R.
Morris Coats
I. RANK AND PROMOTIONS:
Professor 1996-present
Argent Bank Professor of Business Administration 2000-2006
Associate Professor 1990-1996
Assistant Professor 1983-1990
Instructor 1980-1983
II. EDUCATION:
Doctor of Philosophy, 1983,
Virginia Polytechnic Institute &
Master of
Arts, 1979, Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University, Economics.
Bachelor of
Science, 1977, Louisiana State University, Economics.
III. TEACHING:
A.
TEACHING AREAS:
Principles
of Economics; Public Economics/Public Finance/ Public Choice; Environmental
Economics; Business Regulation and Industrial Organization; Health Economics;
Managerial Economics (MBA).
B.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE:
1985-present
1982-1985
1981-1982
1980-1981
Virginia
Polytechnic Institute and
C. DEVELOPMENTAL
ACTIVITIES:
Writing-Across-the-Curriculum
Workshop Participant/Core Group Member (1991- present).
Active
Participant on TCH-ECON, a listserver discussion
group on Internet for those interested in the teaching of economics in higher
education.
Active
Participant on economics.about.com, a forum open to
anyone interested in economics.
Developed
web site for integrating my teaching materials into my courses (with links page
for college students) at URL: http://www.nicholls.edu/mcoats.
As
Chair of the University’s Service Learning Committee, I have attended a
Regional Campus Compact Meeting (
IV. INTELLECTUAL CONTRIBUTIONS
A.
REFEREED JOURNALS:
1. The Costs of
Dropping Out and the Benefits of Going On: The Crucial
Role of Education in Economic Development in
2. Economics and the Easter Island Metaphor, with
3. Corrupt Political Jurisdictions and Voter
Participation, with Karahan, G. and W.F.
Shughart, II, (January 2006). Public
Choice 126:87-106.
4. Terrorism and Pork-Barrel Spending, with Karahan, G. and R.D. Tollison,
(July 2006). Public Choice, 128: 275-87.
5. Cigarette Smuggling Mitigates the Public Health Benefits of Cigarette Taxes, with Luccasen, R.A., III and G. Karahan (2005). Applied Economics Letters 12:769-73.
6. Renewable Resources, Property-Rights Regimes and
Endogenous Growth, with
7. Corruption and Economic Development in
8. Could Institutional
Reform Have Saved
9. The Limitations of
Kuznets’ Inverted-U Hypothesis: A Suggested Approach, with Syrous Kooros. Southwestern Economic Review
24 (1997).
10. Special Versus General
Elections and Composition of the Voters: Evidence from Louisiana School Tax
Referenda, with Gary M. Pecquet and Steven T. Yen (lead article). Public Finance Quarterly 24:131-47 (1996). See
citations.
11. A
Note on Estimating Cross-Border Effects of State Cigarette Taxes. National Tax Journal
48:573-84 (1995). Link takes you to Abstract in National Tax Journal,
where a pdf version of the article may be downloaded.
Copyright held by National Tax Journal. See vita citations section,
below.
12. Peakload
Pricing and Facility Utilization in Higher Education. Journal of Marketing for Higher Education 6:15-25 (1995).
13. A Note on the Cost of
Standing for the British Parliament: 18521880, with Thomas R. Dalton. Legislative Studies
Quarterly 17:585-93 (1992).
14. Entry Barriers in
Politics and Uncontested Elections,
with Thomas R. Dalton. Journal of Public Economics 49:7590 (1992). See
citations.
15.
Brand-name Investment of Candidates and District Homogeneity: An Ordinal
Response Model, with Steven
Yen and Thomas Dalton. Southern Economic Journal 58(4):9881001 (1992).
See citations.
16. Projections of Net
Revenues for a
17. An Instrumental-variables
Approach to Income Redistribution,
with T. Nicolaus Tideman. Public Choice 52 (1987).
B.
EDITORIAL JOURNALS:
Monetarism,
Deficits, Crowding Out, and Interest Rates, with William P. Field and
Donald R. Andrews.
MidSouth Business Journal (1985).
C.
MONOGRAPHS:
1. Labor and Housing in
St. Mary Parish: A Look Forward,
with Peter Sorant, Rural Development Institute,
2. Replacement of
Liquor Profit Transfers with Taxes on Private Distributors, with Wendell E. Sweetser.
http://openlibrary.org/b/OL3003302M
D.
PROCEEDINGS:
1. Choice of Regulatory
Schemes When Quality is Uncertain,
with Thomas R. Dalton. Atlantic Economic Society’s Best
Papers Proceedings 4(1), January, 1994.
