HAROLD (HAL) FRIED
David L. and Beverly B. Yunich
Professor of Business Ethics
Union College
Schenectady, NY 12308
Office: Social Sciences 210B
Phone Number: (518) 388-6368
Fax Number: (518) 388-6988
E-mail Address: friedh@union.edu
With Union College Since 1983
Education:
B.A. 1972, University of Michigan; Ph.D. 1979, University of North Carolina
Areas of Expertise:
Efficiency Measurement and Productivity, Applied Microeconomics
Selected Publications:
Books and more:
The Measurement of Productive Efficiency: Techniques and Applications (Edited with C.A. Lovell and S. Schmidt). New York: Oxford University Press, 1993.
Guest Co-Editor, Special Double Issue, Journal of Productivity Analysis, "Greatest Hits from NAPW I at Union College, 19(2/3), April 2003. (with Yaisawarng).
The Measurement of Productive Efficiency and Productivity Change (Edited with C.A. Lovell and S. Schmidt), New York: Oxford University Press, forthcoming.
Monographs:
Evaluating the Performance of Credit Unions (with C.A. Lovell). Madison: Filene Research Institute, 1993.
Credit Union Service-Oriented Peer Groups (with C.A. Lovell). Madison: Filene Research Institute, 1994.
Technology Strategies of Best Practice Credit Unions: Today, the Near Future and the Far Future (with Albert Burger and C.A. Knox Lovell). Madison: Filene Research Institute, 1997.
Best Practice Benchmarks for the Capital Region (with J. Douglass Klein). Albany: The State Commission on the Capital Region, 1997.
Information Technology and Management Structure: A Case Study of First Technology Credit Union, (edited with George Overstreet). Madison: Filene Research Institute, 1998.
Information Technology and Management Structure: Lessons for Credit Unions, (edited with George Overstreet). Madison: Filene Research Institute, 1998.
Articles:
"Immiserizing Growth and Inferior Goods," Atlantic Economic Journal, 11:1 (March 1983).
"Currency Substitution, Postal Strikes and Canadian Money Demand" (with B. Daniel), Canadian Journal of Economics, 16:4 (November 1983).
"Sectoral Trading Arrangements" (with R. Falvey), International Economic Review, 25:3 (October 1984).
"On the Dynamic Non-Equivalence of Tariffs and Quotas in the Monetary Model of the Balance of Payments: Comment" (with B. Daniel and E. Tower), Journal of International Economics, 18:3/4 (May 1985).
"On Using a Single Tarriff to Exploit Market Power on Many Traded Goods" (with E. Tower), Economia Internazionale, 38:3-4 (August 1985).
"Fuel Economy Standards and Automobile Prices" (with R. Falvey, J. Frank and M. Bubonovic), Journal of Transport Economics and Policy, 20:1 (January 1986).
"An Hedonic Guide to New Orleans Restaurants" (with R. Falvey and Richards), The Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance, 32:1 (Spring 1992).
"Evaluating the Performance of U.S. Credit Unions" (with C.A. Lovell and P. Vanden Eeckaut), Journal of Banking and Finance, 17:2-3 (1993).
"Service Productivity in U.S. Credit Unions" (with C.A. Lovell and P.Vanden Eeckaut), in P. Harker, ed., The Service Productivity and Quality Challenge, Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers (1995).
"Enhancing the Performance of Credit Unions: The Evolution of a Methodology," (with C.A. Lovell), Recherches Economiques de Louvain, Vol 60 No 4 (1994).
"An Analysis of the Performance of University Affiliated Credit Unions," (with C.A. Lovell and J. Turner), Computers and Operations Research, 23:4 (1996).
"Productive, Scale and Scope Efficiencies in U.S. Hospital-Based Nursing Homes," INFOR Special Issue on Evaluating Performance in Public and Service Sector Organizations, (with S. Schmidt and S. Yaisawarng), forthcoming.
"The Impact of Mergers on Credit Union Service Provision," The Journal of Banking and Finance, (with C.A.K. Lovell and S. Yaisawarng), forthcoming.
"Incorporating the Operating Environment into a Nonparametric Measure of Technical Efficiency," (with Schmidt and Yaisawarng, Journal of Productivity Analysis, 12(3), November 1999, pp. 249-267.
"Efficiencies in United States Metropolitan Areas," (with Klein), in Jos Blank (ed.), Efficiency in the Public Sector, Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers (2001).
"Evaluating the Performance of Rural Counties," (with Klein), Western Planner, December 2001.
"Accounting for Environmental Effects and Statistical Noise in Data Envelopment Analysis," (with Lovell, Schmidt and Yaisawarng), Journal of Productivity Analysis, 17(1/2), January/March 2002.
"Evaluating the Performance of Professional Golfers on the PGA, LPGA and SPGA Tours," (with Lambrinos and Tyner), European Journal of Operational Research, 154, 2004 pp. 548-561.
Professional Activities:
Senior Researcher, Filene Research Institute, 1996-present.
Director, Center for the Analysis of Productivity and Efficiency at Union College, 1995-present.
Director, Michael S. Rapaport Initiative to Introduce Ethics into the Economics Curriculum at Union College, 2004-Present.
Member Scientific Committee, Sixth European Workshop on Productivity and Efficiency Measurement, (Copenhagen, Denmark) 1999.
Member Scientific Committee, Seventh European Workshop on Productivity and Efficiency Measurement, (Oviedo, Spain) 2001.
Member Scientific Committee, Eighth European Workshop on Productivity and Efficiency Measurement, (Oviedo, Spain) 2003.
Coordinator, Workshop on Engineering Applications of Data Envelopment Analsis, December 10-11, 1999 (with Balmer and Yaisawarng).
Coordinator, North American Productivity Workshop II at Union College, June, 2000 (with S. Yaisawarng).
Coordinator, North American Productivity Workshop II at Union College, June, 2002 (with S. Yaisawarng).
Advisory Board, North American Productivity Workshop III at the University of Toronto, June 2004.
Visiting Senior Research Associate, Filene Research Institute, 1994-95.
Visiting Associate Professor, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, 1994.
Visiting Scholar, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, 1990.