Walter Thurman
Professor
Education: Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1984
Office Location: 3314 Nelson
Phone: 919.515.4545
Curriculum Vita
Department / Affiliations
Department of Economics; College of Agriculture and Life Sciences' Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics
Research Specialties
Agricultural Policy, Econometrics, Welfare Economics
Selected Research Publications
- A. Blake Brown, Randal R. Rucker, and Walter N. Thurman, “The End of the Federal Tobacco Program: Economic Impacts of the Deregulation of U.S. Tobacco Production,” Review of Agricultural Economics, 29(2007): 635-655.
- Rucker, Randal R., Walter N. Thurman, and Jonathan K. Yoder, “Estimating the Speed of Market Reaction to News: Market Events and Lumber Futures Prices,” American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 87(2005): 482-500.
- Brian C. Murray, Walter N. Thurman, and Andrew Keeler, “Tax Interaction Effects, Environmental Regulation, and ‘Rule of Thumb’ Adjustments to Social Cost,” Environmental and Resource Economics, 30(2005): 73-92.
- Park, Hoanjae, Walter N. Thurman, and J.E. Easley, Jr. “Modeling Inverse Demand for Fish: Empirical Welfare Measurement in Gulf and South Atlantic Fisheries,” Marine Resources Economics, forthcoming.
- Muth, Mary, Randal R. Rucker, Walter N. Thurman and Ching-Ta Chuang, “The Fable of the Bees Revisited: Causes and Consequences of the U.S. Honey Program,” Journal of Law and Economics, October 2003, 479-516.
- Thurman, Walter N., Tyler J. Fox, and Tayler H. Bingham, “Imposing Smoothness Priors in Applied Welfare Economics: An Application of the Information Contract Curve to Environmental Regulatory Analysis,” Review of Economics and Statistics, 83(2002); 511-522.
- Knoeber, Charles R. and Walter N. Thurman, “Don’t Count Your Chickens: Risk and Risk Shifting in the Broiler Industry,” American Journal of Agricultural Economics, August 1995, 486-496.
- Rucker, Randal R., Walter N. Thurman, and Daniel A. Sumner, “Restricting the Market for Quota: An Analysis of Tobacco Production Rights with Corroboration from Congressional Testimony,” Journal of Political Economy, 103 (1995): 142-175.
- Borges, Robert B. and Walter N. Thurman, “Marketing Quotas and Random Yields: The Marginal Effect of Inframarginal Subsidies on Peanut Supply,” American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 1994, 76:809-817.