CURRICULUM VITAE and BIBLIOGRAPHY

DAVID G. DAVIES

January 1989

Introduction and Dedication

Table of Contents

Memories of
David G. Davies

David G. Davies:
Thoughts and Insights on Topical Economic Issues 1964-1987

Department of Economics
Duke University
Durham, NC 27706

Home Address:
17252 Prado Road
San Diego, CA 92128

Telephone: (619) 592-0188

EDUCATION:

Stanford University AB, 1949
UCLA MA, 1952
UCLA Ph.D., 1955

ACADEMIC POSITIONS:

• Research Assistant, 195152, UCLA Bureau of Business and Economic Research
• Teaching Assistant, 195254, UCLA Economics Department
• Research Fellow, 1954-55, UCLA
• Assistant and Associate Professor, 1955-61, University of Cincinnati
• Associate Professor, 1961-66, Duke University
• Professor, 1966, Duke University
• Acting Director of Graduate Studies, 1969-70, Department of Economics
• Chairman of the Department of Economics, 1970-73
• Director of Undergraduate Studies, 1975-80, Department of Economics
• Director, Honors Program, 1973, Department of Economics
  

OTHER EXPERIENCE:

• Resident Director, U.S. Department of State, U.S. Agency for International Development Jamaica Tax Structure Project, Kingston, Jamaica, 1983-84
• Senior Tax Advisor to Prime Minister and Chairman of the Revenue Board, Jamaica, 1983-84
• Senior Staff, Jamaica Tax Structure Examination Project, 1985-87
• Visiting Professor, Law and Economics Center, University of Miami., Economics Program for Federal Administrative Law Judges, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988
• Visiting Research Professor, Law and Economics Center, University of Miami, Winter 1981-82, Winter 1982-83
• First Legal Institute for Economists, Law and Economics Center, University of Miami School of Law, Summer 1976
• Editorial Consultant to numerous university and commercial publishers
• External Examiner, Davidson College, 1971; Australian National University, 1985
• Professor, Center for Demographic Studies, Duke University, 1968
• Committee Member and Senior Fellow, Center for Commonwealth and Comparative Studies, Duke University, 1967-78
• Visiting Professor, Graduate School, University of Missouri, Summer 1966
• National Science Foundation Lecturer, University of Missouri, Summer 1966
• Lecturer, Institute of Government, University of North Carolina, Spring 1966
• Lecturer, University of Missouri Distinguished Lectureship Series, 1965
• Lecturer, Executive Management Program, University of Cincinnati, 1958-60

AWARDS

• Haynes Foundation Research Fellowship, 1954-55
• Ford Foundation Faculty Research Fellowship, 1960-61
• Ford Foundation Research Grant, Summer 1962
• National Science Foundation, co-investigator, 1963-64
• Ford Foundation Fellowship in Public Finance, University of Michigan, 1966
• Duke University Committee on International Studies Fellowship, Summer 1967
• Duke University Committee on International Studies Research Award, Summer 1968
• Fulbright Research Scholar, Australia, 1968
• Ford Foundation, co-investigator, 1973-74
• Duke University Research Council, Major Award, 1974-75, 1979-80, 1986-87
• Richardson Foundation, co-investigator, 1976
• Earhart Fellowship Research Grant, 1978-79
• Research Fellow, Centre for Research on Federal Financial Relations, Australian National University, 1975, 1980

