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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 2005, working as advisors to countries, as representatives of international agencies and lecturers abroad in 37 countries during the year.
presented “How Should Individuals Be Taxed?” at the International Conference on Taxation, National Taiwan University (NTUE) and the Institute of Economics, Academia Sinica (IEAS), Taipei, Taiwan, December 29-30, 2005.
presented “Audit Information Dissemination, Taxpayer Communication, and Compliance Behavior” (with Michael McKee) at Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, April 2005.
worked on a project as part of a Brookings Institute team to examine government policies in Puerto Rico, 2005.
worked on a project as part of a World Bank team to examine government tax policies in India, 2005.
worked on a project as part of an AYSPS team to examine decentralization policies in Nepal, 2005.
worked on a project as part of a World Bank team to examine government public expenditure and tax policies in Ukraine, 2005.
served as presenter on “Intergovernmental Fiscal Relations, Fiscal Decentralization and Local Finance” (with Charles Billand and Meera Mehta) at the USAID Local Governance Workshop, in absentia, Cairo, Egypt, January 31-February 3, 2005.
presented “Property Tax Options for China” at the Property Taxation Workshop Series I: International Perspectives on the Development of Property Taxation, sponsored by the Development Research Council of the Government of China and the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, Beijing, China, February 26-27, 2005.
serves on the Advisory Council for Ph.D. Program in Fiscal Studies at the Lyceum of the Philippines, Manila.
and Sally Wallace presented “Evaluating Tax Policy and Economic Development: An International Perspective” at the Mona School of Business, Department of Economics Seminar Series, University of the West Indies, Kingston, Jamaica, March 7, 2005.
and Sally Wallace were co-directors of the Jamaica Tax Reform; the final report was issued in 2005.
served as an advisor in intergovernmental fiscal relations to the Government of Pakistan and to the Asian Development Bank; field work was carried out in January and May 2005.
presented “Intergovernmental Fiscal Reform in China” at the Tsinghua University School of Public Policy, Beijing, China, February 2005.
provided advice as part of The World Bank Technical Assistance Program to the Government of China on fiscal policies in February 2005, and performed field work in Beijing and Harbin.
served as referee for Andrey Timofeev’s dissertation committee, Charles University of Prague, Center for Economic Research and Graduate Education, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, March 2005.
, Mark Rider, Jorge Martinez-Vazquez, and Eunice Heredia* wrote the report “India: Fiscal Condition of the States, International Experience, and Options for Reform.” Rider, Martinez-Vazquez, and Bahl traveled to India to meet with Ministry of Finance and USAID officials to further develop and finalize the report, March 31, 2005.
served as an advisor to the Government of India and The World Bank on fiscal decentralization with field work in Delhi, West Bengal, Karnataka, and Rajasthan, May, June and October 2005.
advised the Nepalese government and The World Bank on matters of local government finance, Kingdom of Nepal, June 2005.
presented "Property Taxation" and "Fiscal Transfers" at the Indonesian Local Government Workshop, Makassar, Indonesia, August 22-26, 2005.
served as Keynote Speaker and as a panelist at the “Strengthening Public Services in Decentralizing Indonesia: Approaches for Measuring Performance of Local Governments” workshop hosted by the World Bank, Bali, Indonesia, August 29, 2005.
presented a one-day workshop for officers from the Government of Pakistan Provincial Secretaries and Finance Department, Lahore, Pakistan, September 19, 2005, and reviewed research proposals by Finance Department staff in the provinces, Islamabad, Pakistan, September 20, 2005.
attended board meetings and executive committee meetings of the International Center for Land Policy Studies and Training, Taipei, Taiwan, October 2005.
served as a discussant at the workshop "Performance Budgeting: The Challenges of Implementation," UN Development Programme, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, September 13-15, 2005.
traveled to Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, as part of ongoing technical support to the Government of Tanzania in developing a comprehensive local government finance strategy and implementing a formula-based transfer system, January, March, May, September and December 2005.
traveled to Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia, and Yerevan, Armenia, as part of a UNDP-funded assessment of fiscal decentralization in selected transition economies, February 2005.
