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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 2006, working as advisors to countries, as representatives of international agencies and lecturers abroad in 34 countries, from Austria to Zanzibar, during the year.
presented “Tax Compliance and Tax Morale in LAC Countries” (co-authored with Jorge Martinez-Vazquez) at the 11th Annual Latin American and Caribbean Economics Association Meeting – Econometric Society Annual Meetings, Mexico City, Mexico, November 2-4, 2006.
presented the keynote paper and presented a paper at a tax reform roundtable moderated by Chuan Lin, the current Minister of Finance in Taiwan at the "Taxation: Theory, Policy, and Administration" conference organized by the Department of Economics, National Taiwan University (NTUE) and the Institute of Economics, Academia Sinica (IEAS), Taipei, Taiwan, December 29-30, 2006.
worked as part of a Brookings Institute team on a project examining government policies, Puerto Rico, 2006.
worked as part of a World Bank team on a project to examining government tax policies, India, 2006.
worked on a project as part of a World Bank team to examine government public expenditure and tax policies, Ukraine, 2006.
served as Moderator of the panel discussion on "Revenue Assignment and Tax Reform" at the International Seminar on Public Finance for a Harmonious Society at Diaoyutai, Beijing, China, June 27-28, 2006.
presented the Keynote Address on “Strengthening Public Services in Decentralizing Indonesia: Performance Measurement” at the Conference Proceedings of the World Bank and Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of Indonesia, Bali, 2006.
and Jorge Martinez-Vazquez presented the Keynote Address on “The Property Tax in Developing Countries: Where will we be in 2015?” at the conference sponsored by the International Center for Land Policy Studies and Training, Taipei, Taiwan, October 2006.
performed field work on Excise Tax Reform with Goodworks International, LLC, Ghana, 2006.
served as an advisor to the Government of India and The World Bank on fiscal decentralization with field work in India, 2006.
served as an advisor to USAID and the World Bank on Intergovernmental Fiscal Relations and Decentralization Policy.
served with Sally Wallace as co-director of the Jamaica Tax Reform project.
served as advisor on Fiscal Devolution in Pakistan for the Asian Development Bank.
attended board meetings and executive committee meetings of the International Center for Land Policy Studies and Training, Taipei, Taiwan.
provided technical assistance to Tanzania to consolidate progress on the introduction of a formula-based transfer system and to provide support for the transformation of the local government revenue structure, Dar es Salaam, Tazania, March 27-April 7, 2006.
facilitated a National Conference on the Development of an Intergovernmental Transfer System, Windhoek, Namibia, April 2006.
provided technical assistance on a final visit to facilitate the design of a recurrent and development grant system for Regional Councils, Windhoek, Namibia, July 2006.
conducted a two-day training program on the LOGIN Tanzania System, an online local government finance reporting system that was developed by ISP in close collaboration with the Tanzanian Ministry of Finance and the Prime Minster’s Office, responsible for local government, part of ongoing technical support to fiscal decentralization reforms, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, July 1-7, 2006.
and Eunice Heredia-Ortíz* delivered a week-long training workshop on “Fiscal Decentralization: Concepts and Applications for Bangladesh” at the Bangladesh Public Administration Training Center in Savar, Bangladesh, and in Dhaka, Bangladesh, August 5-10, 2006.
and Guevera Yao* continued the roll-out of an online monitoring system for local government finance, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, September 10, 2006.
and Guevera Yao* delivered a three-day training program on “Local Government Finance, Local Service Delivery, and Poverty Reduction in Tanzania,” Bagamoyo, Tanzania, November 13-15, 2006.
presented two papers, co-authored with Vjollca Sadiraj, "On the Empirical Plausibility of Theories of Risk Aversion," and “Small– and Large–Stakes Risk Aversion: Implications of Concavity Calibration for Decision Theory” at Laval University, Quebec City, Quebec, Canada, March 2006.
and Amanda Wilsker* presented “Extending CEA: Facilitating the Debate over Public Outsourcing” at A Performing Public Sector: The Second Transatlantic Dialogue, Leuven, Belgium, June 1-3, 2006.
