Visiting Scholars

Dr. Gozde Nalbant Efe is a visiting scholar at the International Center for Public Policy (ICePP) in the Public Finance Research Cluster. She holds a BA in Economics from Istanbul University, a MA and a doctorate in Public Finance from Marmara University, Turkey. Her areas of interest include theory of taxation, tax reforms, public economics, economic growth, and women employment. Her research project at ICePP concerns “The Impact of Fiscal Policies on Inclusive Growth in Türkiye.” It is supported by TUBITAK-BIDEB 2219 Fellow.

Dr. Dmitriy Sokol is a Fulbright Scholar at the Public Finance Research Cluster (PFRC), Andrew Young School of Policy Studies, specializing in intergovernmental fiscal relationships and fiscal decentralization.

Dmitriy Sokol earned his PhD in 2000 from Belarus State Economic University, and he holds degree from Grodno State University named after Yanka Kupala. He completed an internship at the Central European University, Budapest, Hungary (“Public Fiscal Relations and Local Financial Management”); Center for Banking, Finance and International Economics, Podgorica, Montenegro (“Public Finance”); VNG International, The Hague, Netherlands (“ToT – Training of Trainers”); Higher School, Borås, Sweden (Research Scholarship); Mariaspring Folk School, Göttingen, Germany (“Adult Education”). His academic background in teaching and research spans 26 years, and he has more than 70 scientific and methodological papers.

Sokol is a country expert of the Council of Europe in the project “Comparative studies on mapping obstacles to inter-municipal cooperation (IMC),” and a local expert/analyst in the projects “Short-term high-quality research in support of activities within the framework of the Eastern Partnership” and “Research on the organization and accessibility of public services in the Eastern Partnership countries” (Project of the European Commission, EuropeAid/132574/C/SER/Multi).

Dr. Ebru Canikalp Dulgeroglu is a visiting scholar at the International Center for Public Policy (ICePP) in the Public Finance Research Cluster. She holds a BA in public finance from Uludag University (2008–12), as well as a MA (2012–15) in public finance and a PhD (2015–22) in economics from Cukurova University, Turkey. During her studies, she attended Escola Superior de Tecnologia e Gestão de Felgueiras, Portugal, and the University of Perugia, Italy. Her area of research specialization is fiscal decentralization, public economics, governance, and political determinants. Her research project at ICePP concerns “Vertical Fiscal Imbalance and Fiscal Discipline: The Case of Turkey.” It is supported by TUBITAK-BIDEB 2219 Fellow.

I chose Georgia State University primarily for the International Center for Public Policy (ICePP) and the opportunity to work with Professor Emeritus Martinez-Vazquez. The center’s expertise in fiscal decentralization and public economics, along with its interdisciplinary approach and openness to international collaboration, was a perfect fit for my research interests. My time here has been enriched by the Brown Bag seminars, conferences, and the support of the ICePP team, which have significantly broadened my academic perspective and professional network. Outside academia, Atlanta’s cultural and natural offerings, from the Botanical Garden to the Fox Theater, have made my experience here truly fulfilling.

Ebru Canikalp Dulgeroglu

As a Fulbright Scholar specializing in intergovernmental fiscal relationships, I was drawn to Georgia State University’s leadership in fiscal decentralization research. Joining the Public Finance Research Cluster has provided me with valuable academic support, office resources, and opportunities to network with leading scholars, including Professors Roy Bahl and Jorge Martinez-Vazquez. The collaborative environment has allowed me to engage in conferences, training sessions, and lectures, further expanding my professional connections. I’ve also appreciated the vibrant social and cultural life in Atlanta, from neighborhood events to the university’s recreation center, which has made my time here both academically and personally rewarding.

Dmitriy Sokol

My decision to join Georgia State University was driven by its alignment with my expertise in fiscal management and decentralization, as well as the opportunities offered by the Public Finance Research Cluster. Being on campus has expanded my professional network and provided a platform for collaborative research. Atlanta’s climate, reminiscent of Islamabad, made the transition seamless and enjoyable. The dynamic environment at GSU, coupled with the city’s vibrant culture, has made this a rewarding experience that has greatly enhanced my academic and professional growth.