traveled to Bangladesh to deliver in-country training programs on fiscal decentralization reform, April 2005.
traveled to East Timor to deliver in-country training programs on fiscal decentralization reform, October 2005.
served as Session Organizer, Chair and Presenter during a Special Session on Experimental Economics and the Philosophy of Science, and gave a session presentation, at the Economic Science Association International Meeting, Montréal, Québec, Canada, June 23-26, 2005.
presented "Asymmetric Information and Contract Design for Payments for Environmental Services" at the International Workshop on Payments for Environmental Services - Methods and design in developing and developed countries, hosted by the Center for Development Research, University of Bonn and Center for International Forestry Research, Titisee, Germany, June 2005.
served on a three-member international team to evaluate the Government of Costa Rica’s Programa de Pagos de Servicios Ambientales, September 2005.
worked with Mexican scientists, nongovernmental organizations and fishermen in Baja California Sur in order to elaborate the rules by which a U.S.-Mexican marine turtle conservation offset program could function in the Pacific Ocean, October-November 2005.
worked with Tanzanian nongovernmental organizations, government employees and fishermen to evaluate their current marine conservation efforts and help them design future randomized policy experiments to better test the effectiveness of their interventions, November-December 2005.
conducted household surveys in Costa Rica as part of a study funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation, July 2005.
participated in the 7th Reunión del Grupo Tortuguero, a network of governmental and citizen organizations working on marine conservation initiatives in southern California, USA, and Baja California, Mexico, Loreto, Mexico, January 2005.
presented “Scientific Eminence, Quality of Research and the Decision to Patent in Academic Career” at the 5th Triple Helix Conference on The Capitalization of Knowledge: Cognitive, Economic, Social & Cultural Aspects, Turin, Italy, May 18-21, 2005.
presented "Taoism and Reversalism: Alternative Perspectives on Speed and Career Development" (with Y. Lee) at the European Group for Organizational Studies 21st Colloquium on Unlocking Organizations, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany, June 30-July 2, 2005.
visited the partner MPA program at the University of Northumbria, Newcastle upon Tyne, U.K., March and December 2005.
visited the Université de Lausanne to explore a partnership with its MPA institute, Lausanne, Switzerland, December 2005.
presented the plenary speech “Evaluation Influence in a Modern Democracy: A Case Study” at the Danish Evaluation Society Meetings, Horsens, Denmark, September 8-10, 2005.
presented “Recent Development in Evaluation in the U.S.” at the Department of Sociology, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark, September 7, 2005.
presented “Evaluation Theorists in Action” at the American Evaluation Association and Canadian Evaluation Association Annual Meeting, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, October 26-29, 2005.
presented "Smoking, Labor Force Attachment, and the Wages of Middle-Aged Women in the U.S." (with Brian S. Armour and M. Melinda Pitts) at the International Health Economics Association 5th World Congress, Barcelona, Spain, July 10-13, 2005.
gave a seminar on “Theorizing the Employment Relations System” at the University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand, February 7, 2005.
presented “The Global Evolution of Industrial Relations” at the 2005 Annual Meeting of the Association of Industrial Relations Academics of Australia and New Zealand, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia, February 10, 2005.
presented “High-Level Employee Involvement at Delta Air Lines” to the Human Resources Association of Australia, Sydney, Australia, February 11, 2005.
presented “The Global Evolution of Industrial Relations” at the World Congress of the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics, Budapest, Hungary, July 1, 2005.
presented “A Semi-nonparametric Model of the Pricing Kernel and Interest Rates” at the Bank of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, January 2005, at the Economics Education and Research Consortium, Kyiv, Ukraine, February 2005, at the Universidad de Navarra, Department of Economics, Pamplona, Spain, February 2005, and at the Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI), Madrid, Spain, February 2005.
