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Antony Davies
Born
Savannah, Georgia
NationalityAmerican, British
Known forMulti-Dimensional Panel Data Analysis
Academic career
FieldEconomics
Econometrics
InstitutionWest Virginia University
Duquesne University
School or
tradition		Austrian School
Alma materSaint Vincent College
University at Albany

Antony Davies (born 4 April 1965) is an American economist, speaker, and author.

Early life and education

Davies was born in Savannah, Georgia to Alan and Margaret Davies. He was raised in Montoursville, Pennsylvania and graduated from Bishop Neumann High School in Williamsport, Pennsylvania in 1983. Starting at an early age, he acted with the Community Theatre League. He graduated cum laude with a B.S. degree in Economics with minors in Mathematics and Philosophy from Saint Vincent College in 1987.

In 1994, he received his Ph.D. in Economics from the University at Albany in Albany, New York, where he studied under Kajal Lahiri.[1] His Ph.D. thesis pioneered the analysis of multi-dimensional panel data in econometrics, and received the Distinguished Dissertation Award in 1995.[1][2][3]

Professional history

While a college student, he co-founded Paragon Software with Mark E. Seremet. Founded as a business software firm, Paragon shifted its focus to gaming, and eventually became Take-Two Interactive.[4][5] Davies first faculty appointment was at West Virginia Wesleyan College, following which he taught econometrics in the Ph.D. program at West Virginia University. During the dot-com era, he left academia to serve as Chief Financial Officer and Chief Analytics Officer at Parabon Computation, where he was co-inventor on a patent for generating supercomputing power from idle Internet-connected computers, and recipient of a NASA grant for developing statistical techniques for data mining using supercomputers.[6][7][8] In 2001, he joined the faculty at Duquesne University where he helped design the economics major, and where he continues to be employed at present.[9]

In 2006, he co-founded an Internet discovery firm, Repliqa, that was purchased by indiePub Entertainment.[10] In 2007, he was named a Mercatus Affiliated Senior Scholar and, in 2015, a Strata Research Fellow.[11] In both positions, he conducts research on the economic effects of government policy. As a Mercatus Scholar, Davies regularly lectures on economic policy topics for senior staff at the U.S. House of Representatives.[12]

Starting in 2012, he produced a series of over 200 videos on economics and statistics for the Institute for Humane Studies.[13] Collectively, the videos have garnered over 3 million hits on YouTube. In 2015, he worked as Associate Producer for the Moving Picture Institute on their video series, FI$H: How An Economy Grows.[14] Davies is a long-time faculty member at the Institute for Humane Studies and the Foundation for Economic Education.[15][16]

Davies has published over 150 op-eds in newspapers and magazines throughout the country including the Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, New York Daily News, Forbes, Investors Business Daily,and CNN.com.[17] In addition, Davies co-authors a regular monthly column in the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, and has co-authored a college-level economics text published by Cognella.[18] He is also a regular commentator on The Blaze TV.[19][20][21]

Selected books

  • LeBar, M., A. Davies, D. Schmidtz, eds., 2015. Equality and Public Policy, Cambridge University Press.
  • Tosun, M., P. Yakovlev, and A. Davies, 2015. Principles of Microeconomics, Cognella Publishing.

Selected academic articles

  • Davies, A., J. Harrigan, and M. Teague, 2015. "Equality, Liberty, and Prosperity." Social Philosophy and Policy, 31(2): 180-203.
  • Davies, A., K. Lahiri, and X. Sheng, 2011. "Analyzing Three-Dimensional Panel Data of Forecasts." In Oxford Handbook on Economic Forecasting, Oxford University Press.[22]
  • Davies, A., 2008. "Human Development and the Optimal Size of Government." Journal of Socioeconomics, 38(2): 326-330.[23]
  • Davies, A., 2006. "A Framework for Decomposing Shocks and Measuring Volatilities Derived From Multi-Dimensional Panel Data of Survey Forecasts." International Journal of Forecasting, 22(2):373-393.[24]
  • Davies, A. and T.W. Cline, 2005. "A Consumer Behavior Approach to Modeling Monopolistic Competition." Journal of Economic Psychology, 26(6): 797-826.[25]
  • Davies, A., 2004. "Computational Intermediation and the Evolution of Computation as a Commodity." Applied Economics, 36(11): 1131-1142.[26]
  • Davies, A., 2004. "The Role of Religion in the Economy." International Journal on World Peace, 21(2): 37-42.[27]
  • Davies, A. and K. Lahiri, 2000. "Re-examining the Rational Expectations Hypothesis Using Panel Data on Multi-Period Forecasts." In Analysis of Panels and Limited Dependent Variable Models, Cambridge University Press.[28]
  • Davies, A. and K. Lahiri, 1995. "A New Framework for Testing Rationality and Measuring Aggregate Shocks Using Panel Data." Journal of Econometrics, 68(1): 205-227.[29]

