CHRISTOPHER WESTLEY
(November 2008)
Jacksonville State University ٠ Department of Economics ٠ Jacksonville, AL 36265
Phone: (256) 782-5392 ٠ Fax: (256) 782-5392
Email: cwestley@jsu.edu ٠ www.jsu.edu/depart/ccba/cwestley
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Associate Professor of Economics, Jacksonville State University |
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Education |
Ph.D., |
August 2000 |
Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama |
Economics |
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M.A., |
December 1993 |
St. Mary’s University, San Antonio, Texas |
Economics |
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B.S., |
August 1987 |
University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida |
Public Relations |
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Dissertation: Essays on Extremism in Public Choice Economics. Advisor: David N. Laband |
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Teaching Interests |
Microeconomics Macroeconomics
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Courses |
Principles of Microeconomics, Principles of Macroeconomics, Money & Banking, Intermediate Microeconomics, Intermediate Macroeconomics, Public Finance, Industrial Organization, Urban Economics |
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Tested Fields of |
Public Economics Finance |
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Research Papers
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“The Role of Economic Efficiency in Medical Malpractice Reform Policy” (with Benjamin B. Boozer and Robert J. Landry), forthcoming in the International Journal of Business and Public Administration
“Western Expansion as a Common Pool Problem: The Contrasting Histories of the Brazilian and North-American Pioneers” (with Fernando Zanella), forthcoming in the American Journal of Economics and Sociology “Internal vs. External Explanations in Economics” with (Walter Block and Alexandre Padilla), forthcoming in Procesos de Mercado: Revista Europea de Economia Politica
“An Institutional Analysis of Voter Turnout: The Role of Primary Type and the Expressive and Instrumental Voting Hypotheses” (with Peter T. Calcagno), Constitutional Political Economy, June 2008, 19(2), pp. 94-110 “Institutions, Incentives, and Disaster Relief: The Case of the Federal Emergency Management Agency Following Hurricane Katrina” (with William L. Anderson and Robert P. Murphy), International Journal of Social Economics, Summer 2008, 35(7), pp. 501-511
“The Carriage Trade Trend” (with Doris Bennett), Journal of Health Care Finance, Spring 2007, 33(3), pp. 74-78
“Why Health Costs Spiral: The Case of Emergency Department Regulation” (with Benjamin B. Boozer), Journal of Business and Economic Perspectives, Vol. XXIII, No. 1, Spring/Summer 2006, pp. 6-15
“Efficiency Wages: A Critical Assessment” (with Bill H. Schmidt), Journal of Social, Political, and Economic Studies, Summer 2006, 31(2), pp. 163-174
“Incumbent Spending and Gubernatorial Elections: An Investigation of Primary Type and Candidate Deviation” (with Peter T. Calcagno), Journal of Public Finance and Public Choice, 23(1-2), 2005, pp. 3-18
“Primary Election Systems and Candidate Shirking” (with Peter T. Calcagno and Richard A. Ault), Eastern Economic Journal, Summer 2004, 30(3), pp. 365-376
“Enron: Market Exploitation and Correction” (with Ronnie J. Clayton and William Scroggins), Journal of Financial Decisions, April 2002, 14(1), pp. 1-15
“The Microsoft Corporation in Collision with Antitrust Law” (with William L. Anderson, Walter Block, Thomas J. DiLorenzo, Ilana Mercer, and Leon Snymon), Journal of Social, Political, and Economic Studies, Spring 2001, 26(1), pp. 287-302
“Who Gets the Goods? Moderate Voting Records, Diminishing Returns, and PAC Contributions” (with Gregory M. Dempster), Economics & Politics, November 2000, 12(3), pp. 321-333
“Matrimony and Microeconomics: A Critique of Becker’s Analysis of Marriage” Journal of Markets and Morality, March 1998, 1(1) pp. 67-74
“Government Regulation and Income Inequality in the United States, 1970-1990” Applied Economics Letters, December 1998, 5(12), pp. 805-808
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Working |
“The University-as-Monopolist: Why Parking Problems Persist at U.S. Universities” with Bill H. Schmidt (under review)
“The New Southwest Effect: Airline Productivity and Market Efficiency” with Richard Cobb and Stan Newton
“Gender and Race Effects on Corporate Board Performance” with Ronnie J. Clayton “The Economics of Homeschooling: Ownership, Knowledge, and Calculation” with Mark Brandly
“Corporations as Counterweights: The Role of Transnational Firms as Checks on State Power in the 21st Century” with Peter G. Klein
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Book Reviews and Referee Work |
Book review of Common Sense School Reform for the Journal
