CURRICULUM VITAE SEPTEMBER 2017 FABIO MENDEZ Department of Economics OFFICE PHONE: (410) 617 5754 Sellinger School of Business EMAIL: fabiomendezmae@gmail.com Loyola University Maryland MOBILE PHONE: (479) 200-2416 4501 N. Charles St. WEB: www.evergreen.loyola.edu/~fmendez1 Baltimore, MD 21210-2699 EDUCATION Ph.D., Economics, Michigan State University, 2000. M.A., Economics, Michigan State University, 1996. EXPERIENCE AND AFFILIATIONS Department of Economics, Loyola University Maryland. Associate Professor of Economics, Loyola University Maryland (2013-Present) Hanway Chair in Global Studies, Loyola University Maryland (2013-Present) Professor of Economics, Loyola University Maryland (2016-Present) Department of Economics, Sam M. Walton College of Business, University of Arkansas. Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Arkansas (2002-2008) Associate Professor of Economics, University of Arkansas, with tenure (2008-2013) Director of Graduate Studies in Economics, University of Arkansas (2011-2013) Citigroup, Decision Science Unit Decision Science Economist, Senior Analyst (2000-2002) Provided economic analysis for existing account management and new acquisitions projects. Provided Statistical analysis for in-house econometric models. Responsible for more than $400 MM in increased outstanding in 2001 from several credit line increase, acquisition, retention and profitability projects. Developed profit maximization decisions used in daily decision-making routines at the account levels. Obtained Outstanding Contributor reviews. Inter-American Development Bank. Intern Research Economist for Latin-America Division 2 (Summer 1998).
ACADEMIC RESEARCH FIELDS OF INTEREST Development Economics, Law and Economics, Macroeconomics, Regulation Compliance PUBLICATIONS IN PEER-REVIEWED JOURNALS [1] Policy Makers Preferences, Party Ideology and the Political Business Cycle (with Stefan Krause). Southern Economic Journal, vol. 71, no. 4, pp. 752-767, April 2005. [2] Aids Crisis and Growth (with Gerhard Glomm and Paul Corrigan). Journal of Development Economics, vol. l77, no. 1, pp. 107-124, June 2005. [3] Corruption, Growth and Political Regimes: Cross Country Evidence (with Facundo Sepúlveda). European Journal of Political Economy, vol. 22, no. 1, pp. 82-98, February 2006. [4] The Value of Legal Housing Titles: An Empirical Study. Journal of Housing Economics, vol. 15, no. 2, pp. 143-155, June 2006. [5] Trade Structure and Economic Growth (with Raja Kali and Javier Reyes). Journal of International Trade and Economic Development, vol. 16, no. 2, pp. 245-269, June 2007. [6] Institutions, Arrangements and Preferences for Inflation Stability: Evidence and Lessons from a Panel Data Analysis (with Stefan Krause). Journal of Macroeconomics, vol. 30, issue 1, pp. 282-307, March 2008. [7] Privatization, Deregulation and Capital Accumulation (with Gerhard Glomm). Southern Economic Journal, vo. 74, no. 4, pp. 976-995, April 2009. [8] Corruption and Elections: An Empirical Study for a Cross-Section of Countries (with Stefan Krause). Economics and Politics, vol. 21, no.2, pp. 179-200, July 2009. [9] Combating Corruption with Bargaining Disruption. Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, vol. 165, no. 3, pp. 438-454, September 2009. [10] Hierarchical Human Capital and Economic Growth: Theory and Evidence (With Andrew Horowitz and Robert Driskill). Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, vol. 165, no. 4, pp.723-743, December 2009.
