JOHN R. CONLON
Department of Economics
The University of Mississippi
University,
Voice: (662) 915-5708 (O) / (662) 236-3523 (H)
Fax: (662) 915-5238
E-mail: conlonj@bus.olemiss.edu
Education
Awards
Teaching
Academic Committees
Dissertation Committees
Research
Education
University of Chicago, June 1975 - June 1978
B. A. (Mathematics), June 1978
M. S. (Mathematics), August 1978
University of California, Berkeley,
September 1978 - June 1980
Graduate Studies in Mathematics
University of Chicago, September 1981
- December 1988
Ph.D. (Economics), December 1988
RESEARCH
Publications
“Should Central Banks Burst Bubbles? Some Microeconomic Issues,” Economic Journal, February, 2015. Earlier version on David Levine’s web page, here.
"Price Dynamics and Asymmetric Business Cycles under Mixed State and Time Dependent Pricing," with Tinni Sen, The B. E. Journal of Macroeconomics, April, 2010.
"Two New Conditions Supporting the First-Order Approach to Multi-Signal Principal-Agent Problems," Econometrica, December, 2009.
"Supplement to 'Two New Conditions ...'", Econometric Society Web Page.
"Simple Finite Horizon Bubbles Robust to Higher Order Knowledge," Econometrica, May, 2004 (copyright, Econometric Society).
"The Economics of Natural Laguage Interfaces: Natural Laguage Processing Technology as a Scarce Resource," with Sumali J. Conlon and Tabitha L. James, Decision Support Systems, forthcoming.
"Policy Reform and the Free Rider Problem," with Paul Pecorino, Public Choice, forthcoming.
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"Increasing, Decreasing, and Negative Returns to Honesty," with Atin Basuchoudhary, Southern Economic Journal , July, 2000.
"Primary and Secondary Reform," with Paul Pecorino, Economic Inquiry , October, 1998.
"Robustness of Retrieval Performance Measures Under Optimal User Behavior," with Sumali J. Conlon, Journal of the American Society for Information Science, April, 1998.
"Can More Frequent Price Changes Make Prices Sticky? Nonneutralities in a State Dependent Pricing Context," with Christina Liu, International Economic Review , November, 1997.
"Coordination and Weak Announcement Proofness: Two Comments on 'Refining Cheap Talk Equilibria,'" Journal of Economic Theory, January, 1997.
"Nestedness, Separability, Information Systems, and the Role of the Manager," with Sumali J. Conlon and Chi Hwang, Decision Support Systems, October, 1996.
"Cooperation for Pennies: A Note on Epsilon-Equilibria," Journal of Economic Theory, August, 1996.
"The Optimal Use of an Information Retrieval System," with Sumali J. Conlon, Journal of the American Society for Information Science, June, 1996.
"Continuous Time vs. Backwards Induction: A New Approach to Modeling Reputation in the Finite Time Horizon Context," Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, November, 1995
"A Simple Proof of a Basic Result in Nonexpected Utility Theory," Journal of Economic Theory, April, 1995.
"Can the Government Talk Cheap? Communication, Announcements, and Cheap Talk," Southern Economic Journal, October, 1993.
"Separability and Separability Flexibility of the CRESH Function,"Journal of Productivity Analysis, November, 1993.
"Unemployment, Wage Indexation and Commercial Policies," with Chi-Chur Chao, Journal of Macroeconomics, Winter, 1993.
"Attitudes Towards Race and Poverty in the Demand for Private
Education: The Case of
"Quality, Measurement Errors, and Profit Function Estimation Using a Clustered Sample," Economics Letters, July, 1990, 245-48.
"Profit, Supply, and Factor Demand Functions: A Comment," American Journal of Agricultural Economics, May, 1990, 488-92.
Working Papers
Learning-the-Potential by Doing and Asset Price Volatility, with Lina Zhou, 2004.
"A Repeated Game Model of Endogenous Ethnic Tensions," Fall, 2003.
"Do White Males Benefit from Antidiscrimination and Affirmative Action Policies?" Fall, 1996.
"Gang of Four Made Easy," Fall, 1996.
"Principal Elasticities of Substitution," Summer, 1990.
Presentations
"Attitudes Towards Race and Poverty in the Demand for Private Education in the South," with Mwangi S. Kimenyi, presented at the Southern Economic Association meetings, November, 1989.
