COURSE
HOMEPAGES:
Other courses at UNR have
included:
- ECON
103: Principles of Macroeconomics
- HON
220: Introduction to Economic Theory and Policy
- Intermediate Price
Theory
- International
Economics
- Future Development
- Market Reform and
Transition in Socialist Economies
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GOOD
SOURCES FOR ECONOMIC
DATA AND INFORMATION:
For the
United States:
For other countries:
Gene Shackman, of the Global
Social Change Research Project, has a long list of economic, social,
and
political data here.
For Economic Research, see:
Newspapers:
The UNR library has:
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Papers Presented:
Parker,
E., & J. Thornton, "Fiscal centralization and decentralization
in Russia and China." Presented at the Allied
Social Science
Associations (ASSA) meetings in Chicago (Jan. 2007).
Cargill,
T.F., & E. Parker,
"Price deflation and policy response: A comparative view of
Japan,
China, and the United States." Presented at Claremont McKenna
College
(Apr. 2003) -- PDF.
Parker, E., & M. Pingle,
"The distributional effects of selection in an optimal growth
model."
Presented at the Western Economic Association International Meetings in
Seattle (July 2002).
Cargill,
T., & E. Parker,
"Asian finance and the role of bankruptcy: A model of the transition
costs
of financial liberalization." Presented at the University of
California,
Davis (May 2001) and the West Coast Japan Economic Seminar, University
of California, Santa Cruz (June 2001) -- PDF.
Parker, E., "Firm governance
and the Chinese stock market." Presented at the Allied Social
Science
Associations (ASSA) meetings in Boston (Jan. 2000).
Parker, E., & J.G. Wen,
"The Asian Financial Crisis and the lessons for
globalization." Presented
at the ASSA meetings in Boston (Jan. 2000).
Cargill,
T., & E. Parker,
"Financial liberalization and crisis in Japan and Korea: Lessons for
China."
Presented in an AEA session of the annual meetings of the ASSA, New
York
(Jan. 1999).
Parker,
E., "Are wage increases
in Chinese state industry efficient? A study of productivity in the
Nanjing
machine building industry." Presented at the annual meetings
of the
Western Economic Association, Seattle (July 1997).
Parker, E., & J. Wendel,
"Induced inefficiency as a response to the union threat."
Presented
at the annual meetings of the Western Social Science Association, Reno
(April 1996).
Parker,
E., "The effect of
scale on the response to reform by Chinese construction
units." Presented
at the annual meetings of the Allied Social Science Associations, San
Francisco
(January 1996).
Parker,
E., "Schumpeterian
Creative Destruction and the growth of Chinese enterprises."
Presented
at the annual meeting of the Chinese Economists Society, University of
Chicago (August 1994).
Parker,
E., "The Socialist
Market Economy and the state-owned enterprise," translated into Chinese
as "Guoyou qiye he
Shehuizhuyi Shichang Jingji." Presented at the
Hopkins-Nanjing University Center (May 1994).
Parker, E., "Changes in enterprise
structure in the U.S., Eastern Europe, and China," translated into
Chinese
as "Meiguo he qita dichu
qiye jiegou de biandong de bijiao yanjiu."
Presented to the Nanjing Machine-Building Bureau Entrepreneurs (January
1994).
Parker,
E., "Convergence
as a response to economic reform: An application to Chinese
state-owned
construction enterprises." Presented at the annual meeting of the
Western
Economic Association, Lake Tahoe (June 1993).
Academic papers presented
by coauthors:
Cargill,
T.F., & E. Parker,
"How can the Bank of Japan contribute to Japan's economic
recovery?"
Presented by T.F. Cargill at the Southern Methodist University Asian
Studies
Symposium, Dallas (April 2004).
Parker,
E., & J. Wendel,
"WHO's Assessment of health care industry performance: Rating the
rankings."
Presented by J. Wendel at the Athens Institute for Education and
Research
conference on Health Economics and Health Management, Athens, Greece
(May
2002).
