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Antony Davies

Biography

Dr. Davies is currently an associate professor of economics at Duquesne University.  His areas of research include forecasting and rational expectations, consumer behavior, international economics, and mathematical economics.

Dr. Davies has lectured at numerous venues including the Econometric Society, the American Economic Association, the American Psychological Association, the International Conference on Panel Data, the International Forecasting Symposium, and the U.S. Department of the Treasury. In addition to teaching at the undergraduate, masters, and Ph.D. levels, Dr. Davies was an equities analyst for The Burney Company (Falls Church, VA), Chief Analytics Officer and acting Chief Financial Officer for Parabon Computation (Fairfax, VA), and President and founder of Paragon Software (now Take-Two Interactive, NASDAQ: TTWO).

His research has appeared in the Journal of Econometrics, the Journal of Consumer Psychology, the Journal of Economic Psychology, the International Journal of Forecasting, Clinical Cancer Research, Applied Economics, the Journal of Socioeconomics, and Analysis of Panels and Limited Dependent Variable Models (published by Cambridge University Press). His popular press writings have appeared in BizEd, World & I, Religion and Liberty, and the International Journal on World Peace. Most recently, Dr. Davies presented a lecture on the current state of university tuition and the economic impact of proposed regulatory legislation at the annual meetings of the National Association of State Universities and Land Grant Colleges.

Dr. Davies earned his BS in Economics from Saint Vincent College, and PhD in Economics from the State University of New York at Albany.

Articles, Commentary, and Publications

• Midnight Regulations: An Update
• Implications of Foreign Investment Patterns for Federal, State, and Local Bond Financing

Events

• 2008 Capital Campus Texas
• The Games Economists Play: Interactive Public Policy
• Taxing Wealth: Exploring Issues in Taxation
• Learning to Lead: Exploring the Effectiveness of the No Child Left Behind Act
• America or Bust: Still The Land of Opportunity?
• Learning Curves: Exploring Issues in Education Policy
• 2007 Chief of Staff Retreat - Williamsburg, VA
• 2007 Capital Campus California Retreat
• Doha Round and Around: Understanding International Trade
• Hands Up: What Works in Development