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Stratford Douglas, Ph.D.
West Virginia University Dept of Economics
Morgantown, WV 26506-6025
(304) 293-7863, [email protected]
Fields of Specialization: Applied Econometrics, Energy Economics
Education:
Ph.D. in Economics (December 1987), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Dissertation: Bootstrap Estimation in a Switching Regressions Model (Advisor: D. Guilkey)
B.A. in History, Phi Beta Kappa, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1977.
Employment History:
August 1997 to Present: Associate Professor, West Virginia University Dept of Economics
Graduate Coordinator, 2011 to present.
August 1990 to August 1997: Assistant Professor, West Virginia Univ Dept of Economics
September 1987 to July 1990: Economist, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
Articles in Refereed Economics Journals:
Douglas, Stratford, and W. Robert Reed. 2014. “ A Replication of ‘The Political Determinants of
Federal Expenditure at the State Level.” Public Finance Review, forthcoming. Appeared online
November 28, 2014.
Douglas, Stratford and Anne Walker. “Sample Selection in Appalachian Research.” The Review
of Regional Studies 42(2) (2013) 143-159.
Douglas, Stratford, and Shuichiro Nishioka. “International Differences in Emissions Intensity
and Emissions Content of Global Trade. Journal of Development Economics 99 (November,
2012), 415-427.
Douglas, Stratford, and Julia Popova. “Econometric Estimation of Spatial Patterns in Electricity
Prices.” The Energy Journal 32(2) (April, 2011). (Recipient, Best Paper of 2011, IAEE.)
Douglas, Stratford, Thomas Garrett, and Russell Rhine, “Disallowance and Overcapitalization in
the U.S. Electric Utility Industry.” Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Review 91(1) (2009), 23-31.
Douglas, Stratford and Julia Popova. “Storage and the Electricity Forward Premium.” Energy
Economics 30(4), 1712-1727 (July, 2008).
Douglas, Stratford. “Measuring Gains from Regional Dispatch: Coal-Fired Power Plant
Utilization and Market Reforms.” The Energy Journal 27(1) (2006) 119-138.
Douglas, Stratford and Howard J. Wall, “The Revealed Cost of Unemployment,” Federal Reserve
Bank of St. Louis Review 82 (March/April 2000) 1-10.
Douglas, Stratford, “The Duration of the Smoking Habit.” Economic Inquiry 36 (January 1998),
49-64.
Mitchell, Douglas, and Stratford Douglas, “Portfolio Response to a Shift in a Return Distribution:
The Case of n Dependent Assets.” International Economic Review 38(4) (November 1997) 945950.
Douglas, Stratford, “Estimation of Relative Standards of Living Among the United States Using
Cross-Migration Data.” Journal of Regional Science 37 (August 1997) 411  436.
Douglas, Stratford, “Bootstrap Confidence Intervals in a Switching Regression Model.”
Economics Letters 53(1) (October 1996) 7-15.
Douglas, Stratford and David K. Guilkey, “Bootstrap Standard Error Estimates in a Switching
Regression Model with Unknown Change Point.” Communications in Statistics: Simulation and
Computation 25 (February 1996) 1-23.
Stratford Douglas CV
Douglas, Stratford, Karen S. Conway, and Gary Ferrier, “A Switching Frontier Model for
Imperfect Sample Separation Information: With an Application to Constrained Labor Supply.”
International Economic Review 36 (May 1995) 503-526.
Douglas, Stratford, and Joseph Sulock, “Estimating Educational Production Functions with
Correction for Drops.” Journal of Economic Education 26 (Spring 1995) 101-112.
Douglas, Stratford and Govind Hariharan, “The Hazard of Starting Smoking: Estimates from a
Split Population Model.” Journal of Health Economics 13(2) (1994) 213-230.
Douglas, Stratford, and Howard Wall, “‘Voting with Your Feet’ and the Quality of Life Index: A
Simple Non-Parametric Approach Applied to Canada.” Economics Letters 42 (1993) 229-236.
Book Chapters:
Douglas, Stratford, and Serhiy Kotsan, “Application of Mean-Variance Analysis to Locational
Value of Generation Assets,” in Bazilian, Morgan and Fabian Roques, ed., Analytical Methods
for Energy Diversity and Security. Amsterdam: Elsevier (October 2008).
