Hunt - Curriculum Vitae
GARY L. HUNT
School of Economics
School of Policy and International Affairs
AEWC Advanced Structures and Composites Center
University of Maine
Orono, Maine 04469
(207) 581-1861
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Academic Background
B.A., Urban Studies, Wright State University, 1973
M.C.R.P., City and Regional Planning, The Ohio State University, 1976
Ph.D., Economics, University of Colorado at Boulder, 1984
Areas of Focus:
Renewable Energy, Migration, Economic Growth and Development, Applied Econometrics
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Work Experience:
Professor, School of Economics, University of Maine, Orono, Maine, 2007-
Professor, Interim Chair, and Interim Graduate Coordinator, Department of Economics, University of Maine, Orono, Maine, 2006-07
Professor, Department of Economics, University of Maine, Orono, Maine, 1998-2006
Libra Professor, Department of Economics, University of Maine, Orono, Maine, 1993-1997
Associate Professor, Department of Economics, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina, 1990-92
Research Associate, Center for Economic Analysis, University of Colorado-Boulder, 1985-90
Economist, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, 1984-85
Project Director and Analyst, Abt Associates, Inc. (Denver, Colorado office), 1979-81
Project Manager and Analyst, Oblinger-McCaleb, Architects, Engineers and Planners, Denver, Colorado, 1978-79
Economic Development Analyst, City of Kansas City, Missouri, 1976-78
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Other Professional Appointments:
Cooperating Faculty, School of Policy and International Affairs, University of Maine, 2010-
Cooperating Faculty, AEWC Advanced Structures and Composites Center, University of Maine, 2010-
Editorial Board, International Regional Science Review, University of Illinois, 1995-2010
Associate Editor, Journal of Regional Science, University of California at Irvine, 1994-2010
Editorial Advisory Board, The Journal of Choice Modelling, 2007-
Associate, Centre Interuniversitaire sur le Risque, les Politiques Économiques et l’Emploi, L’Université du Québec à Montréal (2004-)
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Research in Progress:
Under Review/Revision
“Maine Offshore Wind Energy: Comparative Costs of Offshore Wind and Selected Renewable and Non-renewable Technologies” (February 2010)
“Maine Offshore Wind Energy: Cost Estimates,” (December 2009, revised January 2010)
“Maine Offshore Wind Energy: Wind Resources, Technologies, and
Energy Production,” (November 2009)
“Returns to Skill, Tax Policy, and North American Labour Migration by Skill Level: Canada and the U.S. 1995–2001,” Canadian Labour and Skills Researcher Network Working Paper No. 2010-11 (Department of Economics, University of British Columbia) with R.E. Mueller (April 2009)
In Process: Papers
“Local Amenities and Skilled Labor Migration in the U.S.: 1995-2000,” with A. Plantinga, Cécile Détang Dessendre, and Virginie Piguet
“By How Much Did NAFTA Reduce National Border Effects for High-Skilled Workers: Canadian-American Migration 1985-2001,” with R.E. Mueller
“The Creative Economy: Cultural and Technology Sector
Complementarity”
“The Creative Economy: Cultural Goods and Retirement Migration Choices”
“Economic Growth in the American States: Human Capital, R&D and Labor Institutions and Conditional Convergence”
“Energy Prices, Taxes, and Economic Growth in the American States”
In Process: Books and Other
Applied Econometrics for Advanced Students
(15 chapters drafted – 670 manuscript pages — with one more chapters to be drafted. Total number of manuscript pages expected to be approximately 700.)
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Publications
[33] “The Early History of Migration Research Revisited,” in Carlos Vargas-Silva (ed.), Handbook of Research Methods in Migration, (Cheltenham, U.K.: Edward Elgar Publishing Limited: forthcoming 2011), with M.J. Greenwood
[32] “Local Employment Growth, Migration, and Public Land Policy: Evidence the Northwest Forest Plan,” Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics (forthcoming 2010) with A. Plantinga, H. Eichman, and J. Kerkvliet
[31] “Population-Employment Models: Nonstationarity, Cointegration, and Dynamic Structure and Adjustment,” Journal of Regional Science, 46 (2), May 2006: 205-244.
[30] “Annual Estimates of Human Capital by State: 1976-2000,” The Review of Regional Studies, 35 (1), Summer 2005: 8-37 (with Philip Trostel)
[29] “Food Prices and the Timing of Welfare Payments: A Canadian Study,” Canadian Public Policy, 31, June 2005, 145-160 (with Georges Tanguay and Nicolas Marceau)
[28] “North American Migration: Returns to Skill, Border Effects, and Mobility Costs,” The Review of Economics and Statistics, 86, November 2004, 988 -1007 (with R.M. Mueller).
