Curriculum Vitae  
Stephen Jay Silver

Personal Information

·         Born:  Washington, D.C., December 26, 1943  

·         Addresses:  
Home --1865 Cat Tail Row, Charleston, SC 29407; (843) 766-9943  
Business -- Dept. of Business Administration, The Citadel,  Charleston, SC 29409 (843) 953-5163; Fax: (843) 953-6764  

·         E-mail: silvers@citadel.edu

Education

·         B.S. Mathematics, University of Maryland, 1966.  

·         M.A. Economics, Queens College, New York, 1972.  

·         Ph.D. Economics, University of Maryland, College Park, 1983.

Dissertation Title: A Feed and Livestock Model of the United States with an Application to the Possible Effects on U.S.  Agriculture of Large-Scale Corn Alcohol Production.  Advisor: Clopper Almon

Additional Fields:

International Economics, Monetary Economics and Applied Microeconomics.

Work Experience 

College Teaching  

·         Associate and Full Professor, Department of Business Administration, The Citadel, Charleston, SC 1990-present.  

·         Adjunct Professor of Business Statistics,  Webster University Metropolitan Campus, Charleston, SC 1996-present

·         Visiting Faculty in Operations and Supply management at Webster University in Chengdu, China, Jan. – March, 2009.

·         Visiting Faculty in Finance at Webster University in Shanghai and Shenzhen, China, Oct. – Dec. 2002.

·         Fulbright Visiting Lecturer, Faculty of Economics and Management, University of Yaounde II, Cameroon 1994-95  

·         Assistant and Associate Professor, Department of Economics and Business, Virginia Military Institute, Lexington, VA 1988-90.   

·         Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Bentley College, Waltham, MA. 1982-88.   
Courses taught include:

Undergraduate level
Principles of Economics, elementary and advanced business statistics and econometrics, managerial economics, mathematical economics, business forecasting, international economics, international business, and production and operations management.

Graduate level
business statistics, quantitative methods, managerial economics, economics, operations management, international business, business and economic forecasting, and business finance.

Special International Trips Conducted
Undergraduate travel and study trip to Costa Rica: 66 students, five faculty for three weeks, Maymester 1997
MBA travel and study trip to Costa Rica (redirected from China due to SARS): two weeks, Maymester 2003.

Research

·         Faculty Research Assistant and Graduate Research Assistant, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences Computing Lab, University of Maryland at College Park.  1980-81. 

·         Research fellow, Inter-industry Economic Research Fund (INFORUM), University of Maryland, 1978-79.

·         Teaching and research assistant, University of Maryland at College Park, Department of Economics, 1977-78.

·         Economist, Institute for Defense Analyses (I.D.A.), 1974-76; performed economic analysis in the Khmer Republic (Cambodia) 1974-75 and economic analysis of energy conservation efforts for Federal Energy Administration. 

Consulting

·         Update of Crops-Alcohol Model, for Clopper Almon, August 1984. 

·         Linkage of Livestock Model to Crops-Alcohol Model, for Clopper Almon, November 1984.  

·         Macroeconomic assessment of Burundi, for DEG, Louis Berger International, Inc., May 1988.  

·         Economic Impact Analysis of the Medical University of South Carolina on the Charleston, South Carolina MSA, 1992.

·         Economic impact studies for Trident United Way, Charleston County Department of Social Services, and the Charleston-trident Chamber of Commerce, 1992-94.

Administrative

·         Program officer and administrative officer, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), Chad, 1972-74. 

Publications

“The impact of demographics on economic policy a huge risk often ignored”, Keogh, Timothy J,  Silver, Stephen Jay and Wilford, D. Sykes Cass-Capco Institute Paper Series on Risk - Journal Vol. 25, Spring, 2009

“Common missteps in portfolio Optimization,” Stephen Jay Silver and  D. Sykes Wilford, Journal of Financial Transformation, Vol. 20, Sept. 2007 [Capco Institute, London]

Interactive Guide to the Internet for International Business, with E. Beckmann and S. Simmons, Irwin/McGraw Hill, 2002.

Internet Guide to International Business, with Susan Simmons, Prentice Hall, 2001.

“Wastewater Disposal in Rural California and Charleston, SC”, with Beth Bruno, proceedings of the National Business Economic Society annual meeting, San Juan, March, 2001.

 “Forecasting with The Forecast Analyst,” proceedings of the National Business Economic Society meeting, San Diego, March 2, 2000.

“Economic Development Efforts in Sub-Saharan Africa: Implications for Business Prospects,” proceedings of the annual conference of the Academy of Business and Administrative Sciences, Budapest, Hungary, July 1998.

"Nominal and Real Wage Cyclicality during the Interwar Period," with S. Sumner, Southern Economic Journal, January 1995. 

