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k e m a l b a d u r
I have been in the graduate program at the Economics department for seven years now, and will probably hang around a while longer. The last few years, I have been more and more distracted by computing, but I have also been doing some research work on intellectual property, in particular, patents and copyrights. At this point, my focus is more on the law than the economics of IP, and for the last year, I spent more time at the Law School than at the economics department. Nevertheless, my current and prospective projects are all variations on the effects of the legal framework on the behavior of market actors. I have a large collection of links and references I will post along with my research.
Back when I was taking graduate courses, I found it helpful to type most of my homeworks and some lecture notes in LaTeX (and Scientific Word.) At the end of my first year, I decided that I wanted to make them available online, mostly because I was annoyed at the fact that many of our assignments came straight from the previous years because our instructors couldn't be bothered with coming up with new ones, and people who were better at scavenging old homeworks had a rather unfair advantage. It was not a huge problem, and I did not resent it too much, probably because I was pretty good at scavenging myself, but I thought I would get rid of this artificial scarcity by making them accessible to everybody. I don't think it really mattered too much, mostly because the University switched from quarters to semesters and the sequences changed a lot. Still, the lecture notes and assignments get a fair number of hits even after I neglected to update the site for years, and I'd like to think that I've helped a few people out in some fashion. Thus, I will keep them on the site, and not only bring back the pdf files that I provided before, but also allow people to download the original LaTeX documents under the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share-Alike license (see below) if they want to use these as a basis for something else.
Since I spent the majority of my time in the graduate program as a research assistant or system administrator, my teaching experience is rather slim. During my brief tenure as an instructor (I've only taught three full courses) I only had enough patience to have a proper website for one of them, and Introduction to Microeconomics class in the Summer of 1999. The site still works, and could even be useful if you are looking for resources to teach a similar course. Of course, you will most likely be better off by referring to resources such as MIT's OpenCourseWare.
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