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Industrial Organization, Microeconomic Theory, Game Theory
Research Interests
Industrial Organization, Diffusion of Technology, and Club Theory
Education
Ph.D., Economics, University of Minnesota, MN, 1980
M.S., Education, University of Southern California, CA, 1975
B.S., United States Military Academy, West Point, NY, 1970
Experience
Professor, Department of Economics, University of Delaware, DE, 1993-present
Visiting Professor, Faculté de Sciences Economiques et de Gestion, Université Lumière (Lyon 2), Lyon, France, 1992, 1994
Visiting Professor, Ecole Supérieure de Commerce de Lyon, Ecully, France, 1987
Associate Professor, Department of Economics, University of Delaware, DE, 1986-93
Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, University of Delaware, DE, 1980-86
Teaching Associate, Economics, University of Minnesota, MN, 1976-80
Captain, U.S. Army, 1970-75
Teaching Awards
Outstanding M.B.A. Teacher Award, University of Delaware, 1993
Award for Teaching Excellence, University of Minnesota, 1979
Selected Publications
"Persistent Adoption of Time-saving Process Innovations," (with N. Das), in The Economics of Persistent Innovation, ed. William Latham and Christian Le Bas, Springer, forthcoming.
"Market
Segmentation and the Diffusion of Quality-Enhancing Innovations:
The Case of Downhill Skiing,"
(with
E. Llinares), The Review of Economics and Statistics, August 2003,
85(3): 493-501.
"Daycare Quality and Daycare Regulation: A Queuing Model" (with S. Hoffman), Economics of Education Review, February, 1998.
"Standardized Test Scores and School Accountability" (with C. Link), in Assessing Educational Practices, ed. W. Baumol and W. Becker. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1996.
"Classified Advertising Rates That Vary by Category" (with M. Webster), International Journal of Advertising, 1994.
"Classmates' Effects on Black Student Achievement in Public School Classrooms" (with C. Link), Economics of Education Review, December 1991.
"Scale Economies and Capacity Utilization: The Importance of Relative Fuel Prices" (with D. Coates), Energy Economics, April 1988.
"Scale Economies for the GI/G/c Queuing Model," Mathematical and Computer Modeling, March 1988.
"Hospital Scale Economies Given Stochastic Demand and Service," Economic Letters, January 1987.
"Technical Change and Scale Economies Given Stochastic Demand and Production," International Journal of Industrial Organization, June 1986.
"The Efficiency of Electric Power Pools: Evidence from Firing-Unit Data" (with D. Coates), Applied Economics, December 1986.
"The Merits of a Longer School Day" (with C. Link), Economics of Education Review, Vol. 23, No. 3, 1986.
"The Stochastic Determinants of Hospital-Bed Supply" The Journal of Health Economics, Vol. 4, 1985.
"The Cost-Reduction Potential of Electric Power Pools" (with M. Caputo), Economic Letters, No. 18, 1985.
"A Stochastic Production Function for Machine Repair," Applied Economics, June 1985.
"A Cost Function for Computer-Assisted Programming Instruction," The Journal of Economic Education, Fall 1984.
"A Classroom Production Function," Economic Inquiry, 1984.
"The Economies of Massed Reserves," The American Economic Review, September 1983.