Bradley K. Hobbs, Ph.D.
Office:
University Office: (239) 590-7162
Home:
Home: (239) 437-6017
Cell: (239) 218-3615
E-mail: bhobbs@fgcu.edu; bradleykhobbs@gmail.com
Education:
Ph.D., Economics,
Conferred in December 1991
Fields of Specialization:
International
Trade and Finance, Labor Economics, History of Economic Thought
Dissertation Topic "An
Hedonic Price Model of Nursing Homes in the State of
Master of Science in Economics,
Bachelor of Arts in History,
(Emphasis in Latin American History)
Academic
and Research Appointments:
Florida
Gulf Coast University
4) BB&T Distinguished Professor
of Free Enterprise, 2008 - present
3) Full Professor of Economics & Finance, 2007 - 2008
2) Associate Professor of Economics & Finance, 2002
2007
1) Hired as: Associate Professor of Economics with Joint Appointment in the
College of Arts and Sciences and the College of Business, 1997 - 2002
I filled the
first position in Economics at Florida Gulf Coast University in a
Joint-Appointment between the College of Business and the College of Arts and
Sciences. This included being
responsible for developing new interdisciplinary courses in the social
sciences: Issues in Politics and Economics (Fall 1997) and The Senior Seminar
in the Social Sciences (Spring 1999). Furthermore, I was responsible for
teaching undergraduate courses within the field of Economics for both the
Beginning in
August of 1999 my teaching assignment was moved, in its entirety, to the
Department of Finance in the College of Business. Responsible
for teaching undergraduate courses within the field of Finance: Financial
Management (Intermediate Corporate Finance), Capital and Money Markets
(undergraduate), Capital and Money Markets (graduate.) Ongoing economics assignments include: Intermediate
Price Theory, Economics of Strategy (Executive MBA) and Foundations of
Economics (Regular MBA). Joint
Appointment dropped by
In the fall of
2009 I was named the BB&T
Distinguished Professor of Free Enterprise and my teaching was moved to the
economics department. Duties include: managing
the BB&T Free Enterprise Speaker Series (fall and spring lectures),
community activities promoting free enterprise, administering grants,
coordinating and managing employees, and teaching ECP 3009 Moral Foundations
& Capitalism at least once each academic year.
Founding Faculty
Advisor of Journal of Liberty and Society
(a research journal designed for undergraduate students.) 2009 - current
FGCU Teaching Record:
Undergraduate
Finance Courses
Intermediate
Corporate Finance
Business Finance
(Introductory Corporate Finance)
Money and
Capital Markets
Intermediate
Price Theory
Managerial
Economics
Principles of
Macroeconomics
Principles of
Microeconomics
Adam Smith
Readings
Issues in
Economics and Politics
Across the Great Divide A summer travel course on and in the American West
The Moral Foundations of Capitalism
Honors Seminar:
Spontaneous Order: Taxis & Cosmos
Money and Capital
Markets
Foundations of Economics
Foundations of Economics Distance Version
Executive Masters of
Business Administration (EMBA)
The American Economy - Short course for EMBA Students
(
Director
- The Center for Economic Education
Founding
Director of the Center for Economic
Education at
August 1997 August 2002
Graduate
professor status granted for use in Foundation for Teaching Economics
courses during summer of 2001.
April 2001 present
Bellarmine
College
Associate Professor of Economics, Fall 1995 July 1997
(Tenure and Promotion granted for Academic
Year 1995-1996)
Assistant Professor of Economics, 1988- Spring 1995
Responsible for
developing and teaching undergraduate courses within the field of Economics,
Masters in Business Administration graduate courses, Executive Masters of
Business Administration and Masters of Arts in Liberal Studies.
Faculty Advisor
and Founder of Issues in Political
Economy (a research journal designed for undergraduate students.) Served as Founding and Executive Editor of Issues in Political Economy from
1989-1997. Journal was moved to
August 1988 -
July 1997
Courses Taught:
Principles of
Macroeconomics
Principles of
Microeconomics
Intermediate
Microeconomic Theory
International
Trade and Finance
Health Care
Economics
Environmental
Issues: Biological, Economic, and Philosophical Perspectives
Commerce and Culture - A History of
Trade
The History of
International Trade
Basic Economics
Managerial
Economics
International
Trade and Finance
Health Care
Economics
Transitioning
Economies in
The Economics of
Strategy
Commerce and
Culture - A History of Trade
Research
Associate/Project Manager - Statistics and Labor Economics
Economic
Research Services, Inc.
