Antony Davies

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Antony Davies
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Born Savannah, Georgia
Nationality American, British
Institution West Virginia University
Duquesne University
Field Economics
Econometrics
School or tradition
 Neoclassical economics
Alma mater Saint 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.[1] 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.[2]

In 1994, he received his Ph.D. in Economics from the University at Albany in Albany, New York, where he studied under Kajal Lahiri.[3] His Ph.D. thesis pioneered the analysis of multi-dimensional panel data in econometrics, and received the Distinguished Dissertation Award in 1995.[3][4][5]

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.[6][7] 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.[8][9][10] 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.[11]

In 2006, he co-founded an Internet discovery firm, Repliqa, that was purchased by indiePub Entertainment.[12] In 2007, he was named a Mercatus Affiliated Senior Scholar and, in 2015, a Strata Research Fellow.[13] 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.[14]

Starting in 2012, he produced a series of over 200 videos on economics and statistics for the Institute for Humane Studies.[15] 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.[16] Davies is a long-time faculty member at the Institute for Humane Studies and the Foundation for Economic Education.[17][18]

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.[19] 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.[20] While most of his professional work in economics has been in the standard neoclassical tradition, Dr. Davies has also explicitly expressed interest in the ideas of the more heterodox Austrian School. In fact, Dr. Davies authored an article for the Cato Institute in 2012 in which he argues that rather than being mutually exclusive approaches, standard formal neoclassical economic analysis and more "subjectivist" Austrian style reasoning can be used as complementary approaches which only add to each other.[21] He is also a regular commentator on The Blaze TV.[22][23][24]

Selected op-eds and popular press publications

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

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  • Davies, A., K. Lahiri, and X. Sheng, 2011. "Analyzing Three-Dimensional Panel Data of Forecasts." In Oxford Handbook on Economic Forecasting, Oxford University Press.[25]
  • Davies, A., 2008. "Human Development and the Optimal Size of Government." Journal of Socioeconomics, 38(2): 326-330.[26]
  • 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.[27]
  • Davies, A. and T.W. Cline, 2005. "A Consumer Behavior Approach to Modeling Monopolistic Competition." Journal of Economic Psychology, 26(6): 797-826.[28]
  • Davies, A., 2004. "Computational Intermediation and the Evolution of Computation as a Commodity." Applied Economics, 36(11): 1131-1142.[29]
  • Davies, A., 2004. "The Role of Religion in the Economy." International Journal on World Peace, 21(2): 37-42.[30]
  • 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.[31]
  • 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.[32]

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.[33]
  • Davies, A., 2014. Why Family Businesses Matter, Competitive Enterprise Institute.[34]
  • Davies, A., 2010. The Cost of Compromise: Impact of the 2011-2012 Estate Tax. American Family Business Foundation Policy Brief.[35]
  • Pulito, J. and A. Davies, 2009. Government run liquor stores: the social impact of privatization. Commonwealth Foundation Policy Brief, 21(03): 1-16.[36]
  • 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.[37]
  • Valchev, R. and A. Davies, 2008. Do federal matching funds inhibit state growth? Mercatus Center Working Paper, 08-30 (August).[38]

Selected Capitol Hill lectures

Selected educational videos

References

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