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Office: Lyon 332 E-mail: mkabir@lyon.edu Courses that I teach: Principles of Economics, Intermediate Microeconomics, International Economics, and Business Statistics. In spring semester I alternate one of my classes between Public Finance/ Environmental Economics/ Managerial Economics/ Introductory Econometrics. Research Interests: Production Economics Scholarly Activity: Presented a paper (with Azzeddine Azzam) titled "Vertical Integration and Cost Efficiency in Multistage Hog Production: An Investigation by Estimation of Cost Frontier," at the Eastern Economic Association Annual Conference, Boston, March 7-9, 2008. Participated in a workshop on "Teaching Economics with Computerized Experiments," sponsored by the National Science Foundation and presented by Georgia State University- Andrew Young School Experimental Economics Center and the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, June 3-4, 2008. Recognized as a reviewer of the 7th edition Microeconomics by Pindyck and Rubinfeld, Pearson Prentice Hall Publishing, 2009. Presented a paper titled "Did Import Competition of 1970s and 1980s Enhance Production Efficiency of US Manufacturing Industries?" at the 82nd Annual Conference of the Western Economic Association International (WEAI) in Seattle, June 29-July 3, 2007. "Public Education Cost Frontier Models: Theory and an Application," a book chapter (with John E. Anderson) published in Perspectives on International, State and Local Economics, edited by Gerald V. Liu, pp. 115-140. Nova Science Publishers, 2006. Reviewed a proposal (paper) for the American Educational Research Association (AERA) 2007 Annual Meeting, 2006. Participated in the web-based conference on "Improve Student Understanding of the Intro Business Stat Course," April, 2006, organized by McGraw Hill and Bruce Bowerman. Reviewed an article for Interdisciplinary Environmental Review, summer 2004. Session chair/ Discussant, 10th Annual International Interdisciplinary Conference on the Environment, Boston, July 2004. "Use of Reading Assignments in Economics Teaching to Enhance Student Learning: A Concept-Centered and Learning Theory Based Approach," presented at West Coast Teaching Economics Conference, Cal State Fullerton, October 2004. Worked as a reviewer for the 3rd edition Essentials of Statistics for Business and Economics by Anderson, Sweeney, and Williams, South-Western, 2003. Reviewed selected manuscript chapters of Public Finance – Principles and Policy by John E. Anderson, Houghton Mifflin, 2003. Presented an e-poster in a one-day workshop on Teaching Economics at the Memphis Branch of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, hosted by the University of Memphis, 2002. Visiting scholar at the Center for Agri-Food Industrial Organization and Policy, Department Agricultural Economics, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, summer 2002 Presented "Estimation of Public Education Cost Frontier Models: Theory and an Application," (with John E. Anderson) at the American Education Finance Association (AEFA) annual meeting, March, 2000, Austin, TX. College Committees served: Academic Affairs Council, Strategy Planning and Budget Committee, Curriculum, Institutional Assessment, General Education Task Force, Student Creative Arts and Research Forum, Academic Computing, and Faculty Search. Student Advisor to International Honor Society in Economics (Omicron Delta Epsilon) at Lyon Who's Who Among America’s Teachers: Recognized in the 2004 edition. Member: AEFA, AERA, Eastern Economic Association, and Western Economic Association International. Economics Program at Lyon: Economics My Students’ Service to the Batesville Community: "Students in Dr. Mahbubul Kabir’s Statistics class at Lyon College surveyed 200 visitors to downtown last semester, and the results were recently made available to the press." Batesville Daily Guard, Jan. 26, 2007. Last update: 22 JUL 2008 |
