Laurie Bates started teaching at Bryant University in 1991. Dr. Bates received her Ph.D in Economics from the University of Connecticut in 1989 with a primary concentration in Public Finance. Professor Bates teaches a variety of classes at Bryant including Honor Micro and Macroeconomics, Environmental Economics, Public Finance and Intermediate Microeconomics. Professor Bates has many refereed journal articles in the area of  Applied Microeconomics.

Bates, Laurie, Rexford Santerre, and Kankana Mukherjee, "Medical Insurance Coverage and Health Production Efficiency" Journal of Risk and Insurance...forthcoming

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.

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, L., Kankana, Mukherjee, and Rexford Santerre, "The Market Structure and Technical Efficiency in the Hospital Services Industry: A DEA Approach", Medical Care Research and Review, 63, (August 2006): 499-524

Bates, L. and Rexford Santerre, "Leviathan in the Crosshairs", Public Choice, 127, (April 2006): 133-145 .

Bates, L. and Rexford Santerre, "Do Agglomeration Economies Exist in the Hospital Services Industry?", Eastern Economic Journal, 31, (Fall 2005): 617-628.

Bates, L. and Rexford Santerre, "The Impact of a State Mandated Expenditure Floor on Aggregate Property Values", Journal of Urban Economics, 53, (2003): 531-540.

Bates, L. and Rexford Santerre, "The Public Demand for Open Spaces: The Case of Connecticut Communities", Journal of Urban Economics, 50, (May 2001): 97-111.

Bates, L. and Rexford Santerre , "Performance and Pay in the Public Sector: The Case of the Local Tax Assessor", Public Finance Quarterly, 24, (October 1996): 481-493.

Bates, L. and Rexford Santerre , "The Determinants of Restrictive Residential Zoning: Some Empirical Findings", Journal of Regional Science, 34, (1994): 253-263.

Bates, L. "Municipal Monopoly Power and the Supply of Residential Development Rights", Eastern Economic Journal, 19, (Spring 1993): 173-184.

Bates, L. and Rexford Santerre, "Property Tax Collector Pay and Performance", National Tax Journal, 45, (March 1993): 23-31