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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.

 

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