Selected policy briefs

  • Davies, A., 2014. Establishing a Minimum Wage for Contractors, Docket ID: WHD-2014-0001-0197. Public Interest Comment. Department of Labor, Wage and Hour Division.[30]
  • Davies, A., 2014. Why Family Businesses Matter, Competitive Enterprise Institute.[31]
  • Davies, A., 2010. The Cost of Compromise: Impact of the 2011-2012 Estate Tax. American Family Business Foundation Policy Brief.[32]
  • Pulito, J. and A. Davies, 2009. Government run liquor stores: the social impact of privatization. Commonwealth Foundation Policy Brief, 21(03): 1-16.[33]
  • Yakovlev, P. and A. Davies, 2009. Pennsylvania’s flawed film tax credit: what the ERA study won’t tell you. Commonwealth Foundation Policy Brief, 21(2): 1-8.[34]
  • Valchev, R. and A. Davies, 2008. Do federal matching funds inhibit state growth? Mercatus Center Working Paper, 08-30 (August).[35]

Selected Capitol Hill lectures

Selected educational videos

References

  1. ^ a b "List of Graduated Students and Their Dissertations". albany.edu.
  2. ^ "Google Scholar Citations". google.com.
  3. ^ "Analysis of Panels and Limited Dependent Variable Models". Cambridge University Press. 11 February 2010.
  4. ^ "Paragon Software". sussle.org.
  5. ^ "Take-Two Interactive Software - Investor Relations - SEC Filings". take2games.com.
  6. ^ U.S. Patent No. 6,463,457, System and Method for the Establishment and Utilization of Networked Idle Computational Power.
  7. ^ "NASA readies modeling and simulation for launch in browsers -- GCN". gcn.com.
  8. ^ "Google Scholar Citations". google.com.
  9. ^ "Antony Davies, Ph.D. - Palumbo Donahue School of Business - Duquesne University". duq.edu.
  10. ^ "Repliqa.com Secures Financing - Presents at ETRE 2006". PRWeb. 29 September 2006.
  11. ^ "Strata Upcoming Events - – Speaker Series: Antony Davies". strata.org.
  12. ^ "Tax Reform: Simplification is a Good Policy". mercatus.org.
  13. ^ "Learn Liberty - Antony Davies". Learn Liberty.
  14. ^ "Fi$h: How An Economy Grows". thempi.org.
  15. ^ "Antony Davies". theihs.org.
  16. ^ Foundation for Economic Education. "Antony Davies". fee.org.
  17. ^ "Antony Davies, Ph.D. - Press". antolin-davies.com.
  18. ^ "Search - Tribune-Review". triblive.com.
  19. ^ "Antony Davies Discusses Bank Bailouts on The Blaze". mercatus.org.
  20. ^ "Antony Davies Discusses Big Business Working with Big Government on The Blaze". mercatus.org.
  21. ^ "Antony Davies Discusses the Idea of the $1 Trillion Coin on The Blaze". mercatus.org.
  22. ^ http://www.oxfordhandbooks.com/view/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780195398649.001.0001/oxfordhb-9780195398649-e-18
  23. ^ "Human development and the optimal size of government". sciencedirect.com.
  24. ^ "A framework for decomposing shocks and measuring volatilities derived from multi-dimensional panel data of survey forecasts". sciencedirect.com.
  25. ^ "A consumer behavior approach to modeling monopolistic competition". sciencedirect.com.
  26. ^ "CiteSeerX — Computational intermediation and the evolution of computation as a commodity". psu.edu.
  27. ^ http://www.jstor.org/stable/20753439?Search=yes&resultItemClick=true&searchText=%22antony%20davies%22&searchUri=%2Faction%2FdoBasicResults%3FQuery%3D%2522antony%2Bdavies%2522%26amp%3Bprq%3D%2522Human%2BDevelopment%2Band%2Bthe%2BOptimal%2BSize%2Bof%2BGovernment%2522%26amp%3Bgroup%3Dnone%26amp%3Bwc%3Don%26amp%3Bso%3Drel%26amp%3Bfc%3Doff%26amp%3Bacc%3Doff%26amp%3Bhp%3D25%26amp%3Bvf%3Djo&seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents
  28. ^ "9 - Re-examining the rational expectations hypothesis using panel data on multi-period forecasts - University Publishing Online". cambridge.org.
  29. ^ "A new framework for analyzing survey forecasts using three-dimensional panel data". sciencedirect.com.
  30. ^ http://www.regulations.gov/contentStreamer?documentId=WHD-2014-0001-0197&attachmentNumber=1&disposition=attachment&contentType=pdf
  31. ^ https://cei.org/sites/default/files/Antony%20Davies%20-%20Why%20Family%20Businesses%20Matter.pdf
  32. ^ Hani Sarji (3 January 2011). "Report Finds That 65,000 Small Businesses And Farms Will Be Exposed To Estate Tax In 2011". Forbes.
  33. ^ http://www.commonwealthfoundation.org/research/detail/government-run-liquor-stores-the-social-impact-of-privatization
  34. ^ http://www.commonwealthfoundation.org/research/detail/pennsylvanias-flawed-film-tax-credit-what-the-era-study-wont-tell-you
  35. ^ "Do Federal Matching Funds Inhibit State Growth?". mercatus.org.

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