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Associate Professor (Ph.D.,
Michigan State). Professor Baier previously
served on the faculty of the Mendoza School of Business
at the University of Notre Dame. His 2001 paper with
Jeffrey Bergstrand on the growth of world trade won the Bhagwati Award for the Best
Paper in the Journal of International Economics
for the two year period of 2001-2002.
Research interests: international economics and economic
growth.
Selected publications:
“Do Free Trade Agreements Actually Increase Members’ International Trade?" Journal of International Economics, forthcoming; "Does Opening a Stock Exchange Increase
Economic Growth?" Journal of International Money and
Finance, 2004, (lead article); "Economic Determinants of
Free Trade Agreements" Journal of International
Economics, 2004.
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Alumni Distinguished Professor (Ph.D., UCLA). He has
previously taught at the University of Washington and the
University of California at Santa Barbara. Professor
Benjamin has been a National Fellow at the Hoover
Institution, Stanford University, and served as Deputy
Assistant Secretary for Policy and later as Chief of Staff
at the U.S. Department of Labor, and staff economist on the
Council of Economic Advisors. He is currently a Senior
Fellow of the Property and Environment Research Center (PERC)
in Bozeman, Montana, and has been a Visiting Scholar at the
University of Liverpool, England; Cardiff University, Wales;
and the American Enterprise Institute. He also has been the
Caird Honorary Research Fellow at the National Maritime
Museum, Greenwich, England. His research interests are in
applied microeconomics and economic history.
Selected
publications: "Organization and
Incentives in the Age of Sail," Explorations in Economic
History, 2006; "Rules, Monitoring, and Incentives in the Age
of Sail," Explorations in Economic History, 2003;
"Individuals' Estimates of the Risks of Death: Part IINew
Evidence," Journal of Risk & Uncertainty, 2001; "Efficient
Excise Taxation: The Case of Cigarettes," Journal of Law and
Economics, April 1997.
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Assistant Professor (Ph.D. Duke).
Research interests include applications of microeconomics to environmental, health and urban policy problems, with an emphasis on using recent advances in computational methods.
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Assistant Professor (Ph.D.
Chicago). Research interests: Economic Growth,
Human Capital, Development, Macroeconomics and Urban
Economics. He has worked as a consultant for the World
Bank, conducting empirical research on the economic
impact of recent land reforms in Pakistan.
Recent research:
"The Rise and Decline of Cities", "Growth
Decelerations", "A Rent-Seeking Growth Model", "Herd
Behavior and Social Increasing Returns", and "On Urban
Sprawling".
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Assistant Professor (Ph.D. Boston).
Research interests: labor economics, public economics,
economics of education, and the economics of illegal drugs.
Selected publications:
“The Effect of Alcohol Prohibition on Alcohol
Consumption: Evidence from Drunkenness Arrests,” Economics
Letters, February 2005; "Does Cream-Skimming Curdle the
Milk? A Study of Peer Effects” Economics of Education
Review, February 2005; “Do Parents Value Changes in Test
Scores? High Stakes Testing in Texas,” Contributions to
Economic Analysis and Policy, 2004;
“Alcohol Prohibition and Cirrhosis,” American Law and Economics Review, 2004.
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Professor
(Ph.D., Chicago). He has previously taught at
Dartmouth College and the University of Chicago. Professor
Dougan has been Visiting Scholar at the Center for Study of
Public Choice at George Mason University and a consultant to
the World Bank and the Federal Trade Commission. His research
interests are in applied microeconomics, public finance, and
positive political economy.
Selected
publications:
"Individuals' Estimates of the Risks of Death: Part II-
New Evidence", Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 2001;
"Redistribution through Discriminatory Taxation: A
Contractarian Explanation of the Role of the Courts,"
George Mason Law Review, Summer 1998; "Individuals' Estimates of the Risks
of Death: Part I-A Reassessment of the Previous Evidence,"
Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 1997.
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Associate Professor (Ph.D., Chicago).
He has served on the faculty of the University of Rochester
and as a staff economist in the Research Section of the Board
of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. His research
interests include monetary theory and fiscal policy, financial
markets and growth, and applied general equilibrium modeling.
Selected publications:
"The Price Level, the Quantity Theory of Money, and the Fiscal Theory of the Price Level," Scottish Journal of Political Economy, (lead article) February 2006; "Trends in Velocity and Policy Expectations,"
Journal of Monetary Economics, 1998; "The Dynamic Impacts
of Monetary Policy: An Exercise in Tentative
Identification," Journal of Political Economy,
1994.
