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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 2004, working as advisors to countries, as representatives of international agencies and lecturers abroad in 40 countries during the year.
co-authored (with William Kaempfer) a paper presented at the Western Economic Association Annual Meetings, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, July 2004.
worked on a project as part of a Brookings Institute team to examine government policies in Puerto Rico, 2004.
worked on a project as part of a World Bank team to examine government tax policies in India, 2004.
serves as principal advisor to the World Bank on its program of fiscal decentralization and rural development in India.
serves as principal advisor to the Asian Development Bank in its program of support for intergovernmental fiscal reform in Pakistan.
attended the Board of Directors meeting, and executive committee meeting, of the Land Reform Training Institute in Taiwan.
presented a series of lectures on fiscal decentralization to senior Turkish government officials in Ankara, Turkey, April 12-14, 2004.
presented at the Workshop on Rural Decentralization in Punjab: The Way Forward Government of Punjab and World Bank, Chandigarh, India, June 8, 2004.
presented “Fiscal Decentralization in India” at the Fiscal Decentralization to Rural Governments in India conference, co-sponsored by the National Institute of Public Finance and Policy and The World Bank, New Delhi, India, June 27, 2004.
advised the World Bank mission in Bangladesh concerning local government finance, June 2004.
advised the Government of India on Intergovernmental Fiscal Relations and Rural Development, Delhi, West Bengal, and Rajasthan, India, July 2004.
presented two days of lectures on Fiscal Decentralization to the Provincial Finance Commissions, Lahore, Pakistan, August 4-6, 2004.
visited the University of Mauritius as an external examiner in economics and to discuss enhancement of the program with the economics department. He also met with the Vice Chancellor to discuss the possibility of a cooperative program between Georgia State University and University of Mauritius, Reduit, Mauritius, September 20-24, 2004.
presented "Key Findings on Fiscal Decentralization" at the conference "Fiscal Decentralization to Rural Local Governments in India," Bangalore, India, November 10, 2004.
traveled to Kathmandu, Nepal, to deliver a six-day workshop on "Fiscal Decentralization in Nepal." The workshop was attended by 30 senior government officials, including officials from the Local Bodies Fiscal Commission Secretariat, Ministry of Local Development, National Planning Commission, Ministry of Finance, and various line ministries, January 2004.
traveled to the Kingdom of Swaziland to meet with central and local government officials, including the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Planning. The meetings explored possible institutional linkages between the Andrew Young School and the Government of Swaziland to support local government finance reforms, February 2004.
traveled to Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, as Team Leader for Implementation of a Formula-Based Grant System for Local Government Authorities in Tanzania, funded by the Danish International Development Agency (DANIDA II & III), in March, May, September and December 2004.
see also Jorge Martinez-Vazquez.
presented “Direct Payments to Protect Endangered Ecosystems and Experimental Methods to Estimate Payment Costs” as the Plenary seminar at the 21st Biannual Workshop of the Economy and Environment Program for Southeast Asia, Hanoi, Vietnam, May 2004.
prepared a conceptual proposal to promote tourism and capacity development in Egypt. The proposal is being presented to the Minister of Tourism in Egypt.
prepared conceptual proposal on tourism promotion and capacity development in Qatar. The proposal will be presented to the Head of the Qatar Tourism Agency, Qatar, January 2005.
collaborated with a group in Libya on developing a conceptual proposal on promoting tourism in Libya. The proposal will be submitted to the Minister of Tourism in the first quarter of 2005.
visited with the American University in Cairo (AUC), Egypt, to explore collaboration in the area of public administration and policy. AUC is pursuing an endowment to establish a policy research center.
met with the Minister of Transportation in Egypt to discuss a proposal to enhance transportation safety in Egypt. The proposal will be prepared by the Southeastern Transportation Center that includes GSU as one of its members.
advised the Ministry of Transportation in Egypt on several issues including railroad privatization, ports concessioning, and transportation safety.
was appointed to the advisory board of a new private university in Egypt, which will be named at the board's first meeting in March 2005. He was nominated by the former Minister of Transportation to serve on the board.
was nominated to serve on the coordinating committee for the Air Transport Research Society World Conference, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, July 2005.
collaborated with faculty at AYSPS on a proposal to promote economic development in Egypt. The proposal will be submitted to the USAID mission, Egypt, March 2005.
collaborated with faculty at Kennesaw State University on a proposal to establish a partnership with South Valley University in Egypt. The proposal was submitted to the U.S.-Middle East Partnership Initiative (MEPI), the Association Liaison Office (ALO) for University Cooperation in Development, Washington, D.C.
