Email: jthursb@emory.edu
Telephone: (404) 712-8688

Areas of Interest:
Econometrics, International Trade and Licensing of University Technologies

Education
   A.B. (1969), Economics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
   Ph.D. (1975), Economics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Editorial Boards
   Editorial Board, The Journal of Technology Transfer, 2002 - present.
   Guest Co-Editor, "Organizational Issues in University Technology Transfer,"
      special issue of The Journal of Technology Transfer (January 2001).
   Editorial Board, Global Business and Economics Review, 1998 - present

Awards and Honors
   Outstanding Teacher Award, University of Michigan Economics Society, Winter Term 1988.
   Honorable Mention, Salgo Noren Teaching Award, Krannert Graduate School of Management, 1995
   Marquis Who's Who in America
   Marquis Who's Who in the Midwest
   Krannert Distinguished Teacher, 1997

Refereed Publications
   "Some Properties of Tests for Specification Error in a Linear Regression Model," (with Peter Schmidt), Journal of the American
Statistical Association, 72(359), September 1977, 635-41.

   "An Investigation of the Kmenta Approximation to the CES Function," (with C.A. Knox Lovell) International Economic Review,
19(2), June 1978, 363-77.

   "Alternative Specification Error Tests: A Comparative Study," Journal of the American Statistical Association, 74(365), March
1979, 222-225.

   "Functional Form in State Income Tax Elasticity Estimation," (with David Greytak) National Tax Journal, 32(2), June 1979,
195-200.

   "Alternative CES Estimation Techniques," The Review of Economics and Statistics, 62(2), May 1980, 295-99.

   "The Elasticity of State Income Taxes: A Further Consideration," (with David Greytak) National Tax Journal, 33(4), December 1980, 497-99.

   "A Test Strategy for Discriminating Between Autocorrelation and Misspecification in Regression Analysis," The Review of
Economics and Statistics, 63(1), February 1981, 117-23.

   "Misspecification, Heteroscedasticity, and the Chow and Goldfeld-Quandt Tests," The Review of Economics and Statistics, 64(2), May 1982, 314-21.

   "How Reliable Are Simple, Single Equation Specifications of Import Demand?" (with Marie Thursby) The Review of Economics and Statistics, 66(1), February 1984, 120-28.

   "A Test Strategy for Discriminating Between Autocorrelation and Misspecification in Regression Analysis: Reply," The Review of Economics and Statistics, 67(1), February 1985, 177-78.

   "A Note on Scheffe's Method of Deriving Confidence Sets for Directions and Ratios of Normals," Communications in Statistics, Simulation and Computation, 14(4), October 1985, 919-925.

   "The Relationship Among the Specification Error Tests of Hausman, Ramsey and Chow," Journal of the American Statistical
Association, 80(392), December 1985, 926-28.

   "Replication in Empirical Economics: The Journal of Money, Credit and Banking Project," (with William G. Dewald and Richard G. Anderson) The American Economic Review, 76(4), September 1986, 587-603.

   "Confidence Intervals for Elasticity Estimators in Translog Models," (with Richard G. Anderson) The Review of Economics and Statistics, 68(4), November 1986, 647-56.

   "OLS or GLS in the Presence of Specification Error? An Expected Loss Approach," Journal of Econometrics, 35(2/3), July 1987, 359-74.

   "Bilateral Trade Flows, The Linder Hypothesis, and Exchange Risk," (with Marie Thursby) The Review of Economics and Statistics, 69(3), August 1987, 488-95.

   "Evaluation of Coefficients in Misspecified Regressions with Application to Import Demand," The Review of Economics and Statistics, 70(4), November 1988, 690-95.

   "Replication in Empirical Economics: The Journal of Money, Credit and Banking Project: Reply," (with William G. Dewald and Richard G. Anderson) The American Economic Review, 78(5), December 1988, 1162-1163.

   "A Comparison of Several Specification Error Tests for a General Alternative," International Economic Review, 30(1), February 1989, 217-30.

   "Expected MSE of Errors-in-Variables and Omitted Variables Models, Economics Letters, 30(3), September 1989, 211-16.

   "Equivalence Properties of the Hausman Statistics Based on a Generalized Inverse" (with Hashem Dezhbakhsh), Economics Letters, 33(2), June 1990, 147-51.

   "Smuggling, Camouflaging, and Market Structure" (with Richard Jensen and Marie Thursby), Quarterly Journal of Economics, August 1991, 789-814.

