Biographical
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Stephen M. Miller is Professor of Economics 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 June 2001, advancing from Instructor to
Assistant Professor to Associate Professor to Professor in 1982. He served as
Department Head from July 1, 1989 through June 30, 2001. 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.
He came to the University of Nevada, Las Vegas as Department
Chair, a position that he held from July 1, 2001 through June 30, 2012. He
guided sixteen (16) graduate students to completion of their MA degrees and
served as an external examiner of three (3) PhD degrees at the University of
Pretoria and one (1) PhD degree at the Univesity of Johannesburg. While at the
University of Connecticut, he guided eighteen (18) graduate students to
completion of their Ph.D. degrees and two (2) students to completion of their
MA 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 190 journal articles
and several books and research monographs, his research has appeared in a
variety of journals, including
the Annals of
Regional Science, Contemporary Economic Policy, Contemporary Policy Issues,
Economic Inquiry, Economic
Modelling, Empirical Economics, the European Economic Review, the International Economic Review, the International Monetary Fund Staff
Papers, the Journal
of Banking and Finance, the Journal
of Development Economics, the
Journal of Economics and Business, the Journal of Finance, the Journal of Financial Services Research,
the Journal of
Forecasting, the
Journal of Housing Research, the
Journal of International Money and Finance, the Journal of Macroeconomics, the Journal of Monetary Economics, the
Journal of Money Credit and Banking, the Journal of Public Economics, the Journal of Real Estate Finance and
Economics, Kyklos, the
Quarterly Journal of Economics, the Quarterly Review of Economics and Business, the
Quarterly Review of Economics
and Finance, Regional Science and Urban Economics, the Review of Economics and Statistics, the Scottish Journal of Political Economy, the Southern Economic Journal, Urban
Studies, and Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv. His working papers can be
accessed at this home page under Current Research Papers or at Research Papers
in Economics (RePEc) at http://ideas.repec.org/e/pmi16.html or at the Social Science Research Network (SSRN) at http://ssrn.com/author=48097.
Early in his tenure at UNLV, he 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. More recently, he developed
coincident and leading indicators for he Nevada and Southern Nevada (Las Vegas
metro area) economics as well as tourism and construction indexes for Southern
Nevada.
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 on the Editorial Boards
of the International Journal of Strategic Property Management and the Global
Economic Review. Moreover, he refereed nearly 850 papers for over 140
different journals, with double-digit reviews for Applied Economics, the Eastern Economic
Journal, Economic
Modelling, Ekonomia, Empirical
Economics, Energy Economics, the Energy Journal, the International Review of Applied Economics, the International Review of Economics and
Finance, the Journal of Banking and Finance,
the Journal of Economics and
Business, the Journal of International Economic Integration,
the Journal of International
Money and Finance, the Journal of Macroeconomics, the Journal
of Money, Credit and Banking, the Journal
of Real Estate Finance and Economics, the Journal of Regional Science,
the Review of Economics and Statistics, Social Indicators Research, and the Southern Economic Journal.
He founded and was the initial chair of 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.
He was a founder and initial chair of the Board of Directors of
the highly respected Economic Club of Las Vegas. The Club provides an
independent and open forum for discussion and debate on national and global
economic issues and public policy.
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.