served as a liaison for U.S. transportation researchers at the Second Roads Conference in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, March 2004.
refereed two papers for The World Conference on Transport Research Society (WCTRS), Istanbul, Turkey, June 2004.
presented “An Ethnographic Approach to Storytelling” at the Academy of Management Conference on Research Methods, Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3, Lyon, France, March 2004.
visited the University of Northumbria, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England (UNN), March 2004.
served on a doctoral committee and presented a seminar on qualitative research methods to doctoral students at the University of Lausanne, Graduate School for Business, in Lausanne, Switzerland, June 2004.
hosted UNN faculty visit (Professors Rosie Cunningham and Lynn Dobbs) to GSU, October 2004.
presented “Coming Full Circle: Assessing Evaluation’s Influence on Program Performance” at the European Evaluation Society, Berlin, Germany, October 2, 2004.
presented “What Do Unions Do?: A Twenty Year Review” at the London School of Economics, London, England, U.K., March 9, 2004.
presented “High-Level Employee Involvement at Delta Air Lines” at the U.K. Department of Industry and Trade, London, England, U.K., March 10, 2004.
presented “Benefits and Costs of Employee Involvement Programs” at the Institute of Personnel Management, London, England, U.K., March 12, 2004.
presented “The Global Evolution of Industrial Relations” at the World Congress of the International Industrial Relations Association, Lisbon, Portugal, September 15, 2004.
presented “Altruism Spillovers: Does Laboratory Behavior Predict Altruism in the Field?” at the Annual Meeting of the Economic Science Association, Amsterdam, Holland, The Netherlands, June 13, 2004.
served as discussant at Social Preferences V session, Annual Meeting of the Economic Science Association, Amsterdam, Holland, The Netherlands, June 13, 2004.
presented “Altruism Spillovers: Does Laboratory Behavior Predict Altruism in the Field?” at the Public Economic Theory Meetings, Beijing, China, August 27, 2004.
presented “Auctions to Buy Back Irrigation Rights from Farmers: The Georgia Drought Act (USA)” at the Workshop on Auctions for Agri-Environmental Policies, Montpellier, France, September 27, 2004.
presented “Auction Design for Water Buybacks: Experimental Economics” at the Workshop on Auctions for Agri-Environmental Policies, Montpellier, France, September 27, 2004.
presented “Bridging Expenditure Responsibilities and Minimum Service Standards to Revenue Assignments and the Design of Equalization Grants” at the conference on Building Indonesia’s Decentralization System, sponsored by USAID and the Ministry of Finance, Jakarta, Indonesia, February 2004.
presented at the roundtable discussion "New Russian Federalism: Is it a Mere Declaration or a Reality?" assessing President Putin’s recent fiscal reforms at the Gorbachev Foundation, sponsored by Russia's Center for Fiscal Policy and the World Bank Institute, Moscow, the Russian Federation, February 2, 2004.
delivered the keynote address “XI Encuentro de Economica Publica” at the Hacienda Publica Española-Instituto de Estudios Fiscales, Barcelona, Spain, February 2004.
presented "Budget Decentralization in Vietnam and International Experiences” at Vietnam’s Ministry of Finance and Academy of Finance Workshop in Thac Da – Ba Vi, Ha Tay Province, Vietnam, April 2004.
continued providing technical assistance and advice to the Russian Federation, May 2004.
contributed a chapter on reforming the system of intergovernmental fiscal relations for the Public Expenditure Review, World Bank, Vietnam, April-June 2004.
presented “Models of Decentralization in Tax Administration: An International Perspective” at the Universidad Internacional Menendez Pelayo, Cursos de Verano, Barcelona, Spain, July 2004.
developed a proposal for an equalization grant system in Georgia and co-authored the draft "Law on Local Budgets" for the Government of Georgia, Municipal Development Fund, Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia, August-October 2004.
and Jameson Boex continued working in Tanzania on the “Development of a System for Allocating Grants to Local Government Authorities in Tanzania” study, funded by the Government of Tanzania, November 2004.
served as consultant to the World Council of Credit Unions credit and health survey conducted in Rwanda to assess needs for credit savings products to be used for health-related expenses, March-July 2004.
and Andrey Timofeev provided a 1-week training program on Intergovernmental Transfer Design for government officials and members of non-governmental organizations to the Government of Guyana, in Guyana, January 2004.
served as technical advisor to a study tour on subnational borrowing for officials of India’s Ministry of Finance, for the Government of India, India Exchange Program, in Australia, Brazil, and India.