[27] “Public Conservation Lands and Local Wage Growth,” Growth and Change, 34, Winter 2003, 64-86 (with A.J. Plantinga and D.J. Lewis)
[26] “The Early History of Migration Research,” International Regional Science Review, 26, January 2003, 3-37 (with M.J. Greenwood)
[25] “Public Conservation Land and Employment Growth in the Northern Forest Region,” Land Economics, 78, May 2002, 245-259 (with A. Plantinga and D. Lewis)
[24] “A Methodology for Estimating Returns to Skills for Canadian Provinces and U.S. States,” Journal of Regional Science, 42, February 2002, 127-143 (with R.M. Mueller)
[23] “International and Interregional Migration in North America: The Role of Returns to Skill,” Canadian Migration Patterns from Britain and North America, Barbara Messamore (ed.), International Canadian Studies Series, Proceedings of the Migration Conference at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, May 1998, University of Ottawa Press, 2002 (with Richard Mueller)
[22] “Short and Long Run Consequences of Unskilled Immigration to the U.S.,” reprinted in David Greenway and Douglas R. Nelson (eds.). Globalization and Labour Markets, Vol. 2 (Cheltenham, U.K. and Northampton, MA: Elgar, 2001).
[21] “Alternative Nested Logit Model Structures and the Special Case of Partial Degeneracy,”Journal of Regional Science, 40, February 2000, 89-113
[20] “The U.S. Labor Market Impacts of Low-Skill Migration from Mexico”, in Mexico-United States Binational Commission (ed.), Migration between Mexico and the United States, volume 3. Mexico City: Mexican Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and Washington, D.C.: U.S. Commission on Immigration Reform, 1998 (with Paul S. Davies, Michael J. Greenwood, Ulrich R. Kohli, andMarta Tienda)
[19] “Migration, Regional Equilibrium, and the Estimation of Compensating Differentials,” (with M.J. Greenwood, G.I.Treyz, and D. Rickman) in: Modern Classics in Regional Science, Kenneth J. Button and Peter Nijkamp (series eds.), Regional Dynamics, Kingsley E. Haynes (ed.), Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd., 1997.
[18] “The Factor Market Consequences of Unskilled Immigration to the United States,” Labour Economics, 4, 1997,1-28 (with M.J. Greenwood and U.R. Kohli)
[17] “The Short-Run and Long-Run Factor-Market Consequences of Immigration to the United States,” Journal of Regional Science, February 1996, 43-66 (with M.J. Greenwood and U.R. Kohli).
[16] “Economic Effects of Immigrants on Native and Foreign-Born Workers: Complementarity, Substitutability, and Other Channels of Influence,” Southern Economic Journal, April 1995, 1076-1097 (with M.J. Greenwood)
[15] “Specification and Econometric Improvements in Regional Portfolio Diversification Analysis,”Journal of Regional Science, May 1994, 217-235 (with T.J. Sheesley)
[14] “The Dynamics of U.S. Internal Migration,” The Review of Economics and Statistics, 1993, 209-214, (with G.I.Treyz, D. Rickman, and M.J. Greenwood)
[13] “Equilibrium and Disequilibrium in Migration Modelling,” Regional Studies, 1993, 341-349
[12] “Migration, Regional Equilibrium, and the Estimation of Compensating Differentials,” American Economic Review,1991, 1382-1390 (with M.J. Greenwood, G.I. Treyz, and D. Rickman)
[11] “Forecasting State and Local Population Growth Based on Employment – Migration Relationships and with Limited Data,” Environment and Planning A, 1991, 987-1005, (with M.J. Greenwood)
[10] “Jobs Versus Amenities in the Analysis of Metropolitan Migration,” Journal of Urban Economics, January, 1989, 1-16 (with M.J. Greenwood)
[9] “A Method for Obtaining Consistent Regional Industry-Price Indexes,” Recent Advances in Regional Economic Modelling, edited by F. Harrigan and P.G. McGregor, London Papers in Regional Science 19, (London: Pion, 1988), 100-120
[8] “A Multiregional Economic-Demographic Model for Regions in the United States,” Recent Advances in Regional Economic Modelling, edited by F. Harrigan and P.G. McGregor, London Papers in Regional Science 19, (London: Pion, 1988), 66-82 (with G.I. Treyz, M.J. Greenwood, and B. H. Stevens)
[7] “The Impact of Oil Price Fluctuations on the Economies of Energy Producing States,” Review of Regional Studies, Fall 1987, 60-76
[6] “The Economic Effects of Space Science Activities on Colorado and the Western United States,” Annals of Regional Science, July 1987, 21-44 (with M.J. Greenwood and E.L. Pfalzgraff)
[5] “Migration and Employment Change: Empirical Evidence on the Spatial and Temporal Dimensions of the Linkage,” Journal of Regional Science, May 1986, 223-234 (with M.J. Greenwood and J.M. McDowell)
[4] “Econometrically Accounting for Identities and Restrictions in Models of Interregional Migration: Further Thoughts,” Regional Science and Urban Economics, November 1985, 605-614 (with M.J. Greenwood)
[3] “Migration and Interregional Employment Redistribution in the U.S.,” American Economic Review, December 1984, 957-69 (with M.J. Greenwood)
[2] “Econometrically Accounting for Identities and Restrictions in Models of Interregional Migration,” Regional Science and Urban Economics, February 1984, 113-128 (with M.J. Greenwood)
[1] “An Econometrics Laboratory,” Journal of Economic Education, 1984, (with R.F. McNown)