See Dora Ward Kyabu.
and Patricia Kota presented "Technical Assistance as Participatory Evaluation" at the American Evaluation Association and Canadian Evaluation Association Annual Meeting, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, October 26-29, 2005.
and Mei Zhou presented "Evaluation across Data Sets and Patient Populations: Implications for Utility, Feasibility, Propriety, and Accuracy" at the American Evaluation Association and Canadian Evaluation Association Annual Meeting, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, October 26-29, 2005.
as a visiting scholar, worked on the project “Developing and Testing the Role of Salinity and Other Market-Based Instruments to Improve Agricultural and Environmental Outcomes in the Face of Climatic Variability,” Adelaide, Australia, May-June 2005.
served as visiting scholar working on developing markets for environmental goods at Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia, June 2005.
served as visiting scholar working on developing markets for environmental goods at the University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia, July 2005.
presented “Does Confidentiality Affect Tax Compliance?” at Griffith University, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, June 10, 2005, at CSIRO Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia, June 15, 2005, and at University of South Australia, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia, July 21, 2005.
presented “Designing an Auction Mechanism to Reduce Irrigation During Severe Drought” at the University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, July 29, 2005.
See Karen J. Minyard.
served as Director of the project on Technical Support for Decentralization in Indonesia.
served as advisor to the Government of the Republic of Georgia, Tbilisi, and the Government of Romania, Bucharest.
presented “An Assessment of Decentralization Trends around the World: What Does it Mean for Thailand?” to the Bureau of the Budget and Office of the Prime Minister, Bangkok, Thailand, January, 2005.
presented a lecture on “Impacts of Fiscal Policies on Income Distribution: Lessons for Thailand” at the National Workshop on the Impacts of Fiscal and Labor Market Policies on Income Distribution, organized by the National Economic and Social Development Board, Bangkok, Thailand, January 2005.
spoke on international trends in tax administration at the seminar on “Curso de Verano,” sponsored by Spain’s Agencia Estatal de Administracion Tributaria, Universidad Internacional Menendez-Pelayo, Santander, Spain, July 2005.
lectured on the design of fiscal decentralization policies for summer school at the El Escorial, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain, August 2005.
organized the conference on "The Role of Government in Regional Economic Development” with Xavier Labandeira (University of Vigo) at the Parador of Baiona, Galicia, Spain, September 2005.
made seminar presentations on “East Asia Decentralizes,” a Flagship World Bank Report, in Beijing, China; Hanoi, Vietnam; Jakarta, Indonesia; and Manila, Philippines; October 2005.
see also Roy Bahl.
, Chris Parker and Lindsey Lonergan presented "How Case Study Evaluation Can Build Theory: The Transfer of Innovation Among Health Networks" at the American Evaluation Association and Canadian Evaluation Association Annual Meeting, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, October 26-29, 2005.
See Karen J. Minyard.
participated in a workshop on cross-country analysis of firm entry at the London Business School, London, England, U.K., January 2005.
presented "Identification of Key Attributes for Improving Appropriate Utilization of Medicaid and PeachCare for Kids' Services in Six Community-Based Organizations" at the American Evaluation Association and Canadian Evaluation Association Annual Meeting, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, October 26-29, 2005.
presented “Fast Food Advertising and Its Influence on Childhood Obesity” (with Shin-Yi Chou and Michael Grossman) at the International Health Economics Association Conference, Barcelona, Spain, July 10-13, 2005.
served as a consultant to India’s Ministry of Finance.
see also Roy Bahl.
presented "Fiscal Policy and Long Run Growth in Brazil" (with Gerhard Glomm) at the 12th Economia Panel Meeting of the Latin American and Caribbean Economic Association, Paris, France, October 27, 2005.
served as an economic expert on “The Arts and National Income Accounts” for Convenio Andrés Bello, Bogotá, Colombia, October 26-28, 2005.
served as adviser for the project “Poznan: Culture and the City (The Impact of the Cultural Sector on Urban Development in Transition Economy),” submitted by the Poznan School of Social Sciences to the Polish Ministry of Education and Science. Those preparing this proposal said his paper “CVM vs. Economic Impact: Substitutes or Complements” was the specific inspiration for this project; if funded, he will be asked to work with them, including travel to Poland and Norway.
