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William Lastrapes
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Address:
505 Brooks Hall
Athens, GA 30602

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Office Phone:
706.542.3569
William D. Lastrapes  
Professor of Economics
Department of Economics [ Website ]

At Terry Since 1990
Personal Website: http://www.terry.uga.edu/~last/personal/

Education:

PhD, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Economics  (1986)
BS, Louisiana State University, Finance  (1980)

Prior Professional Positions:

LSU, Economics, Assistant Professor   1986 to 1990

Research Interests:

Macroeconomics, Monetary Economics, Time Series Econometrics

Area of Expertise:

Macroeconomics, Monetary Economics, Time Series Econometrics

Awards:

2000, Kamerschen-Hampton Outstanding Research Award, Department of Economics
1995, Swift Undergraduate Teaching Award, Department of Economics

Editorial Appointments:

2000 to Present, Associate Editor , Journal of Macroeconomics
2000 to Present, Associate Editor, Journal of Economics and Business

Selected Publications:

Journal Articles
William D. Lastrapes . "Inflation and the Distribution of Relative Prices: The Role of Productivity and Money Supply Shocks." Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, 38, (December 2006), pp. 2159-98.
William D. Lastrapes and W. Douglas McMillin . "Cross-Country Variation in the Liquidity Effect: The Role of Finanical Markets." The Economic Journal, 114, (Oct. 2004), pp. 890-915.
Claudia E. Halabi and William D. Lastrapes . "Estimating the Liquidity Effect in Post-reform Chile: Do Inflationary Expectations Matter? ." Journal of International Money and Finance, 22, (November 2003), pp. 813-33.
William D. Lastrapes . "The Dynamic Effects of Money: Combining Short-run and Long-run Identifying Restrictions Using Bayesian Techniques." Review of Economics and Statistics, 80, (Nov. 1998), pp. 588-00.
William D. Lastrapes and George Selgin . "The Check Tax: Fiscal Folly and the Great Monetary Contraction." Journal of Economic History, 57, (December 1997), pp. 859-78.
Christopher G. Lamoureux and William D. Lastrapes . "Forecasting Stock Return Variance: Toward an Understanding of Stochastic Implied Volatilities." Review of Financial Studies, 6, (1993), pp. 293-326.
William D. Lastrapes . "Sources of Fluctuations in Real and Nominal Exchange Rates." Review of Economics and Statistics, 74, (1992), pp. 530-39.
Christopher G. Lamoureux and William D. Lastrapes . "Persistence-in-Variance, Structural Change and the GARCH Model." Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, 8, (April 1990), pp. 225-34.
Christopher G. Lamoureux and William D. Lastrapes . "Heteroskedasticity in Stock Return Data: Volume Versus GARCH Effects." Journal of Finance, 45, (March 1990), pp. 221-29.
William D. Lastrapes . "Exchange Rate Volatility and U.S. Monetary Policy: An ARCH Application." Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, 21, (February 1989), pp. 66-77.

Courses:

ECON 8130 Time Series Econometrics
ECON 8040 Macroeconomic Theory I
ECON 2105H Principles of Macroeconomics (Honors)
ECON 4100 Monetary Economics