Fall 2009 Courses

ECON 113: Economic History of the United States EMBA Economics Bootcamp Slides (updated), Fall 2009

Academic Appointments

California State University, Sacramento Professor, 2008-present Associate Professor, 2005-2008 Assistant Professor, 2002-2005 University of California, Davis, Lecturer, Summers 2004-present Williams College, Assistant Professor, 1997-2002 University of California, Davis, Visiting Assistant Professor, Spring 2001 Harvard University, Visiting Assistant Professor, Summer 2000 University of California, Berkeley, Visiting Assistant Professor, Summer 1999 Bates College, Instructor, 1996-1997

Education

Ph.D., Economics, University of California, Davis, 1997 M.A., Economics, University of California, Davis, 1992 B.A. with Highest Honors in Economics, University of California, Santa Cruz, 1988

Papers and Publications

"Review of Gavin Wright’s, Slavery and American Economic Development," Journal of Regional Science 48(2), May 2008, pp. 458-460. "The Rhetoric of ‘Signifying Nothing’: A Rejoinder to Ziliak and McCloskey," with Kevin D. Hoover, Journal of Economic Methodology 15(1), March 2008, pp. 57-68. "Sound and Fury: McCloskey and Significance Testing in Economics," with Kevin D. Hoover, Journal of Economic Methodology15(1), March 2008, pp. 1-37. "Agricultural and Monetary Shocks before the Great Depression: A Graph-Theoretic Causal Investigation," with Stephen J. Perez, Journal of Macroeconomics 28(4), December 2006, pp. 720-736. "From the Great Depression to the Great Inflation: Path Dependence and Monetary Policy," with Kristin Van Gaasbeck, Journal of Economics and Business 57(5), September-October 2005, pp. 375-387. "International Growth and Volatility in Historical Perspective," Applied Economics Letters 12(2), February 2005, pp. 67-71. "The NBA and the Influx of International Basketball Players," with Erick Eschker and Stephen J. Perez, Applied Economics 36(10), June 2004, pp. 1009-1020. "Review of Robert E. Wright, The Wealth of Nations Rediscovered," The Social Science Journal 41(3), 2004, pp. 515-517. "Inflationary Expectations and the Fisher Effect Prior to World War I," with Stephen J. Perez, Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking 35(6), December 2003, Part 1, pp. 947-965. "The Economic Effects of the 1918 Influenza Epidemic," with Elizabeth Brainerd, Centre for Economic Policy Research Discussion Paper No. 3791, February 2003. "Review of Clive Granger, Empirical Modelling in Economics: Specification and Evaluation," Journal of Regional Science 40(4), November 2000, pp. 802-804. "Taxing and Spending in the Long View: The Causal Structure of U.S. Fiscal Policy, 1791-1913," with Kevin D. Hoover, Oxford Economic Papers 52(4), October 2000, pp. 745-773. "American Business Cycle Volatility in Historical Perspective: Revised Estimates of Real GDP, 1869-1913," Department of Economics Research Paper No. 184, Williams College, November 1998. "Real Output and Business Cycle Volatility, 1869-1993: U.S. Experience in International Perspective," Journal of Economic History 58(2), June 1998, pp. 537-541. "Two Centuries of Taxing and Spending: A Causal Investigation of the Federal Budget Process, 1791-1990," with Kevin D. Hoover, University of California, Davis Working Paper #1997-30. "Simpson’s Paradox and the Incredibly Shrinking Historical Business Cycle," work in progress.

Honors and Awards

Outstanding University Service Award, College of Social Sciences and Interdisciplinary Studies, California State University, Sacramento, 2006-2007 Outstanding Teaching Award Finalist, College of Social Sciences and Interdisciplinary Studies, California State University, Sacramento, 2004-2005 Allen G. Marr Distinguished Dissertation Award for best dissertation in the Social Sciences over a three-year period, University of California, Davis, 1998 Allan Nevins Dissertation Prize for best dissertation on North American Economic History, Economic History Association, 1997 Outstanding Graduate Student Teaching Award, Academic Senate Committee on Teaching, UC Davis, 1992-1993

Service

Chair, Department of Economics, California State University, Sacramento, 2007-present Vice Chair, Department of Economics, California State University, Sacramento, 2005-2007 Executive Committee, Department of Economics, California State University, Sacramento, 2002-present Graduate Program Committee, Department of Economics, California State University, Sacramento, 2006-present Assessment Committee, Department of Economics, California State University, Sacramento, 2003-present Appointment Committee, Department of Economics, California State University, Sacramento, 2003-present (Chair 2003-2004, 2008) Retention, Tenure, and Promotion Committee, Department of Economics, California State University, Sacramento, 2005-present (Chair 2006-2007) Faculty Policies Committee, Faculty Senate, California State University, Sacramento, 2003-present (Chair 2006, 2009-present) Faculty Endowment Fund for Student Scholarships Committee, Faculty Senate, California State University, Sacramento, 2003-present (Chair 2003-2004) New Faculty Orientation Subcommittee, California State University, Sacramento, 2007-present Executive Committee, Faculty Senate, California State University, Sacramento, 2006, 2009-present Parent Advisory Committee, Associated Students' Children's Center, California State University, Sacramento, 2006-2007 Research and Creative Activities Subcommittee, Faculty Senate, California State University, Sacramento, 2005-2006 Institutional Scholarship Committee, California State University, Sacramento, 2003-2004 Childcare Needs Assessment Working Group, California State University, Sacramento, 2004 Vice Chair, General Plan/Housing Element Update Steering Committee, City of Davis, California, 2007-2008 Chair, Finance and Budget Commission, City of Davis, California, 2003-2006 Commissioner, Business and Economic Development Commission, City of Davis, California, 2003-2006 Faculty Sponsor, Student Economics Club, California State University, Sacramento, 2003-2005 Faculty Advisor, CSUS Omicron Delta Epsilon Chapter, International Collegiate Economics Honor Society, 2003-2006 Consultant/Principal Investigator, Tax Support Division, California Employment Development Department, 2008 Consultant, California Environmental Protection Agency, 2004-2006 Copyright 2009, Mark V. Siegler Last updated September 25, 2009 California State University, Sacramento | Department of Economics