Professor Michael C. Davis is currently an Associate Professor and Interim Chair in the Department of Economics at the Missouri University of Science and Technology. He received his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of California, San Diego in 2001, his M.A. in Economics from UCSD in 1999 and his B.S. in Mathematics from the College of William and Mary in 1995. He has worked at Missouri S&T since 2001, was promoted to Associate Professor in 2008 and became interim chair in 2019. His primary fields of interest are macroeconomics, applied time series econometrics and sports economics. He has studied the dynamics of daily wholesale and retail gasoline price movements and gasoline price seasonality. Dr. Davis sports economics research has included studies of economic impact of successful NFL franchises, minor league baseball teams’ locations and what factors account for game-to-game fluctuations in attendance for Major League Baseball teams. Dr Davis’s research projects have used various higher-order statistical methods, and he has analyzed different types of data including time-series, cross-sectional and panel data. Dr. Davis was Faculty Senate President in 2011-2012 and won a Missouri S&T Faculty Service Award in 2013. Since 2014 he has co-organized North American Association of Sports Economics sessions for the Missouri Valley Economic Association meetings.