William R. Latham III
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Associate Professor of Economics Associate Professor, Urban Affairs and Public Policy Senior Policy Fellow, Center for Energy and Environmental Policy 316B Purnell Hall Website |
Education:
- Ph.D., Economics, University of Illinois, 1973
- M.A., Economics, University of Florida, 1967
- B.A., Economics, University of Florida, 1965
Teaching Interests:
- Econometrics & Forecasting
- Government Regulation of Business
- Urban and Regional Economics
- Microeconomics
Activities and Honors:
- Co-Editor, Review of Regional Studies, 1998 - 2002.
- President, Southern Regional Science Association, 1986
- Chairperson, Department of Economics, University of Delaware, 1990-1996
- Fulbright Professor, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Seoul, Korea, 1987-88
- Manager, Corporate Planning, Delmarva Power and Light Company, Wilmington, DE, 1984 -1985
- Senior Research Economist, Office of Economic Studies, Economic Development Administration, Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, 1979-80
- Honor Society Memberships, Beta Gamma Sigma, Omicron Delta Epsilon, Phi Kappa Phi, Golden Key (honorary member)
Recent Publications:
- “Collective Knowledge, Prolific Inventors and the Value of Inventions: An Empirical Study of French, German and British Patents in the U.S., 1975-1999,” with C. Le Bas and C. Gay, The Economics of Innovation and New Technology, Vol. 17 (1 & 2), pp. 5-22, 2008.
- The Economics of Persistent Innovation: An Evolutionary View, co-edited with C. Le Bas; also co-authored three chapters. New York, Springer, 2006.
- “Not So Footloose After all: Locational Behavior of Information Technology Firms in The United States, 1993-98,” with S. Condliffe. Region and Development, 2006
- "Analysis of Work Group Productivity in an Applied Setting," (with J. Sawyer, R. Pritchard, and W. Bennett) Personnel Psychology, Vol.52: 927-967, 1999.
