RS 13/9/63
Tesfatsion, Leigh S.
Papers, 1979-1995

Special Collections Department
403 Parks Library
Iowa State University
Ames, IA 50011-2140

Descriptive summary

creator:	Tesfatsion, Leigh S.
title:	Papers
dates:	1979-1995
extent:	0.42 linear feet (1 document box)
collection number:	RS 13/9/63
repository:	University Archives, Special Collections Department, Iowa State University.

Administrative information

access:	Open for research
publication rights:	Consult Head, Special Collections Department
preferred citation:	Leigh S. Tesfatsion Papers, 1979-1995, RS 13/9/63, Archives of Women in Science and Engineering, Special Collections Department, Iowa State University Library.

Biographical note

Leigh S. Tesfatsion received her B.A. (1968) in History from Carleton College and her Ph.D (1975) in Economics and Mathematics from the University of Minnesota. She has been employed as an Assistant Professor (1975-1981) at the University of Southern California; Visiting Assistant Professor (1980) at the University of Minnesota; an Associate Professor (1981-1989) and Professor of Economics (1989-1990) at the University of Southern California; and Professor of Economics and Mathematics (1990- present) at Iowa State University.

Her fields of research specialization include macroeconomics; financial markets and monetary economics; artificial life modelling of evolving socio-economic systems; mathematical economics; applied mathematics; and econometrics.

She has published numerous papers on the subjects of boundedly rational decisionmaking; the role of of financial intermediation in overlapping generations economies; and the effects of investment in the education of children. She is a member of the Econometric Society, the American Economic Association and has served as a Board member on the Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession (CSWEP).

Collection description

This collection (1979-1995) contains a curriculum vitae, a biographical sketch, and numerous published articles. The vitae is dated May 1995 and the biographical sketch was written by Tesfatsion for a Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession (CSWEP) publication.

The publications date from 1979 through 1995. Her earlier work contains research on decision making and the economic relationships between society and government programs. Of special interest is Tesfatsion’s later research and work on the iterated prisoner’s dilemma and artificial life (also known as alife). “Alife” is defined by Tesfatsion as, “the bottom up study of basic phenomena commonly associated with living agents, such as self-replication, evolution, adaptation, self organization, parasitism, competition, and cooperation

Container list

Box	Folder	Title	Dates
1	1	Biographical sketch and vitae	1993-1995
1	2	Article: “Direct Updating of Intertemporal Criterion Functions for a Class of Adaptive Control Problems”	1979
1	2	Article: “Global and Approximate Global Optimality of Myopic Economic Decisions”	1980
1	2	Article: “Complete Comparative Static Differential Equations”	1981
1	2	Article: “Dynamic Investment, Risk Aversion, and Foresight Sensitivity”	1981
1	2	Article: “Individual Tracking of an Eigenvalue and Eigenvector of a Parameterized Matrix”	1981
1	2	Article: “Macro Implications of Government Redistributive Tax-Transfer Policies”	1982
1	2	Article: “A Finite Algorithm for the Exact Evaluation of Higher Order Partial Deriatives of Functions of Many Variables”	1983
1	2	Article: “Welfare Implications of Net Social Security Wealth”	1984
1	2	Article: “Fair Division with Uncertain Needs and Tastes”	1985
1	2	Article: “The Inconsistency of Benevolent Government Economies”	1986
1	3	“Time-Varying Linear Regression Via Flexible Least Squares”	1989
1	3	“An Organizing Principle for Dynamic Estimation”	1990
1	3	“U.S. Money Demand Instability”	1990
1	3	“Flexible Least Squares for Approximately Linear Systems”	1990
1	3	“Flexible Least Squares for Approximately Linear Systems”	1990
1	3	“Overlapping Generations, Internediations, and the First Welfare Theorem”	1990
1	3	“Obtaining Initial Parameter Estimates for Nonlinear Systems using Multicriteria Associative Memories”	1991
1	3	“Solving Nonlinear Equations by Adaptive Homotopy Continuation”	1991
1	3	“Nonlocal Automated Comparative Static Analysis”	1992
1	4	“Iterated Prisoner’s Dilemma with Choice and Refusal of Partners”	1994
1	4	“A Multicriteria Approach to Model Specification and Estimation”	1995
1	4	“A Trade Report Game with Endogenous Partner Selection”	1995
1	4	“Preferential Partner Selection in an Evolutionary Study of Prisoner’s Dilemma”	1995
1	4	“How to Get Alife”	1995