Curriculum Vitae
Edward
N. Gamber
Associate
Professor of Economics
Department
of Economics and Business
Phone: 610-330-5310
Fax:
610-330-5715
Email:
gambere@lafayette.edu
Education
Virginia
Polytechnic Institute and
M.A., June 1983
Ph.D., June 1986
B.A., Economics, June 1981.
Areas
of Specialization
Macroeconomics,
Time Series Econometrics, Monetary Policy and Forecasting
Work
History
Congressional
Budget Office, Principal Analyst, Macro Analysis Division, August 1996 - August
1998
University
of Missouri - St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, Assistant Professor, August 1989-June
1992.
Federal
Reserve Bank of
Publications
Textbook:
Macroeconomics, an intermediate
macroeconomics textbook, by David C. Colander and Edward N. Gamber,
Prentice-Hall, 2002.
Refereed
Articles:
“Does International Asynchronization
Matter for the
“Has
the Rise in Globalization Reduced
“Does
the Fed Respond Lexicographically to Inflation and Unemployment Shocks?” Eastern
Economic Journal, spring 1998. (with David Hakes and Chung Hua Shen).
"Real
Wages over the Business Cycle," Eastern Economic Journal, vol. 23,
no.3, Summer 1997, pp. 277 - 91 (with Frederick L. Joutz).
"The
Federal Reserve's Response to Aggregate Demand and Aggregate Supply: Evidence
of a Political Business Cycle," Southern Economic Journal, vol. 63,
no. 3, January 1997, pp.680 - 91. (with David Hakes)
"The
Policy Content of the Yield Curve Slope," Review of Financial Economics,
vol. 5, no. 2, 1996, pp. 163 - 79.
"Empirical
Estimates of the Short-Run Aggregate Supply and Demand Curves for the Post-War
"Do
Shifts in Federal Reserve Policy Regimes Explain Interest Rate
Anomalies?" Journal of
Macroeconomics, vol. 17, no. 2, Winter 1995, pp. 227 - 240.
"The
Real Wage Implications of the Risk Sharing and Sectoral Shifts
Hypotheses," Journal of Post Keynesian Economics, vol. 16, no. 4,
summer 1994, pp. 643 - 59.
"Are
Net Discount Rates Stationary?: The Implications For Present Value
Calculations: Comment," Journal of Risk and Insurance, vol. 61, no.
3, 1994, pp. 301-512.
"The
Dynamic Effect of Aggregate Demand and Supply Disturbances: Comment," American
Economic Review, vol. 83, no. 5, December 1993, pp. 1387 - 93 (with
Frederick L. Joutz).
"An
application of Estimating Structural Vector Autoregregressions Using Long Run
Restrictions, Journal of Macroeconomics, vol. 15, no. 4, Fall 1993, pp.
723 - 45 (with Frederick L. Joutz).
"On
Testing for the Stability of the Net Discount Rate," Journal of
Forensic Economics, vol. 7, no. 1, 1993, pp. 69 - 79 (with Robert L.
Sorensen).
"Who
Insures Whom in the Labor Market," Studi Economici, vol. 47, 1992,
pp. 45 - 60.
"Does
the Federal Reserve Respond to Errant Money Growth?" Journal of Money,
Credit and Banking, vol. 24, no. 1,
February, 1992, pp. 127 - 34 (with David Hakes).
Long
Term Risk Sharing Wage Contracts in an Economy Subject to Permanent and
Temporary Shocks," Journal of Labor Economics, vol. 6, no.1,
January 1988, pp. 83 - 99.
“William
E. Simon’s Contribution to Tax Policy,” with Susan Averett and Sheila Handy, Atlantic
Economic Journal, Vol.31, no. 3, September 2003, 233-41.
"The
Economic Outlook.” The Economic and Budget Outlook: Fiscal Years 1999 - 2008,
January 1998, pp. 1-29.
"The
Economic Outlook." The Economic and Budget Outlook:an Update,
September 1997, pp. 1 - 25.
“Uncertainty
in Budget Projections.” The Economic and Budget Outlook: Fiscal Years 1998 -
2007, January 1997, pp. 49 - 57 (with James Horney).
Biography
of Walter Heller, Encyclopedia of Keynesian Economics, Edward Elgar,
"Does
the Fed Cause Christmas?" Economic Commentary, Federal Reserve Bank
of
"Why
we Don't Know Whether Money Causes Output," Economic Review,
Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, vol. 25, no.3, 1989, pp. 27 - 39 (with
Charles Carlstrom).
1978
Survey of Disability and Work Data Book, Government Printing Office, November 1982.
(with
Mordechai Lando and Richard Cutler)
Unemployment,
Hysteresis and the Natural Rate, edited by Rod Cross. Southern Economic
Journal, April 1990.
The
Theory of Economic Breakdown, by John Cornwall, Southern Economic Journal,
October, 1991.
The
Methodology of Empirical Macroeconomics by Kevin D. Hoover, Eastern Economic Journal,
forthcoming 2004.
