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W. David Walls

W. David Walls

D-Index & Metrics

Economics and Finance

D-Index
31
Citations
4617
World Ranking
3571
National Ranking
97

Research.com Recognitions

  • 1963 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

W. David Walls is affiliated with the University of Calgary in Canada and has contributed to research primarily across the fields of Engineering, Economics, Econometrics and Finance, and Energy.

Their main areas of study encompass Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Economics and Econometrics, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Automotive Engineering, and General Economics, Econometrics and Finance.

Walls' research topics cover a range of subjects related to energy, environment, and transportation policies, electric vehicles and infrastructure, vehicle emissions and performance, market dynamics and volatility, transportation and mobility innovations, natural resources, economic development, as well as cinema and media studies.

Frequent coauthors include Xiaoli Zheng, Feng Wei, Guodong Li, Allègre L. Hadida, and Joseph Lampel.

Publication venues where Walls has frequently published include the SSRN Electronic Journal, The Energy Journal, Journal of Cultural Economics, Transportation Research Part D Transport and Environment, and Transportation Research Part A Policy and Practice.

Recent papers by Walls and collaborators include:

  • "Hollywood studio filmmaking in the age of Netflix: a tale of two institutional logics" (2020, Journal of Cultural Economics)
  • "Evaluating environmental benefits from driving electric vehicles: The case of Shanghai, China" (2023, Transportation Research Part D Transport and Environment)
  • "Differential license plate pricing and electric vehicle adoption in Shanghai, China" (2023, Transportation Research Part A Policy and Practice)
  • "Evaluating Environmental Benefits from Driving Electric Vehicles: The Case of Shanghai, China" (2022, SSRN Electronic Journal)
  • "Pipeline Capacity Rationing and Crude Oil Price Differentials: The Case of Western Canada" (2020, The Energy Journal)

Walls was recognized as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 1963.

Best Publications

  • Uncertainty in the Movie Industry: Does Star Power Reduce the Terror of the Box Office?

    Arthur De Vany;W. David Walls

  • Bose-Einstein Dynamics and Adaptive Contracting in the Motion Picture Industry

    Arthur De Vany;W. David Walls

  • THE MARKET FOR MOTION PICTURES: RANK, REVENUE, AND SURVIVAL

    Arthur S. De Vany;W. David Walls;W. David Walls

  • Does Hollywood Make Too Many R‐Rated Movies? Risk, Stochastic Dominance, and the Illusion of Expectation*

    Arthur De Vany;W. David Walls

  • Motion picture profit, the stable Paretian hypothesis, and the curse of the superstar

    Arthur S De Vany;W.David Walls

  • Cointegration analysis of spot electricity prices : Insights on transmission efficiency in the western US

    Arthur S. De Vany;W.David Walls

  • Estimating the Effects of Movie Piracy on Box-office Revenue

    Arthur S. De Vany;W. David Walls;W. David Walls

  • Pipeline Access and Market Integration in the Natural Gas Industry: Evidence from Cointegration Tests

    Arthur De Vany;W. David Walls

  • Modeling Movie Success When ‘Nobody Knows Anything’: Conditional Stable-Distribution Analysis Of Film Returns

    W. David Walls

  • The Emerging New Order in Natural Gas: Markets versus Regulation

    Arthur S. De Vany;W. David Walls

  • Laboratory markets in counterfeit goods: Hong Kong versus Las Vegas

    Patrick J. Harvey;W. David Walls

  • Hollywood studio filmmaking in the age of Netflix: a tale of two institutional logics

    Allègre L. Hadida;Joseph Lampel;W. David Walls;Amit Joshi

  • Price Dynamics in a Network of Decentralized Power Markets

    Arthur S. De Vany;W. David Walls

  • Increasing returns to information: evidence from the Hong Kong movie market

    W. David Walls

  • An econometric analysis of the market for natural gas futures

    W. David Walls

  • Modelling heavy tails and skewness in film returns

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  • Volatility, volume and maturity in electricity futures

    W. David Walls

  • OPEN ACCESS AND THE EMERGENCE OF A COMPETITIVE NATURAL GAS MARKET

    Arthur De Vany;W. David Walls

  • THE LAW OF ONE PRICE IN A NETWORK: ARBITRAGE AND PRICE DYNAMICS IN NATURAL GAS CITY GATE MARKETS*

    Arthur De Vany;W. David Walls

  • Price Convergence Across Natural Gas Fields and City Markets

    W. David Walls

  • Economics of motion pictures: the state of the art

    Darlene C. Chisholm;Víctor Fernández-Blanco;S. Abraham Ravid;W. David Walls

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