Performed
Project Manager duties for discrimination cases. Tasks included the supervision of building
and maintaining complex databases. I prepared
computerized statistical analysis of and specialized research in areas of labor
economics and demographics. I performed
statistical analyses of hiring, promotion, and dismissal of employees to be
used in legal determinations of liability along with net present value analysis
for economic damages. Daily use of: Perkin-Elmer
mainframe system, personal computers, Statistical Package for the Social
Sciences (SPSS), Lotus, Supercalc, assorted word processors and utilities
software. I introduced desktop use of
personal computers to the firm in 1987.
Organized data control, hardware, peripheral configuration for personal
computers training employees in use of assorted software systems and
statistical techniques.
March 1986 -
July 1988
June 1985 - September 1985 (Research Assistant -
Summer Employment)
Graduate
Instructor
Courses taught
include Principles of the National Economy, and Introduction to Price
Theory. Research Assistant and grader
for Engineering Economics, Intermediate Price Theory and Intermediate
Macroeconomics.
August 1982 -
December 1985 (Academic Years)
Research
Assistant
Produced
Economic Impact Statements for proposed regulatory changes vetted before the
Commission. Calculated Cost/Benefit
analyses and developed the computerization of Summary Statistics of
Florida's Publicly-Owned Electrical Utilities. Trained employees in use of software systems.
June 1983 -
September 1983 (Summer Employment)
June 1984 -
September 1984 (Summer Employment)
Professional
Memberships and Activities:
Vice President of the Association
of Private Enterprise Education (2011-2012)
Editorial Board - Journal of Entrepreneurship & Public Policy (2010 - present)
Association of Private Enterprise
Education (Board of Directors, 2005 present)
Eastern Economic Association (Member of
Program Committee from 1995-1997)
History of Economics Society
Mont Pelerin Society (Admitted in 2010)
Southern Economic Association
Professional
Educational Memberships:
Delta Sigma Pi Business Honor Society (honorary)
Omicron Delta Epsilon The International Economics Honor Society (honorary)
Sigma Beta Delta Business Honor Society
Publications: Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles and Books
The Future of Free Enterprise Leadership
in Academe - A Survey Clark, J.R.; Ashley
S. Harrison, Bradley K. Hobbs. Journal of Private Enterprise Education (accepted and forthcoming.)
My Fathers Drugstore
Sole author. Second Place Essay Award
Winner. To be published in Morality and
Profit S.E.VEN Fund, Cambridge, MA (publication
expected in fall of 2011)
The Current State of Leadership in
Classical Liberalism, Private Enterprise, and Entrepreneurship in Academe Clark,
J.R.; Ashley S. Harrison, Bradley K. Hobbs. Journal of Private Enterprise Education (26)2 Spring, 2011:
15-46.
"Effectively Integrating Team-Based Research Projects in Money and Banking and Financial Markets Courses" with Daniel Borgia. Journal of Instructional Techniques in Finance , Vol. 2, No. 1 Spring/Fall 2010.
Attraction & Retention of Faculty in a Non-Tenure Granting
Environment,
by Bradley K. Hobbs, H. Shelton Weeks, and Larry Fogelberg. The Journal of Economics and Finance
Education Vol.8, Issue 2, Winter 2009: pp. 1-16.
Economic Freedom and Service Industry Growth in the United
States with Stephen F. Gohmann and Myra McCrickard. Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice.
Vol. 32, Issue 5, September 2008: pp. 855-874.
The Experience of Fulbright Scholars
from Business Disciplines with Dan Borgia and H. Shelton Weeks. The Journal of Economics and Finance
Education, Vol. 6, No. 2, Winter 2007: pp. 15-26.
Share Price and
Trading Volume Reactions of US-Listed
Foreign Banks to the Financial Securities Modernization Act of 1999 with Carl
Pacini and William Hillison. Research in Finance, Vol. 23, 2007: pp. 127
159.
"The Total Economic
Costs of Finance Faculty Replacement" with H. Shelton Weeks and J. Howard
Finch. Journal of College Teaching
& Learning. Vol. 3, No. 5, May
2006: pp. 29 34.
Human Capital Indicators and
Academic Success in Executive MBA Programs: A multi-program comparison with
Daniel M. Gropper. Journal of
Executive Education. Vol. 4, Issue
1, 2005: pp. 43 - 54.
Debt-for-Nature Swaps: The Case for Property Rights (Sole
Authored) Laissez-Faire, Number
22-23, March September, 2005: pp. 74-83.
Distance Delivery in Accounting: Faculty Perspectives with Christine
Andrews, Joseph Farinella, and H. Shelton Weeks. Business Quest: A Journal of Applied Topics
in Business and Economics. http://www.westga.edu/~bquest/2005/pedagogy5.htm
Quality of Care and Nursing Home Cost-Efficiency
Research with Randy
Estimating
the Mark-to-Market Premium Required to Fill Vacant
Managing Pressure Ulcers Through a Turn Team
Nursing Program (Sole Authored) The Journal of Gerontological Nursing, Volume 30, Number 11, November, 2004: pp.
