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Scholarly
International Activities and Professional Foreign Travel 1
at the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies
The faculty and research associates continued their international work in 2003, working as advisors to countries, as representatives of international agencies and lecturers abroad in thirty-three countries on five continents during the year.
traveled to New Delhi, India, as part of a World Bank team to examine state government tax policies, March 2003.
traveled to Kingston, Jamaica, as part of an AYSPS team to examine government tax policies, October 2003.
presented “Considerations in Implementing a System of Formula-based Intergovernmental Grants” at a Workshop sponsored by The United Republic of Tanzania, and DANIDA, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, January 23, 2003.
presented “Intergovernmental Transfers – Theory” and “Decentralization: Global Framework” at the Indonesia Decentralization conference sponsored by the World Bank, Jakarta, Indonesia, February 2003.
worked with the World Bank and Maharashtra State on property taxation, India, February 2003.
prepared for the ISP proposal for the USAID-sponsored India state government reform program, India, April 2003.
advised the Government of Indonesia on Fiscal Policy, Indonesia, June 2003.
traveled to Jamaica numerous times, to work on the tax reform project.
gave lectures and consultations on rural fiscal decentralization in Karnataka State and Kerala State, India, September 2003.
attended the International Land Center Board of Directors meeting, Taiwan, September 2003.
gave a keynote address on “Development and Decentralization in Asia” at the Asian Development Conference, Kita Kyushu, Japan, November 2003.
traveled to Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, in January 2003 (together with Roy Bahl) and again in July, September, and December 2003, as Team Leader for the Development and Implementation of a Formula-Based Grant System for Local Government Authorities in Tanzania, funded by the Danish International Development Agency (DANIDA). In September, Dr. Boex presented a policy proposal for the reform of the system of local government finance to a meeting of six Permanent Secretaries.
traveled to Moscow, Russia, in March 2003, with ISP Director Jorge Martinez-Vazquez, for a week-long series of meetings as part of the ongoing World Bank-funded project “Development of federal and regional legislation on interbudgetary relations and sub-federal finances.” Among others, the team met with Mr. Alexei Lavrov, the Deputy Department Head of the Department of Intergovernmental Fiscal Relations at the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation.
traveled to Indonesia in June 2003 with ISP Director Jorge Martinez-Vazquez, for two weeks of meetings and workshops as part of the USAID-funded project “Technical Support for Decentralization Reform in Indonesia.”
traveled to Mbabane, Swaziland, in October 2003 (accompanied with Javier Arze) and again in December 2003 as Team Leader for the Study on Intergovernmental Fiscal Transfers in Swaziland, funded by the Swaziland Ministry of Finance through a World Bank loan.
traveled to Kampala, Uganda, in October 2003 to deliver a five-day workshop. The purpose of the workshop was to provide a refresher program for LGFC experts, several of which had previously attended the Andrew Young School's decentralization training programs in Atlanta.
traveled to the Republic of South Africa in October 2003 for a day to meet with government officials at the National Treasury, including the Chief Director of Macroeconomic Policy. The meeting explored possible institutional linkages between the Andrew Young School and the National Treasury.
traveled to the Kingdom of Lesotho in December 2003 for a day to meet with government officials at the Ministry of Finance, including the Director of Decentralization. The meetings explored possible institutional linkages between the Andrew Young School and the Ministry of Finance.
traveled to Kingston, Jamaica, as part of a USAID-sponsored tax reform project, December 7-11, 2003.
presented “Protecting Forests and Biodiversity: Are investments in eco-friendly production activities the best way to protect endangered ecosystems and enhance rural livelihoods?” (with David Simpson) as the keynote presentation at the conference "Rural Livelihoods, Forests and Biodiversity," sponsored by The Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), in collaboration with Germany’s Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), the German Foundation for International Development (DSE) and Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ), Bonn, Germany, May 2003.
was invited to speak at (but did not attend) the World Conservation Union’s (IUCN) decennial World Parks Congress in Durban, South Africa, September 2003.
was invited to present “Construction Marketing in the 21st Century" to the Technology & Management Institute, Egypt, August 2003.
was accepted to present “A Heuristic Model for Transportation Safety Using GIS” (with Ran Fernandez and Essam Sharaf) at the Second Roads Conference, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, March 2003.