Cargill,
T.F., & E. Parker,
"Japanese economic structures and finance: Characteristics and causes
of
the current slowdown." Presented by T.F. Cargill at Saint
Marys University,
Halifax, Nova Scotia (May 2002).
Litvak,
A.I., M. Paterson,
E. Parker, O.S. Pentsak, A.I. Pilyavsky, and J. Wendel, "Identifying
efficiently
operated hospitals in Ukraine." Presented by A.I. Pilyavsky
at the
7th Slovak Polish Ukrainian Czech Scientific Seminar in Svatay Jur,
Slovakia
(Nov. 2000).
Bhattacharyya,
A., &
E. Parker, "Labor productivity and migration in Chinese agriculture: A
stochastic frontier approach." Presented at the annual meetings of the
Western Social Science Association, Reno (April 1996).
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MISCELLANEOUS
LINKS:
  Past
Co-Editor of China Economic Review, and
creator of their original
website (with the help of Michele Schochet).
- publisher's
website
- editors'
original website |
Past
Chairman of the Board of Directors for the Northern
Nevada International Center (formerly the International
Resource Center
of Northern Nevada).
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Webmaster for the Department
of Economics. I also served on the committees to
redesign the website
for the University and the College of
Business,
which now maintains the department website.
Advisor
for the International
Business Major,
and creator of its original website.
Past
Faculty Advisor for the Economics
Club / Omicron Delta Epsilon, and creator of their website.
Webmaster
for the Reno
Friends Meeting
(also known as the Quakers).
MHV
Industries - An Introduction to Basic Evaluation and Decision
Making
(see also the lecture
for ENGR 491).
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(left
to
right) Shayne Del Cohen,
Nevada Griffin, Larry Struve, Elliott Parker, Attorney General Frankie
Sue Del Papa, Ambassador Hume Horan, Elena Bubnova, and Carina Black,
at
the Northern Nevada International Center's 2002 Global Gala. |
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ACADEMIC
PUBLICATIONS:
(with downloadable PDFs)
Journal Articles:
Guerrero, F., & E. Parker (2012), "The effect of federal
government size on long-term economic growth in the United States,
1791-2009," Modern Economy
3(8): 949-957. [Download]
Parker, E. (2011), "Will
history repeat itself?
Nevada's economy after the crash," The
Nevada Review. 3(1): 4-17. [Download]
Parker, E., & J. Thornton (2007), "Fiscal
centralization and decentralization in Russia and China," Comparative Economic Studies
49(4): 514-42. [Download]
Guerrero, F., & E. Parker (2006),
"Deflation and recession: Finding the empirical link," Economics
Letters
93(1): 12-17. [Download]
Parker,
E.,
& M. Pingle (2006),
"The distributional effects of selection and capital accumulation on
firm
productivity under imperfect capital markets," Empirical
Economics 31(3):
677-97. [Download]
Guerrero, F., & E. Parker
(2006), "Deflation, recession, and slowing growth: Finding
the empirical
links," ICFAI Journal of Monetary Economics 4(1):
37-49. [Download]
Cargill, T.F., & E. Parker
(2005), "Economic and financial reform: Alternatives for North Korea," North
Korean Review 1(1): 5-22. [Download]
Cargill, T.F., & E. Parker
(2004), "Price deflation and consumption: Central bank policy and
Japan's
economic and financial stagnation," Journal of Asian
Economics 15(3):
493-506. [Download]
Cargill, T.F., & E. Parker
(2004), "Price deflation, money demand, and monetary policy
discontinuity:
A comparative view of Japan, China, and the United States," North
American
Journal of Economics and Finance
15(1): 25-147. [Download]
Cargill, T.F., & E. Parker
(2003), "Why deflation is different," Central Banking
14(1): 35-42. [Download]
(The above article was also published
in the 2003
Report
of the Symposium on Building the Financial System of the 21st
Century:
An Agenda for Japan and the United States, Harvard Law
School, Program
on International Financial Systems.)
