Stanford University, Stanford, CA
M.S., Electrical Engineering: June 1988
Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN
B.S.E.E., With Distinction: December 1986
Colorism and African-American Wealth: Evidence from the Nineteenth Century South
with Howard Bodenhorn
[Abstract, HTML] [Related NBER working paper, PDF]
Journal of Population Economics 2007, 20(3) 599-620
Handedness and Earnings
with Joe Harrington and Robert Moffitt
[Abstract, HTML] [ NBER Working Paper]
Laterality: Asymmetries of Brain, Body and Cognition 2007, 12(2) 101-120
Model Exit in a Vertically Differentiated Market:
Interfirm Competition vs. Intrafirm Cannibalization in the Computer Hard Disk Drive Industry
[Abstract, HTML]
Review of Industrial Organization February 2005 (volume 26, issue 1)
Interfirm Competition, Intrafirm Cannibalization, and Product Exit in the Market for Computer Hard Disk Drives
[Abstract, HTML] [Full paper, PDF]
Economic and Social Review Spring 2002 (volume 33, issue
1)
selected papers from the 28th Annual Conference of the European Association for Research in Industrial Economics
Imitation Dynamics in the Repeated Prisoners' Dilemma: An Exploratory Example
[Abstract, HTML] [Full paper, PDF (w/subscription)]
Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization August 1999 (volume 40, issue 1)
Principles of Economics, ECON101
Intermediate Microeconomics, ECON211
Industrial Organization, ECON331
Marketing Science, ECON360 – a tentative syllabus
Marketing Research, ECON361 (next: Spring 2009)
Students registered for these classes may use the Lafayette College Moodle site.
Taught at Loyola College in Maryland (Principles of Microeconomics, Fall `98 through Spring `00) and at The Johns Hopkins University (Investment and Portfolio Management, Summers of `97 and `98), in addition to various research and teaching assistant positions while pursuing the Ph.D.
Worked in the corporate world for five years with Siemens Medical Systems, where the MRI products I helped to market are now relegated to the "Hall of Fame" or not even mentioned at all!
Spent some time inside the government at The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory between engineering degrees and at The National Security Agency in their Co-op Program during my underagraduate years.
My full curriculum vita in PDF format.
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) working papers.
Not the first use of "clickers" on campus (Amy Abruzzi and Mike Stark used them before I did), but the first to be covered in The Lafayette.
A simulation that I implemented for Joe Harrington, created with Mathematica and QuickTime.
... via email.
... in my office, Simon Center 214. That's #34 on this map (just past #32 and #33, Ruef and Keefe Halls, on South College Drive). Here are general directions to campus and specific directions to Simon Center.