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NAFE Conference Papers

Below you will find the titles of the papers presented at NAFE conferences since 2010.  In order to view and download these papers in PDF format, members will need to log into the site using their email address that they have supplied to NAFE along with their NAFE.net password.  If you have forgotten your NAFE.net password or have never used it, click on the "Forgot Your Password?" link and a new password will be sent to your email address.

These papers were presented at NAFE conferences and they represent the "oral remarks" of authors. Therefore, citation to all of the papers presented here are subject to the "oral remarks" provision part 7 of NAFE's Member Statement of Ethical Principles and Principles of Professional Practice which states:

7. Discourse
Open, uninhibited discussion is a desired educational feature of academic and professional forensic economic conferences. Therefore, to preserve and protect the educational environment, practitioners of forensic economics will refrain from the citation of oral remarks made in an educational environment, without permission from the speaker.

2012 Southern Economic Association

“Assessing Economic Damages in PI & WD Litigation: The State of Colorado”, ane Lillydahl and Gilbert L. Mathis (2012)

“Economic Damage Valuations in South Africa”, Dwight D. Steward (2012)

“Handling Unemployment in Earnings Projections”, James D. Rodgers (2012)

“The Time Series Nature of Transition Probabilities and Worklife Estimates”, David I. Rosenbaum and Matthew J. Cushing (2012)

“Trends in Legal Decisions Involving Hedonic Damages from 2001 to 2012”, Thomas R. Ireland (2012)

“Using TIPS to Discount to Present Value.”, Raymond Strangways, Bruce Rubin, and Michael Zugelder (2012)

2012 Western Economic Association

“Consideration of Inflation Risk and Market Risk in Deriving a Discount Rate for Income Loss and Life Care Cost Claims”, Bill Brandt (2012)

“Current Versus Ultimate Life Expectancies: An Update”, Barry Ben-Zion (2012)

“Economics of Class Action after Dukes and Concepcion”, Hossein Borhani (2012)

“Ethics In Forensic Economics”, Roundtable moderator Thomas R. Ireland (2012)

“Handling Unemployment When Projecting Earnings”, James D. Rodgers (2012)

“Labor Market Transitions and Geographic Mobility: Implications for Worklife Studies”, Matt Cushing, and David Rosenbaum (2012)

“Michael Brookshire, Frank Slesnick and Michael Luthy”, A 2012 Survey of Forensic Economists: Their Methods, Estimates, and Perspectives (2012)

“New Evidence on Self Employment Transitions Among Older Americans with Career Jobs”, Michael Giandrea, Kevin Cahill and Joseph Quinn (2012)

“Stationarity of Ibbotson Associates Equity Risk Premiums”, Steven J. Shapiro and Steph Horner (2012)

“Texas Rig Count”, Steph Horner (2012)

“The Risk and Reward of Investing a Lost Earnings Award: A Comparison of Stocks, Bonds, and Bills”, Michael Nieswiadomy (2012)

2012 Eastern Economic Association

“A Longitudinal Look at Labor Market Transition Probabilities”, Matthew J. Cushing, David I Rosenbaum (2012)

“Calculating Lost Fringe Damages of Private-Sector Union Workers in Injury Cases”, Frank D. Tinari, Kenneth T. Betz (2012)

“Educational Attainment Model for a Minor Child: The Next Generation”, John Kane, Larry Spizman, Don Donelson (2012)

“Helpin v. Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania: Lost Profits Not Discounted to Present Value in Pennsylvania Breach of Contract Cases”, James D. Rodgers (2012)

“Medical Net Discount Rates: 1980-2011”, Andrew Kraynak and David Schap (2012)

“Potential Effects of the Affordable Care Act on the Award of Life Care Expenses”, Joshua Congdan-Hohman, Victor Matheson (2012)

“Stationarity of Ibbotson Associates Equity Risk Premiums”, Steven J. Shapiro and Stephen Horner (2012)

“The Impact of Post-2008 Long-Term Unemployment on Lost Earnings Capacity”, Ernest T. Kendall (2012)

2012 Allied Social Science Assosciation

“A Scientific Approach to Mitigation of Economic Damages in Discrimination and Wrongful Discharge Cases”, Malcolm Cohen and Laura Steiner (2012)

