Curriculum Vitae

Curtis R. Taylor
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Box 90097
Durham, NC 27708-0097

+1 919 660 1827 (office)
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Education

PhD

Yale University

1992

B.A.

University of Washington

1986

Areas of Research

Industrial Organization, Contract Theory, and Information
Economics

Areas of Experience

Editorial Appointments
• Associate Editor, Journal of
Industrial Economics, December 2003 to present.
• Associate Editor,
B.E. Journals of Theoretical Economics: September 2004 to present.
•
Associate Editor, B.E. Journals of Economic Analysis and Policy:
February 2001 to Present.
• Associate Editor, American Economic
Review: April 1995 to April 2001.

Refereeing
• American
Economic Review.
• B.E. Journals of Economic Analysis and
Policy.
• Econometrica.
• Economica.
• Economic Inquiry.
•
European Economic Review.
• Games and Economic Behavior.
•
International Journal of Industrial Organization.
• Journal of
Development Economics.
• Journal of Economics and Management
Strategy.
• Journal of Industrial Economics.
• Journal of
Political Economy.
• National Science Foundation.
• Quarterly
Journal of Economics.
• Rand Journal of Economics.
• Review of
Economic Studies.

University/Departmental Service
•
Director of Graduate Studies: July 2003 to present.
• Departmental
Executive Committee: September 2000 to present.
• Microeconomic
Qualifying Exam Committee: May 1997 to present.
• Faculty Recruiting
Committee: 1995, 1998, 2002, 2003, and 2004.
• Micro Theory Seminar
Coordinator: 1997 to present.
• Co-Organizer, Duke/Texas/NorthWestern
IO Conference: October 2004.

Conference Presentations
•
The Economics of Electronic Communication Markets, Toulouse: October
2004.
• The Annual Meetings of the American Economic Association, San
Diego: January 2004.
• The Stanford Institute for Theoretical
Economics Summer Workshop, Stanford: August 2003.
• The North
American Summer Meetings of the Econometric Society (invited session),
Evanston:
June 2003.
• The North American Winter Meetings of the
Econometric Society, Washington D.C.: January
2003.
• The North
American Winter Meetings of the Econometric Society, Boston: January
2000.
• The North American Winter Meetings of the Econometric
Society, New York: January 1999.
• The Meetings of the European
Association for Research in Industrial Economics, Copenhagen:
August
1998.
• The Stanford Institute for Theoretical Economics Summer
Workshop, Stanford: August 1997.
• The Meetings of the Western
Economic Association, Seattle: July 1997.
• The Northwestern
University Summer Workshop on Microeconomics, Evanston: August
1996.
• The Stanford-Cal Conference on Industrial Organization,
Berkeley: April 1996.
• The North American Winter Meetings of the
Econometric Society, San Francisco: January
1996.
• The Stanford
Institute for Theoretical Economics Summer Workshop, Stanford: July
1994.
• The North American Winter Meetings of the Econometric
Society, Boston: January 1994.
• The Northwestern University Summer
Workshop on Microeconomics, Evanston: August 1993.
• The North
American Winter Meetings of the Econometric Society, Anaheim: January
1993.

