Ronald L. Horst
InforumDepartment of Economics
University of Maryland
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2002
Inforum World Conference: College Park, Maryland, USA
2004 Inforum World Conference: Ascea, Italy
2006 Inforum World Conference: Traunkirchen, Austria
2009 Inforum World Conference: Jurmala, Latvia
Research:
- "A Software Development Summary for the 2009 Inforum World Conference." Presented in Jurmala, Latvia, 2009.
- "Macroeconomic and Industry Impacts of 9/11: An Interindustry Macroeconomic Approach." Peace Economics, Peace Science, and Public Policy, Vol. 15:Iss. 2, Article 5, 2009, with Jeffrey Werling. The paper is available at the publishers web site. Preliminary results were presented at the 55th Annual North American Meetings of the Regional Science Association International in New York City in November 2008; see the CREATE Press release. Presented at the Third Annual Department of Homeland Security University Network Summit, March 17-19, 2009. Results and related research were presented at the 17th Inforum World Conference in Jurmala, Latvia in September 2009.
- Contributor to The Balancing Act: Climate Change, Energy Security and the U.S. Economy, organized by the Business Roundtable. Released June 25, 2009.
- "Suicidal Terrorism and Benevolent Alternatives: A Model of Economics and Religion." Presented at the 2009 annual meeting of the Association of the Study of Religion, Economics, and Culture, April 3-5, 2009.
- Subsidies to Nuclear Power Through Liability Limits. Based on Chaper 3 of my dissertation. Currently under review.
- "A Software Development Summary for the 2008 Inforum World Conference." 2008.
- "IT at Inforum in 2007." 2007.
- "A Review of Data on American Nuclear Power." Working paper, 2008.
- "A Model of Consumption of New Products and Services." Joint with Pacharasut Sujarittanonta. Inforum working paper. 2008.
- "Investment in Structures." Data and equation development for IdLift II. Joint with Quynh Nguyen. Inforum working paper. 2007.
- 2006 Ph.D. Dissertation: "The Economics of Nuclear Power."
- G7
Updates for 2006. In the proceedings of the 2006
Inforum World Conference, which was held in Traunkirchen, Austria:
Recent Developments in INFORUM-type Modeling, edited by Mariusz Plich and Michal Przybylinski, Lodz University Press, 2007. - A G7 Update for Inforum World Conference XIII. 2005.
- G7 Extensions: Matrix Operations and Quadratic Programming. 2004.
- Consumption Equations in IdLift: Extension and Revision. 2002.
- Solution Methods for Structural Models. 2002.
- Investment in Structures in IDLIFT. 2001.
- "An Empirical Analysis of the Bank Deposits Market," Proceedings of the Pennsylvania Economic Association, 1998 Conference. (Joint with Marvin Margolis, Millersville University).
- Several Inforum working papers may be found here.
Curriculum Vitae :
A curriculum vitae may be found here.
A brief resume may be found here.
Other Activities:
I develop and maintain the Inforum web site.
I am chairman of the Facilities Management Board (i.e. the Board of Trustees) at Bethany Community Church.