Cargill,
T.F., & E. Parker
(2002), "Asian finance and the role of bankruptcy: A model of the
transition
costs of financial liberalization," Journal of Asian
Economics 13(3):
297-318. [Download]
Banks, D., E. Parker, &
J. Wendel (2001), "Strategic interaction among hospitals and nursing
facilities:
The efficiency effects of payment systems and vertical integration," Health
Economics 10(2): 119-134. [Download]
Cargill, T.F., & E. Parker
(2001), "Financial liberalization in China: Limitations and lessons of
the Japanese regime," Journal of the Asia-Pacific Economy 6(1):
1-21. [Download]
Parker, E. (1999), "Are wage
increases in Chinese state industry efficient? A study of productivity
in the Nanjing machine-building industry," Contemporary
Economic Policy 17(1): 55-68. [Download]
Bhattacharyya, A., &
E. Parker (1999), "Labor productivity and migration in Chinese
agriculture:
A stochastic frontier approach," China Economic Review
10(1): 59-74. [Download]
Lambert, D.K., & E. Parker
(1998), "Productivity in Chinese provincial agriculture," Journal
of
Agricultural Economics 49(3): 378-392. [Download
text]
Parker,
E., & J. Wendel
(1998), "Induced inefficiency as a response to the union threat," Journal
of Labor Research 19(4): 629-646. [Download]
Parker, E. (1997), "The effect
of scale on the response to reform by Chinese construction units," Journal
of Development Economics 52(2): 331-353. [Download]
Parker, E. (1995), "Schumpeterian
Creative Destruction and the growth of Chinese enterprises," China
Economic
Review 6(2): 201-223. [Download]
Parker, E. (1995), "Shadow
factor price convergence and the response of Chinese state-owned
construction
enterprises to reform," Journal of Comparative Economics 21(1):
54-81. [Download]
Parker, E. (1995), "Prospects
for the state-owned enterprise in China's Socialist Market Economy," Asian
Perspective 19(1): 7-35. [Download
text]
Parker,
E. (1994), "Relative
efficiency in Chinese urban construction: A comparison of state-owned
and
collective enterprises after reform," China Economic Review
5(2):
161-78. [Download]
Bhattacharyya, A., E. Parker,
& K. Raffiee (1994), "An examination of the effect of ownership
on
the relative efficiency of public and private water utilities," Land
Economics 70(2): 197-209. [Download]
(The above article was reprinted in Economics of Water Resources
2:151-63, 2009).
Parker, E. (1994), "The accuracy
of generalized cost function estimation: A Monte Carlo approach," Southern
Economic Journal 60(4): 907-26. [Download]
Book Chapters and Proceedings:
Parker, E. (2012), "Will history repeat itself?
Nevada's economy after the crash." In Of Sagebrush & Slot Machines,
edited by R.O. Davies and S.E. Caspar, pp. 215-225 (Pearson Learning
Solutions). [This is a revised version of a paper published in 2011.]
Guerrero, F., & E. Parker (2011),
"The effect of government purchases on economic growth in Japan." In Asia and China
in the Global Economy, edited by Y.-W.
Cheung & G. Ma, ch.
13, pp. 381-407 (World Scientific Publishing Co., Pte. Ltd.).
Cargill, T.F., & E. Parker (2011), "Economic reform and
alternatives for North Korea." In The
Survival of North Korea: Essays on Strategy, Economics, and
International Relations, edited by S.H. Kim, T. Roehrig, &
B. Seliger, ch. 6, pp. 99-115 (McFarland & Co.).
Guerrero, F., & E. Parker (2008),
"Financial liberalization and corporate debt maturity in Thailand,
1993-97." In China
and Asia: Economic and Financial Interactions, edited by Y.-W. Cheung & K.-Y. Wong, ch.
14, pp. 246-256 (Routledge Press). [Download
text]
Cargill, T.F., F. Guerrero,
& E. Parker (2006), "Policy traps and the linkage between
China's financial
and foreign exchange systems," in China as a World Workshop,
edited
by K.H. Zhang: ch. 11, pp. 188-221 (Routledge, Taylor &
Francis). [Download
text]
(A condensed version of the above
chapter was
published
in the 2004 Report of the Symposium on Building the Financial
System
of the 21st Century: An Agenda for Japan and the United States,
Harvard Law School, Program on International Financial Systems.)
