Munir Quddus

• Ph.D. Economics
• Head of Faculty at Prairie View A&M University

Prairie View A&M University (PVAMU) plays an important role in the social and economic life of the local, state and national economy. This study presents estimates of the economic impacts of the University’s contributions, both short-term and long-term, on the local (Waller County), regional (Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land Metropolitan Statisti...

This study presents estimates of the economic impact of Prairie View A&M University on the local, regional, and state economy in 2012. The primary measurement variables used were direct spending, total output, value-added, labor income, and employment. This report also highlights the non-quantifiable impacts through a summary of the research and se...

I congratulate Professor Coats for his wide-ranging critique (Coats 1992) of the report published by the Commission on Graduate Education in Economics (Krueger et al. 1991). In comparing the commission's report with an earlier study (Bowen 1953), Coats finds the report deficient in critical areas. Despite the fact that the commission enjoyed semi-o...

This study examines the curricula and training of doctoral accounting students and intellectual contributions of accounting faculty at non-doctoral institutions in Texas. The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business International Standards classifies faculty intellectual contribution into three fields: discipline-based scholarship rese...

In this study, we surveyed 400 faculty and administrators whose names appeared on a current directory of the Association for the Advancement of Collegiate Schools of Business-International (AACSB). We also surveyed 400 business faculty members from 14 randomly selected Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU). Data were collected via Sur...

There is increased emphasis on ethics in business and the teaching and learning of ethics in business schools. One formative source for ethical understanding is one's religious background and beliefs. Therefore, a highly pertinent question is: What are the teachings of various religions regarding ethical practices in commercial activities? Within t...

What behaviors are considered disrespectful by today's faculty members? What behaviors are considered acceptable? Are college professors' demographic characteristics significantly related to their perceptions and actual encounters with students' disrespectful behavior? This study, based on a survey of members listed in the Association to Advance Co...

Faculty from 14 randomly selected Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) were statistically different than faculty surveyed from a directory of the Association for the Advancement of Collegiate Schools of Business-International (AACSB) regarding their perceptions of disrespectful student behavior. Data were collected via a Survey Monke...

The authors performed a content analysis of intellectual contribution portfolios of accounting faculty at various business schools that Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business International recently accredited. The results showed a significant divergence in faculty research (e.g., areas, topics) and their teaching assignments. This di...

This paper presents a descriptive profile of international professoriate in the U.S. business schools. The survey-based study presents a group perception of the contributions made by this group of faculty members to higher education in the United States, and to their native homeland. Besides collecting demographic information and faculty perception...

This is the version uploaded to ERIC (the government database hosted by the US Department of Education) prior to the version that came out in print. ABSTRACT: We determined that a Center for Business Communication (CBC) had a significant impact on helping college of business students improve as writers. The variables were labeled college grade leve...

This study seeks to create a profile of immigrant academics in the US and their own perceptions of their professional contributions to the US academia and to their home countries. A survey was accordingly conducted on immigrant faculty in the business disciplines, with regards to their demographic profile and their perceptions in the areas of teach...

The end of the Cold War, which resulted from the collapse of communism and the spread of free market ideas in the former Soviet Union, China, and nations in Eastern Europe, has brought about many dramatic and momentous changes on the world scene. One remarkable development not widely recognized outside specialized academic circles is the emergence...

This paper is concerned with the history and theory of bureaucratic corruption. It uses the context of the garment export sector in Bangladesh to further analyze issues relating to corruption in both the private and the public sector. The paper concludes that corruption in the Third World countries is a complex issue. Further, it argues that blamin...

Contemporary economics is currently undergoing a crisis as reflected by a decline in its influence on public policy discourse. The abject failure of academic economics to effectively address issues of the transitional economies or to produce a satisfactory explanation of the East Asian economic crisis has added to this negative image. This paper re...

This paper investigates the role played by speculative price bubbles in destabilizing food markets in Bangladesh during the 1974 famine. The hypothesis of speculative price bubbles in the rice market is tested using weekly price data. These tests are based on a theoretical model of storable food markets in which agents exhibit rational expectations...

When a student in introductory economics approaches us for study advice, what study methods should we recommend? Economists have been vocal about their belief that their discipline is more analytical and rigorous than other social sciences and, therefore, needs special study techniques for efficient learning. However, the literature on economic edu...

Mathematics has become an integral part of 20th century economics. Mathematical techniques that were considered to be on the fringes of economics even a few decades ago are today considered mainstream economics. Economists presented considerable resistance in the past to the encroachment of mathematical methods in economics. This opposition in vari...

The literature critical of excessive quantification in economics may hold lessons for the related business disciplines that, in the past, have often been influenced by the intellectual legacy of economics. There is concern that the economics profession is losing good students from liberal arts programs and that there is increasing polarization with...

Expanding on recent work by Tang and Hu (1983), this paper tests for the direction of causality between the money supply and inflation in the three currency areas of China during the hyperinflation of 1946 to 1949. As in the previous study, we find a feedback relationship between money and prices for the mainland China currency area. However, this...

This paper uses data from the Chinese hyperinflation of 1946–1949 to focus on the relationship between the variability in the general price level and the dispersion in relative prices. The issue is important because it bears on the ‘natural rate hypothesis’ which supports the postulate that these two monetary variables are independent. Our results...

Economic Development and Population Growth. International Evidence The paper usses Granger causality tests on economic development and population growth for 44 countries to discriminate among several alternative hypotheses. The time series evidence does not provide an unambiguous picture as to the exact nature of the relationship. Therefore, previo...

Since the early 1980s, developing countries have eagerly sought to increase the influx of foreign capital. This paper analyses recent trends in capital inflows as measured by Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) for selected economies in South Asia -Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. Amongst the four, the average ratio of FDI to GDP is the lowes...