Directory

Frederick Andrew Hanssen
Associate Professor of Economics
Economics


Office: Diamond 370
Phone: 207-859-5236
Fax: 859-5229
Email:
ahanssen@colby.edu

Mailing Address:
5230 Mayflower Hill
Waterville, Maine 04901-8852

Semester Schedule

Education

Ph.D, University of Chicago (1995) MBA, University of Chicago M.A. (Int'l Studies) Johns Hopkins University B.A. (Int'l Studies) Johns Hopkins University

Areas of Expertise:
  • Industrial Organization
  • Law and Economics
  • Political Economy
Professional Information

1995-2009 Professor of economics, Montana State University

2007-08 Visiting Economist, Antitrust Division, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, D.C.

2003-04 Senior Economist, Lexecon, Inc., Chicago, IL

2000-01 National Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University

1985-1990 Consultant, Bain and Co,

2006-present Editorial Board: Social Science Quarterly

Publications

REFEREED JOURNALS “Repeated Adjustment of Delegated Powers and the History of Eminent Domain” (with R. Fleck), International Review of Law and Economics (forthcoming)

“Monopsony Abuse or Efficient Purchasing? Quality Measurement in the Tobacco Leaf Market”, Journal of Competition Law and Economics (forthcoming)

“Who Integrated Major League Baseball Faster: Winning Teams or Losing Teams?” (with J. Meehan), Journal of Sports Economics 10: 141-154 (2009)

“‘Rulers Ruled by Women: An Economic Analysis of the Rise and Fall of Women’s Rights in Ancient Sparta” (with R. Fleck), Economics of Governance, 10: 221-245 (2009)

“Why Understanding Smoking Bans is Important for Estimating Their Effects: California’s Restaurant Smoking Bans and Restaurant Sales” 46: 60-76 (with R. Fleck), Economic Inquiry (2008)

“The Origins of Democracy: A Model with Application to Ancient Greece” (with R. Fleck), Journal of Law and Economics, 49: 115-146 (2006) [Reprinted in Geoffrey P. Miller, Economics of Ancient Law, in “Economic Approaches to the Law” (Richard Posner and Francesco Parisi, editors), Edward Elgar Publishing, forthcoming]

“Is There a Politically Optimal Level of Judicial Independence?”, American Economic Review, 94: 712-729 (2004)

“Learning About Judicial Independence: Institutional Change in the State Courts”, Journal of Legal Studies, 33: 431-474 (2004)

“Revenue Sharing in Movie Exhibition and the Arrival of Sound,” Economic Inquiry, 40: 380-402 (2002) [Reprinted in John Sedgwick and Michael Pokornoy, An Economic History of Film, Routledge Explorations in Economic History, Routledge Publishing, 2004]

“On the Politics of Judicial Selection: Lawyers and State Campaigns for the Merit Plan”, Public Choice, 110: 79-97 (2002)

“A Test of the Racial Contact Hypothesis from a Natural Experiment: Baseball’s All-Star Voting as a Case”, Social Science Quarterly, 82: 51-66 (March 2001)

“Independent Courts and Administrative Agencies: An Empirical Analysis of the States”, Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, 16: 534-71 (October 2000)

“The Block-Booking of Films Re-Examined”, Journal of Law and Economics, 43: 395-426 (October 2000) [Reprinted in John Sedgwick and Michael Pokornoy, An Economic History of Film, Routledge Explorations in Economic History, Routledge Publishing, 2004]

“Appointed Courts, Elected Courts, and Public Utility Regulation: Judicial Independence and the Energy Crisis”, Business and Politics, 1: 179-201 (August 1999)

“Has Discrimination Lessened in the Last Twenty-Five Years? An Analysis of Voting for Baseball’s All-Star Game, 1970-1996" (co-authored with Torben Andersen), Economic Inquiry, 37: 326-352 (April 1999) [Reprinted in Andrew Zimbalist, The Economics of Sports, The International Library of Critical Writings in Economics Series, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2001]

“The Effect of Judicial Institutions on Uncertainty and the Rate of Litigation: The Election Versus Appointment of State Judges”, Journal of Legal Studies, 28: 205-232 (January 1999)

“The Cost of Discrimination: A Study of Major League Baseball”, Southern Economic Journal, 64: 603-627 (January 1998)

BOOK CHAPTERS AND OTHER PUBLICATIONS “Forget the Environmental ‘Race to the Bottom’: The Real Problem is Unrepresentative Government” (with R. Fleck), PERC Policy Series, PS-41, June 2007

“‘The Wealth of Nature’: Costs as Well as Benefits?”, Chapter 6 in Anderson, Terry L., Laura E. Huggins, and Thomas M. Power, editors, Accounting for Mother Nature: Changing Demands for Her Bounty, Stanford University Press (2007)

“Why Our Courts Aren’t Broken”, Hoover Digest, 3: 89-95 (2001)

“The Political Economy of Judicial Selection: Theory and Evidence”, Kansas Journal of Law and Public Policy, 413-424 (2000)

“The Effect of Montana’s Speed Laws on Accidents and Fatalities: Much Ado about Nothing?”, Montana Business Quarterly (Summer 2000)