Nadia Farooq

My time as a visiting scholar at the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies has been a deeply enriching experience. Under the mentorship of Professor Jorge Martinez-Vazquez, I have gained invaluable insights into the application of fiscal policy to real-world challenges. The school fosters a vibrant academic community where theoretical knowledge is seamlessly integrated with practical research, and its groundbreaking contributions in areas like tax policy and fiscal reform continue to shape academic discussions and influence global policymaking. Atlanta’s unique blend of natural beauty and vibrant energy has further enhanced my productivity and creativity. This experience has been instrumental in advancing my academic career and broadening my professional horizons.

Gozde Nalbant Efe

Dr. Henry Aray (March 2022 – September 2023) is faculty at the Department of Economics of the University of Granada in Spain. During his stay at ICEPP, Dr. Henry Aray plans to pursue research in Public Economics.

2022

Mario Valenzuela Silva (July 2021 – July 2022) is from the University of Granada and a doctoral student in Economic and Business Science. During his stay at ICEPP, Mario plans to pursue economics research.

2021

Dr. Wasseem Mina (July 2021) serves as an Associate Professor in the College of Business and Economics of United Arab Emirates University. Dr. Mina collaborated with Dr. Jorge Martinez Vazquez on equity and social cohesion research during his stay.

2021

Lu Zhen the Associate Professor Central University of Finance and Economics/School of Public Finance and Tax China

02/2019–01/2020

Sabuhi Yusifov Professor Azerbaijan Technical University Azerbaijan

03/2019–08/2019

Luis Ayala Professor Universidad Rey Juan Carlos Spain 06/2010–06/2019

Manuela Ortega

Gil Professor University of Cadiz Spain

07/2019–10/2019

Yangmu Hu Student Zhongnan University of Economics and Law/School of Public Finance and Taxation China

08/2019–08/2020

Zheng Li Professor of Economics Xi’an Jiaotong University China

2017

Zhi Li Ph.D. Candidate Zhongnan University of Economics and Law China

2017

Guo Zhaolei the Associate Professor Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics China

09/2015–09/2016

Bing-Wei Jiang Ph.D. Candidate Zhongan University of Economics and Law China

08/2016–08/2017

Kui Yu Associate Professor Renmin University China

08/2016–08/2017

Lingyi Guo Ph.D. Candidate Wuhan University China 08/2016–08/2017

Nataliya Frolova, August 2012 –June 2013. Nataliya Frolova is a research fellow in the Public Finance Department at the Institute for Economics and Forecasting of the Ukrainian National Academy of Sciences. In past years, she has worked on tax burden analysis. During her stay as a visiting scholar at the International Center for Public Policy, she focused on a normative and empirical investigation of income tax evasion and its detection.

2013

Junhua Yu, August 2012 -August 2013. Junhua Yu is an associate professor and associate dean in the School of Public Finance and Management at Hubei University of Economics, China. In past years, he has engaged in policy analysis and interdisciplinary research. As a visiting scholar at the International Center for Public Policy, he focused on the comparative research of intergovernmental fiscal relation between China and the United States, based on a political economics perspective.

2013

Huxia Ding, December 2012 –December 2013. Huixia Ding is an associate professor in the Public Administration School of Zhengzhou University, China. She received her Ph.D. degree in Economics from the Xi’an Jiaotong University of China. In the past five years, she has engaged in the study of fiscal decentralization, public services, poverty, and regional economics of China.

During her time at the International Center for Public Policy, she conducted research on the relationship of fiscal decentralization and equalization of regional development in China and try to compare intergovernmental fiscal relations between the United States and China from an institutional perspective.

2013

Alejandro Torres-Garcia, Visiting Professor , October – November 2013. Alejandro Torres-Garcia is an assistant professor and research scholar in the School of Economics at Universidad EAFIT.

2013

Pilar Gago, Visiting Professor, October – November 2013. Pilar Gago is a Professor of Economics at Universidad de Madrid.

2013

Cheng Gu, Visiting Scholar, September 2013 – July 2014

2013

Dr. Gu Cheng, a Fulbright scholar, is a professor and associate dean at the School of Public finance and Taxation at Dongbei University.  

2013

Eduardo Sanz-Arcega, Visiting Scholar, March-June 2013. Eduardo Sanz was a Ph.D. candidate in Public Economics and Constitutional Law from the University of Zaragoza, Spain.

2013

Encarnación Murillo García, October-December 2012. Encarnación Murillo García is an associate professor in the Departments of Applied Economics at the University Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid, Spain. Her teaching experience includes courses in Public Economics, Political Economy, Applied Economics, and Public Finance in the European Union at the undergraduate and graduate (masters and doctoral) level.