Seminar Presentations
• California Institute of
Technology: Department of Economics, November 2004.
• European
University Institute (Florence), Department of Economics: May 2004.
•
University of Bonn, Department of Economics, May 2004.
• University
of Minnesota, Department of Economics, October 2003.
• University of
Michigan, Department of Economics, October 2003 and November 1993.
•
Michigan State University, Department of Economics, October 2003.
•
Cornell University, Applied Economics Seminar: November 2002.
•
Oxford University, Nuffield College: June 2002.
• London Business
School, Economics Division: June 2002.
• North Carolina State
University, Department of Economics: November 2001.
• University of
Texas, Department of Economics: October 2001 and October 1994.
•
Northwestern University, Center for Mathematical Studies in Economics
& Management Science: November 2000.
• Indiana University, Kelly
School of Business: November 2000.
• Duke University, Department of
Economics and Fuqua School of Business: March 2002,
November 1999,
and April 1997.
• University of North Carolina, Department of
Economics: March 2002, November 1999, and
April 1997.
• Princeton
University, Department of Economics: November 1999.
• University of
British Columbia, Department of Economics: November 1999.
•
University of Chicago, Graduate School of Business: May 1999 and January
1991.
• University of California, Berkeley, Department of Economics:
April 1999 and November 1995.
• Stanford University, Department of
Economics: April 1999 and May 1996.
• Yale University, Department of
Economics: November 1998.
• Columbia University, Department of
Economics: November 1998.
• University of California, San Diego,
Department of Economics: October 1998.
• University of Iowa,
Department of Economics: April 1998.
• Harvard University, Department
of Economics: November 1997.
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Department of Economics: Novermber 1997.
• Boston University,
Department of Economics: November 1997 and April 1992.
• Arizona
State University, Department of Economics: October 1997.
• Vanderbilt
University, Department of Economics: September 1997.
• University of
Maryland, Department of Economics: April 1997.
• Johns Hopkins
University, Department of Economics: April 1997.
• United States Air
Force Academy, Department of Economics and Geography: February
1997.
• Rice University, Department of Economics: October 1996.
•
University of California, Santa Cruz, Department of Economics: May
1996.
• Ohio State University, Department of Economics: April
1996.
• Stanford University, Hoover Institution: March 1996 and
October 1995.
• University of California, Los Angeles, Department of
Economics: March 1996.
• University of Southern California, School of
Business Administration: March 1996.
• Stanford University, Graduate
School of Business: December 1995.
• United States Department of
Justice, Anti-Trust Division: March 1995.
• University of Washington,
Department of Economics: October 1994.
• University of Chicago,
Department of Economics: November 1993.
• University of Rochester,
Simon School of Business: November 1993 and May 1991.
• University of
Wisconsin, Department of Economics: November 1993 and February
1991.
• Carnegie-Mellon University, Graduate School of Industrial
Administration: February 1991.
• Washington University, Olin School
of Business: February 1991.
• University of California, Davis,
Department of Economics: January 1991.
• University of California,
Irvine, Department of Economics: January 1991.
• Williams College,
Department of Economics: January
1991.

Teaching
Courses Taught
• Microeconomic
Principles.
• Intermediate Microeconomics.
• Masters Microeconomic
Theory.
• Masters Game Theory.
• Doctoral Microeconomic
Theory.
• Doctoral Industrial Organization.

Graduate Thesis
Advisor
• Oksana Loginova, Ph.D.: candidate.
• Wolfgang
Koehler, Ph.D.: August 2003.
• Keith Brown, Ph.D.: December
2000.
• Nicholas Rupp, Ph.D.: August 2000.
• Robert Rivas, M.S.:
May 2000.
• Jose Contreras, Ph.D.: December 1999.
• Sang-Yong
(Tom) Lee, Ph.D.: August 1999.
• Jingze Xi, Ph.D.: December
1998.
• Robert Culp, M.S.: December 1994.
• Matthew J. Rockloff,
M.S.: May 1994.
• Christina White, M.S.: December
1992.

Graduate Thesis Committee
• Jeremy Ascher, Ph.D.:
candidate.
• Florin Dorobantu, Ph.D.: candidate.
• Natalya
Karinko, Ph.D.: candidate.
• Renzo Massari, Ph.D.: candidate.
•
Stephen Ryan, Ph.D.: candidate.
• Martin Salm,Ph.D.: candidate.
•
Omari Swinton, Ph.D.: candidate.
• Will (Jianguo) Xu, Ph.D.
candidate.
• Tom Ahn, Ph.D.: December 2003.
• Christopher Laincz,
Ph.D.: May 2003.
• Christopher Cassidy, Ph.D.: May 2002.
•
Jennifer Hall, Ph.D.: August 2000.
• Dong Li, Ph.D.: May 2000.
•
Wenjie Shi, Ph.D.: December 1997.
• Gerald Sohan, Ph.D.: December
1997.
• James J. Arias, Ph.D.: December 1996.
• Gumsu Kim, Ph.D.:
May 1996.
• Ho-Chyuan Chen, Ph.D.: May 1995.
• Karen Seman, M.S.:
May 1995.
• Matthew Buttersworth, M.S.: May 1994.
• Hanne E.
Meihuizen, Ph.D.: May 1994.
• Chunto Tso, Ph.D.: May 1994.
•
Robert Maness, Ph.D.: May 1992.

