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Office Information
Office: 425 RBC
Phone: 610-758-3416
Fax: 610-758-4677
Email: lwt0@lehigh.edu

Courses Taught
  • Advanced Econometrics
  • Limited Dependent Variables
  • Statistics
  • Microeconomics

Larry Taylor is Professor of Economics. He joined the Lehigh faculty after earning his Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1984. Professor Taylor has received research fellowships from the International Fertilizer Development Center and the Carolina Population Center, and has visited at the Australian National University, the Hill Center at Rutgers University and the University of Pennsylvania. Portions of his work have been published in Econometric Reviews, Econometrics Journal, Economic Letters, Journal of Econometrics, Journal of Forensic Economics, Journal of International Money and Finance, Journal of Political Economy, Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, Review of Economics and Statistics, and Southern Economic Journal.

Research Interests

  • Diagnostic Testing of Econometric Models
  • Economic Cycles

Publications and Working Papers

  • "Economic Cycles: Asymmetries, Persistence, and Synchronization," with Joe Cardinale, forthcoming in Palgrave Handbook of Econometrics, 2, edited by Terence Mills and Kerry Patterson.
  • "Exchange Rates and Prices: A Revisit of Granger Causality Tests," with Jen-Chi Cheng and Wenlong Weng, in Journal of Post Keynesian Economics, 29(2), 259-283, 2006-7.
  • "Nonparametric Estimation of Duration Dependence in Militarized Interstate Disputes," in Journal of Applied Statistics, 34(4), 423-441, 2007.
  • "A Cartel's Response to Cheating: An Empirical Investigation of the DeBeers Diamond Empire," with Donna Bergenstock and Mary E. Deily, Southern Economic Journal, 73(1), 173-189, 2006.
  • Testing for Duration Dependence in Economic Cycles, with Jonathan Ohn and Adrian Pagan, Econometrics Journal, 7, 528-549, 2004. (This is an electronic version of an article published in Econometrics Journal. Complete citation information for the final version of the paper, as published in the print edition of Econometrics Journal, is available on the Blackwell Synergy online delivery service, accessible via the journal's web site). Fortran Programs, Stata Programs.
  • "Influential Data Diagnostics for Transition Data," Advances in Econometrics: Missing Observations, Outliers and Mixed Frequency Data, edited by Carter Hill and Thomas Fomby, 13, 243-268, 1998.
  • "Diagnostics for IV Regressions," with Hashem Pesaran, Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 61(2), 255-281, 1999. Also, Department of Applied Economics Discussion Paper Series, No. 9709, University of Cambridge, 1997.
  • "An R-Square Criterion Based on Optimal Predictors," Econometric Reviews, 16, 109-118, 1997.
  • "Swap Covered Interest Parity in Long-Date Capital Markets," with Donna Fletcher, Review of Economics and Statistics, 3, 530-538, 1996.
  • "On a Simultaneous Equations Pre-Test Estimator," with Chris Skeels, Journal of Econometrics, 68, 269-286, 1995.
  • "Some Nonparametric Tests for Duration Dependence: An Application to UK Business Cycle Data," with Ram Mudambi, Journal of Applied Statistics, 22, 163-177, 1995.
  • "A Nonparametric Analysis of Covered Interest Parity in Long-Date Capital Markets," with Donna Fletcher, Journal of International Money and Finance, 13, 459-475, 1994.
  • "A Nonparametric Investigation of Duration Dependence in the American Business Cycle: A Note," with Ram Mudambi, Journal of Political Economy, 99, 654-656, 1991.
  • "Electricity Demand in Multi-Family, Renter-Occupied Residences with Landlord Provided Major Appliances," with Vincent Munley and John Formby, Southern Economic Journal, 57, 178-194, 1990.
  • "The Size Bias of White's Information Matrix Test," Economics Letters, 24, 63-67, 1987.

 

 

 
 
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