Overview
Professor Tower specializes in finance, computable general equilibrium modeling, macroeconomics, development economics, microeconomics, and managerial economics. He conducts a majority of his research within the study of trade and development, exploring a variety of variables from tariffs, quotas, and time zone arbitrage, to equities, mutual funds, and index mutual funds. Since he began publishing his work in 1965, he has contributed over 130 articles to leading academic journals and has had …
Current Appointments & Affiliations
Professor Emeritus of Economics
·
2021 - Present
Economics,
Trinity College of Arts & Sciences
Recent Publications
Vanguard and Fidelity active stock funds: both generally beat their same-style Vanguard index funds
Journal Article Annals of Operations Research · January 1, 2024 This chapter contrasts the return of Vanguard and Fidelity active stock mutual funds with the same-style portfolio of Vanguard’s index funds over the ten years through 2022. Vanguard’s equally weighted portfolio of domestic active funds generally excess-re ... Full text CiteStatic Indexing Beats Tactical Asset Allocation
Journal Article Journal of Index Investing · March 1, 2021 How do tactical asset allocation funds compare with a portfolio of index ETFs having the same investment style and bond-A nd foreign-market-augmented same-style Fama-French benchmarks? The authors find that portfolios of equally weighted TAA funds under-re ... Full text CiteJudging economic policy: Selected writings of Gottfried Haberler
Book · January 1, 2021 In this engaging volume, the editors present the influential work of economist Gottfried Haberler, whom Paul Samuelson judges qualified for about two-and-a-half Nobel prizes in economics. Throughout the book, Haberlers essays reveal the clarity of his anal ... Full text CiteEducation, Training & Certifications
Harvard University ·
1971
Ph.D.
Harvard University ·
1967
M.A.
Harvard University ·
1964
B.A.