PROFESSIONAL AND HONORARY ORGANIZATIONS, DIRECTORIES

• Editorial Board, Public Finance Quarterly, 1972
• Board of Referees, Research in Law and Economics, 1976
• Board of Editors, Journal of Law and Political Economy
• Manuscript Referee, National Tax Journal
• Manuscript Referee, Southern Economic Journal
• Manuscript Referee, American Economic Review
• Manuscript Referee, The Journal of Political Economy
• Manuscript Referee, History of Political Economy
• Grants Reviewer, National Science Foundation, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982
• Grants Reviewer, The Research Council of Canada
• Adjunct Scholar, Cato Institute, 1982-86
• Academic Associate, Institute of Contemporary Studies, 1986
• First Vice President, Southern Economic Association, 197-879
• Executive Committee, Southern Economic Association, 197-577
• National Bureau of Economic Research, Universities Committee, 1970-75
• Board of Directors Nominating Committee, NBER, 1972-73
• Board of Directors, Economic Inequities, Inc., 1972-74
• Advisory Board, Taxpayers Educational Coalition, 198185
• Nominator, Nobel Prize in Economic Science, 1975, 1979, 1982, 1985, 1986, 1989
• Pi Gamma Mu
• Beta Gamma Sigma
• Alpha Kappa Psi
• Intergovernmental Fiscal Relations Committee, National Tax Association, Tax Institute of America, 1973-76
• American Economic, Southern Economic, and National Tax Associations
• Royal Economic Society and Public Choice Society
• International Who's Who in Education
• Who's Who in America
• Who's Who in Society
• American Economic Review Directory
• American Men and Women of Science: Economics; Urban Community Sciences

ECONOMIC CONSULTANT:

• United States Agency for International Development
• Government of Jamaica
• United States Department of State
• United States Department of Defense
• United States Information Agency
• United States Treasury
• IBRD (World Bank)
• International Monetary Fund
• Australian Government Treasury
• State of North Carolina
• Bank of America
• North Carolina House of Representatives
• Texas Legislature
• Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce
• Security First National Bank
• 0'Mulveny and Meyers
• Institute of Government, University of North Carolina
• Caribbean Public Finance Team (Consultants)
• Breucheum Group (consultants)

BIBLIOGRAPHY:

"Use of Local Retail Sales Taxes," Western City, 32, March 1956, pp. 343-5.

"First Decade of Municipal Sales Taxation in California," The American Journal of Economics and Sociology", 18, October 1958, pp. 49-54.

"An Empirical Test of Sales-Tax Regressivity, "The Journal of Political Economy, 67, February 1959, pp. 72-78.

"Regressive le Imposte Sui Consumi?" Mercurio-Sintesi del Pensiero Economico e Sociale Contemperaneo, 2, Dicembre 1959, Rome, Italy, pp. 11-15.

"Relative Burden of Sales Taxation: A Statistical Analysis of California Data," The American Journal of Economics and Sociology, 19, April, 1960, pp. 289-295.

"Review of Richard A. Musgrave, `The Theory of Public Finance: A Study in Public Economy'," The Review of Economics and Statistics, August, 1960.

"Progressiveness of a Sales Tax in Relation to Various Income Bases," American Economic Review, 50, December 1960, pp. 987-995.

"Sales Taxes and the Stable Growth of Income," Fifty-third Annual Proceedings of the National Tax Association, (Harrisburg, Pa.: National Tax Association, 1961), pp. 528-534.

"Commodity Taxation and Equity," Journal of Finance, 16, December 1961, pp. 580-590.

"Commodity Taxation and Equity," Canadian Journal of Taxation, 10, July August, 1962, pp. 262-269. Reprint of the Journal of Finance article.

"The Sensitivity of Consumption Taxes to Fluctuations in Income," National Tax Journal, 15, September 1962, pp. 281-290.

"Review of John E. Moes, `Local Subsidies for Industry'," The South Atlantic Quarterly, Winter 1963.

"The Sensitivity of Taxes and the Distribution and Stabilization of Income," The Southern Economic Journal, 30, July 1963, pp. 73-75.

"A Note on Marshallian versus Walrasian Stability Conditions," The Canadian Journal of Economics and Political Science, 29, November, 1963, pp. 535-540.

"A Further Reappraisal of Sales Taxation," National Tax Journal, 16, December 1963, pp. 410-415.

"The Dynamics of Government Growth," Challenge, 12, May 1964, pp. 47.

"The Dynamics of Government Growth," The Congressional Record (Washington: United States Government Printing Office, May 21, 1964), pp. A2687-2688. Reprint of the Challenge article.

