Ross DavidHickey
Contact
Information
Simon FraserUniversity
Voice: +16047300118
8888 University Drive
E-mail: rdhickey@sfu.ca
Burnaby, B.C., Canada
webpage: www.sfu.ca/rdhickey
V5A 1S6
Placement Ocer:
David Andolfatto
Voice: +17787825825
E-mail: dandolfa@sfu.ca
Personal
Canadian Citizen, born March 20,1980
Research
Interests
Public Finance, Political Economy, Applied Econometrics
Teaching
Interests
Graduate: Microeconomic Theory, Public Finance, Political Economy,
Economic Development
Undergraduate: Microeconomics, Macroeconomics, Public Finance,
History of Economic Thought, International Trade, Economic Development
Education
Ph.D. Candidate, Economics,
Fall 2003-Present
Simon FraserUniversity, Burnaby, British Columbia CAN
Dissertation Title: "Three Essays on Political Economy of Fiscal Federalism"
Advisor: Anke S. Kessler
M.A., Economics,
Fall 2002-Summer 2003
Simon FraserUniversity, Burnaby, British Columbia CAN
Project Title: "An Application of Contract Theory To The Restaurant Industry:
A Principal-Agent Model Address To The Practice of Tipping"
Advisor: Christoph L篓ulfesmann
B.A. Honors in Economics with Mathematics Subsidiary, Fall 1998-Spring 2002
St. Francis Xavier University, Antigonish, Nova Scotia CAN
Thesis Title: "An Economic Analysis of Art Auctions"
Advisor: Leonard Pluta
Academic
Experience
Teaching Assistant,
Fall 2002-Spring 2007
Simon FraserUniversity, Burnaby, British Columbia
Courses: Introductory Macroeconomics, Cost Benefit Analysis,
Natural Resource Economics, History of Economic Thought,
Introduction to Economic Methodology, Economics of Sports
Research Assistant,
Fall 2007-Present
Simon FraserUniversity, British Columbia
Anke Kessler, Supervisor
Theoretical research on political economy in federations.
Research Assistant,
Summer 2005-Spring 2007
Simon FraserUniversity, British Columbia
Jane Friesenand Brian Krauth, Supervisors
Empirical research estimating peereects
on student learning outcomes.
Research Assistant,
Fall 2005-Summer 2006
Simon FraserUniversity, British Columbia
Anke Kessler, Supervisor
Empirical research on municipal political economy
Research Assistant,
Fall 2005-Summer 2006
Simon FraserUniversity, British Columbia
David Jacks, Supervisor
Empirical research on historic retail price data
from the Canadian economy.
Research Assistant,
Fall 2004
Simon FraserUniversity, British Columbia
Steeve Mongrain, Supervisor
Project on incidence of plea bargaining and court time.
Research Assistant,
Spring 2002
Simon FraserUniversity, British Columbia
Doug Allen, Supervisor
Project on the use of simple fractions in agricultural contracts.
Laboratory Assistant,
Spring 1999-2002
St. Francis Xavier University, Nova Scotia
Biology 112-Diversity of Life
Assisted instruction in organismic diversity, functional morphology,
embryogenesis and ecology from an evolutionary perspective.
Honors and
Awards
Economics Department Graduate Fellowship, Simon Fraser University, 2005,2006,2007
Economics Honors Award, St. Francis Xavier University, 2002
Dean'sScholarship, St. Francis Xavier University, 2000
Papers Under
Review
"Disabled Peers and Academic Achievement"with Jane Friesenand Brian Krauth,
September, 2007.
Working
Papers
"Bicameral Bargaining and Federation Formation,"latest version October, 2007.
"Identification of Tax Competition Through Local Government Elections,"latestver-
sionNovember, 2007.
"The Evolution of Attachment and Grief,"latest version Dec 2005
Papers In
Preparation
"Federalism and theeects
of Sub-national Elections,"with Anke Kessler.
"Retail Market Integration over the 20thCentury: Evidence from Canada,"with
David Jacks
Conference
Participation
Presenter: Bicameral Bargaining Over Regional Policies
Canadian Public Economics Study Group (CPEG). May 31-June 1,2007. Halifax,
Nova Scotia.
Presenter: Strategic Tax Setting of British Columbia'sMunicipal Governments
Canadian Economic Association Annual Meeting (CEA). June 1-3,2007. Halifax,
Nova Scotia.
