CURRICULUM VITAE
FRANK M. GOLLOP
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Department of Economics Boston College Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts 02467 Telephone: (617) 552-3693 |
96 Church Street Weston, Massachusetts 02493 |
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS:
Professor of Economics, Boston College, 1985-Present |
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Associate Professor of Economics, Boston College, 1979-1985. |
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Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1974-1979. |
GRADUATE STUDIES:
Harvard University: A.M., November 1972; Ph.D., July 1974 |
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Ph.D. Thesis: Modeling Technical Change and Market Imperfections: An Econometric Analysis of U.S. Manufacturing, 1947-1971. |
UNDERGRADUATE STUDIES:
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University of Santa Clara: |
A.B. in Economics, June l969 |
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A.B. in Philosophy, June l970 |
SPECIAL APPOINTMENTS:
Economic Classification Policy Committee, Expert Consultant to U.S. Government, 1992-Present.
HONORS, AWARDS and GRANTS:
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U.S. Department of Agriculture Grant 1995-99 |
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National Science Foundation Grant, 1992-94 |
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U.S. Department of Agriculture Grant 1992-97 |
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U.S. Bureau of the Census Grant, 1985-87 |
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U.S. Bureau of the Census Grant, 1984-86 |
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Federal Trade Commission Grant, 1984 |
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Research Fellowship, Boston College, 1984 |
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Summer Research Grant, Boston College, 1983 |
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U.S. Bureau of the Census Grant, 1983 |
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U.S. Bureau of the Census Grant, l982 |
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U.S. Department of Commerce Grant, 1982 |
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Center for Economic Development Grant, 1982 |
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Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Grant, 1980 |
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U.S. Department of Labor Grant, 1979-1980 |
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U.S. Department of Commerce Grant, 1978-1979 |
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Graduate School Research Committee Grant, Univ. of Wisconsin, 1979 |
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National Science Foundation Grant, 1977-1978 |
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Graduate School Research Committee Grant, Univ. of Wisconsin, 1978 |
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Graduate School Research Committee Grant, Univ. of Wisconsin, 1977 |
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Department Fellow, Harvard University, 1971-1972 |
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University Fellowship, University of Santa Clara, 1965-1969 |
PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES:
American Economic Association |
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Conference on Research in Income and Wealth |
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Eastern Economic Association |
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Western Economic Association |
RECENT REFEREEING ACTIVITY:
American Economic Review, National Science Foundation, Review of Economics and Statistics, Land Economics, Southern Economic Journal, The Canadian Journal of Economics, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Review of Industrial Organization, American Journal of Agricultural Economics.
PUBLICATIONS:
"Structural Inflation in the United States, 1964-1966," The American Economist, 13, No. 2 (Fall 1969), pp. 31-39.
"The Impact of the Fuel Adjustment Mechanism on Economic The Review of Economics and Statistics, 60, No. 4 (November 1978), pp. 574-84 (with Stephen Karlson).
"Firm Interdependence in Oligopolistic Markets," The Journal of Econometrics, 10 (April 1979), pp. 313-331 (with Mark Roberts).
"Accounting for Intermediate Input: The Link Between Sectoral and Aggregate Measures of Productivity Growth," in A. Rees and J. Kendrick (eds.), The Measurement and Interpretation of Productivity. Washington, D.C.: National Academy of Sciences, 1979.
"United States Factor Productivity by Industry, 1947-1973," in John W. Kendrick and Beatrice Vaccara (eds.), New Developments in Productivity Measurement and Analysis, Conference on Research in Income and Wealth, Vol. 44, Chicago: University of Chicago Press for the National Bureau of Economic Research, 1980 (with Dale Jorgenson).
"Imported Intermediate Input: Its Impact on Sectoral Productivity in U.S. Manufacturing," in N. Adam and A. Dogramaci (eds.), Productivity in the Macro-Sector. Boston: Martinus Nijhoff, 1980 (with Mark Roberts).
