May 2006

 

                                                     Abbreviated Curriculum Vitae

 

 

                                               DOUGLAS WARD ALLEN

                                                                                                           

Office Addresses             

 

 At SFU:                                                                                  At Delta Economics Group Inc.:

 

Department of Economics                                                         Airport Square - Suite 930

Simon Fraser University                                                            1200 West 73rd Avenue

Burnaby, B.C., Canada V5A 1S6                                             Vancouver, B.C.  Canada V6P 6G5

(604) 291-3445   Fax:  291-5944                                            (604) 264-7888 Fax: (604) 264-7878

E-mail:  allen@sfu.ca                                                               E-mail:  deg@deltaecon.com

Web: http://www.sfu.ca/~allen                                               Web: http://www.deltaecon.com

 

Education

 

Simon Fraser University:  Honours First Class B.A. (Economics and Business Administration), 1983.

Simon Fraser University: M.A. (Economics), 1984.

University of Washington:  Ph.D. (Economics), 1988.

 

Present Positions

 

Burnaby Mountain Professor of Economics, Simon Fraser University, since 2000.  Full Professor since July 1999. 

 

Senior Consultant, Delta Economics Group Inc., Vancouver, B.C.

 

Undergraduate Chair, Department of Economics 2004- present.

 

 Previous Positions

 

Erskine Fellow, University of Canterbury (spring 2006)

Visiting Professor University of Canterbury (spring 2000)

Novosibirsk State Technical University (winter 2000).

Associate Professor, Dept. of Economics, SFU 1993-1999. Assistant Professor, 1990-1993.

Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Carleton University, 1988-90.   

 

 

Professional Honours

 

Giblin Lecture, University of Tasmania, May 2006.

 

Dean’s Silver Medal: Outstanding Academic Service for Research and Teaching, 2000.

 

Henry Buechel Undergraduate Teaching Award (UW), 1988.

 

Western Economic Association Graduate Paper Prize, 1983.

 

 

Professional Affiliations

 

            American Economic Association

            Canadian Law and Economics Association

            American Law and Economics Association

            International Society for New Institutional Economics

            Western Economics Association.

 

Research and Consulting

 

 

Major Research and Consulting Areas:       1.  Family Economics

                                                                        2.  Agricultural Economics

                                                                        3.  Organization Theory

                                                                        4.  Applied Microeconomics

 

Consulting Experience: 

 

 

1. Provided affidavit for Federal Department of Justice in Halpren, Ontario Supreme Court (2001). Case involved the issue of whether or not same-sex couples should be allowed to marry.

 

2. Provided report to council in Nygard (2004), Ontario Supreme Court. Case involved the issue whether Child Support Guidelines should be applied to all levels of income.

 

3.  Provided report and expert testimony in Ducharme (2004), National Tax Court. Case involved the valuation of the services of a housewife.

 

4. Provided report to council  in Withler and Fitzsimonds, (2005) BC Supreme Court. Case involved age discrimination and the Supplementary Death Benefit for Public Servants.

 

Selected Papers:

 

 Economics of the Family

 

 

“The Effect on Divorce of Legislated Net-Wealth Transfers: The Case of Canada's Child Support Guidelines” forthcoming in Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization

 

“No-Fault Divorce and the Contraction of Marriage Ages'' (with Krishna Pendakur and Wing Suen) forthcoming in Economic Inquiry

 

“An Economic Assessment of Same-Sex Marriage” Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy

Vol. 29 (3) Summer 2006: pp. 949--980.

 

``The Impact of Legal Reforms on Marriage and Divorce'' in Anthony Dnes and Robert Rowthorn (eds.) Marriage and Divorce: An Economic Perspective (Cambridge University Press, 2002.) 

 

``These Boots Are Made For Walking: Why Most Divorce Filers Are Women'' (with Margaret Brinig) American Law and Economics Review Vol.2(1) Spring 2000.

 

``No-Fault Divorce and the Divorce Rate: Its History, Effect, and Implications'' in Douglas Allen and John Richards (eds.) It Takes Two: The Family in Law and Finance (C.D. Howe, 1999).

 

``No-Fault Divorce In Canada: Its Cause and Effect.''  Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization  37(2) October 1998.

 

``Welfare and the Family: The Canadian Experience.'' Journal of Labor Economics, 11(1)  January 1993.

 

``Marriage and Divorce: Comment.'' American Economic Review, 82 June 1992.

 

 

Economics of Agricultural Organizations

 

 

``Agricultural Contracts'' (with Dean Lueck) in Claude Menard and Mary M. Shirley, eds.  Handbook for New Institutional Economics.  (Norwell MA: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2004).

 

 

``The Role of Risk in Contract Choice'' (with Dean Lueck) Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization Vo. 15, No. 3 October 1999.

 

``The Nature of the Farm'' (with Dean Lueck). Journal of Law and Economics 41(2)October 1998.

 

``Contract Choice In Modern Agriculture: Cash Rent vs. Cropshare'' (with Dean

Lueck).  Journal of Law and Economics, 35 October 1992.

 

 

 Economic History

 ``Purchase, Patronage, and Professions: Incentives and the Evolution of Public Office in Pre-Modern Britain,''   Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics 161(1), 2005.

 

 ``The British Navy Rules: Monitoring and Incompatible Incentives in the Age of Fighting Sail''.

Explorations in Economic History 39, 2002.

 

``Compatible Incentives and the Purchase of Military Commissions.''  Journal of Legal Studies January 1998.

 

Transaction Cost Theory

 

``The Rhino's Horn: Incomplete Property Rights and the Optimal Value of an Asset'' Journal of Legal Studies XXXI June 2002.

 

  ``Transaction Costs'' Encyclopedia of Law and Economics (Volume One: The History and Methodology of Law and Economics) Bouckaert, Boudewijn and De Geest, Gerrit (eds.) (Chelthenham: Edward Elgar Press, 2000). 

 

``What Are Transaction Costs?'' Research in Law and Economics, 14 Fall 1991, pp. 1--18.

 

 Teaching

 

Courses Taught:                    Microeconomic Theory: all levels

                                                Law and Economics

                                                Property Rights

                                                Industrial Organization