She obtained her doctoral degree in 2004 from the University Autónoma of Madrid, Spain. She has been a fellow of the Division of Public Expenditure in the Institute for Fiscal Studies and a researcher at the center later (Madrid, Spain). She was also a visiting researcher at FEDEA (Foundation for Applied Economic Studies, Madrid, Spain) and the EPRC (European Policies Research Centre, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland, UK).

Her research focuses primarily on Public Economics, but also focuses on Fiscal Federalism, fiscal and political decentralization, equalization and capital transfers; regional disparities and Cohesion policy in the European Union; public capital effects; public expenditure policies, and redistributive effects.

During her time at the International Studies Program, she conducted research on “The Flypaper Effect of Capital Transfers in European Union” in association with Jorge Martínez-Váquez and Cristian Sepúlveda.

2012

Luis Fernando Cabrera-Castellanos, September 2012. Luis Cabrera-Castellanos is a professor in the Business and Economics Department at the University of Quintana Roo, Mexico. He won the National Public Finance Award in 2010 for his work on Intergovernmental Fiscal Relations in Mexico. He has published several books and numerous papers on this topic. During his visit to the International Center for Public Policy, he conducted research on the political factors affecting the allocation of federal transfers in Mexico.

2012

Nataliya Frolova, August 2012 –June 2013. Nataliya Frolova is a research fellow in the Public Finance Department at the Institute for Economics and Forecasting of the Ukrainian National Academy of Sciences. In past years, she has worked on tax burden analysis. During her stay as a visiting scholar at the International Center for Public Policy, she mainly focused on a normative and empirical investigation of income tax evasion and its detection.

2012

Junhua Yu, August 2012 -August 2013. Junhua Yu is an associate professor and associate dean in the School of Public Finance and Management at Hubei University of Economics, China. In past years, he has engaged in policy analysis and interdisciplinary research. As a visiting scholar at the International Center for Public Policy, he focused on the comparative research of intergovernmental fiscal relation between China and the United States, based on a political economics perspective.

2012

Huixia Ding, December 2012 –December 2013, is an associate professor in the Public Administration School of Zhengzhou University, China. She received her Ph.D. degree in Economics from the Xi’an Jiaotong University of China. In the past five years, she has engaged in the study of fiscal decentralization, public services, poverty, and regional economics of China.

During her time at the International Center for Public Policy, she conducted research on the relationship of fiscal decentralization and equalization of regional development in China and try to compare intergovernmental fiscal relations between the United States and China from an institutional perspective.

2012

Andreas Buehn, Visiting Scholar, October 2012. Andreas Buehn, a native of Germany, holds a Ph.D. from the Technische Universität Dresden in Dresden, Germany, and is currently an assistant professor at the Utrecht University School of Economics. He has also been a visiting researcher at the Bulgarian National Bank, a regular speaker at Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski, Bulgaria, and was an assistant to the Dean of the Economics Department at the Technische Universität Dresden.

Dr. Buehn’s research focuses primarily on public economics. He has also published numerous papers Research Centers and Programs 247 and writings in prestigious journals and books such as Applied Economics, the Southern Economic Journal, the Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, and the Handbook on the Shadow Economy.

2012

Umar Wahid, Visiting Scholar, October 2012. Umar Wahid, a native of Pakistan, received his Master’s degree in Economics from Karachi University, Pakistan. He has a long association with the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR), where he served as a research officer, followed by a deputy director. Currently, he is serving FBR in the capacity of secretary (Fiscal Research and Statistics).

During his stay, he completed research in the area of Microsimulation and tax analysis, working with Sally Wallace and Musharraf Cyan.

2012

Montserrat Ferre, Visiting Fulbright Scholar, August 2010- June 2011. Montserrat Ferre holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the London Business School (University of London). She also has a Master’s degree in Economics from the London School of Economics and a Diploma in European Studies from the College of Europe (Bruges, Belgium). She is a Professor of Economics at the Department of Economics at the Universitat Rovira I Virgili (Spain), where she teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in Macroeconomics, International Economics, and Monetary Economics, amongst others. Her research interests focus on fiscal and monetary policy interactions within a monetary union, analysis of central bank interventions in the foreign exchange market, and exchange rates behavior.

During her stay at the International Center for Public Policy, she conducted research on fiscal decentralization. In particular, studied the relationship between fiscal decentralization and the conduct of monetary and fiscal policy in a monetary union, with a special focus on the outcomes of such relationship in terms of fiscal deficits.

