Lee C. Adkins Professor of Economics  Joined Oklahoma State University Faculty, 1988 A.S. Pensacola Junior College, 1978 B.S., Florida State University, 1980 M.S., Louisiana State University, 1985 Ph.D., Louisiana State University, 1988 E-mail: lee.adkins@okstate.edu Phone:  (405) 744-8637 Fax: (405) 744-5180

Vita

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Conference Papers

• On the Determinants of International Variation in Technical Efficiency: Estimates from a Frontier Production Function, with Ron Moomaw and Andreas Savvides. Presented at the Southern Economics Association Meetings. Baltimore, MD (November 1998).
• On the Determinants of Technical Efficiency in Oklahoma Schools: A Stochastic Frontier Approach, with Ron Moomaw. Presented at the Western Economics Association Meetings, Lake Tahoe, NV (June 29 - July 2, 1998).
• Bayesian Model Selection: An Application in Urban Economics, with Eric Tien and Ron Moomaw. Presented at the Southern Economics Association Meetings, New Orleans, LA (November 1999).
• Regional Technical Efficiency in Europe, with Ron Moomaw. Presented at the Western Economics Association Meetings, Vancouver, Canada (July 2000).
• Test Statistics and Critical Values in Selectivity Models, with Carter Hill and Keith Bender. Presented at the Southern Economics Association Meetings, New Orleans, LA (November 2002). More information on this paper can be found at Carter's website: click here.
• Bootstrap Inference in Heteroscedastic Sample Selection Models: A Monte Carlo Investigation, with R. Carter Hill. Presented as the Southern Economics Association Meetings, New Orleans, LA (November 2004).
• Analyzing the Technical Efficiency of School Districts, with Ron Moomaw. Presented at the Missouri Valley Economics Association Meetings, Kansas City, MO (27 October 2005).
• Small Sample Performance of Instrumental Variables Probit Estimators:  A Monte Carlo Investigation.  Presented at the Joint Statistical Meetings, Denver, CO (3 August 2008).  Presentation Slides.
• An Instrumental Variables Probit Estimator using gretl.  Presented at the Gretl Conference 2009, Bilbao Spain (28 May 2009).  Presentation Slides.

Working Papers

• Testing Parameter Signifcance in Instrumental Variables Probit Estimators: Some simulation results.
• Convergence and Short-Run Dynamics in a Currency Union, with Andreas Savvides.
• The Impact of Local Funding on the Technical Efficiency of Oklahoma Schools, with Ron Moomaw. This paper will appear in Economics Letters.
• Determinants of Technical Efficiency in Oklahoma Schools: A Stochastic Frontier Analysis, with Ron Moomaw.
• Price Risk in the NYMEX Energy Complex: an Extreme Value Approach, with Tim Krehbiel. This paper can be found at GloriaMundi.org.
• Extreme Daily Changes in U.S. Dollar London Inter-bank Offer Rates, with Tim Krehbiel. his paper can also be found at GloriaMundi.org.
• Managerial Incentives and the Use of Foreign Exchange Derivatives by Banks, with David Carter and Gary Simpson.

Gretl Book

• Gretl Book (.pdf format)

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