2. Projections of Net
Revenues from State Lotteries for
3. Dampening the Local
Business Cycle Through Efficient Industrial
Diversification. Proceedings of the Academy of Louisiana Economists (1989).
E.
NEWSLETTERS:
1. Women Still Hold Few
Elected Offices in
2. All Elected Officials in
3. A Brief History of
Louisiana Women in Government: The Center’s Hall of Fame Recipients, Les
Femmes et la Politique en Louisiane 1 (1994).
F. BOOK
REVIEWS:
1. William A. Niskanen, Autocratic, democratic, and optimal government:
Fiscal choices and economic outcomes. A Locke Institute Book.
2. Richard
Johnston, André Blais, Henry E. Brady and Jean Crête (1992). Letting
the People Decide: Dynamics of a Canadian Election,
G.
PAPER PRESENTATIONS:
1. Terrorism and Pork-Barrel Spending, with Gokhan Karahan and
Robert Tollison, Conference on the Political Economy
of Terrorism sponsored by the Program in Economics, Politics and the Law and
The Critical Infrastructure Protection Program at The School of Law, George
Mason University, Arlington, VA (2005).
2. The Pricing of Gasoline Grades and the Third Law of
Demand, with Gary M. Pecquet and Leon Taylor,
Southwestern Economics Association in
3. High School Non-Completers,
College Completers and Per-Capita Income in
5. The Effect of the
Secret Ballot on the Demand for Bribed Votes and Brand-Name Capital, with Thomas R. Dalton and Arthur Denzau (2004). Southern Economic
Association, New Orleans, LA (2004).
6. The Secret Ballot in
7. The Calculus of Conquests: The Decline and Fall of the Returns to Roman Expansion, with Gary M. Pecquet. Public Choice Society Meetings, Baltimore, MD (2004).
8. Roman
Elections, Vote-Buying and Campaign Reform Legislation, with Gary M. Pecquet and
Thomas R. Dalton. Public
Choice Society Meetings, Nashville, TN (2003).
Badiollah
R. Asrabadi. Southwestern Economic
Association and Southwestern Social Science Association Meetings, New Orleans, LA (2002).
12.
Efficient Periodic Yield of a Fishery During the Transition to the Steady State, with Thomas
R. Dalton. Society of Business, Industry and Economics
Meeting, Natchez, MS (2001).
13.
A Different Type of
14.
Could Institutional Reform Have Saved
15. Justice and State Spending Financed Through
Taxation of Mineral Wealth, with T. Nicolaus Tideman. Atlantic Economic Society (1996).
16. Bank Efficiency: A Bayesian Approach,
with Danielle Lewis. Midwestern Economics Association and at
the Academy of Economics and Finance (1997).
17.
Economies of Scale in
18.
Brandname Investment of Candidates Municipal
Cigarette Taxes in
19.
Brandname Investment of Candidates A
Comparison of the Luddite and Bubba-Gump Approaches to Regulating a Fishery,
with Michael J. Haupert and Thomas R. Dalton. Atlantic Economic Society (1995).
20.
Brandname Investment of Candidates Barriers
for Women in the Market for Legislative Seats, with Thomas R. Dalton. Southern Economic Association (1995).
21.
Barriers to Entry: The Market for Women in State Legislatures. Allied Social
Science Associations Annual Meeting (1995).
22. Special versus General
Elections and the Composition of the Electorate: Some Evidence from
23. Brandname
Investment of Candidates Measuring Gender Differences in Issue Salience,
with Susan Wiley. South Central Women’s Studies Association Conference (1994).
24. Brandname
Investment of Candidates Campaign Spending Limits, Gerrymandered Districts
and Entry Barriers in Politics: Women Candidates for Congress and State
Legislatures, with Thomas Dalton. South Central Women’s Studies Association
Conference (1994).
25. Brandname
Investment of Candidates Choice of Regulatory Schemes When Quality is
Uncertain. Atlantic Economic Society (1993). Short
version selected for Atlantic Economic Society’s Best Papers Proceedings
4(1) (1994).
26. Brandname Investment of Candidates Gender
Differences in Issue Salience: Presidential Elections in the 1980s, with Susan
L. Wiley. Southwestern Political Science Association, affiliate of the
Southwestern Social Science Association (1993).
27. Peakload
Pricing and Facility Utilization in Higher Education. Mid-South Academy of Economics and
Finance (1993). Published in Journal of Marketing for Higher
Education 48:573-84 (1995).
28. Brandname Investment of Candidates The Demand and Supply of Bribed Votes. Western
Economic Association International (1992).