46-51.
Distance
Delivery in Economics: Faculty Perspectives with Joseph Farinella and H.
Shelton Weeks. Journal of Economics
and Finance Education, Volume 3, Number 1, Summer, 2004. http://www.jeandfe.org/
Nursing Home Quality, Chain
Affiliation, Profit Status, and Performance with Randy Anderson, Brad Hobbs,
and James Webb, Journal of Real Estate Research, Volume 25, Number
1-2003, 43-60. Reprinted with permission
of ARES in The Johns Hopkins/National Investment Council 2003 Senior Housing
& Care Journal, Volume 11, Number 1, pp. 3-18.
The Cost of Hiring: The Market for New Finance
Faculty with Howard Finch and H. Shelton Weeks, Journal of Accounting and
Finance Research, Volume 10, Number 3, Summer II, 2002.
Cutting the Diamond of Comparative Advantage with
Gerald J. Segal The Journal of
Economics and Economic Education Research, Volume 1, Spring 2000, pp.
53-60.
An Encyclopedia of Keynesian
Economics" Thomas Cate, Editor; Geoff Harcourt and David C. Colander,
Associate Editors. Edgar Elgar
Publishing Limited,
"1993/1994 Cumulative Supplement to
Economic/Hedonic Damages" Co-author with Stan V. Smith: Chapter 5
"Household Services."
"1993/1994 Cumulative Supplement to
Economic/Hedonic Damages" Co-author with Stan V. Smith: Chapter 6
"Medical Care and Institutional Care Costs"
"Current Readings in International
Economics," Global Business Education, Vol.1, No. 3, September 1993, Baker
University Press, Kansas. pp. 9-10.
Published
Proceedings
"Distance Delivery and Flex-Time
Learning: Using the Internet as a Mode of Delivery. Co-authored with Daniel J.
Borgia and H. Shelton Weeks. Papers and Proceedings,
"Distance Delivery of the Finance
Curriculum" Co-authored
with Joseph Farinella and H. Shelton Weeks.
Collected Papers,
Finance Student Perceptions and Attitudes About Distance &
Flex-Time Learning Effectiveness Co-authored with Daniel Borgia, Gerald J.
Siegal and H. Shelton Weeks. Proceedings
of the Academy of Educational Leadership, Volume 4, Number 1, 1999.
Published
Book Reviews
EH.net Review
of The Economics of Enough: How to Run the Economy as if The Future Matters by
Diane Coyle. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2011. 346 pages, ISBN:
9780691145181. <http://eh.net/book_reviews/economics-enough-how-run-economy-if-future-matters>
Journal of the History of Economic
Thought. Review of John Kenneth Galbraith, by James Ronald
Stanfield. St. Martins Press,
Eastern Economic Journal. Book Review of Addiction:
Entries and Exits, by Jon Elster.
Eastern Economic Journal, Winter 2002, Vol. 28, Number 1, pp. 148-150.
Invited
Publications: Non-Peer Reviewed
Website Materials for the Institute for
Humane Studies, George Mason University
Creative Destruction on www.aworldconnected.org and www.iliberty.org
Web
publication of teaching plans for K-12 teachers linked to magazine articles
Regulation and
Distribution Economics linked to story Turbo Charging Transmission,
August 2000.
Environmental
Economics linked to cover story Swamped!, May 2000.
Current Research
Activities
Articles Under
Review at Peer-Reviewed Journals
Local
Government Finance and Entrepreneurial Activity in U.S. Metropolitan Areas
with Dean Stansel and Steve Gohmann. Revise
and resubmit at Journal of Business Venturing
"IQ
and the Economic Growth of U.S. States" with Garrett Jones and Rik
Hafer. Submitted to Regional Science
and Urban Economics.
"The Conservative Ecologist and Free Market Environmentalism: Classical Liberalism Politically Reasserted" With Edward T. Wimberley. Submitted to The International Journal of Environmental, Cultural, Economic and Social Sustainability
The
Current State of Leadership in Classical Liberalism, Private Enterprise, and
Entrepreneurship in Academe Non-Chair Holders with J.R. Clark and Ashley
Harrison (University of Tennessee at Chattanooga). Revise and resubmit at Journal of
Private Enterprise Education
Actualizing
Caplan - Developing Historical Perspectives on Human Progress
Presented at the
April 2010 APEE meetings. Sole authored.
Rejected at the Journal of Economic Education. Preparing to submit elsewhere.
Utopia and Freedom: Lessons from The Giver (Sole Authored.) Conditional Acceptance at Journal of Private Enterprise Education. Letter available.
