INTRODUCTION
TEACHING INTERESTS
RESEARCH INTERESTS & PUBLICATIONS
EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND
COURSE SCHEDULE
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Dr. Sam Mirmirani
Professor & Chair
INTRODUCTION
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Sam Mirmirani joined the faculty of the Economics Department at Bryant University in 1983 and has
been serving as the Chair of the Department since 1993. Professor Mirmirani received his Ph.D. with primary concentrations in Healthcare Economics and Public Finance
and Secondary specializations in Development Economics and International Trade.
His Ph.D. Dissertation focused on the Impact of Capital Expansion Regulations on the
Hospital Industry in the United States. He also received M.A. in Economics from
Clark University and M.S. in Industrial Administration from the University of
Dallas. Professor Mirmirani received his undergraduate degree (B.A.) in Economics and
Political Science from the National University of Iran in Tehran. His consulting experiences are in the areas of Health Care Policy
Analysis, Technology Assessment, and Economic Impact Studies. Dr. Mirmirani has served as a
member of Business Review Panel at the National Institute of Standards &
Technology, Advanced Technology Program (ATP), U.S. Department of Commerce. |
TEACHING INTERESTS
| My teaching interests are in Healthcare Economics and
Finance, Managerial Economics, Middle East Economics and Fundamentals of
Economics for both undergraduate and graduate programs. |
RESEARCH INTERESTS & PUBLICATIONS
| My primary research interests are in the
area of Healthcare Policy, Management and Finance, Defense Conversion and
Technology Assessment. I am also interested in the Neural Networks and Genetic
Algorithm applications in Business and Economic Forecasting. |
Publications
An Assessment of OECD Health Care System Using Panel Data Analysis , SouthWest Business and Economics Journal Vol. 15 (08) (with Ramesh Mohan)
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Health Care Efficiency in Transition Economies: An Application of Data Envelopment Analysis, International Business & Economics Research Journal, (Co-authored with Hsi Chang Li and Sam Mirmirani), 2008 |
“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.
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“The Center for Design and Business and Creative Economy In Rhode Island: An Assessment.” Global Business and Economics Review, Anthology 2006, pp.440-444.
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| "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. |
| "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. |
“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.
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. |
| Health Care Systems Efficiency Analysis of G12 Countries,” with Matthias Lippmann, International Business & Economics Research Journal, May 2004, Vol.3, No. 5, pp. 35-42.
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.
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.
Gold Price, Neural Networks and Genetic Algorithm," with H.C. Li, Computational Economics,2004, vol. 23, issue 2, pp 193-200.
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| Medical Malpractice Crisis in the United States: A Case for Canadian Model," with Matthias Lippmann, forthcoming, Global Business and Economics Review, Anthology, 2003. |
| The United States Inflation Forecasting with Neural Networks", with H.C. Li, International Review of Economics and Business, Vol. XLVIII, No.4, December 2001.
Privatization in Southern European Economies: Success or Failure?" With H.C. Li, Business & Economics Review, in D. Kantarelis, ed., anthology, 2001. |
| An Application of Neural Networks in Forecasting the Price of Gold," with H.C. Li, Alan Olinsky, and Nickolas Pehlivanis, Business & Economics Society International, Vol. II, 1998.
Global Transfer of Arms Technology And Its Impact on Economic Growth," (a federally funded project), with H.C. Li, Contemporary Economic Policy, Vol. XVI, No. 4, Oct. 1998, pp 486-498.
Cost of Primary Care in the United States," with Michael Fine, M.D., Journal of Primary Care, Vol. 81, No. 1 January 1998, pp. 25-27. |
| Arms Export and Its Employment Impact on the United States," with H.C. Li, in. Regional Resilience and Defense Conversation, R.D. Norton, ed., JAI Press, 1997. A CIBED funded project.
International Transfer of Military technology and growth of Developing Countries, with H.C. Li, in S. Amin and S. Fullerton, Eds. International Business Practice: Contemporary Readings, 1997 Edition, a publication of the Academy of Business Administration.
Restructuring the Health Care System: Its Broad Implications For the United States, in Perspectives on Current Social Problems, Gregg L. Carter, ed., Allyn and Bacon, Boston, 1997. |
| Continuous Quality Improvement in HMO's: An application of the HEDIS Model, with Kristen Kennedy and Richard Spivack, International Journal of Health Care Quality Assurance, April 1996. |
| Forecasting Gold Market Returns Using Nearest Neighbor Approach, with H. Han and H.C. Li, Proceeding in the 2nd Annual Conference on Multinational Financial Issues, Multinational Finance Society, June 1995.
Health Care Efficiency Measurement: An Application of Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). With H.C. Li, International Review of Economics and Business, Vol. XLII, No. 3, March 1995. |
| Making the Most of Conspicuous Production in Hospital Marketing, with Wassen Kassaye, Journal of Hospital Marketing, Vol. 9, No. 1, Fall/Winter 1994. |
| Health Care System Collapse in the United States: Capitalist Market Failure, with Richard N. Spivack, De Economist, Vol. 141, No. 3, Sept. 1993. |
| Nursing Shortage Crisis in New England: A Test of Supply and Demand Model, with Richard N. Spivack, International Review of Economics and Business, Vol. XXXIX, No. 4, April 1992. |
EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND
Ph.D. Economics 1985
Clark University (Worcester, MA) |
M.A. Economics 1984
Clark University (Worcester, MA) |
M.S. Industrial Administration 1978
University of Dallas (Irving, TX) |
B.S. Economics and Political Science 1976
National University of Iran (Tehran, Iran) |
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