Robert J. Stonebraker

Address:                                                                                        Home:

Department of Accounting, Finance and Economics                        220 Driftwood Lane

          College of Business Administration                                                 Rock Hill, SC 29732

Winthrop University                                                                       (803) 980-1834

          Rock Hill, SC 29733

(803) 323-2488

 

Education:

Ph.D., Economics, Princeton University, 1973

           Dissertation: The Effect of Risk on Corporate Rates of Return

B.A. (summa cum laude), Economics, University of Maryland, 1967

Fields of Specialization:

• Regulatory Issues/ Industrial Organization
• Managerial Economics/ Applications to Nonprofit Firms
• Macroeconomics

Employment:

Winthrop University

• Associate Professor, 2002 to present
• Instructor, 2001 to 2002

Indiana University of Pennsylvania (IUP)

• Professor Emeritus, 2002 to present
• Interim Associate Provost, 1994-1995
• Full Professor, 1978 to 2001
• Associate Professor, 1975 to 1978
• Assistant Professor, 1971 to 1975

Teaching Activities

Courses Taught:

• Introduction to Political Economy
• Principles of Macroeconomics
• Principles of Microeconomics
• Intermediate Macroeconomic Analysis
• Intermediate Microeconomic Analysis
• Contemporary Economic Issues
• Environmental Economics
• Game Theory
• Industrial Organization
• Managerial Economics
• Monetary Economics
• Public Finance
• Regulation of Industry

Teaching Honors:

• Distinguished Faculty Award for Teaching, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, 1977 and 1989
• Who's Who Among American Teachers, 1996, 2005 and 2007

Scholarly Activities

Professional, Refereed Publications:

• "I'll Do It Tomorrow: The Logic of Procrastination" (with Lisa M. Zarick), College Teaching, forthcoming.
• "The Impact of Lotteries on State Education Expenditures: Does Earmarking Matter?" (with Louis Pantuosco and William Seyfried), Review of Regional Studies, volume 37, number 2, 2007.
• "Religious Free Riders: The Impact of Market Share," (with Stephanie Brewer and James Jozefowicz), Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, September 2006.
• Mentoring At-Risk First-Year Students, E-Source for College Transitions, volume 3, number 5, April 2006.
• "Allocating Local Church Funds to Benevolence," Review of Religious Research, September 2003.
• "Optimal Church Size: The Bigger the Better?" Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, September 1993.
• "Funding Student Activities: An Economist's Perspective," ACU-I Bulletin, April 1983.
• "Turnover and Mobility among the 100 Largest Firms: An Update," American Economic Review , December 1979.
• "Corporate Profits and the Risk of Entry," Review of Economics and Statistics, February 1976.
• "A Geometric Treatment of Averch-Johnson's Behavior of the Firm Model: A Comment," American Economic Review, March 1972. Later translated into Japanese and reprinted in Expressways and Highways.

Online textbook:

• The Joy of Economics: Making Sense Out of Life, a web-book for introductory economics.

 

Other Publications:

• Why People Cheat, Press-Enterprise, October 8, 2006.
• "Economics of Religion," in Economics Uncut: A Complete Guide to Life, Death, and Misadventure, edited by Simon Bowmaker, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2005.
• "Should Members be Required to Participate in Ministry," Episcopal Life, February 2003.
• "Savings and Loans in Crisis," The Margin, September/October 1989.
• IUP Economics Alumni Newsletter, published each semester (Fall 1984 to Spring 2001), the newsletter contained interpretive articles on current economic events and theories.

Other professional activities:

• "Teaching the Economics of Religion", paper presented at the annual meetings of the Association for Religion, Economics, and Culture, Tampa, November 2007 ( power point presentation)
• "Let's Talk: Mentoring Freshmen in Academic Difficulty," paper presented at the National Symposium on Student Retention, Dallas, October 2005.
• "Do Religious Free Riders Prefer Popular Denominations?" paper presented at the annual meetings of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, Norfolk, October 2003.
• "Shrinking Benevolence Dollars: Where Did They Go?," paper presented at the annual meetings of the Association of Social Economists, New York, January 1999.
• Referee for Economic Inquiry (1999) and Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion (1996 to present).
• Reviewer for textbook proposals and manuscripts for McGraw-Hill (1976, 1989, 1990, 1991), Macmillan (1983, 1984, 1985, 1987, 1988), Times/Mirror/Mosby (1986).
• Consultant to Educational Testing Service (1987 and 1988), Pennsylvania League of Women Voters (1993-1995), Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (1996), Lance, Inc. (2006).

Professional Affiliations:

• American Economics Association
• Society for the Scientific Study of Religion
• Association of Religion, Economics, and Culture
• Religious Research Association

University Service and Other Activities

Winthrop University (selected current service):

• Member of Project REACH (Retention and Achievement)
• Coordinator of REACH mentoring program
• Developed and maintain REACH website
• Member of Winthrop University Chorale
• Developed and maintain Economics website for students considering a major or minor in the field
• Member of College of Business Assessment Committee
• Chair, College of Business Petitions Committee

Winthrop University (selected past service):

• Co-chair of College of Business Student Committee
• Member of Ad Hoc Committee on Pre-Majors
• Member of Environmental Programs Coordinating Committee

Indiana University of Pennsylvania (IUP) -- Departmental:

• Served on and chaired all department standing committees. 
• Initiated department internship program; developed new courses; redesigned curricula; developed joint major in Economics and Mathematics.
• Initiated alumni newsletter; wrote and distributed newsletter; developed and maintained computerized data base of department alumni.

Indiana University of Pennsylvania (IUP) -- University-Wide:

• University Senate: student affairs committee; academic affairs committee; helped develop and write university policies on academic standards, course syllabi, course withdrawals, class attendance, grade appeals, academic integrity, and class disruptions.
• Admissions: coordinated faculty representation and spoke at all Visitation Programs and Exploration Day Programs for prospective students and their families
• University-Wide Promotions Committee: member and chair; rewrote procedures
• Student Cooperative Association Finance Committee: member and chair; rewrote and administered guidelines for the allocation of $2 million in annual student activity fees; chaired committee to develop special funding guidelines for varsity athletics.
• Search Committees for two deans and two vice presidents .

Indiana University of Pennsylvania (IUP) -- Interim Associate Provost (1994-95):

Was responsible for Admissions, Office of the Registrar, Academic Information Systems, and Institutional Research. These areas contained approximately 12 professionals and 30 clerical/secretarial staff members with non-personnel budgets exceeding $500,000 annually. Administered the Grade Appeals Process and handled miscellaneous student problems in the academic arena. Among my achievements were:

• Recruited largest freshman class in IUP history.
• Revamped recruitment process for admitted students;
• Developed complete set of award-winning admission publications and new recruitment video.
• Directed complete revision of IUP Scholarship policies.