Working
Papers
Level
1: Paper written.
The Effects of Economic Freedom on
Service Industries: A Closer Examination
of Business Startup Activity in Services with Stephen Gohman. Preparing for the Jourrnal of Entrepreneurship
and Public Policy.
Productive versus Unproductive
Entrepreneurship: Industry Formation and State Economic Growth with Stephen F.
Gohmann and Myra McCrickard. Presented at the November 2010 SEA meetings.
Level
2: Data collection and Literature Review Stage
A series of three papers on Economic
Freedom and I.Q. with Garett Jones (George Mason University) and Rik W. Hafer
(Southern Illinois University)
1.
State-level growth regressions, with state IQ estimates as controls.
2.
State-level corruption/institutions regressions, with state IQ estimates as
controls.
3.
International corruption-and-IQ regressions, using some combination of the
standard corruption measures.
The International
Flow of Antiquities and Corruption Measures with Carrie Kerekes and Mushfiq
Swalaheen.
Protectionism and
Public Policy
Immigration and
Public Policy
Level
3: Long-Term Projects
An Index of Corruption by State in the
US with Musfiq Swaheelan (Florida Gulf Coast University) and Steve Gohman
(University of Louisville).
How is Economic Freedom linked to
Environmental Quality? A comparison of
U.S. States with Musfiq Swaleheen (Florida Gulf Coast University)
Research
Grants Awarded
Co-Principal with J.R. Clark, University
of Tennessee at Chattanooga The Current State of Leadership in Classical
Liberalism, Private Enterprise and Entrepreneurship in Academe Charles G. Koch
Charitable Foundation, Washington DC, Summer 2008.
Principal An Empirical Analysis of
Principal The
Transactions Costs of Faculty Turnover:
AACSB Finance Departments Summer Research Grant Program, College
of Business,
Principal Managing Decubiti:
Implications for Costs and Quality Summer Research Grant Program, College of
Business,
Principal, "Associating Learning
Styles with Success in the Principles of Economics."
Collegium Summer Stipend Award for
Research in Nursing Homes - Internal
Presentation,
Assessment and Other Grants
Principal
IQ and
the Economic Growth of U.S. States with Garett Jones and Rik Hafer. Annual Meeting of the Association of Private
Enterprise Education, April 2011 - Nassau,
Grand Bahamas. Presented
at the APEE meetings in April 2011 (Travel
Grant from the FGCU Foundation procured in February 2011).
Principal Undergraduate Reading Seminar
on Ludwig von Mises Undergraduate Grant Program, Charles G. Koch Charitable
Foundation, Academic Year 2010-11.
Granted approximately $14,500 Seminar held at Florida Gulf Cost
University, Fort Myers, Florida.
Principal Undergraduate Education at
Florida Gulf Coast University Undergraduate Grant Program, APGAR
Foundation, Inc. Academic Year 2010-11.
Applied for approximately $25,000 in February 2011. Granted $15,000 for
student activities.
Principal Undergraduate Education at
Florida Gulf Coast University Undergraduate Grant Program, APGAR
Foundation, Inc. Academic Year 2010-11. Unsuccessful
application for approximately $40,000 in February 2010.
Principal Undergraduate Education at
Florida Gulf Coast University Undergraduate Grant Program, Charles G.
Koch Charitable Foundation, Academic Year 2010-11. Granted approximately $25,000.
Principal Undergraduate Reading Seminar on Ludwig von Mises Undergraduate Grant Program, Charles G. Koch
Charitable Foundation, Academic Year 2009-10.
Granted approximately $14,500 Seminar held at the University of Louisville,
Louisville, Kentucky.
Principal. Liberty Fund - Book Placement Program. Grant of entire publication list to date of
Liberty Fund Press to Florida Gulf Coast University (approximately 380
volumes). Lutgert College of
Business. July 2009.
Principal Undergraduate Education at
Florida Gulf Coast University Undergraduate Grant Program, Charles G.
Koch Charitable Foundation, Academic Year 2009-10. Granted approximately $20,000.
Principal Undergraduate Education at Florida Gulf Coast University Undergraduate
Grant Program, Charles G. Koch Charitable Foundation, Academic Year 2008-09. Granted
approximately $20,000.
Principal An Index of Economic Freedom at the Metro
Level with Stephan Gohmann and Dean Stansel.
Annual Meeting of the Association of Private Enterprise Education, April
2009 - Guatemala City, Guatemala. Presented at
the APEE meetings in April 2009 (Travel Grant from the FGCU
Foundation procured in February 2009).
Principal, The Moral Foundations of
Capitalism BB&T Bank Charitable Trust. Distinguished Professor of Free
Enterprise Economics at FGCU, Charlotte, NC.
