Curriculum Vitae

 

Edward N. Gamber

Associate Professor of Economics

Department of Economics and Business

Lafayette College

Easton, PA 18042

 

Phone:  610-330-5310

Fax: 610-330-5715

Email: gambere@lafayette.edu

 

 

Education

 

Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia.

            M.A., June 1983

            Ph.D., June 1986

 

Towson State University, Towson Maryland. 

            B.A., Economics, June 1981.

 

 

Areas of Specialization

       

Macroeconomics, Time Series Econometrics, Monetary Policy and Forecasting

 

Work History

 

Lafayette College, Easton, PA, Associate Professor, September 1996 - Present.

 

Congressional Budget Office, Principal Analyst, Macro Analysis Division, August 1996 - August 1998

 

Lafayette College, Easton, PA, Assistant Professor, September 1992 - 1996.

 

University of Missouri - St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, Assistant Professor, August 1989-June 1992.

 

Oberlin College, Oberlin Oh, Assistant Professor, August 1986-June 1989.

 

Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, Visiting Economist, Summer 1988, Summer 1989.

 

 

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 U.S. Business Cycle?” Economic Inquiry, forthcoming, 2004 (with Juann Hung)

 

“Has the Rise in Globalization Reduced U.S. Inflation in the 1990s?” Economic Inquiry, January 2001, pp. 58-73 (with Juann Hung).

 

“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 U.S. Economy," Southern Economic Journal, 1996, vol. 62, no. 4, pp. 856 - 72.

 

"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.

 

Other Publications

 

“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, London (1995)

 

"Does the Fed Cause Christmas?" Economic Commentary, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, January 1, 1989, pp. 1 - 5 (with Charles Carlstrom).

 

"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)

 

Book Reviews

 

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.

 

Submitted Papers

 

Is Monetary Policy Important For Forecasting Real Growth and Inflation? With David Hakes

 

The Taylor Rule and the Appointment Cycle of the Chairperson of the Federal Reserve with David Hakes

                       

A Threshold Analysis of the Relationship Between Governance and Growth with Amy Scott

 

Works in Progress

 

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 College of Business, 1986

 

NSF Instrumentation Grant to establish a computer laboratory, University of MissouriSt. Louis, co-PI:  Susan Feigenbaum, 1991

 

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, New Orleans, LA., November 1986.

 

“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, Cleveland, OH., April 1987.

 

“Money, Inflation and Sectoral Shifts” (with Charles Carlstrom) presented at the Southern Economic Association Meetings, Washington, D.C., November 1988.

 

Magnification Effects and Acyclical Real Wages (with Charles Carlstrom) presented at the Midwest Economic Association Meetings, Cincinnati, OH., March 1989.

 

Magnification Effects and Acyclical Real Wages (with Charles Carlstrom) presented at the Allied Social Science Association Meetings, Atlanta, GA., January 1990.

 

"The Real Wage Implications of the Risk Sharing and Sectoral Shifts Hypotheses," presented at the Midwest Economic Association Meetings, Chicago, IL, March 1990.

 

Magnification Effects and Acyclical Real Wages (with Charles Carlstrom) presented at the Southern Economic Association Meetings, San Antonio, TX., November 1990.

 

“The Real Wage Response to Aggregate Demand and Supply Shocks” (with Fred Joutz) presented at the Midwest Economic Association Meetings, St. Louis, MO., March 1991.

 

“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, Boston, MA, January 1994.

 

“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, Vancouver, BC, July 1994.

 

“Policy Content of the Yield Curve,” presented at the Southern Economic Association Meetings, New Orleans, LA.

 

“Empirical Estimates of the Short-Run Aggregate Supply and Demand Curves for the Post-War U.S. Economy,” Western Economic Association Meetings, San Diego, CA, July 1995.

 

“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,” Middlebury College, November 1997.

 

“The Economic and Budget Outlook,” presented at the Professional Forecasters Conference, 1997.

 

“The Economic and Budget Outlook,” The George Washington University, Spring 1998.

 

“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 Rutgers University (Newark Campus) economics faculty, fall 1998.

 

“Has the Rise in Globalization Reduced U.S. Inflation in the 1990s,” Eastern Economic Association Meetings, March 1999.

 

“The Relationship Between the Fed Chair Appointment Cycle and Monetary Policy,” (with David Hakes) presented at the Eastern Economic Association Meetings, New York City, February 2001.

 

“Does International Asynchronization Matter for the U.S. Business Cycle?” (with Juann Hung) presented at the University of Delaware, Department of Economics, November 2002.

 

“Does International Asynchronization Matter for the U.S. Business Cycle?” (with Juann Hung) presented at the Southern Economic Association Meetings, Tampa, FL, November 2002.

 

“Is Monetary Policy Important For Forecasting Real Growth and Inflation?” (with David Hakes) presented at the Southern Economic Association Meetings, New Orleans, LA., November 2002.

 

 

“Using the Wall Street Journal in the classroom.”  Presented at the Academy of Business Disciplines conference, Ft. Myers, FL, November 2003.

 

“The Yield Curve Slope and Monetary Policy.”  (with Fred Joutz)  presented at the Southern Economic Association Meetings, San Antonio, TX, November 2003.

 

“A Threshold Analysis of the Relationship Between Governance and Growth.” (with Amy Scott)  presented at the Southern Economic Association Meetings, San Antonio, TX, November 2003.

 

“The Yield Curve Slope and Monetary Policy.”  (with Fred Joutz)  presented to the Economics Department Faculty, US Naval Academy, March 2004.