Mahbubul Kabir Associate Professor of Economics Member of the Lyon College faculty since 1999

Degrees:
Ph.D. University of Nebraska-Lincoln (Economics)
M.A., Williams College (Development Economics)
M.B.A., Dhaka University, Bangladesh
B.Sc., Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (Chemical Engineering)

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.

Production Economics
   --Stochastic Cost and Production Frontiers
   --Efficiency Effect of Import Penetration on Manufacturing Industries
   --Efficiency in Vertically Integrated Hog Production
Economics of Education and Local Public Finance
International Trade and Environment
Teaching Economics

Scholarly Activity:

Presented a paper titled "Did Import Competition of 1970s and 1980s Enhance Production Efficiency of US Manufacturing Industries?" at the 82^nd 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 selected chapters of the 6^th edition Microeconomics by Pindyck and Rubinfeld, for Prentice Hall Business Publishing, 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 3^rd 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: 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, 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: 2 May 2007