$600,000 plus state matching funds raised. Spring/Summer 2008.
Principal Economic Freedom and Entrepreneurial Activity at the Local Level with
Stephan Gohmann and Dean Stansel. Annual
Meeting of the Association of Private Enterprise Education, April 2008 - Las Vegas, Nevada. Presented at
the APEE meetings in April 2008 (Travel Grant from the FGCU
Foundation procured in February 2008).
Principal Productive versus Unproductive Entrepreneurship: Whos up to What?
with Stephen Gohmann and Myra McCrickard.
Annual Meeting of the Association of Private Enterprise Education, April
2008 - Las Vegas, Nevada. Presented at
the APEE meetings in April 2008 (Travel Grant from the FGCU
Foundation procured in February 2008).
Principal Economic Freedom and Service Industry Business: Further
Investigations with Stephen Gohmann.
Annual Meeting of the Association of Private Enterprise Education, April
2007 - Cancun. Mexico. Presented at
the APEE meetings in April 2007 (Travel Grant from the FGCU
Foundation procured in February 2007).
Principal Teaching Economics Using the Book of the Month Club Annual Meeting of
the Association of Private Enterprise Education, April 2007 - Cancun. Mexico. Presented at
the APEE meetings in April 2007 (Travel Grant from the FGCU
Foundation procured in February 2007).
Principal Are All Industries Created Equal? Economic Freedom and Business Growth in the
Service Industries with Stephen Gohman
and
Principal, Utopia and Freedom: Lessons from The Giver presented in April
2004 at the annual meetings of the Association of Private Enterprise Education
Orlando, Florida (Travel Grant from the FGCU Foundation procured in February
2004).
Principal Moral Hazard in Debt-for-Nature Swaps: The Case for Property Rights
presented in April 2003 at the annual meetings of the Association of
Private Enterprise Education - Las Vegas, Nevada (Travel Grant from the FGCU
Foundation procured in January 2003).
Principal, National Council on Economic Education,
Mathematics and Economics,
NASDAQ Teaching Awards,
Focus: Economies in Transition,
Virtual Economics Program,
International Economics Program,
Principal, National Council on Economic Education and Bank
of
Financial Fitness for Life,
Principal, Center for Economic Education at
Project Evaluation
Consultant for the Calvin K. Kazanjian Economics Foundation. Project: Evaluation Report to funding agency
for a new on-line undergraduate economics journal University Avenue - An Undergraduate Journal of Economics for
Principal Humanities Advisor,
"Seeds of Change," Smithsonian Museum Traveling Exhibit funded by the
Kentucky Humanities Council. Exhibit
brought to campus for Masters of Liberal Arts course "Commerce and Culture."
Fall 1994.
Principal Humanities Advisor,
"Exploring Seeds of Change: Teacher In-service,"
Research
Grants Denied:
Invited
Presentations:
Using Atlas Shrugged in
the Classroom
Sixth Annual BB&T Foundation Programs Conference (2011)
Clemson University, South Carolina
A Generalists Approach for
Teaching the Principles
or Do we really believe that undergraduates are just rookie graduate
students?
Worth Publishing Teaching Conference
Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton,
Florida (February 2011)
Teaching Rands What is Capitalism? Co-present with Gregory Salmieri at UNC
Chapel Hill
Fifth Annual BB&T Foundation Programs Conference (2010)
Clemson University, South Carolina
Teaching the Morality of Capitalism: The
First Year
Fourth Annual BB&T Foundation Programs Conference (2009)
Clemson University, South Carolina
Actualizing Caplan - Developing Historical
Perspectives on Human Progress
Keynote Guest Speaker: University of
Kentucky Seminar
March 2010 Lexington, Kentucky
"Environmental
Examples -- Tools for Teaching Economics."
Panel Discussion
for the Free Market Environmentalism Roundtable
Association of
Private Enterprise Education
April 2005
Keynote Guest
Speaker: Technology and Distance
Learning at FGCU
April 1999 -
Technical
Innovations in Business Education Conference
McIntire
Distance Delivery: Finance Faculty Perspectives
Co-authored with Drs. Joseph A. Farinella (presenter) and
H. Shelton Weeks. Presented in April,
1999 -
Professional
Presentations: (By self or co-authors)
"The Conservative Ecologist and Free Market Environmentalism:
Classical Liberalism Politically Reasserted," 8th International Conference
on Environmental, Cultural, Economic and Social Sustainability, January, 2012 -
Vancouver, Canada (by co-author Terry Wimberly)
Economic Freedom and Job Growth in
Service Industries 5 Digit NAICS Codes
with Stephan Gohmann. Annual
Meeting of the Southern Economic Association, November, 2009 San Antonio,
Texas.
