Bruce Brown

Taught Fall 2024

EC 4408 Money and Banking; Monday 5:30-8:15; 5-105

EC 2202.04 Macroeconomic Principles; Monday 1-2:15 PM;  5-104; and required online component 

Both courses use MyEconLab by  Pearson; access via Canvas; both courses use Instant Access Complete 

Taught at Cal Poly Pomona (2000-2024)

EC 2201   Microeconomic Principles (ordinary, hybrid, online formats)

EC 2202   Microeconomic Principles (ordinary, hybrid, online, honors formats)

EC 3332/3322A  Economic Statistics (ordinary, online formats)

EC 4401  Intermediate Microeconomics

EC 4402  Intermediarte Microeconomics II

EC 4408  Money and Banking

EC 4433 Labor Economics

EC 4441 Industry Studies (Healthcare Economics)

EC 4450 Capital Markets

EC 4620 Senior Seminar

EC 5550 (Graduate) Microeconomic Analysis

EC 6657 (Graduate) Capital Markets II

 Passed The Japanese-Language Proficiency Test, level 4

  - Administered in Japan by the Association of International Education

Elasticity, Chapter 9 in Principles of Microeconomics, multimedia online textbook edited by Carsten Lange, 2015

An Introduction to Financial Markets and Institutions, 2^nd edition (with Maureen Burton and Reynold Nesiba), M.E. Sharpe Publisher, 2010.

Financial Markets, article in Booms and Busts: An Encyclopedia of Economic History from Tulipmania of the 1630s to the Current Global Financial Crisis, M.E. Sharpe Publisher, 2010.

Nasdaq, article in Booms and Busts: An Encyclopedia of Economic History from Tulipmania of the 1630s to the Current Global Financial Crisis, M.E. Sharpe Publisher, 2010.

The Financial System and the Economy, Principles of Money and Banking, 5^th edition (with Maureen Burton), M.E. Sharpe Publisher, 2009.

“Simpson’s Paradox, Aggregation, and On-Time Airline Performance,” in International Business Association Conference Proceedings, April 2005 pgs. 63-69.      

“Lessons from the Japanese Healthcare Experience,” Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies, vol. 17, Fall 2004, pgs. 53-66. 

“Wages and Employment in the U.S. Apparel Industry,” Contemporary Economic Policy, 19(4) Oct. 2001, pgs. 454-464.

“Japanese in the California Labor Market,” The Journal of Economics - Niigata University,  # 68, March 2000,  pgs. 29-50.

“The Changing American Perspective of Japan: Revisionist and Chrysanthemum Club Views as Seen Through the Lens of ‘Japan - A Reinterpretation,’” The Annual Report of Economics - Niigata University, # 24, January 2000, pgs. 117-131.

“U.S. Gives Opposite Advice to Japan and Its Neighbors,” under the title “Some Pearls of Wisdom in Economic Advice,” The Japan Times, pg. 21, May 17, 1998. 

Unskilled Immigration and Native Wages, UCLA Economics Department Ph.D. dissertation, (Edward E. Leamer, chair), December, 1997. 

“The Nature and the Origin of the Firm” presented at the 99th Annual Western Economic Association International (WEAI) Conference, Seattle WA, June 2024.

“On Ricardian Equivalence and the Equivalence of Ricardo,” presented at the 98^th Annual Western Economic Association International (WEAI) Conference, San Diego CA July 2023.

“Is the Monetary Policy Curve an Effective Replacement for the LM Curve?” 97th Annual Western Economic Association International (WEAI) Conference, Portland OR, July 2022

“Is Ricardian Equivalence Still Relevant?” 96th Annual Western Economic Association International (WEAI) Conference, Honolulu HI July, 2021 – virtual

“Teaching Aggregate Demand and Supply” 94th Annual Western Economic Association International (WEAI) Conference, San Francisco, CA. July 1, 2019

 “The Money Market – Dynamic versus Static Representations” 93^rd  Annual Western Economic Association International (WEAI) Conference, Vancouver Canada June 29, 2018.

“Immigrant Impact on Natives by Education” 92^nd Annual Western Economic Association International (WEAI) Conference, San Diego CA  June 26, 2017.

“Relative Wages and Substitutability of Immigrants and Natives,” 91st Annual Western Economic Association International (WEAI) Conference, Portland OR. July 1, 2016.

“Immigration and Native Adjustment,” 90th Annual WEAI Conference, Honolulu HI, June 28, 2015.    

“Airline Ticket Prices and Flight Characteristics: Lowest Price Roundtrip Flights from Los Angeles to New York,” June, 2014, 89th Annual Western Economic Association International (WEAI) Conference, Denver CO.

“Contrasting Notions of Labor Substitutability” June, 2012, 87th Annual Western Economic Association International (WEAI) Conference, San Francisco CA.

 “Is Credit Rationing a Market Imperfection?” July, 2011, 86th Annual Western Economic Association International (WEAI) Conference, San Diego CA.

“Engaging a Diverse Set of Students in Healthcare Economics”  in a poster session “Active Learning Strategies,”

Jan., 2011, 123^rd Annual American Economic Association (AEA) Conference, Denver, CO.

Faculty Center for Professional Development Mini-Grant; Supported research assistance in preparation of paper presented at WEAI Conference June 2017, “Relative Wages and Substitutability of Immigrants and Natives” (2016).

Faculty Center for Professional Development Grant for research assistance in preparation of: The Financial System and the Economy (2007).

Designing Online Learning-Centered Environments (DOLCE) program grant (with Professors Lange and Hunter) for creation of online Principles of Microeconomics course (2006). 

Faculty Center for Professional Development Grant to participate in the Integrated Public Use Microdata

Sample (IPUMS) Winter Workshop in Minneapolis MN, offered by the University of Minnesota, Minnesota Population Center (2005)

Inter-University Consortium for Social and Political Research (ICPSR) grant to participate in a workshop:

“Census 2000: Data Structures and GIS Applications,”  in Ann Arbor Michigan (2004).

UCLA Pharmaceutical Economics Seminar Research Grant (1993)

Sloan Fellowship for International Economic Research, UCLA (1989 & 1990)

(December 2020) External Reviewer (with Prof. N. Edward Coulson, UCI) for Cal State University Los Angeles, Economics Department Self Study.

(January 2019) External Reviewer (with Prof. Kevin Henrickson, Gonzaga University) for the University of the Pacific, Economics Department Self Study.

 (May 2017) External Reviewer (with Prof. Dipankar Purkayastha, of Cal State Fullerton) for Cal State University Northridge, Economics Department Self Study. 

(September 2014) External reviewer for Scripps College Committee on Appointments, Promotions and Tenure (APT) for candidate promotion to Full Professor.

(February 2014) External Reviewer (with Prof. Gary Hansen, UCLA) for Cal State Long Beach Economics Department Self Study.

American Economic Association (AEA)

Western Economic Association International (WEAI) 

International Economics and Finance Society (IEFS)