served as workshop leader for “Capturing the Values of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services” at the Valuing Wild Nature Workshop hosted at the University of East Anglia, Norwich, England, Spring 2006.
presented “Biodiversity, Agriculture, Markets, and Trade” at the U.S. Agency for International Development's International Symposium on Biodiversity Conservation in Agriculture, Punta Cana, Dominican Republic, Fall 2006.
presented "Does Space Matter to the Employment of TANF Recipients? Evidence from a Dynamic Discrete Choice Model with Unobserved Effects" (co-authored by Keith Ihlanfeldt and William J. Smith) at the 13th International Conference on Panel Data, The University of Cambridge, Cambridge, England, July 2006.
served as coordinator for the study abroad programs to England.
created a new student exchange with the University of Lausanne, Switzerland, for the Economics and PAUS departments, Spring 2006.
created a new course and program leadership for the USG EU study abroad program to Strasbourg, France, Fall 2006.
was appointed Director of the Department's Faculty and Student Exchange Programs.
signed a book contract with Yih-teen Lee, University of Navarra, Spain, to develop a book on the cultural context of human resource development; the publisher is Palgrave Macmillian (UK).
presented “Nonprofits in Society,” a series of lectures given to various groups of community, government and nonprofit leaders in Argentina, sponsored by the U.S. Department of State, Buenos Aires, Argentina, September 22-27, 2006.
presented "Rescuing and Revitalizing Industrial Relations" at the Fourth International Industrial Relations Conference in Honor of Marco Biagi, University Of Modena, Italy, March 18, 2006.
delivered the H.D. Woods Memorial Lecture on "Rethinking the Industrial Relations Paradigm" at the Canadian Industrial Relations Association meeting, Toronto, Canada, June 2-3, 2006.
delivered the invited keynote lecture on “The Industrial Relations Paradigm and Its Core Principles” at the 13th World Congress of the International Industrial Relations Association, Lima, Peru, September 13-14, 2006.
presented “Social Enterprise in the United States” at the Seventh International Conference of the International Society for Third-Sector Research, Bangkok, Thailand, July 2006.
presented “Nonprofit Commercial Revenue: A Replacement for Declining Government Grants and Private Contributions?” at the UK Social Enterprise Research Conference, London South Bank University, London, England, June 2006.
presented “Amenities, Migration and Location-specific Human Capital” and “Learning or Matching: Productivity Gains in Urban Areas” at the 53rd Annual North American Meetings of the Regional Science Association International, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, November 16-18, 2006.
served as discussant for the Migration and Labor Session at the 53rd Annual North American Meetings of the Regional Science Association International, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, November 16-18, 2006.
presented “Under-Insurance Against Low-Probability Losses: New Experimental Evidence” at the Foundations of Utility and Risk Conference, Rome, Italy, June 24, 2006.
was the keynote speaker at a conference on Fiscal Decentralization Reform sponsored by the World Bank, the European Union and the Government of Romania, Bucharest, Romania, February 22, 2006.
, Javier Arze** and Juan Luis Gomez* presented “Descentralización en Latinoamérica desde una perspectiva de países pequeños: Bolivia, El Salvador, Ecuador y Nicaragua” at the Seminario Internacional Democracia, descentralización y reforma fiscal en América Latina y Europa del Este, Grupo Presencia Ciudadana, Lima, Peru, March 2006.
was the keynote speaker on “Tax Assignment in Federal Countries” at the 4th Symposium on Fiscal Federalism organized by the University of Barcelona and the Government of Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain, May 30-31, 2006.
presented “Expenditure Assignments within a Framework of Decentralization” at the International Seminar on Public Finance for a Harmonious Society at Diaoyutai (Chinese State Guest House), Beijing, China, June 27-28, 2006.
spoke on tax administration policies, “Curso de Verano,” Internacional Menendez-Pelayo, Pontevedra, Spain, July 2006.
