Steven R. Beckman 6/17/2013 303 556-3048 Steven.Beckman@cudenver.edu Curriculum Vitae Education Institution Date Degree Major University of California, 1975 B.A. Economics Davis 1978 M.A. Economics 1982 Phd. Economics Professional Experience 2004-2007 Chair, Department of Economics 2002 summer International College in Beijing 1998-present Associate Professor, University of Colorado at Denver. 1996 summer International College in Beijing 1990-1998 Assistant Professor, University of Colorado at Denver. 1989-1990 Visiting Assisting Professor, University of Colorado at Dever. 1988-1989 Assistant Professor Adjunct, University of Colorado at Denver. 1982-1988 Assistant Professor of Economics, Wichita State University. 1981-1982 Visiting Assistant Professor, Washington State University. 1980-1981 Lecturer, University of California, Davis. 1978-1980 Teaching Assistant, University of California, Davis. 1975-1978 Reader, University of California, Davis.
Page 2 Refereed Publications 2012 Experiments on Horizontal Mergers: Does Size Matter? with Greg Deangelo and W. James Smith. Economics Letters, Volume 117, Issue 3, December 2012, Pages 537 539. 2011 Microeconomics and Psychology with Greg DeAngelo, W. James Smith, Xieting Zhang and Lanxin Chen. Journal of Economic Education 2011. 2009 Measuring inequality with interval data with W. James Smith, Buhong Zheng. Mathematical Social Sciences 2009 2007 The Effects of Race, Income, Mobility and Political Beliefs on Support for Redistribution with Buhong Zheng. Research on Economic Inequality edited by John Bishop, JAI Press 2007 2006 A Tax and Redistribution Experiment with Subjects that Switch from Risk Aversion to Risk Preference forthcoming at Social Choice and Welfare. It is available on the Journal s website: Vol 17 (November) 627-641. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00355-006-0148-5 2004 Efficiency, equity and democracy: Experimental evidence on Okun's Leaky Bucket (S.R. Beckman, J.P. Formby, W.J. Smith) in Inequality, Welfare and Income Distribution: Experimental Approaches Edited by F. Cowell JAI Press 2004 2004 Risk, inequality aversion and biases born of social position: Further experimental tests of the leaky bucket (S.R. Beckman, J.P. Formby, W.J. Smith, B. Zheng) in Studies on Economic Well Being: Essays in Honor of John Formby Edited by Y. Amiel and John Bishop JAI Press 2004 2003 Steven R. Beckman Cournot and Bertrand Games, Journal of Economic Education V34 #1 (Winter 2003), p. 27-35. 2002 Beckman, Steven R, John Formby, W. James Smith and Buhong Zheng Envy, Malice and Pareto Efficiency: An Experimental Examination Social Choice and Welfare V19 p. 349-367. 1997 Beckman, Steven R. and David Downs "Forecasters as imperfect information processors: Experimental and survey evidence" Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 32:89-100.
Page 3 1994 Beckman, Steven R. "A Rational Foundation for 'Wishful' Exchange Rate Forecasts", International Review of Economics and Finance, 3:361-372. 1993 Beckman, Steven R. and W. James Smith, Positively Sloping Marginal Revenue, CES Utility and Subsistence Requirements, Southern Economic Journal, 60:297-303. 1992 Beckman, Steven R. The surprising arithmetic of imperfectly competitive trade. Journal of Economic Education 23:333-339. 1992 Beckman, Steven R. Sources of Forecast Error: Experimental Evidence. The Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 19:237-244. Abstracted in the Journal of Economic Literature, June 1993, pg. 1124. 1990 Beckman, Steven R. Producer's Dilemma Experiments: Reply to Joe Oppenheimer. The Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 14:287. 1989 Beckman, Steven R. Producer's Dilemma Experiments. The Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization. 11:27-46. Abstracted in the Journal of Economic Literature, Sept. 1989 pg. 1470. (In the macro theory section.) 1988 Beckman, Steven R. and Joshua N. Foreman. An Experimental Test of the Baumol-Tobin-Simon Transactions Demand for Money. The Journal of Money, Credit and Banking. 20:291-305. Abstracted in the Journal of Economic Literature, March 1989 pg. 430. (In the monetary theory section.) 1987 Beckman, Steven R. A Micro-Computer Program that Simulates the Baumol-Tobin Transactions Demand for Money" Journal of Economic Education 18:309-17. Books 1984 Beckman, Steven R. and Janet L. Wolcutt. Study Guide to 1987 Accompany Money Banking and the Economy. W.W. Norton, 1990 publishers. (Second, third, fourth and fifth editions.) 1993 Non-refereed Publications
