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 also the associate director of the International Relations program.  My current research in international economics explores the political-economy and efficiency of development aid, and economic integration.  I am also working together with professor Robert B. Archibald on a variety of projects that examine price, cost, and efficiency measures in higher education.  We are currently beginning a book project about why a college education costs so much.

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

Current Research:

Why does College Cost so Much?, book manuscript, with Robert B. Archibald.

Capital-Skill Complementarity in Higher Education, with Robert B. Archibald.

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, forthcoming 2008.
  

• Why Do Higher Education Costs Rise More Rapidly than Prices in General, Change, with Robert B. Archibald, forthcoming 2008.
  
  
• Explaining Increases in Higher Education Costs, Journal of Higher Education, with Robert B. Archibald, forthcoming 2008.
  
  
• 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

• 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.