Argys, Laura M.

Professor
Ph.D., University of Colorado, 1993
Department Chair

Prof. Argys's Vita

laura.argys@ucdenver.edu

(303) 556-3949

www.econ.cudenver.edu/argys/

Economic Demography, Labor Economic, and Public Finance

“Searching for Peer Group Effects: A Test of the Contagion Hypothesis,” (with D. I. Rees), Forthcoming, Review of Economics and Statistics.

"Economic Incentives and Foster Care Placement," (with B. J. Duncan), Southern Economic Journal, 2007, 74:1, pp. 114-142.

"Birth Order and Risky Adolescent Behavior," (with D. I. Rees, S. L. Averett and B. Witoonchart), Economic Inquiry, 2006, 44:2, pp. 215-233.

"Legislating Love: The Effect of Paternity, Child Support and Welfare Policies on Father-Child Contact," (with H. E. Peters, H. W. Howard and J. S. Butler), The Review of Economics of the Household, 2004, 2:3, pp. 255-274.

"Who Shall Live and Who Shall Die: An Examination of Racial Disparities Among Death Row Inmates," (with H. N. Mocan), Journal of Legal Studies, 2004, 33:2, pp. 255-282.

"Can Adequate Child Support be Legislated?  A Model of Responses to Child Support Guidelines and Enforcement Efforts," (with H. Elizabeth Peters), Economic Inquiry, July 2003, 41:3, pp. 463-479.

 "The Impact of Government Policies and Neighborhood Characteristics on Teenage Sexual Activity and Contraceptive Use," (with S. L. Averett and D. I. Rees), The American Journal of Public Health, November 2002, pp. 1773-1778.

"Interactions between Unmarried Fathers and Their Children: The Role of Paternity Establishment and Child Support Policies" (with H. E. Peters), 2001, American Economic Review 91(2): 125-129.

"Can the Family Support Act Put Some Life Back into Deadbeat Dads?  An Analysis of Child Support Guidelines, Award Rates and Levels" (with H. E. Peters and D. M. Waldman), 2001, Journal of Human Resources 36:2, pp. 226-252.

Beckman, Steve R.

Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of California at Davis, 1982
 

Prof. Beckman's Vita

steven.beckman@ucdenver.edu

(303) 556-3048

www.econ.cudenver.edu/beckman/

International Economics, Macroeconomics, and Monetary Economics

"Envy, Malice and Pareto Efficiency: An Experimental Examination," (w/ John Formby and James Smith), 2002, Social Choice and Welfare, 19:2, pp. 1773-1778.

“Forecasters as imperfect information processors: Experimental and survey evidence,” (w/ David Downs), 1997, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 32:89-100.

“A Rational Foundation for ‘Wishful’ Exchange Rate Forecasts,” 1994, International Review of Economics and Finance, 3:361-372.

“Positively Sloping Marginal Revenue,” 1993, Southern Economic Journal, 60:297-303

“The surprising arithmetic of imperfectly competitive trade,” 1992, Journal of Economic Education 23:333-339.

Duncan, Brian J.

Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of California at Santa Barbara, 1998
Graduate Advisor (Admissions)

Prof. Duncan's Vita

brian.duncan@ucdenver.edu

(303) 556-6763

www.econ.cudenver.edu/bduncan

Public Economics, Philanthropy, Nonprofit Economics, and Econometrics

“Secret Santa Reveals the Secret Side of Giving: Negative Externalities,” forthcoming, Economic Inquiry.

“Economic Incentives and Foster Care Placement,” (with Laura Argys), Southern Economic Journal, 2007, 74:1, pp. 114-142.

“Using Municipal Residency Requirements to Disguise Public Policy,” 2005, Public Finance Review 33(1), pp. 84-116.

“A Theory of Impact Philanthropy,” 2004, Journal of Public Economics 88(9-10), pp. 2159-2180.

“Pumpkin Pies and Public Goods: The Raffle Fundraising Strategy”, 2002, Public Choice, 111(1-2) pp. 49-71.

“Modeling Charitable Contributions of Time and Money”, 1999, Journal of Public Economics 72(2).
 

Hsiao, Mei-chu W.

Professor
Ph.D., University of Rochester, 1967

Prof. Hsiao's Vita

mei-chu.hsiao@ucdenver.edu

(303) 556-8322

Econometrics, Mathematical Economics, and Economic Development

 
“Taiwan in the Global Economy – Past, Present, and Future,” forthcoming in Taiwan’s Modernization in Global Perspective, ed. by Peter Chow, Greenwood Press, March 2002 (with F.S.T. Hsiao). 