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Assistant Professor (PhD., Brown).
Research interests include
macroeconomics, economic growth and stagnation,
international productivity differences, innovation and
technological progress.
Selected Publications:
"TFP Differences: Appropriate Technology vs. Efficiency," European Economic Review, forthcoming;
"The Welfare Consequences of Irrational Exuberance:
Stock Market Booms, Research Investment, and
Productivity," Journal of Macroeconomics,
forthcoming; "Empirics of Hills, Plateaus, Mountains and Plains: A
Markov-Switching Approach to Growth,"
Journal of Development Economics, 2006.
Recent
research: "Acceleration, Stagnation and
Crisis: the Role of Macro Policies in Economic Growth",
"Barriers to Entry and TFP Growth," "Growth Cycles
and Democracy."
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Assistant Professor
(Ph.D., Chicago). His research
interests include microeconomic theory, law and
economics, crime, media economics, and celebrity
behavior.
Selected publications:
"Durable Goods Celebrities", Journal of Economic
Behavior and Organization, forthcoming; "Spillovers,
Complementarities, and Sorting in Labor Markets, with an
Application to Professional Sports", Southern Economic
Journal, October 2003.
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Associate Professor (Ph.D.,
Duke). Before joining Clemson, Professor Kirby
taught at the University of Texas at Dallas and the
Australian Graduate School of Management. His research
interests include time-series econometrics, Bayesian
econometrics, volatility modeling, empirical asset
pricing, and risk management.
Selected publications:
“Information, trading, and volatility: Evidence from
weather-sensitive markets,” Journal of Finance, 2006;
“Multivariate stochastic volatility models with
correlated errors,” Econometric Reviews , Summer 2006; “Bootstrap tests of multiple
inequality restrictions on variance ratios,” Economics Letters, June 2006; “Stochastic volatility,
trading volume, and the daily flow of information,”Journal of Business,
2006.
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J. Wilson Newman Professor (Ph.D.,
Virginia). He has served on the faculties of the
University of California, Los Angeles, and Emory University.
He was Distinguished Visiting Professor at Arizona State
University, and has been a postdoctoral fellow at the London
School of Economics and the Hoover Institution at Stanford
University. He is listed in Who's Who in Economics, Who's Who
in American Education, and Who's Who in the South and
Southwest. Professor Lindsay's research interests include
contracts and organizational structures with incomplete
information and market equilibria with constrained prices.
Selected publications:
“The Limits of the Wage Impact of Discrimination,”
Managerial and Decision Economics, 2005; “Assortative Mating or Glass Ceiling:
Under-representation of Female Workers among Top
Earners,” Research in Labor Economics: Accounting for
Worker Well-Being, 2004; “The
Derived Demand for Faculty Research,” Managerial and Decision
Economics, 2003.
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Professor (Ph.D., Louisiana State).
He has previously been on the faculty of
Emory University and the staff of the Securities and
Exchange Commission. Professor Maloney's research has
focused on the behavior of firms in response to changes
in their market and regulatory environments.
Selected
publications: ""The Determinants of Pharmaceutical Research and Development Investments," Contributions to Economic Analysis & Policy, 2006; "The
Complexity of Price Discovery in an Efficient Market: The
Stock Market Reaction to the Challenger Crash," Journal of
Corporate Finance, 2003; "Does Implied Volatility
Imply Volatility in Bonds?", Journal of Fixed Income,
December 2001; “Economies and Diseconomies: Estimating
Electricity Cost Functions,” Review of Industrial
Organization, September 2001.
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Professor (Ph.D., Texas A&M).
Professor McCormick is a Senior Fellow at PERC, one of
the nation's leading environmental think tanks where he
has served as Director of the Kinship Conservation
Institute.
He has taught at the University of Rochester, Virginia Tech,
and Francisco Marroquin University (Guatemala). Professor
McCormick's research interests are applied
microeconomics, financial economics, public choice, and
the economics of sports. He has served as a consultant
to a number of leading corporations and government
agencies.
Selected publications: “A theory of commodity bundling in final product markets: Professor Hirshleifer meets Professor Becker”,
International Review of Law and Economics, 2006; "Measuring
Carbon Emissions—Nets Matter,” in You Have to Admit It’s
Getting Better—The Environment That Is, Palo Alto: Hoover
Press, 2002; “Racial Integration as Innovation: Evidence
from Sports Leagues,” American Economic Review, March 2002.
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Assistant Professor (Ph.D., Chicago).
Research interests: household behavior, economics of the
family, labor economics and applied microeconomics.
Recent research:
"Birth control and female empowerment. An equilibrium
analysis"; "Did the legalization of abortion increase
women's household bargaining power? Evidence from labor
supply"; "Endogenous minimum participation in
international environmental treaties".
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Professor and Director of
the Center for Economic Education (Ph.D., Pittsburgh). Professor Placone has previously served as Visiting Scholar at the U.S. International Trade
Commission. His research interests include macroeconomics and
economic education. He has received awards for Outstanding
Honors Professor and for Faculty Community Service.
Selected
publications:
"The Crowding-Out Debate," Journal of Post-Keynesian
Economics, Fall 1985; "The Measurement of Commercial Bank
Structure," Atlantic Economic Journal, September 1984.
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Professor and Department Chair (Ph.D, Washington).
Before coming to Clemson, Professor Sauer taught at the
University of New Mexico for three years, and has also had
appointments at the University of Louisville and Stanford.
His research and teaching interests are broad, spanning
industrial organization, macroeconomics, regulation, and
sports.
Selected publications: "An Economic Evaluation of the Moneyball Hypothesis," Journal of Economic Perspectives, August 2006; "The Political Economy of Gambling Regulation"
Managerial and Decision Economics, May 2001; "The
Price System vs Central Coordination: Allocation in an
Athletic Market", Applied Economics Letters, November
2000; "The Economics of Wagering Markets," Journal
of Economic Literature, 1998.
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Associate Professor (Ph.D., SUNY-Binghamton).
His research synthesizes labor economics with urban
economics, growth theory, and macroeconomics.
Selected publications:
"The Military Recruiting Productivity Slowdown:
Resources, Opportunity Costs, and the Tastes of Youth",
with John Warner and Deborah Payne, Defense and Peace
Economics; “Human Capital and the Rise of American Cities,
1900-1990," Regional Science and Urban Economics January
2002; "The Supply Price of Labor During the Great
Depression," Journal of Economic History, December 2001;
“Human Capital and Metropolitan Growth,” Journal of Urban
Economics, March 1998.
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Professor (Ph.D., Chicago).
He has previously been on the faculty of the University
of Iowa, and has been a Research Fellow of the National
Bureau of Economic Research and a National Fellow of the
Hoover Institution at Stanford University. Professor
Tamura's research focuses on the causes of economic
growth.
Selected publications:
"How Important Are Capital and Total Factor Productivity
for Economic Growth," Economic Inquiry,
2006; "Human Capital and Economic Development,"
Journal of Development Economics, 2006;
"Teachers, Growth and Convergence", Journal of Political
Economy, 2001.
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Assistant Professor (Ph.D,
Princeton). Research interests: Industrial
Organization, Antitrust Policy, and Microeconomic
Theory. He has worked for the William E. Simon
Graduate School of Business, the U.S. Federal Trade
Commission, and Harvard Law School.
Selected
publications: "“Verifiable Offers and the Relationship Between Auctions and Multilateral Negotiations," Economic Journal, 2005; "Using Reserve Prices to Deter Collusion in
Procurement Competition," (lead article) Journal of Industrial
Economics, 2005; "The Competitive Effects of Mergers Between Asymmetric
Firms,” International Journal of Industrial
Organization, 2004; “A
Comparison of Auctions and Multilateral Negotiations,”
RAND Journal of Economics, 2002.
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Professor Emeritus (Ph.D., Virginia).
He has been a Visiting Professor at Arizona State University
and a Visiting Lecturer at Ecole Superieure de Commerce de Pau
(France) and Universidad Latinoamericana de Ciencia y
Tecnologia (Costa Rica). He has served as a consultant to
federal and state government agencies and to private
businesses. Professor Thompson's research interests are the
economics of tort liability and the valuation of life.
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Professor and BB&T Scholar (Ph.D., Virginia).
Professor Tollison is Editor of Public Choice.
He has served on the faculties at Cornell University, Texas A
& M University, Virginia Tech, Clemson University, and
George Mason University, and served as Department Head at
Texas A & M (1974-76) and as Director of the Center for
Study of Public Choice at George Mason (1984-1998). Prof.
