Peter V. Schaeffer

Peter V. Schaeffer is professor, Division of Resource Management, West Virginia Univer¬sity (WVU) and a faculty research associate in WVU’s Regional Research Institute (RRI). His primary research interests are regional economic policy; international labor migration; domestic job mobility; natural resource management; and historic preservation. He serves and has served on editorial boards and is a past chair of the North American Regional Science Council and a past president of the Southern Regional Science Association. In 2008 he became WVU’s fourth scholar to receive RRI’s William H. Miernyk Award for Lifetime Scholarly Achievement since the award’s inception in 1990. Dr. Schaeffer earned the Ph.D. in economics from the University of Southern California.

Publications

Econometric Methods for Analyzing Economic Development
Econometric Methods for Analyzing Economic Development
Peter V. Schaeffer, Eugene Kouassi. © 2014. 339 pages.
Exploring and understanding the analysis of economic development is essential as global economies continue to experience extreme fluctuation. Econometrics brings together...
The Role of Governance in Teledensity and Economic Growth: GMM Estimation
The Role of Governance in Teledensity and Economic Growth: GMM Estimation
Chali Nondo, Mulugeta S. Kahsai, Peter V. Schaeffer. © 2014. 17 pages.
The objective of this chapter is to highlight the role played by governance in GDP growth and changes in telephone density in Sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries. The...