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= Douglas W. Mitchell =

Douglas W. "Doug" Mitchell (born 1953) is an economist and polymath who has made significant contributions in a wide variety of areas in economics and finance (macroeconomics, banking, portfolio choice, public choice, public finance, and commodity markets) as well as in statistics and mathematics (cryptology, optimal control, econometric methods, choice under uncertainty, and elementary mathematics).

Under the pseudonyms of "Loraof" and "Duoduoduo" he is a frequent contributor to Wikipedia (Loraof has made close to 20,000 edits ) on topics in linguistics in addition to topics in mathematics, statistics, economics, and finance.

Academic Background
Mitchell received a bachelor of science in economics from Georgia Tech (1974) and a Ph.D. from Princeton University (1978). He was a faculty member in the economics departments of Temple University, the University of Texas-Austin, and West Virginia University. He retired as a full professor from West Virginia University in 2003, at the age of 49, to devote himself more fully to wide-ranging contributions outside of economics, including editing Wikipedia.

Career
In the period from 1978 to 2003 Mitchell served on 23 economics Ph.D. dissertation committees at West Virginia University, the University of Texas-Austin, and Temple University, and was the dissertation chair on 10 dissertation committees (His students include Herbert E. Taylor and Gregory Gelles ). Mitchell to date has published 75 refereed journal articles in such journals as American Economic Review, Journal of Finance, Management Science, International Economic Review, Journal of Econometrics, The Economic Journal, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, Public Choice, Mathematical Gazette, and Cryptologia. He was a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the Journal of Economics and Business for the periods 1978-1986 and 1991-1998.

Personal
Doug Mitchell was born in Clemson, South Carolina and currently lives in Cleveland, Ohio, with his partner Duo Zhang who holds a Ph.D. in Economics from West Virginia University.

Selected Publications

 * Mitchell, Douglas W. "Explicit and Implicit Demand Deposit Interest: Substitutes or Complements from the Bank's Point of View?" Journal of Money, Credit and Banking 11, no. 2 (1979): 182-91.
 * Mitchell, Douglas W. "Risk Aversion and Optimal Macro Policy." The Economic Journal 89, no. 356 (1979): 913-18.
 * Mitchell, Douglas W., and Herbert E. Taylor. "Inflationary Expectations: Comment." American Economic Review 72, no. 3 (1982): 502-07.
 * Mitchell, Douglas W. "Expected Inflation and Interest Rates in a Multi-Asset Model: A Note." Journal of Finance 40, no. 2 (1985): 595-99.
 * Mitchell, Douglas W. and Paul J. Speaker. "A Simple, Flexible Distributed Lag Technique: The Polynomial Inverse Lag." Journal of Econometrics 31, no. 3 (1986): 329-340.
 * DeCoster, Gregory P., and Douglas W. Mitchell. "Nonlinear Monetary Dynamics." Journal of Business & Economic Statistics 9, no. 4 (1991): 455-61.
 * DeCoster, Gregory P., Walter C. Labys, and Douglas W. Mitchell. "Evidence of Chaos in Commodity Futures Prices." Journal of Futures Markets 12, no. 3 (1992): 291-305.
 * Mitchell, Douglas W. "A nonlinear random number generator with known, long cycle length." Cryptologia 17, no. 1 (1993): 55-62.
 * Mitchell, Douglas W. "Relative Risk Aversion with Arrow-Debreu Securities." International Economic Review 35, no. 1 (1994): 257-58.
 * Balvers, Ronald J., and Douglas W. Mitchell. "Autocorrelated Returns and Optimal Intertemporal Portfolio Choice." Management Science 43, no. 11 (1997): 1537-551.
 * Gelles, Gregory M., and Douglas W. Mitchell. "Broadly Decreasing Risk Aversion." Management Science 45, no. 10 (1999): 1432-439.
 * Mitchell, Douglas W. "88.27 More on Spreads and Non-Arithmetic Means." The Mathematical Gazette 88, no. 511 (2004): 142-44.