“Capital Flows and Exchange Rates – Recent Korean and Taiwanese Experience and Challenges,” forthcoming in Journal of Asian Economics, 12, Fall, 2001 (with F.S.T. Hsiao).

“International Policy Coordination with a Dominant Player - The Cases of the United States, Japan, Taiwan, and Korea,” Journal of Asian Economics, Vol.6, No.1, Spring, 1995, pp.29-52 (with F.S.T. Hsiao).

“Monetary Policy Coordination between Large and Small Countries: An Empirical Study,” Journal of Economic Development, Vol. 19, No. 2 (lead article), December 1994, pp. 7-46 (with F.S.T. Hsiao).

“Tests of Causality and Exogeneity between Exports and Economic Growth: The Case of Asian NICs,” Journal of Economic Development, Vol. 12, No. 2, December 1987, pp. 143-159. 
 

Lin, Shu

Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of Oklahoma, 2005

Prof. Lin's Vita

shu.lin@ucdenver.edu

 www.econ.cudenver.edu/lin

Macro and Monetary Economics, International Finance, Applied Econometrics

"Does inflation targeting really make a difference? Evaluating the treatment effect of inflation targeting in seven industrial countries," (with Haichun Ye), Journal of Monetary Economics, November 2007 Vol. 54 (8).

"Does it pay to go to the corners? An empirical evaluation of the bipolar view of exchange rate regimes," Economics Letters, 2006 Vol. 92(3): 342-347.

"A monte carlo evaluation of the efficiency of the PCSE estimator," (with Xiujian Chen and W. Robert Reed), Forthcoming, Applied Economics Letters.

"On the international effects of inflation targeting" Forthcoming, The Review of Economics and Statistics.

"Does inflation targeting make a difference in developing countries?" (with Haichun Ye), Forthcoming, Journal of Development Economics.

"Dollarization does promote trade," (with Haichun Ye), Revise and Resubmit, Journal of International Money and Finance.

"Speculative attacks and defenses as wars of attrition," (with Kevin Grier). Revise and Resubmit, European Journal of Political Economy.
 

Medema, Steve G.

Professor
Ph.D., Michigan State University, 1989 
Editor Journal of History of Economic Thought
Undergraduate Advisor

Prof. Medema's Vita

steven.medema@ucdenver.edu

(303) 556-8511

www.econ.cudenver.edu/medema

History of Economic Thought, Law and Economics Public Economics, and Microeconomics 

The History of Economic Thought: A Reader (edited with Warren J. Samuels). London: Routledge, 2003.

“The Economic Role of Government in the History of Economic Thought,” in Jeff Biddle, John B. Davis, and Warren J. Samuels, eds., The Blackwell Companion to the History of Economic Thought. Oxford: Blackwell, 2003.

“ ‘Related Disciplines’: The Professionalization of Public Choice Analysis.” History of Political Economy 32 (2000): 289-323.

“Legal Fiction: The Place of the Coase Theorem in Law and Economics,” Economics and Philosophy 15 (October 1999): 209-33.

Economics and the Law: From Posner to Postmodernism (with Nicholas Mercuro). Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1997. Second edition forthcoming, 2004.

Rees, Daniel I.

Associate Professor
Ph.D., Cornell University, 1989
Graduate Advisor 

Prof. Rees's  Vita

daniel.rees@ucdenver.edu

(303) 556-3348

Labor Economics, Health Economics, and the Economics of Education

Smith, James W.

Chancellor's Professor
Ph.D., University of Colorado, 1976

Prof. Smith's Vita

jim.smith@ucdenver.edu

(303) 556-3950

 www.econ.cudenver.edu/smith

Monetary Economics, Public Finance, Income Inequality and Poverty 

 
"Mobility Measurement, Transition Matrices and Statistical Inference," (w/ John P. Formby and Buhong Zheng), Journal of Econometrics 120 (2004), 181-205. 

"Envy, Malice and Pareto Efficiency: An Experimental Examination" (w/ John Formby and Steve Beckman), Social Choice and Welfare 19 (2002), 349-367.

“The Coefficient of Variation, Stochastic Dominance and Inequality: A New Interpretation”, (w/ John Formby and Buhong Zheng), Economics Letters 62 (1999), 319-323.

