Bill Goffe
William L. Goffe
Professor
Department of Economics
416 Mahar Hall
SUNY Oswego
Oswego, NY 13126
315-312-3444 (voice)
315-341-5444 (fax)
goffe@oswego.edu
Teaching
I will again be teaching in the Fall of 2009.
Internet Activities
I edit "Resources for Economists on the Internet," which is sponsored by the
American Economic Association. Its main site has the easy to remember address
rfe.org. You might also want to check out the Economics Search Engine.
Research
Besides work on various Internet activities, I do research in computational
economics. Here are links to several on-line papers and programs.
- "Next Steps in the Information Infrastructure in Economics" (2/2008)
- "Redesigning a Large Macro Principles Course
Using Bain's What the Best College Teachers Do" (12/2007)
- "Multi-core CPUs, Clusters, and Grid Computing: A Tutorial"
(updated 11/2007; with Michael Creel, forthcoming Computational Economics)
- "Valuation of Non-Market Goods Using Computer-Assisted Surveys: A Comparison of Data Quality from Internet and RDD Samples" (with Mark Dickie and Shelby Gerking, 1/2007)
- "Teaching with Technology: May You Live in
Interesting Times" (7/2004; with Kim Sosin) (Chapter in Engaging Teaching Methods for Undergraduate Economics Courses: More Alternatives to Chalk and Talk, William Becker, and Michael Watts, editors, Edward Elgar Press, 2005. An abridged version appeared in the Journal of Economic Education, Summer, 2005.)
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"The Internet and the American Economic Association -- A Set of Proposals"
(4/2004; a subsequent version appeared in the
Social Science Computer Review, Winter 2004)
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"Visualizing Multi-Dimensional Surfaces in Economics"
(PDF format)
(PostScript format)
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"A
Toolkit for Optimizing Functions in Economics" (1999)
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"The
Future Information Infrastructure in Economics," (with Bob Parks),
Journal of Economic Perspectives, Summer, 1997, vol. 11, no.
3, pp. 75-94 (note that PDF and HTML versions with links are available
here)
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"SIMANN:
A Global Optimization Algorithm using Simulated Annealing,"
Studies in Nonlinear
Dynamics and Econometrics, vol. 1, no. 3, 1996.
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SIMANN -- Fortran simulated
annealing code used in
"Global Optimization of Statistical Functions with Simulated Annealing"
(preprint; with Gary Ferrier and John Rogers) Journal of
Econometrics, vol. 60, no. 1/2, Jan./Feb. 1994, pp. 65-99.
C, Matlab, and GAUSS versions are available on request.
Service
I'm the Secretary-Treasurer of the Society for Computational Economics, a
fairly new society devoted to the intersection of economics and computational
methods. Among my duties are maintaining its web
site.
Notes to Talks
"My Evolution as a Teacher," TCU, 3/13/09
Photos
I have recently gotten back into photography with an Olympus EVOLT E-500: