Education

Reed College, B.A. in Economics, May 2003. 3.3 GPA (3.6 in major)
Relevant courses: Advanced Macroeconomics, Advanced Econometrics, Monetary and Fiscal Policy, History of Economic Thought, Seminars on Unemployment and Macroeconomic Effects of Budget Deficits,

Awards

President´s Commendation for Academic Excellence, Reed College, 2003.
Walter Mintz Economics Scholarship, Reed College, Fall 2002

Work Experience

Bates Private Capital, Inc., Lake Oswego, Oregon, Analyst. Analyze data provided to clients for use in securities litigation, primarily in cases involving investor fraud, March 2004 to present.

Bates Private Capital, Inc., Lake Oswego, Oregon, Data Input/Data Review Specialist; Special Projects Input. Inputting and reviewing data used in analysis provided to clients for use in securities litigation, primarily in cases involving investor fraud, September 2003 to February 2004.

U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, Virginia, volunteer. Testing calibration models to predict sediment flows in major rivers in the United States. The model is used as part of the SPAtially Referenced Regressions On Water (SPARROW) analysis, July 2002 to August 2002.

Trinity Annual Fund, Dublin, Ireland, caller. Called University of Dublin, Trinity College alumni to provide information on Trinity and ask for donations, February 2002 to June 2002.

Oregon Center for Public Policy (OCPP), Silverton, Oregon, Intern and Research Assistant. Main duties included assembling, maintaining a very large database (over 4 million data cells; 100+ variables and 42,000 observations per variable), and extracting data from it that was reported in "What Color Is Your Paycheck" (below), June 2001 to August 2001.

Papers

Thesis Goud, Richard B., Jr. 2003. The determinants of firm performance: empirical evidence from 25 countries in Central and Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union. Senior thesis, Reed College, Portland, OR.
Firms that restructure (e.g., developing new products, upgrading new products, closing plants) have higher sales and employment growth. Firms with more market power are more likely to restructure.

Book Review C. Gaddy and B. Ickes (2002) Russia´s Virtual Economy, Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, for the Eastern Economic Journal (forthcoming).
A review of a book on the survival of non-viable enterprises in 1990s Russia.

Policy Paper Leachman, Michael, Thompson, Jeff, and Goud, Richard (2001) "What Color is Your Paycheck?" Oregon Center for Public Policy (web) Download in PDF.
An analysis of racial income differentials controlling for education in Multnomah County using the American Community Survey (ACS).