MURAT KHAIRZHAN-ULI MUNKIN

CURRENT POSITION

Associate Professor (with tenure), since 2007

Department of Economics, University of South Florida, Tampa

ADDRESS

Department of Economics, University of South Florida, 4202 East Fowler Avenue, CMC 207B
Tampa FL 33620-5500, USA
Email: mmunkin@usf.edu
Telephone: (813) 974 6517; Fax: (813 ) 974 6510;
Web-site: http://faculty.cas.usf.edu/mmunkin/

FIELDS OF INTEREST

Bayesian Econometrics; Microeconometrics; Health Economics; Islamic Economics

PERSONAL DATA

Citizenship: USA
Nationality: Kazakhstan
Marital Status: Married, 4 children

EDUCATION

Ph.D. in Economics (Econometrics), 2001

Indiana University, Department of Economics, Bloomington, USA

Diploma (Honors, GPA 4.82/5.00) in Mathematics (Probability Theory), 1993

Moscow State University, Department of Mathematics and Mechanics, Moscow, Russia

PREVIOUS POSITIONS

Visiting Associate Professor, 2010-2012

Department of Finance and Economics, Qatar University, Doha, Qatar

Associate Professor (with tenure), 2007

Department of Economics, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Assistant Professor, 2001-2007

Department of Economics, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Associate Instructor, 1996-2001,

Department of Economics, Indiana University, Bloomington

Lecturer (Calculus), 1993-1994

Kazakh National Technical University, Almaty, Kazakhstan

LANGUAGE EDUCATION

2010-2012 Arabic for Non-Native Speakers Program

Qatar University, Doha, Qatar
1995 Intensive English Program
Indiana University, Bloomington, USA

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1994 Texas Intensive English Program
Austin, Texas, USA
AWARDS

2002 The Esther L. Kinsley Ph.D. Outstanding Dissertation Award

2000 The Taulman A. Miller Best International Student Award
Department of Economics, Indiana University, Bloomington, USA
1991-1993 Best Student Scholarship for Excellent Performance,
Moscow State University, Department of Mechanics and
Mathematics, Moscow, Russia
1986 Winner of Mathematical Journal "Квант (Quant)" Tournament, Russia
1986 First place at Mathematical “Tournament of Towns”, Soviet Union
1984 Third place in Kazakhstan Republic's Mathematical Olympiad

PUBLICATIONS

“Bayesian Estimation of Panel Data Fractional Response Models with Endogeneity: An Application to
Standardized Test Rates”, (2015), Empirical Economics, 49, 81-114 (with Lawrence Kessler)

“Estimating Incentive and Selection Effects in Medigap Insurance Market: An Application with Dirichlet
Process Mixture Model”, (2015), Forthcoming in Journal of Applied Econometrics (with Stewart Hu and
P.K. Trivedi)

“Simulating the Contribution of a Biospecimen and Clinical Data Repository in a Phase II Clinical Trial: a
Value of Information Analysis”, Statistical Methods in Medical Research (2013) (with Benjamin Craig,
Gang Han and David Fenstermacher)

“The Endogenous Sequential Probit Model: An Application to the Demand for Hospital Utilization”,
Economics Letters, (2011), 112, 182-185

“Recent Developments in Cross-Section and Panel Data Models of Event Counts,” The Handbook of
Empirical Economics and Finance, edited by David Giles and Aman Ullah, (2010), 87-131 (with P.K.
Trivedi)

“Disentangling incentives effects of insurance coverage from adverse selection in the case of drug
expenditure: a finite mixture approach”, (2010), Health Economics, 19, 1093-1108. (with P.K. Trivedi)

“Demand for Cigarettes: A Mixed Binary-Ordered Probit Approach”, (2010), Applied Economics, 42(4),
413-426 (with P. Kasteridis and S. Yen)

“A Bayesian Analysis of the OPES Model with a Non-parametric Component: Application to Dental
Insurance and Dental Care,” (2009), Advances in Econometrics, Volume 23: Bayesian Econometrics
(with P.K. Trivedi)

“Bayesian Analysis of the Ordered Probit Model with Endogenous Selection,” (2008), Journal of
Econometrics, 143, 334-348 (with P.K. Trivedi)

“Private Insurance, Selection, and the Health Care Use: A Bayesian Analysis of a Roy-type Model,”
(2006), Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, 24, 403-415 (with P. Deb and P.K. Trivedi)

“Bayesian Analysis of the Two-Part Model with Endogeneity: Application to Health Care Expenditure,”
(2006), Journal of Applied Econometrics, 21, 1081-1099 (with P. Deb and P.K. Trivedi)

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“Bayesian Analysis of Self-Selection Model with Multiple Outcomes Using Simulation-Based Estimation:
An Application to the Demand for Healthcare,” (2003), Journal of Econometrics, 114, 197-220 (with P.K.
Trivedi)

“The MCMC and SML Estimation of a Self-Selection Model”, Computational Statistics and Data Analysis,
(2003), 42, 403-424

“Simulated Maximum Likelihood Estimation of Multivariate Mixed-Poisson Regression Models, With