29. Candidate Choice and Issue Positions:
Logit Analysis Results for the 1980, 1984 and 1988
Presidential Elections, with Susan Wiley. Public Choice
Society (1992).
30. Municipal
Taxation of Cigarettes in
31. A Note on the Cost of Standing for the British
Parliament During the Nineteenth Century, with Thomas Dalton. Southern
Political Science Association (1991). Published in Legislative
Studies Quarterly 17:585-93 (1992).
32. Lottery Demand, Costs,
and Net Revenue Estimates for
33. Information Costs and
Candidate Advantage, with Steven Yen
and Thomas Dalton. Western Economic Association International
(1991). Published as “Brandname Investment of
Candidates and District Homogeneity: An Ordinal Response Model,” in Southern
Economic Journal 58(4):9881001 (1992).
34. Estimating Cross-Border
Effects of State Cigarette Taxes,
Western Economic Association International (1991), published in National Tax
Journal 48:573-84 (1995).
35. An Ordinal Response
Model of Candidate Competition: Exploring the Search Good/Experience Good
Dichotomy, with Steven Yen and Thomas
Dalton. Public Choice Society (1991). A later version
was presented at the Western Economic Association International (1991) as
“Information Costs and Candidate Advantage.” See above.
36. Regulation vs. Market
Coordination in Markets with Credence Goods, with Thomas R. Dalton, Southern Economic Association (1990). A later
version was presented at the Atlantic Economic Society (1993) as “Choice of
Regulatory Schemes When Quality is Uncertain.” See above.
37. Simple Welfare
Analysis of State Lotteries. Southern Economic Association (1990).
38. The Political Economy
of State Mineral Revenues: The ‘Other’ Alaskan Oil Spill, with T. Nicolaus Tideman. Western Economic Association
(1990).
39. The Introduction of
the Secret Ballot. Public
Choice Society (1990).
40. Vote Shares and
Inalienable Entry Barriers in the Age of Russell, Disraeli and Gladstone, with Thomas R. Dalton. Public
Choice Society (1989).
41. Entry Barriers in
Politics and Contestability of Elections, with Thomas R. Dalton. Public Choice Society (1988).
Published as “Entry Barriers in Politics and Uncontested Elections,” Journal
of Public Economics 49:7590 (1992).
42. Normative Public Economics:
One View of the Cathedral. Public Choice Society (1986).
43. Urbanization and Voter
Turnout, with Wendell E. Sweetser. Public Choice Society (1985).
44. Liquidating a State
Liquor Monopoly, with Wendell
Sweetser. Southern Economic Association (1984).
45. An
Instrumental-variables Approach to Appropriate Income Redistribution, with T. Nicolaus Tideman. Southern Economic Association
(1984).
46. The Effect of the
Secret Ballot on Turnout: A Test of the CoxKousser
Hypothesis. Public
Choice Society (1984).
47. The Probability of a
Tied Election: One More Time,
with Wendell E. Sweetser. Public Choice Society (1983).
H. NON-SELF POSTED BLOG POSTS (not posted at www.nicholls.edu/bastiatsbastions)
a) at Reuters
b) at Palm Beach Post/Business:
c) at Southtown Star (Member of the Sun-Times News Group):
d) at
Fox\Business,
http://www.foxbusiness.com/blog.html?bbPostId=Cz5KYABKUxwvsB8wrxqWC3Hf0Cz2nCeFWUJ6xJCzBv6JNdh8Wak
a) at the Wall Street
Journal http://www.retirementdebate.com/blogs/?bbPostId=Cz5KYABKUxwvsB8wrxqWC3Hf0BzxI4LEOKjuqCz9CGBrfYUsHM&bbParentWidgetId=B8Yv2EGS3mAa19hOwvP5nFo
b) at the Chicago Sun-Times http://www.suntimes.com/business/blogentries/index.html?bbPostId=Cz5KYABKUxwvsB8wrxqWC3Hf0BzxI4LEOKjuqCz9CGBrfYUsHM
I. CITATIONS:
Corrupt Political Jurisdictions and Voter
Participation, with Karahan, G. and
W.F. Shughart, II, (January 2006). Public
Choice 126: 87-106. Cited by:
1)
Escaleras,
Anbarci and Register, Public Choice (2007).
Renewable Resources, Property-Rights Regimes and
Endogenous Growth, with Dalton, T.R.,
and B. Asrabadi (2005). Ecological Economics 52:31-41.
1)
Good,
European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (2008).
2) De la Croix and Dottori, Journal of Economic Growth (2008).
3)
Brander, Canadian Journal of
Economics (2007).
4)
D’Alessandro, Ecological Economics (2007).
