Education:
Ph.D., Agricultural and Applied Economics, University of Minnesota, 1980
B.S., Economics, University of Minnesota, 1973
Courses Taught:
Eco 110 Microeconomics and Public Policy
Eco 120 Global Macroeconomics
Eco 303 Industrial Organization
Eco 305 Intermediate Macroeconomic Analysis
Eco 307 Introduction to Econometrics, Forecasting, And Time Series
Eco 310 Managerial Economics
Eco 346 Environmental and Resource Economics
Eco 710 Managerial Economics
Eco 712 Business Fluctuations
Independent Study (Agricultural Economics, Mathematical Economics)
Current Research:
A Tale of Two Teams: A Comparison of the Cubs and Sox in Chicago by Keith Sherony and Glenn Knowles (submitted for publication)
Is the Dropout Decision Influenced by School Choice or Graduation Standards? (working paper - presented at the Midwest Economics Association meetings in 2008)
Factors Influencing School Choice in Minnesota’s Open Enrollment Policy (working paper - presented at the Midwest Economics Association meetings in 2007)
Efficiency Issues in Minnesota’s Open Enrollment Policy (working paper - presented at the Midwest Economics Association meetings in 2006)
Equity Issues in the State of Minnesota School Finance (working paper - presented at the Midwest Economics Association meetings in 2005)
Economics of Sports
“Shirking
in Major League Baseball in the Era of the Reserve Clause,” with J. Murray, K.
Sherony, and M. Haupert. (working
paper)
Selected
Publications:
“Competitive
Balance in Major League Baseball: Back to the Future,” with K. Sherony and M.
Haupert. Nine: A Journal of
Baseball History and Culture, Vol. 9, Nos. 1&2, Spring 2001.
“The
Demand for Major League Baseball: A Test of the Uncertainty of Outcome
Hypothesis,” with K. Sherony and M. Haupert.
The American Economist, Vol. 36, No. 2, 1992.
“Restriction’s
on Allen’s Arc Elasticity of Demand: Time to Consider the Alternative,” with
l. Daellenbach, A.W. Khandker, and K. Sherony.
The American Economist, Vol. 35. No. 2, 1991.
“Farmers’
Utility Functions,” with C. Hildreth, in Bayesian Inference and Decision
Techniques: Essays in Honor of Bruno de Finetti, edited by P.K. Goel and A.
Zellner, North-Holland, 1986.
“Some
Econometric Problems in the Measurement of Utility.” American Journal of
Agricultural Economics, Vol. 66, No. 4, November, 1984.
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