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ADDRESS Economics, Box 1208
Washington University
One Brookings Drive
St. Louis, Missouri 63130
TELEPHONE (314) 935-4535
E-MAIL benham@wueconc.wustl.edu
MARITAL STATUS Married (Alexandra Houston Benham)
CITIZENSHIP USA
EDUCATION Knox College, B.A. (Mathematics), 1962
Stanford University, Ph.D. (Economics), 1970
PUBLICATIONS
Migration, Location and
Remuneration of Medical Personnel: Physicians
and Dentists, Review of Economics and
Statistics (August, 1968), with Alex Maurizi and Melvin Reder.
Reprinted in Readings in labor
Market Analysis (New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1971), edited by John
Burton, Lee Benham, Robert Flanagan, and William Vaughn.
Factors Affecting the
Relationship Between Family Income and Medical Care Consumption, in Empirical Studies in Health Economics, edited by Herbert Klarman
(Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins
Press, 1970), with Ronald Andersen.
Readings in Labor Market Analysis (New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston,
1971), co-editor.
The Labor Market for Registered
Nurses: A Three Equation Model, The
Review of Economics and Statistics (August 1971).
The Effect of Advertising on the
Price of Eyeglasses, The Journal of Law
and Economics (October 1972). Selected as a citation classic by Social
Science Citation Index.
The Benefits of Women’s Education Within Marriage, Journal of
Political Economy, vol. 82, no. 2, Part II, March/April 1974.
Reprinted in Economics of the Family: Marriage,
Children, and Human Capital, edited by Theodore W. Schultz (Chicago:
University of Chicago Press, 1974).
Health, Hours and Wages, in The
Economics of Health and Medical Care, edited by Mark Perlman (London:
Macmillan, 1974), with Michael Grossman.
Women’s Economic Returns from
College, Graduate Education, and Nurses’ Training Through Earnings and
Marriage, in Sex, Discrimination, and the
Division of Labor, edited by Cynthia Lloyd (Columbia University Press,
1975).
Regulating Through the
Professions: A Perspective on
Information Control, The Journal of Law
and Economics (October, 1975), with Alexandra Benham.
The Impact of Incremental Medical
Services on Health Status, 1963-1970, in Equity
in Health Services, edited by Ronald Andersen, et al. (Cambridge, Mass:
Ballinger Publishing Company, 1975), with Alexandra Benham.
Utilization of Physician Services
Across Income Groups, 1963-1970 in Equity
in Health Services, edited by Ronald Andersen, et al. (Cambridge, Mass:
Ballinger Publishing Company, 1975), with Alexandra Benham.
Guilds and the Form of
Competition in the Health Care Sector, in Competition
in the Health Care Sector. Proceedings
of a Conference sponsored by the Bureau of Economics, Federal Trade Commission,
edited by Warren Greenberg (Germantown, Maryland: Aspen Systems Corporation, 1978).
Factors Affecting the Choice
Between Two Prepaid Plans, Medical Care (August 1978), with Anne A.
Scitovsky and Nelda McCall.
Prospects for Increasing
Competition in the Professions, in The
Profession and the Public, (University of Toronto Press, 1978), with
Alexandra Benham.
Market and Nonmarket Alternatives
to Regulation of Academic Health Centers in Association
for Academic Health Science Centers, Proceedings: Accountability of
Academic Health Centers (Arlington, Virginia: October, 1978).
Use of Physician Services Under
Two Prepaid Plans, Medical Care (May 1979), with Anne A. Scitovsky and
Nelda McCall.
The Informer’s Tale, in Regulating
the Professions: A Public Policy Symposium, edited by Roger Blair and
Stephen Rubin (D.C. Heath and Company, 1980), with Alexandra Benham.
The Demand for Occupational
Licensure, in Occupational Licensure,
edited by Simon Rottenberg, (American Enterprise Association, 1980).
Out-of-Plan Use Under Two Prepaid
Plans, Medical Care December 1981), with Anne Scitovsky and Nelda McCall.
Employment, Earnings and
Psychiatric Diagnosis, in Economic Aspects
of Health, National Bureau of Economic Research, edited by Victor Fuchs
(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1982), with Alexandra Benham.
Review of Victor Fuchs, How We
Live: An Economic Perspective on
Americans from Birth to Death, in Journal
of Political Economy (August 1984).
Utilization of Health and Mental
Health Services: Three Epidemiological Catchment Sites, Archives of General Psychiatry,
41:10, 971-978 (October 1984), with S. Shapiro et al.
Is the Quiet Life the Best of All
(Regulated) Monopoly Profits, The Journal
of Health Economics, December 1986, Vol. 5, No. 4, with Gili Yen.
Licensure and Competition in
Medical Markets, in Regulating Doctors’
Fees: Competition, Benefits and
Controls Under Medicare, edited by H.E. Frech III, (Washington, DC: AEI
Press, 1991), pp. 74-90.
