economics and business - Colorado College

Faculty Experts- Economics and Business

Name: Aju J. Fenn (Academic Chair 2009-10)
Title: Assistant professor
Office phone: (719) 389-6409
E-mail: afenn@ColoradoCollege.edu
Education: Ph.D. Iowa State University; Ames, IA. B.A. College of Wooster; B.A. Xavier's College, Calcutta, India
Came to CC in: 2002
Courses taught at CC: Sports Economics; Research Methods; Principles of Economics; Econometrics; Economics of Addiction.
Areas of expertise: sports economics: stadium issues; competitive balance; addiction economics: tobacco and alcohol
Major publications: Cigarettes and Addiction Information: Simulating the Demand Effects of the Tobacco Industry's 'Conspiracy of Silence' (With Schroeter, Applied Economics,Volume 36 Number 19, October 2004) The Short Supply of Tall People: Competitive Imbalance and the National Basketball Association (With Berri, Brook, Frick and Vicente-Mayoral, Journal of Economic Issues, Forthcoming) Competitive Balance in the National Football League: An application of the HHI (With Larsen and Spenner, Journal of Sports Economics, Forthcoming) Major League Baseball and League Parity: When League Parity generates Fan Enthusiasm (With Crooker, Journal of Sports Economics, Forthcoming) Cigarettes and Addiction Information: New Evidence on the Rational Addiction Model (With Antonovitz and Schroeter, Economics Letters, Volume 72, June 2001).
Other areas of personal interest: Soccer

Name: Daniel K. N. Johnson
Title: Assistant professor
Office phone: (719) 389-6654
E-mail: djohnson@ColoradoCollege.edu
Education: B. Soc. Sci. (honors economics) University of Ottawa, Canada, 1987; M.Sc., economics, London School of Economics, 1992; Ph.D., economics, Yale University, 1998
Came to CC: 2004
Courses taught at CC: Intermediate Microeconomic Theory; Principles of Microeconomics; Principles of Macroeconomics; Economics of Technological Change; Public Finance
Areas of expertise: Technological change - patents, copyrights, innovation, technology licensing, biotechnology, Olympics - predictions of medals using economic data.
Major publications: "Seeing is Believing: Mathematics Visualization in Economics Education," Journal of College Teaching and Learning (2007).  "Private Agricultural Research," Chapter 7 of Handbook of Agricultural Economics, Volume 3, Elsevier Press, (2007). "The Demise of Distance? The Declining Role of Physical Distance in Knowledge Transmission," Growth and Change (2006). "European Patents on Computer-Implemented Inventions Issued to Small and Medium Enterprises," Commissioned by Business Software Alliance and Aesir Consulting to inform European Parliament legislative decision in 2005. "U.S. Patents by Industry of Manufacture and by Sector of Use, 1849-1999," contribution to "Historical Statistics of the United States," Millenial Edition, Cambridge University Press (2005). "A Tale of Two Seasons: Participation and Success at the Summer and Winter Olympic Games," Social Science Quarterly 85(4), December 2004, p. 974-993. "Time in Purgatory: Determinants of the Grant Lag for U.S. Patent Applications," Topics in Economic Analysis and Policy 4(1), 2004, Article 29. Previously NBER Working Paper 9518. "How the West Has Won: Regional and Industrial Inversion in U.S. Patent Activity," Economic Geography 80(3), July 2004, p.241-260. "Forced Out of the Closet: The Impact of the American Inventors Protection Act on the Timing of Patent Disclosure," Rand Journal of Economics 34(1) Spring 2003, p. 96-112. Previously NBER Working Paper 8374. "Learning-by-Licensing: R&D and Technology Licensing in Brazilian Invention," Economics of Innovation and New Technology 11(3) June 2002, p. 163-177. "The OECD Technology Concordance (OTC): Patents by Industry of Manufacture and Sector of Use," Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, Science Technology and Industry Working Paper 2002-5. Includes software written for download from the OECD web site. "It's a Small(er) World: The Role of Geography and Networks in Biotechnology Innovation," Wellesley College Department of Economics Working Paper #2002-01, January 2002. Under revision for publication. "How Far Away Is Africa? Technological Spillovers to Agriculture and Productivity," American Journal of Agricultural Economics 82(3), August 2000, p. 743-749. "Biotechnology Inventions: What Can We Learn From Patents?" Chapter for "Agriculture and Intellectual Property Rights: Economic, Institutional and Implementation Issues in Biotechnology," edited by V. Santaniello et al., CABI Publishing, 2000. "R&D Spillovers to Agriculture: Measurement and Applications," Contemporary Economic Policy 17(4) Oct. 1999, p.432-456. "Invention in Less Developed Nations," background paper for World Development Report 1998, World Bank. "Getting Noticed in Economics: Determinants of Citations to Journal Articles," American Economist 41(1), Spring 1997, p.43-52. "Patented Inventions in Japan and the United States: An International and Interindustry Comparison," commissioned by the Institute of Intellectual Property, Tokyo (March 1996).
Pertinent biographical information: Keynote address, Colorado Springs Leadership Initiative, April 2007. Invited speaker, World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) - Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) joint workshop on Statistics in the Patent Field, Geneva, Switzerland, September 2003. Banco do Brasil / University of Brasilia Economics Prize for best paper applying economic analysis to Brazilian issues over preceding two years (2003) Visiting Research Fellow, Harvard University's Center for International Development - Science, Technology and Innovation Program (2001-02). Five awards from National Science Foundation Awards for Integration of Research and Education (1999-2003) Raymond Powell Teaching Prize (1996-1997) for excellence in instruction, nominated by undergraduates at Yale University John F. Enders Research Fellow at Yale University (1996) Sasakawa Young Leaders Fellow at Yale University (1995-1996) Coca-Cola World Fund Fellow (twice in 1995 and 1996) Commonwealth Scholar (1991-1992) University of Ottawa Gold Medal (1991), top standing in Honors Social Sciences.