   "A Comparison of Several Exact and Approximate Tests for Structural Shift Under Heteroscedasticity," Journal of Econometrics, 53 (1/3), July/Sept 1992, 363-386.

   "Testing for Autocorrelation in the Presence of Lagged Dependent Variables: A Specification Error Approach" (with H. Dezhbakhsh), Journal of Econometrics, 60, January 1994, 251-272.

   "A Monte Carlo Comparison of Tests Based on the Durbin-Watson Statistic With Other Autocorrelation Tests in Dynamic Models" (with H. Dezhbakhsh), Econometric Reviews, 14, 1995, 347-365.

   "The Effects of Protection on the Pattern of Trade: A Disaggregated Analysis" (with Jon Haveman and Usha Nair), Business & Economics for the 21st Century - Volume 1, Edited by D. Kantarelis, 1997.

   "University Technology Transfer: A DEA Analysis," (with Sukanya Kemp), Business & Economics for the 21st Century - Volume 2, Edited by D. Kantarelis, 1998.

   "Interstate Cigarette Bootlegging: Extent, Revenue Losses, and Effects of Federal Intervention," (with Marie Thursby), National Tax Journal, 53:1, March 2000, 59-77.

   "What Do We Say About Ourselves and What Does It Mean? Yet Another Look at Economics Department Research," Journal of Economic Literature, 38:2, June 2000, 383-404.

   "Industry Perspectives on Licensing University Technologies: Sources and Problems," (with Marie Thursby) The Journal of the Association of University Technology Managers, 12, November 2000, 9-22. Reprinted in Industry and Higher Education, August, 2001.

   "Growth and Productive Efficiency of University Intellectual Property Licensing," (with Sukanya Kemp) Research Policy, 31, January 2002, 109-124.

   "Who is Selling the Ivory Tower? Sources of Growth in University Licensing," (with Marie Thursby) Management Science, 48:1, January 2002, 90-104.

   "Trade Suppression, Compression and Diversion: Empirical Regularities in Protective Measures," (with Jon Haveman and Usha Nair-Reichert) The Review of Economics and Statistics, 85(2), May 2003, 480-485.

   "University Licensing and the Bayh-Dole Act," (with Marie Thursby), Science, Vol. 301, 22 August 2003, 1052.

   "The Disclosure and Licensing of University Inventions: `The Best We Can Do With the S**t We Get to Work With'," (with Richard Jensen and Marie Thursby), International Journal of Industrial Organization, forthcoming.

   "Are Faculty Critical? Their Role in University-Industry Licensing," (with Marie Thursby), Contemporary Economic Policy, Vol. 22:2, April 2004, 162-178..

Other Publications
   "The Common Structure of Regression-Based Specification Error Tests," invited paper, Proceedings of the Business and Economics Statistics Section, American Statistical Association (1982).

   "Some Evidence on the Distribution of Elasticity Estimators in Translog Models," (with Richard G. Anderson) Proceedings of the Business and Economics Statistics Section, American Statistical Association (1982).

   Review of Introduction to Econometrics, Second Edition, by Harry Kelejian and Wallace Oates (Harper and Row 1981), Journal of the American Statistical Association, 77, December 1982.

   "The Uncertainty Effects of Floating Exchange Rates: Empirical Evidence on International Trade Flows," (with Marie Thursby) in Exchange Rates, Trade and the U.S. Economy, edited by Arndt, Sweeney and Willet (Ballinger 1985).

   Review of Advanced Econometric Methods by T.B. Fomby, R.C. Hill and S.R. Johnson (Springer-Verlag 1984), Journal of the American Statistical Association, September 1987.

   Review of Advanced Econometrics by T. Amemiya (Harvard University Press 1985), Journal of the American Statistical Association, September 1987.

   "Elasticities in International Trade: Theoretical and Methodological Issues" (with Marie Thursby), in Elasticities in International Agricultural Trade, edited by C. Carter and W.H. Gardiner (Westview Press, 1988).

   Review of Econometric Applications of Maximum Likelihood Methods by J.S. Cramer (Cambridge University Press 1986), Journal of the American Statistical Association, June 1988.

   "Strategic Trade Theory and Agricultural Markets: An Application to Canadian and U.S. Wheat Exports to Japan" (with Marie Thursby), New Developments in Trade Theory: Implications for Agricultural Trade, edited by Carter, McCalla and Sharples (San Francisco: Westview Press, 1990).

