Biographical Information
Stephen M. Miller is Professor of Economics and Department Chair
at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He received higher education training
at Purdue University, receiving his bachelor's degree with distinction in Engineering
Sciences Engineering (a part of the Aeronautical Engineering School), and at
the State University of New York at Buffalo, receiving his M.A. and Ph.D.
degrees in Economics.
He previously was a faculty member at the University of
Connecticut from September 1970 to May 2001, advancing from Instructor to
Assistant Professor to Associate Professor to Professor in 1982. He became
Department Head on July 1, 1989. He has held visiting positions with the
Federal Reserve Bank of Boston for 5 months in 1978 and with the Congressional
Budget Office for 12 months in 1987-88. He retired from the University of
Connecticut on June 1, 2001.
Since arriving at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, he guided
four graduate students to completion of their MA degrees. While at the
University of Connecticut, he guided eighteen graduate students to completion
of their Ph.D. degrees, former students who now work around the world in
academia, international and government agencies, and the private sector. In
addition, he served as an associate advisor on numerous other Ph.D. committees.
Further, he continued to conduct research with many students beyond their
dissertation (PhD) and professional-paper (MA) research.
His research interests span monetary, macroeconomic, and international
finance theory and policy; economic growth empirics; financial institutions;
and real estate lending. The author of over 100 journal articles and several
research monographs, his research has appeared in a variety of journals,
including the Journal of Macroeconomics, the Journal of Money Credit
and Banking, the Journal of Monetary Economics, the Review of
Economics and Statistics, the Southern Economic Journal, Economic
Inquiry, Public Choice, the Journal of Development Economics,
Contemporary Economic Policy, the Journal
of International Money and Finance, Contemporary
Policy Issues, the Journal of Public Economics, the Journal
of Banking and Finance, the Journal of Financial Services Research,
the European Economic Review, Kyklos , Weltwirtschaftliches
Archiv, Economic Record, the Quarterly Journal of Economics,
the Journal of Finance, the International Economic Review, the Journal
of Forecasting, the Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics, Regional
Science and Urban Economics, the International Monetary Fund Staff
Papers, the Journal of Economics and Business, the Quarterly
Review of Economics and Finance, the Quarterly Review of Economics and
Business, the Scottish Journal of
Political Economy, the Manchester School, and Economics Letters.
He recently developed with one of his MA students, Mustafa
Gunaydin, the CBER-DETR Nevada Coincident and Leading Employment Indexes. These
indexes track the contemporaneous and future movements in the Nevada employment
situation. While in Connecticut, he similarly developed with a former
colleague, Pami Dua, and a colleague at the Economic Cycle Research Institute
(ECRI), Anirvan Banerji, the CCEA-ECRI Connecticut Coincident and Leading
Employment Indexes.
He appears in Who’s Who in Economics, 4th
edition, Edward Elgar Publishers Ltd., 2003 and Who’s Who in Business Higher
Education, AcademicKeys, 2003. He currently serves as a co-editor of Ekonomia
(Journal of the Cyprus Economic Society) and on the Editorial Boards of the Eastern
Economic Journal and the Global Economic Review. Moreover, he
refereed more than 450 papers for nearly 60 different journals, with
double-digit reviews for the Eastern Economic Journal, Ekonomia,
the Journal of Banking and Finance, the Journal of International
Economic Integration, the Journal of Macroeconomics, the Journal
of Money, Credit and Banking, the Journal of Regional Science, the Review
of Economics and Statistics, and the Southern Economic Journal.
He founded and chaired the Executive Committee of The
Connecticut Economy: A University of Connecticut Quarterly Review, and
founded and initially directed of the Connecticut Center for Economic Analysis,
which runs an input-output computer model of Connecticut and several of its
counties. The Center performs economic impact studies for the Connecticut
Department of Economic Community Development, the original purchaser of the
model, and others.
Finally, the Speaker of the Connecticut House of Representatives
appointed Professor Miller to the Connecticut Economic Conference Board in September
1991, a position he held until his retirement from the University of
Connecticut.