Vita
Ph.D.
University of Chicago
1984

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Selected Publications

Rucker, Randal R., Walter N. Thuman, and Jonathan K. Yoder, “Estimating the Speed of Market Reaction to News: Market Events and Lumber Futures Prices,” forthcoming in the American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2005.

Brian C. Murray, Walter N. Thurman, and Andrew Keeler, “Tax Interaction Effects, Environmental Regulation, and 'Rule of Thumb' Adjustments to Social Cost,” forthcoming in Environmental and Resource Economics, 2004.

Park, Hoanjae, Walter N. Thurman, and J.E. Easley, Jr., “Modeling Inverse Demands for Fish: Empirical Welfare Measurement in Gulf and South Atlantic Fisheries,” forthcoming in Marine Resource Economics, 19(2004).

Muth, Mary K., Randal R. Rucker, Walter N. Thurman, and Ching-Ta Chuang, “The Fable of the Bees Revisited: Causes and Consequences of the U.S. Honey Program,” Journal of Law and Economics 46(2003): 479-516.

Thurman, Walter N., Tyler J. Fox, and Tayler H. Bingham, "Imposing Smoothness Priors in Applied Welfare Economics: An Application of the Information Contract Curve to Environmental Regulatory Analysis,” Review of Economics and Statistics 83(2000): 511-522.

Thurman, Walter N., Assessing the Environmental Impact of Farm Policies, AEI Press, Washington, D.C., 1995.

Rucker, Randal R., Walter N. Thurman, and Daniel A. Sumner, "Restricting the Market for Quota: An Analysis of Tobacco Production Rights with Corroboration from Congressional Testimony." Journal of Political Economy, 103 (1995): 142-175.

Knoeber, Charles R. and Walter N. Thurman. "Testing the Theory of Tournaments: An Empirical Analysis of Broiler Production," Journal of Labor Economics 12 (1994): 155-179.

Borges, Robert B. and Walter N. Thurman. "Marketing Quotas and Random Yields: The Marginal Effect of Inframarginal Subsidies on Peanut Supply," American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 1994, 76:809-817

Rucker, Randal R. and Walter N. Thurman. "The Economic Effects of Supply Controls: The Simple Analytics of the U.S. Peanut Program," Journal of Law and Economics, 1990, 33: 483-515.