Christopher S. Ruebeck

Associate Professor
Lafayette College, Easton PA, USA

Education

Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
Ph.D., Economics: October, 2000
M.A., Economics: May, 1995

Stanford University, Stanford, CA
M.S., Electrical Engineering: June 1988

Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN
B.S.E.E., With Distinction: December 1986

Papers

Acting White or Acting Black: Mixed-Race Adolescents' Identity and Behavior
with Susan Averett and Howard Bodenhorn
[Abstract, HTML] [NBER working paper, PDF]
The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy 2009, 9(1) Contributions

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, PDF]
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)

Network Externalities and Standardization: A Classroom Demonstration
with Sarah Stafford, Nicola Tynan et al.
[Abstract, HTML]
Southern Economic Journal April 2003 (volume 69, issue 4)

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)

Teaching

Office Hours (Spring 2009) are 11:00-12:00 Mon, Tues, Wed, Thurs, and by appointment.

Principles of Economics, ECON101
Intermediate Microeconomics, ECON211
Industrial Organization, ECON331

Marketing Science, ECON360
Marketing Research, ECON361
Computational Simulation of Markets and Behavior, Special Topics ECON375

Students registered for these classes may use the Lafayette College Moodle site.

Employment

Member of the Department of Economics at Lafayette College, since September 2000.

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,
on MRI products that 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 as an undergraduate.

Full curriculum vita in PDF format.

More

Grants from the National Science Foundation (NSF):
Interdisciplinary work with agent-based modeling. (Principal Investigator)
Employing computational methods across disciplines. (Senior Investigator)
NSF coverage of the first grant, including a list of the 2007 awards in the Human and Social Dynamics priority area.

National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) working papers.

Not the first to use "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.

Find me ...

... 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.


Last modified: April 15, 2009.