Ufuk Devrim Demirel has presented papers at the following events: the annual meetings of the Society for Computational Economics, Montreal, Canada, June 2006; annual Midwest Macro Theory Meetings, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, April 2006; and annual Eastern Economic Association meetings in New York, February 2006.

Also, he has served as a judge for the FED Challenge which is an economics competition sponsored by the Federal Reserve in which high school students conduct research, analyze economic data, and recommend a course of action for monetary policy by deciding whether the FED should raise, lower, or maintain interest rates.

Nicholas Flores hosted the eighth annual CU Environmental and Resource Economics Workshop in Vail, Colorado, in September 2006. He served as the program committee chair for the Association of Environmental and Resource Economics, organizing sessions at the 2007 Allied Social Sciences meeting in Chicago and the 2006 Summer Meetings of the American Agricultural Economics Association in Longbeach. Also, Nicholas is a principal investigator of the National Center for Earthsurface and Dynamics (NCED), a National Science Foundation Science and Technology Center. NCED received additional funding for the years 2007 through 2012. NCED supports his research and provides funding for economics graduate student training at CU. And Nicholas completed the Chicago Marathon in 3 hours and 10 minutes.

Philip Graves recently published his seventh book, Environmental Economics: A Critique of Benefit-Cost Analysis, Rowman & Littlefield, March 2007. He also presented “Non-Optimal Regional Sprawl: Filtering Implications of Central City Public Good Provision Failure” at the North American Regional Science Council (NARSC) meetings, 53rd Annual North American Meetings of the Regional Science Association International, Fairmont Royal York, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, November 16–18, 2006.

Frank Hsiao recently published two papers. One is “FDI, Exports, and Growth in East and Southeast Asia—Panel Data versus Time- Series Causality Analyses” (with Mei-Chu W. Hsiao), in the Journal of Asian Economics, Vol. 17, No. 6, December 2006. This paper is the expanded version of the paper he presented at International Conference on“Korea and the World Economy, V” in summer 2006. The second paper is “Prospects of a U.S.-Taiwan Free Trade Agreement–The China Factor and Critical Assessments” (with Mei-Chu W. Hsiao) in Economic Integration, Democratization and National Security in East Asia: A Shifting Paradigms in U.S., China, and Taiwan Relations, edited by Peter Chow, Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar. 2007, pp. 191–239.

Also, Frank wrote two book reviews: review of Miracle, Crisis and Beyond, A Synthesis of Policy Coherence Towards East Asia, Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), edited by K. Fukasaku, M. Kawai, M.G. Plummer, A. Trzeciak- Duval, 2005, 87 pp., reviewed in Asian-Pacific Economic Literature, Vol. 21, No. 1, May 2007, pp. 74–75; review of China and the Challenge of Economic Globalization: The Impact of WTO membership, edited by Hung-Gay Fung, Changhong Pei, and Kevin Zhang, 2006, 317 pp., Armonk, New York, M.E. Sharpe, forthcoming in Journal of Asian Business, 2007. Kevin Zhang, PhD ’96, currently is teaching at Illinois State University.

Wolfgang Keller moved forward several new research projects. The paper “Tariffs, Trains, and Trade: The Relative Importance of
Institutions and Technology in the Expansion of Markets” (with Carol H. Shiue) was presented at the October 2006 National Science Foundation-sponsored conference on European Economic Growth in Lund, Sweden, as well as at the NBER International Trade meetings in Cambridge, MA, in March 2007.

Together with Bridget Strand, a doctoral student at CU-Boulder, Wolfgang is focusing on the international transfer of technological
knowledge between parents and affiliates of US multinational companies. His ongoing research on Wal-Mart’s entry into the Mexican market has been cited in various sources including web blogs. His paper “Market Integration and Development: A Long-run Comparison” (with Carol H. Shiue) was published in February 2007 in the Review of Development Economics.

Jennifer Lamping presented the paper “Ignorance Is Bliss: Matching in Auctions with an Uninformed Seller” at the North American Summer Meeting of the Econometric Society in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in June 2006 and at the Western Economic Association International Annual Conference in San Diego, California, in July 2006. The paper is currently under review.

Also, Jennifer is the principal investigator for a research grant provided by the under secretary of defense for acquisition, technology, and logistics, U.S. Department of Defense. The grant totals $89,625 and supports research on alternative mechanism design for defense acquisition. Co-principal investigators are Peter Coughlan and Bill Gates, both of the Graduate School of Business and Public Policy, Naval Postgraduate School.

James Markusen has been designated a University of Colorado Distinguished Professor. This prestigious title is extended to recognize his outstanding contributions to economics and high degree of international visibility with exemplary accomplishments
in teaching, scholarship, and service. During the past year Jim taught a computer modeling course in Kiel, Germany, in January;
presented at the Annual Lecture Series on International Trade at the University of Nottingham, England, in February; and presented lectures at the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development and the University of Paris in April.

Keith Maskus has been appointed associate dean for social sciences beginning July 2007. During the past year Keith gave numerous talks at conferences and universities. His recent publications include: Reforming U.S. Patent Policy: Getting the Incentives Right, Council on Foreign Relations, Special Study no. 19, November 2006; “Vertical Distribution, Parallel Trade, and Price Divergence in Integrated Market” (with Mattias Ganslandt), European Economic Review, May 2007; “Efficiency and Revenue Issues in the Jamaican External Trade Sector“ (with Felix K. Rioja), Public Finance Review, January 2007.

Edward Morey spent two months this past summer working with researchers at the University of Padova (Padua) modeling recreational site choices for hikers and climbers in the Veneto region of Italy (the Dolomites and the PreAlps in Northeast Italy).

Edward’s publications include: “Valuing a change in a fishing site without collecting characteristics data on all fishing sites: a complete but minimal model,” (with W. Breffle [PhD ’99]), American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Vol. 88 (1), 150–161, 2006; “Using Angler Characteristics and Attitudinal Data to Identify Environmental Preference Classes: A Latent-Class Model” (with J. Thacher [PhD ’03] and W. Breffle), Environmental and Resource Economics, Vol. 34(1), 91-115, May 2006; “Combining Stated-Choice Questions with Observed Behavior to Value NRDA Compensable Damages: Green Bay, PCBs and Fish Consumption Advisories” (with W. Breffle, R. Rowe and D.Waldman), The Handbook of Contingent Valuation, J. Kahn and A. Alberini, Eds., Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd., March 2006.

Anna Rubinchik wrote “Existence and Uniqueness of an Equilibrium in a Model of Spatial Electoral Competition with Entry” (with Shlomo Weber), Advances in Mathematical Economics, forthcoming 2007. She presented “Intergenerational Equity and the Discount Rate for Cost-Benefit Analysis” (with Jean-Francois Mertens), at a joint Public Economics and Theory seminar at Cornell University, at the Canadian Economic Theory Conference in Montreal, May 2007, and at the Conference of the Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory on Current Economic Trends in Greece, June 2007. Also, Anna presented “Composition of Spending and the Architecture of a Cabinet” at the Public Economic Theory Meetings in Nashville, Tennessee, July 2007.

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