“Credit Rationing and Race in Mortgage Lending in the United States,” (w/ Naci Mocan and Bill Tevebaugh), 1997, pp 1337-1342.

Ye, Haichun

Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of Oklahoma, 2007

Prof. Ye's Vita

haichun.ye@ucdenver.edu

 www.econ.cudenver.edu/ye

Time Series, Macroeconomics, Monetary Economics, International Finance.

"Does inflation targeting really make a difference? Evaluating the treatment effect of inflation targeting in seven industrial countries," (with Shu Lin), Journal of Monetary Economics, Vol. 54(8), 2007.

"Twin sons of different mothers: the long and the short of the twin deficits debate," (with Kevin Grier), Economic Inquiry, forthcoming.

"Does inflation targeting really make a difference in developing countries?" (with Shu Lin), Forthcoming, Journal of Development Economics.

"Dollarization does promote trade," (with Shu Lin), Revise and Resubmit, Journal of International Money and Finance.

"A Monte Carlo evaluation of some common panel data estimators when serial correlation and cross-sectional dependence are both presented," (with W. Robert Reed), Revise and Resubmit, Applied Economics.

 

Zheng, Buhong

Professor
Ph.D., West Virginia University, 1993

Co-Editor: Social Choice and Welfare; Associate Editor: Journal of Economic Inequality; Department Seminar Coordinator

Prof. Zheng's Vita

buhong.zheng@ucdenver.edu

(303) 556-8375

www.econ.cudenver.edu/zheng
 

"Unit-Consistent Poverty Indices," Economic Theory 31 (April 2007).

"Utility-Gap Dominance and Inequality Orderings," Social Choice and Welfare 28 (February 2007).

"Mobility Measurement, Transition Matrices and Statistical Inference," with W. James Smith and John P. Formby, Journal of Econometrics 120 (2004).  Computer programs

"Testing Lorenz Curves with Non-Simple Random Samples," Econometrica (May 2002).

"Statistical Inference for Poverty Measures with Relative Poverty Lines," Journal of Econometrics 101 (February 2001).

"Minimum Distribution-Sensitivity, Poverty Aversion and Poverty Orderings," Journal of Economic Theory 95 (November 2000).

Hurst, Kyle

Instructor
M.A., Baylor University

kyle.hurst@ucdenver.edu

(303) 352-3697

Kellogg, Russell

Instructor
M.A., University of Colorado at Denver

russell.kellogg@ucdenver.edu

(303) 556-4354

Witoonchart, Benjama

Instructor
M.A., University of Colorado at Denver, 2001.
M.S., National Institute of Development Administration, Thailand, 1990.

benjama.witoonchart@ucdenver.edu

(303) 556-4413

www.econ.cudenver.edu/kwan/

"Birth Order and Risky Adolescent Behavior" (with Laura M. Argys, Susan L. Averett and Daniel I. Rees). Economic Inquiry, 2006, Vol. 44, No. 2, pp. 215-233.
 

Helburn, Suzanne

Professor Emeritus
Ph.D., Indiana University

Prof.Helburn's Vita

snhelburn@comcast.net     

(303) 443-2408

(303) 443-2195

www.americaschildcareproblem.com
 

America’s Child Care Problem: The Way Out, with Barbara R. Bergmann. New York: Palgrave (for St. Martin’s Press, 2002.

"The Silent Crisis in U. S. Child Care", special editor, The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Vol. 563, May 1999.

Cost, Quality, and Child Outcomes in Child Care Centers: Technical Report, editor. Denver, CO: Center for Research on Economic and Social Policy, University of Colorado at Denver, 1995.

“Child Care Center Quality Differences: The Role of Profit Status, Client Preferences, and Trust,” Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Vol 29, no. 3, September 2000, p. 377-399.

“Marshall and Keynes on Rational (Ethical) Economic Man,” in Methodology, Microeconomics and Keynes: Essays in Honour of Victoria Chick, Vol. 2. Philip Arestis, Meghnad Desai, and Sheila Dow, eds. London and New York: Routledge, 2002, p. 113-124. 
 

Morris, John R.

Professor Emeritus
Ph.D., Purdue University

morrisrj2@earthlink.com

Lukvec, Christine A.

Program Assistant
BS, Metropolitan State College of Denver, 2002

christine.lukvec@ucdenver.edu

(303) 556-4413

Bauer, Carolyn

Managing Editor
Journal of the History of Economic Thought

carolyn.bauer@ucdenver.edu