DAN
MARBURGER
Professor
of Economics
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
August 1989-present: Professor of Economics (tenured), Arkansas State
University,
Jonesboro, AR
August
1996-July 1997: Interim Director of Grants and Contracts, Arkansas State University, Jonesboro, AR
August
1988-July 1989: Assistant Professor of Economics: Southeast Missouri State University, Cape Girardeau, MO
October
1979-July 1982: Marketing Analyst, H.H. Robertson Company, Pittsburgh, PA
AWARDS, HONORS:
Faculty Award for
Excellence in Research, College of Business, Arkansas State University, 2005
Faculty Award for Teaching Excellence, College of Business, Arkansas State University, 2001
Outstanding
Teaching Assistant, College of Business, Arizona State University, 1986
Outstanding
Dissertation, Department of Economics, Arizona State University, 1988
EDUCATION:
PhD,
Economics, Arizona State University, 1988
MBA,
University of Cincinnati, 1979
B.S.,
General Management, Purdue University, 1978
TEACHING/RESEARCH AREAS:
Sports Economics
Labor Economics
Managerial
Economics
Economic
Education
Applied
Microeconomics
COURSES TAUGHT:
Managerial Economics (undergraduate
and graduate level)
Economics
of Professional Sports (university honors seminar)
Economics
of Intercollegiate Athletics (university honors seminar)
Principles
of Microeconomics
Principles
of Macroeconomics
Intermediate
Macroeconomics
Collective
Bargaining
TEACHING PEDAGOGIES:
Experimental economics
Cooperative
learning
Student-Assessment-as-Learning
ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS:
Books:
Managerial Economics, Addison Wesley Publishers, forthcoming.
Edited and Co-authored Stee-rike
Four! What’s Wrong With the Business of Baseball?, Praeger Publishers:
Westport, CT, 1997.
Journal
Articles:
Marburger, Daniel R. "Why Do Player Trades Dominate Sales?" Journal of Sports Economics, forthcoming.
Marburger, Daniel R. "The Arkansas State University Parking Garage," Journal of Business Case Studies, 4 (July 2008): 17-26.
Marburger, Daniel R. "Making Managerial Economics Relevant to the MBA," ICFAI Journal of Managerial Economics, forthcoming.
Marburger, Daniel R. "Does Mandatory Attendance Improve Student Performance?", Journal of Economic Education, 37 (Spring 2006): 148-155.
Marburger, Daniel R. "Comparing Student Performance Using Cooperative Learning Versus the Traditional Lecture" International Review of Economic Education, 4 (Volume 1 2005): 46-57.
Marburger, Daniel R. "Southeast Arkansas University Athletic Department," Business Case Journal, (Winter 2004/2005):1-12.
Marburger, Daniel R. and Paul L. Burgess. "Can Prior Offers and Arbitration Outcomes be Used to Predict the Winners of Subsequent Final Offer Arbitration Cases?, Southern Economic Journal, 71, (July 2004): 93-102.
Marburger,
Daniel R. “Arbitrator Compromise in Final Offer Arbitration: Evidence From
Major League Baseball, Economic Inquiry, 42, (January 2004): 60-68.
Marburger, Daniel R. and Nancy Hogshead-Makar. "Is Title IX Really to Blame for the Decline in Intercollegiate Men's Nonrevenue Sports?" Marquette Sports Law Review, 14, (Fall 2003): 65-93.
Marburger,
Daniel R. “Does the Assignment of Property Rights Encourage or Discourage
Shirking?” Journal of Sports Economics, 4 (February 2003): 19-34.
Marburger, Daniel R. “Property Rights and Unilateral Player Transfers in a Multi-Conference Sports League,” Journal of Sports Economics, 3 (May 2002):
122-132.
Marburger, Daniel R.
“Absenteeism and Undergraduate Exam Performance,” Journal of
Economic Education, 32 (Spring 2001): 99-109.
Marburger,
Daniel R. “Optimal Ticket Pricing for Performance Goods,” Managerial and Decision Economics, 18 (1997): 375-381.
Marburger,
Daniel R. “Racial Discrimination and Long-Term Contracts in Major League Baseball,” The Review of Black Political Economy, 25 (Summer
1997): 83-94.
Marburger,
Daniel R. “Gate Revenue Sharing and Luxury Taxes in
Professional Sports,” Contemporary Economic Policy,
15 (April 1997): 114-123.
Marburger, Daniel R. and John
F. Scoggins. “Risk and Final Offer Arbitration
Usage Rates:
Evidence from Major League Baseball,” Journal of Labor Research, 17 (Fall 1996):
735-745.
