JAMES A. THORSON Economics and Finance

JOURNAL ARTICLES PUBLISHED:

"An Examination of the Monopoly Zoning Hypothesis." Land Economics (February
1996): 43-55.

"Zoning Policy Changes and the Urban Fringe Land Market." Journal of the American
Real Estate and Urban Economics Association (Fall 1994): 527-538.

"The Use of Least Median of Squares in the Estimation of Land Value Equations."
Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics (March 1994): 183-190.

CONFERENCE PAPERS ORALLY DELIVERED:

"The Effect of Zoning on Retail Trade Patterns in Connecticut." Real Estate Conference,
sponsored by the Center for Real Estate and Urban Economic Studies, University of
Connecticut, June 1994.

"Outliers, Masking, and Housing Price Equation." Annual Meeting of the Pennsylvania
Economic Association, May 1994.

"The Land Market Over the Business Cycle." Annual Meeting of the New England
Business Administration Association, 1993.

WORKING PAPERS/FUTURE SPECIFIC RESEARCH PROJECTS:

With Mark T. Spence. "The Effect of Expertise on the Quality of Appraisal Services."
Journal of Real Estate Research (forthcoming).

"The Effect of Zoning on Housing Starts"

"The Use of High Breakdown Estimators in the Presence of Outliers"

"Some Problems Associated with Implementing a Total Quality Management Program in
a University"

DISSERTATION TITLE:

The Effect of Government Restrictions on the Supply of Land

INSTITUTION GRANTING PH.D.:

University of Illinois at Chicago