"The Sources of Growth in the U.S. Electric Power Industry," in T. Cowing and R. Stevenson (eds.), Productivity Measurement in Regulated Industries. New York: Academic Press, 1980 (with Mark Roberts).
"The Electric Power Industry: An Econometric Model of Intertemporal Behavior," Land Economics, (August 1980), (with Stephen Karlson).
"Environmental and Health/Safety Regultions, Productivity Growth, and Economic Performance: An Assessment," U.S. Congress, Joint Economic Committee and Senate Commerce Committee, Committee Print, Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1980 (with Greg Christiansen and Robert Haveman).
"Scale Effects and Technical Change as Sources of Productivity Growth," in John D. Hogan (ed.), Dimensions of Productivity Research. Houston: American Productivity Center, 1980.
"A Microeconomic Model of Household Choice: The Household as a Disputant," Law & Society Review, 15: 3-4 (1980-81), pp. 611-630, (with Jeffrey Marquandt).
"Automatic Adjustment Clauses: The Effect on Fuel Prices," in U.S. Department of Energy, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, Automatic Adjustment Clauses in Public Utility Rate Schedules. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1982 (with Stephen Karlson).
"The Economic Consequences of Automatic Adjustment Clauses," in U.S. Department of Energy, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, Automatic Adjustment Clauses in Public Utility Rate Schedules Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1982 (with Stephen Karlson).
"Growth Accounting in an Open Economy," in A. Dogramici (ed.), Developments in Econometric Analyses of Productivity. Boston: Klumer Nijhoff, 1982.
"Development and Use of the Longitudinal Establishment Data File," in U.S. Bureau of the Census, Workshop on the Development and Use of Longitudinal Establishment Data. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1982.
"Sectoral Measures of Labor Cost for the United States, 1948-1978," in J.E. Triplett (ed.), The Measurement of Labor Cost, Studies in Income and Wealth, Vol. 48, Chicago: University of Chicago Press for the NBER, 1983 (with Dale Jorgenson).
"Environmental Regulations and Productivity Growth: The Case of Fossil-Fueled Electric Power Generation," Journal of Political Economy, 91 (August 1983), pp. 654-74 (with Mark Roberts).
"Cost-Minimizing Regulation of Sulfur Emissions: Regional Gains in Electric Power," The Review of Economics and Statistics, 67 (February 1985), pp. 81-90, (with Mark Roberts).
"Productivity and Growth of Sectoral Output in the United States, 1948-1979," in J.W. Kendrick (ed.), Interindustry Differences in Productivity Growth. Cambridge: Ballinger Press, 1985, (with Dale Jorgenson and Barbara Fraumeni).
"Analysis of the Productivity Slowdown: Evidence for a Sector-Biased or Sector-Neutral Industrial Strategy," in W. Baumol and K. McLennan (eds.), Productivity Growth and U.S. Competitiveness. New York: Oxford University Press, 1985.
"Cost Minimizing Regulation of Sulfur Emissions: A Summary," Regulation, 9 (Nov./Dec. 1985), pp. 51-2 (with Mark Roberts).
"The Effect of Warranty on Used Car Prices," in Pauline Ippolito and David Sheffman (eds.), Empirical Approaches to Consumer Protection Economics, Washington, D.C.: Federal Trade Commission, 1986 (with Jim Anderson).
"Evaluating SIC Boundaries and Industry Change over Time: An Index of Establishment Heterogeneity," Bureau of the Census, Second Annual Research Conference Proceedings, Washington, D.C.: Bureau of the Census, 1986.
"Modeling Aggregate Productivity Growth: The Importance of Intersectoral Transfer Prices and International Trade," Review of Income and Wealth, (1987), pp. 211-27.
Productivity and U.S. Economic Growth. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1987 (with Dale Jorgenson and Barbara Fraumeni).
From Homogeneity to Heterogeneity: An Index of Diversification. U.S. Bureau of the Census, Technical Paper 60. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1989 (with Jim Monahan).