Under Graduate Thesis
Advisor
• Brett Green, B.S. (Best Senior Thesis Prize): May
2004.
• Kal Vepuri, B.S.: May 2003.

Professional Experience / Employment
History

Texas A&M University

Assistant Professor of Economics, , September 1991 to September
1996

Associate Professor of Economics, , September 1996 to September
2000

Duke University

Instructor for the AEA Summer Program, , Summer 2004 - present

Professor of Economics, , September, 2000 - present

Lectures and Conference
Presentations

Invited Lectures:

Stanford Institute for Theoretical Economics Summer Workshop,
Stanford University, 2003/August

University of Michigan, Department of Economcs, Applied Micro
Seminar, University of Michigan, 16 October 2003

Michigan State University, Department of Economics,, Michigan State
University, 5 October 2003

University of Minnesota, Department of Economics, Applied Micro
Seminar, University of Minnesota, 3 October 2003

Stanford Institute for Theoretical Economics Summer Workshop,
Stanford University, 16 August 2003

The North American Summer Meetings of the Econometric Society,
Evanston, Illinois, 16 June 2003

The North American Winter Meetings of the Econometric Society,
Washington, DC, 5 January 2003

Applied Economics Seminar, Cornell University, 5 November 2002

Oxford University, Nuffield College, Oxford, England, 5 June 2002

London Business School, Economics Division, London, England, 5 June
2002

Duke University, Department of Economics & Fuqua School of
Business, Durham, NC, 5 March 2002

University of North Carolina, Department of Economics, Chapel Hill,
NC, 4 March 2002

North Carolina State University, Department of Economics, Raleigh,
NC, 5 November 2001

University of Texas, Department of Economics, Univ. of Texas, 5
October 2001

Center for Mathematical Studies in Economics & Management
Sciences, Northwestern University, 5 November 2000

Kelly School of Business, Indiana University, 5 November 2000

The North American Winter Meetings of the Econometric Society,
Boston, MA, 2 January 2000

University of British Columbia, Department of Economics, British
Columbia, Canada, 10 November 1999

Duke University, Department of Economics & Fuqua School of
Business, Durham, NC, 5 November 1999

Princeton University, Department of Economics, Princeton, NJ, 5
November 1999

University of North Carolina, Department of Economics, Chapel Hill,
NC, 4 November 1999

University of Chicago, Graduate School of Business, Chicago, IL, 5
May 1999

Stanford University, Department of Economics, Stanford, CA, 6 April
1999

University of California, Berkeley, Department of Economics,
Berkeley, CA, 5 April 1999

The North American Winter Meetings of the Econometric Society, New
York, NY, 5 January 1999

Publications (listed
separately)

Professional Service

DGS

Graduate Program, 5 January 2004

Director of Graduate Studies, Graduate Program, 2003-06

Dept Committee

Director of Graduate Studies, Executive Committee, 2003-06

Committee member, Recruiting Committee, 2003-04

Chair, Nechyba Promotion Committee, 2002-03

Chair, Besharov Renewal Committee, 2002-03

Chair, Graduate Program Reform Committee, 2002-03

Member, Departmental Recruiting Committee, 2002-03

Papers Refereed

Referee, American Economic Review, January-December 2003

Referee, Economica, January-December 2003

Referee, Economic Inquiry, January-December 2003

Referee, Journal of Political Economy, January-December 2003

Referee, RAND Journal of Economics, January-December 2003

Other

Associate Editor, Journal of Industrial Economics, 1 December 2003

Associate Editor, B.E. Journals of Economic Analysis and Policy, 1
February 2001

Doctoral Theses Directed

Wolfgang Koehler, (2003)

Nicholas Rupp, (2000)

Tom Lee, (1999)

Jose Contreras, (1995)

Fellowships

Mary Julia and George R. Jordan Jr. Professor of Economics
and Public Policy, The Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M
University: September 1998 to September 2000.
Research Fellow, The
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation: September 1996 to September 1998.

National Fellow, The Hoover Institution, Stanford University: July
1995 to July 1996.
Research Fellow, The Private Enterprise Research
Center, Texas A&M University: September 1994 to September 1998.

Recipient, The Arthur Okun Fellowship, Yale University: 1990.

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