Hoover Institution director John Raisian has announced the recipients of the annual postdoctoral W. Glenn Campbell and Rita Ricardo-Campbell National Fellows Program for the 2001–2002 academic year.
The national fellows' year affords junior scholars time free from teaching to advance their professional careers by completing an original and significant research project at the Hoover Institution. Since its inception, the National Fellows Program has awarded more than 390 fellowships to outstanding scholars from universities across the United States and Canada. Stanford faculty members have received nearly 15 percent of those awards over the last two decades.
Recognized as one of the preeminent fellowships in the United States, the program furnishes scholars an opportunity to spend one year at the Hoover Institution conducting independent research on current or historical public policy issues. "The National Fellows Program functions as a significant part of the academic visitor component of the Hoover Institution. We are eager to welcome next fall another talented group of scholars who share our interest in research and policy to Hoover," said Hoover director John Raisian.
The program is administered by Hoover associate director Thomas H. Henriksen, serving as the program's executive secretary, assisted by Joy Taylor. The 2001–2002 fellows, academic affiliations and topics are
Professor Lanier Benkard
Graduate School of Business, Stanford University
Proposal: "An Empirical Study of Consumer Welfare, and Productivity Growth, in the Personal Computer Industry"
Professor Jeffrey Hummel
Department of Economics, Golden Gate University
Proposal: "Deadweight Loss and the American Civil War: The Political Economy of Slavery, Secession, and Emancipation"
Professor Juliet Johnson
Department of Political Science, Loyola University, Chicago
Proposal: "Financial Globalization and National Sovereignty: The Creation of Independent Central Banks in Post-Communist Democracies"
Professor Yanni Kotsonis
Department of History, New York University
Proposal: "Taxation in Russia in Comparative and Historical Perspective, 1860-1941."
Professor Dean Lacy
Department of Political Science, Ohio State University
Proposal: "Nonseparable Preferences in Public Opinion and Elections"
Professor Luisa Lambertini
Department of Economics, University of California, Los Angeles
Proposal: "Should Central Banks Be Conservative?"
Professor Lance Lochner
Department of Economics, University of Rochester
Proposal: "Human Capital Formation with Endogenous Credit Constraints"
Professor John Morgan
Department of Economics and Public Affairs, Princeton University
Proposal: "The Art of Conversation: How the Flow of Information in Organizations Affects the Quality of Decision Making and Expert Advice"
Professor Daniel Posner
Department of Political Science, University of California, Los Angeles
Proposal: "Ethnicity and Development"
Professor Antonio Rangel
Department of Economics, Stanford University
Proposal: "Public Institutions for Intergenerational Exchange"
Professor Matthew Turner
Department of Economics, University of Toronto
Proposal: "Property Rights, Investment, and Institutions in Rural China"
Professor Carolyn Warner
Department of Political Science, Arizona State University
Proposal: "Institutions of Corruption or Corruption of Institutions? Fraud in the European Union"