Marburger,
Daniel R. “”Bargaining Power and the Structure of Salaries in
Major League
Baseball,” Managerial and Decision Economics, 15 (1994): 433-441.
Marburger, Daniel R. “Is Exchangeable Arbitrator Behavior Necessarily
Deliberate?
The
International Journal of Conflict Management, 5 (April 1994): 181-191.
Marburger,
Daniel R. “Exchangeable Arbitrator Behavior: A Closer Look,” Economics
Letters, 43 (1993): 219-220.
Burgess,
Paul L. and Daniel R. Marburger. “Do Negotiated and Arbitrated
Salaries Differ
Under Final Offer Arbitration?” Industrial and Labor Relations
Review,
46 (April
1993): 548-559.
Book
Chapters:
Marburger, Daniel R. "Chasing the Elusive Salary Cap," In A Companion to the Economics of Sports, Wladimir Andreff, Jeff Borland and Stefan Szymanski, eds. Edward Elgar Publishing, 2006.
Marburger. Daniel R. “Whatever Happened to the Good Ol’ Days?”, Reprinted
in Baseball History Outside the Lines, John E. Dreifort, ed. University of
Nebraska Press,
2001.
Marburger, Daniel R. “Gate Revenue Sharing and Luxury Taxes in Professional
Sports Leagues,” Reprinted in The Economics of Sports, Andrew Zimbalist, ed.
as part of The
International
Library of Critical Writings in Economics, Mark Blaug, ed.
Edward Elgar Publishing, 2001.
Marburger, Daniel R. “The Impact of Baseball’s 1996 Collective
Bargaining Agreement,”
In Sports Economics:
Current Research, John Fizel,
Elizabeth Gustafson, and Lawrence Hadley, eds. Praeger Publishers: Westport, CT,
1999, 191-201.
Marburger,
Daniel R. “A Comparison of Salary Determination in the Free Agent and Salary Arbitration Markets,” In Baseball Economics: Current Research,
John Fizel,
Elizabeth Gustafson, and Lawrence Hadley, eds. Praeger Publishers:
Westport, CT , 1996, 67-76.
Burgess, Paul L., Daniel R. Marburger, and John F. Scoggins. “Do Baseball
Arbitrators
Simply
Flip a Coin?, In Baseball Economics: Current Research, John Fizel, Elizabeth Gustafson, and Lawrence Hadley, eds. Praeger Publishers: Westport, CT,
1996, 101-110.
Burgess, Paul L. and Daniel R. Marburger. “Bargaining Power and Major
League Baseball,” In Diamonds Are Forever: The Business of Baseball, edited by
Paul M. Sommers,
Brookings Institution: Washington D.C., 1992, 50-59.
Marburger,
Daniel R. “Cartels and the Incentive to Cheat” In Great Ideas for Teaching Economics, Ralph T. Byrns and Gerald W. Stone, eds.
HarperCollins Publishers: New York, 1992.
Published
Proceedings:
Marburger, Daniel R. "Does an Attendance Policy Improve Student Performance?" In 2004 Proceedings of the Southwest Region Decision Sciences Institute..
Marburger,
Daniel R. and Carleen A. Marburger. “Using
‘Who Wants to be a
Millionaire’ to Teach Decision Theory with
Spreadsheets,”In 12th Annual Teaching
Economics Conference,
McGraw-Hill: New York, 2001: 104-108.
Published
Book Reviews:
Marburger,
Daniel R. Review of The Game of
Life: College Sports and
Educational Values, by James L. Shulman and William
G. Bowen, Princeton University Press, Published in Managerial and Decision
Economics, September 2001, 340-341.
GRANTS:
An Examination of the Arbitrator Exchangeability Hypothesis, 2006. Funded by the Arkansas State University Academic Affairs.
Title IX or Football? An Examination of the Decline in Men's Nonrevenue Sports in NCAA Division I-A, 2005. Funded by the Arkansas State University Academic Affairs.
Corps
of Engineers White River Navigation Project—Economic Feasibility Study
with Gary Latanich, Joe Horsley, and Sarath Nonis, 1998. Arkansas State
University
College of Business. Funded by the Corps of Engineers, Memphis District.
An
Economic Impact Analysis of Stream Bed Gravel Mining
with John Kaminarides,
Randall Kesselring, Richard Grippo, and George Harp, 1996. Office of
Business
Research , Arkansas State University. Funded by the Arkansas Department
of
Pollution
Control and Ecology.
The
Economic Impact of the Northeast Arkansas Area Agency on Aging
with John
Kaminarides, Hank Germer, and Gail Hudson, 1990. Office of Business
Research,
Arkansas State University. Funded by the Northeast Arkansas Area Agency
on Aging.