Cargill, T.F., & E. Parker
(2003), "Japanese economic structures and finance: Characteristics and
causes of the current slowdown," in Structural Foundations of
International
Finance, edited by P.C. Padoan, P. Brenton,
& G. Boyd: ch.
9, pp. 184-207 (Cheltenham, U.K.: Edward Elgar Publishing,
Inc.). [Download
text]
Parker,
E., & J. Wendel
(2002), "The comparative efficiency of producing health: An analysis of
the World Health Organization's rankings," in Health
Economics and Health
Management: Proceedings of the First International Conference,
edited by S. Soulis: ch. 6, pp. 79-96 (Athens,
Greece: Papazisis
Publishers). [Download
text]
Litvak,
A.I., E. Parker, M. Paterson, O.S. Pentsak, A.I. Pilyavsky, & J
Wendel (2001), "Identifying efficiently operated hospitals in Ukraine," Analysis and International
Comparisons of Social
Consequences of the Transformation Process in Post Communist Countries,
Proceedings of the 7th Slovak-Polish-Ukrainian-Czech Scientific Seminar
(Sviaty Jur, November 15-18, 2000), University of Economics in
Bratislava, pp. 79-90.
Parker,
E., & J. Wendel
(1997), "Reform of China's state-owned sector: Parallels with the U.S.
regulatory experience," in The Reformability of China's State
Sector,
edited by J.G. Wen & D. Xu: ch. 17, pp. 281-299 (World
Scientific Publishing). [Download
text]
Working Papers:
Parker,
E. (2011), Fifty
Herbert
Hoovers and the Effect of State and Local Government on Gross State
Product, a
short analysis of the effect of state and local government value-added
on economic growth.
Parker,
E. (2011), The Endogeneity of State Appropriations and
the Economic Impact of Proposed Budget Cuts,
my (canceled) testimony for the Nevada Economic Forum (April 26,
2011).
Parker,
E., & B. Shively (2009), Funding, Fairness, and the
Formula: The University of Nevada, Reno, in the System of Higher
Education
(Apr. 17, 2009).
Guerrero,
F.,
& E. Parker (2010),
"The effect of government
purchases on economic growth in Japan," UNR Economics
WP-10004. [Download]
Parker,
E., & B.
Shively (2009), University Budgets: A Guide
for the Perplexed
(Mar. 23, 2009).
Guerrero, F.,
& E. Parker (2007),
"The effect of Federal
government size on
long-term economic growth in the United States, 1792-2004," UNR Economics
WP-07002. [Download]
Parker, E., & J. Thornton (2006),
"Fiscal
centralization and decentralization in Russia and China," UNR Economics
WP-06013. [Download]
Guerrero, F.,
& E. Parker (2006),
"Financial liberalization and corporate debt maturity in Thailand,
1993-97," UNR Economics WP-06001. [Download]
Parker,
E. (2006), "Does the party in power matter for economic performance?," UNR Economics
WP-06008.
[Download]
Cargill,
T.F., & E. Parker (2004),
"How can the Bank of Japan contribute to Japan's economic
recovery?" [Download]
Cargill,
T.F., & E. Parker
(2001), "Asian finance and the role of bankruptcy," Federal Reserve
Bank of San Francisco, Pacific Basin Working Paper Series, 01-01.
[download]
Parker, E., & J. Wendel (2001),
"Payment system design, vertical integration, and an efficient
continuum
of care." [Download]
Parker, E. (2000), "Firm governance
and the Chinese stock market." [Download]
Parker, E., & J.G. Wen (2000),
"The Asian financial crisis and the lessons for
globalization." [Download]
Book Reviews:
Parker,
E. (2005), "Fault
Lines in China's Economic Terrain, by Charles Wolf, Jr., K.C.
Yeh, Benjamin
Zycher, Nicholas Eberstadt, and Sung-Ho Lee," in China Journal
53:
168-170.
Parker,
E. (2003), "China's
Last Steps Across the River, by Yiping Huang," in China
Review International
9(2): 443-448.
