David
Stockman, "Expected Utility
in Economic Models with Backward
Dynamics," Invited Mathematics Colloquium,
Department of Mathematics,
University of Richmond, January 19,
2009 and Department of Mathematics,
Lamar University, February 3, 2009.
Graduate Student
Jim Markham
presented a paper at the annual
Frontiers of Finance Conference held
in Ambergris Caye, Belize from
December 14-17, 2008. Markham
defended his PhD dissertation in
October, 2009.
Richard
Agnello
presented "Prices for
Paintings by African American
Artists" at the Southern Economic
Association Meetings, Washington,
DC, Nov. 21-23, 2008. He also served
as a discussant on a session on
Economics of the Arts.
Eleanor
Craig
moderated and organized the
session on "Fiscal Policy & Senior
Citizens: Location, Retirement,
Homeownership and Pensions." at the
National Tax Association
Meetings, November,
2008.
Laurence Seidman
and Kenneth Lewis,
“Practical Problems
Confronting a Carbon Tax or Permit
Treaty,” National Tax Association
Meetings, November, 2008.
Kenneth Lewis and
Laurence Seidman , “A
Surtax on High-Income Households on
the 1040: Consumption vs. Income,”
National Tax Association Meetings,
November, 2008.
David Stockman,
"Basins and SRB Measures for Inverse
Limit Spaces," American Mathematical
Society Conference, University of
Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville,
AL, October 24-26, 2008.
Saul Hoffman
participated in a panel session in
Chicago, October 23 on "The Real
Costs of Teen Motherhood" as part of
the Thursday's Child Policy Forum on
American's Children and Youth,
co-sponsored by the Urban Institute
and Chapin Hall, University of
Chicago.
Farley Grubb,
“The Distribution of Congressional
Spending during the American
Revolution, 1775-1780: The Problem
of Geographic Balance,” at the
Conference on the Spending of the
States. Military Expenditure during
the Long Eighteenth Century:
Patterns, Organizations, and
Consequences, 1650-1815, sponsored
by the Universidad de Las Palmas de
Gran Canaria, Spain, Sept. 8-10.
Eleanor
Craig
has been appointed to the Board of
Directors of SunTrust Bank
Delaware-Based Affiliates.
David
Stockman,
"SRB Measures for Inverse Limits,"
Invited Probability Seminar,
Department of Mathematical Sciences,
University of Delaware, September 5,
2008.
Graduate students
Laura Cojocaru, Leo-Rey Gordon,
and Stela Stefanova attended
the third Lindau Nobel Laureate
Meeting in Economic Sciences in
Germany Aug. 20-23. The students
were selected by the National
Science Foundation to be among the
300 students worldwide to attend
this prestigious meeting. Speakers
included George Akerlof, Robert
Aumann, Clive Granger, Daniel
McFadden, John Nash, Edmund Phelps,
and Joseph Stiglitz among others. To
read the UDaily article on the three
students, click
here. For more on the Lindau
conference, click
here.
Bonnie
Meszaros served as co-faculty
for the National Council on Economic
Education’s Training of Writers
program in Mexico City from August
13-19. The program teaches the
development of active-learning
economic lessons for grades K-12
using a variety of instructional
strategies and provides participants
with intense writing practice,
feedback, and guidance in improving
writing skills. 8 US K-12 teachers
and 14 university professors or
representatives from departments of
education from South Africa, Jordan,
Indonesia, Egypt, and Paraguay
participated.
Graduate student
Stela Stefanova, "Complements
and Meat Demand in the U.S." at the
American Agricultural Economics
Association (AAEA) annual meetings
July 27-29, 2008, Orlando, FL. The
paper is coauthored with Christopher
Davis and William Hahn, Economic
Research Service, USDA ,and Steven
Yen, University of Tennessee.
Stefanova also won the First
Place award in the AAEA annual
poster competition for "Factors
Affecting U.S. Cheese Consumption,"
co-authored with Christopher Davis,
Don Blayney, Biing-Hwan Lin,
Economic Research Service, USDA.
David
Stockman, "Chaos and
Differential Inclusions," Invited
Seminar, Department of Mathematics,
Baylor University, July 25, 2008.
Kent
Messer
(with co-authors) “The Effect of New
Choices on Consumers’ Perceptions
and Willingness-to-Pay for Milk” and
“Expiration Dates and Stigma: Why
Don’t We Observe Hedonic Markets for
Perishable Products?” American
Agricultural Economics Association,
Orlando, Florida, July 2008; and
“An Experimental Analysis of
Modifications to the Centralized
Milk Quota Exchange System in Quebec.”
Northeastern Agricultural and
Resource Economics Association,
Quebec City, Quebec, June 2008.
William Latham,
“Domestic Innovation and Chinese
Regional Growth, 1991-2004,”
Tinbergen
Conference, Amsterdam June, 2008.
Joe Daniel,
"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. The paper is joint with
former UD grad student Katharine
Harback.
Farley
Grubb, “Land Policy: Founding
Choices and Outcomes, 1781-1803” at
the National Bureau of Economic
Research, Cambridge, MA, July 10,
2008.
Charles
Link,
"Multimedia as a Presentation Tool,”
UD Summer Faculty IT Institute, June
6, 2008 and with graduate student
Katherine McCann, "Dental Care
Expenditures and the Probability of
Dental Insurance Coverage," 2nd
Biennial Conference of the American
Society of Health Economists Paper,
June 24, 2008.
Jeff Miller
and George Irvine 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, “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, “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,
"Euler Equation Branching" at the Midwest
Macro Meetings at the University of
Pennsylvania, May 8-10, 2008.
David Stockman,
"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,"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 “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 “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 "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.
J orge 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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