Office:    Morton 101-C 
Phone:    (757) 221-2372 
Email:    dhfeld@wm.edu
Fax:       (757) 221-1175

Professor of Economics 

• Economics 475, International Trade: Theory and Policy
• Economics 474, Seminar on International Economic Integration
• Public Policy 650, International Trade: Theory and Policy
• International Relations 300, Contemporary Problems in International Relations

I teach courses on the international economy for the department of economics and for the Thomas Jefferson Program in  Public Policy.  I am currently the associate chair of the economics department and the associate director of the International Relations program.  My current research explores a wide variety of topics in the economics of higher education.  Most of this work is co-authored with Robert Archibald.  Our new book is titled "Why Does College Cost so Much" and it will be published by Oxford University Press.  My work in international economics explores the political-economy and efficiency of development aid, and economic integration.

In December 2005 I received a three year appointment as a University Professor for Teaching Excellence.

Current Research:

Why does College Cost so Much?, book manuscript, with Robert B. Archibald.  Forthcoming from Oxford University Press.

How to Think About Affordability in Higher Education, with Robert B. Archibald.

Selected Publications:

• The Not-So-Peculiar Economics of Health Care Inflation, The Milken Institute Review, with Robert B. Archibald, 10 (3rd Quarter 2008), 90-94.
  

• Why Do Higher Education Costs Rise More Rapidly than Prices in General, Change, 40 (May/June 2008), 25-31. with Robert B. Archibald.
  
  
• Explaining Increases in Higher Education Costs, Journal of Higher Education, 79 (May/June 2008), 268-295.  With Robert B. Archibald.
  
  
• Revealed Preference for Car Tax Cuts: An Empirical Study of Perceived Fiscal Incidence, Applied Economics, with Robert B. Archibald, forthcoming 2008.
  
  
• Graduation Rates and Accountability: Regressions versus Production Frontiers, Research in Higher Education, 49 (February 2008), 80-106.  with Robert B. Archibald.
  
  
• Calming Workers' Fears About Trade,  eJournalUSA, Department of State, (January 2007), 14-16.
   
• State Higher Education Spending and the Tax Revolt, Journal of Higher Education, 77 (July/August 2006), 618-644. (with Robert B. Archibald).
  
  
• Trade Creation and Residual Quota Protection in a Free Trade Area with Domestic Monopoly, chapter 10 of The Political Economy of Trade, Aid and Foreign Investment Policies, edited by Devashish Mitra and Arvind Panagariya. New York: Elsevier Press, 2004.  (With Martin Richardson).
  
  
• Funding Students Instead of Institutions, Business Officer (National Association of Business Officers), October 2004, 27-32.
  
  
• Effective Rates of Protection and the Fordney-McCumber and Smoot-Hawley Tariff Acts:  Comment and Revised Estimates, Applied Economics, 32 (July 2000), 1223-26.  (with Robert B. Archibald, Marc Hayford, and Carl Pasurka).
  
  
• Financial Development  and Real Price Level Differences, Review of Development Economics, 3 (February 1999), 27-43 (with Zhenhui Xu).
  
  
• Investment During the Great Depression : Uncertainty and the Role of the Smoot-Hawley Tariff, Southern Economic Journal, 4  (April 1998), 857-879, (With Robert B. Archibald).
  
  
• Revenue Motives and Trade Liberalization . Review of International Economics, 4 (October 1996), 276-81. (with Ira N. Gang).
  
  
• The Choice Between Tariffs and Quotas as the Means of Protection Under Autocracy, North American Review of Economics and Finance, 4 (Fall 1993), pp. 165-177.
  
  
• Redundant Tariffs as Rational Endogenous Protection. Economic Inquiry, 31 (July 1993), 436-47.
  
  
• Economic Policy and Relative Service Prices in LDCs. World Development, 19 (October 1991), 1381-89.
  
  
• Financial Development and the Price of Services . Economic Development and Cultural Change, 38 (January 1990), 341-52. (with Ira N. Gang).
   
   

Op-Ed and Commentary

• College Administrations are Too Bloated? Compared to What, The Chronicle of Higher Education, August 10, 2009.

• Las Razones Para el Libre Comercio (Reasons for Free Trade), Diario Hoy, May 14, 2006.

• Bring Iran to Heel with EU Sanctions, The Baltimore Sun, February 13, 2006.
• Responsibilities Have Real Costs, The Baltimore Sun, September 16, 2005.
• Rate Colleges on Access, The Baltimore Sun, May 13, 2005.
• A Tuition Tutorial, Bacon's Rebellion, January 31, 2005.
• A New Stat for the Bowls, The Los Angeles Times, December 31, 2004.
• Making College Accessible, The Washington Post, October 22, 2004.
• A Trail of Red Ink, The Baltimore Sun, September 15, 2004.
• Protection Racket, The Baltimore Sun, July 12, 2004.
• A New Beginning for Higher Education in Virginia, The Virginian-Pilot, February 25, 2004.
• When States Pay Less, Guess Who Pays More? The Washington Post, October 26, 2003.
• Fixing a Bad Break, The Baltimore Sun, July 30, 2003.
• Food Fight at the World Trade Organization, The Virginian-Pilot, June 2, 2003.
• Simplistic Solutions to the College Cost Problem, The Baltimore Sun, June 2, 2003.
• Textile Exports Can Combat Radical Islam, Asian Wall Street Journal,   March 4, 2003.
• A Tax Repeal's Inequities, The Washington Post, September 15, 2002.
• New Trade Legislation Keeps Protectionism Alive, The Baltimore Sun, July 31, 2002.
• Continuing Scandal, Loss of Confidence, The Baltimore Sun, June 30, 2002.
• Dollarizing Afghanistan, Asian Wall Street Journal , May 20, 2002.
• Facing the challenges of the second global economy, The Baltimore Sun, May 10, 2002.
• Manage Economy with National Sales Tax, The Baltimore Sun, March 12 , 2002.
• Why Risk Alliances to Bail Out Big Steel, The Baltimore Sun, January 28, 2002.
• Argentina's Responsibility, The Virginian-Pilot, January 9, 2002.
• Hand in the Cookie Jar, Asian Wall Street Journal, December 11, 2001.
• Taking Stock, The Baltimore Sun, October 1, 2001.
• A Lesson From the East, The Washington Post, August 28, 2001.
• Whaling with Tradable Permits, Asian Wall Street Journal, August 24, 2001.
• U.S. Can Help Argentina Stabilize Its Economy, Houston Chronicle,  August 22, 2001.
• Steel Blues, The Baltimore Sun, August 15, 2001.
• This Isn't a Recession, The Baltimore Sun, June 5, 2001.
• Bush Can Make a Case for Dollarization in Latin America, The Baltimore Sun, April 20, 2001.
• The Future of Whaling, The Miami Herald, April 5, 2001.
• Federal Reserve Can Help Japanese Financial Crisis, The Baltimore Sun, March 22, 2001.
• Turkish Crisis a Global Threat, The Baltimore Sun, March 2, 2001.
• A Tale of Tuna and Whales, The Baltimore Sun, December 28, 2000.
• Two Views of Fairness, The Virginian-Pilot, November 14, 2000.
• Big Steel, Bad Gridlock, The Washington Post, August 11,  2000.
• Get Ready for Debate on Dollarization, The Richmond Times-Dispatch,  June 28, 1999.