Parker,
E. (1999), "A
Study of Public Policy Influences upon the Development of China's Rural
Enterprises, 1978-1992, by Zhonghui Wang," in China
Review International
6(1): 277-279.
Parker,
E. (1996), "China's
New Political Economy: The Giant Awakes, by Susumu Yabuki,"
in Economic
Development and Cultural Change 45(1): 219-222.
Parker, E. (1996), "Financial
Repression and Economic Reform in China, by Kui-Wai Li," in China
Review International 3(2): 482-486.
Parker, E. (1996), "Disequilibria,
Economic Reforms and Economic Policies, by Xiaoming Li," in Journal
of Comparative Economics 23(3): 348-351.
Journal Introductions
and Other Miscellaneous Publications:
Chang, C., G.H. Chang, B.M.
Fleisher, E. Parker, & Y. Wang (2004), "Editorial note," China
Economic
Review 15(4): 373-374.
Chang,
G., & E. Parker
(2004), "Editorial introduction: The Chinese RMB issue in dynamic and
global
perspective," China Economic Review 15(3): 323-324.
Parker, E., & K.Y. Wong
(2003), "WTO, China, and the Asian economies," China Economic
Review
14(3): 203-205.
Parker,
E. (2003), "Comments
on 'The Consequences of China's WTO Accession on its Neighbors,' by
W.J.
McKibbin & W.T. Woo," Asian Economic Papers
2(2).
Parker,
E. (2002), "Current
issues in the Chinese economy," China Economic Review
13(4): 329-330.
Chang,
C., G.H. Chang, B.M.
Fleisher, E. Parker, & Y. Wang (2001), "Editorial note," China
Economic
Review 12(4): 261-262.
Chang,
C., B.M. Fleisher,
& E. Parker (2000), "The impact of China's entry into the WTO:
Overview," China
Economic Review 11(4): 319-322.
Parker,
E. (2000), "Introduction," China
Economic Review 11(3): 211-212.
Chang,
C., G.H. Chang, B.M.
Fleisher, E. Parker, & Y. Wang (2000), "Introduction," China
Economic
Review 11(2): 113.
Chang,
G.H., G.H. Jefferson,
N.L. Lardy, E. Parker, & T.G. Rawski (1998), "Will China catch
the
'Asian Flu'?," China Economic Review 9(1):
97-101. Roundtable
article.
Li, L.,
E. Parker, &
T.G. Rawski (1995), "Report on the CES Shanghai Conference on
Reformability
of the State Sector in China," China Economic Review
6(2): 247-250.
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Most Recent
Presentations:
Comment
on the U.S. historical record for the Gold Standard and Price Deflation
Newspaper
Columns:
| Nevada
needs a new economic mindset, Nevada
Appeal, Jan. 27, 2013. |
| Making
sense of the fiscal cliff, Las
Vegas Sun, Dec. 9,
2012. This was also published as Skiing
down the fiscal slope, Nevada
Appeal, Dec. 9, 2012. |
| The U.S. Economy in an Election Year, Nevada's
Washington Watch, Oct.
2012. |
| Budget
deficits at the edge of the fiscal cliff, Nevada
Appeal, Sep. 2, 2012. |
| It’s
not the worst recovery. Really, Las
Vegas Sun, August 12,
2012. |
| Gas
Prices Driven By Economics, Not Politics, Nevada's
Washington Watch, Apr. 2012. |
| National
unemployment: Where have we been, and where are we going?, Reno
Gazette Journal, February 22,
2012. |
| State
Recovery: Be Fast, but be Careful, Nevada
Appeal, Feb. 12, 2012. |
| Fictional
divide tearing at our universities, Las
Vegas Sun, January 29,
2012. This was also published as, Is
there a north-south funding gap in higher education?, Nevada
Appeal, Jan. 29, 2012. |
| China
shouldn't follow our fiscal path, Nevada
Appeal, Jan. 15, 2012. |
| How
China stays on fiscal fast track, Nevada
Appeal, Jan. 8, 2012. |
| What
happened to Japan?, Nevada
Appeal, Dec. 18, 2011. |
| We’d
forgotten what a depression looks like, Las
Vegas Sun, November 27,
2011. This was also published as, Why
is this recession different?, Nevada
Appeal, Nov. 20, 2011. |
| Politics
aside, here’s how the federal budget must be cut, Las
Vegas Sun, November 20,
2011. This was
also published
under the somewhat misleading title, Recovery
without tax hike is fantasy, Nevada
Appeal, Nov. 8, 2011., and a slightly shorter version was, How
can we cut the federal deficit?, Reno
Gazette Journal, November 9,
2011. |
| How
Big is Our Government, Really?, Nevada
Appeal, Oct. 23, 2011. |
| Hyperinflation?
