Dr. James E. Payne is Dean of the Spears School of Business at Oklahoma State University
and holds the Norman and Suzanne Myers Endowed Chair and the Richard W. Poole Professorship.
In addition to his over twenty years of leadership and administrative experience in
higher education, Dr. Payne has continued to be an active researcher in applied economics
with his more recent work focused on energy and financial economics. Dr. Payne has
published more than 300 peer-reviewed journal articles in such outlets as the Review
of Economics and Statistics, Economic Inquiry, Journal of Economic History, Canadian
Journal of Economics, Southern Economic Journal, Economics Letters, Energy Economics,
Ecological Economics, Public Choice, Journal of Macroeconomics, Annals of Tourism
Research, Real Estate Economics, Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics, Journal
of Regional Science, Journal of Risk and Insurance, Journal of Financial Research,
Studies in Nonlinear Dynamics and Econometrics, European Journal of Political Economy,
and Economic Modelling, to name a few, which has generated nearly 25,000 citations
to his research. His scholarly work has been recognized in the Stanford-Elsevier global
ranking of researchers. Dr. Payne served as a Fulbright Research Scholar and a Fulbright
Senior Specialist at the Institute of Economics in Zagreb, Croatia. Dr. Payne is also
an associate editor and editorial board member for several academic journals. Dr.
Payne received his B.A. in Economics from Berea College along with his M.S. and Ph.D.
degrees in Economics from Florida State University.
