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Background: Professor Harmon is 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. He has
authored the CD- ROM ePrinciples of Macroeconomics--A Multimedia Approach,
and developed the first online course in Economics at the University.Vita
(html format).,
Vita (pdf format).
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Economic Damages
Tax Policy
Housing Economics
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News Articles on Prof. Harmon's Information Technology
Activities at Uconn:
Prof.
Harmon Leads Workshop on Instructional Methods in a Wireless Classroom
Stamford Advocate, Business Section, November 8, 2001
Prof.
Harmon's Workshop Wireless Instructional Methods is a Hit Uconn
Libraries Newsletter, November/December 2001
Prof.
Harmon Organizes A Library Collection of Faculty Publications Uconn
Libraries Newsletter, November/December 2001
Review
of UConn-Stamford Website, co-developed by Prof. Harmon , Stamford
Advocate, Business Section, August 27, 2001
Prof.
Harmon Reviews Developments in Usage of WebCT at the Stamford Campus
Uconn Institute for Teaching and Learning Newsletter, September
13, 2000
Prof.
Harmon Leads Summer Makeover of Stamford WebSite Uconn Advance,
September 11, 2000
Prof.
Harmon Awarded Large Impact Grant to Lead WebCT Effort at Stamford Campus
Uconn Advance,May 1, 2000
Prof.
Harmon A Winner of the Chancellor's Information Technology Award Uconn
Advance,May 1, 2000, The
Award
Storrs
TAs Grade Stamford Students' Homework Over the Internet in Prof. Harmon's
Classes Uconn Advance,December 13, 1999
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Selected Publications of Prof. Harmon:
Tax Policy :
The
Federal Estate Tax: Repeal or Reform?, Tax Notes (Tax Analysts:
Washington, DC), June 15, 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
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.)
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Information Technology
“Partnering
for a Wireless Classroom”, with Nancy Gillies, T.H.E. Journal Web
Exclusive, June 2004,
"An
Active Learning Approach to Teaching Effective Online Search Strategies"
with S. Cudiner, T.H.E. Journal, December 2000.
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Economic Damages
Plaintiff Bias in the
CPLR 50-A/50-B Statute, with J. Lambrinos, Albany Law Review,
vol. 59, no. 2, 1995.
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.
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Housing Economics
Specification
Tests in Hedonic Models, with J. Burgess, Journal of Real Estate
FInance and Economics, December, 1991, 373-393.
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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Expertise: Economic
Damages, Tax Policy, Personal Injury/Wrongful Death
Addresses:
Department: Economics
Office: 3.22
One University Place
Stamford,
CT 06901
Cell:
(518) 859-8099;
Office: (203) 251-8415;
Office:(518) 478-0216.
Email: Oskar.Harmon@uconn.edu
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