Antony Davies
Associate Professor of Economics
Duquesne University
Antony Davies is an Associate Professor of Economics at Duquesne University and Research Fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. Dr. Davies earned his BS in economics from Saint Vincent College, and PhD in economics from the State University of New York at Albany. His areas of research include forecasting and rational expectations, consumer behavior, international economics, and mathematical economics. Dr. Davies has lectured at numerous venues including the Econometric Society, the American Economic Association, the American Psychological Association, the International Conference on Panel Data, the International Forecasting Symposium, the U.S. Department of the Treasury, and the U.S. Congress.
In addition to teaching at the undergraduate, masters, and PhD levels, Dr. Davies was an equities analyst for The Burney Company (Falls Church, VA), Chief Analytics Officer and acting Chief Financial Officer for Parabon Computation (Fairfax, VA), and President and founder of Paragon Software. His research has appeared in the Journal of Econometrics, the Journal of Consumer Psychology, the Journal of Economic Psychology, the International Journal of Forecasting, Applied Economics, Clinical Cancer Research, the Journal of Socioeconomics, and Analysis of Panels and Limited Dependent Variable Models (published by Cambridge University Press). His popular press writings have appeared in BizEd, World & I, Religion and Liberty, and the International Journal on World Peace.
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