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George Davis Professor PhD (Economics), North Carolina State University MS (Agricultural Economics), Clemson University BS (Agricultural Economics), Clemson University Research Interests: Demand Analysis, Econometrics, and Methodology Office Address: 302B Blocker 2124 TAMU College Station, TX 77843-2124 Contact Information: (979) 845-3788 (Office) (979) 862-1563 (Fax) Email Address: gdavis@tamu.edu Personal Website: http://agecon2.tamu.edu/people/faculty/davis-george/

About Dr. Davis:
Dr. George Davis is a Professor for the Department of Agricultural Economics. He received his B.S. and M.S. in Agricultural Economics from Clemson University, and Ph.D. in Economics, with a minor in Statistics from North Carolina State University. His research is in the area of demand analysis, marketing, and econometric modeling. He presently teaches the Ph.D. level econometrics and demand classes.

Selected Publications:
Davis, George C. “The Significance and Insignificance of Demand Analysis in the Evaluating Promotion Programs.” American Journal of Agricultural Economics. Vol. 87. No. 3.(August 2005):673-688.

Davis, George C. “Clarifying the ‘Puzzle’ Between the Textbook and LSE Approaches to Econometrics: A Comment on Cook’s Kuhnian Perspective of Econometrics.” Journal of Economic Methodology. Vol. 12. No. 1. (March 2005): 93-116.

Davis, George C. “Rejoinder on Cook and Response to Chao: Moving the Textbook/LSE Debate Forward.” Journal of Economic Methodology. . 12. No. 1. (March 2005): 137-48.

Davis, George C. “The Structure of Models: An Application to Theory Reduction and Testing with a Production Example.” Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics. Vol. 29. No. 1. (April, 2004): 65-78.

Davis, George C. “The Generalized Composite Commodity Theorem: Stronger Support in the Presence of Data Limitations.” Review of Economics and Statistics. Vol. LXXXV. No. 2 (May, 2003):476–480.

Davis, George C. and Sung–Yong Kim. “Measuring Instrument Relevance in the Single Endogenous Regressor–Multiple Instrument Case: A Simplifying Procedure.” Economics Letters. Vol. 74. No. 3: (February, 2002):321–325.

Park, Jaehong and George C. Davis. “The Theory and Econometrics of Health Information in Cross–Sectional Nutrient Demand Analysis.” American Journal of Agricultural Economics. Vol. 83. No. 4. (November, 2001):840–851.

Shumway, C. Richard and George C. Davis. “Does Consistent Aggregation Really Matter?” Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics. Vol. 45. No 2. (June, 2001): 161–194.

Davis, George C. “A Semantic Interpretation of Haavelmo’s Structure of Econometrics.” Economics and Philosophy. Vol. 16. No. 2. (October, 2000):205–228.