5) Nagase and Mirza, http://www.webmeets.com/files/papers/ERE/WC3/360/Nagase-Mirza-Worldcongress3.pdf,
The Third World Congress of Environmental and Resource Economists,
6)
Richardson, Kaiser and Edwards-Jones, Environmental Conservation (2005).
Could
Institutional Reform Have Saved
1) Mann, Edwards, Chase, Beck
and Reanier, Quaternary
Research (2008).
2) De la Croix and Dottori, Journal of Economic Growth (2008).
3)
D’Alessandro, Ecological Economics (2007).
4) Matsumoto,
Suzuki and Saito, chapter in Time and
Space in Economics, Springer Japan (2007).
5) Hunt, Journal of Archaeological Science (2007).
6) Rammel, Stagl,Wilfing, Ecological
Economics (2007).
7) Chakraborty,
8) Brander, Canadian Journal of Economics (2007).
9)
Tainter, Annual Review of Anthropology (2006).
10) Nagase and Mirza, http://www.webmeets.com/files/papers/ERE/WC3/360/Nagase-Mirza-Worldcongress3.pdf,
The Third World Congress of Environmental and Resource Economists,
11) D’Alessandro, in Classical, Neoclassical and Keynesian Views on Growth and Distribution (Edward Elgar: 2006).
12) Nagarajan, Journal of Developing Societies (2006).
13) Reiman, Syllabus for Economics 311 Pacific Lutheran University, downloadable from http://chili.plu.edu/uedit/editor-preview.php?contents_id=1079176 (Spring Semester, 2006).
14) Decker and Reuveny, Human Ecology: An Interdisciplinary Journal
(2005).
15) Geoff Bertram, syllabus for Economics 415, Topics in
Development Economics, Victoria University of Wellington, NZ:, online at:
http://www.vuw.ac.nz/fca/Course%20Outlines/2004/Trimester%202/ECON/ECON415.doc
16) Janssen and Scheffer, Ecology and
Society, online: www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol9/iss1/art6/main.html (2004).
17) Noailly, Tinbergen Research Institute Book Series, Ph.D.,Vrije Universiteit
18)
Pezzey and Anderies, Journal of Development Economics (2003).
19) Matsumoto, Discrete
Dynamics in Nature and Society, URL: http://www.hindawi.co.uk/access/get.php?journal=ddns&
volume=7&pii=S1026022602000158 (2002).
Special
Versus General Elections and Composition of the
Voters: Evidence from Louisiana School Tax Referenda, with Gary M. Pecquet and Steven T. Yen, Public Finance Quarterly
(1996). Cited by:
1)
Holcombe
and Kenny, Public Choice (2008).
2)
Maher
and Skidmore, Public Finance Review
(2008).
3)
Reback,
4)
Meredith,
Stanford University Graduate Field Paper (2004).
5)
6)
Gill
and Haurin, Regional Science and Urban Economics (2001).
7) Bowen and
Corrigan, Public Works Management &
Policy (2001).
8) MacManus, “Politics and Taxation,” Handbook on Taxation by Hildreth
and
9)
Dunne,
Reed and Wilbanks, Public Choice (1997).
A Note on
Estimating Cross-Border Effects of State Cigarette Taxes. National Tax Journal 48:573-84 (1995). Cited by:
1) Goel and Nelson, Global
Efforts to Combat Smoking: An Economic Evaluation of Smoking Control Policies,
Ashgate Publishing (2008).
2) Chiou and Muehlegger,
Regulatory Policy Program Working Paper RPP-2008-02,
3) Vander Beken,
Janssens,
Verpoest,
Balcaen,
and Vander Laenen,
Tobacco Control (2008).
4)
Zimmerman, The Silence of Congress: State Taxation of
Interstate Commerce, SUNY Press (2007).
5)
Bartolome Canadian
Journal of Economics/Revue canadienne d'économique (2007).
6)
Connelly, Applied Economics
(2007).
7) Devereux, Lockwood, and Redoano, Journal of Public Economics (2007).
8) Goel, Applied
Economic Letters (2007).
9) Cottrell, Journal of
Rural and Community Development, (2007).
10) Chiou and Muehlegger,
11)
Lovenheim,
U.
12)
Lovenheim,
Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research Working Paper 06-40 (2007).
13) Malm and Tita, Policy Sciences (2006).
14) Malm,
15)
Vilain
and Prince, Transportation Research
Record, http://trb.metapress.com/content/n8876w407630l230/ (2006).
16)
Marcos,
Laborda and Sauco,
Universidad de Zaraoza Working Paper (2006).
17) Huang and Yang, Agricultural Economics (2006).