“Assessing Economic Damages in Personal Injury and Wrongful Death and Employment Litigation: the State of Oklahoma”, Thomas Roney and Glenn D. Vestrat (2012)

“Econometrics of Income Lost to Injury or Death”, Scott Gilbert (2012)

“Household Services Production in Mexico”, Dwight Steward and Stephanie Rae Green (2012)

“Identifying Deliberately "Misclassified" Employees Resulting from the Use of Title VII-Related Advice Professionals to Manage Workforce Interventions”, Armando Rodriguez and Esin Cakan (2012)

“Is a New Paradigm Required? Class Certification in a Post-Halliburton World with Complex Structured Investment Products”, Michael Hartzmark (2012)

“Mortality Induced Worklife Expectancy Reductions from Medical Conditions”, Gary R. Skoog, James Ciecka, Robert Shavelle (2012)

“The Relationship Between Work Decisions and Location Later in Life”, Kevin E. Cahill, Michael D. Giandrea, Joseph F. Quinn (2012)

“Transitions Into and Out of Disability”, Kurt V. Krueger and Gary R. Skoog (2012)

“Years of Labor Force and Non-market Work under the Traditional Markov Model”, Kurt V. Krueger and Frank Slesnick (2012)

2011 Western Economic Association

“A Case Study in Estimating Lost Profits: The Yardstick Problem”, Stephen M. Horner (2011)

“Age at Final Retirement and Years Spent in Final Retirement”, Gary Skoog, and James Ciecka (2011)

“Determining Economic Damages: 20 Years Later”, Gerald D. Martin (2011)

“Factors to Consider When Estimating Economic Damages from Wrongful Termination”, Thomas Roney, and Nora Ostrofe (2011)

“Higher Order Markov Estimates of Worklife: Comparing SIPP to CPS Results”, David I. Rosenbaum and Matthew J. Cushing (2011)

“Life Expectancy in the Senior Settlement Industry: Are the Experts Any Good?”, Robert Shavelle (2011)

“Recent Developments in Economic Damages in Intellectual Property Litigation”, Fernando Torres (2011)

“The Form of the Corporation: Implications for Estimating Lost Profits”, Steven J. Shapiro, Kurt V. Krueger, and Todd Bartels (2011)

“The Importance of Correlation Between Historical Investment Returns and Historical Inflation Rates in Damage Award Calculations”, William G. Brandt (2011)

“What are the Ethical and Personal Responsibilities of Economic Experts to Retaining Attorneys?”, Thomas R. Ireland, Session Chair Forensic Economics Ethics Roundtable (2011)

“Your Pink Cadillac, How Much is it Worth? What Can Forensic Economists Learn from Nonpecuniary Benefits”, Sibylle Scholz (2011)

2011 Allied Social Science Assosciation

“Beyond Fisher: On the Evidentiary Foundations of Alternative Exact Tests of Significance”, Armando E. Rodriquez (2011)

“Dealing with Paired Wrongful Death and Survival Action Statutes in Calculating Economic Damages”, Panel Moderator: Thomas R. Ireland (2011)

“Determining Net Lost Social Security Benefits”, Arthur A. Eubank, Jr., A. Andrew Eubank, III, and Anna Shostya (2011)

“Employment Creation EB?5 Immigrant Program: Review and Preview”, Semoon Chang, and Sujin Kim (2011)

“Household Services Revisited”, William M. G. Pearson and Christopher C. Pflaum (2011)

“How Does Occupational Status Impact Bridge Job Prevalence?”, Kevin E Cahill, Michael D Giandrea and Joseph F Quinn (2011)

“Long?Term Earnings Losses due to Mass Layoffs During the 1982 Recession: An Analysis Using U.S. Administrative Data from 1974 to 2004”, Till von Wachter, Jae Song, Joyce Manchester (2011)

“Personal Consumption and Single Persons”, Kurt V Krueger (2011)

“Relative Earnings of Skilled and Unskilled Workers”, Edward Foster (2011)

“The Markov Process Model of Labor Force Activity: Extended Tables of Central Tendency, Shape, Percentile Points, and Bootstrap Standard Errors”, Gary R Skoog, James Ciecka and Kurt Krueger (2011)

“The Value of Future Earnings in Perfect Foresight Equilibrium”, Scott Gilbert (2011)