2011

Andreas Buehn, Visiting Scholar, January 2011- September 2011. Andreas Buehn, a native of Germany, holds a Ph.D. from the Technische Universität Dresden in Dresden, Germany, where he has been a Postdoctoral Research Assistant. In addition to this role, he has been a visiting researcher at the Bulgarian National Bank, a regular speaker at Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski, Bulgaria, and was an assistant to the Dean of the Economics department at the Technische Universität Dresden. Prior to coming to the Andrew Young School, Andreas was a visiting researcher with the Office of Tax Policy Research at the University of Michigan.

Andreas Buehn’s research focused primarily on public economics, but also covered informal economic activities, such as shadow economies. Dr. Buehn has also published numerous papers and writings in prestigious journals and books such as Applied Economics, the Southern Economic Journal, the Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, and the Handbook on the Shadow Economy. 

2011

Tong Mo, Visiting Scholar, March 2011- March 2012. Tong Mo is an associate professor of public finance at the School of International and Public Affairs, Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU) in China. He received his doctorate in Economics from, Central Party School of CPC, China. His doctoral dissertation was about economic growth and human capital. Currently, his main research interests are public welfare and its approach.

From March 2011, he conducted further research on the institution of national resources allocation and gains and participated in University activities.

2011

Simanti Bandyopadhyaya, Visiting Scholar, May 9, 2011- May 30, 2011. Simanti Bandyopadhyay has been associated with the National Institute of Public Finance and Policy for the past seven years. Prior to that, apart from some research consultancies, she was mainly engaged in teaching at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels in colleges and management schools of Delhi and Kolkata for almost four years.

Simanti completed her Ph.D. in Economics from the Centre for Economic Studies and Planning, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi. Her thesis addresses different aspects of regulation on highly polluting industries in India in a game-theoretic auction framework and also attempts empirical estimation of efficiencies of these industries. She was awarded a fellowship for two months attached to the International Centre for Tax and Development, by the Institute of Development Studies, Sussex, country.

2011

Jenny Ligthart, Visiting Professor, June 2011- August 2011. Jenny Ligthart holds a chair in Macroeconomics at the Department of Economics of Tilburg University, the Netherlands. She is an Honorary Professor at the University of Groningen and a Senior Research Fellow at CentER (Tilburg University) and CESifo (University of Munich). Her research focuses on the macroeconomic repercussions of fiscal policy in an international context. In addition, she analyzes the economic and welfare effects of policy instruments aimed at addressing (international) tax evasion.

During 2002-2008, Jenny Ligthart was the Director of the Netherlands Network of Economics (NAKE), a graduate school in Economics in which six Dutch universities participate. Prior to joining Tilburg University, she worked for five years (1997-2002) at the IMF’s Fiscal Affairs Department in Washington, DC, where she was involved in advising governments on fiscal matters. Presently, she is a member of the IMF’s panel of fiscal experts and occasionally a consultant for the Netherlands Organization for Applied Scientific Research. She holds an MA, MPhil, and Ph.D. degrees in Economics from the University of Amsterdam.

Jenny visited with the International Center for Public Policy over the summer, where she was involved in lectures at the Summer School in Public Economics and the development of the World Tax Indicator Data Portal, in collaboration with Denvil Duncan and Jorge Martinez. Paul Benson, Associate Director, provided support for this activity.

2011

Denvil Duncan, Visiting Scholar, June 2011 – August 2011. Denvil Duncan is an Assistant Professor from Indiana University, Bloomington. He received his Ph.D. in Economics from Georgia State University during the previous year. While visiting with the International Center for Public Policy over the summer, he conducted research and work associated with the development of the World Tax Indicator Data Portal, collaborating with Visiting Professor Jenny Ligthart and International Center for Public Policy Director, Jorge Martinez. Paul Benson, Associate Director, provided support for this activity.  

2011

Deyong Zhang, Visiting Scholar, July 2011- July 2012. Deyong Zhang is an associate research fellow (associate professor) in the Institute of Finance and Trade Economics (IFTE) of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS). In the past years, he has engaged in a number of policy research and published many papers on China’s fiscal and tax policy.

From July 2011 to July 2012 at the International Studies Program, he conducted research on “Equalization of Basic Public Services in China under Fiscal Federalism” based on a comparative study between China and the United States.