"Real Wages, Employment, and the Phillips Curve," with S. Sumner, Journal of Political Economy, June 1989. 

"Forecasting with Leading Indicators: On the Choice and Use of  Appropriate Leading Indicator Series," a Chapter in Leading Economic Indicators: New Approaches and Forecasting Records, Kajal Lahiri and Geoff Moore, editors, Cambridge U. Press, 1991.

"Corrected Confidence Intervals for Quotients on the WISC-R," with M.K. Clampit, Psychology in the Schools, Volume 28, Jan. 1991.

"Frequency of Discrepancies between Deviation Quotients in Profiles of Children with Above-Average IQs on the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children - Revised (WISC-R)," with M.K. Clampit, Journal of School Psychology, 28(3), 251-56, 1990.

 "Techniques for Interpreting WISC-R Profiles of High IQ Children," with M.K. Clampit, Gifted Child Quarterly, 34(2), 76-78 1990.

 "Demographic Characteristics and Mean Profiles of Learning Disability Index (LDI) Subsets of the WISC-R Standardization Sample," with M.K. Clampit, Journal of Learning Disabilities, 23(4), 263-64 1990.

"Demographic Distribution of Third Factor Deficits in the Standardization Sample of the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children - Revised," with M.K. Clampit, Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 1988(6), 309-14 1989.

  "Distribution of Relative Attention Deficits on WISC-R by Age, Sex, Social Class, and Region," with M.K. Clampit, Journal of Learning Disabilities, 22(4) 258-59, 1989.

  "Four Tables for the Statistical Interpretation of Factor Scores on the WISC-R, with M.K. Clampit, " Journal of School Psychology, 24(4) 395-404, 1986.

  "The Impact of Changing Oil Prices on Interfuel Substitution: Ethanol's Prospects in the United States to 1995," with H.D. Robison, Journal of Policy Modeling, 8(2), 241-253, 1986.

  Co-author, The Microeconomic Aspects of Energy Conservation, Institute for Defense Analyses (Prepared for the Federal Energy Administration, Office of Energy Conservation and Environment), 1976.

Other Professional Activities

   Papers presented at Professional meetings and Conferences:

  •  “Investing in China: Investigation of its Emerging Securities Markets and Direct Investment Prospects”, presented at the Business & Economics Society International 2006 Conference, Florence, Italy; July 2006
  •  “The Emerging Financial Markets of China: Foreign Direct Investment”, presented at the Academy of Business and Administrative Sciences Conference, Montreux, Switzerland; July 2006
  •  ”Latino Migration to the Lowcountry of South Carolina,” presented at the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Southern Regional Science Association, New Orleans, March , 2004
  • “An Initial Investigation into Differences in Managerial Styles for Handling Change in the Organization: A Comparison of Chinese and U.S. Managers”, with Thomas I. Kindel, and Ronald M. Zigli, presented at the 8th International Conference on Global Business& Economic Development Guadalajara; January 2004
  • "An Exploratory, Limited Domain Study of Decision-Making: Propensities of the People's Republic of China and United States MBA Students," with R. M. Zigli, T. I. Kindel, presented at the Proceedings of the 2003 Annual Meeting of the Southeast Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences, Mrtle Beach; Oct. 2003.
  • "A Preliminary Cross-Cultural Study of the Impact of Value Orientations on Management Decision-Making: The People's Republic of China and the USA," with Thomas I. Kindel, R. M. Zigli, presented at the Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Conference, Association for Global Business, Atlanta; Nov. 2003.

·         "Market Anomalies and The Diffusion of Trading Rules: The Case of the Super Bowl Stock Market Predictor," with Wesley Jones, Proceedings  Southeast Informs, Myrtle Beach, September, 2002.

·         "Face 2 Face to Cyberspace: Making the Transition." Workshop presented with Susan Simmons and Wesley Jones at the annual meeting of Southeast Decision Sciences Institute, Hilton Head, February 2002.

·         “Wastewater Disposal in Rural California and Charleston, SC”, with Beth Bruno, presented at the National Business Economic Society meetings in San Juan, March, 2001.  

·         “Forecasting with The Forecast Analyst,”, presented at the National Business Economic Society meetings in San Diego, March 2, 2000;  The Forecast Analyst is an Excel-based forecasting tool currently being reviewed by Irwin/McGraw-Hill publishers for use with their forecasting textbooks.  

·          “Economic Development Efforts in Sub-Saharan Africa: Implications for Business Prospects,” presented at the annual conference of the Academy of Business and Administrative Sciences, Budapest, Hungary, July 1998.  

·         "Recent Economic Development Efforts in Sub-Saharan Africa," presented at the Eighth World Congress of Social Economics, Charleston, SC, Aug., 1996.  

·         "The Predictive Power of Interest Rate Spreads:  Demand Shocks Versus Supply Shocks", presented at the Western Economic Association meetings, San Francisco, July, 1992.  

·         "Optimal Forecasts of Industrial Production Using the Autoregressive Structure of the Economy", presented at the Atlantic Economic Society meetings, Williamsburg, Oct. 1990. 

·         "Generating Optimal Forecasts of Industrial Production Using the Autoregressive Structure of the Economy", presented at the 9th International Symposium on Forecasting, Vancouver, June 1989.  

·         "Real Wages, Employment, and the Phillips Curve", with S. Sumner, presented at the Atlantic Economic Society meetings, Philadelphia, Oct. 1988. 

·         "The Persistence of Aggregate Output Fluctuations: Real Vs. Nominal Shocks", with S. Sumner, presented at the Western Economics Association meetings, July 1988.  

·         "Forecasting with Leading Indicators:  On the Choice of Appropriate Leading Indicator Series", presented at the 7th International Symposium on Forecasting, Boston, May 1987.  

·         "Forecasting with Leading Indicators:  Using the Lead Structure at Peaks and Troughs", with J. Fiori, presented at the Annual Meetings of the National Association of Business Economists, Boston, Sept. 1986.  

·         "The Crops-Alcohol-Livestock Model and Its Forecasts, 1982‑1995", presented at the Atlantic Economic Conference, Montreal, Oct. 1984.  

·         "The Crops-Alcohol-Livestock Model and Its Forecasts of the Impact on the North American Economy of Another Oil Crisis", presented at the North American Economic and Finance Association meetings, Mexico City, July 1984.  

Recent public service appearances:

“China’s Foreign Policy”, Kiwanis Club of Charleston, 2009
”China Before and after the Olympics” – to Kiwanis Club of Charleston, 2009
”Deficit, Debt and the U.S. National Economy”,  to students and faculty at Yangtze Normal University, Fuling, UESTC and the U.S. Consulate, Chengdu, China, 2009
”Deficit, Debt and the National Economy”, Center for Creative Retirement and Kiawah Lecture/Seminar Series, 2008
On gas price and its effect on U.S. economy, Talkback, TV 5, Charleston and TV2 News report.


Conference Discussant and Referee:  

·         Paper discussant at the Business & Economics Society International 2006 Conference, Florence, Italy; July 2006; the Academy of Business and Administrative Sciences Conference, Montreux, Switzerland, July 2006; the 8th International Conference on Global Business& Economic Development, Guadalajara, January 2004; Southeastern Informs and DSI, Hilton Head, 2002 and Myrtle Beach, 2003; NBES Association meetings, San Diego, February 2000; Western Economics Association meetings, San Francisco, July, 1992; Eighth World Congress of Social Economics, Charleston, SC, July 1996; the Southern Economics Association Meetings, Wash., D.C., November1985; NBES Association meetings, Boston, November 1984

·         Referee for the Journal of Macroeconomics and the Journal of Money Credit and Banking.

Current Research, Consulting Activities and Working Papers:  

·         Demographic influences on economic performance and political decision making

·         Current economic and political developments in China.  

·         International travel and study programs for university students.  

·         The Statistics Template, an Excel-based statistical tool for students (see http://faculty.citadel.edu/silver/Statistics Template.xls

Faculty Development Activities

·        Attended FDIB program in International Finance at the Univ. of South Carolina; June, 2006

·        Attended Chinese language classes, College of Charleston, 2002-2003

·        Attended Citadel accounting and finance classes, 2000-2001.  

·        Attended and participated in various Communication Across the Curriculum luncheons.

·        Workshops in the use of Dreamweaver, Photoshop, and WebCT

Professional Affiliations 

Current memberships:  American Economic Association, South Carolina World Trade Center, Charleston Foreign Affairs Forum (webmaster), Kiwanis Club of Charleston.

Past affiliations:

International Institute of Forecasters, Eastern Economic Association, Atlantic Economic Society, Southern Economic Association, Southern Regional Sciences Association, Western Economic Association.  


 

Honors and Awards  

·         Recipient of the MBA Teacher of the Year Award, 2006-2007, as voted by the MBA students

·         Recipient of the MBA Teacher of the Year Award, 2001-2002, as voted by the MBA students.  

·         Chair, Faculty Council, The Citadel, AY 2001-02

·         Recipient of the MBA Teacher of the Year Award, 1999-2000, as voted by the MBA students.  

·         Inducted into the national French Honor society, 1999.  

·         Inducted into the national Spanish Honor society, 1997.  

Additional Skills 

·         Foreign Languages: Fluent in French and Spanish, read Italian and Portuguese fluently. Near fluency in Mandarin Chinese.

·         Computer languages/hardware: Excellent in FORTRAN and BASIC programming languages, MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, SPSSx, Dreamweaver, and MINITAB applications.