18)
Ulbrich
and Saltzman, Palmetto Institute and Strom Thurman Institute of Government and
Public Affairs,
19)
Doyle and Samphantharak, NBER Working Paper
No. W12266 (2006).
20)
Steel,
Department of Economics Honors Thesis, University of North Carolina, Chapel
Hill, The impact of the North Carolina Cigarette Excise Tax Increase on
Cigarette Sales and Tax Revenue in North and South Carolina (2006).
21)
Tauras,
Eastern Economic
Journal (2005).
22)
Banfi,
Filippini and Hunt, Energy Economics
(2005).
23)
Stehr, Journal of Health Economics (2005).
24)
Nesbitt in Ph.D.
Dissertation,
25)
de
Bartolome,
26)
Ulbrich,
Palmetto Institute and Strom Thurman Institute of Governent
and Public Affairs,
27)
Thompson,
Fisher, Winickoff, Colditz,
Camargo, King, and Frazier, Journal
of Public Health Management and Practice (2004).
28)
Colman and Remler, NBER Working Paper No. W10906 (2004).
29) Seaman, State Tax Notes (2004).
30)
Huang, Yang and
Hwang, International Journal of Applied Economics (2004).
31)
Moody and Warcholik, Tax
Foundation Background Paper No. 44 (2004).
32)
Goolsbee and Slemrod, U. Chicago and
U. Michigan mimeo, http://emlab.berkeley.edu/users/webfac/chetty/e231_s04/goolsbee.pdf (2004).
33)
Yang, Lee and Li,
The Journal of
http://www.jaabc.com/journalv4n2preview.html
(2004).
34)
35)
Seaman,
http://frp.aysps.gsu.edu/frp/frpreports/Report_89/Rpt-89.pdf
(2003).
36)
Li in Ph.D.
Dissertation,
37)
Wang
and Hsieh, University of
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~hcwang/research/Cigarette_taxation.pdf
(2003).
38)
Goolsbee, Reading List, Economics 36400 (cross-listed with
Business 33936), Economics Ph.D. course, University of Chicago, URL: http://gsbwww.uchicago.edu/fac/austan.goolsbee/teaching/reading1.03.pdf (2003).
39)
Guhl, Working Paper,Technische
Universität Carolo-Wilhelmina
zu Braunschweig
DEUTSCHLAND, http://www.diplom.de/db/diplomarbeiten6567.pdf (2002).
40) Nelson, Journal of Regional Science (2002).
41)
Courtwright, Forces of Habit: Drugs and the Making of the Modern
World.
42)
Keeler, Hu, Manning, and Sung, National Tax Journal (2001).
43)
Delipalla and O’Donnell, International
Journal for Industrial Economics (2001).
44)
Lien and Evans,
45)
Evans, Ringel,and Stech,
NBER/Tax Policy & the Economy (1999).
46)
Slemrod, U. Michigan Mimeo (1999).
47)
Evans and Ringel, Journal of Public Economics (1999).
48)
Fleenor, Tax Foundation
Background Paper No. 31 (1999).
49)
Fleenor, Tax Foundation
Background Paper
No. 26 (1998).
50)
Chaloupka, Tauras and Grossman, Southern
Economic Journal (1997).
51)
Beard, Gant and
52)
Gant in Ph. D.
Dissertation,
53)
Fleenor, Tax Foundation
Background Paper
No. 16 (1996).
Entry
Barriers in Politics and Uncontested Elections, with Thomas R.
Dalton, Journal of Public Economics (1992). Citations before publication
either as working paper or as forthcoming). Cited by:
1) Kam, Midwest
Political Science Association, Chicago, URL: http://209.85.165.104/search?q=cache:HTuZNC1JN2AJ:www.arts.ubc.ca/uploads/media/Systematic_Data_on_Electoral_Fraud_in_Victorian_Britain.doc+%22The+Market+for+Votes+at+Victorian+Elections%22&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=us (2008).
2) Mulligan & Tsui. NBER
Working Papers 12653, National Bureau of Economic Research (2006).
3) François, French
Politics (2006).
4) Foucault, French
Politics (2006).
5) Foucault and François, Revue Economique (2005).
6)
Francois,
Ph.D. Dissertation,
7) Facchini, Politiques et Management
Public (2004).
8) Sharman, Party Politics (2003).
9) Weiner, Ph.D. Dissertation, UC-Berkely
(2002).
10) Ansolabehere and Snyder, Business and Politics (2000).
11) Daniel and Lott,
Public Choice (1997).
12) Lott, Public
Choice (1997).
13) Bronars and Lott, Journal
of Law and Economics (1997).