"The Dynamics of Government Growth," summary, reprinted in Black Diamond, September 5, 1964.

"Financing Urban Functions and Services," Symposium on Urban Problems and Prospects, Winter Issue, 1965, Law and Contemporary Problems, 30, pp. 127-161.

"The Secular Income Elasticity and Revenue Stability of Motor Fuel Taxes," National Tax Journal, 18, December 1965, pp. 380-387.

"The Growth of Urban Governmental Spending," Fifty-eighth Annual Proceedings of the National Tax Association, (Harrisburg, Pa.: National Tax Association, 1966), pp. 591-599.

"Economic Growth and Postwar Trends in Debt," Quarterly Review of Business and Economics, 6, Spring 1966, pp. 69-74.

"A Note on the Ambiguity of Shifts in Negative Supply Curves," The South African Journal of Economics, 34, December 1966, pp. 329-334.

"City-Suburban Differentials in Local Governmental Fiscal Effort: A Comment," National Tax Journal, 22, September 1969, pp. 422-423.

"Significance of Taxation of Services for the Pattern of Distribution of Tax Burden by Income Class," Sixty-second Annual Proceedings of the National Tax Association (Columbus, Ohio: National Tax Association, 1970), pp. 138-146.

"The Concentration Process and the Growing Importance of Noncentral Governments in Federal States," Public Policy, 18, Fall 1970, pp. 649-657.

"The Equity Effects of Including Services in a Sales Tax," ("Gileffetti equitatibi dell-inclusione dei servizi nell-imposta sulle vendite"), Rivista Internazionale di Scienze Economiche e Commerciale, 17, Ottobre 1970, pp. 953-962.

"A Further Reappraisal of Sales Taxation," reprinted in William E. Mitchell and Ingo Walter, editors, State and Local Finance (New York: The Ronal Press Co., 1970), pp. 120-125.

"Financing Urban Functions and Services," Symposium on Urban Problems and Prospects, Winter Issue, 1965, Law and Contemporary Problems, reprinted in William E. Mitchell and Ingo Walter, editors, ibid., pp. 302-331.

"Clothing Exemptions and Sales Tax Regressivity," American Economic Review, 61, March 1971, pp. 187-189.

"The Efficiency of Public versus Private Firms, the Case of Australia's Two Airlines," The Journal of Law and Economics, 14, April 1971, pp. 149-165.

"Comment and Reply to Professor Maxwell," Public Policy, 19, Summer 1971, pp. 523-524.

"El Problema del Desempleo y la Inflacion," ("The Problem of Unemployment and Inflation"), Humanitas, Numero 14, 1973, pp. 893-913.

"A Further Reappraisal of Sales Taxation," reprinted in 0. Oldman and F.P. Schoettle, editors, State and Local Taxes and Finance (Brooklyn: Foundation Press, 1974), pp. 505-510.

"Political Campaigns: Public vs. Private Financing," Governmental Finance, 3, August 1974, pp. 7-12.

"Politicas de Ingreso a Inflacionarias, Empleo y Problemas en la Balanza de Pagos," ("Income Policies, Inflation, Employment, and Balance of Payments Problems"), Humanitas, Numero 15, 1974, pp. 807-822.

"Unemployment, Inflation, and Public Policy," The South Atlantic Quarterly, 73, Autumn 1974, pp. 460-474.

"Equity Effects of Including Housing Services in a Sales Tax Base," co-author with David Black, The National Tax Journal, March 1975, pp. 135-137.

"El Financiamiento de las Elecciones Publicas en las Sociedades Democratas: Un hnalisis de las Alternativias y de Sus Efectos," ("The Financing of Public Elections in Democratic Societies: An Analysis of the Alternatives and Their Effects"), Humanitas, Numero 16, 1975, pp. 617-633.

The Economics and Politics of Financing Political Campaigns, A Module, General Learning Press, Morristown, NJ, 1976.

"Review of Roger A. Freeman, `The Growth of American Government: A Morphology of the Welfare State'," Public Choice, 25, Spring 1976, pp. 95-96.

