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Badi H. Baltagi

Badi H. Baltagi

Contact Information:

bbaltagi@syr.edu

315.443.3114

426 Eggers Hall

Office Hours:

Tuesday and Thursday 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.

Badi H. Baltagi

Distinguished Professor, Economics Department


Senior Research Associate, Center for Policy Research

Courses

  • 2024 Fall
    • ECN 621 Econometrics I
    • ECN 720 Topics in Econometrics - Spatial & Panel Data

Highest degree earned

Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1979

Bio

Badi H. Baltagi is a Distinguished Professor of Economics, and a senior research associate at the Center for Policy Research, The Maxwell School, Syracuse University. He was George Summey, Jr. Professor of Liberal Arts, at Texas A&M University, 1993-2005. He received the Distinguished Achievement Award in Research, from the Association of Former Students, Texas A&M University, 2002. He was visiting professor at the University of Arizona and the University of California, San Diego, and part-time chair at the University of Leicester, United Kingdom.

Baltagi is the author of several books including "Econometric Analysis of Panel Data, 6th edition (2021, Springer), 5th edition" (2013, Wiley); "Econometrics, 6th edition" (2021, Springer), "A Companion to Econometric Analysis of Panel Data" (2009, Wiley). He is also the editor of several books including "Nonstationary Panels, Panel Cointegration, and Dynamic Panels" (2000, Elsevier); "A Companion to Theoretical Econometrics" (2001, Blackwell); "Recent Developments in the Econometrics of Panel Data, Volumes I and II" (2002, Edward Elgar); "Panel Data Econometrics: Theoretical Contributions and Empirical Applications" (2006, Elsevier Science); "Spatial Econometrics:  Methods and Applications" (2009, Physica-Verlag); "Essays in Honor of Jerry Hausman" (2012, Advances in Econometrics, Volume 29, Emerald Publishing); "Panel Data Econometrics: Critical Concepts in Economics, Four Volumes" (2015, Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group); and "The Oxford Handbook of Panel Data (2015, Oxford University Press).

He is also the co-editor of "Spatial Econometrics: Qualitative and Limited Dependent Variables" (2017, Advances in Econometrics, Volume 37, Emerald Publishing); "Health Econometrics" (2018, Contributions to Economic Analysis, Volume 294, Emerald Publishing); "The Sustainability of Health Care Systems in Europe" (2021, Contributions to Economic Analysis, Volume 295, Emerald Publishing); and "The Economics of COVID-19" (2022, Contributions to Economic Analysis, Volume 296, Emerald Publishing).

He is also the author or co-author of over 200 publications, all in leading economics journals, including Econometrica, Journal of Econometrics, Journal of Political Economy, The Review of Economics and Statistics, International Economic Review, Econometric Theory, Journal of Applied Econometrics, Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, Econometric Reviews, Economics Letters, European Economic Review, Health Economics, Journal of Development Economics, Journal of Urban Economics, Econometrics Journal, Empirical Economics, Regional Science and Urban Economics, Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, to mention a few.

Baltagi served as editor of Economics Letters, (2011-2021), editor of Empirical Economics, (1999-2018) and the replication editor for the Journal of Applied Econometrics (2003-2018). He is a fellow of the Journal of Econometrics as well as Econometric Reviews and a recipient of the Multa and Plura Scripsit Awards from Econometric Theory. He is a founding member, fellow and former director of the International Association for Applied Econometrics. He is also fellow of the Advances in Econometrics.

He is the 2018 winner of the Kuwait Prize for Economics and Social Sciences. He served as an associate editor of the Journal of Econometrics (1999-2018) and is on the editorial board of Econometric Reviews. He is the series editor for Contributions to Economic Analysis (Emerald Publishing) as well as Advanced Studies in Theoretical and Applied Econometrics (Springer).

He is a lifetime fellow of the Economic Research Forum of the MENA region and has been a research fellow, CESifo, Munich Society for the Promotion of Economic Research, since 2003; research fellow, Institute for Labor Research (IZA), Bonn, Germany, since 2002; and Global Labor Organization (GLO) Fellow.

Baltagi is a founding fellow and member of the board of directors of the Spatial Econometrics Association. He is also on the Advisory Board of the Journal of Spatial Econometrics. He is an elected fellow of the Society for Economic Measurement (SEM).

Areas of Expertise

Econometrics, health econometrics, wage curve, gravity models

Research Interests

Applied and theoretical econometrics

Selected Publications

Journal Appointments

  • Co-Editor, Economics Letters, 2011-present. 
  • Co-Editor, Empirical Economics, 1999-present. 
  • Replication Editor, Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2003-present. 
  • Associate Editor, Journal of Econometrics, 1999-present. 
  • Associate Editor, Econometrics and Statistics, 2023-present.
  • Editorial Board, Econometric Reviews, 1994-present. 
  • Series Editor, Contributions to Economic Analysis, Emerald Publishing, 2003-present. 