14)
Bender
and Lott, Public Choice (1996).
15)
Van Hulle and Mathur, Administrative Staff College of India’s ASCI
Journal of Management (1995).
16)
Hersch and McDougal, Economic
Inquiry (1994).
17)
Lott
and Davis, Public Choice (1992).
18)
Lott,
Public Choice (1991).
19)
Morton,
Public Choice (1991).
20)
Lott,
Economic Inquiry (1990).
Peak-Load
Pricing and Facility Utilization in Higher Education, Journal of Marketing for Higher Education (1995). Cited by:
1) Dubas, Reading List, Services Marketing, Marketing 675, MBA
Course, (1996), Fayetteville State University, http://faculty.uncfsu.edu/kdubas/mktg675.htm
Brandname Investment of
Candidates and District Homogeneity: An Ordinal Response Model, with Steven T.
Yen and Thomas R. Dalton, Southern Economic Journal (1992). Cited by:
1) François, French
Politics (2006)
2) Silva and Silva Costa, Portuguese Economic Journal (2006)
3)
4) Francois, Ph.D. Dissertation,
5) da Silva, IHS Sociologia- Port. (vol 12, 2002)
6) Advertising and
Society Review, “Special Issue: A Comprehensive Bibliography of
Advertising and Society, 1980-2000” (2001)
7)
Daniel
and Lott, Public Choice (1997), reprinted in Rowley ed. in
Constitutional Political Economy in a Public Choice Perspective. (1997)
8)
Lott,
Public Choice (1997)
9)
Bender
and Lott, Public Choice (1996)
10)
Hersch and McDougal, Economic
Inquiry (1994)
11) Mueller and Stratmann, Public Choice (1994)
A
Note on the Cost of Standing for the British Parliament: 1852-1880, with Thomas R.
Dalton. Legislative Studies Quarterly 17:585-93 (1992). Cited by:
1) Weiner, Ph.D. Dissertation, UC-Berkely (2002)
2) Rush, The Role of the Member
of Parliament Since 1868: From Gentlemen to Players,
3) Rush and
Cromwell, “Continuity and Change: Legislative Recruitment in the
1) Melnick, Vijaya L. (2005) Women’s Studies Review, Her story: A
continuing struggle to reach gender equity.
pp. 58-68.
Municipal
Taxation of Cigarettes in Missouri (mimeo). Cited by:
1)
Economic Impact of NSU Athletics (report for South Louisiana Economic Council), with K.C. Cox (April 14, 2004), at
URL: http://www.slec.org/uploads/EconomicImpact.pdf.
Cited by:
1)
Larimore and Chitiyo, The Sports Journal
(2007).
1)
Hahn
and Passell, Reg-Markets
Center Working Paper no. 08-21,
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1265728#AEI (2008).
2)
Murphy,
Mises.org, http://mises.org/story/3047
(2008).
3) Adrianson, The Foundry, The Heritage Foundation,
http://theheritagefoundry.org/2008/07/29/already-known-to-economists-%e2%80%a6-but-not-to-the-democratic-policy-committee/
(2008).
4)
Hassett, Start Drilling Now to Lower Oil, Gasoline Prices, Bloomberg.com,
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601039&sid=aKXUPbwOIOHY&refer=home
(2008).
5)
Alicea, National
Review Online, Drilling in Silence: Coats of many Solid Research (Aug. 7,
2008). http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=YzU1N2Q0MmQxMjNmOTMxZGZmODNiZGZhOWEzNzhlZTc=
The
Pricing of Gasoline Grades and the Third Law of Demand, with Pecquet, Gary M. and Leon
Taylor, EconWPA, Working Paper Archive (2005). Cited by:
1)
Childs, Ph.D. Dissertation in Economics
at
V. PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
A.
CONSULTING:
3. The Terrebonne Parish Tax
Structure: Study and Recommendations, with Bruce L. McManis.
4. Study of Work Skills
Needed and Employer Interest in Hiring and Training Apprentices in SLEC Service
Region, for
5. Cost/Benefit Analysis of a
Proposal by the Greater Port Commission of South Lafourche (road improvement)
for Louisiana Economic Development Corporation’s Infrastructure Award Program
(1997).
6. Cost/Benefit Analysis of a
Proposal by the Greater Port Commission of South Lafourche (bridge repair) for
Louisiana Economic Development Corporation’s Infrastructure Award Program
(1997).
7. Cost/Benefit Analysis of a
Proposal by Baker Hughes INTEQ for Louisiana Economic Development Corporation’s
Infrastructure Award Program (1997).