International Comparisons of Tax Structures in Federal and Unitary Countries, Centre for Research on Federal Financial Relations and the Australian National University Press, Canberra, 1976.

"La Controversia Monetarista-Estructuralista Acerca de la Inflacion y Desarrollo Economico en Latino America" (,"The Monetarist-Structuralist Controversy over Latin American Inflation and Economic Development"), with Harold Ettinger, Humanitas, Numero 17, 1976, pp. 701-717.

"Foreword," in Thomas E. Borcherding and Winston G. Bush, eds., Budgets and Bureaucrats: The Origins of Government Growth, Duke University Press, 1977.

"Property Rights and Economic Efficiency - The Australian Airlines Revisited," The Journal of Law and Economics, 20, April 1977, pp. 223-226.

"Review of Tri-Level Task Force, `Report of the Tri-Level Task Force on Public Finance in Canada"'; Vol. I Tri-Level Database; Vol. II Special Studies; Vol. III Appendix," Canadian Public Policy - Analyse De Politiques, 3, Winter/River, 1977, pp. 114-117.

"Una Indigacion Acerca Del Comportamiento De Los Impriestos Centrales Y Estatales-Locales En Sistemas Federales De Gobierno," ("An Inquiry Into the Behavior of Central and State-Local Taxes in Federal Systems of Government"), Humanitas, Numero 18, 1977, pp. 579-592.

"A Bayesian Approach to Advertising as Information," with Allen Wyse, in David Tuerck, ed. The Political Economy of Advertising, American Enterprise Institute, 1978, pp. 132-167.

"Propiedad Publica Versus Propiedad Privada De Las Empresas Economicas Y Su Effecto En El Comportamiento De Los Lideres Financieros," ("Public Versus Private Ownership of Economic Enterprises: Effects on the Behavior of Economic Decision-Makers"), Humanitas, Numero 19, 1978, pp. 519-525.

"An Analysis of Fiscal Centralization, Decentralization, and the Pattern of Federal and State-Local Taxes," in R.L. Mathews and W.R.C. Jay, eds., State and Local Taxation, Australian National University Press, 1978, pp. 65-82.

"Review of William H. Dodge and Donald J. Harmatuck, `Elements of Publicness in Urban Transit'," Journal of Economic Issues, 12, December, 1978, pp. 963-965.

"Ventajas Economicas y Preferencias Por Gobiernos De Tipo Federal," ("Economic Advantages and Preferences for Federal-Type Governments"), Humanitas, Numero 20, 1979, pp. 523-533.

"The Measurement of Tax Progressivity," American Economic Review, 70, March 1980, pp. 204-207.

"Property Rights and Efficiency in a Regulated Environment, Reply," Economic Record, June 1980, pp. 186-189.

"Approximaciones Empiricas de la Incidencia de la Estructura de Impuestas," ("Empirical Estimates of the Incidence of Tax Structures"), Humanitas, Numero 21, 1980, pp. 629-643.

"Property Rights and Economic Behavior in Private and Government Enterprises: The Case of Australia's Banking System," Research in Law and Economics, Vol. 3, 1981, pp. 111-142.

"Tributacion Y La Teoria Y Practica De La Economica Del Lado De La Oferta, " ("Taxation and the Theory and Practice of Supply-Side Economics"). Humanitas, Numero 22, 1981.

"Review of James T. Bennett and Manuel H. Johnson, 'The Political Economy of Federal Government Growth: 1959-1978'," Public Choice, Vol. 37, No. 2, 1982.

"Toward Understanding the Crisis in Social Security," Lamplighter, Vol. 3, No. 5, May 1983, 22-24.

"Reviews of Svetozar Pejovich, 'Fundamentals of Economics: A Property Rights Approach'; and Gary D. Libecap, 'Locking Up the Range, Federal Land Controls and Grazing'," The Atlantic Economic Review, Vol. XI, No. 1, March 1983, pp. 120-122.

