Education
Awards
Teaching
Academic Committees
Dissertation Committees
Research

• Publications
• Presentations
• Working Papers

Education

University of Chicago, June 1975 - June 1978

B. A. (Mathematics), June 1978
M. S. (Mathematics), August 1978

University of California, Berkeley, September 1978 - June 1980
Graduate Studies in Mathematics

University of Chicago, September 1981 - December 1988
Ph.D. (Economics), December 1988

RESEARCH

Publications

"Increasing, Decreasing, and Negative Returns to Honesty," with Atin Basuchoudhary, to appear,  Southern Economic Journal .

"Primary and Secondary Reform," with Paul Pecorino, Economic Inquiry , October, 1998.

"Robustness of Retrieval Performance Measures Under Optimal User Behavior," with Sumali J. Conlon, Journal of the American Society for Information Science, April, 1998.

"Can More Frequent Price Changes Make Prices Sticky? Nonneutralities in a State Dependent Pricing Context," with Christina Liu, International Economic Review , November, 1997.

"Coordination and Weak Announcement Proofness: Two Comments on 'Refining Cheap Talk Equilibria,'" Journal of Economic Theory, January, 1997.

"Nestedness, Separability, Information Systems, and the Role of the Manager," with Sumali Conlon and Chi Hwang, Decision Support Systems, October, 1996.

"Cooperation for Pennies: A Note on Epsilon-Equilibria," Journal of Economic Theory, August, 1996.

"The Optimal Use of an Information Retrieval System," with Sumali J. Conlon, Journal of the American Society for Information Science, June, 1996.

"Continuous Time vs. Backwards Induction: A New Approach to Modeling Reputation in the Finite Time Horizon Context," Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, November, 1995

"A Simple Proof of a Basic Result in Nonexpected Utility Theory," Journal of Economic Theory, April, 1995.

"Can the Government Talk Cheap? Communication, Announcements, and Cheap Talk," Southern Economic Journal, October, 1993.

"Separability and Separability Flexibility of the CRESH Function,"Journal of Productivity Analysis, November, 1993.

"Unemployment, Wage Indexation and Commercial Policies," with Chi-Chur Chao, Journal of Macroeconomics, Winter, 1993.

"Attitudes Towards Race and Poverty in the Demand for Private Education: The Case of Mississippi," with Mwangi S. Kimenyi, Review of Black Political Economy, Fall, 1991.

"Quality, Measurement Errors, and Profit Function Estimation Using a Clustered Sample," Economics Letters, July, 1990, 245-48.

"Profit, Supply, and Factor Demand Functions: A Comment," American Journal of Agricultural Economics, May, 1990, 488-92.

Working Papers

"Do White Males Benefit from Antidiscrimination and Affirmative Action Policies?" Fall, 1996.

"Gang of Four Made Easy," Fall, 1996.

"Does Free Riding in Lobbying Activities Make Reform More Difficult?" with Paul Pecorino, Summer, 1996.

"Principal Elasticities of Substitution," Summer, 1990.

Presentations

"Attitudes Towards Race and Poverty in the Demand for Private Education in the South," with Mwangi S. Kimenyi, presented at the Southern Economic Association meetings, November, 1989.

"A Simple Flexible Form Generalization of the CES Production Function," presented at the Conference on Current Issues in Productivity, Rutgers, Newark, December, 1989.

"Effects of Mandatory Employer Provided Health Benefits on the Labor Market Prospects of Low-Wage Workers," Mwangi S. Kimenyi, and Lewis H. Smith, presented at the conference on labor market prospects of the poor, Madison, Wisconsin, 1990.

"Backward Induction and Reputation in a Continuous Time Model," presented at the Midwest Mathematical Economics Conference, Evanston, IL, June, 1991.

"Worker-Employer Distrust as a Source of Wage Rigidity," Western Economic Association Meetings, Seattle, July, 1991.

"Estimation of an (Almost) Globally Regular Production Function which is Flexible Form in the Three Input Case," with Norman Keith Womer, presented at the Conference on Current Issues in Productivity Analysis, Newark, December, 1991.

"Robustness of Punishment Strategies, or How to Bluff Your Way Out of a Punishment," presented at the spring Midwest Mathematical Economics Conference, East Lansing, May/June, 1992.

"Robustness of Cheap Talk with a Large Audience," presented at the North American Summer Meetings of the Econometric Society, Seattle, June, 1992.

"A Simple Proof of Dekel's Characterization of Preferences Satisfying the Betweenness Property," presented at the Southern Mathematical Economics Conference, Tuscaloosa, October, 1992.

"Cooperation for Pennies: A Note on Epsilon-Equilibria," presented at the Spring Midwest Mathematical Economics Conference, Lexington, May, 1993.

"Learning by Doing and the Search for Knowledge," with N. Keith Womer, presented at the TIMS/ORSA meetings, Chicago, May, 1993.

"Manipulation Through Truthful Revelation," presented at the Southern Mathematical Economics Conference, Duke University, October, 1993.

"Coordination and Weak Announcement Proofness: A Comment on 'Refining Cheap Talk,'" Southern Economic Theory Conference, October, 1994.

"Fixed Land, Fluid Capital and the Coercion of Labor: The Case of Postbellum Black Employment," with Jon Moen, presented at the Social Science History meetings in Atlanta, October, 1994.

"Increasing, Decreasing, and Negative Returns to Honesty," with Atin Basuchoudhary, presented at the Southern Economic Association Conference, November, 1994.

"Cooperation in Repeated Prisoners' Dilemmas Made Easy," presented at the Southern Economic Theory Conference, October, 1995.

"Do Informed Firms Cheat More?" with Atin Basuchoudhary, presented at the Southern Economic Association Conference, November, 1995.

"Thinking and Experiencing: Empathy as a Reflection of Rationality and Some Implications," presented at the Winter Meetings of the Econometric Society, San Francisco, January, 1996.

"A Flexible Generalization of the CES Functional Form with Applications to Monetary Data and a Test for Separability," with Bob Dorsey and Kieth Womer, presented at the Ole Miss Conference on Money, Measurement, and Computation, Spring, 1996.

"Corruption and Drivers' Licenses: Citizen Complaints as a Source of Information," with Atin Basuchoudhary, presented at the Southern Economic Association Conference, November, 1996.

"Do Informed Firms Cheat More?" with Atin Basuchoudhary, presented at the Fall Midwest Mathematical Economics Conference, Washington University in St. Louis, October, 1996.

Teaching

Assistant Professor, Department of Economics and Finance, University of Mississippi,
August 1987 - 1994; Associate Professor, 1995 - present

Instructor, Department of Mathematics, University of Chicago,
September 1984 - August 1985, June 1986 - August 1986

Instructor, Department of Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley,
September 1979 - May 1980

Dissertation Committees

Atin Basuchoudhary, "Essays on Collusion in the Presence of Uncertainty," University of Mississippi, in progress.

Liyong Yiet, "Stochastic Dominance Analysis with Kernel Smoothing," University of Mississippi, in progress.

Academic Committees

Field Examination Committees:

International Economics (Chair)
International Finance
Economic Theory and its History
Econometrics
Preliminary Examination

Awards

William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition, placed 24th in country, 1976

Milton Friedman Fund, University of Chicago, 1981-82

Earhart Foundation Fellowship, 1982-83

University of Mississippi School of Business Administration Outstanding Publication
Award -- 1993

University of Mississippi School of Business Administration Outstanding Teacher
Award -- 1994

University of Mississippi School of Business Administration Outstanding Publication
Award --1996

University of Mississippi School of Business Administration Outstanding Publication
Award --1997