Charles W. Upton

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College of Business Administration
Kent
State University
Kent, OH 44242
Phone (330)672-1089
Fax (253) 423-9414
cupton@kent.edu

2324 Exline Circle
Hudson, OH 44236

Phone (330) 655-2266
Fax (253)423-9414

 

Education

 

B.A., Rice University, Mathematics, 1965

M.S., Carnegie-Mellon University, Economics, 1967

Ph.D., Carnegie-Mellon University, Economics, 1969

 

Positions

 

Professor of Economics, Kent State University (1989-present)

 

Dean, College of Business Administration,
Kent
State University, 1989-94

 

Associate Dean, Academic Affairs, Graduate School of Management

Rutgers University, 1985-89.

 

Associate Professor, Graduate School of Management

Rutgers University, 1977-89.

 

Senior Economist, Mathematica, Inc., 1976-77.

 

Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Business

University of Chicago, 1968-76.

 

Publications

 

"Optimal Taxing of Water Pollution," Water Resources Research, October 1968.

"A Model of Water Quality Management Under Uncertainty," Water Resources Research, June 1970.

"The Application of User Costs to Water Quality Management," Water Resources Research, April 1971..

Reprinted in 1971 Benefit Cost Analysis, Arnold C. Harberger, ed., Chicago, IL: Aldine Press, 1971

"Bad Smells but Fine Policy: Some Comments on the Proposed Sulfur Tax" in Harold A. Cowles, ed., Public Utility Valuation and the Rate Making Process. Ames, IA: Iowa State University, 1971.

"The Allocation of Pollution Rights," Proceedings of National Tax Association, 1971.

"The Economics of Pollution," Selected Paper #35, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago, 1971.

"The Demand for Dental Services," (with William Silverman), Journal of Human Resources, April 1972.

Macroeconomics: A Neoclassical Introduction (with Merton H. Miller), Homewood, IL: Richard D. Irwin, 1974. Reprinted with a new introduction, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1986.

"Comments on Oates and Baumol," Edwin S. Mills, ed., Economic Analysis of Environmental Problems. New York: National Bureau of Eonomic Research, 1975.

Review of The Effect of Social Security on Personal Saving by Alica Munnell, in the Journal of Political Economy, October 1975.

"The Implications of Federal Tax Policy for Leasing" (with Merton H. Miller) in Conference on Tax Research, 1975. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

"Is There a Capital Shortage" Comment," Proceedings of the American Finance Association, May 1976.

"Leasing, Buying and the Cost of Capital Services," (with Merton H. Miller), Journal of Finance, June 1976.

Reprinted in Financial Decision Making Under Uncertainty, Haim Levy and Marshall Sarnat, eds., New York: Academic Press, 1977.

"The Implications of Electric Vehicles on Electric Utility Loads" (with E. Patrick Marfisi and Carson E. Agnew), Proceedings of the Symposium on Load Leveling, N. P. Yao and J. R. Selman, eds., vol. 77-4, 1977.

The Impact of Electric Passenger Automobiles on Utility System Loads, 1985-2000 (with E. Patrick Marfisi and Carson E. Agnew). Palo Alto, CA: Electric Power Research Institute, 1978.

"The Stochastic Properties of Velocity and the Quantity Theory of Money" (with John P. Gould, Merton H. Miller, and Charles R. Nelson), Journal of Monetary Economics, December 1978.

"Leasing as a Financial Instrument" in Foundations of Finance, James L. Bicksler, ed., North Holland, 1979.

Review of Prospects for Capital Formation and Capital Markets, by Arnold Sametz in Journal of Finance, March 1980.

"An Equilibrium Model of City Size," Journal of Urban Economics, June 1981.

"A Test of the Hotelling Valuation Principle" (with Merton H. Miller), Journal of Political Economy, February 1985

. Reprinted in Selected Works of Merton H. Miller, Bruce Gundy, editor.  Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2002.

"The Pricing of Oil and Gas Reserves: Some Further Results" (with Merton H. Miller), Journal of Finance, July 1985.

Strategies for en battre kapital--marknad (with Merton H. Miller), Stockholm, Sweden: SNS Forlag, 1989

Reprinted as "Estrategias para la estructura y regulacion del mercado de capitales," Madrid, Spain: Revista de Economia, December 1990.

Reprinted as "Strategies for Capital Market Structure and Regulation," Chapter Eight in Financial Innovations & Market Volatility (Merton H. Miller, Author), 1991. Cambridge, MA: Basil Blackwell, Inc.

Reprinted in Selected Works of Merton H. Miller, Bruce Gundy, editor.  Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2002

The Burden of the Debt(with Merton H. Miller) in Selected Works of Merton H. Miller, Bruce Gundy, editor.  Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2002  Previously appeared as Chapter 8 in Macroeconomics: A Neoclassical Introduction