"Algunos Efectos Economicos De La Inflacion Sobre Los Ingressos De Las Empresas Y Sobre La Structura Trbutoria," ("Some Economic Effects of Inflation on Corporation Incomes and Taxes"), Humanitas, Numero 23, 1982.

"Conventional Government Policies, Supply-Side Economics and Taxation," Lamplighter, Vol. 3, No. 8, August 1983, 811, 18-19.

"Further Evidence on Fiscal Centralization and Decentralization," Notebook Conference for Federal Studies, Summer 1983, Vol. 1.2, No. 3/4, 48.

"Tax Policy, Economic Growth and the Ideas of the New Supply-Side Economists," The South Atlantic Quarterly, Vol. 83, Autumn 1984, pp. 447-456.

The Structure, Organization, Economic and Fiscal Behavior of Jamaican Public Enterprises, Tax Structure Examination Project, Government of Jamaica and Syracuse University, Kingston, 1986, 161 pp.

United States Taxes and Tax Policy , Cambridge University Press, 1986, 316 pp.

"Property Rights and Transaction Costs: Theory and Evidence on Private and Government-Owned Organizations," with Peter Brucato, Zeitschrift fur die gesamte Staatswissenschaft/Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, Band 143, Heft 1. Marz 1987, pp. 722.

"Review of Christopher Findlay, et al., with J. Cornwell, 'Changes in the Air: Issues in Domestic Aviation Policy,"' Economic Analysis and Policy, New Series, Vol. 17, March 1987, pp. 103-105.

"The Attempt to Reform Taxation in the United States," Government and Policy, V.6, 71-92, 1988.

PUBLICATIONS FORTHCOMING:

"The Taxation of Jamaican Public Enterprises," with Lauria Grant, Jamaican Taxes, 1989.

RESEARCH IN PROGRESS:

"The Implications of the Alternative Assignment of Property Rights: A Comparison of Private and Public Firms."

"The Economic Performance of Public Enterprises in Jamaica."

"Property Rights, Transactions Costs, and Economic Behavior in Australian Private and Government-Owned Banks."

"The Structure of Incentives and the Economic Record of Jamaican Private and Government-Owned Banks."

"Institutional and Other Barriers to Tax Reform."

RESEARCH AND CONSULTING REPORTS:

Statistical Analysis of Aircraft Accidents, Headquarters Pacific Air Command, Tokyo, 1946.

An Analysis of Aircraft Operations, Headquarters Far East Air Force Command, Tokyo, 1947.

The Legal and Economic History of Bank Taxation, research report for UCLA Bureau of Business and Economic Research, 1953.

The Impact of the Federal Income Tax Structure on the Individual Taxpayer, consulting report for Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce, 1954.

Government Expenditures, Employment, Receipts, and Debt, Institute of Government, University of North Carolina, 1965.

An Economic Analysis of Local Sales Taxation, consulting report for North Carolina Legislature, House of Representatives, 1966.

The Economics of the Soft Drink Tax, consulting report, co-authored with John Vernon, for hearings in the North Carolina Legislature, 1973.

Private Money and Public Election: A Democratic Contradiction, with Joel L. Fleishman, Glenn Reichardt, Robert B. Rice, and Christopher G. Sawyer, for the Ford Foundation, 1975.

Inflation and Sales Taxation, Research Report, for Economic Inequities Incorporated, 1981.

Jamaica Tax Revenues and the New IMF Fiscal Requirements, co-author, Jamaica Tax Structure Examination Project, Kingston, January 1984.

Project Planning Paper for Tax Reform, co-author, Jamaica Tax Structure Examination Project, Kingston, February 1984.

Principles and Criteria for the Efficient Operation of Public Enterprises, Jamaica Tax Structure Examination Project, Kingston, June 1984.

The Anatomy of Jamaican Public Enterprises, Jamaica Tax Structure Examination Project, Kingston, July 1984.

