Patrick McCarthy

Professor and Chair, Economics

Transportation economics, transportation safety, discrete choice analysis, public transit, applied econometrics, government regulation.

Bio

Dr. McCarthy comes to the School of Economics from Purdue University, where he was professor of Economics and Civil Engineering. His general areas of research include applied econometrics, transportation economics, and government regulation with specific interests in transportation safety, discrete choice econometrics, public transit, and civil infrastructure. Professor McCarthy is widely published in economics and transportation journals.

Dr. McCarthy has held a number of academic appointments, including visiting professor at the Athens Laboratory of Business Administration in Greece, visiting senior teaching fellow at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, and visiting associate professor economics at the University of Southern California.

He has published numerous articles in a variety of academic journals, including Review of Economics and Statistics, Economic Inquiry, Economics Letters, Journal of Urban Economics, Regional Science and Urban Economics, Journal of Transport Economics and Policy, Transport Reviews, Transportation Research, and Environment and Planning.

Recent Publications

  • "Long Run Equilibrium and Short Run Dynamics Between Risk Exposure and Highway Safety" (with R. Kilic), Empirical Economics (forthcoming).
  • "Regional Demands for Pulp and Paper Products" (with L. Lei), Journal of Forest Economics 16, 2010, 127- 44.
  • "Production and Cost in the U.S. Paper and Paperboard Industry" (with A. Urmanbetova), Applied Economics, iFirst DOI 10.1080/00036840701721208, June 2009.
  • "Predicting Bankruptcy in the Pulp and Paper Industry" (with CY Ho and Y. Yang), Under Review.
  • "Economic Development and Airport Runways: A Panel Data Analysis of Metropolitan Statistical Areas" (with D. Tittle, Y. Xiao), Under Review

Recent Presentations

"Airport Costs, Capacity, and Metropolitan Economic Developmnet: A Translog Panel Data Cost Function Analysis", presented at Kuhmo Nectar Transportation Economics Conference, July 8-9, 2010 (Valencia, Spain), 2010 International Conference on Urban Development and Planning, June 22-23, 2010 (Qinhuangdao, China), and 4th International Association for China Planning (IACP) Conference, June 19-21, 2010 (Shanghai, China)