*** The normal Faculty Seminar Series has been pre-empted by job talks this semester ***

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@yahoo.com 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. Recent Crego speakers include William Easterly, B. Douglas Bernheim, 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:

88        Using NAICS to Identify National Industry Cluster Templates for Applied Regional Analysis, by Christina M.L. Kelton, Margaret K. Pasquale and Robert P. Rebelein (February 2007)

87        A Classroom Experiment on Exchange Rate Determination with Purchasing Power Parity, by David Mitchell, Robert Rebelein, Patricia Schneider, Nicole B. Simpson and Eric Fisher (February 2007)

86        The Economics of a Centralized Judiciary: Uniformity, Forum Shopping and the Federal Circuit, by Scott Atkinson, Alan C. Marco and John L. Turner (February 2007)

85        Kelo, Cuno, and the Broken Window, by Alan C. Marco and Jonathan C. Rork (November 2006)

84        The dynamics of patent citations, by Alan C. Marco (November 2006)

83        Patent protection, creative destruction, and generic entry in pharmaceuticals: Evidence from patent and pricing data, by Alan C. Marco (November 2006)

82        The Value of Certainty in Intellectual Property Rights: Stock Market Reactions to Patent Litigation, by Alan C. Marco (November 2006)

81        Bargaining in the shadow of precedent: the surprising irrelevance of asymmetric stakes, by Alan C. Marco and Kieran J. Walsh (November 2006)

80        Credibility and Credulity: How Beliefs about Beliefs affect Entry Incentives, by Alan C. Marco and Kieran J. Walsh (November 2006)

79        Limited Arbitrage, Segmentation, and Investor Heterogeneity: Why the Law of One Price So Often Fails, by Sean Masaki Flynn (January 2006)

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

Department Faculty Members

Christopher Cornell, Visiting Assistant Professor. Ph.D. Ohio State University, 2000. Current research interests: managed exchange rates, currency crises, effects of monetary policy on the possibility of currency crises, dollarization.

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

Catharine B. Hill, Professor and President. Ph.D Yale University. Current research interests: economics of higher education.

Geoffrey A. Jehle, Professor. 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, Professor and Chair. Ph.D. Columbia University. Current research interests: labor economics, health care economics, and gender issues.

Patricia Jones, Adjunct Assistant Professor. D.Phil. University of Oxford. Current research interests: institutions and development.

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.

Richard Stahnke, Visiting Assistant Professor. Ph.D. Columbia University, 1999. Current research interests: macroeconomics, agent-based computational models.

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.

David Toomey, Visiting Assistant Professor. Ph.D. Cornell University. Current research interests: public economics, behavioral economics.

February 9, 2007