Douglas, Stratford and Howard J. Wall, “Measuring Quality of Life from a Cross-Migration
Regression, with an Application to Canadian Provinces.” in Solomon Polachek, ed., Research In
Labor Economics Vol. 19 Amsterdam: Elsevier (2000) 191-214.
Other Peer-Reviewed Publications:
Kalsekar, Iftekhar, S.M. Madhavan, M. Amonkar, S. Douglas, E. Makela, B.L. Elswick, V. Scott,
“Impact of Depression on Utilization Patterns of Oral Hypoglycemic Agents in Patients Newly
Diagnosed with Type-2 Diabetes Mellitus: A Retrospective Cohort Analysis,” Clinical
Therapeutics, 28(2), February 2006, pp. 306-318.
Kalsekar, Iftekhar, S.M. Madhavan, M. Amonkar, S. Douglas, E. Makela, V. Scott, “The Effect
of Depression on Health Care Utilization and Costs in Patients With Type 2 Diabetes,” Managed
Care Interface 19(3), March 2006, pp. 39-46.
Kalsekar, Iftekhar, S.M. Madhavan, M. Amonkar, S. Douglas, E. Makela, V. Scott, “Depression
in Patients with Type-2 Diabetes: Impact on Adherence to Oral Hypoglycemic Agents,” Annals
of Pharmacotherapy.40(4), April 2006, pp. 605-611.
Grants Awarded:
“An Engineering-Economic Analysis of Syngas Storage,” Principal Investigator: Jay Apt,
Carnegie Mellon University. Co-PIs: Stratford Douglas, Lester Lave. National Energy
Technology Laboratory / University Research Collaboration. (2007-8) $350,333 over 2 years.
“Integrated Computing, Communication, and Distributed Control of Deregulated Electric Power
Systems.” Co-PI’s: Ali Feliachi, S. Douglas, A. Davari, J. Sneckenberger, M. Valenti, B. Cukic,
P. Klinkhachorn, I. Celik, J. Saymanski, Hong-Jian Lai. 2000 - 2005. US Department of Energy
(EPSCoR), $3,320,000 over 6 years.
“Electricity Industry Restructuring: Opportunities and Risks for West Virginia.” West Virginia
Governor’s Office, WVU OSP No. 97175. Co-PIs: M. Choudhry, D. Greenstreet, R. Klein, T.
Torries, C. Irwin. (October, 1996) $45,615. Continued for $50,000, December 1997.
“Design, Management, and Implementation of a Limits of Acceptable Change (LAC) Process for
a Three-Year Study on the New, Gauley, Cheat, Shenandoah, and Tygart Rivers of West
Virginia.” West Virginia Division of Natural Resources, WVU OSP No. 94-573. Co-PIs: S.
Hollenhort, S. A. Whisman, S. Selin, and V. Norton. (August 1994) $413,741.
“Risk Management and Storage Pricing in a Competitive Natural Gas Market with Futures
Trading.” National Research Center for Coal and Energy No. NG-7-92, (August 1992). $15,000.
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Stratford Douglas CV
Working Papers:
Douglas, Stratford and Anne Walker. 2013. “Coal Mining and the Resource Curse in the Eastern
United States.” WVU Department of Economics Working Paper Series.
Douglas, Stratford and Seth Wiggins. 2014. “Cap and Trade and Consequences: Effects of Sulfur
Emissions Regulations on Production of High-Sulfur Coal.”
Other Completed Works:
“An Engineering-Economic Analysis of Syngas Storage,” Co-Authors Jay Apt, Leslie Morris
Dunn, Lester Lave, Adam Newcomer. DOE/NETL-2008/1331, available online at
http://www.netl.doe.gov/energy-analyses/ref-shelf.html. July 2008.
“A Summary of Economic Impacts of Commercial Whitewater Rafting in West Virginia” CoAuthors: Steven A. Whisman, Steven J. Hollenhorst, Christopher D. Jones, Candice Elliot, Virgil
Norton, and David Greenstreet. October 1997.
“Electricity Industry Restructuring: Opportunities and Risks for West Virginia. Interim Report
#3: Implications for Electricity Producers.” National Research Center for Coal and Energy,
August 1997. Available at http://www.nrcce.wvu.edu/special/electricity/electrichome.htm.
“Risk Management and Storage Pricing in a Competitive Natural Gas Market with Futures
Trading.” National Research Center for Coal and Energy, project No. NG-7-92, July 1992.
