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  William Latham III   William R. Latham III
Associate Professor of Economics
316B Purnell Hall
302-831-6846
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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.
   
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