Joe Daniel presented
a paper, joint with former graduate
student Kate Harback, "Pricing the
Major US Hub Airports" at the 3rd
annual Kuhmo-Nectar Conference on
Transport and Urban Economics,
hosted by the Free University,
Amsterdam, July, 2008.
Farley Grubb presented his
paper on “Land Policy: Founding
Choices and Outcomes,
1781-1803” at
the National Bureau of Economic
Research, Cambridge, MA, July 10,
2008.
Jeff Miller and George Irvine
(UD-CFIS) have received a grant for
$435,600 from the Department of State
under Title VIII to support in-country
scholarships, evaluation, dissemination
and conferences for the topic
“Transition in the Emerging Market
Economies of the Balkans.”
Jeff Miller received an
International Research Award
from UD for his project, “Organizing a
National System of Higher Education: A
comparison of the US and France.”
Farley Grubb presented “Creating
Maryland’s Paper Money Economy,
1720-1739: The Role of Power, Print, and
Markets,” at the 2008 Colloquium on
Money, Power & Print: Interdisciplinary
Studies of the Financial Revolution in
the British Isles, 1688-1776 in St.
John’s, Newfoundland, Canada, June
26-28, 2008.
Farley Grubb presented “The Birth
of the Continental Dollar—Monetary
Lessons from the Past” at the American
Institute for Economic Research, Great
Barrington, MA, June 12, 2008.
Graduate student Arina
Matvejeva participated in the European
School on New Institutional Economics,
May 19-23, 2008 in Cargese, France.
David Stockman
presented "Euler Equation Branching" at the
Midwest Macro Meetings at the University of
Pennsylvania, May 8-10, 2008.
David Stockman
presented "Expected Utility in Models with
Chaos" at the 8th Annual Missouri Economics
Conference sponsored by the Federal Reserve
Bank of St. Louis and the Economics
Department at the University of
Missouri--Columbia in Columbia, MO, March,
2008. He also presented "Euler Equation
Branching" at the 16th Annual Symposium of
the Society for Nonlinear Dynamics and
Econometrics at the Federal Reserve Bank of
San Francisco, April 3-4, 2008. He also
chaired a session on "Bubbles and Crashes."
Graduate student Stela
Stefanova has been chosen as one of two
recipients of the 2008 University of
Delaware Excellence in Teaching Award for
graduate student Teaching Assistants.
Farley Grubb presented a talk on his
book
Souls for Sale to the National Society
of the Colonial Danes of America in the
State of Delaware, Wilmington, DE March 17,
2008.
David Stockman
presented "Fixed Points Imply Chaos for a
Class of Multi-Valued Dynamical Systems" at
the Spring Topology and Dynamics Conference,
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, March
2008.
Farley Grubb participated in the NBER
conference on the Development of the
American Economy, March 1-2, 2008, in
Cambridge, MA.
James O'Neill, Professor of Economics and Director
of the Center for
Economic Education and Entrepreneurship, received
the inaugural
First State Savings Star Award
February 26, 2008
for "his extraordinary commitment to financial education
and independence." The award was given by First
State Saves.
Farley Grubb presented a talk on his
book
Souls for Sale at the Landis
Valley Museum, Lancaster, PA, February 16,
2008.
Larry Seidman, Chaplin
Tyler Professor, discussed current macroeconomic
policy on the ABC Nightly News, January 18, 2008
and on Delaware Tonight (WHYY, Philadelphia)
January 21,2008.
Farley Grubb presented his paper “The
Continental Dollar: What Happened to it after
1779?” at the annual American Economic
Association meetings in New Orleans, Jan. 4,
2008. He also chaired a session on
“Technological Innovations and Social Capital:
What Mattered When.”
Eleanor Craig was the
featured newsmaker on radio station WILM-AM on
Dec. 12, 2007. She discussed competition and
choice in education in Delaware.
Eleanor Craig organized
and moderated a session on “Property Tax
Incidence Studies” at the 100th annual meetings
of the National Tax Association, November 15th
in Columbus, Ohio.
