Faculty Notes
Lee Alston was awarded a visiting research fellowship in the Program on Science, Technology and Environmental Policy by Princeton University for September 2008 to January 2009. Australia National University awarded him a visiting fellowship in the economics department in the Research School of Social Sciences for March/April 2009. Lee published the following articles: “The New Institutional Economics” in The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics edited by Steven Durlauf and Lawrence Blume, 2008, London: Palgrave Macmillan Ltd.; “On the Road to Good Governance: Recovering from Economic and Political Shocks in Brazil” (with Marcus Melo, Bernardo Mueller, and Carlos Pereira), in Policymaking in Latin America: How Politics Shapes Policies, edited by Ernesto Stein, Mariano Tommasi, Carlos Scartascini, and Pablo Spiller, Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 2008; and “Shaping Welfare Policies in the U.S., 1895–1965: Economic Interests and Political Institutions in the South.” (with Joseph P. Ferrie), in Government and the American Economy from Colonial Times to the Present, Price Fishback (editor), University of Chicago Press, 2007. He gave the keynote address at the High-Level European Union Workshop: “Which Governance for Which Environment” at Cargese, Corsica, France, in February 2008. He also delivered papers at the World Cliometrics Conference, Northwestern University, University of Maryland, Yale University, Harvard University, Princeton University, and the University of Colorado at Boulder and Denver. In addition, Lee has received a grant from the National Science Foundation to research land conflict and land tenure in Brazil.Francisca Antman placed fourth in the American Association of Hispanics in Higher Education (AAHHE) and Educational Testing Service Outstanding Dissertations Competition and presented work from her dissertation at the AAHHE annual conference in Miami. She was also selected to participate in the Diversity Initiative for Tenure in Economics, a mentoring program funded by the National Science Foundation designed to facilitate the transition of junior faculty members into tenured associate professors. Francisca published two papers on income mobility and poverty traps in Mexico: “Poverty Traps and Nonlinear Income Dynamics with Measurement Error and Individual Heterogeneity” (with David McKenzie), Journal of Development Studies, 43(6): 1057–1083, October 2007; and “Earnings Mobility and Measurement Error: A Pseudo-Panel Approach” (with David McKenzie), Economic Development and Cultural Change, 56(1): 125–161, October 2007. Over the last academic year, she also presented papers at the Northeast Universities Development Consortium conference at Harvard University, the Population Association of America Annual Meeting in New Orleans, and was a discussant at the American Economic Association Annual Meeting in New Orleans.
Ann Carlos spent the spring semester at the University College Dublin, Ireland. During the past academic year she presented papers and attended conferences in France and the Netherlands.
Charles de Bartolomé published the following papers: “Tax Competition and the Creation of Redundant Products,” Canadian Journal of Economics 40, 1213–1236, November 2007; and “Community Income Distributions in a Metropolitan Area,” (with S.L. Ross), Journal of Urban Economics 61, 496–518, May 2007.
Nicholas Flores published several papers: “Cost Credibility and the Stated Preference Analysis of Public Goods“ (with Aaron Strong, PhD ’04), Resource and Energy Economics, 2007, vol. 29, no. 3, pp. 195–205; “Student Demand for Streaming Lecture Video: Empirical Evidence from Undergraduate Economics Classes“ (with Scott Savage), International Review of Economics Education, 2007, vol. 6, no. 2, pp. 57–78; and “Estimating the Economic Benefits of Acidic Rock Drainage Clean Up Using Cost Shares” (with Aaron Strong), Ecological Economics, vol. 65, no. 2, April 2008, pp. 348–55. During the past year other activities included organizing and hosting the CU Environmental and Resource Economics Workshop in Vail, Colorado, September 2007; serving on the Science and Engineering Research and Technical Committee for the State of Louisiana’s Comprehensive Master Plan for a Sustainable Coast; speaking at the President of Louisiana State University’s Forum on the Insurability of the Coast in New Orleans in June 2008; and presenting the paper “The Economics of Offsets in Household Voluntary Carbon Reductions,” joint work with Nicole Ngo, at the 10th Occasional Workshop in Environmental Economics at the University of California Santa Barbara in April 2008.
Murat Iyigun recently published the following: “Building the Family Nest: Pre-Marital Investments, Marriage Markets and Spousal Allocations” (with Randall P. Walsh), Review of Economic Studies, 2007, 74:2, April, 507–35; and “Endogenous Gender Power, Household Labor Supply, and the Quantity-Quality Tradeoff” (with Randall P. Walsh), Journal of Development Economics, 2007, 82:1, January, 138–55. In 2008, he has given or is scheduled to give talks at Stanford, UC-Davis, Caltech, Harvard University, Tufts Fletcher School, American Economic Association Meetings, and all of the University of California Economic History meetings. This year he became an editorial board member of the European Journal of Political Economy. Also, he started the “Iyigun Blog” which covers topics in development, politics, and the Middle East and can be found at muratiyigun.blogspot.com.
Wolfgang Keller published a paper titled “Markets in China and Europe on the Eve of the Industrial Revolution” (with Carol H. Shiue) in the American Economic Review, September 2007. The paper examines whether the functioning of commodity markets in Europe in the late 18th century was exceptional compared to China—finding that it was not. During fall 2007, he was invited to give lectures at several eminent universities, including Harvard University, the top economics department in the world. Wolfgang also presented his current research at the NBER International Trade meetings in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in March 2008, as well as at the “Macroeconomics across Time and Space” conference at the Philadelphia Federal Reserve Bank, May 2008.
James Markusen spent the spring semester at the University College Dublin, Ireland. During the past academic year he presented papers and attended conferences in France, Germany, Austria, and England. He also taught an intensive graduate course in International Economics at the University of Helsinki.
Keith Maskus was recently elected president of the International Economics and Finance Society, for the twotear term 2008–10. Of late he was a visiting professor at several places: the China Center for Economic Research, Peking University, Beijing, March–April 2007; the University of Adelaide, Australia, May 2007; and the Bocconi University, Milan, Italy, April 2008. He was the invited keynote speaker at the University of Otago International Trade Workshop in Dunedin, New Zealand, in March 2008, and at the Research Institute of Economy, Trade, and Industry seminar on intellectual property rights in Tokyo, January 2008. His most recent publications include: “General Public Licensing and the Intensity of Aggregate Software Development“ (with Maggie X. Chen, PhD’05, and Murat Iyigun), Economics of Innovation and New Technology, Vol. 16, No. 6, September 2007, 451–466, and the edited volume Intellectual Property, Growth and Trade, Elsevier-North Holland Publishing, 2008.
Edward Morey has spent part of summer 2008 working with coauthors at the University of Padua, Italy. In July he taught, along with Ken Train and others, a workshop in Bologna on choice experiments and discrete-choice modeling. His recent publications include: “Patient Preferences for Depression Treatment Programs and Willingness to Pay for Treatment“ (with J. Thacher, PhD’03, and E. Craighead), Journal of Mental Health Policy and Economics, Vol. 10 (2), 87–99, 2007; and “Calculating, With Income Effects, the Compensating Variation for a State Change” (with K.R. Rossmann), Environmental and Resource Economics, Vol. 39(2), 83–90, February 2008.