Principal An Index of Economic Freedom at the Metro
Level with Stephan Gohmann and Dean Stansel.
Annual Meeting of the Association of Private Enterprise Education, April
2009 - Guatemala City, Guatemala. Presented at
the APEE meetings in April 2009 (Travel Grant from the FGCU
Foundation procured in February 2009).
Economic Freedom and Entrepreneurial Activity at
the Local Level with Stephan Gohmann and Dean Stansel. Annual Meeting of the Association of Private
Enterprise Education, April 2008 - Las
Vegas, Nevada. Presented
at the APEE meetings in April 2008 (Travel
Grant from the FGCU Foundation procured in February 2008).
Productive versus Unproductive Entrepreneurship:
Whos up to What? with Stephen Gohmann and Myra McCrickard. Annual Meeting of the Association of Private
Enterprise Education, April 2008 - Las
Vegas, Nevada. Presented
at the APEE meetings in April 2008 (Travel
Grant from the FGCU Foundation procured in February 2008).
Economic Freedom and Service Industry Business:
Further Investigations with Stephen Gohmann.
Annual Meeting of the Association of Private Enterprise Education, April
2007 - Cancun. Mexico. Presented at
the APEE meetings in April 2007 (Travel Grant from the FGCU
Foundation procured in February 2007).
Teaching Economics Using the Book of the Month Club
Annual Meeting of the Association of Private Enterprise Education, April 2007 - Cancun. Mexico. Presented at
the APEE meetings in April 2007 (Travel Grant from the FGCU
Foundation procured in February 2007).
Are All Industries Created Equal? Economic Freedom and Business Growth in the
Service Industries with Stephen Gohman
and
Utopia and Freedom: Lessons from The Giver
Annual Meeting of the Association of Private Enterprise Education, April 2005 -
Examining the Relative Efficiencies of
Rural and Urban Nursing Home Facilities Annual Meeting of the American Real
Estate Society, April 2004
An
Empirical Analysis of the Efficiency of
The Experience of Fulbright Scholars from Business Disciplines: 1998 -
2003 Annual Meetings of the Southern Finance Association, November 2003
"Share Price and
Trading Volume Reactions of U.S.-Listed Foreign Banks to the Financial Services
Modernization Act of 1999", Southeast Regional Meeting, American
Accounting Association, Lexington, Kentucky, April 1-3.
Profit Status, Chain
Affiliation, Quality of Care, and Location Density: A Parametric and
Non-Parametric Examination of Nursing Home Efficiency Annual Meetings of the Southern
Finance Association, November 2003
Moral
Hazard in Debt-for-Nature Swaps: The Case for Property Rights Annual
Meeting of the Association of Private Enterprise Education, April 2003 -
The Costs of Turnover among
Finance Faculty in AACSB Schools
(Empirical Estimates) Annual Meetings of the Southern
Finance Association, November 2002 - Key West,
Nursing Home Quality, Chain Affiliation and Performance Annual
Meeting of
the American Real Estate Society, April
2002
The Cost of
Hiring: The Market for New Finance Faculty Annual Meeting of
Nursing Home Chains vs. Non-chains: An
Empirical Analysis, Annual Meeting of the American Real Estate Society, April
2001
"Distance Delivery of the Finance
Curriculum, Annual Meeting of the American
"The Attraction and Retention of
Faculty in a Non-Tenure Environment," Annual Meeting of the Western
Economic Association, July 1998
"Defining Economics," Annual
Meeting of the Eastern Economic Association, March 1998 -
"A Survey of Student Attitudes
toward Distance Learning and Flex Time," Annual Meeting of the Mid-South
Finance Association, February 1998
"Further Uses of Cost-Benefit
Analysis in Forensic Economics, Annual Meeting of the Southern Economic
Association, November 1997
"How the Forensic Economist Can Use
Cost-Benefit Analysis, Annual Meeting of the Southern Economic Association,
November 1995 -
"Accounting for Uncertainty When
Forecasting Future Economic Losses," Annual Meeting of the Southern
Economic Association, November 1994 -
"Debt-for-Nature Swaps and the
Coase Theorem. Annual Meeting of the Southern Economic Association, November
1993 -
The Effects of Turn Team Nursing on
Geriatric Patients, Annual Meeting of the Eastern Economic Association, March
1993 -
"The Expert Witness and the
Certainty of Uncertainty, Annual Meeting of the Southern Economic Association,
November 1991 -
"Measuring Quality of Care in
Nursing Homes, Annual Meeting of the Eastern Economic Association, March 1989
-
Reviewer
for Publications:
Editorial Advisory Board, Journal of
Entrepreneurship and Public Policy
September 2010 - current
