Curriculum Vitae

DAVID SCHAP, Ph.D.
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EDUCATION

Ph.D. (Economics), Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, December 1982.
M.S. (Applied Mathematics), The George Washington University, Washington, DC, September 1977.
B.A., magna cum laude (Economics), Loyola College, Baltimore, Maryland, May 1975.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Economics Department Chair, College of the Holy Cross, 1988 - 1994.
Instructor/Assistant Professor/Associate Professor/Professor, College of the Holy Cross, 1981 - present.
Instructor, University College of Washington University, 1978 - 1980.

Courses Taught:
Economics of Property Rights
Industrial Organization (directed readings)
Intermediate Microeconomics
Law and Economics
Principles of Microeconomics
Public Policy
Statistics

Professional Activities:
Discussant, Midwest Economics Association Meetings, St. Louis, April 1983.
Discussant, Law and Society Association Meetings, Boston, June 1984.
Discussant, American Economic Association Meetings, Dallas, December 1984.
Session Chair, Law and Society Association Meetings, San Diego, June 1985.
Discussant, Public Choice Society Meetings, Tucson, March 1987.
Discussant, Public Choice Society Meetings, San Francisco, March 1988.
Session Chair, Public Choice Society Meetings, Orlando, March 1989.
Discussant, Eastern Economic Association Meetings, Baltimore, March 1989.
Session Chair, Public Choice Society Meetings, Tucson, March 1990.
Session Chair, Public Choice Society Meetings, New Orleans, March 1991.
Session Chair, Clark University Conference on Privatization, Worcester, December 1991.
Discussant, American Economics Association Meeting, New Orleans, January 1992.
Participant, Liberty Fund Conference, "Judaic and Christian Perspectives on Economic Liberty," Cambridge, May 1993.
Director, Fund for Free Enterprise, College of the Holy Cross, 1988 - 1994.
Intercollegiate Studies Institute lecture coordinator, various years 1983 - 1994.
Attended Critical Issues Symposia, The Florida State University, 1988, 1990, and 1991.
Participant and Lecturer, Institution for World Capitalism Conference, "Capitalism and Compassion," Jacksonville, October 1994.
Attended The Federalist Society Conference "Law and Economics and the Rule of Law," Duke University Law School, Durham, February/March 1997.
Session Chair, Presidential Invited Session, Southern Economic Association, Atlanta, November 1997.
Discussant, Southern Economic Association Meetings, Baltimore, November 1998.
Testified before Massachusetts State Legislature, Joint House-Senate Subcommittee considering House Bill 2886 concerning price controls on pharmaceuticals, Boston, June 29, 1999.
Testified before the Vermont State Legislature, Health Access Oversight Committee, concerning pharmaceuticals price controls, Montpelier, July 19, 1999.
Presented an economist's view on The Politics of Prescription Drugs at the 26th Annual Meetings of the American Legislative Exchange Council, Nashville, August 12, 1999.
Presented an economist's view on price controls as part of a mock legislative hearing at the Annual Meeting of the State Government Affairs Section of the Pharmaceutical Researchers and Manufacturers of America, Indian Wells, California, October 16, 1999.
Panelist, "Issues Relating to Offsets Between Damage Elements in Forensic Economics," Southern Economic Association Meetings, Tampa, November 2001.
Discussant, Forensic Economics Session, Eastern Economics Association Meetings, New York, February 2003.
Participant/presenter, Debate on Public Choice, Austrian Economics Seminar, Loyola University, New Orleans, January 16, 2004.
Discussant, Forensic Economics Session, Eastern Economic Association Meetings, Washington, DC, February 2004.
Discussant, Public Choice Society Meetings, Baltimore, March 2004.
Discussant, Forensic Economics Session, Southern Economic Association Meetings, New Orleans, November 2004.
Discussant, Forensic Economics Session, Eastern Economic Association Meetings, New York, February 2005.
Attended Public Choice Society Meetings, New Orleans, March 2005.
Member, Doctoral Dissertation Committee for Nevila Kote, Clark University, "The Veto Power: From Democracy to Dictatorship," defended March 2005.
Member, Doctoral Dissertation Committee for Nirupama Devaraj, Clark University, "Exit and Voice: An Analysis of Direct Democracy in a Tiebout Framework," defended March 2005.
Referee for American Journal of Political Science, Economic Inquiry, Economic Journal, Journal of Economic Education, European Journal of Law and Economics, Journal of Economics and Business, Journal of Forensic Economics, Journal of Theoretical Politics, and Public Choice, various years.

AFFILIATIONS

Membership in Professional Societies:
American Economic Association
Eastern Economic Association
National Association of Forensic Economists
Southern Economic Association
Western Economic Association

Board Memberships:
Executive Committee, Worcester Economic Club, 1994 - 1996.
Finance Committee, Salem Community Corporation (Briarwood Continuing Care Retirement Community/Knollwood Nursing Home), 1994 - 2002
Stewardship and Finance Commission, Salem Covenant Church, 1991 - 2002.
Green Hill Capital Improvements Commission, Department of Parks and Recreation, City of Worcester, 1995 - 1996.