WORKING PAPERS:

"Some Economic Effects of Inflation, The Measurement of Income, and Taxes on the Performance of Business Enterprises," Law and Economics Center, University of Miami, LEC Working Paper No. 831, pp. 1-30.

"An Analysis of Some Equity and Allocational Effects of Taxes, Real and Nominal Capital Gains," Law and Economics Center, University of Miami, LEC Working Paper No. 832, pp. 1-35.

"An Economic Analysis of Australia's Two-Airline Policy: Private Versus Government Ownership," Duke University, Department of Economics Working Paper No. 701, pp. 1-24.

"Sales Tax Progressivity of Clothing Exemptions in Rural and Urban Areas," Duke University Department of Economics Working Paper No. 702, pp. 1-5.

INVITED PAPERS, DISCUSSANT, AND CHAIRED PROGRAMS:

"Commodity Taxation, the Distribution of Income, and Equity," Annual Meeting of the Midwest Economics Association, Minneapolis, 1958.

"Sales Taxation and the Stable Growth of Income," Annual Meeting of the National Tax Association, New York, 1960.

"The Income Elasticity and Stability of Gasoline Taxes in the Various States," Annual Meeting of the Southern Economic Association, 1962, Atlanta.

"On the Economics of Nonmarket Decision Making," Discussant, Annual Meeting of the Southern Economic Association, Roanoke, Virginia, 1963.

"Notes on Fiscal Factors in the Formulation of Monetary Policy," University of North Carolina, 1963.

"The Growth of Governmental Spending in Urban and Suburban Jurisdictions," Annual Meeting of the National Tax Association, New Orleans, 1965.

"Bias in the Distribution of Public Grants to Rural and SMSA Governmental Units," Distinguished Lectureship Series, University of Missouri, 1965.

"Some Effects of Taxes and Public Expenditures on the Allocation and Distribution of Resources," University of North Carolina, 1965.

"History, Theory, and Pattern of Public Expenditures in the United States," University of North Carolina, 1965.

"Decreasing Cost Industries, Excise Taxes, and Price and Output Responses," Distinguished Lectureship Series, University of Missouri, 1965.

"Australian Government Employment over the Business Cycle," Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, 1968.

"Australian Government Taxes and Expenditures, and Fluctuations in Income," Melbourne University, Melbourne, Australia, 1968.

"Australian Government Corporations and the Economics of Public Choice," University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia, 1968.

"The Peacock-Wiseman Hypotheses in Post-War Australia," University of Kentucky, 1968.

"Changes in the Tax Burden When Services are Added to the Base of a Sales Tax," Annual Meeting of the National Tax Association, Boston, 1969.

"Public Preferences and Crime," chairman, Annual Meeting of the Southern Economic Association, Miami Beach, 1971.

"Urban Public Expenditures," chairman, Southern Regional Science Association, New Orleans, 1973.

"The Budgetary Process," Policy Outcomes Workshop, National Planning Association, National Science Foundation Conference on Revenue Sharing Research, Airlie House, December 1973.

"Monetary and Fiscal Theory and Institutions," Chairman, Atlantic Economic Association Conference, Richmond, September 1974.

"Federal-State-Local Taxation in Selected Federal Countries: A Comparative Study," Australian National University, Canberra, A.C.T., April 1975.

"Fiscal Centralization and State-Local Taxes in Australia, Canada, and the United States," University of Melbourne, Victoria, April 1975.

"The Displacement, Concentration, and Vertical Imbalance Hypotheses Reconsidered," University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, April 1975.

"Fiscal Decentralization, Vertical Imbalance, and State-Local Taxes in Australia, Canada, and the United States," Government Centre, Brisbane, Queensland, May 1975.

"Revenue-Expenditure Imbalance Between Levels of Government: Australian and Other Federal Systems," The Economic Society of Australia and New Zealand, Canberra, May 1975.

"A Bayesian Approach to Advertising as Information," with Allen Wyse, American Enterprise Institute Conference on Advertising, Washington, D.C., July 1976.

"Public Finance," chairman, Annual Meeting of the Southern Economic Association, Atlanta, 1976.