Is Monetary Policy Important For Forecasting
Real Growth and Inflation? With David Hakes
The
Yield Curve Slope and Monetary Policy with Fred Joutz
The
Source of Bias in the Consensus Forecast with Fred Joutz
Courses Taught
Principles
of Micro and Macro
Intermediate
Micro and Macro
Macroeconomic
Policy
Money
and Banking
Math
Econ
Graduate
Forecasting
Undergraduate
Forecasting
Graduate
Macro
Graduate
Micro
Business
Cycle Analysis
Growth
Theory
First
Year Seminar on Globalization
First
Year Seminar on the Invisible Hand
Refereed for Following
Journals
Journal of
Macroeconomics
Economic Inquiry
American Economic Review
Southern Economic
Journal
Journal of Risk and
Insurance
Journal of Economic
Education
Eastern Economic Journal
Journal of Economics
Current Editorial Board
Membership
Eastern
Economic Journal
Journal
of Economics
Professional Association
Membership
American
Economic Association
Eastern
Economic Association
Awards and Grants
Earhart
Foundation Fellowship, 1985-86
Award
for the Best Dissertation in the
NSF
Instrumentation Grant to establish a computer laboratory,
Omicron
Delta Epsilon Award for overall contribution to the Department of Economics and
Business, Lafayette College, 1995-1996
Lindback
Distinguished Teaching Award, 2004
Presentations
“Long
Term Risk Sharing Wage Contracts in an Economy Subject to Permanent and
Temporary Shocks,” presented at the Southern Economic Association Meetings,
“Long
Term Risk Sharing Wage Contracts in an Economy Subject to Permanent and
Temporary Shocks,” presented at the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland Research
Department,
“Money,
Inflation and Sectoral Shifts” (with Charles Carlstrom) presented at the
Southern Economic Association Meetings,
Magnification
Effects and Acyclical Real Wages (with Charles Carlstrom) presented at the
Midwest Economic Association Meetings,
Magnification
Effects and Acyclical Real Wages (with Charles Carlstrom) presented at the
Allied Social Science Association Meetings,
"The
Real Wage Implications of the Risk Sharing and Sectoral Shifts
Hypotheses," presented at the Midwest Economic Association Meetings,
Magnification
Effects and Acyclical Real Wages (with Charles Carlstrom) presented at the
Southern Economic Association Meetings,
“The
Real Wage Response to Aggregate Demand and Supply Shocks” (with Fred Joutz)
presented at the Midwest Economic Association Meetings,
“The
Real Wage Response to Aggregate Demand and Supply Shocks” (with Fred Joutz)
presented to the George Washington University Department of Economics, Fall
1991.
"Do
Shifts in Federal Reserve Policy Regimes Explain Interest Rate Anomalies?"
(with David Hakes) presented at the Allied Social Science Meetings, January
1993.
“"The
Federal Reserve's Response to Aggregate Demand and Aggregate Supply: Evidence
of a Political Business Cycle,” (with David Hakes) Allied Social Science
Meetings,
“Real
Wages Over the Business Cycle,” presented to the Middlebury College Economics
Department, February 1994.
“Real
Wages Over the Business Cycle,” presented to The George Washington University
Economics Department, Spring 1994.
“Real
Wages Over the Business Cycle,” (with Fred Joutz) presented at the Western
Economic Association Meetings,
“Policy
Content of the Yield Curve,” presented at the Southern Economic Association
Meetings,
“Empirical
Estimates of the Short-Run Aggregate Supply and Demand Curves for the Post-War
“Does
the Fed Respond Lexicographically to Inflation and Unemployment Shocks?” (with
David Hakes) presented at the Eastern Economic Association Meetings.
“The
Economic and Budget Outlook,”
“The
Economic and Budget Outlook,” presented at the Professional Forecasters
Conference, 1997.
“The
Economic and Budget Outlook,” The
“Using
Long-Run Restrictions to Identify Structural VARs” presented to the graduate
econometrics class, The George Washington University, spring 1998.
“Has
the Rise in Globalization Reduced U.S. Inflation in the 1990s,” The Ohio State University, fall 1998.
“Has
the Rise in Globalization Reduced U.S. Inflation in the 1990s,” presented to
“Has
the Rise in Globalization Reduced
“The
Relationship Between the Fed Chair Appointment Cycle and Monetary Policy,”
(with David Hakes) presented at the Eastern Economic Association Meetings,
“Does
International Asynchronization Matter for the
“Does
International Asynchronization Matter for the
“Is
Monetary Policy Important For Forecasting Real Growth and Inflation?” (with
David Hakes) presented at the Southern Economic Association Meetings,
“Using
the Wall Street Journal in the classroom.” Presented at the
“The
Yield Curve Slope and Monetary Policy.”
(with Fred Joutz) presented at
the Southern Economic Association Meetings,
“A
Threshold Analysis of the Relationship Between Governance and Growth.” (with
Amy Scott) presented at the Southern
Economic Association Meetings,
“The
Yield Curve Slope and Monetary Policy.”
(with Fred Joutz) presented to
the Economics Department Faculty, US Naval Academy, March 2004.