Graduate student Jim Markham
co-authored a chapter on "Shareholders" in
Corporate Governance, edited by Alexander
N. Kostyuk, Udo C. Braendle, and Rodolfo Apreda,
and published by Virtus Interpress, Sumy,
Ukraine. Markham's co-author is UD Finance
Professor Paul Laux.
Saul Hoffman presented
"Kids Having Kids Updated: New Estimates of The
Economic Consequences of Teen Childbearing for
the Mothers" at the 29th annual Research
Conference of the Association for Public Policy
Analysis and Management, Washington, DC, Nov. 8.
He also participated in a Grant Review
Panel for the Population Sciences Committee of NICHD, Nov. 8-9, also in Washington, DC.
James Mulligan presented
"Item Pricing Laws, Supplier Behavior, and
the Diffusion of Time-saving Technological
Innovations," co-authored with former UD
graduate student Nilotpal Das, at the 7th Global
Conference on Business and Economics, October
12-14 in Rome. The conference was co-sponsored
by the International Journal of Business and
Economics and the Association for Business and
Economics Research. Mulligan also a discussant
for a paper, "Modeling the Term Structure of
Interest Rates in the Thai Market," by Chalita
Promchan of Walailak University.
Vera Brusentsev presented
"Unemployment Compensation Recipiency in
English-Speaking Countries" at the International
Atlantic Economic Conference, Savannah, GA, Oct
7-10.
Graduate student Arek Nowak
was a discussant at the Financial Management
Association meetings in Orlando, FL, October 18,
2007. He discussed "Market Design and
Execution Cost for Matched Securities
Worldwide"by Michael J. Aitken, Rowan M. Cook,
Frederick H. deB. Harris and Thomas H. McInish.
Saul Hoffman made a
presentation in the UD Research on Women Lecture
Series, Oct. 17, 2007. Hoffman spoke on
the "National Costs of Teen Births."
Stacie Beck attended the
Salzburg Global Seminar, “Challenges to the
International Monetary System: Rebalancing
Currencies, Institutions, and Rules,” September
29 – October 3, 2007 in Salzburg, Austria.
Eleanor Craig was the
newsmaker guest on WILM's Money and Politics in
Delaware show on Sept. 15, 2007. The subject of
the interview was public education finances in
Delaware and the status of tax exempt financing
for school construction projects in charter
schools.
David Stockman
presented "Expected
Utility in Economic Models with Chaos." Invited
Seminar, Department of Mathematics, Baylor
University, July 16, 2007.
Charles Link presented
"Variations in Physician Prescribing Patterns
for Statins: A Probit and Multinomial Logit
Analysis" at the 6th World Congress on Health
Economics held in Copenhagen, Denmark and Lund,
Sweden July 8-11, 2007.
Farley Grubb presented his current
research paper “The Continental Dollar—Part 1:
How Much was Issued?” at the National Bureau of
Economic Research, July 9th,
Cambridge, MA.
Graduate student Arina
Matvejeva presented a paper "Fyodorov's
Radial Keratotomy: Technological Diffusion under
Different Institutional Regimes" during the
ISNIE (International Society for New
Institutional Economics) conference in
Reykjavik, Iceland, on June 23rd, 2007.
Farley Grubb
was cited in NEWSWEEK, June 25th
issue, p. 35, in an article by Robert J.
Samuelson, “The Vanishing Greenback.” Grubb has
conducted research on the origins of the US
monetary system in the colonial period.
David Stockman, "Multi-Valued Dynamical Systems in
Economics" at the SIAM Conference on
Applications of Dynamical Systems, Snowbird, UT,
May 31, 2007.
Farley Grubb, “The
Continental Dollar: How Much Was Issued and What
Happened to It?” at SUNY-Binghamton, May 4,
2007.