was invited to attend the 8th annual meeting of the Crisis Research Unit (CRU) at Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt, December 2003.
gave a presentation on economic development to the governor of Qena and his top aides, Egypt, December 2003.
discussed with Delta Aviation a potential study to use GIS in airport planning and management for the Egyptian Airports (first meeting was 2002), November 2003.
met with the CEO of the Arab Contractors in Egypt to discuss the use of GIS in construction management and the potential for funded studies from USAID, August 2003.
was invited to visit the Electronic Business Institute (first visit was in 2002) – Information Decision and Support Center and to review their EBI activities as related to developing countries, Cairo, Egypt, October 2003.
served as a liaison for the Second Roads Conference in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, and transportation researchers in the U.S., March 2003.
collaborated with the Southeastern Transportation Center (STC) on the role of transportation and logistics in economic development in Egypt.
prepared an outline manuscript in Arabic on international civil aviation for possible publication by the Civil Aviation Authority (publisher of Civil Aviation Magazine) in Saudi Arabia.
discussed potential research between the Georgia Transportation Institute and the Department of Civil Engineering at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, August 2003.
through the Georgia Transportation Institute submitted a concept proposal to the U.S. Trade & Development Agency (US-TDA) to conduct workshops on railroads for transportation officials from North Africa and the Middle East, October 2003.
advised groups from Sudan on securing funding for transportation projects and training, December 2003.
gave a presentation on AYSPS/GSU to the Chairman of the Transportation Committee and his associates, and to the Chairman of the Economic Committee and his associates, in the Egyptian National Democratic Party, December 2003.
met with the Dean of the Faculty of Business in Ain Shams University in Cairo to discuss potential joint workshops on micro-enterprise and micro-finance to a group from Sudan, August 2003.
was instrumental in establishing a link between the new Egyptian Center for Future Studies (ECFS) and AYSPS. His efforts resulted in two proposals that were submitted to AYSPS, December 2003.
advised a graduate student on developing an air transport regional forecasting model at the Civil Engineering Department at the American University in Beirut, Lebanon.
gave a presentation on AYSPS to the Economic Sector of the Egyptian Cabinet Information Decision Support Center, May 2003.
gave a presentation on AYSPS to the president and top officials of South Valley University, Qena, Egypt, November 2003.
hosted and presented on Community Capacity Building and The Atlanta Project to Community representatives from Devonshire, England, June 2003, and to Government officials from Poland, October 2003.
was invited to serve on a doctoral committee at the University of Lausanne, Graduate School of Business, Lausanne, Switzerland.
served as lead faculty host of the Associate Dean and Head of Policy Studies Research Center from the University of Northumbria, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK.
presented “The Future of Industrial Relations in the United States” at the Canadian Industrial Relations Association meetings, Halifax, Nova Scotia, May 30, 2003.
presented “The Industrial Relations System: A Reconceptualization” at the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics World Congress, Aix en Provence, France, June 26, 2003.
served as Co-chair of an External Review Committee for Graduate Programs at the Centre for Industrial Relations, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, November 19-20, 2003.
presented “Further Reflections on Prospect Theory” at the Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory meetings, Rhodes, Greece, July 2003.
presented “General Principles of Transfer Design” and “An Assessment of the System of Equalization Transfers" in China at the International Symposium on Fiscal Transfers, sponsored by the Ministry of Finance P.R. China, DaLi City, China, December 2003.
traveled to Mexico and contributed several reports on subnational financing
strategies for The World Bank, Housing and Local Development, Mexico,
January-February 2003.
was a research medal finalist at the Global Development Network's 4th Annual Global Development Conference, Cairo, Egypt, January 2003. He presented "Contract Enforcement, Institutional Stability, and the Level and Maturity of International Lending."
traveled to India as part of a field study for preparation of USAID’s India Fiscal Reform Project Proposal, March 2003.
traveled to Indonesia to provide training in Fiscal Analysis for staff of the Ministry of Finance, September 2003.
traveled to Jamaica to initiate study of the Corporate Income Tax and Tax Incentives as part of the Jamaica Tax Study Project of AYSPS, October 2003.
served as an Expert Witness for the Copyright Board of Canada, 2003.