Presentations and Events

International Panel Data Conference (IPDC 2023), University of Amersterdam, "Factor-Augmented Nonstationary Panels with Multiple Structural Changes" (July 3, 2023 - July 4, 2023)

The International Panel Data Conference (IPDC 2023), University of Amsterdam, "The Two-way Mundlak and Hausman and Taylor Estimators" (July 3, 2023 - July 4, 2023)

Baltagi, B. H., Feng, Q., Wang, W., International Association of Applied Econometrics (IAAE 2023) Annual Conference, International Association of Applied Econometrics, "Factor-Augmented Nonstationary Panels with Multiple Structural Changes" (June 27, 2023 - June 30, 2023)

“Empirical Health Econometrics Workshop” EHEW22 organized by the European Commission Joint Research Council , The European Commission Joint Research Council , "The Effect of Higher Education on Women’s Obesity and Smoking: Evidence from College Openings in Turkey" (July, 2022)

Baltagi, B. H., Ding , S., Egger, P. H., Advances in Econometrics Conference in honor of M. Hashem Pesaran , "A Panel Data Model with Generalized Higher-order Network Effects" (April 23, 2022 - April 24, 2022)

Advances in Econometrics Conference in honor of M. Hashem Pesaran , "Robust dynamic panel data models using ε-contamination" (April 23, 2022 - April 24, 2022)

Baltagi, B. H., Egger, P. H., Kesina, M., 26th International Panel Data Conference, "Bayesian Estimation of Multivariate Panel Probits with Higher-order Interdependence and an Application to Firms' Global Market Participation in Guangdong" (July 1, 2021)

Baltagi, B. H., Başkaya, Y. S., 26th International Panel Data Conference, "Estimating Spatial Wage Curves for Turkey" (July 1, 2021)

Baltagi, B. H., Başkaya, Y. S., XV World Conference of Spatial Econometrics Association (SEA 2021), Spatial Econometrics Association, "Estimating Spatial Wage Curves for Turkey" (May 26, 2021 - May 28, 2021)

Baltagi, B. H., Deng, Y., Li , J., Yang, Z., 10th European Meeting of the Urban Economics Association, Urban Economics Association, "Cities in a Pandemic: Evidence from China" (April 29, 2021 - May 1, 2021)

Baltagi, B. H., Bresson, G., Chaturvedi , A., Lacroix, G., The Econometric Society’s World Congress, Econometric Society, "Robust dynamic panel data models using ε-contamination" (August 17, 2020 - August 20, 2020)

Health Econometrics Workshop 2020 (HEW2020) (July 13, 2020 - July 17, 2020)

19th International Workshop on Spatial Econometrics and Statistics (May 28, 2020 - May 29, 2020)

Texas Camp Econometrics XXV (February, 2020)

CMFE, Department of Economics Carleton University Conference in honor of Anand Acharya and Charles Saunders, Carleton University, November 9, 2024. (November 9, 2024)

the “Empirical Health Econometrics Workshop” EHEW24 organized by the Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa, Italy 9-11 July 2024., "Education and Fertility: Evidence from Higher Education Expansions in Turkey,” with Haci M. Karatas, " (July 9, 2024)

29th International Panel Data Conference (IPDC 2024), July 4-5, 2024, held at the University of Orléans, France., "A Pretest Estimator for the Two-Way Error Component Model,” with Georges Bresson and Jean-Michel Etienne," (July 4, 2024)

the 29th International Panel Da Conference (IPDC 2024), July 4-5, 2024, held at the University of Orléans, France., "GMM-estimation of Panel Data Models with a Component-specific Higher-order Network structure,” with Peter H. Egger and Michaela Kesina" (July 4, 2024)

2024 Asian Meeting of the Econometric Society, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, June 28-29, 2024, "“Estimation and Testing in a Fixed Effects Panel Data Model with Serially Correlated Error Component Disturbances,” " (June 28, 2024)

International Association of Applied Econometrics (IAAE 2024) Conference, Xiamen University, Xiamen, China, June 7-9, 2024, "“Estimation and Testing in a Fixed Effects Panel Data Model with Serially Correlated Error Component Disturbances,”" (June 7, 2024)

New York Camp Econometrics XVIII held at Mirror Lake Inn, Lake Placid, New York, April 26-28, 2024, "GMM-estimation of Panel Data Models with a Component-specific Higher-order Network structure,” " (April 26, 2024)

Conference organized by the Department of Economics, University of Southern California to celebrate Professor M. H. Pesaran’s achievements on April 12 - 13, 2024. , "“A Pretest Estimator for the Two-Way Error Component Model,” with Georges Bresson and Jean-Michel Etienne, presented at a Conference organized by the Department of Economics, University of Southern California to celebrate Professor M. H. Pesaran’s achievements on April 12 - 13, 2024" (April 12, 2024)

Honors and Accolades

Google Scholar (2022)

Ranked 36 among all econometrics authors in the world, REPEC (December, 2021)

Special Issue, Empirical Economics (2021)

Fellow of Econometric Reviews, Econometric Reviews (2018)

Kuwait Prize 2018 for Economics and Social Sciences, REPEC (January, 2018)