Jorge Soares participated
in the Carnegie-Rochester Conference on Public
Policy held on April 20 and 21, 2007 at the
University of Rochester. He also presented his
paper, “Borrowing Constraints, Child Labor and
Welfare” at the 2007 Midwest Macroeconomics
Meetings hosted by the Research Department of
the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland on April
27-29, 2007.
Larry Seidman attended the
conference "Do We Tax Energy Enough?" at the
American Enterprise Institute in Washington DC,
March 29, 2007.
David Stockman presented
"Expected Utility in Economic Models with Chaos"
at the Spring Topology and Dynamics Conference,
University of Missouri-Rolla, March 2007.
Richard Agnello presented,
“Art Prices and Race: Paintings By African
American Artists and Their White Contemporaries”
co-authored with Xiaowen Xu (MA 2006) at the
Eastern Economics Association Annual Conference,
New York City, February, 2007.
Kolver Hernandez presented
“Inflation and Output Dynamics with
State-Dependent Nominal Rigidities” at
CIDE, Mexico City, Mexico, February 21 and
“Relative Price Dynamics and the Aggregate
Economy” in the Macroeconomics Seminar of the
Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, March 1.
David Stockman presented
"Expected Utility in Models with Chaos" at
Williams College, January 12 and at Villanova
University, February 16.
Bill Latham appeared on
the Ch.12. Delaware Nightly News to talk about
the economic impact of the possible closing of
the Newark Chrysler factory, February 6, 2007.
Farley Grubb presented “The Net Worth of
the U.S. Federal Government, 1784-1802,” at the
annual meeting of the American Economics
Association, Chicago, Jan. 5, 2007.
The Federal Reserve Bank
of Philadelphia has just published “Benjamin
Franklin and the Birth of a Paper Money Economy” by
Farley Grubb. Read the
whole paper...
Eleanor Craig discussed three
papers in the session,
“Taxes
and Migration,” at the National Tax Association
Meetings in Boston, Nov 16, 2006.
Farley Grubb presented a paper “The Net Asset
Position of the U.S. National Government, 1784-1802:
Hamilton’s Blessing or the Spoils of War?” at the
annual meetings of the Southern Economic Association
in Charleston, SC, Nov. 18, 2006.
Graduate student, Nasser Yayi,
presented a paper, "A Random Utility Model of
Recreational Trout Fishing in Delaware,"
at a special student session of the annual
meetings of the Southern Economic Association in
Charleston, SC, Nov. 18, 2006.
James O'Neill,
Director of the Center for Economic Education and
Entrepreneurship, was awarded the John C. Schramm
Leadership Award at the annual conference of the
National Council on Economic Education, the National
Association of Economic Educators and the Global
Association of Teachers of Economics. The award
recognizes individuals “whose leadership has had an
extraordinary positive impact at both the state and
national levels."
Saul Hoffman presented a
briefing for Congressional aides at the U.S. Capitol
Building, Oct. 30, concerning the release of a new
report on the National and State Costs of Teen
Childbearing. The report, which he wrote, was
issued by the National Campaign to Prevent Teen
Pregnancy.
Graduate student Arina Matvejeva
presented a paper, "Patent Rights Index in
Countries in Transition," at the Thinking and
Doing Conference in Boulder, Colorado, Sept. 25-26,
2006.
Farley Grubb presented a paper, “The Net Asset
Position of the U.S. Government, 1784-1802:
Hamilton’s Blessing or the Spoils of War?” at the
XIV International Economic History Congress,
Helsinki, Finland, August 25, 2006. He was
also recently appointed to the nominations committee
of the Economic History Association for 2006-2007.
Jeffrey Miller spent two weeks
in Tbilisi, the Republic of Georgia, in the summer
of 2006 teaching in an Open Society-sponsored program for
college level teachers from Central Asia and the
Caucasus. The
participants were engaged in writing monographs on
the banking systems in their respective countries
for use in classrooms throughout Central Asia and
the Caucasus.
