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Prof. W. D. Walls

Research

Areas of Research

Energy Markets, Entertainment Industry Economics, Transportation Economics, Pipeline Economics, Horse Track Gambling, Counterfeiting & Piracy, Hawker Behavior, Board Culture

Courses

Course number Course title Semester
Econ 491 Managerial & Decision Economics Spring 2025
Econ 328 Petroleum Economics Winter 2025
Econ 489 Economics of the Movie Business Fall 2024
Econ 695 Research Methods III Spring 2024
Econ 491 Managerial & Decision Economics Spring 2024
Econ 527 World Oil Economics Winter 2024
Econ 371 Transportation Economics Winter 2024
Econ 328 Petroleum Economics Fall 2023
Econ 427 Energy Economics & Policy Fall 2023
Econ 695 Research Methods III Spring 2023
Econ 491 Managerial & Decision Economics Spring 2023
Econ 489 Economics of the Movie Business Winter 2023
Econ 693 Research Methods II Winter 2023
Econ 427/627 Energy Economics & Policy Fall 2022
Econ 328 Petroleum Economics Fall 2022
Econ 691 Research Methods I Fall 2022
Econ 491 Managerial & Decision Economics Summer 2022
Econ 697 Research Methods IV Summer 2022
Econ 371 Transportation Economics Winter 2022
Econ 493 Empirical Energy Economics Winter 2022
Econ 328 Petroleum Economics Fall 2021
Econ 427 Energy Economics & Policy Fall 2021
Econ 491 Managerial & Decision Economics Summer 2021

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Recent Publications (2020 onward)

  • F. Wei, W. D. Walls and X. Zheng.  "Fuel efficiency, power trading, and emissions leakage from driving electric vehicles: Evidence from Chinese provinces."  Forthcoming in Energy Policy. 
  • F. Wei, W. D. Walls, X. Zheng, and G. Li.  "Evaluating environmental benefits from driving electric vehicles: The case of Shanghai."   Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment, Volume 119, 2023, 103749.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trd.2023.103749  
  • G. Li, W. D. Walls and X. Zheng. "Differential license plate pricing and electric vehicle adoption in Shanghai, China." Transportation Research Part A: Policy & Practice, Volume 172, 2023, 103672.   https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tra.2023.103672
  • L. Guo, W. D. Walls and X. Zheng.  "Waste import bans and environmental quality: Evidence from China's electronic waste disposal towns."  Environmental and Resource Economics, 85:65--108, 2023.  https://doi.org/10.1007/s10640-022-00756-0
  • W. D. Walls and X. Zheng.  "Fracking and structural shifts in oil supply."  The Energy Journal, 43(3):1--32, 2022.  https://doi.org/10.5547/01956574.43.3.wwal
  • W. D. Walls and X. Zheng.  "Environmental regulation and safety outcomes: Evidence from Canadian energy pipelines."  Resource and Energy Economics, 64, May 2021.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.reseneeco.2020.101215
  • A. Hadida, J. Lampel, W. D. Walls, and A. Joshi,.  "Hollywood studio film-making in the age of Netflix: A tale of two institutional logics." Journal of Cultural Economics, 45(2):213--238, June 2021.  Available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/s10824-020-09379-z 
  • W. D. Walls and J. McKenzie.  "Black swan models for the entertainment industry with an application to the movie business."  Empirical Economics, 59(6):3019--3032, December 2020.  Available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/s00181-019-01753-x
  • W. D. Walls and W. Zhang.  "Applied models of heavy tails and skewness in energy prices with an application to electricity price risk." In, S. Goutte and D.K.Nguyen, editors, Handbook of Energy Finance, Chapter 8, pp. 185-213. World Scientific, 2020.  https://doi.org/10.1142/9789813278387_0008
  • W. D. Walls and A. During.  "The Presidential Amnesty Programme of 2009 and Nigerian oil production: A disaggregate econometric analysis."  OPEC Energy Review, 44(1):27-42, March 2020.  https://doi.org/10.1111/opec.12168
  • W. D. Walls and X. Zheng.. "Pipeline capacity rationing and crude oil price differentials: The case of western Canada."  The Energy Journal, 41(1): 241-258, January 2020.  https://doi.org/10.5547/01956574.41.1.wwal

 

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