1. Name: Robert B. Archibald Date: April 1997
Office Address: 125 Morton Hall
Office Phone: (757) 221-2366
email address: rbarch@malthus.morton.wm.edu
Home Address: 4 Tyndal Court, Williamsburg,
Virginia 23188
Home Phone: (757) 565-0712
2. Position: Professor of Economics
EDUCATION
3. B.A., University of Arizona, 1968 (Economics)
M.S., Purdue University, 1972 (Economics)
Ph.D., Purdue University, 1974 (Economics)
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
4. Instructor, Purdue University (1970-73)
Research Fellow, The Brookings Institution (1973-74)
Economist, Division of Price and Index Number Research,
Office of Prices and Living Conditions,
Bureau of Labor Statistics (1974-76)
Assistant Professor (1976-80), Associate Professor
(1980-89), Department Chair (1986-91),
Professor (1990- ), Chair, Department of Economics
(1986-91), Interim Dean, Faculty of Arts
and Sciences (1996-97), College of William and Mary
Visiting Associate Professor (1983-84), University of Arizona
HONORS, PRIZES AND AWARDS
5. Graduated with high distinction, University of Arizona; Phi
Kappa Phi; NDEA Fellowship (1971-73);
Baker-Weeks Fellowship, The Brookings
Institution (1973-74); Alumni Fellow,
The College of William and Mary (1980-81), ASEE
Fellow, NASA-Langley Research Center (1995)
COURSES TAUGHT
6. Principles of Economics, Intermediate Micro and Macroeconomic
Theory, Statistics, Seminar on the
Microfoundations of Macroeconomics, Seminar on the
Economics of Energy Policy Analysis Colloquium
for Graduate Students in Public Policy
FELLOWSHIPS AND GRANTS
7. a. Grants Awarded by Outside Agencies
"Economic Signals of Small
Business Activity," grant funded by the Small Business Administration,
May 1984 - January 1985,
Contract Number - SBA 7223-OA-83, available from National Technical
Information Service (joint
with Samuel Baker), $53,000.
"An Examination of Alternative
Proposals for Improving Public Health Care Services in James City County,"
May 1992 - September 1992
- grant funded by James City County, Office of Community Services (joint
David Finifter and Len Schifrin),
$29,000.
"A Survey of Attitudes of
Educators and Community Leaders on Possible Changes in Schooling,"
September 1993 - December
1994 - grant funded by the Virginia Department of Education
(joint with John McGlennon),
$30,000.
"Interdisciplinary Research
for an Effectiveness Analysis of the LaRC Small Business Innovation Research
Program," September 1995
- May 1996 - grant funded by National Aeronautics and Space Administration,
$50,000.
b. Summer Grants and Faculty Research Assignments Received from William and Mary
Summer Grants 1977, 1982, and 1985
Faculty Research Assignments 1983-84 and 1990-91.
RESEARCH
8. a. Articles in Refereed Journals
"How Many Paychecks? An Example
of a Self-Imposed Constraint" Economic Inquiry, Vol XXXII
October 1994, pages 696-702.
"Intertemporal Trades and
Problems of Self-Control" Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization,
Vol. 25 1994 pages 73 -91.
"Using a Multivariate Citations
Function to Correct Biases in the Rankings of Economic Journals,"
Eastern Economics Journal
Vol. XVI April-June 1990 pages 151-158 (co-authored with David Finifter).
"Subjective Framing and Attitudes
Toward Risk," Journal of Economic Psychology Vol. 10 (1989),
pages 321-327 (co-authored
with Catherine Elliott).
"Trial-and-Error Learning
and Economic Models," Kyklos, Vol. 42, 1989 pages 39-59 (co-authored with
Catherine Elliott).
"Aggregate Business Failures
and Federal Credit Activity," Public Finance Quarterly, April 1988,
Vol. 16, No. 2, pages 219-243
(co-authored with Samuel Baker).