2011

Montserrat Ferre, Visiting Fulbright Scholar, August 2010 – June 2011. Montserrat Ferre holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the London Business School (University of London). She also has a Master’s degree in Economics from the London School of Economics and a Diploma in European Studies from the College of Europe (Bruges, Belgium). She is a Professor
of Economics at the Department of Economics at the Universitat Rovira I Virgili (Spain). She teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in Macroeconomics, International Economics, and Monetary Economics, amongst others. Her research interests focus on fiscal and monetary policy interactions within a monetary union, analysis of central bank interventions in the foreign exchange market, and exchange rates behavior.

During her International Studies Program, she conducted research on fiscal decentralization. In particular, she plans to study the relationship between fiscal decentralization and the conduct of monetary and fiscal policy in a monetary union, focusing on the outcomes of such a relationship in terms of budgetary deficits.

2010  

Stanley Winer, Visiting Research Professor, October 2010 – November 2010. Professor Winer is the Canada Research Chair Professor in Public Policy in the School of Public Policy and Administration and the Department of Economics at Carleton University, Ottawa. He is also a research associate of the Center for Economic Studies at the University of Munich (CESifo) and a fellow at the International Center for Economic Research (ICER) in Turin.

Professor Winer’s research lies at the intersection of economics and political science. It relies on microeconomics, game theory, the study of collective choice mechanisms, and applied econometrics. Essentially he builds formal models of why governments do what they do, and tests them with data
from Canada, the United States, and sometimes from the world as a whole. Much of this work over the past two decades is concerned with understanding the formation and evolution of tax systems—nothing governments do so clearly reveals the nature of the public sector as the way in which “we” choose to tax ourselves. More recently, with colleagues in Canada and the United States, he has embarked on a program of research that aims to provide a deeper understanding of why the competitiveness of electoral politics in mature democracies varies across time and space, and the implications of this for the well-being of citizens.

During Professor Winer’s visit to Georgia State University, he presented a seminar titled “Environmental Regulation & Trade Openness in the Presence of Private Mitigation,” and co-organized and presented at the ISP conference “Coercion & Social Welfare in Contemporary Public Finance.”

2010  

Najem Ghraibeh, Visiting Scholar, July 2010 – October 2010. Born in Irbid, Jordan, Najem Ghraibeh holds a Bachelor’s degree in economics from Hashemite University (located 12 miles east of Amman). Najem currently works for the Jordanian Ministry of Finance, conducting research in economics. While at the Andrew Young School, Najem researched subjects including fiscal decentralization and tax policy.

2010  

Jenny Ligthart, Visiting Professor, June 2010 – August 2010. Jenny Ligthart holds a chair in Macroeconomics at the Department of Economics of Tilburg University, the Netherlands. She is an Honorary Professor at the University of Groningen and a Senior Research Fellow at CentER (Tilburg University) and CESifo (University of Munich). Her research focuses on the macroeconomic repercussions of fiscal policy in an international context. In addition, she analyzes the economic and welfare effects of policy instruments aimed at addressing (international) tax evasion.

During 2002-2008, Ligthart was the Director of the Netherlands Network of Economics (NAKE), a graduate school in Economics in which six Dutch universities participate. Prior to joining Tilburg University, she worked for five years (1997-2002) at the IMF’s Fiscal Affairs Department in Washington, D.C., where she was involved in advising governments on fiscal matters. Presently, she is a member of the IMF’s panel of fiscal experts and occasionally is a consultant for the Netherlands Organization for Applied Scientific Research. She holds an MA, MPhil, and Ph.D. degrees in Economics from the University of Amsterdam.

2010

Peter van Oudheusden, Visiting Scholar, June 2010 – August 2010. Peter van Oudheusden is currently a Ph.D. student of Economics at the Department of Economics of Tilburg University, the Netherlands (CentER). He holds an M.Phil in Economics (2006 – 2009) and an M.Sc. in Economics (2001 – 2006), both from Tilburg University. Peter’s research interests include macroeconomics, public economics, and economic growth. Currently, Peter is a teaching assistant of Comparative Economic Studies and thesis supervisor at the center.  

2010

Magomet Batchaev, Visiting Fulbright Scholar September 2009–March 2010. Magomet Batchaev holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia, Moscow. He is an Associate Professor of Economics at the Department of Accounting, Analysis & Audit of Karachay-Cherkessian State University, Russian Federation, where he teaches Public Finance, Financial Management, Money & Banking, Taxation, and other allied disciplines. His research interests focus on fiscal and monetary policy issues, rural finance, and credit infrastructure. During his stay at Georgia State University, he conducted research on Taxes and Economic Growth in Developed Economies (with special emphasis on the U.S.) and its applicability to Russian Federation.

