Michael R. Caputo is Professor of Economics in the College of Business Administration, University of Central Florida, in Orlando. He was awarded his PhD in economics from the University of Washington, where he received the Henry C. Beuchel memorial award for distinguished undergraduate teaching by the Department of Economics in 1986. Professor Caputo then taught in the Department of Agriculture and Resource Economics at the University of California, Davis from 1987 to 2003. In 1998 he was inducted into the volume "Who's Who Among America's Teachers". Professor Caputo's research has appeared in numerous peer-reviewed journals, including the Review of Economic Studies, Journal of Economic… Theory, International Economic Review, Review of Economics and Statistics, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Journal of Mathematical Economics, Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications, Journal of Economics, and the American Journal of Agricultural Economics.