Curriculum
Vitae
Alexander
Tabarrok
Department
of Economics, MSN 1D3
Tel.
703-993-2314
Fax:703-993-2323
Email:
Tabarrok@gmu.edu
Education
Ph.D.
B.A.
Positions
2002-current:
Associate Professor of Economics,
1999-current:
Assistant Editor, The Independent Review
1999-current:
Director of Research, The Independent Institute
2000-2002:
Vice President, The Independent Institute
1998
(Summer): Visiting Professor, Department of Economics,
1995-1999: Assistant Professor,
Department of Economics,
1996
(Summer): Visiting Professor, Department of Economics,
1994-95:
Lecturer, Department of Economics,
Publications
Books and Monographs
Tabarrok, Alexander (ed.). 2003. Changing the Guard:
Private Prisons and the Control of Crime. The Independent Institute.
Tabarrok, Alexander (ed.). 2002. Entrepreneurial
Economics: Bright Ideas from the Dismal Science.
Beito, David, Peter Gordon and Alexander Tabarrok (eds).
2002. The
Cowen, T., P. Brook-Cowen, and A. Tabarrok. 1992. An Analysis of Proposals for Constitutional
Change in
Refereed Articles
Klick, Jonathan and A. Tabarrok. 2005.
Using Terror Alert Levels to Estimate the Effect of Police on Crime. Journal of Law and Economics 48 (1):
Helland, E. and A. Tabarrok. 2004. Public
versus Private Law Enforcement: Evidence from Bail Jumping. Journal of Law and Economics XLVII (1):
93-122.
Helland, E. and A. Tabarrok. 2004.
Using Placebo Laws to Test “More Guns, Less Crime”. Advances in Economic Analysis & Policy 4 (1): Article 1. Available at: http://www.bepress.com/bejeap/advances/vol4/iss1/art
Helland E. and A. Tabarrok. 2003. Contingency
Fees, Settlement Delay and Low-Quality Litigation: Empirical Evidence from Two
Datasets. Journal of Law, Economics, and
Organization 19 (2): 517-542.
Helland, E. and A. Tabarrok. 2003.
Race, Poverty, and American Tort Awards: Evidence form Three Datasets. Journal
of Legal Studies 32: 27-58.
Tabarrok, A. 2002. Patent Theory versus
Patent Law. Contributions to Economic Analysis & Policy 1 (1), Article 9. http://www.bepress.com/bejeap/contributions/vol1/iss1/art9
Santoni, G. and A. Tabarrok. 2002.
Expected Dividend Growth, Valuation Ratios and Rational Optimism. Journal of
Financial and Economic Practice 1 (1): 110-119.
Helland, E. and A. Tabarrok. 2002. The Effect of Electoral
Institutions on Tort Awards. American Law
and Economics Review 4 (2):
341-370.
Tabarrok, A. forthcoming. A Geometric Proof of the
Neutrality Theorem. Public Finance/Finances Publiques.
Tabarrok, A. 2001. President Perot, or
Fundamentals of Voting Theory Illustrated with the 1992 Election. Public Choice 106 (3-4): 275-297.
Cowen, Tyler and Alexander
Tabarrok. 2000. A Economic Theory of Avant-Garde and Popular
Art, or High and Low Culture. Southern Economic Journal 67(2): 232-253.
Tabarrok, A. 2000. The Anomaly of Off-Label Drug
Prescriptions. The Independent Review V, #1: pp. 25-53.
Helland, E. and A. Tabarrok. 2000.
Runaway Judges? Selection effects and the jury? Journal of Law, Economics,
and Organization 16 (2): 306-333.
Tabarrok, A.
2000. Believe in Pascal's Wager? Have I
got a deal for you! Theory and Decision 48: 123-128.
Tabarrok, A. 2000. The Ramsey Model of Economic Growth. Mathematica
in Education and Research 8: 3-4: 43-51.
Cowen, T., and A. Tabarrok. 1999. The
Tabarrok, A., and E. Helland. 1999. Court Politics: The
Political Economy of Tort Awards. Journal
of Law and Economics XLII,1(April): 157-188..
Tabarrok, A. and L. Spector. 1999. Would the Borda Count have Avoided the Civil
War? Journal of Theoretical Politics
11(2): 261-288.
Tabarrok, A. 1998. Voting Theory with Representation
Triangles and Cubes. Mathematica in
Education and Research 7 (3):20-28.
Tabarrok, A. and T. Cowen. 1998. Who
Benefits from Progress?, Kyklos 51
(3):379-397.
Tabarrok, A. 1998. The Separation of Commercial and
Investment Banking: Morgans Vs Rockefellers. The Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics 1
(1):1-18.
Tabarrok, A. 1997. A Simple Model of Crime Waves, Riots, and
Revolutions. Atlantic Economic Review
25 (3):274-288
Tabarrok, A. 1998. The Private Provision of Public Goods Via
Dominant Assurance Contracts. Public
Choice 96:345-362.
Tabarrok, A. 1996. Genetic Testing and Human Welfare: Reply
to Hall. Journal of Health Economics
15:381-84.
Tabarrok, A. 1995. Irrelevance Propositions Are Irrelevant. Kyklos 48:409-417.
