CURRICULUM VITA
PERSONAL INFORMATION

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

"Consumer Demand for Gasoline: Evidence from Household Diary Data," Proceedings of the American Statistical Association, Business and Economics Statistics Section, August 1978, pages 10-18 (co-authored with Robert Gillingham).    f. Contributed Scholarly Papers and Talks "Evaluating the NASA SBIR Program: Preliminary Evidence of a Tradeoff Between Commercialization and Basic Research," presented at the Southern Economics Association Meetings, November 1996 (co-authored with David Finifter)   "Investment During the Great Depression: Uncertainty and the Role of the Smoot-Hawley Tariff" presented at the Southern Economics Association Meetings, November 1995 (co-authored with David Feldman)

"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

"Paternalism and Models of Self-Control" Thomas Jefferson Program in Public Policy, Working Paper Number 1, April 1992.

"Deciding Who Gets Hurt," The Alumni Gazette of the College of William and Mary, Winter 1979, Vol. 46, No. 6, pages 18-21.

         "On the Theory of Industrial Price Measurement: Input Price Indexes," BLS Working Paper, No. 48, May 1975.

   p. Work in Progress

"Investment During the Great Depression: Uncertainty and the Role of the Smoot-Hawley Tariff," co-authored with David Feldman, submitted for publication.

"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.