Application,” The Econometrics Journal, (1999), Volume 2, Issue 1, pp. 29-48., (with P.K. Trivedi)

PAPERS UNDER REVIEW AND WORKING PAPERS

“The Effect of Total Capital on Asset Risks of Islamic Banks: the Endogenous Treatment Panel Data
Model Approach”, under review in the Review of Financial Economics (with Syed Basher and Lawrence
Kessler)

“Bayesian Analysis of the Roy Model with Count Outcomes: Finite Mixture Approach”

“Bayesian Analysis of the Multinomial Probit Model”

“Bayesian analysis of the Cross-Nested Dynamic Ordered Probit Model. Application: Federal Reserve
Bank’s Rate Policy” (with Andrei Sirchenko)

“Bayesian Analysis of the Effect of Amnesties on Tax Revenues and Filing Rates Using a Longitudinal
Data Model”

COURSES TAUGHT

Ph.D. courses:
Elements of Statistics
Elements of Econometrics
Time Series Econometrics
Special Topics in Microeconometrics
Bayesian Econometrics
Health Economics

Undergraduate courses:
Algebra
Calculus
Mathematics for Business Students
Introductory Statistics
Introductory Microeconomics
Intermediate Microeconomics
Introductory Macroeconomics
Time Series Econometrics
Health Economics

GRANTS

“Clinically enhanced multi-purpose administrative dataset for comparative effectiveness research in the
State of Florida” Agency for Health Care Research and Quality, 2010-2013, (Co-PI with Hamisu Salihu)

“Effective Cancer Care: Building a Cancer CER Infrastructure”, from National Institute of
Health, 2009-2010, (Consultant to David Fenstermacher and Benjamin Craig, Moffitt Cancer
Center)

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“U.S. Household Food Demand at Home”, from the US Department of Agriculture, 2007-2008
(Co-Principal Investigator with Steve Yen)

Scholarly Research Grant, College of Business Administration, University of Tennessee, 2001-

2003 (Principal Investigator)

“Health Plan Choice and Utilization: The Role of Attributes”, from the Robert Wood Johnson
Foundation, 2002-2003, (Consultant to P.K. Trivedi and P. Deb)

“The Impact of Managed Care on the Demand of Preventive and Curative Medical Services”,
from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, 2001-2002, (Consultant to P.K. Trivedi
and P. Deb)

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

Reviewer

Folland, Sherman, Allen C. Goodman and Miron Stano. 2004. The Economics of Health and Health Care.
Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall Inc.

Referee

Journal of Econometrics
The Econometrics Journal
Journal of Business and Economic Statistics
Journal of Applied Econometrics
Computational Statistics and Data Analysis
Health Economics
Economic Inquiry
Journal of the European Economic Association
The Review of Economics and Statistics

PH.D. THESES ADVISING

Shawn Strother, Ph.D., 2003, Department of Finance, University of Tennessee

Panos Kasteridis, Ph.D., 2008, (Chair), Department of Economics, University of Tennessee
Chris Jones, Ph.D., 2008, Department of Economics, University of South Florida
Rui Dai, Ph.D., 2009, Department of Economics, University of South Florida
Finnie Cook, Ph.D., 2009, Department of Economics, University of South Florida
Joe MacDougald, Ph.D. 2010, Department of Economics, University of South Florida
Stewart Hu, Ph.D. 2011, (Chair), Department of Economics, University of South Florida
Lawrence Kessler, Ph.D. 2013, (Chair), Department of Economics, University of South Florida
Dan Zhao, Ph.D. 2013, Department of Economics, University of South Florida
Natallia Gray, Ph.D. 2014, Department of Economics, University of South Florida
Joseph Mohr, Ph.D. 2014, Department of Finance, University of South Florida
Victoria Perk, Ph.D. (in progress) Department of Economics, University of South Florida
Robyn Kibler, Ph.D. (in progress) Department of Economics, University of South Florida
John Oryema, Ph.D. (in progress) Department of Economics, University of South Florida
Askar Nurbekov (Eurasian National University, Astana, Kazakhstan)
Aslanbek Murzahmetov (Kazakh National University, Almaty, Kazakhstan)

MA ORAL EXAMINATION COMMITTEE (between 2010-2015)

Kylie Gross (2014)

Stephen Poteet (2014)

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Eros Gautam (2014)
Jessie Coe (2013)
Janmarie Pena (2013)

SERVICE

CAS Core Facilities Committee, 2014-2016

CAS Computer Committee, 2009
Department of Economics Research Committee (Chairperson), 2011-2013
Department of Economics Faculty Hiring Search Committee, 2011-2013
Department of Economics Committee A (Tenure and Promotion Committee)
Department Development Committee
Econometrics Qualifying Exam committee
Committee on the Master's Program in Applied Economics jointly with the Department of Mathematics
Seminar Series Committee (Chairperson), 2007-2010

SERVICE TO THE COMMUNITY

Board member of the Tajweed Institute of Florida (2014-present)

Mathematical club in the Universal Academy of Florida (2009)

LANGUAGES

Kazakh (native), Russian (native), English (near native), Modern Standard Arabic (intermediate)