Jorge Soares
presented his paper “Borrowing Constraints, Parental
Altruism and Welfare,” at the 2006 Meetings of the
Society for Economic Dynamics, July 6 - 8, 2006 in
Vancouver, Canada.
Farley Grubb attended the Summer Institute on
the Development of the American Economy at the
National Bureau of Economic Research in Cambridge,
MA July 9-13, 2006.
Charles Link
presented a paper, "Variations in Prescribing
Patterns of Statins, Coronary Heart Disease: A
Multinomial Analysis of the NAMCS Survey for
1992-200" at the American Society of Health
Economists conference in Madison, WI, June 5, 2006.
He also presented a paper, "Variations in
Prescribing Patterns of Statins, Coronary Heart
Disease, Dyslipidemia, and Diabetes: A Multinomial
Analysis of the NAMCS, NHAMCS and MEPS Surveys for
1992-2004" at the European Health Economics
Association in Budapest, Hungary, July 9, 2006.
Jorge Soares
and
Kolver
Hernandez
both
presented papers at the 2006 Midwest Macroeconomics
Meetings held May 5-7, 2006 at Washington University
in St. Louis, MO. Soares presented “Borrowing Constraints, Parental
Altruism and Human Capital Accumulation.” Hernandez presented
“State-Dependent
Nominal Rigidities and Disinflation Programs in
Small Open Economies.” Graduate students Dan Brown
and Katie McCann have been chosen as two of just
50 Economics graduate students in the entire country
to attend the 2nd meeting of Nobel Laureates and
students in Economics in Germany, August,
2006. Thirteen Nobel Laureates in Economics have
already agreed to participate.
Dave Black has been chosen as the 1st winner
of the University of Delaware Lerner College Educator Award and
Farley Grubb
was one of two college faculty chosen for the 1st Lerner
College Scholar Award. The Educator Award recognizes
outstanding teaching contributions. The Scholar
Award recognizes outstanding research accomplishments.
Saul
Hoffman
was
reappointed to a second five-year term on the Research
and Effective Programs Taskforce of the National
Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy, effective May, 2006.
David Stockman,
"Balanced-Budget Rules: Cycles and Complex Dynamics,"
Invited Seminar, Department of Mathematics at Baylor
University, April 28, 2006.
Kolver
Hernandez presented
“State-Dependent
Nominal Rigidities and Disinflation Programs in Small
Open Economies,” at Drexel University April 5, 2006 and at the Open Macroeconomics and Development conference
organized by CEDERS at Aix-en-Provence, France. At the same
conference he was a discussant of the paper
“Inter-Temporal Adjustment and Fiscal Policy in a Fixed
Exchange Rate Regime” by G. Nancy, M. Aloy and B.
Moreno.
Larry Seidman, Chaplin Tyler Professor of Economics,
presented the annual Hutchinson Lecture at the
University of Delaware ,April 19, 2006. The Hutchinson
Lecture honors former UD Economics professor Harry
Hutchinson and features a talk by a prominent
macroeconomist. Seidman is the first UD professor
to give the Hutchinson lecture. His Hutchinson talk was
"Bernanke and the Fed: Predicting What He Will Do
From What He Has Written."
Jorge Soares
presented an invited talk at Indiana University on
“Borrowing Constraints, Parental Altruism and Human
Capital Accumulation,” April 6, 2006.
Farley Grubb presented a talk on “Benjamin Franklin
and the Birth of a Paper Money Economy,” at the Federal
Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, March 30, 2006. The talk
was part of the Franklin 300th birthday celebration
events.
Farley Grubb presented his paper “The Net Asset
Position of the U.S. National Government, 1784-1802:
Hamilton’s Blessing or the Spoils of War?” at the
Program Meeting of the Development of the American
Economy Group at the National Bureau of Economic
Research, Cambridge, MA, March 4, 2006.
Farley
Grubb presented an invited talk at the University of
Pennsylvania on “Population Dynamics, Income Growth, and
Education: Historic Trends in the U.S. Economy,”
February 24, 2006.
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