Dr. Caudill joins the faculty after retiring as Regions Bank Professor in the College of Business at Auburn University where he worked from 1982 until 2009. While at Auburn, Dr. Caudill co-authored papers with faculty and graduate students in the Departments of Accounting, Agricultural Economics, Economics, Finance, Forestry, and Management. In the spring of 2008 Dr. Caudill was visiting scholar at the University of Sassari, the oldest university on the island of Sardinia.
Dr. Caudill′s recent research has focused on applications of mixture models in empirical economic research. His recent efforts in this area involve using a mixture of two normal distributions to develop partially adaptive estimators for several commonly-used limited-dependent variable models.
Education: BA Ohio Wesleyan University (mathematics), MA and PhD, University of Florida (economics)
Econ 290
Econ 420
Dr. Caudill′s publications have appeared or are forthcoming in several scholarly journals including: American Journal of Agricultural Economics; Applied Economics; Economic Inquiry; Economics Letters; Empirical Economics; European Journal of Operational Research; Industrial and Labor Relations Review; International Journal of Forecasting; International Review of Financial Analysis; Journal of Agricultural, Biological, and Environmental Statistics; Journal of Applied Econometrics; Journal of Applied Statistics; Journal of Banking and Finance; Journal of Business and Economic Statistics; Journal of Business Finance and Accounting; Journal of Econometrics; Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking; Journal of Productivity Analysis; Journal of Risk and Insurance; Land Economics; Managerial and Decision Economics; National Tax Journal; Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics; Public Choice; Review of Economics and Statistics; Southern Economic Journal.