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Tsoung-Chao Lee

Professor Emeritus

W.B Young Building Room 323
1376 Storrs Road, Unit # 4021
Storrs, CT 06269-4021

Telephone: 860.486.2741
Fax: 860.486.1932
E-Mail: tsoung.lee@uconn.edu

Degrees Received
B.S. Agricultural Economics 1958 National Taiwan University
M.S. Agricultural Economics 1965 University of Illinois
Ph.D. Agricultural Economics 1967 University of Illinois

Current Appointment
Part-time teaching

Research
Empirical econometric studies of agriculture including demand and supply analysis, effect of industrialization on agriculture, forecast of farm animals, feed, and fertilizer requirements, structural changes of agriculture. Spatial and temporal analysis of resource allocation and product distribution in New England agriculture. Theoretical investigation of econometric problems, in inequality restricted estimators, joint estimation of production, demand, and
supply functions, varying transition probabilities, and Maximum Entropy Estimator.

Selected Publications
McNaughton, D. J. and T. C. Lee. "Carbon Intensity and Economic
Development 1961-1991: A Comment on Roberts and Grimes." World
Development, December 1998, pages 2219-2220.

Liron-Espana, Carmen and T. C. Lee. "Impacts of Japanese Rice
Liberalization on World Rice Trade," Abstract, Agricultural and
Resource Economics Review, October 1998, page 281.

Xu, Ning and T. C. Lee. "Forecasting Regional Demand, Supply, and Trade
of Eggs," Abstract, Agricultural and Resource Economics Review,
October 1998, page 286.

Yang, Juan and T. C. Lee. "The Trade and Welfare Analysis of the World
Rice Market with a Special Reference to China," Abstract,
Agricultural and Resource Economics Review, October 1997, page 257.

Lee, T.C. and G.G. Judge. "Entropy and Cross-Entropy Procedures for
Estimating Transition Probabilities from Aggregate Data," Chapter
13, Bayesian Analysis of Statistics and Econometrics, edited by
D.A. Berry, K.M. Chaloner, and J.K. Geweke, 1996, John Wiley
and Sons, Inc., pp. 153-164.

Lee, T. C. and R. L. Leonard, "The Contribution of Agriculture to the
Connecticut Economy," in Connecticut Agricultur and Resources 2000,
edited by Linda K. Lee, pp. 107-120, 1996.

Feng, C. and T. C. Lee, "Elasticity Estimation of Food Consumption in
Rural China with Alternative Demand Systems," Abstract,
Agricultural and Resource Economics Review, October 1996, p. 245.

Lee, T. C. and R. L. Leonard, "Connecticut Crop Production," in
Connecticut Agricultur and Resources 2000, edited by Linda K. Lee,
pp. 35-46, 1996.

Leonard, R. L. and T. C. Lee, "Connecticut Poultry and Egg Industries,"
Connecticut Agricultur and Resources 2000, edited by Linda K. Lee,
pp. 11-22, 1996.

Shih, C.P. and T.C. Lee. "Estimation of Input Allocation in Multiple
Crop Farms in The Growing Economy of Taiwan," Agriculture
and Economics 15(1994):109-131.

Lee, T.C. "Changes of Employment Among Sectors of the Fast
Growing Economy in Taiwan," Chapter 12, Readings in
Econometric Theory and Practice, edited by W. E. Griffiths, H.
Ltkepohl and M.E. Bock, North-Holland, 1992, pp. 265-296.

Judge, G.G., R.C. Hill, W.E. Griffiths, H. Ltkepohl, and T.C. Lee.
Introduction to the Theory and Practice of Econometrics, First
Edition 1982, 839 pages; Second Edition, John Wiley, xxxvii +
1024 pages, 1988.

Lee, T.C., B.E. Bravo-Ureta and K.C. Ling. An Analysis of Technical
Efficiency and Cooperative Membership for New England Dairy
Farms, USDA, ACS, Research Report Number 57, December
1986.

Lee, T.C. and S.K. Seaver. "Forecasts of Farm Animal Production in
the New England States and in the U.S.". Journal of the
Northeast Agricultural Economics Council, Vol. IX, No. 1, pp. 23-
28, April 1980.

Lee, T.C., G.G. Judge, and A. Zellner. Estimating the Parameters of
the Markov Probability Model from Aggregate Time Series Data.
North-Holland Publishing Company, Amsterdam, 254 pages, 1970.
Second Revised Edition, 260 pages. 1977. (Russian translation
of the first edition, 1997, 221 pages, Statistika, Moscow)

* Click here to download the software MARKOV.EXE and instructions described
in the above book. Contact the author, T. C. Lee, for the password.

Lee, T.C. and S.K. Seaver, "A Simultaneous-Equation Model of Spatial
Equilibrium and Its Application to the Broiler Markets,"
American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 63-70, 1971.

Lee, T.C. G.G. Judge, and A. Zellner, "Maximum Likelihood and Bayesian
Estimation of Transition Probabilities," Journal of American
Statistical Association, 1162-79, Dec. 1968.

Lee, T.C. G.G. Judge, and T. Takayama, "On Estimating the Transition
Probabilities of a Markov Process," Journal of Farm Economics,
746-62, August 1965.

Other papers were published in Management Science,
Metroeconomica, Journal of Cooperatives, Journal of Agricultural
Association of China, and Journal of Northeastern Agricultural
Economics Council, and a book review in Journal of Econometrics.