8. Cost/Benefit Analysis of a
Proposal by Cal-Dive, Inc. for Louisiana Economic Development Corporation’s
Infrastructure Award Program (1996).
9. Economic Impact Studies
(many) for the South Louisiana Economic Council (1994-present).
10. Labor and Housing in St.
Mary Parish: A Look Forward, with Peter Sorant, Rural
Development Institute,
11. Intellectual
Contributions for AACSB Accreditation, for the
12. Regional Multiplier
Impact and Tax Impact Estimates for the Four Parish Region of Assumption,
Lafourche, St. Mary and Terrebonne Parishes, for Edison-Chouest
Shipyards and Nicholaus Paper Co. with Don
Andrews—not for pay (1994).
13. Textbook Review of a book
on government regulation of business for D.C. Heath (1991).
14. Estimates of Effects of
Proposed Increases in
15. Replacement of Liquor
Profit Transfers with Taxes on Private Distributors, with Wendell E.
Sweetser.
B.
EDITOR/EDITORIAL BOARDS:
1. Editor of a statistical
newsletter, Les Femmes et la Politique
en Louisiane (Government and the Louisiana Woman)
and a Factsheet Series from the
2. Founding Editorial Board
Member of B-Quest, an electronic journal on business and economics.
3. Editorial Board of the Journal
of Economics and Finance.
4. Associate Editor of Perspectives in Economic Education Research
http://www.isu.edu/peer/editboard.shtml
(2008-on).
C. SESSION CHAIR:
South Central Women’s Studies
Association and the Women’s Studies Consortium of
Southern Economic Association
(2004)
Southwestern Economic
Association (2005)
Public Choice (2003-2005)
Western
Economic Association International (1992).
Society of
Business, Industry and Economics (2001).
D.
DISCUSSANT:
Allied Social Science
Association—National Tax Association Session (1997).
Allied Social Science
Association—Atlantic Economic Society Session (1995).
Southwestern
Political Science Association (1993).
Atlantic
Economic Society (1993, 1995, 1996, 1997).
Western
Economic Association International (1992).
Southern
Economic Association (1984, 1986, 1990, 1992, 1995).
Southwestern Economic
Association (2002, 2005)
Public Choice Society (1983-86,
1988-91, 2003-05).
Society of
Business, Industry and Economics (2001).
E.
MEMBER:
Southern Economic Association
Southwestern Economics Associatin
Public Choice Society
American Economics
Association
F.
JOURNAL REFEREE:
Public Choice (2004, 2005)
Journal of Energy Economics
(2004)
National
Tax Journal (1994, 1995, 1996, 1997).
Southwestern
Economic Review (1986, 1993, 1994, 1999).
Contemporary
Policy Issues (1991).
Journal of
Public Economics (1989).
B-Quest
(1996, 2004).
Journal of
Economics and Finance (1997, 1998).
G.
TESTIMONY:
Testimony
before the Louisiana House Ways and Means Committee on the Effects of Proposed
Increases in Louisiana’s State Cigarette Taxes, Reported Findings of Lost
Revenue to Cross-Border Effects for The Tobacco Institute (1992 & 1998) and
Orzechowski & Walker (2000).
H.
GRANTS:
1. 2006 – NSU Technology Support Proposal
(ITS) – “
2. 2006 – Board of Regents Enhancement
Grant, “Putting Electronic Ink in Economics Classrooms,” Morris Coats (PI) –
Awarded.
3. 2004 – Board of Regents Enhancement
Grant, “The Entrepreneurial Culture of
4. 2004 – Board of Regents Enhancement
Grant, “Learning Environment and Outcomes Enhancement Plan, Phase II: The
Survey and experimental Research Lab (SERL).” Morris Coats (Co-PI); Chris Cox
(PI) and Randy Ryker (PI) – Awarded
5. 2004 – Board of Regents Enhancement
Grant, “Enhanced Learning Outside the Classroom: The Collaborative Learning and
6. 2004 – United States Department of
Energy Grant, “Shared Technology Transfer Project.” Morris Coats (Co-PI); Thomas Bryant (PI) –
Awarded
7. 2003 – NSU Technology Support Proposal
(ITS) – “
8. 2002-2003 – Board
of Regents Education Enhancement Grant, “Retooling for Excellence:
PK-16+,”Cleveland Hill (PI) and Thomas Mortillaro
(PI). While not a PI or Co-PI on this
grant I wrote two major items for use as study aids for social science
education majors in their preparation for the Praxis exam. One item I wrote for
this grant was “Study Guide for Economics Praxis Exam.” This item has been made available to social
studies education majors to help them prepare for the Praxis exam by placing it
on the internet at URL: http://www.nicholls.edu/mcoats/Economics%20Praxis%20Study%20Guide.htm
.
