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Richard Highfield

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University of New Haven: FacultyUniversity of New Haven: Richard Highfield University of New Haven: Faculty
University of New Haven: Faculty
University of New Haven: Faculty Richard Highfield
University of New Haven: Faculty University of New Haven: Faculty
Title: Professor
University of New Haven: Faculty University of New Haven: Faculty
College: College of Business
Dept: Finance 
Phone: 203.479.4236
Email: rhighfield@newhaven.edu
Office: Maxcy Hall, Room 126I

Education

1971 Stanford University B.A
1979 Santa Clara University M.B.A.
1987 University of Chicago Ph.D.

Courses Taught

EC133 Principles of Economics I (Macroeconomics)
EC134 Principles of Economics II (Mircoeconomics)
IB644 Managing in Global Markets

Research Interests

Forecasting
Monetary Economics
Banking

Articles Published

"Do Open Market Operations Matter? Theory and Evidence from the Second Bank of the United States," with Maureen O'Hara and Bruce Smith, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 20, No. 1/3, 1996.

"Forecasting Similar Time Series with Bayesian Pooling Methods -- with application to forecasting European output growth," in Bayesian Inference in Statistics and Econometrics, (Prem K. Goel and N.S. Iyengar, eds.) Lecture Notes in Statistics # 75, New York: Springer-Verlag, 1992, pp. 303-326.

"Public Ends, Private Means: Central Banking and the Profit Motive 1823-1832," with Maureen O'Hara and John W. Wood, Journal of Monetary Economics, 28, 1991, pp. 287-322.

"Bayesian Approaches to Turning Point Prediction," 1990 Proceedings of the Business and Economics Statistics Section, Washington: American Statistical Association, pp. 89-98.

"Calculation of Maximum Entropy Distributions and Approximation of Marginal Posterior Distributions," with Arnold Zellner, Journal of Econometrics, 37, February 1988, pp. 195-209.

"New Business Starts and Economic Activity: An Empirical Investigation," with Robert Smiley, International Journal of Industrial Organization, 5, March 1987, pp. 51-66.

“Macroeconomic Forecasting with Pooled International Data," with A. Garcia-Ferrer, F. Palm and A. Zellner, Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, 5, Number 1, January, 1987, pp. 53-67.

Other

  • Member UNH Finance and Budget Committee
  • Coordinator of UNH College of Business Assessment of Learning process
  • Advisor to UNH Undergraduate Finance majors
  • Dean, UNH College of Business, 2008-2011