"The Economics of Government Advertising," with Allen Wyse, Annual Meeting of the Southern Economic Association, Atlanta, 1976.

"Some Effects of Welfare Eligibility Requirements on Unemployment," and "Economic Variables and the Development of the Law," discussant, Annual Meeting of the Public Choice Society, New Orleans, March 1977.

"The Implications of the Alternative Assignment of Property Rights: A Comparison of Private and Public Firms," Annual Meeting of the Southern Economic Association, Washington, November 1978.

"The Fiscal Factors in Centralization and Devolution," Duke-Carleton Seminaron Canada: Centralization versus Devolution, Quail Roost, N.C., March 1618, 1979.

"Some Economic Effects of Alternative Supply Institutions," Department of Economics, University of Delaware, April 1979.

"Recent Research on the Taxation of Capital and Capital Income -in the United States," State Government Convention Centre, Adelaide, South Australia, March 1980.

"Some Different Economic Consequences Stemming from Public Rather than Private Ownership of the Means of Production," University of Adelaide and Flinders University, Adelaide, South Australia, March 1980.

"Property Rights and Incentives: A Comparison Between and Among Performances of Different Australian Banks," Department of Economics, School of General Studies, Australian National University, Canberra, A.C.T., April 1980.

"Production and Economic Behavior under Alternative Structures of Property Rights," Department of Economics, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, April 1980.

"Recent Developments in American Taxation with Special Emphasis on Supply Side Fiscalism," Intergovernment Financial Relations Interest Group, New South Wales State Government Office Block, Sydney, Australia, April 1980.

"Some Economic Effects of Capital Gains Taxation in the United States," Centre for Research on Federal Financial Relations, School of General Studies, Australian National University, Canberra, A.C.T., April 1980.

"The Economic Effects of the Transferability and Nontransferability of Property Rights on Owners and Managers of Firms," Law and Economic Center, University of Miami, February, 1981.

"Economic Incentives and Systematic Differences in Economic Behavior: Allocational and So-Called X-Efficiency Effects," Department of Economics, Davison College, February 1981.

"Some Economic Implications of Nationalizing Private Business Enterprises," Law and Economics Center, University of Miami, January 1982.

"Property Rights and Transactions Costs in Private and Public Enterprises: Some Empirical Evidence," Law and Economics Center, University of Miami, January 1983.

"An Economic Analysis of Jamaican Public Enterprises," Government of Jamaica-United Nations Seabed Convention Centre, Kingston, Jamaica, June 1984.

"Ownership, Agency, and Economic Incentives in the Private Sector," Fourth Economic Institute for Federal Administrative Law Judges, Law and Economics Center, University of Miami, March 1985.

"Property Rights, Transaction-Information Costs, and Opportunistic Behavior in Government Firms and Bureaus," Law and Economics Center, University of Miami, March 1985.

"The New Institutional Economics and Economic Behavior in the Private and Public Sectors," Fifth Institute for Federal Administrative Law Judges, sponsored by the Law and Economics Center, University of Miami, Brickell Point Holiday Inn, Miami, January 1986.

"Politicizing Economic Decisions and Rent Seeking," First Advanced Institute for Federal Administrative Law Judges, Law and Economics Center, University of Miami, January 1986.

"Some Theoretical, Institutional, and Empirical Contrasts Between Privately and Governmentally Organized Enterprises," co-authored and read by Peter Brucato, Fourth Symposium on the New Institutional Economics, University of Saarland, Saarbrucken, W. Germany, June 1986.

Lectures on "Economic Incentives, Decision-Making, and Behavior," Sixth Institute and Second Advanced Institute for Federal Administrative Law Judges, Law and Economics Center, University of Miami, January 1987.

"On the Law of Unintended Consequences," and lectures on "Property Rights, Costs, and Economic Activity," Seventh Institute and Third Advanced Institute for Federal Administrative Law Judges, Law and Economics Center, University of Miami, Coral Gables, January 1988.