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Book Reviews:
Review of W. Barnes and L. Ledebur, The New Regional Economics, Journal of Regional Science (1998)
Review of L. Anselin, Spatial Econometrics, Journal of Economic Literature (1991)
Review of P. Beaumont, ECESIS: An Interregional Economic-Demographic Model of the United States, Journal of Regional Science (1991)
Review of L. Long, Migration and Residential Mobility in the United States, Journal of Economic
Literature, (1990)
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Teaching Experience:
Undergraduate: Principles of Economics, Urban-Regional Economics,
Econometrics, Economic Statistics, Intermediate Microeconomics, Policy
Analysis/Benefit-Cost Analysis, Mathematical Economics, Economic Growth, International Trade
Graduate: Regional Economics, Regional Economic Policy, Labor-Demographic Economics, Economic Growth, Econometrics
Thesis Committees:
B.A. Honors (Member): M. Schneider
M.A. (Chair): T. Sheesley, L. Irwin, W. Sun, A. Jones, A. Sabatova, S. Yoder, C. Hughes-Hallett, C. Lessard, S. Siriwardena (co-chair), K. Hassett (co-chair)
M.A. (Member): E. Kleczyk, S. Mehmood, D. Lewis, Q. Fan
Ph.D. (Member): D. Hu
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Computing:
Programming languages: FORTRAN, MATLAB
Statistical packages: STATA, LIMDEP, EVIEWS
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Professional Activities:
Referee for various journals (occasional)
Participant: Oxford Round Table, Harris Manchester College, Oxford University, Summer 2007
Faculty Advisor: Omicron Delta Epsilon, International Honor Society in Economics, 2007-08
President: The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi, University of Maine Chapter, 2009-2011
Contributor: Vibrant Maine Economy Virtual Conference (2008-2009)
Recorded Session with Jim McConnon for “Maine’s Brain Gain”
Bangor Daily News invited op-ed “Maine’s Brain Gain”
Radio Interview “Maine’s Brain Gain”
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Awards and Honors:
Member, the Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi (Academic Honor Society)
Member, Omicron Delta Epsilon (International Honor Society in Economics)
Mentor, University of Maine Senior Skulls Honor Society, 2006
Mentor, University of Maine Senior Skulls Honor Society, 1999
Varsity Athlete with Greatest Academic Achievement, Wright State University, 1973
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Research Grant and Contract Activity:
“Growth of Microalgae on Industrial Cellulosic Residues for Enhanced Bio-oil, Structural Biomaterials, and Food Supplement Production–Planning,” AFRI, USDA, 2011-2012 (funded $50,000, Co-PI)
“Growth of Microalgae on Industrial Cellulosic Residues for Enhanced Bio-oil, Structural Biomaterials, and Food Supplement Production,” AFRI, USDA, 2011-2016 (submitted $40,000,000, Co-PI)
“A Business and Outreach Plan for Maine’s Deepwater Offshore Wind Energy Development,” Rockefeller Brothers Fund, 2010-11 (funded $32,500, collaborating investigator)
“The Importance of Local Area Cultural Goods to the Residential Location of College-Educated Workers and Retirees,” University of Maine Summer Faculty Research Competition, 2006(funded $7,500, principal investigator)
“The Migration of Highly Skilled Individuals Within and Between Canada and the United States,” Skills Research Initiative, Human Resources and Social Development Canada – Industry Canada – Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, 2005-06 (funded $17,000, collaborating investigator)
“North American Migration since NAFTA and Pre-9/11,” Canadian Embassy, Canadian Studies Grant Program for American Scholars ($10,000 for one year, principal investigator), 2004-05 (funded $5,000)
“Using a Canadian-American Natural Experiment to Study Relative Efficiencies of Social Welfare Payment Systems,” Canadian Embassy, Canadian Studies Grant Program for American Scholars ($10,000 for one year, collaborating investigator), 2001-02 (funded $10,000)
“The Effects of Migration on Children,” National Institutes of Child Health and Human Development ($300,000 for two years, principal investigator), 2001-02 (unfunded)
“A Review of the Effects of Immigration on Native Workers,” Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, Paris, France ($5,000 for six months, collaborating investigator), 1997 (funded $5,000)
“An Econometric Analysis of the Impacts of Mexican Immigration on the Labor Market Outcomes of Natives by Skill Level and Selected Demographic Characteristics,” United States – Mexico Binational Study on Migration, The U.S. Commission on Immigration Reform ($50,000 for one year, collaborating investigator), 1996 (funded $50,000)
“Estimating the Labor Market Impacts of Low-Skill Immigration on Native Workers Using a Migration Methodology,” National Science Foundation ($25,000 for one year, principal investigator), 1996 (unfunded)
“Estimates of Skill and Mobility Characteristics of Native and Foreign-Born Workers in Selected U.S. Metropolitan Areas,” U.S. Department of Labor ($35,000 for one year), 1995 (funded $35,000)
“Forecasting State and Local Populion Growth Based on Employment-Migration Relationships,” U.S. Census Bureau ($10,000 for one year), 1989 (funded $10,000)