Faculty Grants
Lee Alston is the principal investigator on a National Science Foundation Grant, 2005–08, titled “Land Differentiation, Land Conflict and the Decline of Agricultural Tenancy in Brazil” in the amount of $237,000.

Tania C. J. Barham and Jennifer M. Lamping are co-recipients of an IMPART (Implementation of Multicultural Perspectives and Approaches in Research and Teaching) Faculty Fellowship Award, University of Colorado at Boulder, in the amount of $4,000, “Improving Women’s Role in Economics.”

Ann M. Carlos is a co-principal investigator for a grant, with Frank Lewis, Queen’s University, Ontario, Canada, Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada, 2008–11. She also received grants from the National Science Foundation to fund the Cliometrics Conference, 2006–08, and the Cliometrics Conference, 2009–11.

Yongmin Chen is the principal investigator for a summer grant from the NET Institute on “The Effects of Competition on the Price for Cable Modem Internet Access,” Scott Savage, coprincipal investigator, 2007, in the amount of $7,500.

Nicholas E. Flores is the principal investigator for the following grants: “Economic and Multicriteria Analysis of River Restoration Decisions,” NSF, $188,750, 2005–08; “Institutions and Incentives for Mitigating Wildfire Risks,” USDA Forest Service, $95,500, 2003–08; “The Evaluation of Preferences for Land Management Options,” USDA Forest Service, $30,000, 2004–09.

Fevzi Murat Iyigun is the co-principal investigator for a National Science Foundation Grant, 2006–08, “Socio-Economic and Biological Tradeoffs of Consanguinity in Arranged Marriages,” in the amount of $450,000, Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak, coprincipal investigator.

Wolfgang Keller is the principal investigator for the following grants: National Science Foundation Grant “What Explains Modern Economic Growth? New Evidence from Comparison of China and Europe in the 18th Century,” 2005–08, $267,000, Carol H. Shiue, co-principal investigator; The World Bank grant “Deep Integration and the Adjustment Process in Mexico,” $61,530, co-principal investigators Beata Javorcik and James Tybout.

Jennifer M. Lamping is the co-principal investigator for a research grant provided by the under secretary of defense for acquisition, technology, and logistics, U.S. Department of Defense, “Innovations in Defense Acquisition Auctions: Lessons Learned and Alternative Mechanism Designs,” $89,625, 2006–07; coprincipal investigators Peter Coughlan and Bill Gates, both of the Graduate School of Business and Public Policy, Naval Postgraduate School.

Keith Maskus is the co-principal investigator for a grant from the National Science Foundation, “The Role of International Graduate Students in Generating Knowledge at U.S. Universities: Evidence from Enrollment Fluctuations,” 2007–10, $204,000, Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak, co-principal investigator.

Scott J. Savage is the co-principal investigator for a grant from the Net Institute, Stern School of Business, New York University, “The Effects of Competition on the Price of Cable Internet Access.” Yongmin Chen, principal investigator.

Carol H. Shiue is the co-principal investigator for the following grants: National Science Foundation, “What Explains Modern Economic Growth? New Evidence from Comparison of China and Europe in the 18th Century,” $266,182, 2005–08, Wolfgang Keller, principal investigator; National Science Foundation, Dissertation Improvement Grant, “Savings in the United States, 1835–1853,” with Jessica Vechbanyongratana, CU-Boulder doctoral student.

Hâle Utar is the principal investigator on a grant from the National Science Foundation, “Openness, Industrial Evolution and Job Flows,” $54,000, 2006–09, with James Tybout, Pennsylvania State University.

Jeffery S. Zax is the principal investigator for a grant from the Colorado Department of Transportation to compile the “FY 2008 Problem Identification: Highway Traffic Problems in the State of Colorado.”