AWARDS AND SPECIAL PROGRAMS
Loyola College Scholarship, 1971 - 1975.
German Society of Maryland Scholarship, 1972 - 1975.
Alpha Sigma Nu, inducted 1974.
Omicron Delta Epsilon, inducted 1974.
The Wall Street Journal Medal, 1975.
Dissertation Fellowship, Center for the Study of American Business, 1981.
Batchelor (Ford) Fellowship, College of the Holy Cross, summer, 1983.
Faculty Fellowship, College of the Holy Cross, spring, 1985.
Batchelor (Ford) Fellowship, College of the Holy Cross, summer, 1986.
Law Institute for Economists, Dartmouth College, July, 1987.
Visiting Scholar, Center for Study of Public Choice, fall semester, 1987.
Leavey Award for Excellence in Private Enterprise Education for 1992 (awarded by Freedoms Foundation at Valley Forge, PA, June 1993).
Visiting Scholar, Institution for World Capitalism, January/February 1995.
Visiting Professor/Visiting Scholar, Wesleyan University, spring semester, 2004.

RESEARCH AND PUBLICATIONS

Book:
Municipal Ownership in the Electric Utility Industry: A Centennial View (New York: Praeger Publishers, 1986).

Book Chapters:
"Public Enterprise: Retrospective Survey and Prospective Theory" in Jurgen G. Backhaus and Richard E. Wagner (eds.) Handbook on Public Finance, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2004 (with Scott Hinds and Nicolas Sanchez), pp. 277-300.
"Line Item Veto: Lessons from the Literature," in Attiat Ott and Richard Cebula (eds.), The Elgar Companion to Public Economics: Empirical Public Economics, Edward Elgar, forthcoming.

Journal Articles:
"X-Inefficiency in a Rent-Seeking Society - A Graphical Analysis," The Quarterly Review of Economics and Business, vol. 25, no. 1 (Spring, 1985): 19-27.
"The Appropriate Specification of Constant Elasticity Demand Functions," Social Choice and Welfare, vol. 2, no. 2 (September 1985): 89-94 (with Joseph A. DiMasi).
"The Nonequivalence of Property Rules and Liability Rules," The International Review of Law and Economics, vol. 6, no. 1 (June 1986): 125-32.
"Executive Veto and Informational Strategy: A Structure-Induced Equilibrium Analysis," American Journal of Political Science, vol. 30, no. 4 (November 1986): 755-70.
"Executive Veto, Legislative Override and Structure-Induced Equilibrium," Public Choice, vol. 52, no. 2 (1987): 227-44 (with John R. Carter). Reprinted in Charles Rowley, ed., Public Choice Theory (Edward Elgar, 1993), vol. 3, pp. 47-64.
"Property Rights and Decision Making in the Soviet Union: Interpreting Soviet Environmental History," Economic Inquiry, vol. 26, no. 3 (July 1988): 389-401.
"In Search of Efficacious Executive Veto Authority," Public Choice, vol. 58, no. 3 (September 1988): 247-57.
"Pricing and Property Rights in Government Enterprises: Some Dynamic Aspects," Research in Law and Economics, vol. 11 (1989): 113-27.
"Line-Item Veto: Where Is Thy Sting?" Journal of Economic Perspectives, vol. 4, no. 2 (spring 1990): 103-18 (with John R. Carter).
"Executive Veto and Spending Limitation: Positive Political Economy with Implications for Institutional Choice," Public Choice, vol. 65, no. 3 (1990): 239-56.
"The First Word and the Last Word in the Budgetary Process: A Comparative Institutional Analysis of Proposal and Veto Authorities," Public Choice, vol. 81, nos. 1-2 (1994): 35-53 (with James A. Dearden).
"Recoverable Damages for Wrongful Death in the States," Journal of Forensic Economics, vol. 10, no. 3 (fall 1997): 279-84 (with Deirdre K. Valvo).
"Enterprise and Biodiversity: Do Market Forces Yield Diversity of Life?" Cato Journal, vol. 19, no. 1 (spring/summer 1999): 49-67 (with Andrew T. Young).
"Method for Calculating Reasonable Range Estimates in Life Care Plan Analysis and Other Forensic Economic Applications," Journal of Forensic Economics, vol. 17, no. 1 (2004): 39-45.

