Recent Research
Below is a select listing of recent research papers and projects in which Economics faculty members at Bryant University have been involved since 2003: Kemegue, F. and Mohan, R., (2009) US FDI flows to ASEAN-5: Do Geographic Neighbors Matter? Applied Econometrics and International Development Vol. 9(1) forthcoming Jan-June 2009. Nandwa, B., and Mohan, R. (2008) Currency Crisis, Inflation and Stability of Demand for Broad Money: The Case of Indonesia, The ICFAI Journal of Applied Economics, Vol. 7. No. 6 (forthcoming Nov 2008). Mohan, R. and Mirmirani, S. (2008) An Assessment of OECD Health Care System Using Panel Data Analysis, SouthWest Business and Economics Journal Vol. 15 (08) Bates, Laurie J. and Rexford E. Santerre, “The Demand for Local Public Health: Do Unified and Independent Public Health Departments Spend Differently?” Medical Care, 46, (June 2008): 590-596. Bates, Laurie and Rexford Santerre, “Do Health Insurers Possess Monopoly Power in the Hospital Services Industry?” International Journal of Health Care Finance and Economics,8(1), (2008): 1-11. Barnett, W. A., Keating, J. W., & Kelly, L. J. (2008). Toward a Bias Corrected Currency Equivalent Index, Economics Letter (forthcoming) Elmslie, Bruce and Tebaldi, Edinaldo. (2008) "So, What Did You Do Last Night? The Economics of Infidelity". Kyklos, 61(3): 391-410. Gittell, Ross and Tebaldi, Edinaldo. (2008). Are Research and Development Tax Credits Effective? The Economic Impacts of a R&D Tax Credit in New Hampshire, Public Finance and Management, 8(1), pp. 70-101. Ilacqua, J., Mirmirani, S., Li, H., "Health Care Efficiency in Transition Economies: An Application of Data Envelopment Analysis", International Business & Economics Research Journal, 2008 Mohan, R.., Kemegue, F., and Sjuib, F., (2008) Hysteresis in Unemployment: Panel Unit Roots Tests Using State Level Data, Journal of Business and Economics Research, Vol.6, No.2. pp. 53-60. Elmslie, Bruce and Tebaldi, Edinaldo. (2007). Sexual Orientation and Labor Market Discrimination. Journal of Labor Research, 28(3), 436-453, July, 2007. Gittell, Ross and Tebaldi, Edinaldo. (2007). Did a Strong Economy in the 1990s Affect Poverty in U.S. Metro Areas. Economic Development Quarterly, 21(4), November 2007. Ilacqua, J., " Learning Economics Through Case Study Assignments and Case Writing", (Co-authored with Mary E. Prescott), in Emerging Theories for Educators and Practitioners, Mackenzie and Rosenberg (ed.), Cambridge Scholars Publication, 2007 Kim, Jongsung “Hispanic College Graduates in the U.S. labor market: 1990 and 2000. Review of Business Research (Volume VII, pages 74-83, 2007) Kelly, L. J. (2007). "Measuring the Economic Stock of Money using Targeted Factor Models" Paper Presented at Measurement Error: Econometrics and Practice Conference ( Aston University, Birmingham , UK) Mohan, R. and Nandwa, B. (2007) The Impact of Asian Financial Crisis on Inflation and Money Demand, 34th Northeast Business & Economics Conference Proceedings. Mohan, R. (2007) Determinants of ICT Expenditure Using Logit Transformation for Proportion Data Analysis, Journal of Information Technology Impact, forthcoming. Mohan, R., (2007) A Panel Data Analysis of FDI, Trade Openness and Liberalization on Economic Growth of the ASEAN-5, The Empirical Economic Letters, Vol. 6 No. 1 Bates, L., Mukherjee, K. and Santerre, R. "The Market Structure and Technical Effeiciency in the Hospital Services Industry: A DEA Approach", Medical Care Research and Review, 63, August 2006: 499-524 Bates, L. and Santerre, R., "Leviathan in the Crosshairs", Public Choice, Public Choice, 127, April 2006: 133-145 . Kim, Jongsung. “Gender Inequality in the U.S. Labor Market: Evidence from 2000 Census.” In Gender, Race, and Ethnicity in the Workplace: Issues and Challenges for Today’s Organizations (Volume 1): Edited by Margaret Foegen Karsten. Praeger / Greenwood Publishing, Pages 269 – 290, 2006 Cavusoglu, Nevin and Tebaldi, Edinaldo. (2006). Evaluating Growth Theories and their Empirical Support: An Assessment of the Convergence Hypothesis. Journal of Economic Methodology, 13(1), 49-75, March 2006. Gittell, Ross and Tebaldi, Edinaldo. (2006). Charitable Giving: Factors Influencing Giving in the U.S. States. Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, 35(4), 721-36, December 2006. Mirmirani, S. “Changing the Landscape of the Retail Industry in the United States andWal-Mart Phenomenon: A Brief Review.” Journal of Business and Economics Research, Vol. 4, No. 12, December 2006, pp. 25-30. Mirmirani, S. “The Center for Design and Business and Creative Economy In Rhode Island: An Assessment.” Global Business and Economics Review, Anthology 2006, pp.440-444. Mini, P. "A Keynes-Robinson Controversy: A Methodological Matter", Journal of Business and Economics Research Vol. 4, No. 1, January 2006, pp. 43-49 Mohan, R. (2006) Economics of the Internet: A Comparison between Asia-Pacific and OECD, Journal of Internet Business, Issue 3 (06). Mohan, R. (2006) Causal Relationship Between