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 2000: Bates, Laurie, Kankana, Mukherjee, and Rexford Saterre, "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, Laurie and Rexford Santerre, "Leviathan in the Crosshairs", Public Choice, Public Choice, 127, (April 2006): 133-145 . Bates, Laurie and Rexford Santerre, "Do Agglomeration Economies Exist in the Hospital Services Industry?", Eastern Economic Journal, 31, (Fall 2005): 617-628. Bates, Laurie and Rexford Santerre, "Leviathan in the Crosshairs", Public Choice, forthcoming. Bates, Laurie and Rexford Santerre, "Do Agglomeration Economies Exist in the Hospital Services Industry?", Eastern Economic Journal, forthcoming. Bates, Laurie and Rexford Santerre, "The Impact of a State Mandated Expenditure Floor on Aggregate Property Values", Journal of Urban Economics, 53, (2003): 531-540. Bates, Laurie and Rexford Santerre, "The Public Demand for Open Spaces: The Case of Connecticut Communities", Journal of Urban Economics, 50, (May 2001): 97-111. 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. Ilacqua, J., and Prescott, M.E., Knowing Economic Theory: Applying the Reflective Judgment Model in Introductory Economics Education, 2004. 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. Ilacqua, J., and Akhramenko, I., Transformation Leadership in a Volatile Business Environment: A Case Study of Institutional and Business Context Change,” Transformations in Business & Economics, Vol. 1, No. 1 & 2, Fall 2002. Ilacqua, J., 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, Spring 2002. Ilacqua, J. and Zulauf, C.A., The New Learning Environment and Adult Development Needs,” “The New Learning Environment and Adult Development Needs,” Journal of Adult Development, July 2000. 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) 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) Kim, J. "U.S. Earnings Inequality in the 1990s." Journal of American Academy of Business, Cambridge, 2(2), 371-378. Kim, J. "Earnings of Hispanic and Asian Immigrants: Are Hispanic Immigrants Discriminated Against?." International Business and Economics Research Journal, 1(3), 35-41. Kim, J. "Learning and Earnings: How college matters in earnings gap between the Hispanic Workers and the Non-Hispanic White workers." Journal of Hispanic Higher Education, 1(2), 125-143. Kim, J. "Taking Note of the New Gender Earnings Gap: A Study of the 1990's Economic Expansion in the U.S. Labor Market." Journal of the American Academy of Business, Cambridge, 2 (1), 80-85. Mirmirani, S."Health Care Efficiency in Transition Economies: An application of Data Envelopment Analysis" with H. C. Li and Joseph Ilacqua. Economics systems Research. Under Review. Mirmirani, S.An assessment Of OECD Health Care System Using Panel Data Analysis. With Ramesh Mohan. DeEconomist, Under Review. Mirmirani, S.“Changing the Landscape of the Retail Industry in the United States and Wal-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. Mirmirani, S."Flu Vaccine Market in the United States: A Case Study", with William J. Connell, 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.“Health Care Delivery in OECD Countries, 1990-2000: An Efficiency Assessment,” with Targol Mirmirani, The Business Review, Cambridge, Vol. 3, No.2, Summer 2005, pp. 58-63. Mirmirani, S.A Comparison of VAR and Neural Networks with Genetic Algorithm in Forecasting Price of Oil, with H. C. Li, 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., with Li, H.C., Gold Price, Neural Networks and Genetic Algorithm, Computational Economics, 2004, vol. 23, issue 2, pages 193-200. Mirmirani, S. and Lippmann, M., Medical Malpractice Crisis in the United States: A Case for Canadian Model," Global Business and Economics Review, Anthology, 2003. Mirmirani, S., and Li, H.C., The United States Inflation Forecasting with Neural Networks", with H.C. Li, International Review of Economics and Business, Vol. XLVIII, No.4, December 2001. Mohan, R. (2006) Economics of the Internet Journal of Internet Business, Issue 3-2006 Mohan, R. (2006) Test Bank for Economic Development by E.Wayne Nafziger 4 th Ed, Cambridge University Press. Mohan, R. (2006) Instructor’s Resource Manual for Economic Development by E.Wayne Nafziger 4 th Ed, Cambridge University Press. 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 17 th Annual Teaching Economics Conference, Feb 2006. Mohan, R., A Panel Data Analysis of FDI, Trade Openness and Liberalization on Economic Growth of the ASEAN-5 , The Empirical Economic Letters (forthcoming). Mohan, R. Economics of the Internet: A Comparison between Asia-Pacific and OECD, Journal of Internet Business (forthcoming). Mohan, R. and Kemegue, F., US FDI flows to ASEAN-5: Do Geographic Neighbors Matter? International Economic Journal (revise and resubmit). Mohan, R. Determinants of ICT Expenditure Using Logit Transformation for Proportion Data Analysis, Telecommunication Policy (revise and resubmit). Mohan, R. and Nandwa, B., Testing Export-led Growth Hypothesis in Kenya: An ADRL Bounds Test Approach , under review Journal of Economic Development. Mohan, R. & Mirmirani, S. An Assessment of OECD Health Care System Using Panel Data Analysis , under review SouthWest Journal of Business and Economics. Shanaan, J. " Ricardian or Monopoly Rents? The Perspective of Potential Entrants ", EASTERN ECONOMIC JOURNAL, Vol. 32, No. 1, (Winter 2006) pp. 19-30. Shanaan, J. " Investment, Irreversibility and Options: An Empirical, Framework ", REVIEW of FINANCIAL ECONOMICS, Volume 14, Issue 3-4, 1, January 2005, pp. 241-254. |
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