Douglas W. Mitchell | |
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Born | July 25, 1953 |
Died | March 13, 2020 66) | (aged
Nationality | American |
Academic career | |
Field | Macroeconomics, Financial Economics |
Institution | West Virginia University (1984-2003, Emeritus 2007-present) University of Texas (1981-1984) Temple University (1977-1981) |
Alma mater | Georgia Institute of Technology, Princeton University |
Doctoral advisor | Dwight Jaffee |
Douglas W. "Doug" Mitchell (July 25, 1953 - March 13, 2020) was an American economist and polymath who made significant contributions in a wide variety of areas in economics and finance (macroeconomics, banking, portfolio choice, public choice, public finance, and commodity markets) as well as in statistics and mathematics (cryptology, optimal control, econometric methods, choice under uncertainty, and elementary mathematics). [1]
Mitchell earned a Bachelor of Science in Economics from Georgia Tech (1974) and a Ph.D. from Princeton University (1978). He was a faculty member in the economics departments of Temple University, the University of Texas-Austin, and West Virginia University. He retired as a full professor from West Virginia University in 2003, at the age of 49, to devote himself more fully to wide-ranging contributions outside of economics, including editing Wikipedia.
In the period from 1978 to 2003, Mitchell served on 23 economics Ph.D. dissertation committees at West Virginia University, the University of Texas-Austin, and Temple University, and was the dissertation chair on 10 dissertation committees. (His students include Herbert E. Taylor [2] and Gregory Gelles [3] ). Mitchell published 75 refereed journal articles in such journals as the American Economic Review, the Journal of Finance, Management Science, the International Economic Review, the Journal of Econometrics, The Economic Journal, the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, the Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, the Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking, Public Choice, Mathematical Gazette, and Cryptologia. He was a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the Journal of Economics and Business for the periods 1978-1986 and 1991-1998.
Mitchell’s contributions are notably diverse. [1] In addition to publications in various subfields of economics and finance, [1] his body of work includes contributions to mathematics, statistics, chaos theory, optimal control, and cryptology. [1] His work in statistics which introduces a Polynomial Inverse Lag (PIL) specification for estimating time-series regression models (Mitchell and Speaker, 1986 [4] and Speaker, Mitchell, and Gelles, 1989 [5] ) is applied extensively. For instance, Kennedy (2003, p. 224), [6] and the Shazam regression package [7] which incorporates Mitchell and Speaker's PIL procedure as an option in OLS regression.
Doug Mitchell was born in Buffalo, New York, and died on March 13, 2020, at the Cleveland Clinic. He is survived by his wife, Duo Zhang, who holds a Ph.D. in economics from West Virginia University. Surviving relatives received guests on Tuesday, March 17, at Busch Funeral and Crematory Services – Cleveland, 4334 Pearl Rd, Cleveland, OH.
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