Email zakt@usna.edu

Phone # (410) 293-6895

Experience

Instructor/Assistant Professor, Illinois State University, l978- 1981

Antitrust Economist, Federal Trade Commission, l982-l983

Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, USNA, l98l-Present

Education

B.A., University of Pittsburgh, Economics, l973

Ph.D., Vanderbilt University, Economics, l980

Publications

“Predicting Graduate Faculty Ratings for the 1970's," ECONOMIC INQUIRY, June 1976 (with John J. Siegfried

"Arson: An Economic Phenomenon?" THE AMERICAN ECONOMIST, Fall 1979 (with Thomas C.   Spillman)

"The Effects of the 'New Depression in Higher Education, on the Relative Quality of Academic Faculties,"    SOUTHERN ECONOMIC JOURNAL, July 1978 (with Timothy D. Hogan and John J. Siegfried)

"Institutional Inequality in the Publishing of Economics Papers 1970-1974,” JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC EDUCATION, Spring 1979 (with John J. Siegfried)

"Production Efficiency: The Case of Professional Basketball," JOURNAL OF BUSINESS, July 1979 (with Cliff J. Huang and John J. Siegfried)

"Modeling Multiple Outputs in Educational Production Functions," AMERICAN ECONOMIC REVIEW, May 1983 (with John F. Chizmar)

"Canonical Estimation of Joint Educational Production Functions," ECONOMICS OF EDUCATION REVIEW, Spring 1984 (with John F. Chizmar)

"Federal Reserve Bank Supply of Payments-Transfer Services: Check and Automated Clearinghouse Operations," in Regulation and Competitive Strategy , B. Yandel and R. Rogowsky, eds., 1986 (with Rae Jean B. Goodman and Oliver R. Grawe)

"Production Efficiency: The Case of Professional Basketball," in Sportometrics, B. Goff and R. Tollison,
Eds., Texas A&M University Press, 1990 (with Cliff J. Huang and John J. Siegfried)

Conference Participation

"Lifetime Earnings and Occupational Choice: A Methodological Note," presented at the Western Economic Association Meetings; San Francisco, June 1976 (with Malcolm Getz and David W. Dunlop)

"Arson: An Economic Phenomenon?" presented at the Midwest Economics Association Meetings; St. Louis, March 1977 (with Thomas C. Spillman)

Discussant: "Economics of Deregulation," session at the Illinois Economic Association Meetings; Springfield, October 1978

"Production Efficiency: The Case of Professional Basketball," presented at the Western Economic Association Meetings; Las Vegas, June 1979 (with Cliff J. Huang and John J. Siegfried)

Discussant: "Government Regulation: Financial Institutions and Markets," session at the Western Economic Association Meetings; Las Vegas, June 1979

"Earnings and Occupational Amenities," presented at the Southern Economic Association Meetings; Atlanta, November 1979

Discussant: "Industrial Organization," session at the Southern Economic Association Meetings; Atlanta, November 1979

"Estimating Joint Educational Production Functions," presented at the Western Economic Association Meetings; San Diego, June 1980 (with John F. Chizmar)

"Industry Concentration and Worker Compensation," presented at the Midwest Economics Association Meetings; Louisville, April 1981

Discussant: "Labor Economics," session at the Southern Economic Association Meetings; New Orleans, November 1981

Discussant: "Electricity Pricing," session at the Southern Economic Association Meetings;New Orleans, November 1981

Discussant: "Economic Analysis of Utilities," session at the Eastern Economic Association Meetings; Washington, D.C., April 1982

"Wages, Fringes, Unions, Union Membership and Industry Concentration," presented at the Western Economic Association Meetings; Los Angeles, July 1982 (with Oliver R. Grawe)

"Modeling Multiple Outputs in Education Production Functions," presented at the American Economic Association Meetings; New York, December 1982 (with John F. Chizmar)

"Defense Industry Diversification and Monopsony Power: Some Issues," presented at the Eastern Economic Association Meetings; Boston, March 1983

"Monopoly vs. Competition in Public Agencies: 'The Implications of Dual Enforcement for Antitrust Output and Costs'," presented at the Southern Economic Association Meetings; Washington, D.C., November 1983 (with Oliver R. Grawe and Robert A. Rogowsky)

"Defense Industry Diversification and Monopsony Power," presented at the Southern Economic Association Meetings; Washington, D.C., November 1983

Discussant: "Banking and Competition," session at theSouthern Economic Association Meetings; Washington, D.C., November 1983

"The Federal Reserve System's Role in the Electronic Funds Transfer Clearing Provision," presented at the FTC Conference on "The Political Economy of Regulation: Private Interests in the Regulation Process," Washington, D.C., March 1984 (with Rae Jean B. Goodman and Oliver R. Grawe)

Discussant: "Issues in the Provision of Public Goods," session at the Eastern Economic Association Meetings; Pittsburgh, March 1985

Discussant: "Concentration, Price Behavior and Performance," session at Industrial Organization 
Society/Allied Social Science Associations Meetings, New York, December 1985

Panelist: "Theories and Models," session at Research on Terrorism: An International Academic Conference; Aberdeen, Scotland, April 1986

"Surge Capacity and Industrial Mobilization Notes on the Relationship Between Current and Future Output," presented at ICAF Conference on "Marshaling Resources for Conflict Short of Declared War;" Washington, D.C., April 1987 (with Oliver R. Grawe)

Discussant: "Topics in Economic Education," session at the Eastern Economic Association Meetings;Boston, March 1988

"Learning Curve Estimation In The Payments Mechanism," presented at the Atlantic Economic Society Meetings, London, April 1988 (with Rae Jean B. Goodman and Oliver R. Grawe)

"Terrorism as Political Advertising," presented at the Atlantic Economic Society meetings, London, April 1988 (with Oliver R. Grawe)

"A Methodological Note on Production Efficiency and Distributional Consequences in Economic Education," presented at the American Economic Association Meetings; New York, December 1988 (with R. J. Goodman and Oliver R. Grawe)

Discussant: "Industry Studies," session at The Western Economic Association International Meetings; Lake Tahoe, June 1989

"Competition, Effort and Learning in Economic Education," presented at the Western Economic Association International Meetings; San Diego, July 1990 (with Rae Jean B. Goodman and Oliver R. Grawe)

Discussant: "New Initiatives in Undergraduate Economic Education," session at the American Economic Association Meetings, Washington, D.C., December 1990

"Cutting the US Defense Budget: The Implications for Trade and Competition," presented at The Research Unit in Defence Economics conference "Defence Contracting in the UK and USA: Key Issues for the 1990's," Bristol, England, June 1991 (with Oliver R. Grawe)

"Bidding, Signaling and Collusion in the Infant Formula Market," presented at the Western Economic Association International Meetings, San Diego, July 1995 (with Oliver R. Grawe)

"The Use of Event Analysis to Draw Inferences About DOD Contractor Profits," presented at the Southern Economic Association Meetings, New Orleans, November 1995 (with Oliver R. Grawe)

"Demand Uncertainty, Sunk Cost, and Defense Downsizing," presented at the Western Economic Association International Meetings, San Francisco, July 1996 (with Oliver R. Grawe)

“Qui Tam Suits & the Effect on Defense Contractor Reputation,” presented at the Western Economic Association International Meetings, Lake Tahoe, July 1998 (with Oliver R. Grawe)