presented “Populist Budgets and Long Run Growth” (with Gerhard Glomm) at the Fundacao Getulio Vargas, Graduate School of Economics, and at IPEA (Nacional Institute of Economic Research), both in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, February 2004.
gave a presentation on graduate programs at AYSPS at Universidad Catolica Boliviana, Cochabamba, Bolivia, November 2004.
worked with the Government of the Province of Saskatchewan, Canada, as a consultant on economic development policy.
discussed arts public policy with Chilean authorities, and established research contacts with the Coordinator of the Division of Culture, Ministry of Education, Chile; future contacts will be maintained during regular trips to Chile.
presented “R U There: Using Text Messaging in U.S. Wireless Phone Surveys” (with Trent Buskirk) at the Sixth International German Online Research Conference, Duisburg, Germany, March 30-31, 2004.
presented “Data Quality in Cellular Telephone Surveys” at the World Association for Public Opinion Research Thematic Seminar on Quality Criteria in Survey Research, Cadenabbia, Italy, June 24-26, 2004.
presented “Using Survival Analysis to Estimate a Working Number Rate in Cellular Surveys” (with Zhenhua Hu*) at the Joint Statistical Meetings, Toronto, Canada, August 8-12, 2004.
presented “Calculating Outcome Rates for Mobile Phone Surveys” (with Mario Callegaro, Trent D. Buskirk, Linda Piekarski, Vesa Kuusela, and Vasja Vehovar) at the RC33 Sixth International Conference on Social Science Methodology, Amsterdam, Holland, The Netherlands, August 16-20, 2004.
presented “Patenting in U.S. Universities” at the Université Pierre Mendès France, Grenoble, France, March 11, 2004.
presented “Capturing Knowledge: The Placement of New Ph.D.'s Working with Firms," at the Université Pierre Mendès France, Grenoble, France, March 11, 2004, at the Centre de Recherches Economiques de l’universite de Saint-Etienne, France, July 1, 2004, and at the European Association for Research in Industrial Economics, Berlin, Germany, September 2004.
presented “Who’s Patenting in the University?” at the Workshop on the Empirical Economic Analysis of the Academic Sphere, BETA Group, University of Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg, France, March 27, 2004.
presented “Economics of Science” at the Workshop on the Economics & Management of Science & Technology, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, May 24-25, 2004.
attended meetings of the High Level Expert Group on "Maximizing the Wider Benefits of Competitive Basic Research Funding at the European Level," Brussels, Belgium, September 17, October 29, and December 1, 2004.
presented “Science, Universities and Firm Relations” at the Royal Institute of Technology, Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation Studies, Stockholm, Sweden, November 18, 2004.
presented "La Politique Scientifique Américaine" at the Réunion CLUB du CEPII (Centre d’études prospectives et d’informations internationales), Paris, France, November 23, 2004.
presented “Single Mothers Working at Night: Child Care Subsidies and Standard Employment with Implications for Welfare Reform” at the European Society of Population Economics Meetings, Bergen, Norway, June 2004.
presented “Guns, Drugs, and Juvenile Crime: Evidence from a Panel of Siblings and Twins” and served as discussant for the paper “The Effects of Cocaine and Heroin Price on Drug Related Emergency Department Visits” at the 24th Arne Ryde Symposium on Economics of Substance Use, Lund University, Sweden, August 2004.
See Mark Rider.
presented “The Analysis of Real Property Markets” at the Department of Finance and Statistics, Swedish School of Economics and Business Administration, Helsinki, Finland, November 3-8, 2004.
traveled to Bulgaria to organize a national survey of expectations 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 met with a number of government and research institutions in the country including the deputy governor of the Bulgarian National Bank in charge of the currency board and with members of the Board of Directors of the Bulgarian National Bank.
See Roy Bahl.
participated in the development of a joint program in public administration with the University of Northumbria at Newcastle-upon-Tyne, U.K., March 2004.
participated in a Workshop on “Emergency and Crisis Management,” presented “Emergency Management in the United States: Its Evolution and Major Trends” for local and regional emergency managers, and was a consultant on disaster research at the Centre for Crisis and Contingency Management Research, Meiji University, Tokyo, Japan, June 17-19, 2004.
was a manuscript reviewer for the 10th International Conference on Transportation Research, Istanbul, Turkey, 2004.
presented “Rationalization of Collective Choice Functions by Games with Perfect Information” at the 7th International Meeting of the Society for Social Choice and Welfare, Osaka, Japan, July 21-25, 2004.
was a Special Lecturer for COE/RES Lecture Series: Fair Allocation and Social Choice, Hitotsubashi University, Japan, July 27-28, 2004.
1. 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.