9. 2002-2003 – Board of Regents Education Enhancement Grant, “Retooling for Excellence: PK-16+,”Cleveland Hill (PI) and Thomas Mortillaro (PI). While not a PI or Co-PI on this grant I wrote two major items for use as study aids for social science education majors in their preparation for the Praxis exam. One item I wrote for this grant was “Praxis Study Guide Notes for Economics.” This item has been made available to social studies education majors to help them prepare for the Praxis exam by placing it on the internet at URL: http://www.nicholls.edu/mcoats/Praxis Economics Study Guide--Notes.htm .
10. EPSCoT Grant for Louisiana
Board of Regents and the Louisiana Department of Economic Development,” Acadiana Region Strategic Planning Proposal” as a subgrant to a grant from the U.S. Department of Commerce. Principal investigator for Nicholls State University (NSU) in a Consortium
that includes the University of Louisiana at Lafayette (ULL). This grant
is to produce an economic development/technology transfer plan for a 14-parish
region that includes the parishes that are served by NSU and ULL (1999-2000).
11. Grant from St. Mary
Economic Development Office to study “Housing and Residential Choice in St.
Mary Parish By Out-of-Parish Workers” (1999-2000).
12. LEQSF Graduate
Enhancement Grant, “A Mission-Driven/Strategic Enhancement of Instructional and
Research Resources For the Nicholls State University
Graduate Studies in Business Administration Program,” ranked 4th in
state of 19 projects and highly recommended for funding, 1 of 10 principal
investigators.
13.
Nicholls State University Faculty Development Grant to Host Workshops on the
Use of Experimental Economic Methods in Teaching Economics and Social Sciences
(February 9-10, 1995). Brought in Don Wells and Shawn LaMaster
from University of Arizona. Grant was financed by a grant to
14. Grant from
15. Administered
16. Gender Differences in
Issue Salience, with Susan Wiley. Center for Women and Government,
17. Dampening the Local
Business Cycle Through Efficient Industrial
Diversification, Nicholls State University Research Grant, analyzes the effects
of adding various industries to the local employment “portfolio,” in terms of
both growth and variance; study appeared in the Proceedings of the Academy
of Louisiana Economists (1989).
18. Urbanization and Voter
Turnout, with Wendell E. Sweetser,
19.
I.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS:
Journal of Economics and Finance (1993).
Economic Inquiry (1992).
VII. SERVICE
A.
COMMITTEES:
University
Promotion and Tenure Grievance Committee (2005).
University Service-Learning
Committee (2005-present). Elected Committee Chair.
University Courses and
Curriculum Committee—appointed (1990-96); elected (1996-present).
Faculty Senate—elected (19871989).
Undergraduate Curriculum
Committee,
Undergraduate Programs
Committee (SACS committee), University—appointed (1993).
Undergraduate
Programs/Instruction Team,
Executive
Council of the Graduate Faculty, College of Business Administration
(1992-present).
University Honors Council,
Economics Search Committees
(2002-2005) Chair
Finance Search Committee
(2004-2005)
Marketing Search Committee
(2003-2004)
B.
STUDENT SUPPORT
Faculty
Advisor for Delta Sigma Pi (1992-1997).
C. COMMUNITY SERVICE
Social Science Fair Judge:
Regional
Social Science Fair—Judged Individual and Group Projects Division III (High
School) for Economics (1992, 1994, 1996, 1997).
State
Social Science Fair—Judged Individual and Group Projects Division III (High
School) for Economics (1992).
Community Groups:
Barataria-Terrebonne
National Estuary Program, Committee Member (1994-96). Received
commendation from Louisiana Governor M. J. Foster for making significant
contributions to the Barataria-Terrebonne Estuary
Program.
Media Support:
Columnist
for Bayou Business Review, a bi-weekly local business news magazine,
serving the Parishes of Terrebonne and Lafourche, my columns have appeared in
every issue from the first issue in June of 1997 until August of 2000. My many
columns are not listed here, but can be found at my web site, or simply go to
URL: http://www.nicholls.edu/mcoats/myopeds.htm
Also
frequently interviewed by local press.
Home Address:
Home Ph: (985)446-8699
Work Address:
Department
of Economics and
Work Ph:(985)448-4237
Work Fax:(985)448-4922
Work e-mail: morris.coats@nicholls.edu
World Wide Web:
URL:
http://www.nicholls.edu/mcoats
Blog:
Bastiat’s Bastions at URL:
http://www.nicholls.edu/bastiatsbastions