Economics Department News

Posted October 25, 2010

• Gary Yohe has become co-editor of Climatic Change (along with Michael Oppenheimer of Princeton),  the oldest and most widely cited interdisciplinary climate change journal.

• Gary Yohe has had four articles published recently:
  1. Yohe, G., Review of The Global Deal by Lord Nicholas Stern, Journal of Economic Literature, 48: 781-786, 2010. 
  2. Blanford, G.J., Richels, R.G., Tol, R.S.J., and Yohe, G.W., “The Inappropriate Treatment of Climate Change in Copenhagen Consensus 2008”, Climate Change Economics 1: 135-140, 2010.  
  3. Yohe, G., “Risk Assessment and Risk Management for Infrastructure Planning and Investment”, The Bridge 40(3): 14-21, National Academy of Engineering, 2010.
  4. Also, the NAS committee on which Gary serves has issued the following report:
   Climate Stabilization Targets: Emissions, Concentrations, and Impacts Over Decades to Millennia, Report of the Committee on Climate Stabilization Targets for Atmospheric Greenhouse Gas Concentrations, National Research Council, July 23, 2010,

Posted October 11, 2010

•  Masami Imai and Richard Grossman presented their paper “Contingent Capital and Disorderly Deleveraging: Evidence from British Banking Experience in the Prewar Era” at the annual meeting of the Economic History Association in Evanston, IL on Sunday, September 26.

• Bill Craighead has had three articles published recently:
  1. “Interest Differentials and Extreme Support for Uncovered Interest Rate Parity,” with George K. Davis and Norman C. Miller, International Review of Economics and Finance, 19:4 (October 2010), 723-732. 
  2. “Across Time and Regimes: 212 Years of the US-UK Real Exchange Rate” Economic Inquiry 48:4 (October 2010), 951-964.
  3. “The  Causes of and Gains from Intertemporal Trade,” with Norman C.  Miller, Journal of Economic Education 41:3 (Summer 2010),  275-291.
   

Posted September 24, 2010

•  Richard Grossman's new book, "Unsettled Account: The Evolution of Banking in the Industrialized World since 1800" was published by Princeton University Press this summer.

• Richard Grossman and Masami Imai had a piece published on the Voxeu, a European policy web site, established by the Center for Economic Policy Research in London (see link below).

• Richard's paper with Chris Meissner (UC, Davis), "International Aspects of the Great Depression and the Crisis of 2007: Similarities, Differences, and Lessons"  was released NBER working paper 16269. 

Posted May 9, 2010

•  Masami Imai participated in the conference at Yale on "Exploring Tectonic  Change in the Japanese Political Economy," where he discussed four papers:  "What's Happening to the Post Office?: The Hatoyama Government and the Fate  of Structural Reform" Patricia MacLachlan (Texas Austin), "Decentralization  Reform and the Demise of the LDP Regime" Jun Saito (Yale), "Geographic  Income Distribution"' Kyohei Yamada (Yale), "Cabinet Approval, Economy, and  Structural Reform"  Yukio Maeda (Tokyo).

Posted April 23, 2010

•  Richard Grossman recently returned from his volcanically-imposed extended stay in England, where he presented a paper, co-authored with Chris Meissner (University of California at Davis), entitled “International Aspects of the Great Depression,” at a conference on Lessons from the 1930s Great Depression for the Making of Economic Policy, hosted by the British Academy in London on April 16-17.  Grossman also served as a discussant for a paper on “The Political Lessons of Depression-Era Banking Reform.” 
   

Posted March 23, 2010

•  Gary Yohe gave a talk entitled "On the Economics of Coastal Adaptation" at the 2010 meetings of the American Academy for the Advancement of Science.  His new publication include:
  
  "Reasons for Concern (about Climate Change) for the United States in Climatic Change Letters
  
  “The Economics of Climate Change: An Editorial Essay”, Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change
  
  “Adopting a Risk-Based Approach” (with Robin Leichenko), Chapter 2 (pp 29-40) in New York City Panel on Climate Change, 2009, Climate Change Adaptation in New York City: Building a Risk Management Response. C. Rosenzweig & W. Solecki,Eds, prepared for use by the New York City Climate Change Adaptation Task Force, Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, New York, NY. 349 pp
  

•  Damien Sheehan-Connor has a new publication - Bergstrom, Theodore C., Rodney J. Garratt, and Damien Sheehan-Connor. 2009. "One Chance in a Million: Altruism and the Bone Marrow Registry." American Economic Review, 99(4): 1309–34.