2009

Nicholas Guadalupe Zuniga Espinoza, Visiting Scholar September 2009. Nicolas Zuniga is a Professor at the Sinaloa State University Sinaloa, México. He holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Economics and a Ph.D. in Social Sciences from the Sinaloa State University, México. He obtained his Master’s Degree in Public Policy from Occident University, Mexico. He has published
10 academic papers and the book Property Tax of Municipal of Sinaloa, Mexico. During his stay at the International Studies Program, he conducted research in Fiscal Decentralization and Tax Effort of Local Governments in Sinaloa, Mexico.

2009

Yajun Gao, Visiting Scholar August 2009–August 2010. Yajun Gao is an associate professor in the School of Public Finance and Taxation of Zhongnan University of Economics and Law, China, where she obtained her Ph.D. in economics. She has published more than twenty academic papers and three books, two on the taxation system and laws of China (published by BBP of United Kingdom). She has participated in projects including two projects on the national natural science fund and others with the Education Ministry fund. During her time at the International Studies Program, she conducted research on the system of personal income tax and the local tax system in the United States and hopes to do a comparison with the systems in China.

2009

David Patino, Visiting Scholar September 2009–November 2009. David Patino is an Associate Professor in the Department of Economic History and Institutions and Applied Economics at the University of Seville, Spain. His teaching experience includes core courses at the undergraduate and public finance courses at the graduate (master and doctoral) level. David obtained his doctoral degree in 2004 from the University of Malaga in Spain. His dissertation, on regional tax incidence, was counted as one of the three best works of its type, on economics, law, and social topics of the country by the Economic and Social Council of Spain, which later published the thesis.

His research encompasses a wide variety of topics related to fiscal federalism. His most recent publications focus on fiscal balances, the determinants of regional financial systems of federal countries, and the economic impact of urban planning. In addition, his current work also focuses on the analysis of personal income distribution in Spain. He has published in some of the most prestigious economic journals in Spain, such as Revista de Estudios Regionales, Revista Vasca de Hacienda Pública, Revista de Economía Mundial and Revista de Economía Aplicada. He has also published a number of book chapters.

2009

Francois Vaillancourt, Visiting Professor September–November 2009. Dr. Vaillancourt is a full professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Montreal, Canada. In 1978 he earned his Ph.D. from Queen’s University of Ontario, Canada. Dr. Vaillancourt’s major research interests are in the area of public economics, language economics and public policy, the economics of human resources in Canada and throughout the world (New Zealand and Europe; twelve countries of Bhutan in Tunisia while passing by Congo DRC, Morocco, and Pakistan). He is interested in the public economy, with federalism (distribution of the capacities, mechanisms of financing) and with taxation (costs for collection, harmonization, local taxation, companies of State). In the economy of the language, he treats variations of incomes and impact of the linguistic policies, whereas in human resources, he is more focused on the distribution of income and the social policies. He has been involved in numerous publications on these topics and has co-authored a number of publications and reports.

At the International Studies Program, he has been a co-manager, delivering (French) training here at the Andrew Young School to government officials from the Democratic Republic of Congo with a training course on Fiscal Decentralization and Local Governance, run from September 21-October 2, 2009. He will also be presenting on seminar topics of interest.

2009

Qichun Zhang, Visiting Scholar September 2009–August 2010. Qichun Zhang is a professor in the School of Economics and Management at Huazhong Normal University, China. She obtained her Ph.D. degree from the Institute of Regional Economy and Urban Management, School of Public Administration, Renmin University of China. She continued to post-doctoral research at the Research Center of the Institute of Finance and Trade Economics, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. She has published more than 30 academic papers and one book. She is in charge of a national social science fund project, a research project sponsored by the Ministry of Personnel of PRC, and a provincial social science fund project. She has participated in a national natural science fund project and a national key social science fund project. During her time at the International Studies Program, she conducted research on equalization in basic regional public service and the balance system of governmental finance, a comparative study of intergovernmental fiscal relations in the United States and China.