Name: Vibha Kapuria-Foreman (On Sabbatical Fall 2009)
Title: Professor
Office phone: (719) 389-6419
E-Mail: vkapuria@ColoradoCollege.edu
Education: Ph.D. University of Pittsburgh; B.A. Indaprastha College
Came to CC: 1989
Courses taught: Economic Development; East Asian Tigers; Econometrics; Principles of Economics; Intermediate Microeconomics
Areas of expertise: Economic development of developing countries

Name: Kristina M. Lybecker
Title: Assistant professor
Office phone: (719) 389-6445
E-mail: Kristina.Lybecker@ColoradoCollege.edu
Education: B.A. Economics, Macalester College; B.A. Latin American Studies, Macalester College; Ph.D. Economics, University of California-Berkeley
Came to CC in: 2007
Courses taught at CC: Introduction to International Political Economy; Principles of Microeconomics; International Trade; International Finance Areas of expertise: Industrial Organization & International Economics
Research: Analyzes the difficulties of strengthening intellectual property rights protection in developing countries, specifically the problems related to pharmaceutical counterfeiting and the response of the pharmaceutical industry, as well as the design of alternatives to the existing patent system for pharmaceutical innovation. Current areas of interest include the recent changes in pharmaceutical policymaking in Latin America, the balance between pharmaceutical patent protection and access to essential medicines, the role of corruption in economic development, and the intersection of innovation and antitrust policy.
Sample topics she can discuss: pharmaceutical counterfeiting, U.S.-Canadian (re)importation of pharmaceuticals, pharmaceutical industry, R&D, drug pricing, access to medicines, pharmaceutical policy in developing countries.
Major publications: See curriculum vitae.
Other pertinent information: See faculty web site. Lybecker has testified in more than a dozen states on the economics of the importation of Canadian drugs and the risks of pharmaceutical counterfeiting. In addition, she has worked with sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC., Pfizer Inc., AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP, U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Reconnaissance International, and the World Bank, consulting on issues of counterfeit pharmaceuticals, international trade, and corruption.

Name: Esther Redmount
Title: Associate professor
Office phone: (719) 389-6412
E-Mail: eredmount@ColoradoCollege.edu
Came to CC: 1987
Courses taught: Principles of Economics; Intermediate Microeconomics; Statistics; Labor Economics; Public Finance
Areas of expertise: Labor supply; economics of contracts; effect of institutional organization on labor market outcomes
Major publications:
"Shirking and the Choice of Technology" with Craig Depkin and Arthur Snow, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization; "Attrition and Attendance: School Attachment over the Business Cycle", Economic Development and Cultural Change
Other areas of personal/professional interest: History of child labor; sale and purchase of British army commissions; agricultural economics
Pertinent biographical information: Post Doctorate Hebrew University, Israel, 1985-1986; Agricultural Economics; extensive travel in the Middle East and India

Name: Libby Rittenberg (On Sabbatical Academic Year 2009-10)
Title: Professor of economics; Dean of summer programs
Office phone: (719) 389-6657
E-mail: lrittenberg@ColoradoCollege.edu
Education: Ph.D. and M.A., Rutgers University; B.A., Simmons College
Came to CC: 1989
Courses taught: Introduction to Economics, Intermediate Macro, International Economics, Comparative Economic Systems, Development Economics
Areas of expertise: U.S. macroeconomic issues; Turkish economy; international economic issues; transitional and development economic issues; study abroad, summer session
Major publications: "Economics," (2000, Worth Publishers w/Tregarthen); "Inflation and Dis-inflation in Turkey," (2002, Ashgate Publishing); "The Political Economy of Turkey in the Post-Soviet Era," (Praeger, 1998, edited)

Name: Larry Stimpert (On Sabbatical Academic Year 2009-10)
Title: Professor
Office phone: (719) 389-6418
E-mail: lstimpert@ColoradoCollege.edu
Education: Ph.D., University of Illinois; M.B.A., Columbia University; B.A., Illinois Wesleyan University
Came to CC: 1996
Courses taught: Business Management; Accounting
Areas of expertise: Managerial responses to environmental change and organizational decline; corporate governance; business definition and organizational identity; company strategies following deregulation; the management of corporate strategy and diversification
Major publications: in Academy of Management Journal; Academy of Management Review; Journal of Management Studies; Strategic Management Journal

Name: John Stinespring
Title: Assistant professor
Office phone: (719) 389-6416
E-mail: jstinespring@ColoradoCollege.edu
Education: Ph.D. Claremont Graduate University, Economics; M.A. DePaul University, economics; B.A. DePaul University, history and economics
Came to CC: 2002
Courses taught: Principles of Macroeconomics; Intermediate Macroeconomics; Macroeconomic Dynamics; Money; Banking and Financial Markets; Managerial Economics
Areas of expertise: Macroeconomics - U.S. economic growth; money and finance - Federal Reserve behavior
Major publications:
"Mathematica for Microeconomics" (Academic Press 2002);
"Study Guide for Macroeconomics" (Addison Wesley 2001)
Other areas of personal/professional interests: Economics of religion
Pertinent biographical information: Performing and recording musician.
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