Savings And Economic Growth In Countries With Different Income Levels, Economics Bulletin, Vol. 5 No. 3 pp. 1-12. Mohan, R. (2006) Student Happiness and Learning Economics: Innovative Teaching Strategies, Papers and Proceedings of RMU 17th Annual Teaching Economics Conference, Feb 2006. Mohan, R. (2006) Study Guide for Economic Development by E.Wayne Nafziger 4th Ed, Cambridge University Press. Mohan, R. (2006) Instructor’s Resource Manual for Economic Development by E.Wayne Nafziger 4 th Ed, Cambridge University Press. Shaanan, J. "Ricardian or Monopoly Rents? The Perspective of Potential Entrants", Eastern Economic Journal, Vol. 32, No. 1, Winter 2006, pp. 19-30. Bates, L. and Santerre, R., "Do Agglomeration Economies Exist in the Hospital Services Industry?", Eastern Economic Journal, 31, Fall 2005: 617-628. Ilacqua, J., Akhramenko, I., and Zulauf, C.A., “Culture, Knowledge and Intuition as Factors of Successful Organizational Learning for Leadership in Economic Transition,” Journal of International Management, 2005. Kim, J. "English Proficiency and Wage Dynamics of Mexican Immigrant Workers: Synthetic Cohort Approach." Journal of International Finance and Economics (Volume 2, Number 1, pages 58-68, 2005) Mirmirani, S. and Connell, W.J., "Flu Vaccine Market in the United States: A Case Study", Journal of Business Case Studies, 2005, Vol. 1, No. 5, pp. 1-11. Mirmirani, S. "The Impact of Technology in Teaching Freshman Economies: A Quantitative Approach", Journal of College Teaching and Learning, Dec 2005, Vol. 2, No. 12, pp. 17-24. Mirmirani, S. and Mirmirani, T., “Health Care Delivery in OECD Countries, 1990-2000: An Efficiency Assessment,” The Business Review, Cambridge, Vol. 3, No.2, Summer 2005, pp. 58-63. Shaanan, J. "Investment, Irreversibility and Options: An Empirical Framework", Review of Financial Economics, Volume 14, Issue 3-4, 1, January 2005, pp. 241-254. Ilacqua, J., and Prescott, M.E., “Knowing Economic Theory: Applying the Reflective Judgment Model in Introductory Economics”, Education, 2004. Mirmirani, S. and Li, H.C., “A Comparison of VAR and Neural Networks with Genetic Algorithm in Forecasting Price of Oil”, Applications of Artificial Intelligence in Finance and Economics: Advances in Econometrics, Jane Binner, Graham Kendall, and Shu-Heng Chen, eds., Vol. 19, 2004, Elsevier, JAI. Mirmirani, S. and Lippmann, M., “Health Care Systems Efficiency Analysis of G12 Countries”, International Business & Economics Research Journal, May 2004, Vol.3, No. 5, pp. 35-42 Mirmirani, S., “The Restructuring the Health Care System and Its Broad Implications For the United States”, Empirical Approaches To Sociology, Gregg L. Carter, ed., Pearson Education Inc., 2004. Mirmirani, S. “Crisis in the Health Care System of the United States: Its Origins and Future Implications, Empirical Approaches to Sociology, Gregg L. Carter, ed. Allyn & Bacon, Boston, 2004. Mirmirani, S., and Li, H.C., “Gold Price, Neural Networks and Genetic Algorithm”, Computational Economics, 2004, Vol. 23, issue 2, pages 193-200. Verner, Dorte and Tebaldi, Edinaldo (2004). Convergence, Dynamics and Geography of Economic Growth: The Case of Municipalities in Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil, Policy Research Working Paper Series. World Bank-DC, n.3302. Bates, L. and Santerre, R., "The Impact of a State Mandated Expenditure Floor on Aggregate Property Values", Journal of Urban Economics, 53, 2003: 531-540. Ilacqua, J., Barrett, J., and Langlois, G., “Transforming Educational and Business Practice in Belarus: Collaborative Learning at a Distance”, Special Issue: Digital Technology in Teaching International Business, Journal of Teaching in International Business, Vol. 14, Nos. 1 & 2, Winter 2003. Kim, J. "Earnings of Mexican Male Workers in the U.S. Labor Market: Role of English Language Proficiency." The Journal of Academy of Business and Economics (Volume 1, Number 2, pages 43-52, 2003) Kim, J. "Earnings Premium of Asian Immigrants: Evidence from Current Population Survey." Review of Business Research (Volume 1, Number 1, pages 197-202, 2003) Kim, J. "Recent Pattern of the U.S. Gender Occupational Segregation and Earnings Gap." Journal of American Academy of Business, Cambridge (Volume 3, Number 1, pages 78- 84, 2003) Kim, J. "Education, English Language Proficiency and Earnings of Male Immigrants in the U.S. Labor Market." Journal of Business and Economic Research (Volume 1, Number 3, pages 17-26, March 2003). Kim, J. "Returns to College Education: Analysis on Hispanic Workers." Journal of Hispanic Higher Education (Volume 2, Number 3, pages 276-291, July 2003) Kim, J. "Education, English Language Proficiency and Earnings of Male Immigrants in the U.S. Labor Market." Journal of Business and Economics Research (Volume 1, Number 3, pages 17-26, March 2003) Mirmirani, S. and Lippmann, M., “Medical Malpractice Crisis in the United States: A Case for Canadian Model," Global Business and Economics Review, Anthology, 2003. |
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