Agenda Control, Voter Homogeneity
and the Survival of Voting in Firms, Economic
Inquiry, October 1991, with Philip Keefer.
Institutional Reform in Central
and Eastern Europe: Altering Paths
with Incentives and Information, (St. Louis, MO: International
Center for Economic Growth, 1995), with Alexandra Benham and Michael
Merithew.
On Improving Egypt’s Economic
Performance: The Extent of the
Market is Limited by the Costs of Exchange, Egyptian
Center for Economic Studies, 1997.
Property Rights in Transition Economies: A Commentary on What Economists Know, in Transforming
Post-Communist Political Economies, with Alexandra Benham, edited by Joan M.
Nelson, Charles Tilly, and Lee Walker, (Washington DC: National
Academy Press, 1998).
Measuring the Costs of Exchange,
in Institutions, Contracts and
Organizations: Perspectives from
New Institutional Economics, with Alexandra Benham, edited by Claude Ménard,
(Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 2000).
Licit and Illicit Responses to Regulation, in
Handbook of New Institutional Economics,
edited by Claude Menard and Mary Shirley (Dordrecht, Netherlands:
Springer, 2005).
WORKING PAPERS
The Costs of Exchange,
July 2001 (with Alexandra Benham).
RECOGNITION
Who’s Who in Economics: A
Biographical Dictionary of Major Economists 1700-1986 (MIT Press), 1986.
Who’s Who in Economics, 2nd and 3rd editions (Edgar
Elgar).
Recognized as author of a
citation classic by the Social Science
Citation Index.
National Science Council Visiting
Lectureship, Taiwan, 1990.
ACTIVITIES CONCERNING NEW INSTITUTIONAL ECONOMICS
International Center: organizer and faculty member, Summer Program on Training in New Institutional
Economics for Economists from Transition Countries, Tübingen University, four programs 1991-1998.
International Society for New Institutional Economics: a
founder and board member; organizer of its inaugural conference, St. Louis, Missouri,
USA, 1997.
Center for New Institutional Social Sciences, Washington University:
member.
Ronald Coase Institute: a founder and board member. Organizer
and faculty member for workshops in Berkeley, Rio de Janeiro, St. Louis,
Cambridge, Budapest, São
Paulo. Presentations at conferences jointly sponsored by the
University of Chicago 2003 and by the Center for International
Private Enterprise 2003.
Contracting and Organizations Research Institute, University of
Missouri: advisory board member.
Coase Foundation:
board member.
EXPERIENCE
Instructor, Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Business,
University of Chicago, 1967-1974.
Associate Professor of Economics, Washington University, St. Louis,
1974-1981.
Associate Professor of Economics in Preventive Medicine, Washington
University School of Medicine, 1974-1987.
Research Associate, Center for the Study of American Business,
Washington University, 1976-2000.
Director of the Regulatory
Workshop, Washington University, 1978-1990.
Professor of Economics,
Washington University, 1981-present.
Acting Department Chair of
Economics, Washington University, 1987-1988.
Faculty member, Tübingen Summer Program for East European Economics,
1993-1995, 1997-1998.
Lecture Series in Balkans, sponsored by International Center for
Economic Growth, Summer 1994.
Visiting Lecturer at Faculty of
Economics, St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russia, May 1999,
May 2000.
Director of the Undergraduate Honors Seminar in Economics,
Washington University, 1990-present. Supervised approximately
10 honors theses per year.
Director of Graduate Studies in Economics, Washington University,
1994-2000.
Faculty member, St. Petersburg
State University summer school, Russia, July–August 2001, and July-August 2002.
Teacher of Freshman Research
Seminar, Washington University, 2000-2002.
Keynote Speaker, Inaugural
Meeting of the Hungarian Society for New Institutional Economists, Debrecen,
Hungary, October 2002.
ANTI-TRUST
Expert witness on several cases, including the Federal Trade
Commission vs. Kroger concerning Price Patrol, Superturf vs.
Astroturf concerning predatory pricing, and various regulatory
issues concerning regulation of the professions.
SEMINARS PRESENTED
U.S. universities include Stanford, Harvard, University of Chicago,
University of Washington, University of Indiana, University of
California at Los Angeles, University of California at Santa
Barbara, Columbia University, New York University, Claremont-McKenna
College, University of Kansas, and University of Florida.
Foreign universities include St. Petersburg State University
(Russia), Moscow State University (Russia), Catholic University
(Chile), National Taiwan University (Taiwan), National Central
University (Taiwan), Hong Kong University (China), Shanghai Academy
of Social Sciences (China), University of São Paulo (Brazil),
University of Debrecen (Hungary).
TEACHING INTERESTS
New Institutional Economics,
Property Rights, Price Theory, Transaction Costs, Industrial Organization and
the Theory of the Firm, Transition Economies.
April 2004
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