Creighton University

 
Jack A. MacAllister Chair in Regional Economics

Professor of Economics

Eppley Building BA 207

Work Phone: (402)280-4757

Fax: (402)280-2172

Email Address: ernieg@creighton.edu

Ernest Goss is currently the Jack MacAllister Chair in Regional Economics at Creighton University. He received his Ph.D. in Economics from The University of Tennessee in 1983 and is a former faculty research fellow at NASAs Marshall Space Flight Center. He will be a visiting scholar with the Congressional Budget Office for 2003-04.

He has published over eighty research studies focusing primarily on economic forecasting and on the statistical analysis of business and economic data. His research paper entitled, The Internets Contribution to U.S. Productivity Growth, received the National Association of Business Economics Edmund A. Mennis Contributed Papers Award for 2001. His book, Changing Attitudes toward Economic Reform during the Yeltsin Era was published by Praeger Press in 2003.

He is a member of the Editorial Board of The Review of Regional Studies and editor of Economic Trends, an economics newsletter published three times per year. He is the past president of the Omaha Association of Business Economics, and President-elect of the Nebraska Purchasing Management Association.

Goss produces a monthly business conditions index for the nine state Mid-American region and the three state Mountain region. Survey results are cited each month in approximately 100 newspapers. Newspaper citations have included the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Investors Business Daily, The Christian Science Monitor, Chicago Sun Times and other national and regional newspapers and magazines. Each month 75-100 radio stations carry his Regional Economic Report.

Teaching experience (institutions and time periods)

Maryville College---1979-81

University of Alabama (Huntsville)- 1983-87

Salisbury State University- 1987-89

University of Southern Mississippi- 1989-1992

Creighton University- 1992- Present

Home Phone:(402) 551-8497

Work Phone:(402) 280-4757

Fax:(402) 280-2172

E-mail:ernieg@creighton.edu

Publications

• Economic Growth and Support for Market Reform in Russia, forthcoming book published by Greenwood Press, 2003.
• "Economic Well-Being and Popular Support for Market Reform in Russia," forthcoming in Economic Development & Cultural Change, Spring 2003.
• "The Impact of the Internet on the Gender Wage Gap," Communications of the ACM, forthcoming, 2003.
• "Health Care Organizational Learning: Predicting Death in the ICU with Neural Networks," in Health Care Management Science, Vol. 5, 2002, pp. 221-227.
• With J. Phillips, "How Information Technology Affects Wages: Evidence Using Internet Usage as a Proxy for IT Skills," Journal of Labor Research, Vol. XXIII(3), 2002, pp. 463-474.
• "The Internet’s Contribution to U.S. Productivity Growth," Business Economics, XXXVI, October 2201, pp. 32-42. Received the National Association of Business Economics Edward A Mennis Award.
• "Bidding for Business: The Efficacy of Local Economic Development Incentives in a Metropolitan Area," (Book Review), Urban Studies, 38(7), June 2001, pp. 1193-1194.
• With J. Phillips, "The Impact of Tax Incentives: Do Initial Economic Conditions Matter?," Growth & Change, 32, Spring 2001, pp. 236-250.
• "Network Applications in the Insurance Industry," Mathematics and Computers in Science and Engineering, edited by C.E. D’Attellis, et al., 2001, pp. 247-252, Athens, Greece, New York, NY: World Scientific Engineering Society Press.

Presentations

• "Internet Usage and Wage Growth," presented at the 42nd Annual Meeting of the Southern Regional Science Association, Spring 2002, Washington, DC.