“Personal Labor Supply: An Estimation of a Probabilistic Teacher Supply Function”
Southeastern Regional Council for Educational Improvement, Occasional Paper #416, Fall 1985
Courses Taught:
Econometrics I (PhD), Econometrics II (PhD), Econometrics (Undergraduate),
Principles of Microeconomics, Principles of Macroeconomics, Macroeconomics (MBA)
Honors and Awards:
Outstanding Teacher, 2011-2012, WVU Department of Economics.
Best Paper of 2011, The Energy Journal. International Association for Energy Economics.
Visiting Erskine Fellow, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, NZ. July-October 2011
Outstanding Teacher, 2008-2009, WVU Division of Economics and Finance
Outstanding Teacher 2000-01, WVU College of Business & Economics
Outstanding Researcher, 1999-2000, WVU Division of Economics and Finance.
Outstanding Teacher 1996-97, WVU College of Business & Economics
Outstanding Researcher 1995-96, WVU Department of Economics
Outstanding Instructional Technology Implementation 1995-96, WVU College of B&E
Outstanding Teacher 1993-94, WVU College of Business & Economics
Doctoral and Masters Committees:
Served on more than 60 dissertation and thesis committees in
Economics, Resource Economics, Pharmacy, and Electrical Engineering.
Chaired Twelve Economics Dissertation Committees:
Russell Rhine (PhD 1998), Vladimir Starkov (PhD 2001),
Kamol Khaemasunun (PhD 2004),
Serhiy Kotsan (PhD 2005),
Julia Popova (PhD 2008), Leslie Morris Dunn (Co-Chair, PhD 2008);
Medhawin Kitikun (PhD 2012), Tuan Le (PhD 2012),
Scott Murdoch (PhD 2013), Anne Walker (PhD 2013),
Serkan Karadas (Co-Chair, PhD 2014), Eric Bowen (Current), Seth Wiggins (Current).
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Stratford Douglas CV
Selected Recent Presentations at Professional Meetings:
2014 NAREA Workshop on Shale Gas, June 2. “Shale Gas and the North American Electric
Power Supply.”
2012 Research Workshop on Shale Energy, Lewisburg, PA, July 31. “Sample Selection and
Growth Estimation in Appalachia” with Anne Walker.
2011 Southern Economic Association, “Coal Counties, Sample Selection, and the Resource
Curse” with Anne Walker.
2010 Midwest International Economics Group, State College, PA: “International Differences in
Emissions Intensity and Emissions Content of Global Trade,” with Shuichiro Nishioka.
2008 Southern Economic Association Conference, Washington, DC: “Testing a TradeTheoretic Model of Revealed Environmental Values” with Medhawin Kitikun.
2008 28th Annual USAEE/Intl Association for Energy Economics North American Conference,
December. “Improving the Economic Viability of IGCC Power Plants Using Syngas Storage and
Fuel Switching.”
2006 26th Annual USAEE/Intl Association for Energy Economics North American Conference,
September. “System Reliability and Price Responsiveness of Residential Loads”
2006 Center for Research in the Regulated Industries, 24th Annual Eastern Conference, Skytop
Pennsylvania. May 17-19. With Julia Popova. “Storage and the Electricity Forward Premium.”
2006 Carnegie Mellon Conference in Electric Power Systems, January 11-12, 2006. “System
Reliability and Price Responsiveness of Residential Loads” with Hyungna Oh.
2005 Center for Research in the Regulated Industries, Western Conference, San Diego. June
22-24. “Effects of a Residential Price Responsive Load Program on the Electric Power System
and Market”
2003 Meetings of the Southern Economic Association, San Antonio, Texas, “Efficient Tariffs in
a Price and Quantity Constrained Electric Power Market.”
2002 23rd Annual USAEE/Intl Association for Energy Economics North American Conf,
Vancouver BC, Oct 6-8, “Coal Power Plant Utilization in the Eastern US Since Restructuring.”
2000 21st Annual USAEE/International Association for Energy Economics North American
Conference, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, September 25–27, “Determinants of Power Plant Sales,
Prices, and Stranded Cost Payments.”
2000 Center for Research in the Regulated Industries, Eastern Conference, Lake George, NY.
“Why are US Utilities Selling their Power Plants?”
2000 Allied Social Sciences Association Meetings, “Why are Utilities Selling Power Plants?”
1998 Meetings of the Southern Economic Association, “Regression Methods for Estimating
Relative Quality of Life”
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