Rate My Professor Judith Clarke

Judith Anne Clarke is an economist with documented associations to the University of Otago Department of Economics through revised working papers. She obtained her BEc (Hons I) and M.Ec. from Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, and her PhD in econometrics from the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand. She joined the University of Victoria Department of Economics in January 1994 and serves as Associate Professor Emerita. Her career highlights include extensive research and supervision of over 30 MA and PhD students.

Clarke's research specializations encompass theoretical econometric issues from applied practices, model averaging, empirical likelihood, Granger causality tests, statistical inference for inequality measures from complex survey data, preliminary-test estimation, and applications in health-wealth dynamics, export-led growth, fair lending, resource economics, and corruption-development links. She has published extensively in prestigious journals including Journal of Econometrics, Econometric Theory, Empirical Economics, Economics Letters, Journal of Economic Surveys, The Journal of International Trade & Economic Development, Applied Economics, and Canadian Journal of Political Science.

Key publications include 'Pre-test Estimation and Testing in Econometrics: Recent Developments' (1993, co-authored with David E.A. Giles), 'Health and Wealth: Short Panel Granger Causality Tests for Developing Countries' (2014, with Weichun Chen and Nilanjana Roy), 'On Statistical Inference for Inequality Measures Calculated from Complex Survey Data' (2012, with Nilanjana Roy), 'Model Averaging OLS and 2SLS: An Application of the WALS Procedure' (2017), 'Export-led Growth: A Survey of the Empirical Literature and Some Non-causality Results' Parts 1 and 2 (2001, with Cara L. Williams), 'On the Robustness of Racial Discrimination Findings in Mortgage Lending Studies' (2009, with Marsha J. Courchane and Nilanjana Roy), 'Implications of Stratified Sampling for Fair Lending Binary Logit Models' (2005, with Marsha J. Courchane), and 'Corruption, Development and the Curse of Natural Resources' (2011, with Shannon M. Pendergast and G. Cornelis van Kooten). Her work demonstrates substantial influence in econometrics and applied economics.