"A Simple Flexible Form Generalization of the CES Production
Function," presented at the Conference on Current Issues in Productivity,
Rutgers,
"Effects of Mandatory Employer Provided Health Benefits on the Labor
Market Prospects of Low-Wage Workers," Mwangi S. Kimenyi, and Lewis H.
Smith, presented at the conference on labor market prospects of the poor,
"Backward Induction and Reputation in a Continuous Time Model,"
presented at the Midwest Mathematical Economics Conference,
"Worker-Employer Distrust as a Source of Wage Rigidity," Western
Economic Association Meetings,
"Estimation of an (Almost) Globally Regular Production Function which is Flexible Form in the Three Input Case," with Norman Keith Womer, presented at the Conference on Current Issues in Productivity Analysis, Newark, December, 1991.
"Robustness of Punishment Strategies, or How to Bluff Your Way Out of a
Punishment," presented at the spring Midwest Mathematical Economics
Conference,
"Robustness of Cheap Talk with a Large Audience," presented at the
North American Summer Meetings of the Econometric Society,
"A Simple Proof of Dekel's Characterization of Preferences Satisfying
the Betweenness Property," presented at the Southern Mathematical
Economics Conference,
"Cooperation for Pennies: A Note on Epsilon-Equilibria," presented
at the Spring Midwest Mathematical Economics Conference,
"Learning by Doing and the Search for Knowledge," with N. Keith Womer, presented at the TIMS/ORSA meetings, Chicago, May, 1993.
"Manipulation Through Truthful
Revelation," presented at the Southern Mathematical Economics Conference,
"Coordination and Weak Announcement Proofness: A Comment on 'Refining Cheap Talk,'" Southern Economic Theory Conference, October, 1994.
"Fixed Land, Fluid Capital and the Coercion of Labor:
The Case of Postbellum Black Employment," with
"Increasing, Decreasing, and Negative Returns to Honesty," with Atin Basuchoudhary, presented at the Southern Economic Association Conference, November, 1994.
"Cooperation in Repeated Prisoners' Dilemmas Made Easy," presented at the Southern Economic Theory Conference, October, 1995.
"Do Informed Firms Cheat More?" with Atin Basuchoudhary, presented at the Southern Economic Association Conference, November, 1995.
"Thinking and Experiencing: Empathy as a Reflection of Rationality and
Some Implications," presented at the Winter Meetings of the Econometric
Society,
"A Flexible Generalization of the CES Functional Form with Applications to Monetary Data and a Test for Separability," with Bob Dorsey and Kieth Womer, presented at the Ole Miss Conference on Money, Measurement, and Computation, Spring, 1996.
"Corruption and Drivers' Licenses: Citizen Complaints as a Source of Information," with Atin Basuchoudhary, presented at the Southern Economic Association Conference, November, 1996.
"Do Informed Firms Cheat More?" with Atin Basuchoudhary, presented at the Fall Midwest Mathematical Economics Conference, Washington University in St. Louis, October, 1996.
Teaching
Assistant Professor, Department of
Economics, University of Mississippi,
August 1987 - 1994; Associate Professor, 1995 - present
Instructor, Department of Mathematics,
September 1984 - August 1985, June 1986 - August 1986
Instructor, Department of Mathematics,
September 1979 - May 1980
Dissertation Committees
Atin Basuchoudhary, "Essays on Collusion in the Presence of Uncertainty," University of Mississippi, 1998.
Srimayi B. Sen, "An Experimental and Theoretical Examination of Business Cycle Asymmetries Under Mixed Time and State Dependent Pricing Rules," University of Mississippi, 1999.
Liyong Yiet, "Stochastic Dominance Analysis with Kernel Smoothing," University of Mississippi.
Academic Committees
Field Examination Committees:
International Economics (Chair)
International Finance
Economic Theory and its History
Econometrics
Preliminary Examination
Awards
William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition, placed 24th in country, 1976
Milton Friedman Fund, University of Chicago, 1981-82
Earhart Foundation Fellowship, 1982-83
University of Mississippi
Award -- 1993
University of Mississippi
Award -- 1994
University of Mississippi
Award --1996
University of Mississippi
Award --1997