2010 Southern Economic Association

“Estimating Recidivism Risk in Earnings Loss Calculations for Persons Recently Released from Incarceration”, Dwight Steward (2010)

“Factors to consider when Estimating Economic Damages from Wrongful Termination”, Nora Ostrofe and Thomas Roney (2010)

“The Effect of Education on Life Expectancy and Worklife Expectancy”, Edward Foster and Kurt v. Krueger (2010)

2010 Western Economic Association

“Alternative Perspectives For Breach-Nonbreach Scenario Specification in Commercial Litigation”, Jonathan Shefftz (2010)

“Estimating Duration of Economic Damages in Wrongful Termination Cases”, Thomas Roney (2010)

“Life Expectancy for Forensic Economists”, Robert Shavelle (2010)

“Measuring Market Manipulation”, Robert McCullough, and Tolga Yilmaz (2010)

“Methodologies for Calculating Damages in Class Action Wage and Hour Cases”, Stephanie Rizzardi and Nicholas Briscoe (2010)

“Tax Consequences of Lump Sum Awards in Wrongful Termination Cases”, Thomas Ireland (2010)

“The Role of the Economic Expert in Reviewing Class Action Claims”, Richard Eichman (2010)

“The Term Premium in Forensic Economics”, Matthew Cushing and David Rosenbaum (2010)

“What Do We Know About Tort Reform”, Steven Shapiro (2010)

2010 Eastern Economic Association

“Assessment of Portfolio Churning and Investment Suitability: A Case Study”, Steven J. Shapiro (2010)

“Calculating Damages Under Pennsylvania's Paired Wrongful Death and Survival Action Statutes”, Roundtable chaired by Thomas R. Ireland (2010)

“Discounting and Interest Requirements in the Northeast States”, David Schap (2010)

“Multiple Regression Models with Qualitative Variables for Litigation Support in Employment Discrimination”, Elias C. Grivoyannis (2010)

“The Practice of Forensic Economics”, Roundtable chaired by Frank Tinari (2010)

“The Worklife Reduction Factor: A Practical Application of Worklife Statistics”, Marc A. Weinstein (2010)

“To Use or not to Use Bulletin 2254 Worklife Expectancy Tables in New York State - That is the Question”, Lawrence Spizman (2010)

“Why Markov Process Worklife Expectancy Tables Are Usually Superior to the LPE Method for Evaluating Worklife Expectancy in Personal Injury and Wrongful Death Damages Analysis”, Thomas R. Ireland (2010)

2010 Allied Social Science Assosciation

“A Note on Lost Pension Benefits and Household Services in Wrongful Death Cases: Some Useful Information Gleaned from Probability Mass Functions”, Gary Skoog and James Ciecka (2010)

“Allocation of Medical Capacity and Technology under Certificate of Need Laws and Its Impact on Market Power”, Aniruddha Bagchi, Govind Hariharan, and Timothy Mathews (2010)

“Cohort Effects in Age-Earnings Profiles for Women: Implications for Forensic Analysis”, Matthew J. Cushing and David I. Rosenbaum (2010)

“Estimating the 'Quantity Effect' in a Lost Profits Case: An Econometric Approach”, Frank Adams, III and John D. Jackson (2010)

“Executive Stock-Based Compensation: A Case Study in Valuing Employee Stock Options and Restricted Stock Issues in a Breach of Contract Case”, Dwight Steward (2010)

“Macro and Micro Valuation of the Economic Impacts of Disease, Injury, or Death”, Scott D. Grosse and Kurt V. Krueger (2010)

“Pitfalls in Determining the Reasonable Royalty in Patent Cases”, Steven J. Shapiro (2010)

“Stepping Stones and Bridge Jobs: Determinants and Outcomes”, Kevin E. Cahill, Michael D. Giandrea, and Melissa Brown (2010)

“The Single-Earner Income Personal Consumption Deduction and Human Capital Wealth”, David H. Ciscel and David C. Sharp (2010)

“Worklife Tables Updated to Reflect the Last Decade's Data”, Gary R. Skoog, James E. Ciecka, and Kurt V. Krueger, (2010)

2009 Allied Social Science Assosciation

“Understanding the GED Ver 1”, James Heckman & Paul LaFontaine (2009)

“Understanding the GED Ver 2”, James Heckman & Paul LaFontaine (2009)