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David L. Ortmeyer
dortmeyer@bentley.edu
AAC 199
781/891-2857
Senior Lecturer of Economics

PhD, Univ of Wisconsin-Madison, 1980

MS, Boston University, 1987

MS, Univ of Wisconsin-Madison, 1976

BA, Stanford University, 1972
Research Interests:

Macroeconomic Saving Behavior

Information Technology and Economics

Immigration
Teaching Interests:

Principles of Microeconomics

Principles of Macroeconomics

Intermediate Macroeconomic Theory

International Economics

Information Technology Economics

Business Statistics
David L Ortmeyer
Selected Publications and presentations:

Journal articles
Ortmeyer, David L, Peek, Joe. "An Ex-Ante of Houehold Portfolio Choice: The Role of Expected Capital Gains," Review of Economics and Statistics, vol. LXVIII, no. 2, 1986.

Ortmeyer, David L. "A Portfolio Choice Model of Korean Household Saving, 1962-1976," Economic Development and Cultural Change, vol. 33, 1985.

Ortmeyer, David L, Fortune, Peter. "An Application of the Life-Cycle Linear Expenditure System to the South Korean Household Sector, 1962-1976," Journal of Development Economics, vol. 18, 1985.

Fortune, Peter, Ortmeyer, David L. "The Role of Relative Prices, Interest Rates, and Bequests in the Consumption Function: A Life-Cycle LES Approach," Journal of Macroeconomics, vol. 7, no. 3, 1985.

Ortmeyer, David L. "Does Income Drive Saving? Exogeneity Testing Applied to East Asian Data," Journal of Development Economics, vol. 7, 1980.

Conference papers
Ortmeyer, David L. "Concurrent Access Licensing and NLS," in Workshop on Large Installation Systems Administration, 1988.

Ortmeyer, David L, Turkle, Haynes, Larsen, Matt, Gordon, Mike. "The Byron 1100 Programming Support Environment," in USE Conference, 1985.

Doctoral dissertation
Ortmeyer, David L. "A Macroeconomic Analysis of Domestic Saving Behavior in the Republic of Korea." University of Wisconsin - Madison, 1980.

Honors and Awards:
2009, Summer Research Grant

Scholarly Work in Progress:
"Are Immigrants Reallly Attracted to the Welfare State" (with Michael Quinn and Aaron Jackson).
Using new data from the World Bank, the paper seeks to determine the impact of countries' tax structures and spending policies on migration flows. Unlike previous data, this new data set contains information on the educational attainment of immigrants. This allows for a richer study of the topic tha can focus on which type of government policies attract different kinds of immigrants.

"Empirically Testing for Indirect Network Externalities in the LCD TV Market", (with Patrick Scholten, Jeff Livingston and Wilson Wong).
The goal of hedonic analyses is to break the value of a good into its essential characteristics. Such a "hedonic" breakdown allows us to more closely examine the true value of a particular good to consumers and can be used to reflect quality changes in a product. With the hedonic price regression we can test for complementarity between TVs and other electronic devices.

Give us Your Tired and Hungry, as Long as They Can Read: Colonial Ties, Education, and Immigration .
Examining the impact of colonial ties on migration to OECD countries.

Other Activities:
"Empirically Testing for Indirect Network Externalities in the LCD Television Market" (with P. Scholten, J. Livingston, W. Wong), NET Institute Working Paper #08-40

Presented paper at the Southern Economics Association meetings in Washington, DC, November, 2008

Received NET Institute Grant, Summer 2008

Referee Journal of Development Economics

Research Fellow, The Brookings Institution

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Teaching interests include principles, macro theory and applications, international economics, information economics. Research interests include modeling household saving behavior using portfolio-choice models and the economics of software. Has published articles in a variety of journals including Review of Economics and Statistics, Journal of Macroeconomics, Journal of Development Economics, Economic Development and Cultural Change. Previous industry experience includes over twenty years managing software development organizations in the high-tech sector. Previous teaching experience at Tufts University.