James Richard Hill

317 Sloan Hall Department of Economics Central Michigan University Mount Pleasant, Michigan 48859 (989)774-3706; [email protected]

Education Ph.D. in Economics, University of Kentucky, 1980. M.A. in Economics, University of Kentucky, 1977. B.A. in Economics, University of Kentucky, 1974, graduated Phi Beta Kappa.

Major Fields of Interest Economics of Professional Team Sports, Labor Economics, Industrial Relations

Dissertation Title “Structural Change in the Baseball Players’ Labor Market: 1976-1977”

Professional Experience Central Michigan University, Mount Pleasant, Michigan, August 1981-present. (Granted tenure May 1984) (Promoted to Associate Professor in August 1986) (Promoted to Professor in August 2005)

Mississippi Research and Development Center, Jackson, Mississippi, June 1985 to July 1986. Senior Economist, Economic Analysis Division (On leave of Absence from CMU)

University of North Alabama, Florence, Alabama, September 1979 to August 1981. Assistant Professor, Department of Economics and Finance

University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, January 1977 to August 1979. Teaching Fellow, Department of Economics

University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, August 1975 to December 1976 Teaching Assistant, Department of Economics

Journal Publications Peter A. Groothuis, J. Richard Hill, and Timothy Perri, "The Dilemma of Choosing Talent: Michael Jordans are Hard to Find," forthcoming in Applied Economics.

Peter A. Groothuis and J. Richard Hill, “Exit Discrimination in Major League Baseball” in the Southern Economic Journal, Vol. 75(2), 2008, 574-590.

James Richard Hill and Jason E. Taylor, “Do Professional Sports Unions Fit the Standard Model of Traditional Unionism?” Journal of Labor Research, Vol. 29, 2008, 56-67.

Peter A. Groothuis, J. Richard Hill and Timothy Perri, “Early Entry in the NBA: The Influence of Unraveling, Human Capital, and Option Value,” Journal of Sports Economics, Vol. 8, No. 3, June 2007, 223-243.

Raymond A. K. Cox and James Richard Hill, “The Effect of the New NBA Agreement on Superstar Pay,” Business Quest, 2005, online journal, research section.

James Richard Hill, “Pay Discrimination in the NBA Revisited,” Quarterly Journal of Business and Economics, Vol. 43, No. 1&2, Winter/Spring 2004.

Peter A. Groothuis and J. Richard Hill, “Exit Discrimination in the NBA: A Duration Analysis of Career Length” Economic Inquiry, Vol. 42, No. 2, April 2004, 341-49.

James Richard Hill and Peter A. Groothuis, “The New NBA Collective Bargaining Agreement, The Median Voter Model, and a Robin Hood Rent Redistribution” Journal of Sports Economics, Vol. 2, No. 2, May 2001, pp. 131-144.

Nadeem Navqi and James Richard Hill, “Unemployment, Investment, Interest Rates and The Pure Theory of International Trade,” The Indian Journal of Economics, Vol. LXVII, Part III, No. 266, 1987, 339-358.

James Richard Hill, “The Threat of Free Agency and Exploitation in Professional Baseball: 1976-1977,” Quarterly Review of Economics and Business, Vol. 25, Winter 1985, 68-82.

Gregory Falls and James Richard Hill, “Monetary Policy and Causality,” Atlantic Economic Journal, Vol. XIII, No.4, 1985, 10-18.

James Richard Hill and William Spellman, “Pay Discrimination in Baseball,” Industrial Relations, Vol. 23(1), 1984, 102-112.

James Richard Hill and William Spellman, “Professional Baseball: The Reserve Cause and Salary Structure,” Industrial Relations, Vol. 22(1), 1983, 1-19.

James Richard Hill, Jeff Madura, and Richard A, Zuber, “Short-run Demand for Baseball,” Atlantic Economic Journal, Volume X, No.2, 1982, 31-35.

Jeff Madura and James Richard Hill, “Effects of Free Agent Bargaining on the Professional Baseball Industry,” Midsouth Journal of Economics, Vol. 4, 1980.

Jeff Madura and James Richard Hill, “Analyzing the Fluctuation of No-Shows at Professional Football Games,” Journal of Economics, Volume VI, 1980, 92-96.

Chapters in Books and Book Reviews James Richard Hill, “Laboring at the Ball Yard,” a review of Labor Relations in Professional Sports by Robert C. Berry, William B. Gould, IV, and Paul D. Staudohar, in Law and Society Review, Vol. 21, No. 5, 1987, 3601-3602.

James Richard Hill, “Will Rising Salaries Destroy Major League Baseball?”, in Stee-Rike Four: What’s Wrong with the Business of Baseball? Edited by Daniel Marburger, Westport: Praeger, 1997, pp. 55-60.

Current Research and Unpublished Manuscripts Peter A. Groothuis and J. Richard Hill, “Correcting for Survival Bias in a Cross Section Wage Equation Using NBA Data (current)

Peter A. Groothuis and J. Richard Hill, “The Effect of Per Capita Tribal Payments on the Fertility, Education, and Capital Accumulation Decisions of Tribal Members (current)

James Richard Hill and Arindam Das Gupta, “Availability Heuristics, Death and Rational Expectations”

Conference Presentations Peter A. Groothuis and J. Richard Hill, “Correcting for Survival Bias in a Cross Section Wage Equation Using NBA Data,” presented at the 2008 Southern Economic Association meetings. Peter A. Groothuis and J. Richard Hill, “The Effect of Per Capita Tribal Payments on the Fertility, Education, and Capital Accumulation Decisions of Tribal Members,” presented at the 2008 Midwest Economics Association and the 2008 CMU Economics Department Seminar Series. Peter A. Groothuis and J. Richard Hill, “Correcting for Survival Bias in a Cross Section Wage Equation Using MLB Data,” presented at the 2008 Midwest Economics Association meetings. Peter A. Groothuis and J. Richard Hill, “Exit Discrimination in Major League Baseball,” presented at the 2006 Southern Economic Association meetings in Dr. Hill and the 2007 CMU Economics Department Seminar Series. James Richard Hill and Jason E. Taylor, “Do Professional Sports Unions Fit the Standard Model of Traditional Unionism?” presented at the 2005 Southern Economics Association meetings. Peter A. Groothuis and James Richard Hill, “Early Entry in the NBA Draft: Unraveling, Human Capital, and Option Value,” presented at the 2004 Midwest Economics Association meetings. James Richard Hill, “Pay Discrimination in the NBA Revisited,” on the program at the 2003 Midwest Association Meetings. James Richard Hill and Peter A. Groothuis, “The New NBA Collective Bargaining Agreement: An Application at the Medium Voter Model,” presented at the 2000 Midwest Economics Association meetings in Chicago. James Richard Hill and Arindam Das Gupta, “Availability Heuristics, Death and Rational Expectations,” presented at the 1984 Southern Economic Association meetings. Gregory Falls and James Richard Hill, “The Impact of the 1979 FOMC Procedural Changes on the Money Supply,” presented at the 1982 Atlantic Economic Society meetings. Jeff Madura and James Richard Hill, “Effects of Free Agent Bargaining on the Professional Baseball Industry,” presented at the 1981 Midsouth Academy of Economists meetings.