Badi H. Baltagi

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Texas A&M University
College of Liberal Arts
Economics Department
ProfessorAppointed: 1993
Texas A&M University
College of Liberal Arts
Economics Department
ProfessorAppointed: 1988

Mailing Address

TAMU Mail Stop 4228
Texas A&M University
College Station, Texas 77843
United States

Contact Information

Phone: (979) 845-7380
Fax: (979) 845-7352
badi@econ.tamu.edu

Qualifications

Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, Economics, 1979.
M.S., Carnegie-Mellon University, Statistics, 1975.

Expertise and Research Interests

Econometrics (theoretical and applied). Specialization in Panel Data. Publications in applied econometrics include cigarette and liquor taxation in the U.S., gasoline demand in OECD countries, factor productivity and technical change of U.S. electric utilities and U.S. airlines, returns to education and the wage curve, and the effect of public capital on private sector productivity growth.

Other Expertise

I have taught Panel Data courses at the University of Arizona; the Institute for Economic Research - Halle,(IWH) Germany; Asia Pacific Modeling Conference - Cairns, Australia; Centro Interuniversitario di Econometria (CIDE) - Bertinoro, Italy.

Keywords

COS Keywords:

Economics, Taxes and Taxation.

Languages

(Reading, Writing, Speaking)

English: (Fluent, Fluent, Fluent)
French: (Functional, Functional, Functional)

Memberships

Editorial Board, Econometirc Reviews
Editorial Board, Empirical Economics
Scientific Committee, International Conferences on Panel Data

Previous Positions

1984-1988, Associate Professor, Economics, University of Houston, College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences, Economics
1979-1984, Assistant Professor, Economics, University of Houston, College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences, Economics
1978-1978, Instructor, Bryn Mawr and Haverford College, Economics
1977-1977, Instructor, University of Pennsylvania, Economics

Funding Received

  • Texas Advanced Research Program: The Effects of Airline Deregulation on Costs and Technical change, 1991 to .
  • Texas Advanced Research Program: Cigarette Taxation: Raising Revenues and Reducing Consumption, 1989 to .
  • National Science Foundation (NSF): An Experimental Study for Pooling Time-Series of Cross-Section Data in the Simultaneous Equations Model, 1981 to .

Profile Details

Last Updated: 8/17/1998

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