of School Choice, forthcoming
Book review of The Marketplace of Christianity for the Journal of Markets and Morality, Fall 2007, 10(2), pp. 419-421
Book review of The Church and the Market: A Catholic Defense of the Free Economy for the Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics, Winter 2005, 8(4), pp. 95-97
Review of The Collected Works of F.A. Hayek for Liberty Fund, Inc., Spring 2008
Review (anonymous) of proposed Public Finance textbook (McGraw-Hill), 2005
Review for Urban Economics: Theory and Policy by McDonald and McMillen (1st ed.), 2003
Review of Microeconomics by Hershey (1st ed.), 2003
Review of Money, the Financial System, and the Economy by Hubbard (5th ed.), 2003
Review of Microeconomics: Private and Public Choice by Gwartney, et al. (11th ed.), 2003
Review of Macroeconomics: Public and Private Choice by Gwartney et al. (10th ed.), 2000
Referee for Economic Inquiry, Contemporary Economic Policy, Economics and Politics, The Independent Review, the International Journal of Social Economics, Financial Decisions, and the Journal of the Alabama Academy of Science |
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Other Research Projects |
Co-author, Northeast Alabama Occupational Projections through 2014 (with David Palmer), Jacksonville, Ala.: Center for Economic Development, 2008 Co-author, Where Will the Workers Go? (with David
Palmer), Jacksonville, Ala.: Center for Economic Development, 2008
Co-author, Human Nature & Economics: Theological Anthropology and Economic Science, (with Gregory M.A. Gronbacher, Patricia Donohue-White, and Gloria Zuñiga), Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2001
Associate Editor, JSU Economic Update (Published by the Center for Economic Development in the College of Commerce and Business Administration, Jacksonville State University) |
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Dissertation Committees |
Committee Member (S. Keith Lowe, “Grade Inflation and Market Benefits: a Higher Education Analysis”) University of Alabama, 2005-2007
Committee Member (Glen Tenney, “The Effect of Interest Rate Ceilings on Competition in the Pawn Industry”), Touro University, 2003-2004 |
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Service and Other Positions Held |
Jacksonville State University Service Committee Memberships (2000-present): University Budget Committee (Strategic Planning Subcommittee), University Faculty Research Grant Committee, SACS Self-Study Committee (Financial Resources Subcommittee), College of Commerce and Business Administration Research Development Committee, Computer User Committee
Undergraduate Faculty Advisor for Economics, College of Commerce and Business Administration, Jacksonville State University
Temporary Member of the Graduate Faculty, The University of Alabama, 2004-2005 through 2006-2007
Author of End-of-Chapter Data Questions (R. Glenn Hubbard, Money, the Financial System, and the Economy, 5th ed.), Addison-Wesley, 2005
Visiting Professor of Economics, Jacksonville State University, 1999-2000 |
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Grants, Fellowships & Awards |
International Academy of Business and Public Administration Disciplines Research Award for “Medical Malpractice Reform Policy: Why Economic Efficiency Matters”: Orlando, Florida, January 2008
University Faculty Research Award, Jacksonville State University: 2000-2001, 2001- 2002, 2002-2003, 2003-2004, 2004-2005, 2005-2006, 2006-2007
Dean’s Faculty Award for Excellence in Research, College of Commerce and Business Administration, Jacksonville State University: 2001-2002, and College of Commerce and Business Administration Award for Excellence in Research: 1999-2000, 2000-2001, 2001-2002, 2002-2003, 2003-2004, 2004-2005, 2005-2006, 2006-2007
Dean’s Faculty Award for Excellence in Teaching, College
of Commerce and Business Administration, Jacksonville State University:
2003-2004, and College of Commerce and Business Administration Award for
Excellence in Teaching: 2003-2004, 2004-2005, 2005-2006, 2006-2007
Top Tiger Teacher Award: Auburn University Athletic Department, Spring 1999
H.B. Earhart Mont Pelerin
Society Grant: Earhart Foundation and Atlas Economic Research Institute, Fall
1998 |
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Professional Memberships |
Southern Economics Association, Southern Finance Association, Public Choice Society, National Business and Economics Society, Beta Gamma Sigma
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References for
Christopher Westley
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Dissertation |
David N. Laband |
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Secondary |
Richard A. Ault |
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John D. Jackson |
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James E. Long Professor of Economics and Torchmark Chairholder College of Business Administration |