"At What Price Vanity: An
Econometric Model of the Demand for Personalized License Plates,"
National Tax Journal, March
1987, Vol. XL, No. 1, pages 103-109 (co-authored with Neil Alper and
Eric Jensen).
"Biases in Citations-Based
Ranking of Journals," Scholarly Publishing, January 1987, Vol. 18, No.
2,
pages 131-138 (co-authored
with David Finifter).
"An Analysis of the Short-Run
Consumer Demand for Gasoline Using Household Survey Data: Reply,"
Review of Economics and
Statistics, August 1983, Vol. 65, No. 3, pages 533-534 (co-authored with
Robert Gillingham).
"Quality, Price, Advertising
and Published Quality Ratings," Journal of Consumer Research, March 1983,
Vol. 9, No. 4, pages 347-356
(co-authored with Clyde Haulman and Carlisle Moody).
"Seasonal Variation in Residential
Electricity Demand: Evidence from Survey Data," Applied Economics,
April 1982, Vol. 14, No.
2, pages 167-181 (co-authored with David Finifter and Carlisle Moody).
"The Distributional Impacts
of Alternative Gasoline Conservation Policies," Bell Journal of Economics,
Autumn 1981, Vol. 12, No.
2, pages 426-444 (co-authored with Robert Gillingham).
"A Decomposition of the Price
and Income Elasticities of the Consumer Demand for Gasoline," Southern
Economic
Journal, April 1981, Vol.
47, No. 4, pages 1021-1031 (co-authored with Robert Gillingham).
"An Analysis of the Short-Run
Consumer Demand for Gasoline Using Household Survey Data," Review of Economics
and Statistics, Nov. 1980,
Vol. LXII, No. 4, pages 622-628 (co-authored with Robert Gillingham).
"Partial Subindexes of the
Input Price of Computer Services," Southern Economic Journal, October 1979,
Vol. 46,
No. 2, pages 528-540 (co-authored
with William Reece).
"The Impact of the Energy
Crisis on the Demand for Fuel Efficiency: The Case of General Aviation,"
Transportation Research,
1977, Vol. 11, pages 161-165 (co-authored with William Reece).
"On the Theory of Industrial
Price Measurement: Output Price Indexes," Annals of Economic and Social
Measurement, Winter 1977,
Vol. 6, No. 1, pages 57-72.
"Labor Queues and Involuntary Unemployment," Economic Inquiry, January 1977, Vol. XV, No. 1, pages 33-50.
d. Articles in Non-refereed Conference Proceedings
"The Demand for Economics Journals," presented at the Western Economic Association Meetings, June 1984 (co-authored with David Finifter).
"Macroeconomics of Business Failures," presented at the Meetings of
the American
Economic Association, December 1981 (co-authored with Samuel Baker).
"Seasonal Demand for Electricity: Evidence from Survey Data," presented
at the 1980
Meetings of the Eastern Economic Association, March 1980 (co-authored
with David
Finifter and Carl Moody).
"A Price Index for Mainframe Computers," presented at the Meetings
of the Southern Economic Association, November 1975 (co-authored with William
Reece).
o. Other Scholarly Activity
"Deciding Who Gets Hurt," The Alumni Gazette of the College of William and Mary, Winter 1979, Vol. 46, No. 6, pages 18-21.
p. Work in Progress
"On the Effects of Public and Private R&D," co-authored with Alfredo Pereira, submitted for publication.
"Evaluating the NASA SBIR Program: Preliminary Evidence of a Tradeoff Between Commercialization and Basic Research," co-authored with David Finifter work in progress.
"Who is Attracted by the SBIR Program? Evidence from NASA-Langley Research Center SBIR Program," co-authored with David Finifter, work in progress.
"Other Funding Attracted by SBIR Firms: Evidence from NASA-Langley Research Center SBIR Program," co-authored with David Finifter, work in progress.