Master Professor

Timothy Taylor

Tim Taylor
"Wisdom is the name we give our mistakes. Oscar Wilde"
Hall of Fame: Inducted in May of 2009
May, 2009 (1 BSI Grand Champion)
BSG Tradition: First adopted The Business Strategy Game for classroom use in 2000 (6th Edition)
School: University of Florida
Food and Resources Economics Department
College of Agricultural and Life Sciences
Title: Professor
Education: Ph.D., December 1980, University of Florida
B.A., (Magna Cum Laude), June 1975, University of Cincinnati
Courses Taught: AEB 4334 -- Price Analysis
AEB 4325 -- Contemporary Issues in Agribusiness Management
AEB 5188 -- Economics of Agribusiness Decisions
AEB 5516 -- Quantitative Methods in Agribusiness
ECP 5705 -- Economics of Business Decisions
Research Interests and Selected Publications: Research interests are in the general area of applied microeconomic theory, strategic management and international economics and competition. The current focus of my research combines these two disciplines to investigate a variety of issues including the economic and export diversification, investigation of factors influencing economic growth and integration in the western hemisphere.
Moss, C, G. Rausser, A.Schmitz, T. Taylor, D. Zilberman Agricultural Globalization, Trade and the Environment. New York: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2001.
Josling, T. and T.G. Taylor. Banana Wars: The Anatomy of a Trade Dispute. Wallingford: CABI Publishing, 2003.
Hall, C., G. Fairchild, T.G. Taylor, K. Litzenberg and G. Baker. “Designing Capstone Courses: Objectives and Strategies.” International Food and Agribusiness Management Review. 6(2003)
Martin, M and T.G. Taylor. “A Comparison of Efficiency of Producers Under Collective and Individual Modes of Organization.” Colombian Economic Journal. 1 (2003):245-266
Taylor, T.G. and E. Bonnet. “Export Specialization and Tobit Estimation of the Galtonian Regression.” Journal of the Caribbean Agro-Economic Society. (2004).
Francis, B. and T.G. Taylor. “Economic Growth in the Caribbean: The Case of Barbados, Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago.” The International Trade Journal. 2004
Sandberg, M., J.L. Seale, and T.G. Taylor. “The Impact of History and Regionalism on CARICOM Trade Patterns: A Gravity Model Analysis.” The Journal of Development Studies, 42(2006):795-811.
Francis, B. and T.G. Taylor. “Trade and Economic Growth in Jamaica,” Journal of Eastern Caribbean Studies, 32 (2007):53-90.
Lorde, T, Francis, B., and K. Waithe, T.G. Taylor. “Interest Rate Determination in Developing Countries.” Savings and Development. (2008)
Honors and Awards: Southern Agricultural Economics Association Quality of Research Publication Award, 1991.
American Society for Horticultural Science Extension Publication Award, 1994.
American Society for Horticultural Science Extension Publication Award, 2000.
Southern Agricultural Economics Association Outstanding Teaching of a Course Award, 2001
Food and Resource Economics Department Teaching Award, 2003.
College of Agricultural and Life Sciences Graduate Teaching/Advising Award, 2006
Outstanding Faculty Award, Executive Master’s of Entrepreneurship Program, Warrington College of Business, 2006-07
Student’s Choice Teacher of the Year, Food and Resource Economics Department, 2008-09