Cowen, T., and A. Tabarrok. 1995. Good Grapes and Bad
Lobsters: Applying the Alchian and Allen Theorem. Economic Inquiry XXXIII (April):253-56.
Tabarrok, A. 1994. Genetic Testing: An Economic and
Contractarian Analysis. Journal of Health
Economics 13:75-91.
Tabarrok, A. 1994. A Survey, Critique, and New Defense of
Term Limits. Cato Journal 14
(2):333-50.
Tabarrok, A., and T. Cowen. 1992. The Public Choice Theory
of John C. Calhoun. Journal of
Institutional and Theoretical Economics 148 (4):655-74.
Tabarrok, A. 1991.
The Preferred Tax Type: Comment On Herbener. Review of Austrian Economics 5 (2):107-10
Chapters in Books, Other Nonrefereed Articles
Tabarrok. Alex. 2004. Life-Saving Incentives:
Consequences, costs and solutions to the organ shortage. Library of Economics
and
Klein, D.B.
and A. Tabarrok. 2004. Who Certifies Off Label? Regulation. Summer: 2-5.
Klein, D.B. and A. Tabarrok.2003. Losing Patients: Making
the FDA friendlier to safety and innovation. Privatization Watch. No 322. Nov 2003 7,9.
Tabarrok, A. and D. Klein. 2002. www.FDAReview.org –
an extensive web page on the history and evaluation of the FDA, equivalent in
published form to a monograph or a short book.
Peer reviewed by Sam Peltzman, Henry Miller, founding director of the
FDA's Office of Biotechnology, Paul Rubin and other FDA experts.
Klein, Daniel B. and A. Tabarrok. 2002. Time to End
Tabarrok, A. 2002. Market Challenges and Government Failure:
Lessons from the
Tabarrok, A.. 2002. The Organ Shortage: A Tragedy of the
Commons. In Entrepreneurial Economics: Bright Ideas from the Dismal Science,
ed. A. Tabarrok.
Tabarrok, A. 2001. The Blessed
Monopolies. Regulation (Winter): 1-4.
Helland, E., and A. Tabarrok. 2000.
Exporting Tort Awards. Regulation 23 (2):21-26.
Tabarrok, A. 1998. Response to Reisman on Capitalism. Quarterly Journal of Austrian
Economics 1, (3): 57-60.
Tabarrok, A. and Cecil Bohanon.
Tabarrok, A. 1997. Death Taxes: Theory,
History, and Ethics. Essays in Political Economy: Ludwig von Mises Institute (
Tabarrok, A. 1997. Trumping the Genetic Tarot Card:
Insurance against bad genes. Contingencies
9 (4):20-23. Reprinted as "Gene
Insurance" in Entrepreneurial Economics.
Tabarrok, A. 1997. Review Essay: Capitalism by George
Reisman. Review of Austrian Economics
10 (2):115-132.
Tabarrok, A. 1996.
Term limits and political conflict. In Legislative
Term Limits: Public Choice Perspectives, ed. B. Grofman, 237-44.
Papers Under Review or Working Papers
Do Off-Label Drug Practices Argue Against FDA Efficacy
Requirements? Testing an Argument by Stuctured Conversations with Experts (with
D. Klein).
Does Three Strikes Deter?
A Non-Parametric Estimation (with
Tabarrok, A. 2000. Review of D.
Friedman (2000), Law's Order. Cato Journal 20 (1): 133-135.
Tabarrok, A. 1999. Review of
Privatizing Social Security edited by Martin Feldstein. The Independent Review
3, #4.
Tabarrok, A. 1999. Review of Barro
(1997), Determinants of Economic Growth. International
Review of Economics and Finance.
Tabarrok, A. 1998. Review of Economics
of the Arts: Selected Essays. Journal of
Cultural Economics 22:285-293.
Tabarrok, A. 1994. If You're So
Rich...The Economic Approach to Epistemology (Review of Rescher, N. 1989.
Cognitive Economy.
Other Publications
I write regularly at www.MarginalRevolution.com, one
of the most widely read blogs on the web and recommended as one of the five
best economics sties by the Wall Street Journal.
I have also published
many op-eds and short articles in newspapers and magazines.
Recent Refereeing, Academic Honors and
Fellowships
Assistant editor of The
Independent Review.
Recent Referring for American Law and Economics Review, NSF, Public
Choice, Economics of Planning, American Political Science Review,
National Science Foundation, Journal of
Health Economics, Journal of Theoretical Politics, Economic Inquiry, Management Science, International Review of Law and
Economics, and Planning and Markets.
George A. and
Frances Ball Foundation Research Fellowship (1996).
Resident Scholar (summer, 1995), Social Philosophy and
Earhart Foundation, Researcher Award, 1994-95.
Snavely Award, Best Graduate Student: Department of Economics,
Teaching Experience
Courses Taught
Law
and Economics Public
Choice
Finance Industrial
Organization
Intermediate
Microeconomics Principles
of Economics
History
of Economic Thought
Capable of teaching a
variety of other courses including standard micro courses at the undergraduate
or graduate level as well as courses such as Game Theory, The Theory of Voting
and Social Choice, Empirical Research Design/Labor Econometrics etc.
References
Available upon request.