Take a deep breath..., Nevada
Appeal, Oct. 9, 2011. |
| Are
corporate tax rates too high?, Nevada
Appeal, Sep. 25, 2011. |
| Where
we went wrong after Sept. 11, Nevada
Appeal, Sep. 11, 2011. |
| Why
hasn't the economy recovered?, Nevada
Appeal, Sep. 6, 2011. |
| U.S.
has a lot riding on showdown over debt, Nevada
Appeal, July 10, 2011. |
| Going the Wrong Way, Las Vegas Sun,
June 12, 2011. |
| Nevada's tax structure must be broader-based,
more stable and
efficient, Reno Gazette Journal, April 6,
2011. |
Students’ passionate
opposition to proposal inspiring, a column I wrote for the Nevada Sagebrush, April 4, 2011.
In the previous edition, I submitted this Letter
to the Editor to correct some numbers cited in a column.
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| Time
to find a compromise for good of state, Nevada
Appeal, March 27, 2011. This was, at its heart, the speech
I gave at the student rally on March 21. Here is a great video of
the event, which Guy Rocha says was the largest of its kind in Nevada
history. |
| Can We Find a Way Forward?, Las Vegas Sun,
February 27, 2011. |
| University
of Nevada, Reno can't withstand proposed cuts, Nevada
Appeal, February 20, 2011. |
| Is
Nevada's public sector too big? Facts don't back it up, Nevada
Appeal, February 6, 2011. |
| Changing how we think about the budget
(with Senator Bill Raggio), Las
Vegas Sun, January 23, 2011.
This was published simultaneously in the Reno Gazette Journal as Elliott
Parker and William Raggio: We're looking at the state budget backwards. |
| Is
raising taxes the worst thing we could do?, Nevada
Appeal, January 13, 2011. |
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| Private
sector needs vital public sector to thrive, Nevada
Appeal, December 5, 2010. |
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| Falling
state budgets are a drag on the economy, Nevada
Appeal, October 17, 2010. |
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| Analysis:
Cut spending, or raise taxes: Neither answer's easy,
Nevada
Appeal, September 12, 2010. |
| Recessions,
taxes and the growing federal deficit,
Nevada
Appeal, July 11, 2010. |
| Do
taxes kill jobs? Let's look at the facts, Nevada
Appeal, June 20, 2010. |
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| For
our security, raise the gas tax
(with John Scire), Nevada Appeal,
May 26, 2010. |
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Nevada’s fiscal structure in need of an overhaul,
(with Stephen Miller), Las Vegas
Sun,
April 11, 2010. My coauthor is chairman of
UNLV's Economics Department.
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| The
big problem with health care insurance, Nevada
Appeal, Apr. 8, 2010. |
| Nevada loses its groove, Nevada's
Washington Watch, Apr.
2010. |
Nevada undercuts its future with budget cuts in higher
education, Las Vegas Sun,
March 14, 2010
(based on the one below in the Nevada
Appeal).