prepared the paper “Should Saskatchewan Adopt Retail Competition for Electricity?” for the Saskatchewan Power Corporation, Saskatchewan, Canada, 2003.
was a participant in the Second World Summit on the Arts and Culture, sponsored by the International Federation of Arts Councils and Culture Agencies (IFACCA), Singapore, November 23-26, 2003.
established research contacts with Maria Paulina Soto Labbe, Coordinator of the Division of Culture, Ministry of Education, Chile; future contacts will be maintained during regular trips to Chile.
participated in the World Association for Public Opinion Research Seminar, presenting “Public Opinion, Polls and Policies,” Zurich, Switzerland, June 26-28, 2003.
was a guest of the PRIME Workshop, "The Micro Structure of Public Research," Pisa, Italy, July 10-13, 2003.
participated in the NBER conference "R&D, Education and Productivity," in honor of Zvi Griliches, Paris, France, August 25, 2003.
presented “Firm Placement of New Ph.D.s: Implications for Knowledge Transfer” at the University of Sophie-Antipolis, Nice, France, April 2003.
presented “Career Stage, Benchmarking, and Collective Research” at PRIME Workshop, Cerbana, Italy, July 2003.
was a member of the jury for Laure Turner, Universite Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne, for her dissertation, "La Recherche Publique Dans la Production de Connaissances: Contributions en Economie de la Science," November 27, 2003.
served as reviewer for a research proposal at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium.
presented “Externality Effects of Small-Scale Hazardous Waste Sites: Evidence from Urban Commercial Property Markets” at the IUAV Conference on Brownfields as Opportunities for Sustainable Development, Venice, Italy, January 2003.
presented a workshop on “Experiments for Research and the Classroom” at the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada, April 2003.
presented a seminar on “Externality Effects of Small-Scale Hazardous Waste Sites: Evidence from Urban Commercial Property Markets” at the University of Alberta, Alberta, Canada, April 2003.
presented “Guns, Drugs and Juvenile Crime: Evidence from a Panel of Siblings and Twins” and participated in a four-day symposium, the European Symposium of Labor Economics, organized by the Center for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) and the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Munich, Germany, September 2003.
attended the Annual Meeting of the Swiss Society of Economics and Statistics 2003 in Berne, Switzerland, March 2003.
presented "Tax Evasion, Trust, and State Capacities" at the Tax Morale in Central and Eastern European Countries Conference, University of St. Gallen, St. Gallen, Switzerland, October 17-19, 2003.
presented “Spatial Price Information in Real Property Markets” at the First Annual KIITO Workshop, Department of Surveying, Helsinki University of Technology, Helsinki, Finland, November 3-5, 2003.
presented “Spatial Competition and Shopping Externalities: Evidence from the Housing Market” at the Department of Finance and Statistics, Swedish School of Economics and Business Administration, Helsinki, Finland, November 6, 2002.
traveled to Bulgaria to organize a national survey of expected inflation and perceptions about monetary policy and economic reform as part of a long-term project on currency board credibility. In preparation for the project, he visited a number of government and research institutions in the country including the Central Bank and the Ministry of Finance.
participated in summer training programs for international tax analysts, International Studies Program, Georgia State University, Summer 2003.
gave the World Bank Presentation "Applications of Fiscal Architecture" for World Bank Learning Week, Washington, D.C., April 23, 2003.
and Richard Bird*** presented “Alcohol Taxation in Africa,” at the South African Conference on Excise Taxation, Gauteng Province, South Africa, June 11-13, 2003.
traveled to Jamaica as co-director of the Jamaica Tax Reform Policy program.
presented “On Measuring Personal Connections and the Extent of Social Networks” at the Central European Program in Economic Theory Summer Workshop, Udine, Italy, June 5-6, 2003.
presented “Non-Welfaristic Policy Assessment” at the Symposium on Intergenerational Equity, Tokyo, Japan, March 8-9, 2003.
served as Guest Professor at the Institute of Public Economics, University of Graz, Austria, Summer 2003.
1. Names of visitors are highlighted in the two visitors sections. In the 'Other Activities' section, All Andrew Young School of Policy Studies names are highlighted in bold. Graduate students are designated with an asterisk, former graduate students with a double asterisk, and Visiting Faculty with a triple asterisk.