Page 4 1988 Bidding for Assets of Uncertain Value: Bubbles, Curses and other anomalies. In Business and Economic Report 1987 Government Deficits and Farm Land Prices. In Business and Economic Report. Papers Under Review Monopolies of necessities: The profit calculus of life and death with W. James Smith Microeconomics and Psychology with Lanxin Chen, Greg DeAngelo, W. James Smith and Xietang Zhang Projects Approved by the Human Subjects Review Committee 2010 Behavior Toward Risk and Inequality COMIRB Protocol 10-0599 2010 Asymmetric Duopoly COMIRB Protocol 10-0119 Presentations at Meetings or Seminars Presented 2009 Economic Science Association Meeting, June, Dictators Eventually Take it All with W. James Smith 2006 Economic Science Association Meeting Tucson Arizona October Ultra-Monopoly Experiments with W. James Smith 2005 Workshop on Envy: Budapest Hungary, November 4. Invited participant. 2004 A Tax and Redistribution Experiment with Subjects that Switch from Risk Aversion to Risk Preference Economic Science Association Meeting in Amsterdam. 2003 A Tax and Redistribution Experiment with Subjects that Switch from Risk Aversion to Risk Preference Economic Science Association Meeting in Erfurt Germany. 2002 A Tax and Redistribution Experiment with Subjects that Switch from Risk Aversion to Risk Preference Public Choice Society Meeting in Baltimore.
Page 5 1998 An Experimenter's Guide to Dummy Variables: Fisher vs. Conventional Econometrics Economic Science Association, Tucson Arizona, October. 1998 Trade, Education, Inequality and Growth Given Financial Constraints in Developing Countries Southern Economic Association Meetings, Baltimore, November. 1997 Envy, Malice And Pareto Efficiency:An Experimental Examination Steven Beckman, John Formby, W. James Smith and Buhong Zheng, Southern Economic Association meetings, Seattle, November. 1994 Efficiency, Equity and Democracy: Experimental Evidence on Okun's Leaky Bucket. Economic Science Association, Tucson Arizona, October 1993 Forecasters as imperfect information processor: the response to noise in a random walk (with David Downs) Economic Science Association, Tucson, October. 1993 Positively Sloping Marginal Revenue, CES Utility and Subsistence Requirements, Western Economic Association at Lake Tahoe and at the Southern Economic Association in Washington. 1992 Non-monotonic reaction functions and CES Utility, Southern Economic Association meetings 1989 Producer's Dilemma Experiments. Annual meeting of the Public Choice Society in conjunction with the Economic Science Association. Orlando. 1988 Independently Rational Expectations: Experimental Evidence Annual meeting of the Public Choice Society in conjunction with the Economic Science Association March 18-20, 1988 in San Francisco. 1987 Measuring Attitudes Toward Risk. Annual meeting of the Public Choice Society in conjunction with the Economic Science Association. Tucson. 1986 Producer's Dilemma Experiments. Econometric Society. Duke University.
Page 6 1986 Developing a Keynesian Experiment. Western Social Science Association, Reno. 1984 An Experimental Test of the Baumol-Tobin Transactions Demand for Money. Econometric Society, Dallas.
Page 7 Current Committees and Assignments Professional Organizations American Economic Association Economic Science Association Hiring Committee for International College Beijing Undergraduate Outcomes Assessment for Economics Chair Undergraduate Advisor (with W. James Smith) Courses Taught At UC Denver: At ICB Economics 2012 - Principles of Macroeconomics Economics 4001 Experimental Economics Econ 4081 Intermediate Macroeconomics Economics 4430 Economic Growth Economics 4410/5410 - International Trade Economics 4420/5420 - International Finance Economics 5083 - Macroeconomic Theory Econ 6053 Exchange Rates Economics 6410 - International Trade Economics 6420 - International Finance Economics 4420 - International Finance Economics 4110 - Money and Banking Economics 4001 - Behavioral Economics At Wichita State At Washington State At U. of Calif. Davis Principles of Macroeconomics Money and Banking International Economics Grad. Seminar in Monetary theory Intermediate Microeconomics Money and Banking Money and Banking Intermediate Macroeconomics
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