" Why do Player Trades Dominate Sales?" Western Economic Association International conference, Waikiki, HI, June 2008.
"Reconciling Cost Theory with Cost Accounting Practices," Western Economic Association International conference, Waikiki, HI, June 2008.
"An Examination of the Arbitrator Exchangeability Hypothesis" Western Economic Association International conference, San Diego, CA, June 2006.
"Title IX Proportionality and the Decline in Men's Nonrevenue Intercollegiate Sports: Cause-Effect or Illusion", Western Economic Association International conference, Vancouver, BC June 2004
"Making Managerial Economics Relevant", EDINEB conference, Salzburg,
Austria, June 2003
“Arbitrator
Compromise in Final Offer Arbitration”, Western Economic Association
International conference, Seattle, WA, July 2002
“Using
‘Who Wants to be a Millionaire to Teach Decision Theory with Spreadsheets”,
12th Annual Teaching Economics and Classroom-Based Research
conference, Pittsburgh, PA, February 2001
“Does
the Assignment of Property Rights Encourage or Discourage Shirking?
Evidence from Major League Baseball,” Western Economic Association
International conference, Vancouver, BC, July 2000
“A
Comparison of Salaries Negotiated with and without the Threat of Arbitration,”
Western Economic Association International conference, San Diego, CA,
July 1999
“Student-Assessment-as-Learning:
An Outcomes-Based Assessment Program for the
Economics/Business Curriculum,” EDINEB conference, Cleveland, OH,
September 1998.
“Can
Future Final Offer Arbitration Decisions Be Predicted From Past Outcomes?”
Western Economic Association International conference, Lake Tahoe, NV,
July 1998.
“The
Impact of Baseball’s 1996 Collective Bargaining Agreement,” Diamonds in the
Desert conference, Tempe, AZ, March 1998.
“An
Outcomes-Based Assessment of the Economics Curriculum” American Economic
Association conference, New Orleans, LA, January 1997.
“Evidence
of Arbitrator Compromise in Final-Offer Arbitration” Western Economic
Association International conference, Seattle, WA, July 1997.
“Fairness
and the Coase Theorem: An Experimental Investigation” Economic Sciences Association conference, Houston, TX, April 1996.
“The
Economics of Professional Sports: Nearing a Consensus?” Southwestern
Federation
of Academic Disciplines conference, San Antonio, TX, March 1996.
“Gate
Revenue Sharing and Luxury Taxes in Professional Sports” Western Economic
Association International, San Diego, CA, July 1995.
“What
Would Babe Ruth Earn Today?” Baseball and the Sultan of Swat conference,
Hofstra University, April 1995.
"An
Examination of Wage Determination in Final Offer Arbitration Settlements and
Comparable Bargaining Units" Southern Economic Association
conference, Orlando,
FL, November 1994.
"Racial Discrimination and
Long-Term Contracts in Major League Baseball"
Southwestern Federation of Academic Disciplines conference,
San Antonio, TX, March 1994.
"Is
Exchangeable Arbitrator Behavior Necessarily Deliberate?" Southwestern
Federation of Academic Disciplines conference, Dallas, TX, March 1994.
"Do Arbitrated and Negotiated
Salaries Differ Under Final Offer Arbitration?"
Southwestern Economic Association conference, New Orleans, LA, March
1993.
"Do
Arbitrators Flip Coins or Systematically Select Final Offers?" MidSouth
Academy of Economics and Finance conference, Hot Springs, AR, February 1993.
"Arbitrator
Exchangeability and Final Offer Arbitration in Major League Baseball"
MidSouth
Academy of Economics and Finance conference, Mobile, AL, February 1992.
"Some
Observations on Ticket Pricing for Performance Goods" Missouri Valley
Economics Association conference, St. Louis, MO, February 1992.
"Bargaining
Power and Baseball" 13th Annual Conference on Economic Issues,
Middlebury, VT, April 1991.
"Bargaining
Power and Salary Structures in Major League Baseball" MidSouth
Academy
of Economics and Finance conference, Shreveport, LA, February 1991.
Proceedings,
1996-97.
Participated in faculty conference on learning, sponsored by AACSB International, June 9-11, 2006.
Participated in workshop on teaching economics using computerized experiments, sponsored by NSF and Georgia State University, June 28, 2006.
Participated
in panel discussion of managerial economics textbooks, sponsored by Wiley
Publishing, June 29, 2006.