Comments on "Regulatory Failure, Regulatory Reform, and Structural Change in the Electric Power Industry" by P. Joskow in M. Bailey and C. Winston (eds.), Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, Washington, D.C.: Brookings, 1989.
"A Generalized Index of Diversification: Trends in U.S. Manufacturing," The Review of Economics and Statistics, 73 (May 1991), pp. 318-30 (with James Monahan).
"Alternative Approaches to Classifying Economic Activity," in 1991 International Conference on the Classification of Economic Activities--Proceedings, Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of Commerce, 1992.
"Productivity Growth in U.S. Agriculture: A Postwar Perspective," American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 74 (August 1992), pp. 745-750 (with Dale Jorgenson).
"The Cost of Capital and the Measurement of Productivity," in Conference volume honoring Dale Jorgenson, forthcoming.
"The Heterogeneity Index: A Quantitative Tool to Support Industrial Classification," Bureau of Economic Analysis Report (BE-42), Economic Classification Policy Committee. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of Commerce, May 1994.
"The Pin Factory Revisited: Product Diversification and Productivity Growth," Review of Industrial Organization, 12 (June 1997), pp. 317-34.
"Do Industrial Classifications Need Re-Inventing? An Analysis of the Relevance of the U.S. SIC System for Productivity Research," Proceedings of the Sixth American Society of Information Systems Classification Research Workshop, Raymond Schwartz (ed.). Chicago: American Society for Information Science, 1998 (with Jack Triplett, D. Mark Kennet, and Ron Jarmin).
"From Total Factor to Total Resource Productivity: An Application to Agriculture," American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 80 (August 1998), pp. 577-83 (with G. Swinand).
Productivity and U.S. Economic Growth, (Greek language edition). Gutenberg: Gutenberg University Press, 1999 (with Dale Jorgenson and Barbara Fraumeni).
"Patterns of State Productivity Growth in the U.S. Farm Sector: Linking State and Aggregate Models," American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 81 (February 1999), pp. 164-79 (with V. Eldon Ball, Alison Kelly-Hawke, and Gregory Swinand).
"Total Resource Productivity: Accounting for Changing Environmental Quality," in Edwin Dean, Michael Harper, and Charles Hulten (eds.), New Developments in Productivity Analysis, Conference on Research in Income and Wealth, forthcoming, (with G. Swinand).
PAPERS SUBMITTED FOR PUBLICATION
"Regulating SO2 Under the Clean Air Act: Some Unintended Externalities," (June 1997), 37 pp. (with Kelly Chaston and Kathleen Lang).
PAPERS PRESENTED AT PROFESSIONAL MEETINGS:
1975 |
Conference on New Developments in Productivity Measurement, National Bureau of Economic Research: "United States Factor Productivity by Industry, 1947-1973." |
1976 |
Econometric Society: "The Impact of the Fuel Adjustment Mechanism on Economic Efficiency." |
1979 |
Conference on Productivity Measurement in Regulated Industries, National Science Foundation-University of Wisconsin: "The Sources of Growth in the U.S. Electric Power Industry." |
1980 |
Law and Society Association: "A Microeconomic Model of Household Choice: The Household as a Disputant." |
1981 |
Conference on Current Issues in Productivity, Rutgers University: "Growth Accounting in an Open Economy." |
1981 |
Western Economic Association: "An Open Economy Model of Productivity Growth." |
1981 |
Econometric Society: "Environmental Regulations and Productivity Growth: The Case of Fossil-Fueled Electric Power Generation." |
1981 |
Conference on Income and Wealth: "Sectoral Measures of Labor Cost for the United States, 1948-1978." |
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Southern Economic Association: "Modeling Aggregate Productivity Growth: The Importance of Intersectoral Transfer Prices and International Trade." |
1983 |
Southern Economic Association: "Cost-Minimizing Regulation of Sulfur Emissions: Regional Gains in Electric Power." |
1984 |
Federal Trade Commission Conference: "The Effect of Warranty on Used Car Prices." |
1984 |
U.S. Bureau of the Census Conference: "From Homogeneity to Heterogeneity: An Index of Diversification." |
1984 |
American Enterprise Institute: "Productivity and Growth of Sectoral Output in the United States, 1948-1979." |
1986 |
U.S. Bureau of the Census Conference: "Evaluating SIC Boundaries and Industry Change over Time: An Index of Establishment Heterogeneity." |
1987 |
American Economic Association Conference: "Measuring Product Heterogeneity." |
1988 |
U.S. Department of Agriculture: "Directions for Future Research in the Productivity of U.S. Agriculture." |
1991 |
International Conference on the Classification of Economic Activity: "Alternative Approaches to Classifying Economic Activity." |
1991 |
American Economic Association Conference: "Productivity Growth in U.S. Agriculture: A Postwar Perspective." |
1993 |
John F. Kennedy School of Public Policy Conference: "The Cost of Capital and the Measurement of Productivity." |
1994 |
National Bureau of Economic Research: "Does the SIC System Need Re-Inventing for Productivity Research?" (July 1994), 22 pp. (with Jack Triplett, D. Mark Kennet, and Ron Jarmin). |
1995 |
Industrial Organization Society Meetings: "The Pin Factory Revisited: Diversification and Productivity Growth" (January 1995). |
1995 |
USDA Symposium--Current Topics in Research Evaluation: "State Productivity Statistics: New USDA Estimates of State Multifactor Productivity Growth" (February 1995). |
1995 |
Eastern Economics Association: "The Pin Factory Revisited: Diversification and Productivity Growth" (March 1995). |
1995 |
Eastern Economics Association: "The Battle Against Major Air Pollutants: Some Wartime Statistics" (March 1995). |
1995 |
American Society of Information Systems/Classification Research Workshop: "Do Industrial Classifications Need Re-Inventing? An Analysis of the Relevance of the U.S. SIC System for Productivity Research" (October 1995). |
1998 |
American Agricultural Economics Association: "Incorporating Changing Water Quality into Measures of Farm Sector Productivity Growth" (January 1998). |
1998 |
Conference in Income and Wealth: "Incorporating Environmental Qualtiy in Measures of TFP Growth" (March 1998). |
INVITED PRESENTATIONS: |
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1976 |
Council of Economic Advisors: "Labor Input and the Decomposition of Labor Quality." |
1976 |
National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissions, Staff Subcommittee on Economics: "Efficiency Implications of Fuel Adjustment Mechanisms." |
1977 |
State of Wisconsin, Public Service Commission: "Critique of 'Preliminary Generic Environmental Impact Statement on Electric Utility Tariffs'." |
1977 |
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics: "The Measurement of Labor Input." |
1978 |
National Academy of Sciences, National Research Council: "Microeconomic Theory Applied to Productivity Analysis: The Link Between Sectoral and Aggregate Accounts." |
1978 |
Econometric Society: Comments on "The Econometrics of Exhaustible Resources," by Lars P. Hansen |
1978 |
University of Virginia, Department of Economics: "Modeling Factor Market Imperfections." |
1979 |
Boston College, Department of Economics: "Firm Interdependence in Oligopolistic Markets." |
1979 |
State University of New York at Binghamton, Department of Economics: "The Sources of Growth in the U.S. Electric Power Industry." |
1979 |
Federal Trade Commission: "Firm Interdependence in Oligopolistic Markets." |
1980 |
American Productivity Center Conference: "Scale Effects and Technical Change as Sources of Productivity Growth." |
1981 |
Bureau of Labor Statistics: "The Importance of InternationalTrade in Productivity Accounting." |
1981 |
Western Economic Association: Comments on "An Industrial Strategy for the 80s" by Kenneth McLennan. |
1981 |
U.S. State Department: "Structural Change, Investment, and Productivity." |
1982 |