Reviewer for Mercatus Center, George
Mason University
Freedom in the Fifty States: An Index of
Personal; and Economic Freedom by William P. Ruger and Jason Sorens
September 2008
Reviewer for The Journal of Private Enterprise
May 2006 through present
Reviewer for Business Quest: A Journal of Applied Topics in
Business and Economics (B>Quest) http://www.westga.edu/~bquest/board.html
May 2006 through present
Reviewer of Content Materials and Film
Intermediate Microeconomics, Thinkwell Publishing,
Reviewer of Textbook - Health Care
Economics
April, 1996
Reviewer for the
1988 through 1997
Reviewer for the Journal of Forensic
Economics
1992 through 1998
Reviewer for The Gerontologist
1997 through present
Discussant/Reviewer
- Meetings:
Southern
Economics Association, November 2010- Atlanta, Georgia (F)
Association of Private Enterprise
Education, April 2010 - Las Vegas, Nevada
Southern Economics Association, November 2009- San Antonio, Texas
Association of Private Enterprise
Education, April 2009 Guatemala City, Guatemala
Association of Private
Enterprise Education, April 2008 Las Vegas, Nevada
Association of Private
Enterprise Education, April 2007 Cancun, Mexico
Association of Private
Enterprise Education, April 2006 Las Vegas, Nevada
Association of Private Enterprise
Education, April 2005
Southern Finance Association, November 2004
Association of Private Enterprise Education, April 2003
Southern Finance Association, November
2003
Southern Finance Association, November 2002
Eastern Economic Association, February 2001 -
Southern Finance Association, November
2000 -
Southern Finance Association, November
1998 -
Southern Economic Association, November
1996 -
Southern Economic Association, November
1995 -
Southern Economic Association, November
1994 -
Eastern Economic Association, March 1994
-
Southern Economic Association, November
1993 -
Eastern Economic Association, March 1993
-
Eastern Economic Association, March 1990
-
Expert
Services to Community: Florida Gulf Coast University
Gulfshore
Business Magazine International
exchange rates and fuel prices March, 2006
WGCU Public Radio Economic effects of Hurricane
Charley on the region September 2004
Awards/Honors/Recognitions
The Morality of
Profit Essay Contest Second Place
Award
My
Fathers Drugstore
Sponsored by The S.E.VEN Fund (August 2010)
Over 2200 essays from 88 countries with 20 judges.
James
Madison Institute State Public Policy organization
JMI Scholar - Appointed to the JMI
Research Advisory Council
May, 2009 - current
Board
of Directors Service - National
Association of Private Enterprise
Education (APEE)
Executive Committee
April 2006 through April 2010 term
Board
of Directors Service Regional/State
Girl Scouts of Gulfcoast Florida, Inc.
Member of Board
Search Committee - March 2003 through March 2006
Member of Board
of Directors - April 1999 through April 2003 (one reappointment)
Appointed Member
of the Executive Committee - 2000-2001
Member Finance
Committee - April 2000 April 2003
January 1993 to August 1997
Teaching
Awards and Recognition:
Founding Faculty Advisor for Students for Liberty Academic Journal
Journal
of Liberty & Society
Named
Chairman of the Faculty Committee in August
2009
Acton Foundation for Entrepreneurial
Excellence
2008 Acton Foundation Excellence in
Entrepreneurship Education Award
Austin, Texas
(National / Student Nomination)
Senior Faculty Teaching Award for
2003-2004
Florida Gulf Coast University
(One Award Annually, Institution-wide, Student
Nomination Faculty Committee)
Nominee for the 2002-2003 Senior Faculty
Teaching Award - Florida Gulf Coast University Nominee for the 1997-1998 Senior
Faculty Teaching Award - Florida Gulf Coast University (Institution-wide/
Student Nomination Faculty Committee)
(I chose not to go through the extensive
application process after being nominated.)
Bellarmine College Women's Council, 1993
Instructional Development Award (Institution-wide)
(Awarded for developing an undergraduate
research journal: Issues in Political
Economy - The
International Awards and Recognitions
Member
of the Mont Pelerin Society, 2010 General Meeting
Invited
Guest of the Mont Pelerin Society Meetings
Sydney,
Australia (General Meeting) in October 2010 Nominated for Full Membership
Stockholm, Sweden (Regional Meeting) in August 2009
Tokyo,
Japan (General Meeting) in September 2008
Guatemala
City, Guatemala (General Meeting) in November 2006
Invited Teaching Faculty
The Foundation for Economic Education
Freedom Academy II Estes Park, CO (July 18-23, 2011)
Charles
G. Koch Charitable Foundation (Washington,
D.C.)