Presenter: Strategic Tax Setting of British Columbia'sMunicipal Governments
Institutd'Economiade Barcelona (IEB) Summer School On Fiscal Federalism: Tax
Competition and Urban Public Finance. June 25-29,2007. Barcelona, Spain
Discussant: "Did the Introduction of Activation Programs in Stockholm Town Dis-
trictsAect
the Moving Choices of Welfare Prone Individuals?"by Karin Edmarkat
Institutd'Economiade Barcelona (IEB) Summer School On Fiscal Federalism: Tax
Competition and Urban Public Finance. June 25-29,2007. Barcelona, Spain
Discussant: "Detecting Housing Submarkets using Unsupervised Learning of Finite
Mixture Models"by Christos Ntantamisat Canadian Economic Association Annual
Meeting (CEA). June 1-3,2007. Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Discussant: "Agency and the Hudson'sBayCompany"by Isaac Hollowayat TARGET
Student Workshop (2006)
Vancouver, British Columbia
Discussant: "Does migrants clandestineness damage potential development in the
countries of origin? Astudyofillegal migrants in Italy"by Maria Concetta Chiuri,
Nicola Coniglio, Giovanni Ferriand Laura Serlengaat Tenth International Metropolis
Conference: Our Diverse Cities: Migration, Diversity and Change. October 17-21,
2005. Toronto, Ontario.
Discussant: "The Savings Behavior of Temporary and Permanent Migrants in Germany"by
Thomas Bauerand Mathias Sinning at Tenth International Metropolis
Conference: Our Diverse Cities: Migration, Diversity and Change. October 17-21,
2005. Toronto, Ontario.
Participant:
Society for Economic Dynamics (SED) Annual Meeting. July 6-8,2006. Vancouver,
British Columbia
Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR) Summer Meeting. June 28-30,
2006. Vancouver, British Columbia
Team for Advanced Research on Globalization Education and Technology (TARGET)
Conference on Education, Training and the Evolving Workplace. May 12-13,2006.
Vancouver, British Columbia.
Eighth National Metropolis: Immigration and Canada'sPlaceina Changing World,
March 23to26,2006, Vancouver, British Columbia
Canadian Macroeconomic Study Group (CMSG): 19thAnnual Meeting. November 4
-5,2005. Vancouver, British Columbia.
22ndAnnual Canadian Econometric Study Group (CESG) Conference: Model Uncertainty,
Identification and Selection in Econometrics. October 2122,2005. Vancouver,
British Columbia
Tenth International Metropolis Conference: Our Diverse Cities: Migration, Diversity
and Change. October 17-21,2005. Toronto, Ontario.
Team for Advanced Research on Globalization Education and Technology (TARGET)
Workshop on Economic History. October 15th, 2005. Vancouver, British Columbia.
Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR) Summer Meeting. June 18-20,
2005. Vancouver, British Columbia.
Canadian Economic Theory Conference (CETC). May 13th-15th, 2005. Vancouver,
British Columbia.
Internal
Presentations
Presenter: On the Representation of Regions in Federations
SFUBrownBag Seminar 2006
Presenter: Electoral Accountability in Federations
SFUBrownBag Seminar 2006
Professional
Activities
Member: Canadian Economics Association
Organizer: UBC-SFUPhDStudent Workshop, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
December2,2006.
President: Simon Fraser University Economics Graduate Student Society, Spring and
Summer 2007.
Student Representative: Simon Fraser University Graduate Program Committee
Computer
Skills
Statistical Applications: Stata, Eviews, Shazam, S-PLUS
Others: MATLAB, GAUSS, Maple, LaTex, Tex, Excel, Word, HTML,
References
AnkeS. Kessler
Department of Economics
Simon FraserUniversity
8888 University Drive
Burnaby, B.C.
Canada V5A1S6
Tel: 778-782-3443
Email: ankekessler@sfu.ca
Gordon Myers
Department of Economics
Simon FraserUniversity
8888 University Drive
Burnaby, B.C.
Canada V5A1S6
Tel: 778-782-3409
Email: gordonmyers@sfu.ca
Brian Krauth
Department of Economics
Simon FraserUniversity
8888 University Drive
Burnaby, B.C.
Canada V5A1S6
Email: briankrauth@sfu.ca
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