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| Nevada
slipping fast in higher education, Nevada
Appeal, Mar. 4, 2010. |
| Tourists
aren't paying my taxes,
a tongue-in-cheek letter to the editor published in the Reno Gazette Journal, Feb. 18, 2010. |
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| Spending
cuts are not the solution to Nevada's ills,
Nevada
Appeal, Feb. 10, 2010. |
| Does
government spending help or hurt the economy?, Reno
Gazette Journal, Jan. 27, 2010. |
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| Dire times force
solution for massive trade deficit, sustainable economy, Reno Gazette Journal, July 22,
2009. |
With Override of Veto, a Sigh of Relief, Las Vegas Sun
(June 7, 2009). A shorter version of this column was published in
the Reno Gazette Journal on
May 31.
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| How much more
of state government can be cut?, Las Vegas Sun, January 4,
2009. A response to former state senator
Bob Beers' "rebuttal"
of my previous column, in the
Las Vegas Review Journal. ( Here is the Excel data on state
employment and state
wages.) |
| Comparisons
show spending isn't Nevada's problem, Las Vegas Sun, December 21,
2008. A short version of this was published in the Reno
Gazette Journal. |
| Of
politics and Sith mind tricks: Does the party in power matter
for economic performance?, Reno News
& Review, October 5, 2006. |
Other Related Media Links:
| Face to Face, with Jon Ralston, May
16, 2011: Heath Morrison went first, and me second.
Budgets, taxes, the usual.. I was sleep-deprived and a
little off my game, but I'm told I held my own regardless. |
| Face to Face, with Jon Ralston,
April 27, 2011: Eric Herzik was interviewed for the first half of
the show, and then I was interviewed about my canceled testimony for
the Economic Forum, and other issues related to the economy and the
state budget. |
| I have been interviewed on TV about the
Nevada economy twice by the national Fox
Business News. Click here to see my interview from September
7, 2010. |
| Commentary:
Study found larger government not bad for growth in America, a business advisor column by Federico
Guerrero in the Reno
Gazette Journal, Feb. 24, 2010, which cites research we did
together. |
| A Look Back at the
Naughts, Las Vegas Sun, January
1, 2010. A story by Patrick Coolican about the decade of
illusions, which quotes me a little. |
| Nevada faculty urged
to donate for lowest-paid workers, Reno Gazette Journal, July 24,
2009. A story by Lenita Powers on my suggestions for tenured
faculty. |
| How Much Can We
Increase Student Tuition? A memo to President Glick
(Mar. 6, 2009), discussing the elasticity of demand for higher education |
| A Suggestion for Senator Reid.
A Feb. 23 memo I wrote to Mark Wetjen, a policy advisor in the
Office of the Senate Majority Leader, after he came to campus to
discuss the financial crisis with me and some of my colleagues. |
My Reply to the Governor's Podcast.
A
blog entry on the UNR Faculty Senate site, in answer to Gov. Gibbons'
Feb. 11 podcast defending his budget for higher education.
This was featured in a Jon Ralston column in the Las Vegas Sun, Econ prof tries to teach Gibbons some
economic realities on higher ed (Feb. 12, 2009).
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| The
Economic Impact of the Proposed Cut in UNR's Budget. A
one-page summary of a study by Fadali and Kilkenny (Feb. 6, 2009),
which calculated a $60 million net difference, relative to tax
enhancements, on state GDP. |
| My Dialogue with
Patrick Gibbons of the NPRI.
A dialogue that began on the senate blog and continued by e-mail,
regarding the evidence for economies of scale, et cetera. |
| My Reply
to Regent Knecht. A Jan. 9 letter I wrote
to Regent Ron Knecht regarding his column in the Chronicle of Higher Education that
argues higher education spending is out of control. Regent
Knecht's article was later
republished in the Las Vegas
Review-Journal, and they did not respond to my request to
publish a reply. Dang! |
| How Big is Higher
Education?
A blog entry on the UNR Faculty Senate site, in answer to Gov.
Gibbons' claim that Nevada is relatively generous to higher education
(Jan. 17, 2009). Here is another collection of data in Excel from the Statistical Abstract of the United States. |
| The
Economic Principles of State
Budget Cuts. A
fourth open memo to President Glick (Jan. 16, 2009),
outlining the macroeconomic, microeconomic, and distributional effects
of tax increases and spending cuts. |
| Some
Proposals on State
Budget Cuts. A third open memo to President Glick
(Jan. 14, 2009), with some
suggestions for dealing with the state's budget crisis. These were a
little rough, but a number of people had asked for ideas. |
| A
Look at State Budgets over Time. Another
open memo, with more interesting graphs, to President Milt Glick (Jan.