Associates Program
Kickoff (first 2 days of the 2008-2009 class)
June 2008
July 2001 Wooster College: Wooster, Ohio
July 2001 Loyola - Mary Mount University: Los Angeles, California
Global e-learning Program
SMPU
St. Galens, Switzerland
Economics Modules and Corporate Finance Modules
March 2002, February 2003, June 2007, November 2007, February 2008
The
American Economy
July
2003 through 2008
The Clemson Institute for the
Study of Capitalism
4th Annual BB&T
Foundation Programs Conference
Clemson University
June 2009 Presented on First Year Programs Panel
Participant
The Liberty Fund
September 2008 Denver,
Colorado
The Clemson Institute for the
Study of Capitalism
3rd Annual
BB&T Foundation Programs Conference
Clemson University
June 2008
Participant
The Liberty Fund
May 2008 Ft. Lauderdale,
Florida
Economic Liberty and The Commanding
Heights
Economic
August 2004
November
2003
The
May 2002 -
The
October 2001
The
May 2001 -
The
October 2000
The
January 2000 -
Adam Smith's System of Ordered
The
October 1997 - Flat Rock,
Leadership in Higher Education
Sponsor: Pew Charitable Trust
Spring 1997 -
American Association of Higher Education
(AAHE)
Sponsor: AAHE and
July 1996 -
Lilly Endowment Workshop on the Liberal
Arts at The
Sponsor:
The Lilly Endowment
June 1994 -
Association of
Sponsor:
The Lilly Endowment
April 1994 -
Challenges to Unity: The European
Community in 1994
Sponsor:
The Center for European Studies and the Knight Foundation
January 1994 -
Austrian Economics Seminar
Sponsor:
The Foundation for Economic Education
June 1993 Irvington-on-Hudson, New
York
American Economic Association - Joint Council
on Economic Education
Teacher Training Workshop
Sponsor:
The Lilly Foundation
May 1992 - Northwestern University,
"Reforming the Major"
Association of American Colleges
Sponsor:
March 1992 -
Seminar on Experimental Economics
Sponsor:
The National Science Foundation
August 1991 -
Banking Seminar for College Faculty
Sponsor:
The
August 1989 -
Other
Professional Conferences Attended:
Creative Teaching Ideas for Your Basic
Economics Course
Stravos Center for Economic Education at
University of South Florida (USF) or Florida State University (FSU)
January 2007 at USF, February 2009 at USF,
February 2010 at FSU
National Council on Economic Education
Annual Meetings
October 1998
April 1993; April 1991; April 1989
1995; 1993; 1991
International
Experience:
Professor of Management
Copenhagen Business School - Summer International Program
June July 2009
SMPU
June and
November 2008, 2009, 2010
Trade Exchange
Program and the
October 2004
SMPU
February 2002,
2003
Professor of Economics
Economic Transitions - MBA course
July 1994
Conference Attendee
Challenges to Unity: The European
Community in 1994
Sponsor:
The Center for European Studies and the Knight Foundation
January 1994 -
Foreign Exchange Student (Undergraduate)
June-July, 1982
Community
Service:
Project Oversight/ Executive Editor - The Economic Impact of the Arts in
United Arts Council of
Spring 1999
Girl Scouts of Gulfcoast Florida, Inc.
Member of Board Search Committee - March
2003 through 2005
Member of Board of Directors - April
1999 through April 2003 (one reappointment)
Appointed Member of the Executive
Committee - 2000-2001
Member Finance Committee - April 2000
April 2003
Finance Chairman
National Wild Turkey Federation
Board of Directors, Scholarship
Committee Chair
January 1993 to August 1997
Consulting:
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US Sugar,
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Author: Teaching Corner for Ideas
on
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Subject Matter Expert for
development of Intermediate Price Theory. Thinkwell, Inc.,
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Project Supervision for
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Lehigh Corporation,
·
Tom Smoot III, Attorney at Law (Forensic Economics) Ongoing 1999
·
Capital Asset Management Corporation Board of Directors
(Investments) September, 1995 to Fall 1999
·
Stevenson and Company (Economics Forecast and Appliance
Sales Forecasts for General Electric Incorporated) Fall 1995 through December
1996
·
General Electric Incorporated, Research Department (Economics Forecast and Appliance Sales
Forecasts) Summer 1995 through Fall 1995
·
Humana, Incorporated (Teaching Presentations) 1994
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Academy for Health Care Marketing Professionals (Teaching Presentations) 1994
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Visiting Nurse Association of
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St. Anthony's
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Hirn, Doheny, Reed, and Harper, Attorney's at Law
(Forensic Economics) 1997
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Sally Lambert, Esquire (Forensic Economics) 1995