presented “Job Market Effects on Scientific Productivity” at the First World Conference on the Future of Science, sponsored by the Umberto Veronesi Foundation, Venice, Italy, September 21-23, 2005.
presented “Capturing Knowledge: The Location Decision of New Ph.D.'s Working in Industry” at Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland, June 15, 2005, at the University of Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain, May 9, 2005, and at the European Forum, Fiesole, Italy, May 5, 2005.
presented “Changing Labour Market for Researchers” at the OECD Working Group on Steering and Funding of Research Institutions, Paris, France, April 21, 2005.
presented “The Public Research Perspective" at the OECD Forum on the Internationalisation of R&D, OECD, Brussels, Belgium, March 29, 2005.
presented “Job Market Effects on Scientific Productivity” at the Conference on Scientific Competition: Theory and Policy at Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany, October 2005.
served as a Visiting Fellow at the Katholieke Universeit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, March-May 2005.
served as a discussant at the European Forum conference on The Role of Universities in Innovation Systems, held at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, European University Institute, Florence, Italy, June 17-18, 2005.
served as a discussant on “R&D and Innovation in the Development Process: A New Look at Theory, Evidence and Politics” at the Conference Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain, June 9-11, 2005.
was a Team Member with other PAUS faculty on the Northumbria University Student Exchange and Research Collaborative; met with cohorts in Newcastle, England, U.K., to advance PAUS student exchange and collaborative research activities, March 8-12, 2005.
presented "Ugly Criminals” at the IZA/SOLE TransAtlantic Meetings of Labor Economists, Munich, Germany, July 2005.
presented “Do Adolescents with Emotional or Behavioral Problems Respond to Tobacco Control Policies?” at the International Health Economics Association Meetings, Barcelona, Spain, July 2005.
presented “Ugly Criminals” at the Department of Economics, Koc University, Istanbul, Turkey, December 2005.
presented "Creating a Citizen-Friendly City Hall: A Preliminary Evaluation of the Chattanooga 311/Web Innovations" at the inaugural International Conference on Engaging Communities, cosponsored by the United Nations and the State of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia, August 14-17, 2005.
presented "Market-Based Fiscal Discipline in Transitional Countries: The Case of Russian Regions" at the 61st Congress of the International Institute of Public Finance, Jeju Island, South Korea, August 22-25, 2005.
traveled to Croatia as part of the assessment study of decentralization reforms in five transitional countries (Macedonia, Serbia and Montenegro, Croatia, Armenia, and Georgia) commissioned by the UNDP Bratislava Regional Center, February 2005.
presented “GMM Estimation of Fiscal Policy Interdependence Across States” (with Mary G. McGarvey) at the 12th annual International Panel Data Conference, Copenhagen, Denmark, June 2005.
presented “Capacity Building” at the conference on Strengthening Public Services in Decentralizing Indonesia: Approaches for Measuring Performance of Local Governments, Bali, Indonesia, August 28-29, 2005.
presented “Local Revenue Mobilization in Indonesia” at the Indonesian Local Government Workshop, Makassar, Indonesia, August 22-26, 2005.
presented “Tax Analysis and Tax Reform” at the University of West Indies, Mona, Jamaica, February 2005.
presented “Roundtable on Tax Reform” at Xiamen University, China, August 2005.
presented “Lectures on Public Finance” at Peking University, Shenzhen Campus, Shenzhen, China, August 2005.
see also Roy Bahl.
served as Team Member with other PAUS faculty on the Northumbria University Student Exchange and Research Collaborative; met with cohorts in Newcastle, England, to advance PAUS student exchange and collaborative research activities, March 8-12, 2005.
presented “Pareto Principle and Intergenerational Equity: Immediate Impatience, Universal Indifference and Impossibility” at the International Economic Association Roundtable Meeting on Intergenerational Equity, Hakone, Japan, March 10-12, 2005.
served as Keynote Speaker and Panelist at the Annual Conference of the Israeli Center for Third Sector Research, Tel Aviv, Israel, April 2005.
See Glenn M. Landers.
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.
