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Curriculum Vitae
January 2007
Peter Norman
Peter Norman
Department of Economics
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Office 305B, 107 Gardner Hall, CB 3305
University of North Carolina
Chapel Hill, NC  27599-3305
Office Phone (919)  966-3250
Electronic Mail: normanp at email dot unc dot edu
Home Page http://www.unc.edu/~normanp/

EDUCATION

University of Pennsylvania, Ph.D. in Economics, August 1997.

EMPLOYMENT

Visiting Professor , University of Nort Carolina at Chapel Hill,  January 2007
Associate Professor (tenured), University of British Columbia, August 2004-
Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison, September 1997-July 2004

TEACHING

Graduate: Microeconomics (first year), Mechanism Design (second year), Public Economics (second year), Mathematics for Economists.

Undergraduate:  Intermediate Microeconomics, Public Economics, Advanced Microeconomic Theory

AWARDS AND GRANTS

Award: William Carey Price for Outstanding Dissertation in Economics, Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania, march 1998.
Award: Sidney Weintraub Prize for Best Policy Related Paper, Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania, march 1997.
Finalist for the Council of Graduate Schools Dissertation Award in Social Science and Education, 1998.
NSF grant "Collaborative Research on Human Capital and Incentives": #SES-0001717, 2000-2001.
NSF grant  "Human Capital and Income Inequality": #SES-0096585, 2001-2003.
SSRHC "Linking and Bundling of Collective Decisions" #410-2005-1105, 2005-2008.

PUBLICATIONS IN REFEREED JOURNALS

"To Bundle or Not to Bundle" (with Hanming Fang), forthcoming in the RAND Journal of Economics.
"Government-Mandated Discriminatory Policies" (with Hanming Fang), forthcoming in the International Economic Review.
 "Efficient Mechanisms for Public Goods with Use Exclusions'', Review of Economic Studies, 71(4), October 2004, 1163-1188.
"A General Equilibrium Model of Statistical Discrimination'', (with Andrea Moro) Journal of Economic Theory, 114 (1), January 2004, 1-30.
"Empirical Implications of Statistical Discrimination on the Returns to Measures of Skill", (with Andrea Moro) Annales d'Economie et de Statistique,  72, December  2003.
"Statistical Discrimination and Efficiency'', Review of Economic Studies 70(3), July 2003, pp 615-627.
"Affirmative Action in a Competitive Economy,'' (with Andrea Moro),  Journal of Public Economics 87 (3), March 2003, pp 567-594.
"Legislative Bargaining and Coalition Formation'', Journal of Economic Theory 102, No. 2, February 2002, pp. 322-353. 


OTHER PUBLICATIONS

"Evolutionary Selection Dynamics and Irrational Survivors,'' (with J. Bjoernerstedt, M. Dufwenberg and J.W Weibull) in W. Albers et al edited Understanding Strategic Interaction. Essays in Honor of Reinhard Selten, Berlin/Heidelberg/New York/Tokyo, Springer Verlag, 1997, pp 128-148.

OTHER "COMPLETED" PAPERS

"Endogenous Comparative Advantage'' (with Andrea Moro), February 2004. Revision requested by Economic Journal.
"A Note on Budget Balance under Interim Participation Constraints: The Case of Independent Types" (with Tilman Borgers),  June 2006 [previously titled "Ex-Ante and Ex-Post Budget-Balanced Mechanisms When Signals are Stochastically Independent'']
"Overcoming Participation Constraints," (with Hanming Fang), March 2006.
Optimal Provision of Multiple Excludable Public Goods  (with Hanming Fang), Last Revised April 2006. [previously titled "An Efficiency Rationale for Bundling of Public Goods". External Appendix

WORK IN PROGRESS

 "Public Provision of Private Goods" (with Hanming Fang).
"Monetary Economics and Public Finance" (with Randall Wright and  Aleksander Berentsen)
 "Money Beats Memory" (with Randall Wright)
 "Learning From Pass-Fail Tests and Statistical Discrimination"
"Wage Gaps and Test Score Differences: Incentives or Pre-Market Factors?" (with Andrea Moro)

PRESENTATIONS (2001 AND LATER)

Outside Seminar Presentations

Cornell (April 2001), The Research Institute for Industrial Economics, Stockholm , (June 2001). Institute for International Economic Studies, Stockholm, (August 2001), Stockholm School of Economics (August 2001), Michigan State University (October 2001), University of Southampton (November 2001), University of Essex (November 2001), University of Western Ontario (April 2002), University of Essex (November 2002), University of Illinois (March 2003), New York University (March 2003), University of Pittsburgh (April 2003), Penn State University (April 2003), Yale University (April 2003), Ohio State University (May 2003), University of Texas at Austin (October 2003), University of Colorado (November 2003), University of Michigan (October 2003), Arizona State University (December 2003), University of Western Ontario (February 2004), Case Western University (February 2004), UC San Diego (March 2004), UC Santa Barbara (March 2004), UCLA (March 2004), University of Southampton (March 2004), University of Toronto (March 2004), Brown University (April 2004), University of British Columbia (April 2004), Duke University (April 2004), Northwestern University (May 2004), Simon Fraser University (October 2004), Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods, Bonn (May 2005), University of Oslo (August 2005), Stockholm School of Economics (August 2005), University of Essex (October 2005). University of Texas at Austin (November 2005), University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill (January 2006), Iowa State (January 2006), Missouri (January 2006), Queen's (February 2006), Toronto (February 2006).

Conference Presentations

Society of Economic Dynamics Conference, Stockholm, Sweden (June 2001), European Economic Association Annual Meeting,  Lausanne (August 2001), CEPR Conference "Discrimination and Unequal Outcomes", Le Mans, France (January 2002). Society of Economic Dynamics Conference, New York (June 2002), Society of Economic Dynamics Conference, Paris, (June 2003), SITE Summer Workshop, Stanford (August 2003), APET Public Economic Theory Meetings, Beijing, August 2004, Economic Society  Far Eastern Meetings, Beijing, July 2006, Conference on Economic Theory and Applications, Academica SInica, Taipei, August 2006.


Ph.D. STUDENTS SUPERVISED (Year of Graduation, Initial Placement)

Thesis Advisor of: Tsung-Sheng Tsai (2002, Academica Sinica, Taiwan). Thesis Committee Member of: Kate Antonovics (2000, UC San Diego), Limor Golan (2002, Carnegie-Mellon), Sergio Ferreira (2002, BNDES PUC, Brazil), Costin Borc (2001, private sector), Eric Furstenberg (2004, College of Williams and Mary).

CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION

Program Committee Member; Society of Economic Dynamics Annual Conference, Firenze, Italy, June 2004.
Organizer; Canadian Economic Theory Conference, Vancouver, May 2005.

EDITORIAL ACTIVITIES

Associate Editor: International Economic Review October 2004-

Referee: American Economic Review, American Political Science Review, B.E. Journals in Macroeconomics, Econometrica, Economica, Economic Journal, European Economic Review, Games and Economic Behavior, International Economic Review, International Journal of Industrial Organization, Journal of Economic Theory, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Journal of Economics & Management Strategy, Journal of Labor Economics, Journal of Political Economy, Journal of Public Economics, Rand, Research in Labor Economics, Review of Development Studies, Review of Economic Dynamics, Review of Economic Studies.

Reviewer: National Science Foundation,  Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (Canada).