2009

Xiaodong Wang, Visiting Scholar September 2009–September 2010. Xiaodong Wang is a lecturer with the Department of Economics, Changchun Taxation College, China, the only university under the administration of the State Bureau of Taxation. She holds two bachelor’s degrees, one in Public Finance from Changchun Taxation College, the other in Law from Jilin University, China, and a Master’s degree in International Relations (mainly focusing on international trade and economic cooperation) from Waseda University, Japan. She is now a Ph.D. candidate majoring in economics at Jilin University, China.

She has been doing academic research on environmental policy and institutional arrangements in the U.S., Japan, and Germany. During her stay at ISP, she conducted comparative research of the environmental policy in the U.S., Japan, and Germany, and apply benefit-cost analysis tools to the evaluation of their environmental policy and examine the economic incentives for natural resource regeneration and environmental protection, which would provide some enlightenment to the environmental problem- solving in China. She is also interested in issues such as emission trading and green index accounts.

2009

Xingqiong Gan, Visiting Fulbright Professor, September 1, 2008–July 1, 2009, School of Public Finance and Taxation, Zhongnan University of Economics and Law, Wuhan, Hubei, China. Xinqiong Gan is a professor in the School of Public Finance and Taxation at Zhongnan University of Economics and Law in Wuhan, Hubei China. During her time at the ISP, she conducted research on the project “A Study on Solutions to the Fiscal Straits of Chinese Local Governments: A Comparative Study of Local Government Fiscal Systems in the United States and China.”

2009

Wenchun Zhang, Visiting Research Scholar, October 1, 2008–November 30, 2009, Renmin University, China. Wenchun Zhang is an associate professor and vice-chair in the Department of Public Finance, School of Finance at the Renmin University of China in Beijing, China. He holds B.A. and M.A. in economics from Dongbei University of Finance and Economics and Ph.D. in economics from the Renmin University of China. His research interests are tax reform and international taxation. During his time at the ISP, he conducted research on the project “A Comparative Study of Intergovernmental Fiscal Relations in the United States and China.”

2009

Yajun Gao, Visiting Scholar, August 2009 – August 2010. Yajun Gao is an associate professor in the School of Public Finance and Taxation of Zhongnan University of Economics and Law, China, where she obtained her Ph.D. in economics. She has published more than 20 academic papers and three books. Two books are on the taxation system and laws of China, published by BBP (United Kingdom). She has participated in projects including two related to the national natural science fund and the others with the Education Ministry fund.

During her time at the International Studies Program, she conducted research on the system of personal income tax and the local tax system in the United States and hopes to do a comparison with the systems in China.

2009

Xiaodong Wang, Visiting Scholar, September 2009 – September 2010. Xiaodong Wang is a lecturer with the Department of Economics, Changchun Taxation College, China, the only university under the administration of the State Bureau of Taxation. She holds two Bachelor’s degrees, one in Public Finance from Changchun Taxation College, the other in Law from Jilin University, China, and a Master’s degree in International relations (mainly focusing on international trade and economic cooperation) from Waseda University, Japan. She is now a Ph.D. candidate majoring in economics at Jilin University, China.

She has been doing academic research on environmental policy and institutional arrangements in the U.S., Japan, and Germany. During her stay at ISP, she conducted comparative research of the environmental policy in the U.S., Japan, and Germany, and applied benefit-cost analysis tools to the evaluation of their environmental policy; and she will examine the economic incentives for natural resource regeneration and environmental protection, which would provide some enlightenment to environmental problem-solving in China. She is also interested in issues including emission trading, green index accounts, and more.

2009

Magomet Batchaev, Visiting Fulbright Scholar, September 2009 – March 2010. Magomet Batchaev holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia, Moscow. He is an Associate Professor of Economics at the Department of Accounting, Analysis & Audit of Karachay- Cherkessian State University, Russian Federation, where he teaches Public Finance, Financial Management, Money & Banking, Taxation, and other allied disciplines. His research interests focus on fiscal and monetary policy issues, rural finance, and credit infrastructure.

During his stay at Georgia State University, he conducted research on Taxes and Economic Growth in Developed Economies (with special emphasis on the U.S.) and its applicability to the Russian Federation.

2009

Haibo Feng, Visiting Scholar, December 2009 – December 2010. Haibo Feng is an associate professor with the Department of Public Finance, Jinan University, China. He holds a Ph.D. from Renmin University of China since 2004. In the past five years, he published about 20 papers that concentrated on public policy and finished two academic projects sponsored by the National Social Science Found and Guangdong Province.

