Dr. Ronnie J. Phillips

Professor
ronnie.phillips@colostate.edu
B304 Clark Building
970.491.6079
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Curriculum Vitae

Teaching Philosophy

I want students to develop critical thinking skills that enable lifelong learning. To solve real world problems, students should learn by doing. Doing involves finding interesting questions, developing hypotheses about those questions using the tools of economics, and testing those hypotheses with data and information from the real world. Students should present their findings to others for critical review and examination.

Research

Ronnie J. Phillips. “Why Are Bank Failures Special? Lessons from U.S. Financial History,” Networks Financial Institute Working Papers, WP-04, April 2008. View

Robert DeYoung and Ronnie J. Phillips. “Payday Lending and Payments Services: A Historical and Modern Analysis,” Chapter 7 in Financial Institutions and Markets: Current Issues in Financial Markets edited by Robert R. Bliss and George G. Kaufman. Palgrave, forthcoming.

Robert DeYoung and Ronnie J. Phillips "Strategic Pricing of Payday Loans: Evidence from Colorado, 2000-2005" Robert - Networks Financial Institute Working Paper. View

David B. Audretsch And Ronnie J. Phillips “Entrepreneurship, State Economic Development Policy, and the Entrepreneurial University,”, Working Paper, Max Planck Institute of Economics, View

Recent Work

Douglas D. Evanoff , Philip F. Bartholomew, Robert DeYoung , Cosmin Lucaci, Ronnie J. Phillips. “Bank Structure Conference Impact Study,” Journal of Financial Services Research, DOI 10.1007/s10693-008-0037-4, 2008.

Acs, Zoltan J., David Audretsch, Ronnie J. Phillips and Sameeksha Desai “Nonmarket Source of American Entrepreneurial Capitalism,” in Non-market Entrepreneurship: Interdisciplinary Approaches. edited by Gordon E. Shockley, Peter M. Frank, and Roger R. Stough. Edward Elgar Publishing Inc., 2008.

Mushinski, David and Phillips, Ronnie J. "The Role of Morris Plan Lending Institutions in Expanding Consumer Microcredit in the United States" in Entrepreneurship in Emerging Domestic Markets: Barriers and Innovation. Glenn Yago, James R. Barth, and Betsy Zeidman, eds. November 2007, Publisher: Springer ISBN: 978-0-387-72856-8.

Ronnie J. Phillips “Online Banking,” in Handbook of Computer Networks, edited by Hossein Bidgoli, John Wiley and Sons, 2007.