Bill Goffe

Internet Activities

Research

• "A Survey of Principles Instructors: Why Lecture Prevails" (with David Kauper, 5/2013)
• "Initial Misconceptions in a Macro Principles Class" (5/2013)
• "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," Computational Economics, Volume 32, Number 4, November, 2008)
• "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.)
• "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)
• "Visualizing Multi-Dimensional Surfaces in Economics" (PDF format) (PostScript format)
• "A Toolkit for Optimizing Functions in Economics" (1999)
• "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)
• "SIMANN:  A Global Optimization Algorithm using Simulated Annealing," Studies in Nonlinear Dynamics and Econometrics, vol. 1, no. 3, 1996.
• 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.

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