Tollison has served in government twice-- as a Senior Staff
Economist on the President’s Council of Economic Advisers
(1971-72) and as Director of the Bureau of Economics at the
Federal Trade Commission (1981-83). He is a past president of
the Southern Economic Association (1985) and the Public Choice
Society (1994-96). He is one of the world’s foremost
scholars in the field of public choice, and is presently
working on a major study of the marketplace for Christianity.
Selected
publications: The Marketplace of Christianity,
MIT Press, Fall 2006; "Racial Integration as an
Innovation: Empirical Evidence from Sports Leagues",
American Economic Review, 2002; "An Economic Analysis of
the Protestant Reformation", Journal of Political
Economy, 2002.
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Assistant Professor (PhD.,Chicago).
His fields of
research are Industrial Organization, Public Sector,
Political Economy, and Natural Resource Economics. One
major aim of his current research is to apply the
insights and tools from the I.O. literature to
understanding the government. He is also interested in
studying the economics of oil.
Selected
publications: “Auctions with
Cross-Shareholdings.” Economic Theory, 2004. (with
Sudipto Dasgupta); “A Matching Auction for Targets with
Heterogeneous Bidders.” Journal of Financial
Intermediation, 2003. (with Sudipto Dasgupta); and
“Lottery or Waiting-Line Auction?” Journal of Public
Economics, 2003. (with Grant Taylor and Lijing Zhu)
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Professor Emeritus (Ph.D., Colorado).
His principal research interests are international economics
and the econometric analysis of time-series data.
Selected publications:
"Non-Informative Tests of the Unbiased Forward Exchange
Rate", Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis,
1999; "Autoregressive Transformation in Cointegrated
Regressions", Review of Economics and Statistics, 1997.
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Professor (Ph.D., North
Carolina State).
Professor Warner is the North American
Editor of Defence and Peace Economics.
He has taught at North Carolina State
University, the University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill, and the U.S. Naval Academy. He has also been on
the staff of the Center for Naval Analyses and the
Office of the Secretary of Defense. Professor Warner's
research interests are the economics of defense, labor
economics, and applied econometrics.
Selected
publications:
"The Record and Prospects of the All-Volunteer Military
in the United States", Journal of Economic Perspectives,
2001; "The Personal Discount Rate: Evidence From
Military Drawdown Programs", American Economic Review,
2001; "Compensation and Personnel Management in
Hierarchical Organizations: Theory and Application to
the U.S. Military", Journal of Labor Economics, July
2001.
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Professor (Ph.D., Brown).
Professor Wilson is Editor of
the Journal of Productivity Analysis. He has served on the
faculties at the University of Georgia and University of
Texas, has been a Visiting Professor at the Institue de
Statistique, Universite Catholique de Louvain, and a
Visiting Scholar at the Federal Reserve Bank of St.
Louis, and at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. Prof. Wilson's research areas include
econometrics, with particular focus on resampling
estimators and nonparametric methods, and empirical
microeconomics, including banking, health,
transportation, and urban economics.
Selected
publications: "Estimation and Inference in
Two-Stage, Semi-Parametric Models of Productive
Efficiency," Journal of Econometrics, forthcoming;
"Nonparametric Analysis of Returns to Scale and Product
Mix among US Hospitals," Journal of Applied
Econometrics, 2004; "New Evidence on Returns to Scale
and Product Mix among US Commercial Banks," Journal of
Monetary Economics, 2001; "A General Methodology for
Bootstrapping in Nonparametric Frontier Models," Journal
of Applied Statistics, 2000.
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Alumni Distinguished Professor Emeritus and
BB&T Scholar (Ph.D., Georgia State). Professor Yandle has also served as Executive Director for the
Federal Trade Commission in Washington, D.C., and as Dean of the College of Business and Behavioral Science, and is
listed in Who's Who in America.
Selected publications:
"The Political Economy of Green Taxation in OECD Economies," European Journal of Law and Economics, 2003; "Bootleggers and Baptists in Retrospect, Regulation, 1999,
"Public Choice in the Intersection of Law and
Economics," European Journal of Law &
Economics, July 1999, Common Sense and Common Law for the Environment, Rowman and Littlefield, 1997.
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Assistant Professor (Ph.D.
Stanford).
Research interests:
public economics, economics of education,
development economics.
Recent research: "College educational debt
and graduate school decisions"; "Public college
quality and higher education policy of the U.S.
states"; "Political economy of income distribution
dynamics:theory and evidence".
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