presented at an invited conference on the model for autonomous government financing, Junta de Andalucia and CEA, Sevilla, Spain, November 2006.
served as invited keynote speaker at the XXI Meeting of the Spanish Economic Association, Oviedo, Spain, December 2006.
see also Roy Bahl.
and Lei Zhang* presented “Diffusion of Innovations: Crossing the Border” and “A Tale of Two Systems: What Does the U.S. Experience Mean for China’s Health Care Reform?” at the Third Sino-American International Conference for Public Administration: Building Public Service-Oriented Government, Beijing, China, June 2006.
presented “Faith and Philanthropy in Atlanta” and “Urban Affairs Education and the Reformist Impulse” at the 36th Annual Meeting of the Urban Affairs Association, Montréal, Québec, Canada, April 19-22, 2006.
presented “Public Sector Pay and Corruption: Measuring Bribery from Micro Data” at the 2006 IZA/World Bank Conference on Employment and Development, Berlin, Germany, May 25-27, 2006.
participated in the Master's theses defense and graduation ceremony at the Russian-American Economic and Business Institute at Urals State University, Yekaterinburg, Russia, May-June 2006.
participated in an invited workshop on “Discrimination and Economic Outcomes,” sponsored by the Inter-American Development Bank’s Latin American and Caribbean Research Network, Mexico City, Mexico, October 31-November 2, 2006. The workshop ran in conjunction with the Latin American and Caribbean Economic Association’s National Meetings in Mexico, November 2-5, 2006.
presented "Ethnic and Social Barriers to Cooperation: Experiments Studying the Extent and Nature of Discrimination in Urban Peru" (co-authored by Marco Castillo and Maximo Torero) at the Inter-American Development Bank Workshop, Mexico City, Mexico, October 31, 2006.
presented “A Public-Private Investment in School Health Programs has Positive Impact” at the 5th International Conference on Health Economics, Management and Policy, Athens, Greece, June 5-7, 2006.
presented “Getting to Know You: Diversity, Time, and Performance in Public Organizations” (with Elizabeth Jarry) at the Second Seminar on the Determinants of Performance in Public Organizations Conference, Hong Kong, December 2006.
provided training in statistics as part of AYSPS’s project to strengthen statistics training, University of Guyana.
served as consultant to Tanzania’s Joint Finance Commission in the government of Tanzania.
co-authored a technical report on the design of a transfer system for the government of Zanzibar.
presented “Interdisciplinary Contributions to Cultural Economics: The Case of Performing Arts Audiences and Demand Analysis” at the 14th Biennial Conference of the Association for Cultural Economics, International, Vienna, Austria, July 6-9, 2006.
served as the chair and discussant for the session on “Demand Analysis in the Arts” at the 14th Biennial Conference of the Association for Cultural Economics, International, Vienna, Austria, July 6-9, 2006.
presented a seminar on “Job Market Effects on Scientific Productivity” at the Sciences Po/CNRS, hosted by the Centre de Sociologie des Organisations, Paris, France, March 1, 2006.
presented a seminar on “Capitalizing Human Capital of University Scientists: The Case of Biotechnology” at Katholieke Universeit Leuven, Belgium, February 15, 2006.
presented "The Small Size of the Small Scale Market: The Early-Stage Labor Market for Highly Skilled Nanotechnology Workers” at the PRIME Workshop on Nanotechnology, Grenoble, France, March 1, 2006.
met with Teruto Ohta, Executive Director of the Chemical Society of Japan, concerning alternative journal format in science, April 2006.
presented “Wrapping it Up in a Package: The Mobility Decisions of New Ph.D.s” at the Max Planck Institute of Economics, Jena, Germany, July 2006.
presented “The Production of Scientific Research" in the New Economics of Science session at the European Summer School of Industrial Dynamics, Cargese, Corsica, France, September 18-22, 2006.
presented “Knowledge Flows Embodied in Recent Ph.D.s: Evidence from the Survey of Earned Doctorates” at the conference on Technology Transfer From Universities: A Critical Appraisal of Patents, Spin-offs and Human Mobility, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland, September 29, 2006.