1, 2009). Here is the data I used in Excel on state output,
expenditures, and budgets, so you can see for yourself. |
| Does
Nevada have a
Spending Problem? The open memo to President Milt Glick which
started it all (Dec. 1, 2008). (Here is the data I used for my
graphs and also
some on educational
attainment.) |
PAST NONACADEMIC
PRESENTATIONS:
Debunking Myths
about Fiscal Intervention and the Recovery, a
presentation to the Washoe County Democratic Party Headquarters, Oct.
4, 2011.
An earlier version of this
presentation was Has the
American
Economy Tanked?, a
presentation for
Reno's National Security Forum, Sep. 9, 2011.
|
Recovering from the Great Recession in the
U.S. and Nevada, an updated presentation to the Nevada
Society of Certified Public Accountants on May
18, 2011.
An earlier version of this presentation was Recovering
from
the Great Recession in the U.S. and Nevada, a
presentation for
Rotary Club, Reno, December 21, 2010.
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| The Economic Crisis:
Can we get out of this mess?, a
presentation for
the Truckee Meadows Democratic Alliance, December 15, 2010. |
| China's Economy,
a presentation for
the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, November 15, 2010. |
| Where
do we go from here?, comments I
gave for a panel discussion on the aftermath of the 2010 election, for
the Reno-Sparks Chamber of Commerce, November 4, 2010. |
| Nevada's Budget Crisis,
a presentation given the first evening of An Educated Response: The Crisis Forums,
UNR, February 16, 2010. |
The Depression of
2008-2009,
a presentation I gave to the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute on
February 3, 2010. It contains updated material from my
earlier presentations, plus some new graphs and discussion of
recessions and depressions.
An earlier version of this presentation was The Great Recession, a
presentation I gave to the Apogee Investment
Group in South Lake
Tahoe on September 13, 2009
|
| Implications of the
Global Financial Crisis, a presentation I gave to the
National Security Forum in Reno on July 7, 2009. |
Making
Sense of the
Financial Crisis of 2008, a
presentation for the
Truckee Meadows Democratic
Alliance (Oct. 2008).
This was revised and updated
for
a Presentation
on the Financial Crisis for
General Electric
Optimization and
Control (Oct. 2008).
This was revised
again incorporated into a presentation for the College's Business Summit (Nov.
2008),
which I also moderated. |
The International
Interdependence of the U.S. Economy in the Era of Free
Trade Agreements (May 2008).
A Presentation to the Nevada
World Trade Council in honor of International Trade Week.
This was
revised and shortened for a presentation to the IBSC on The U.S. Dollar and the Trade
Deficit (Oct. 2008). |
The
Chinese Economy
(Feb. 2007). A
presentation to the Reno-Sparks
Chamber of Commerce and the Nevada
World Trade Council. Also available is
the presentation by
Al di Stefano.
A revised
version
of this, which incorporated a lecture by Hugh Shapiro, was presented to
the Davidson Academy
(2007).
This was
revised again and incorporated into a presentation for the Shultz
Financial Group called Economic
and Financial Market Developments in China and India (2007).
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| Does
the Party in Power Affect Economic Performance?
(May 2006). A
presentation in Washington at the invitation of
Senator Reid to the Senate
Democratic Leadership. |
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| The
UNR story on my trip to Washington. |
| What
Happened to Japan? Why the World's Second Largest Economy Slowed Down.
A public presentation (Summer 2005). |
| Taxes,
Myths, and Cons: Facts about the Federal Budget and the
Deficit.
A public presentation (Fall 2003). |
| Western
Banking Schools Lecture (July 2005). |
| Guest
Lecture on Deflation |
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Pictures:
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and the Kids (Summer 2004)
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Kids (Christmas 2003)
Our
daughter Maya (Fall 2002)
Photos
from Summer 2002
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