Reviews:
"Review of Regulatory Decision Making: The Virginia State Corporation Commission," Southern Economic Journal, vol. 52, no. 2 (October 1985): 591-92.
"Review of The Effects of Research and Development on U. S. Market Structure," Southern Economic Journal, vol. 53, no. 2 (October 1986): 553-54.
"Review of Electric Power: Deregulation and the Public Interest," Southern Economic Journal, vol. 54, no. 2 (October 1987): 511-12.
"Review of Competition: The Economics of Industrial Change, " Southern Economic Journal, vol. 56, no. 3 (January 1990): 850-51.
"Review of Economics and Antitrust Policy, " Southern Economic Journal, vol. 57, no. 2 (October 1990): 578-79.
"Review of The Economics of Property Rights: Towards a Theory of Comparative Systems," Southern Economic Journal, vol. 58, no. 3 (January 1992): 845-46.
"Review of Recent Developments in the Theory of Industrial Organization, " Southern Economic Journal, vol. 60, no. 2 (October, 1993): 531-33.
"Review of The Growth of the Public Sector: Theories and International Evidence," Southern Economic Journal, vol. 61, no. 2 (October 1994): 560-62.
"Review of Property Rights and the Limits of Democracy," Public Choice, vol. 82, no. 1-2 (January 1995): 193-96.
"Review of Economic Thought and Political Theory, " Southern Economic Journal, vol. 63, no. 1 (July 1996): 276-78.
"Review of The Limits of Public Choice: A Sociological Critique of the Economic Theory of Politics, " The Independent Review, vol. 1, no. 4 (spring 1997): 605-08.
"Review of Economic Institutions, Markets and Competition: Centralization and Decentralization in the Transformation of Economic Systems," Southern Economic Journal, vol. 64, no. 1 (July 1997): 363-65.
"Review of Volatile States: Institutions, Policy, and the Performance of American State Economies," Public Choice, forthcoming.

Other Publications:
"Taking Stock of Inventory Accounting Practices," The Wall Street Journal, Wednesday, September 15, 1982, p. 31. Reprinted in Thomas J. Burns and Harvey S. Hendrickson (eds.), The Accounting Sampler, 4th ed. (New York: McGraw-Hill, p. 147).
"Law and Economics," in How Professors Use The Wall Street Journal, Dow Jones & Company, 1983.
"Abstract - Municipal Exit from the Electric Power Industry: 1924-1932," Atlantic Economic Journal, vol. 12, no. 1 (March 1984): 80.
"Market Measures Cities' Livability," The Wall Street Journal, Monday, April 27, 1987, p. 25.
"Public and Private Pathways to Pension Portability," Challenge, vol. 31, no. 1 (January/February 1988): 53-55 (with Peter R. Jensen).

Papers Delivered:
"The Economics of Perquisites," Midwest Economics Association, Chicago, April 1979.
"Pricing in Government Enterprises: Some Dynamic Aspects," Western Economic Association, Los Angeles, July 1982.
"The Impact of Collective Organization on Economic Policy," Public Choice Society, Savannah, March 1983 (with Nicolas Sanchez).
"The Appropriate Specification of Constant Elasticity Demand Functions in Median Voter Models," Public Choice Society, Savannah, March 1983 (with Joseph A. DiMasi).
"Property Rules, Liability Rules, and the Coase Theorem," Midwest Economics Association, St. Louis, April 1983; superseded by "The Nonequivalence of Property Rules and Liability Rules," Law and Society Association, Denver, June 1983.
"Technology, Ideology, and the Abandonment of Municipal Ownership in the Electric Power Industry," Atlantic Economic Association, Philadelphia, October 1983.
"Property Rights and Environmental Concern within the Soviet Bureaucracy," Public Choice Society, Phoenix, March 1984.
"Executive Veto, Legislative Override and Structure-Induced Equilibrium," Public Choice Society, New Orleans, February 1985 (with John R. Carter).
"In Search of Efficacious Executive Veto Authority," Public Choice Society, Baltimore, March 1986.
"Property Rights and Power: Item Veto Authority in the States," Public Choice Society, Baltimore, March 1986 (with John R. Carter).
"Executive Veto and Spending Limitation: Positive Political Economy with Implications for Institutional Choice," Public Choice Center, Fairfax, November 1987.
"Comments on Public versus Private Ownership in the Electric Utility Industry," Institute for Humane Studies, Fairfax, April 1989.
"The First and Last Word in Budgetary Politics: Executive Proposal and Veto Authority," Public Choice Society, Tucson, March 1990 (with James A. Dearden).
"X-Efficiency Theory: Twenty-Five Years of Xasperating Debate," American Economic Association, New Orleans, January 1992.
"Deriving Reasonable Range Estimates in Life Care Plan Analysis and Other Forensic Economic Applications," Southern Economic Association Meetings, San Antonio, November 2003; and Wesleyan University, February 2004.

Special Lectures:
"Lessons Concerning Line-Item Veto," Lafayette College, Easton, February, 1990 (finalist for William E. Simon Chair in Political Economy).
"Environmental Policy: Noble Intentions and Nobel Insights," Holy Cross Alumni Continuing Education Day, May 9, 1992.
"Economics in the Courtroom," Holy Cross Alumni Continuing Education Day, April 2, 2005.

Revised April 2005

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