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Curriculum VitaStephen Bruestle
Last Updated: 5/24/2010 Education: Doctorate: Economics Ph.D. in Progress Fall 2007 Entering Class Undergraduate: Economic History (BA) and Mathematics (BA) Double Major with an Honors in Economics and Business Dean's List all Semesters High School: Awards: Cum Laude, Testamur Scholar, and Performing Arts Service Award Advanced Courses: BC Calculus, AP Physics, AP European History, Independent Study in Political Science Publication: (with Assistant Professor Michael A.Kelly) Trend Of Subjects Published In Economics
Journals 1969-2007. Economic Inquiry: 2010, 1465-7295. JEL CODES: A11, A14 ABSTRACT: We describe the evolution of subject areas
published in economics over four decades and calculate the percentage of
articles published in each Journal of Economic Literature (JEL) subject
category, with and without weighting by Eigenfactor.com’s Article Influence
(AI). Finance, Development, and Industrial Organization have seen their share
of total articles rise over the past four decades while Microeconomics, Macroeconomics,
and Labor have seen their share fall. We use JEL codes to define specialty
journals and find that more specialty journals tend to increase the overall percentage
share for that subject. This effect is ambiguous when re-weighted by AI. Working Paper: (with William E. Simon Professor of Political Economy W. Mark Crain) Forecasting Household Expenditures Using the Consumer Confidence Index: A Mean-Variance Approach. ABSTRACT: This paper refines the way consumer confidence survey data are used in forecasting models. The refinement is easy to describe: it extends existing models by controlling for statistically significant changes in consumer confidence index values. The motivation behind this refinement is simply that not all changes in the confidence index are statistically significant, and mean index values alone provide a noisy signal. Controlling for significant versus insignificant changes in the consumer confidence index materially enhances the explanatory power of household expenditure forecasting models. Work in Progress: Showing Ads to the Wrong Consumers: Strategic Inefficiency in Online Targeteed Pay-Per-Click Advertising. JEL CODES: C78,
D83, L19, L86, M37
ABSTRACT: Online advertising is different from newspaper, television and other traditional advertising, because 1) Google, Amazon, Facebook and other online advertising platforms are better able to personalize ads to fit consumers’ characteristics and 2) merchants pay per consumer that clicks on their ad. This is the first paper to analyze online targeted pay-per-click advertising. Because online advertisement platforms maximize clicking and do not maximize the merchants’ profits, I find that a platform is induced to show ads inefficiently, showing an ad to some consumers who would not buy the product and not showing the same ad to other consumers who would. Professional Experience: Summer
2009 Research
Assistant
to Associate Professor John Pepper Edited a paper of his for
publication Summer
2009 Research
Assistant
to Professor Lee Coppock Formatted and organized
statistics Summer 2006-2007 Excel Research Assistant to Assistant Professor Michael A. Kelly Areas
of Research: Effect of Sarbanes-Oxley on the stock market, effect of
filing NT 10-K, using JEL Classification to see how Economics
Publications have changed since 1969. Summer
2005 Excel Research Assistant to
William E. Simon Professor of Political Economy W. Mark Crain and January 2006 Areas
of Research: Summer 2010 Instructor (forthcoming) Spring 2010 Teaching
Assistant to Assistant Professor Federico Cilberto
Intermediate Microeconomics (UVA ECON 3010) Led
three discussions sections Fall 2009
Teaching Assistant to Professor Edgar Olsen Led
three discussions sections Spring 2009 Teaching Assistant to Kenneth Strazzeri
Introduction to Statistical Analysis (UVA
STAT 2020) Proctored
quizzes, led a discussion section and designed test questions Fall 2008
Teaching Assistant to Assistant Professor Eric Furstenberg Led
three discussions sections Summer
2008 Teaching
Assistant to Kulwant Rai
Introduction to Microeconomics (UVA ECON
2010) Led a
discussions section, gave lectures and gave group assignments Summer
2008 Teaching
Assistant to Associate Professor Lee Coppock
Introduction to Macroeconomics (UVA ECON
2020) Graded
Homework, graded tests and formatted statistics on students Spring
2008 Teaching
Assistant to Associate Professor Lee Coppock
Introduction to Macroeconomics (UVA ECON
2020) Led
three discussions sections Fall
2007
Teaching Assistant to Professor Kenneth Elzinga Led
three discussions sections Economics: Industrial Organization, Economics of Advertising, Microeconomics, Principles Mathematics: Game Theory, Probability, Statistics Abstract Algebra, Vector Spaces, Calculus, Mathematical Modeling Computers: MaTLab, Stata, EViews, SAS, Microsoft Excel, TextPad regular expressions, Microsoft Word, Adobe Acrobat, Microsoft Access, Dream Weaver/ web design Personal: Poetry, Creative Writing, Sculpting, Fitness, Poker, Creating an Economics Board Game (Pimponomics) Firm Structure and Industrial Revolutions. Fall 2006. ECON 495 02 Thesis. Working Paper. Thesis Advisor Professor W. Mark Crain. Islam and Economic Choice. Fall 2006. REL 215 02 Islam. Working Paper. African culture as a good – is it a normal good?: Evidence for Pan-Africanism in How was the quantity of slaves shipped to the The Tall Tale of Heights: An Econometric History of 18th Century British Living Standards. Spring 2006. Joint ECON 365 02 Econometric Analysis and HIST 225 02 Age of Revolution. From Workshop of the World to Second Rate Power: A Review Essay of Three Contemporary Arguments Concerning The Spirit of a Samurai - The Ability of a Merchant (Shikon Shosai). Spring 2005. HIST 106 02 Introduction to History: The History of the Samurai. Honors: 2006 - Inducted Member of Pi Mu Epsilon (Mathematics Honors Society) 2006 - Inducted Member of Delta Epsilon (Economics Honors Society) 2006 - First place in the BARGE (the 2005 - Samurai Paper chosen to represent the History Department of Lafayette College for President Weiss's inauguration Paper: "The Spirit of a Samurai - The Ability of a Merchant (Shikon Shosai). 2003-2007 - Lafayette College Dean's List all Semesters Leadership Roles: 2009-2010 Member of Peace and Justice Committee of the Westminster Presbyterian Church 2006-2007 President of the 2006-2007 Chair of Events Committee of the W.O.R.D.S (poetry group) 2006-2007 Webmaster of the W.O.R.D.S (poetry group) 2005-2006 Treasurer of the 2004-2005 Webmaster of the 2004-2005 Secretary of the 2004 Youth Advisory Delegate to PCUSA General Assembly 2004 Head Manager of the Pep Band of 2004 Student Representative to the Library Faculty Committee 2004 Member of the Student Government of 2004 Farinon Student Services Representative (Student Government of 2004 Elections Chair of the Student Government of 2003 Directed Lysistrata ( 2002 Youth Advisory Delegate to PCUSA Synod of the North East 2001-2010 Elder of the Presbyterian Church (USA) 2001-2003 Member of Session of the Pennington Presbyterian Church |
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