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Background:
Professor Harmon is an associate professor of economics
at the University since 1994. He publishes articles
in academic journals on the subject of state and local
tax analysis and developed tax-revenue estimating
software (TAM) for the Office of Policy and Management
in the Executive Office of the Governor of Connecticut.
He has consulted for the Connecticut and New York
Legislatures, and serves as an expert witness in economic
damage and wrongful death cases. He was a recipient
of the Chancellor's Information Technology Award 2000
and was awarded a Large-Impact Grant from the Institute
of Teaching and Learning to develop a WebCT Center
at the Stamford Campus in 2001. He has authored the
CD- ROM ePrinciples of Macroeconomics--A Multimedia
Approach, developed the first online course in Economics
at the University in Economics, co-developed the course
"Information Survival Skills" for entering
freshman, and manages the Economics website at the
Stamford Campus.
Personal Web Site with Vita.
Expertise:
Economic Damages, State Tax Policy, Personal Injury/Wrongful
Death
News Articles on Prof. Harmon:
Prof.
Harmon Leads Workshop on Instructional Methods in
a Wireless Classroom November 8, 2001, Stamford
Advocate, Business Section
Prof.
Harmon's Workshop Wireless Instructional Methods
is a Hit November/December 2001, UCONN Libraries
Newsletter
Prof.
Harmon Organizes A Library Collection of Faculty
Publications November/December 2001, UCONN Libraries
Newsletter
Review
of UConn-Stamford Website, co-developed by Prof.
Harmon August 27, 2001, Stamford Advocate,
Business Section
Prof.
Harmon Reviews Developments in Usage of WebCT at
the Stamford Campus September 13, 2000
Prof.
Harmon Leads Summer Makeover of Stamford WebSite September 13, 2000
Prof.
Harmon Awarded Large Impact Grant to Lead WebCT
Effort at Stamford Campus May 1, 2000
Prof. Harmon A Winner of the Chancellor's Information
Technology Award May 1, 2000
Storrs
TAs Grade Stamford Students' Homework Over the Internet
in Prof. Harmon's Classes December 13, 1999
Selected Publications of Prof. Harmon:
Are Online Exams an Invitation to Cheat?
with J. Lambrinos , forthcoming in Journal of Economic Education (Spring 2008)
The Federal Estate Tax: Repeal or Reform?, Tax Notes (Tax
Analysts: Washington, DC), August 13, 2001.
Neutrality and the Marriage Tax Penalty, Tax
Notes (Tax Analysts: Washington, DC), May
21, 2001
AMT: How and Why to Reform, Tax Notes (Tax
Analysts: Washington, DC), April 23, 2001
"Teaching with Computers in the Classroom" with S.
Cudiner, T.H.E. Journal, December 2000.
Plaintiff Bias in the CPLR 50-A/50-B Statute, with
J. Lambrinos, Albany Law Review, vol. 59, no.
2, 1995.
Portfolio Analysis and Vertical Equity: A New York
Application, with R. Mallick, Public Finance Quarterly,
October 1994, vol. 22, no. 4, 418-438.
The Optimal State Tax Portfolio Model: An Extension,
with R. Mallick, National Tax Journal, June
1994, vol. 47, no. 2, 395-402. (Reprinted in State
Tax Notes, September 26, 1994, vol. 7, no. 13, 851-857.)
Specification Tests in Hedonic Models, with J. Burgess,
Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics,
December, 1991, 373-393.
An Empirical Evaluation of Different Methods for Estimating
Earnings Losses, with J. Lambrinos, The Journal
of Risk and Insurance, Vol. 56, No. 4, December
1989, 733-739.
Housing Adjustment Costs: Measuring Their Impact on
Mobility and Housing Demand Elasticities, with M.Potepan,
The American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association
Journal, Vol. 16, No. 4, Winter, 1988, 459-478.
The Income Elasticity of Demand for Single-Family
Owner-Occupied Housing: An Empirical Reconciliation,
Journal of Urban Economics, Vol. 24, No. 2,
September 1988, 173-185.
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