met with Daniel Vitry, Directeur de l’evaluation, de la prospective et de la performance, Ministere Education, Nationale Enseignement Superieur Recherche, France, November 2006.
presented the paper, "Creating a Citizen-Friendly City Hall," at the Conference on the Continuing Transformation of Public Administration at the City University of Hong Kong in Hong Kong, China, March 21-22, 2006.
presented “Defining/Assigning Intergovernmental Roles and Responsibilities in the European Union” at the Democracy, Decentralization and Fiscal Reform in Latin America International Conference, Lima, Peru, March 1-3, 2006.
provided technical assistance to facilitate the design of recurrent and development grant system for Regional Councils, Windhoek, Namibia, Africa, periodically during February-July 2006.
presented "Capital Transfers in Latvia" at the Conference on Strengthening Frameworks for Subnational Capital Investment Transfers, which was to generate comparative information about the state of subnational capital investment financing in Armenia, Bulgaria, Latvia and Romania, Bucharest, Romania, June 2006.
prepared course materials and led a series of training sessions on basic statistics and econometrics for the University of Guyana; assisted the University of Guyana in upgrading statistics, social policy analysis and research methodology courses; assisted in the establishment of a data bank; and assisted the initiation of a multidisciplinary research agenda for the University of Guyana, through a contract awarded to Georgia State University, Georgetown, Guyana.
presented “Issues in Spatial Asset Valuation” at the Department of Finance and Statistics, Swedish School of Economics and Business Administration, Helsinki, Finland, November 10, 2006.
presented “Devolution and Social Service Agencies in Metropolitan Areas” at the 36th Annual Meeting of the Urban Affairs Association, Montréal, Québec, Canada, April 19-22, 2006.
presented "Fixed Exchange Credibility with Heterogeneous Expectations" to The Center for International Research on Economic Tendency, Rome, Italy, 2006.
delivered a two-week training course on Statistics for Public Policy Evaluation in Guyana, as part of a project to upgrade statistics and quantitative courses at the University of Guyana.
lectured on “Public Finance and Property Taxation” at the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy-Peking University’s program, Beijing, China, July 31-August 4, 2006.
presented “Property Taxation in a Global Economy: Is a Capital Gains Tax on Real Property a Good Idea?” and “New Thoughts on Property Taxation in a Global Economy” at the Toward A 2015 Vision of Land Conference, sponsored by the International Center for Land Policy Studies and Training, Taipei, Taiwan, October 24-25, 2006.
presented “Prospects for Tax Reform,” Jamaica, February 2006.
performed field work on Excise Tax Reform with Goodworks International, LLC, Ghana, July and September 2006.
worked with the Ministry of Rural Development in India on fiscal decentralization, with field work in India, throughout 2006.
see also Roy Bahl.
and Juan Luis Gomez* led a training session for about 50 budget, finance and agency personnel from key ministries within the Guatemalan government on "Performance-Based Budgeting through Medium Term Expenditure Framework (MTEF)" at the World Bank Institute and Ministry of Finance of Guatemala, Guatemala City, Guatemala, May 2006.
and Juan Luis Gomez* led the training session on "MTEF and Sectoral Budget Analysis Training," Guatemala City, Guatemala, July 11-14, 2006.
provided two three-hour lectures on public budgeting best practices for Sudanese government officials, September 2006, and a one-hour lecture to visiting Chinese officials, December 2006.
was a co-organizer of the International Conference on Rational Choice and Social Welfare and presented “Ordinal Distances Between Options: Some Dominance Rules,” Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo, Japan, March 11-13, 2006.
delivered a series of lectures on “Living Standards based on Functionings and Capabilities” at Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo, Japan, March 10, 2006.
presented “How Nonprofits Manage Risk” at the International Society for Third Sector Research, Bangkok, Thailand, July 11, 2006.
served as Chair for the Session on Social Enterprise at the International Society for Third Sector Research, Bangkok, Thailand, July 2006.
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.
