 Gary D. FerrierProfessor
Lewis E. Epley, Jr. Professorship, Economics Department Chair
Degrees- BS, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Economics, 1980
- Ph.D., University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill, Economics, 1988
Teaching Areas
• Econometrics
• Economics of Organizations and Management
• Microeconomic Theory
• Economics of Industry Structure
• Economics of Regulation and Antitrust
• European Economic Integration
Research Interests
• Measurement and Sources of Economies of Scale, Economies of Scope and Productivity Change
• Stochastic and Non-Stochastic Frontier Models of Production
• Banking Costs
• Health Care Costs
Gary Ferrier has been teaching economics since 1982. In addition to the U of
A, he has taught in North Carolina, Texas, Italy and Malaysia. Since coming to
the U of A in the Fall of 1993, Professor Ferrier's primary teaching
responsibilities have been in the areas of econometrics and managerial economics.
His managerial economics course adopts a "non-traditional" approach.
Rather than preparing "business economists," the course focuses on the
economics of management--how to efficiently coordinate and motivate
people's actions within an organization.
In 1992, Professor Ferrier received a Fulbright Research Award to study the
effects of European economic unification in the financial services sector of the
Italian economy. In 1994 Professor Ferrier received a Worthen Banking Research
Award to study productivity change in the U.S. banking industry.
In 1995, Professor Ferrier received the CBA's Phillips Petroleum Outstanding
Research Award and in 1996 received the College's H.L. Hembree Best
"All-Around" Faculty Award.
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