   "Organizational Issues in University-Industry Technology Transfer: An Overview of the Symposium Issue," (with Don Siegel, Marie Thursby and Arvids Ziedonis), Journal of Technology Transfer, 26:1, January 2001, 5-11.

   "Objectives, Characteristics and Outcomes of University Licensing: A Survey of Major U.S. Universities," (with Richard Jensen & Marie Thursby), Journal of Technology Transfer, 26:1, January 2001, 59-72.

   "Industry/University Licensing: Characteristics, Concerns and Issues from the Perspective of the Buyer," (with Marie Thursby), Journal of Technology Transfer, forthcoming.

   "Buyer and Seller Views of University/Industry Licensing," (with Marie Thursby), Buying In or Selling Out: The Commercialization of the American Research University, edited by Donald Stein, forthcoming, (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2004.

"Patterns of Research and Licensing Activity of Science and Engineering Faculty" (with Marie Thursby) Science and the University, edited 7 by Ronald Ehrenberg and Paula Stephan, University of Wisconsin Press, forthcoming.

Working Papers and Work in Progress
“Has Licensing Changed Academic Research? Issues of Productivity, Faculty Incentives, and Public Policy,” with Marie Thursby.

“Capitalizing the Human Capital of University Professors: The Case of Biotechnology,” with Paula Stephan and Matt Higgins.

“Determinants of the E¤ectiveness of Barriers to International Trade,” with Jon Haveman and Usha Nair-Reichert

“Shirking, Shelving and Sharing: The Role of University License Contracts,” with Marie Thursby and Emmanual Decheneux

“Patterns of Research and Licensing Activity of Science and Engineering Faculty,” with Marie Thursby

“Are There Real Effects of Academic Licensing?” with Swastika Mukerjee and Marie Thursby.

Grants and Consulting Contracts
Journal of Money, Credit and Banking Data Storage and Evaluation, National Science Foundation (SES-8112800), withWilliam G. Dewald, 1982 - 1984, $40,000.

Wheat Market Structure and E¤ects of GATT Trade Liberalization, Economic Research Service, USDA, with Marie Thursby, 1988 - 1989, $14,000. 8

New Accounts Prototype Statistical Modeling, with Robert W. Johnson,

American Express Travel Related Services, 1990 - 1991, $60,000.

Technology Transfer from University Labs to the Private Sector, with Marie Thursby, Technology Transfer Inititive, 1994, 1995, $9,400.

Deregulation of Electric Power Industry and E¤ects on Electric Rates, Southland Industries, San Diego, CA, 1994, $1350.

International Trade Data Acquisition, with J. Haveman, U. Nair, and M. Thursby, Center for International Business Education and Research, 1995, $7,196.

Rate Case Testimony on Appropriateness of IPL’s Econometric Analysis Indianapolis Power and Light, 1995, $22,000.

The Effects on International Trade of Tarif and Non-Tarif Barriers, Center for International Business Education and Research, 1996, $4,800.

The Impact of Tari¤ and Non-Tari¤ Barriers on Trade in Agricultural Commodities: A Disaggregated Approach, with J. Haveman, National Research Initiative Competitive Grants Program, U.S. Department of Agriculture, 1997-98, $50,000. Industry Licensing of University Technology, Technology Transfer Initiative, 1998, $14,700.

The Determinants of Industry Level E¤ects of Protection on Trade Patterns, Center for International Business Education and Research, 1998, $9,800.

Center for International Business Education and Research Travel Grant, 1998, $500.

Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and National Bureau for Economic Research, ”Commercial Activity In The Ivory Tower: Propensity and Productivity,” 1999, with Marie Thursby, $10,000.

The Disclosure Activity and Research Pro…les of University Scientists and Engineers, University Technology Transfer Initiative, 1999-2001, $53,600.

Planning Grant for the Burton D. Morgan Center for Private Enterprise and Entrepreneurship, Summer 2000, $12,500. 9

Center for International BusinessEducation andResearchTravelGrant, 2000, $1000.

International Trade Data Acquisition and Preparation, with David Hummels, Center for International Business Education and Research, 2000, $8000.

Has Patent Licensing Changed Academic Research? Issues of Productivity, Faculty Incentives, and Public Policy, National Science Foundation (SES-0094573), with Marie Thursby, 2001-2, $104,000.

Gender Patterns of Research and Licensing Activity of Science and Engineering Faculty,Kau¤man Foundation, withMarieThursby, 2004, $13,000. 

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