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Walter C. Labys
Walter C. Labys
2034 Agricultural Sciences Bldg
West Virginia University
 PO Box 6108
Morgantown, WV 26506-6108
Tel.: 304-293-4832 ext. 4469
Fax.: 304-293-3752
E-Mail: wlabys@wvu.edu
[Positions Held] [Degrees Held] [Research Interests][Awards][Teaching Fields] [Select Publications]

Positions Held

  • Professor of Resource Economics, Adjunct Professor of Economics, and Benedum Distinguished Scholar, West Virginia University
  • Research Associate, GREQAM, and Visiting Professorm, Faculté d'Economie Appliquée, Université D'Aix-Marseille
  • Visiting Professor, LAMETA, Universitè de Montpellier, France
  • Facultry Research Assoicate, Regional Research Institute, West Virginia University.
  • Research Fellow, Research Group on INternational Commodity Makrets (GAMMAP), Faculteé des Sciences Economiques, Universite Pierre-Mendes France, Genoble
  • Lecturer, Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Science Research, University of Michigan

Degrees Held

  • Ph.D.     Nottingham University, Economics, 1968
  • M.A.      Harvard University, Economics, 1965
  • M.B.A.   Duquesne University, Operations Research, 1962
  • B.S.      Carnegie Mellon University, Electrical Engineering, 1959
  • H.S.D    St. Vincent Preparatory School, 1955

Research Interests

International commodity market modeling and forecasting; time series analysis; resources, environment, trade, and development; mineral, energy, and agricultural market analysis.

Awards

  • St. Vincent College, Alumnus of Distinction, 1997
  • Outstanding Researcher, CAF, West Virginia University, 1998
  • Master Knight, Order of the Vine, Sacramento Chapter, 1994.
  • Claude Worthington Benedum Distinguished Scholar, West Virginia University, 1990.
  • Gunnar Myrdal Scholar, United Nations Economic Commission for Europe, 1990.
  • Visiting Scholar, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1981-1982.
  • Honorary Member, Societé dHonneur Francaise, 1981.

Teaching Fields

Resource economics, econometrics, microeconomics, international trade.

Specializations:
  • a. economics of commodity markets, commodity modeling, simulation, and forecasting.
  • b. agricultural, mineral and energy markets, resources and environment in trade and development, time series analysis.

Selected Publications
  • Huang, H. and Labys, Walter C. 2000. "Environment and Trade: A Review of Issues and Methods." International Journal of Global Environmental Issues, 1,1: 1-62.
  • Labys, Walter C. 2000. "Can World Market Volatility Upset the U.S. Economy?" Economic Directions, Center for Economic and Policy Research, St Vincent College, Latrobe, PA.
  • Cromwell, J., Labys, W.C. and E. Kouassi. 2000. "What Color are Commodity Prices? A Fractal Analysis, Empirical Economics, forthcoming
  • Labys, Walter C., Achouch, A. and M. Terrazza. 1999. "Metal Prices and the Business Cycle," Resources Policy, 25:229-238.
  • Labys, Walter C., Kouassi, E. and M. Terraza. 2000. "Short-Term Cycles in Primary Commodity Prices," Journal of Developing Economies, forthcoming.
  • Badillo, Dominique, Labys, Walter C., and Yangru-Wu. 1999. "Identifying Trends and Breaks in Primary Commodity Prices," European Journal of Finance, 5:315-330
  • Barkoulas, John, Walter C. Labys and Joseph Onochie. 1999. "Long Term Memory In Commodity Futures Prices." Financial Review, forthcoming.
  • Labys, Walter C., Lesourd, J.B., and Badillo,D. 1998. "Existence of Metal Price Cycles," Resources Policy, 24,3:147-155.
  • Davidson, Russell, Walter C. Labys, and Jean-Bapiste Lesourd. 1998. "Wavelet Analysis of Commodity Price Behavior." Computational Economics 11:103-128.
  • Cohen, Bruce, Walter C. Labys, and Wojtek Suwala. 1998.   "Econometric Analysis of Comparative Energy Efficiencies in Eastern Europe." Journal article in Polish. Gospodarka Paliwami I Energia, 66:1-4.
  • Cohen, Bruce and Walter C. Labys. 1998. "The Econometric Approach to CO2 Concentration Modeling: Uncertainties and the Policy Dimension." International Journal of Environment and Pollution. 9:333-340. Also published in Global Energy Issues. 1998, 10:174-179.
  • Barkoulas, John, Walter C. Labys and Joseph Onochie. 1997. "Fractional Dynamics in International Commodity Prices." Journal of Futures Markets. 1,2: 161-189.
  • Huang, B.N., Yang, C.W., and W.C. Labys. 1997. "The Random Walk of the Emerging Stock Markets Revisited." Journal of Financial Studies, 5,2:59-86.
  • Labys, Walter C., Dominique Badillo et Jean Baptiste Lesourd. 1997. "Cycles des Prix en Matieres Premieres Agricoles." Economie Rurale.
  • Labys, Walter C. and Chin-wei Yang. 1996. "Spatial Price Equilibrium as the Core to Spatial Commodity Modeling." Regional Science Papers, 76,2: 199-228.
  • Cohen, Bruce C. and Walter C. Labys. 1996. "Uncertainty, Carbon Dioxide Concentrations and Fossil Fuel Use." International Journal of Environment and Pollution, 6.1: 4-12.
  • Cohen, Bruce C., and Walter C. Labys. 1994. "CO2 Emissions and Concentration Coefficients Revisited.   International Journal of Global Energy Issues 6,6:366-370.
  • Park, Se Hark, and Walter C. Labys. 1994. Divergences in manufacturing energy consumption between the North and the South. Energy Policy 22,6: 455-469.
  • Bocoum, Brigitte, and Walter C. Labys. 1993. Modelling the economic impacts of further mineral processing: The case of Zambia and Morocco. Resources Policy 19,4: 1-27.
  • Labys, Walter C., and Alfred Maizels. 1993. Impact of commodity price fluctuations on the developed economies. Journal of Policy Modeling 15,3: 335-352.