Boston Bar Association: "Productivity Growth in the United States--The Role of Antitrust and Deregulation." |
1982 |
U.S. Bureau of the Census: "Development and Use of the Longitudinal Establishment Data File: Some Recommendations." |
1982 |
Committee for Economic Development: "Evidence for a Sector-Biased or Sector-Neutral Industrial Policy: Analysis of the Productivity Slowdown." |
1983 |
U.S. Department of Justice: "Cost-Minimizing Regulation of Sulfur Emissions: Regional Gains in Electric Power." |
1984 |
Penn State University, Department of Economics: "Evidence for a Sector-Biased or Sector-Neutral Industrial Policy: Analysis of the Productivity Slowdown." |
1984 |
U.S. Department of Justice: "From Homogeneity to Heterogeneity: An Index of Diversification." |
1984 |
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency: "Cost-Minimizing Regulation of Sulfur Emissions: Regional Gains in Electric Power." |
1985 |
U.S. Federal Trade Commission: "Cost-Minimizing Regulation of Sulfur Emissions: Regional Gains in Electric Power." |
1985 |
NBER Conference: Comments on "Productivity of Japanese and U.S. Workers in Firms of Varying Size" by N. Hashimoto and J. Raisian. |
1985 |
Rutgers University: "The Role of Micro Theory in Models of Productivity Growth." |
1986 |
U.S. Federal Trade Commission: "From Homogeneity to Heterogeneity: An Index of Diversification." |
1986 |
American Productivity Management Association: "Corporate Earnings and Productivity." |
1988 |
U.S. Central Intelligence Agency: "Measuring Productivity Flows Across Sectors in an Economy." |
1988 |
Brookings Institution: Comments on "Regulatory Failure, Regulatory Reform and Structural Change in the Electric Power Industry" by Paul Joskow. |
1989 |
University of Massachusetts, Amherst: "From Homogeneity to Heterogeneity: An Index of Diversification." |
1989 |
Econometric Society: Comments on "Cost Structure in Natural Gas Pipeline Industry" by Robin Sickles. |
1990 |
National Academy of Sciences and Academy of Sciences of the USSR: "The Link Between Aggregate and Sectoral Productivity Growth Under Imperfect Competition." |
1991 |
Foreign Service Institute, U.S. State Department: "Productivity Measurement and Trends." |
1995 |
Industrial Organization Society: Comments on "Evidence from English Auctions: Does Buyer Size Matter?" by Jon Nelson. |
1995 |
Eastern Economics Association: Comments on "Why Did Japanese-Style Manufacturing Emerge in Japan and the U.S.?" by Timothy Bushnell. |
1997 |
Boston Bar Association, Antitrust Subcommittee: "New Developments in the Economic Analysis of Tying Arrangements." |
TESTIMONY BEFORE CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEES AND FEDERAL AND STATE AGENCIES: |
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1981 |
U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on Energy and Commerce, Sub-committee on Oversight and Investigations: "The Productivity Slowdown in the United States." |
1981 |
Public Utilities Commission, State of Rhode Island. Docket No. 1560. Rebuttal Testimony on Behalf of New England Telephone regarding Productivity Offsets in Telecommunications Rate Setting. |
1982 |
U.S. Senate, Committee on Labor and Human Resources, Subcommittee on Employment and Productivity: "Total Factor Productivity--Measurement and Analysis." |
1982 |
Public Utilities Commission, State of Maine. Docket No. 82-124. Rebuttal Testimony on Behalf of New England Telephone regarding Productivity Offsets in Telecommunications Rate Setting. |
1989 |
Department of Public Utility Control, State of Connecticut. Docket No. 87-07-01. Testimony on Total Factor Productivity Growth in Northeast Utilities, 1981-87. |
1994 |
U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Energy Efficiency and Reliable Energy: "Economic Analysis of Proposed Rulemaking for Television Receivers." |
1998 |
Senate Judiciary Subcommittee Meeting: "Welfare Analysis of Extending Copyright-Like Protection to Databases." |
1998 |
U.S. Federal Communications Commission: "Economic Analysis of Price Cap Regulation of Local Exchange Carriers." |