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University of Connecticut College of Agriculture and Natural Resources Department of
Agricultural and Resource Economics

 

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, 1977, 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.