Department Newsletter, Fall 2004

Faculty Seminar Series in Economics

Fall, 2004: Focus on Empirical International Macroeconomics

The Vassar Economics department seeks to develop its connections with other economists in the region. Visitors are always welcome at our seminars and speaker lunches. To verify time and location, please contact Christopher Kilby at chkilby@vassar.edu or call Sue Conger at (845) 437-7395. For directions, see the college website (www.vassar.edu/directions); you can locate Blodgett Hall (BH) near the top left corner of the campus map. Papers will be available approximately one week in advance.

The Economics Department also sponsors campus-wide Crego lectures. The Spring Crego lecture is by B. Douglas Bernheim (Stanford) at 5:00 PM on Monday, 4/4/2005. Other recent Crego speakers include George Borjas, Samuel Bowles, J. Bradford DeLong, Paul Romer, and John B. Taylor. Please contact Sue Conger (suconger@vassar.edu) for more information.

Vassar Economics Working Paper Series

Recent papers:

60        Labor Market Informalization and Social Policy: Distributional Links and the Case of Homebased Workers, by Lourdes Beneria and Maria S. Floro (August 2004)

59        Asset Depletion Among the Poor: Does Gender Matter? The Case of Urban Households in Thailand, by Maria S. Floro and Rania Antonopoulos (July 2004)

58        Is it Really the Fisher Effect?, by Paul A. Johnson (Jan. 2004)

57        Arbitrage in Closed-end Funds: New Evidence, by Sean Masaki Flynn (Jan. 2004)

56        Limited Arbitrage, Segmentation, and Investor Heterogeneity: Why the Law of One Price So Often Fails, by Sean Masaki Flynn (Nov. 2003)

55        Integrity, Shame and Self-Rationalization, by Elias L. Khalil (Nov. 2003; Revised Feb. 2004)

54        A Continuous State Space Approach to “Convergence by Parts,” by Paul A. Johnson (Oct. 2003; Revised March 2004)

For a complete listing and access to papers see http://irving.vassar.edu/VCEWP/VCEWP.htm, email chkilby@vassar.edu or call Sue Conger at (845) 437-7395.

Department Faculty Members

Sean Flynn, Assistant Professor. Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley, 2002. Current research interests: finance, behavioral economics, labor economics.

Geoffrey A. Jehle, Professor and Chair. Ph.D. Princeton University, 1983. Current research interests: poverty and inequality, social choice and welfare.

Paul A. Johnson, Professor. Ph.D. Stanford University, 1989. Current research interests: economic growth and income distribution.

Shirley B. Johnson-Lans, Associate Professor. Ph.D. Columbia University. Current research interests: labor economics, health care economics, and gender issues.

David A. Kennett, Professor. Ph.D. Columbia University, 1976. Current research interests: U.S./European trade and investment, Soviet and East European economic transformation.

Christopher Kilby, Associate Professor. Ph.D. Stanford University, 1994. Current research interests: development assistance, political economy, international organizations.

Timothy Koechlin, Visiting Associate Professor. Ph.D. University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 1989. Current research interests: international investment, North American Trade and Investment, economic integration, determinants of investment.

William E. Lunt, Associate Professor. Ph.D. Stanford University, 1977. Current research interests: co-integration and unit roots, chaos in financial models.

Alan C. Marco, Assistant Professor. Ph.D. University of California at Berkeley, 2000. Current research interests: enforcement, consolidation, and contracting in intellectual property rights; pharmaceutical pricing.

Robert Rebelein, Assistant Professor. Ph.D. University of Minnesota, 1997. Current research interests: public finance, macroeconomics, monetary economics.

Jonathan C. Rork, Assistant Professor. Ph.D. Stanford University, 1999. Current research interests: tax competition; state and local economic development policies, particularly industrial recruitment; urban growth.

Alexander M. Thompson, III, Professor and Dean of Studies. Ph.D. Stanford University, 1979. Current research interests: strategic behavior of firms, economics of volunteer labor in public sector.

November 10, 2004