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James B. McDonald, Professor

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Research

  • Econometrics: stochastic specifications in economic models with applications to the distribution of income and in finance

Education

  • B.S. Mathematics Utah State University 1964
  • M.S. Mathematics Utah State University 1966
  • Ph.D. Economics Purdue University 1970

Publications

  • James McDonald and Michael Ransom (2008). The Generalized Beta Distribution as a Model for the Distribution of Income: Estimation of Related Measures of. The Generalized Beta Distribution as a Model for the Distribution of Income: Estimation of Related Measures of Inequality.
  • Chris Hansen, James McDonald, Peter Theodossiou (2007). Some Flexible Models for Partially Adaptive Estimators of Econometric Models. Economics-ejournal.
  • Samuel Dastrup, Rachel Hartshorn, James McDonald (2007). The Impact of Taxes and Transfer Payments on the Distribution of Income: a Parametric Comparison. Journal of Economic Inequality.
  • James Hansen, James B. MCDONALD, C. Albrecht, D. Dean, and B. Anderson (2006). A Semantic Web Data Retrieval Implementation with an Adaptive Model for Supporting Agent Decision Structures. Electronic Commerce Research.
  • J.V. Hansen, J.B. MCDONALD, and R. Nelson (2006). Some Evidence on Forecasting Time Series with Support Vector Machines. Journal of the Operational Research Society.
  • James Hansen, JAMES B. MCDONALD, and Robert S. Turley (2005). Partially Adaptive Robust Estimation of Regression Models and Applications. European Journal of Operations Research.
  • James Hueng and JAMES B. MCDONALD (2005). Forecasting Asymmetries in Aggregate Stock Market Returns: Evidence from Conditional Skewness. Journal of Empirical Finance.
  • Scott Grimshaw, JAMES B. MCDONALD, Grant McQueen, Steven Thorley (2005). Estimating Hazard Functions when the Data are Discrete. Communications and Statistics: Simulation and Computation.
  • Brigham Frandsen, JAMES B. MCDONALD (2005). Some Variations on Standard Income Mesurement Error Models. Journal of Income Distribution.
  • L. Dwight Israelsen and JAMES MCDONALD (2004). Measurement Error and the Distribution of Income. Journal of Income Distribution.
  • Mark Pocock, JAMES MCDONALD,Clayne L. Pope (2003). Estimating Faculty Salary Distributions: An Application of Order Statistics. Journal of Income Distribution.
  • Ripsy Bandourian, JAMES MCDONALD, Robert Turley (2003). Income Distributions: An Inter-temporal Comparison over Countries. Estadistica.
  • Brian Boyer, JAMES MCDONALD, Whitney Newey (2003). A Comparison of Partially Adaptive and Reweighted Least Median of Squares Estimation of Regression Models. Econometric Reviews.
  • MCDONALD JB, Hansen J (2002). A Generalized Model for Predictive Data Mining. Information Systems Frontiers: A Journal of Research and Innovation.
  • Hansen, James, V and MCDONALD, JAMES, B. (2001). Some Experimental Evidence on the Performance of GA-designed Neural Networks. Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Artificial Intelligence.
  • Wang, Kai Li; Fawson, Christopher; Barrett, Christopher; and MCDONALD, JAMES B. (2001). A Flexible Parametric GARCH Model with an Application to Exchange Rates. Journal of Applied Econometrics.
  • J. Hansen, JAMES MCDONALD (2000). An Application and Comparison of some Flexible Parametric and Semiparametric Qualitative Response Models With Heteroskedasticity. International Journal of Systems Sciences.
  • J. Hansen, JAMES MCDONALD, R. Nelson (1999). Time Series Prediction with Genetic-Algorithm Designed Neural Networks: An Empirical Comparison with Modern Statistical Models. Computational Intelligence.
  • Ran BarNiv and JAMES MCDONALD (1999). A Review of Categorical Models for Classification Issues in Accounting and Finance. Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting.

Awards

  • Robert Mehr Research Award Journal of Risk and Insurance 2002
  • Brigham Service Award Brigham Young University 2003
  • Fellow Utah Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters 2003
  • Clayne L. Pope Professorship Brigham Young University 2006

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