Participated
in panel discussion of principles of economics textbooks, sponsored
by Southwestern Publishing, January 6, 2002
Participated
in teaching workshop on outcomes assessment, sponsored by the
International
Association for Feminist Economics (IAFFE), January 4, 2002
Participated
in teaching workshop on cooperative learning and service learning,
sponsored by the International Association for Feminist Economics (IAFFE),
January 3, 1997
in New Orleans, LA
Participated
in teaching workshops on the non-traditional writing techniques, the case study
method in economics, and cooperative learning strategies, sponsored by the American Economic Association, January 5, 1997 in New Orleans, LA
Participated
in Teacher Training Workshop sponsored by the Joint Council on Economic Education and the Lilly Foundation, May 1992, Cambridge, MA
Participated
in Laboratory Experiments for Undergraduate Instruction in Economics
seminar sponsored by the National Science Foundation, October 1993,
Tucson, AZ
CONSULTING WORK:
Performed economic impact analysis for Cross County, 2008.
Performed lost earnings analysis for King Benson law firm on behalf of Shannon Gallagher, an Olympic-calibre polevaulter involved in a traffic accident, 2007.
Performed damage assessment for Garland Watlington law firm in Jonesboro, AR, 2008.
Performed economic impact analysis for the Arkansas State University College of Nursing and Health Professions, 2006.
Performed economic impact analysis for the proposed Jonesboro Convention Center, 2006. Funded by the Jonesboro Industrial Development Corporation.
Performed lost earnings analysis for King Benson law firm on behalf of Tony Wortham, 2006.
Performed economic impact analysis for the Electric Cooperatives of Arkansas, 2005.
Provided damage assessment for Garland Watlington law firm in Jonesboro, AR, 2005.
Performed economic analysis for development opportunities for Phillips County in Arkansas, 2003.
Performed
economic impact analysis for Arkansas Casino Corporation, regarding Amendment 5,
which proposed the creation of six casinos in Arkansas, 2000.
Provided
written affidavit and testimony for SBC Communications, Inc. regarding Southwestern Bell’s request to enter the interexchange market in
Arkansas, 1997-98.
Provided
damage assessment for Rake and Downey law firm in Phoenix, AZ on behalf of Rick
Renteria, a major league baseball player involved in a serious
injury, 1993-94, deposed, May 1994
Provided
damage assessment for Charles M. Brewer law firm in Phoenix, AZ on behalf
of Matt Keough, a former major league baseball player involved in a
serious injury,
1993-94, deposed,
December 1994
Provided
damage assessment for Henry, Walden, Davis and Halsey law firm in
Jonesboro, AR on behalf of Ms. Ora Lee Brewer, a woman whose health
deteriorated
after taking contaminated medicine, 1992
UNIVERSITY/COLLEGE
COMMITTEES:
University
Committees:
Governing Ideas Task Force, 2003-2004
University Hearing Committee, 2002-present
Faculty Senate, 1992-93, 1998-present
Chair, Speaker Committee, 2003
Senate Finance Committee, 2002
University
Honors Committee, 1996-present
Center
for Teaching Excellence Committee, 1999-2000
Outcomes Assessment Committee, 1999-2000
Faculty Research Committee, 1996-2001
Arkansas Assessment of General Education Committee, 1994-95
Faculty Fringe Benefits Committee, 1993-95
Chair, Faculty Fringe Benefits Committee, 1992-93
Chair, Faculty Health Insurance Subcommittee, 1992-93
Faculty/Staff Health Insurance Committee, 1993-94
Nathan Deutsch Faculty Development Fund Committee, 1991-94
Undergraduate Curriculum Committee, 1991-92
Class-Scheduling Committee, 1989-92
Undergraduate Curriculum Committee, 1994-95, and
2000-2003
Chair, 2000-2001
Chapter Advisor, Omicron Delta Epsilon (national economic
honors fraternity), 1995-present
Scholarships
and Honors Committee, 1991-99, and 2002-present
Chair, Scholarships and Honors Committee, 1995-96
Co-chair, Scholarships and Honors Committee, 1994-95
Assessment Committee, 1994-2002
Chair, Problem-Solving/Decision-Making subcommittee, 1995-2000
Faculty Development Committee, 1996-2000
Chair, 1999-2000
College Honors Advisory Council, 1996-present
Chair, College Honors Advisory Council, 1996-present
Summer Teaching Policy Committee, 1992-93
Admissions and Credits Committee, 1992-93
Core Curriculum Committee, 1992-93
Graduate Curriculum Committee, 1990-92
Operations Committee, 1990-92
Research Committee, 1989-90
Departmental
Committees:
Departmental Curriculum Committee, 2002-present
Chair, 2002-present
Promotion, Retention, Tenure Committee, 2002-present
Faculty Search Committee, 1992, 2000-2001
In charge of Principles of Macroeconomics Assessment, Fall 1993