Steven Miller

Steven R. Miller

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Assistant Professor
Department of Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics

Degrees:
Ph.D., Oklahoma State University
B.A., Oklahoma State University

Fixed-term assistant professor Dr. Steven R. Miller specializes in applied economic methods for forecasting and impact analysis. Dr. Miller is also the Director of the Center for Economic Analysis.

As a graduate, Steven maintained and programmed the Oklahoma State University Econometric Forecasting model and served as investigator on several Oklahoma Department of Human Resources studies of TANF funding, and child support studies for impact and needs assessments.

He has produced numerous impact assessments of Wichita, Kansas area businesses seeking state and local sponsored incentives, produced papers on aviation demand across competing regional airports, and papers on alternative estimation methods of systems modeling. He is currently working on: Development of Profitable Michigan-Based Meat and Livestock Value Chains.

Research and Outreach Interests

Building models for and producing national, state and local economic forecasts
Impact assessment of industry and policy
State and local incentives for economic development
Spatial estimation models
Bayesian vector autoregression models for forecasting
Impact assessment of recreation destination

Center for Economic Analysis draws on expertise of the faculty that makes up the Department of Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics, and the center's objectives include linking research questions to appropriate faculty. The center works with department faculty to push through stakeholder requests for economic analysis & has been successful in pushing projects along a wide swath of topics including public policy, health care, agriculture policy, environmental policy and economic development.

Steven's personal area of interest is in projects and programs around economic growth and development, including community- and regional-based entrepreneurship programs.