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Associate Professor of Economics
Biography
Peter Coughlin, Associate Professor, received his PhD in economics from the State University of New York at Albany in 1976. Prior to becoming a member of the Maryland faculty in 1982, he was a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard, Stanford, Oxford and Carnegie Mellon Universities. The Association for Public Policy and Management has given him its James L. Barr award in Public Economics. He has also been a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford. His research interests are in the areas of social choice, voting theory, and applied game theory. Publications include: "Balanced Budget Redistribution as the Outcome of Political Competition: A Comment, Public Choice, 1991; "Pure Strategy Equilibria in a Class of Systems Defense Games, International Journal of Game Theory, 1992; Probabilistic Voting Theory, Cambridge University Press, 1992.
Areas of Interest:
social choice, voting theory and applied game theory
Working Papers
| Date | Title |
|---|---|
| October 1, 1990 | Electoral Politics, Interest Groups, and the Size of Government with Murrell, Peter; Mueller, Dennis C. October 1990, Economic Inquiry, 28(4), pp 682-705 |
| January 1, 1990 | A Model of Electoral Competition with Interest Groups with Murrell, Peter; Mueller, Dennis C. 1990, Economics Letters, 32(4), pp 307-311 |
Teaching - Spring 2012
| Course | Syllabus | WWW |
|---|---|---|
| ECON 200: Principles of Microeconomics |  |
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| ECON 451: Public Choice | |
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| ECON 709: Advanced Topics in Applied and Theoretical Macroeconomics |
Teaching - Fall 2011
| Course | Syllabus | WWW |
|---|---|---|
| ECON 306: Intermediate Microeconomic Theory | |
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| ECON 451: Public Choice | |
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| ECON 708: Advanced Topics in Applied and Theoretical Microeconomics |
Teaching - Spring 2011
| Course | Syllabus | WWW |
|---|---|---|
| ECON 200: Principles of Microeconomics | |
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| ECON 451: Public Choice | |
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| ECON 709: Advanced Topics in Applied and Theoretical Macroeconomics |
Teaching - Fall 2010
Teaching - Spring 2010
| Course | Syllabus | WWW |
|---|---|---|
| ECON 451: Public Choice | ||
| ECON 451: Public Choice |
Teaching - Fall 2009
| Course | Syllabus | WWW |
|---|---|---|
| ECON 306: Intermediate Microeconomic Theory | |
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| ECON 451: Public Choice | |
Teaching - Fall 2008
| Course | Syllabus | WWW |
|---|---|---|
| ECON 451: Public Choice |
Tydings Hall 4101C
3105 Tydings Hall
Department of Economics
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742
Phone: 301-405-3482
Office Hours:
Wednesday
1:00 pm-2:00 pm
Thursday
5:00 pm-6:00 pm