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Dennis Epple

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Thomas Lord Professor of Economics; Head, B.S. Economics Program

Email:
epple@cmu.edu

Education:
  • Purdue University - B.S. - 1968
  • Princeton University - M.P.A. - 1971
  • Princeton University - Ph.D. - 1975
Areas of Expertise:
  • Economics
  • Political Economy
Teaching and Research Interests:
  • Public economics, economics of education, industrial organization and applied econometrics.
Published Papers: 
  • A New Approach to Estimating the Production Function for Housing
    American Economic Review, forthcoming.
    (With: Holger Sieg, B. Gordon)

  • School Finance Reform: Assessing General Equilibrium Effects
    Journal of Public Economics 92, June 2008; 1326-1351.
    (With: Maria Ferreyra)

  • On the Political Economy of Zoning
    Journal of Public Economics, 2007.
    (With: Stephen Calabrese, R. Romano)

  • Simultaneous Equation Econometrics: The Missing Example
    Economic Inquiry 44, April 2006; 374-384.
    (With: Bennett McCallum)

  • Local Public Good Provision: Voting, Peer Effects, and Mobility
    Journal of Public Economics, 2006.
    (With: Stephen Calabrese, T. Romer, Holger Sieg)

  • Non-Fiscal Residential Zoning
    The Tiebout Model at Fifty: Essays in Public Economics in Honor of Wallace Oates, 2006.
    (With: Stephen Calabrese, R. Romano)

  • Admission, Tuition, and Financial Aid Policies in the Market for High Education
    Econometrica 74, 2006; 885-928.
    (With: Holger Sieg, R. Romano)

  • Local Government Fiscal Structure and Metropolitan Consolidation
    Brookings-Wharton Papers on Urban Affairs, 2002.
    (With: Stephen Calabrese, Cassidy)

  • Interjurisdictional Sorting and Majority Rule: An Empirical Analysis
    Econometrica 69, November 2001; 1437-1466.
    (With: T. Romer, Holger Sieg)

  • Estimating Equilibrium Models of Local Jurisdictions
    Journal of Political Economy 107, 1999; 645-681.
    (With: Holger Sieg)

  • Competition Between Private and Public Schools: Vouchers and Peer Group Effects
    American Economic Review, 1998.
    (With: R. Romano)

  • Public Provision of Private Goods
    Journal of Political Economy, 1996.
    (With: R. Romano)

  • An Empirical Investigation of the Micro Structure of Knowledge Acquisition and Transfer through Learning by Doing
    Operations Research 44, 1996; 77-86.
    (With: Linda Argote, K. Murphy)

  • The Acquisition, Transfer and Depreciation of Knowledge in Service Organizations: Productivity in Franchises
    Management Science 44, 1995; 1750-1762.
    (With: Linda Argote, E. Darr)

  • Mobility and Redistribution
    Journal of Political Economy, 1991.
    (With: T. Romer)

  • Organizational learning curves; A method for investigating intra-plant transfer of knowledge acquired through learning by doing
    Organization Science 2, 1991; 58-70.
    (With: Linda Argote, R Devadas)

  • The Persistence and Transfer of Learning in Industrial Settings
    Management Science 36, 1990; 140-154.
    (With: Linda Argote, S. Beckman)

  • Learning Curves in Manufacturing
    Science 247, 1990; 920-924.
    (With: Linda Argote)

  • State Restrictions on Local Debt: Their Role in Preventing Default
    Journal of Public Economics 29, 1986; 199-221.
    (With: Chester Spatt)

Working Papers: 
Awards:
  • Fellow of the Econometric Society, Elected - 2003
  • Excellence in Teaching Award, GSIA
Editorial Boards:
  • Journal of Public Economic Theory (Editorial Board), 2004
  • Journal of Public Economics (Co-Editor), 2006-
  • Journal of Public Economics (Editorial Board), 2002-2006
  • Quarterly Journal of Economics (Editorial Board), 2001-2005
  • B.E. Journals of Economic Analysis and Policy (Editorial Board), 2001-
  • Economics and Geography (Editorial Board), 1999-
  • American Economic Review (Editorial Board), 1999-2003
  • American Economic Review (Co-Editor), 1994-1999
Boards:
  • I Have A Dream Foundation, Pittsburgh
  • Committee on Education Finance: Equity, Adequacy and Productivity, National Research Council of the National Academy of Sciences, 1996-1999
Other Professional Activities:
  • Research Grants, National Science Foundation (1983-2006)
  • National Fellow, Hoover Institute (1984-1985)
  • Research Associate, Natural Bureau of Economic Research (1998-)
  • Member of the MacArthur Foundation Research Network on Economic Inequality and Social Interactions
  • Program Co-Chair with Stan Zin, Econometric Society North American Summer Meetings (2008)
  • Program Committee, Econometric Society Winter Meetings (2009)
Courses Taught:
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