[11] What Do We Talk About When We Talk About Corruption? (With Facundo Sepúlveda). Journal of Law, Economics and Organization, vol. 26, no. 3, pp. 493-514, December 2010. [12] An Axiomatic Approach to the Measurement of Corruption: Theory and Applications (With James E. Foster and Andrew Horowitz). World Bank Economic Review, vol. 26, no. 2, pp. 217-235, March 2012. [13] The Cyclicality of Skill Acquisition: Evidence from Panel Data (with Facundo Sepúlveda). American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, vol. 4, no. 3, pp. 128-152, July 2012. [14] Optimal Government Regulations and Red Tape in an Economy with Corruption (with Facundo Sepulveda). Hitotsubashi Journal of Economics, vol. 54, pp. 51-77, 2013. [15] Can Corruption Foster Regulatory Compliance? Public Choice, vol.158, no.1-2, pp.189-207, 2014. [16] On the advantages and disadvantages of subjective measures (with Salar Jahedi). Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, vol. 98, pp. 97 114, February 2014. [17] The impact of Gulf carrier competition on US airlines (with M. Dresner, C. Eroglu, C. Hoffer and K. Tan). Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, vol. 79, pp: 31-41, September 2015. [18] A comparative study of training in the private and public sectors: Evidence from the UK and the USA (with Facundo Sepulveda). Contemporary Economic Policy, vol. 34, no. 1, pp. 107-118, January 2016. [19] Legalization and Human Capital Accumulation (with Facundo Sepulveda and Nieves Valdes). Journal of Population Economics, vol. 29, no. 3, pp.721-756, July 2016. [20] A new approach to the study of Jobless Recoveries (with Jeremy Schwartz and Jared D. Reber). Southern Economic Journal, vol. 83, issue 2, pp. 573-589, October 2016. [21] Socio-Economic Mobility and Air Passenger Demand in the U.S. (with C. Hoffer and R. Kali). Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, accepted for publication May 1, 2017. [22] A note on licenses in the presence of corruption (with Amy Farmer and Andrew Samuel). Review of Law and Economics, accepted for publication June 23, 2017.
PUBLICATIONS IN COLLECTIVE VOLUMES [23] A Theoretical Model of Corruption and Income Inequality. Chapter in Economic Corruption: Detection Costs and Prevention, edited by Federico N. De Luca, Nova Science Publishers, Hauppauge, N.Y., 2010. ISBN 978-1-60456-160-9 PUBLISHED BOOK REVIEWS Inequality and Growth: Theory and Implications. Edited by Theo S. Eicher and Stephen J. Turnovsky. The Economic Journal, vol. 115, no. 501, pp. F143-44, February 2005. WORKING PAPERS: Regulatory Systems under Asymmetric Information and Imperfect Enforcement (with Amy Farmer and Andrew Samuel). Currently under Review. Learning by importing: New Evidence (with Nune Hovhannisyan). Monopsony power in labor markets: an empirical study (with Facundo Sepulveda). Aids Crisis, Taxes and Growth (with Gerhard Glomm). Permanent Working Paper. Intermediate Industry Monopolies: Long-Run Implications of Private and Public Ownership (with Gerhard Glomm). Permanent Working Paper. Does Opportunism go Unnoticed? A Study of Vote Functions and Policy Preferences (With Stefan Krause). Permanent Working Paper. RESEARCH GRANTS AWARDED Sellinger, Faculty Development Summer Grant (2014) Loyola University Maryland summer grant (2015, 2016) Private and Public Training in the USA and the UK (2012); awarded by the European Institute for Research in Economic and Fiscal Issues (IREF). $11 000 Objective Measures and Subjective Perceptions (2009); $10 000 awarded by the Sutton Research Fund. Summer Research Grants (2009, 2010, 2011, 2012), awarded by the Sam M. Walton College of Business.
OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY: Referee/Reviewer for American Economic Review, The Economic Journal, Journal of Economic Growth, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, Journal of Development Economics, Journal of Law, Economics and Organization, Journal of Population Economics, International Journal of Applied Economics, Journal of Macroeconomics, Macroeconomic Dynamics, Southern Economic Journal, Economic Inquiry, Contemporary Economic Policy, Journal of Comparative Economics, International Review of Economics and Finance, European Journal of Political Economy, Empirical Economics, Journal of Business Ethics, World Development, Economics and Politics, Review of Income and Wealth, Journal of Development Studies, Scottish Journal of Political Economy, Political Science Research and Methods, Journal of International Development, Scandinavian Journal of Economics. External Reviewer for Promotion and Tenure for University of New Mexico; University Putra Malaysia Editorial Boards: International Journal of Applied Economics (2003-2006) TEACHING EXPERIENCE: Graduate: Macroeconomic Theory I, Macroeconomic Theory II. Undergraduate: Principles of Macroeconomics; Principles of Microeconomics, Intermediate Macroeconomic Theory; Latin American Economics; International Macroeconomics and Finance; Money and Banking; Economics of Corruption; Global Studies Senior Seminar; Development Economics. TEACHING AWARDS AND ACADEMIC RECOGNITIONS: Nominated (by the Student Government and the Alumni Association of the University of Arkansas) for the Outstanding Faculty of the Year Award in 2004 and 2008 Honors College Faculty. Honors College of the University of Arkansas (2007). Nominated (by the faculty) for the Walton College of Business Award for Excellence in Research in 2009 and 2012. Nominated (by the faculty) for the Walton College of Business Award for Excellence in Service in 2009. Honorary Member of Alpha Sigma Nu 2016 (upon nomination by the students) GRADUATE DISSERTATIONS SUPERVISED (FIRST POSITION IN PARENTHESES)
XiaoYu Sun, Master s Thesis 2003, Government Intervention and Economic Growth (PhD Program, Economics, Texas A&M). Yelena Khokhlova, Master s Thesis 2004, Brain Drain Evidence (Economic Analyst, Government office of Kazakhstan) Jared Reber, Doctoral Thesis 2014. Essays on the Changing Nature of Business Cycle Fluctuations: A State-Level Study of Jobless Recoveries and the Great Moderation (Data Analyst, Bitfocus Inc.). UNDERGRADUATE THESIS SUPERVISED: Todd Brinkley, 2005. The Correlation between Lowering Taxes and Investment Mervin Jebaraj, 2006. A Study of Specific Actions Required to Achieve the Millennium Development Goals with Regard to Corruption and Child Labor Martha Walchuk, 2008. What can we learn about disaster relief aid? The case of hurricane Mitch. Adam Franks, 2008. The Environmental Kuznets Curve Carl French, 2009. Immigration Reform Sarah Frederick, 2012. The evolution of State Owned Enterprises in China Britt Smith, 2012. The Economics of Corruption: A Study of the Housing Market in Mumbai, India SEMINAR PRESENTATIONS: 2015: Universidad de Costa Rica 2014: Anglo-American University (Prague) 2013: Loyola-Maryland 2012: Cambridge University; Maynooth University. 2011: Clemson University; Indiana University. 2010: ESC-Brest Bretagne 2004: Emory University. 2002: Brookings Institute
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS: June 2016. ATRS Conference, Rhodes, Greece. March 2011. Public Choice Society Meetings, San Antonio, Texas. November, 2010. Southern Economic Meetings, Atlanta 2010. May 2008. Public Economics at the Regional and Local Level, Rennes, 2008. June 2006. Les sixieme Journees de Economie Publique Louis-Andre Gerard-Varet, France. October 2005. Midwest Economic Theory and International Economics Meetings, Kansas. June 2004. 21 st Symposium on Banking and Monetary Economics, Nice, France. June 2004. Economic Growth and Distribution: On the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations. Lucca, Italy. October 2003. LACEA, Annual Meeting, Puebla, Mexico. March 2000. Midwest Macroeconomic Meetings. Iowa State University. INVITED LECTURES: June 2007. University of Rennes 1, France. An introduction to the economics of corruption. March 2006. Clinton School of Public Service. Corruption: Concept, Causes and Consequences. February 2006. Fifth Workshop of the Regional Integration Network (funded by LACEA). Invited presentation titled Trade structure and Economic Growth. November 2005. Pi-Mu-Epsilon Student-Association and the Mathematics Department, University of Arkansas. About the use of Mathematics in Economics. October 2004. Universidad de La Salle, San Jose, Costa Rica. Distinguished Speaker lecture. Corruption and Poverty. PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS American Economic Association, Southern Economic Association. PERSONAL INFORMATION Fluent in English, French and Spanish.