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Britton, Charles
Carreira, Rita
Collins, Dana
Costrell, Robert
Curington, Bill
Deck, Cary
Farmer, Amy
Ferrier, Gary Dept Chair
Gay, David
Gu, Jingping
Horowitz, Andrew
Jahedi, Salar
Jensen, Sarah
Johnson, David
Kali, Raja
Mendez, Fabio
Reyes, Javier
Stapp, Robert
Ziegler, Joseph
Ph.D. Students
Adarov, Amat
Cheek, Robert
Foster, Joshua
Johnson, Aaron
Martin, Jennifer
McGee, Josh
McHan, Kyle
Zhu, James
Staff
Littrell, Rita
Luchkina, Claire
Yell, Susan
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 Gary D. Ferrier
Professor
Lewis E. Epley, Jr. Professorship, Economics Department Chair
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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.
Recent Research Articles
- The Economic Benefit of Goal Congruence and Implications for Management Control Systems
- Do Hospital Mergers Increase Productivity and Scale Efficiency
- Exploring Psychiatric Hospital Performance Using Data Envelopment Analysis and Cluster Analysis
- Economic and Behavioral Determinants of Taxpayer Noncompliance: Evidence from the 1997 Arkansas Tax Penalty Amnesty Program
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