Brett R Devine

• Vita

Academic Experience

• Visiting Assistant Professor, Washington State University

Education

• Ph.D. in Economics, Washington State University, July 2018
  • Dissertation: Essays in Industrial Organization
  • Co-Chairs: Felix Munoz-Garcia and Jonathan Yoder
• B.S. in Economics, minors in Mathematics and Management, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah 2012

Fields of Interest

• Industrial organization
• Agricultural Economics and Marketing
• Econometrics
• Development economics
• Entrepreneurship

Working Papers

• Devine, Brett and Felix Munoz-Garcia, “Nonlinear Pricing with Costly Information Acquisition” (submitted to RAND Journal of Economics)
• Devine, Brett, “Microfranchising and Necessity Entrepreneurship“
• Devine, Brett, Ben Cowan and Jill McCluskey, “Dual Hire Productivity“

Works in Progress

• Devine, Brett,  Jill McCluskey and Ron Mittelhammer. “Advancing the State-of-the Art for Short and Long-run Fruit and Vegetable Projections”
• Devine, Brett. “The Effects of Perceived Institutional Corruption on the Nascent Entrepreneurship of Women and Necessity Entrepreneurs”

Conference Presentation

• 16th Annual International Industrial Organization Conference, Indianapolis, IN — “Nonlinear Pricing with Costly Information Acquisition”, April 2018.
• 2015 Southern Economic Association Annual Conferences, New Orleans, LA — “The Effect of Microfranchising on Microentrepreneurs”, Nov 2015.

Teaching Experience

Instructor — Washington State University

• Advanced Food Economics and Marketing — EconS 451, Spring 2019
• Fundamentals of Microeconomics — EconS 101, Spring 2019
• Industrial Organization — EconS 425 (Online), Fall 2018
• Intermediate Microeconomic Theory with Calculus — EconS 301 (Online), Fall 2018
• (Guest Lecturer) Theory of Industrial Organization — EconS 594, Fall 2017
• Strategy and Game Theory — EconS 424, Spring 2017    (Evaluations)
• Economics PhD Mathematics Bootcamp, Summer 2016, 2017
• Mathematics for College Assistance Migrant Program, Summer 2015
• Fundamentals of Macroeconomics — EconS 102, Fall 2013 and Spring 2014 (Syllabus)   (2013 Evaluations)   (2014 Evaluations)

Teaching Assistant — Washington State University

• Fundamentals of Microeconomics — EconS 101, Dr. Love, Summer 2013
• Intermediate Microeconomic Theory with Calculus — EconS 301, Dr. Galinato, Spring 2013

Teaching Assistant — Brigham Young University

• Applied Econometrics — Econ 488, Dr. Lefgren, Winter 2012
• Price Theory I — Econ 380, Dr. Lefgren, Fall 2011

Research Experience

Research Assistant — Washington State University

• Fall 2017 – Present, Ron Mittelhammer and Jill McCluskey, Structural econometric estimation and modeling of agricultural markets.
• Fall 2014 – Summer 2016, Ben Cowan and Jill McCluskey, NSF Grant for research on the “Two-body problem” and partner accommodation policies at research universities.
• Fall 2012, Ana Espinola-Arredondo and Felix Munoz-Garcia

Research Assistant — Brigham Young University

• Fall 2011 – Spring 2012, Dr. Lefgren

Presentations

• Spring 2017, WSU Alpha Kappa Psi Business Fraternity, “Bargaining, Negotiation and Fair Division“

Scholarships and Awards

• (2012 – 2013) Frank P. Feenan Scholarship, Washington State University (PhD)
• (2009 – 2012) Merit Scholarship, Brigham Young University

References

• Jonathan Yoder (Co-Chair), Professor, School of Economic Sciences, Washington State University, PO Box 646210, Pullman, WA 99164-6210, yoder@wsu.edu
• Felix Munoz-Garcia (Co-Chair), Associate Professor, School of Economic Sciences, Washington State University, Hulbert Hall 103G, Pullman, WA 99164-6210, fmunoz@wsu.edu
• Jill McCluskey, Distinguished Professor of Sustainability and Associate Director, School of Economic Sciences, Washington State University, Hulbert Hall 111E, Pullman, WA 99164, mccluskey@wsu.edu
• Ben Cowan, Associate Professor, School of Economic Sciences, Washington State University, Hulbert Hall 203F, Pullman, WA 99164, ben.cowan@wsu.edu
• Ron Mittelhammer, Regents Professor, School of Economic Sciences, Washington State University, Hulbert Hal 421, Pullman, WA 99164, mittelha@wsu.edu.