PERSONAL INFORMATION FOR DAVID SCHAP
CONTACT INFORMATION:
Campus P.O. Box 88A
College of the Holy Cross
Worcester, MA 01610
Phone: (508) 793-2688
Fax: (508) 793-3708
E-Mail Address: dschap@holycross.edu
EDUCATION:
Ph.D. (Economics), Washington University (St. Louis), 1982
M.S. (Applied Mathematics), The George Washington University, 1977
B.A., Loyola College (Maryland), 1975
AWARD: The Leavey Award for Excellence in Private Enterprise Education, by the Freedoms Foundation at Valley Forge in 1992
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Law and Economics, Public Choice, Forensic Economics
PERSONAL INTERESTS:
Schap likes golf, golf and golf, in that order. Three times he has succeeded in qualifying for the finals of the Public Links competition for the state of Massachusetts. He also enjoys listening to jazz. For many years he played saxophone in jazz and other bands.
SELECT PUBLICATIONS:
Scott Hinds (HC Class of 2000), Nicolas Sanchez and David
Schap, "Public Enterprise: Retrospective Survey and Prospective Theory,"
in Jurgen G. Backhaus and Richard E. Wagner (eds.) Handbook on Public Finance,
Kluwer Academic Publishers, forthcoming.
David Schap and Andrew T. Young (HC class of 1997), "Enterprise and Biodiversity:
Do Market Forces Yield Diversity of Life?" Cato Journal 19(1), 1999,
pp. 49-67.
David Schap and Deidre K. Valvo (HC class of 1996), "Recoverable Damages
for Wrongful Death in the States," Journal of Forensic Economics
20(3), 1997, pp. 279-84.
John R. Carter and David Schap, "Line-Item Veto: Where Is Thy Sting?"
Journal of Economic Perspectives 4(1), 1990, pp. 103-18.
David Schap, Municipal Ownership in the Electric Utility Industry: A Centennial
View, (New York: Praeger, 1986)
ADDITIONAL PUBLICATIONS APPEAR IN:
Public Choice, Economic Inquiry, Quarterly Review of Economics and Business,
Research in Law and Economics, International Review of Law and Economics, American
Journal of Political Science, Social Choice and Welfare, and Southern
Economic Journal
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