During his stay at ISP, he conducted research on fiscal reform and public goods provision in rural China. This study will rethink the effect of the current fiscal system in China through a careful comparative analysis of the fiscal decentralization of other countries.

2009

Qichun Zhang, Visiting Scholar, September 2009 – October 2010. Qichun Zhang is a professor in the School of Economics and management in Huazhong Normal University, China. She obtained her Ph.D. degree from the Institute of Regional Economy and Urban Management, School of Public Administration, Renmin University of China. She continued to post-doctoral research at the Research Center of the Institute of Finance and Trade Economics, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. She has published more than 30 academic papers and a book. She is in charge of a national social science fund project, a research project sponsored by the Ministry of Personnel of PRC, and a provincial social science fund project. She has participated in a national natural science fund project and a national key social science fund project.

During her time at the International Studies Program, she conducted research on the equalization in basic regional public service and the balance system of governmental finance, a comparative study of intergovernmental fiscal relations in the United States and China.

2009

Naeem Ahmed, Visiting Research Scholar, April 24, 2008 – August 24, 2008 
Pakistan Federal Board of Revenue, Pakistan. Naeem Ahmed was a visiting research scholar in the International Studies Program. Mr. Ahmed visited the ISP as part of the Pakistan Tax Reform Project, funded by the World Bank and the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies. During his time at the ISP, Mr. Ahmed worked on a Micro Simulation Model under the supervision of Prof. Jorge Martinez-Vazquez, the Director of the International Studies Program, Mark Rider, Wayne Thirsk, and Sally Wallace. 

2008

Besnik Bislimi, Visiting Fulbright Research Scholar, March 1, 2008 – May 31, 2008, American University, Kosovo. Dr. Bislimi is a Professor of Economics at the American University in Kosovo. His courses include Principles of Macroeconomics, Principles of Microeconomics, Public Finance, and Monetary Policy & Analysis.

2008

Xingqiong Gan, Visiting Fulbright Professor, September 1, 2008-July 1, 2009, School of Public Finance and Taxation, Zhongnan University of Economics and Law, Wuhan, Hubei, China. Xinjiang Gan is a professor in the School of Public Finance and Taxation at Zhongnan University of Economics and Law in Wuhan, Hubei China. During her time at the ISP, she conducted research on the project “A Study on Solutions to the Fiscal Straits of Chinese Local Governments: A Comparative Study of Local Government Fiscal Systems in the United States and China.”

2008

Encarnacion Garcia-Ruiz, Visiting Scholar, February 15, 2008-May 15, 2008 
University of Almería, Spain. Encarnacion García-Ruíz is currently the Chair of the European Space of Higher Education at the University of Almería. She has been a visiting scholar in Fachoschule Kiel, Germany (1997), and Paul Verlaine University, France (2006, 2007). Her research interest is in Society Law, Public Enterprise, and Enterprise Crisis. 

2008

Umar Wahid, Visiting Scholar, November 1, 2007-March 1, 2008 
Pakistan Federal Board of Revenue, Pakistan. Mr. Umar Wahid was a Visiting Scholar from Pakistan at the International Studies, Andrew Young School of Policy Studies from November 2007 to March 2008. During his stay, he completed the research study “Incidence of Taxes in Pakistan: Premier and Preliminary Estimates” with Professor Sally Wallace under the Pakistan Tax Policy Review Project sponsored by the World Bank.  

2008

Wenchun Zhang, Visiting Research Scholar, October 1, 2008-November 30, 2009, Renming University, China. Wenchun Zhang is an associate professor and vice-chair in the Department of Public Finance, School of Finance at the Renmin University of China in Beijing, China. He holds B.A. and M.A. in economics from Dongbei University of Finance and Economics, and a Ph.D. in economics from the Renmin University of China. His research interests are tax reform and international taxation. During his time at the ISP, he conducted research on the project “A Comparative Study of Intergovernmental Fiscal Relations in the United States and China.” 

2008

Francois Vaillancourt, Distinguished Visiting Professor (September-December 2007). Dr. Francois Vaillancourt, a distinguished visiting research professor, is with the International Studies Program from September to December 2007. Dr. Vaillancourt is a full professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Montreal, Canada. In 1978, he earned his Ph.D. from Queen’s University of Ontario, Canada. Dr. Vaillancourt’s major research interests are public economics, language economics and public policy, and economics of human resources in Canada and throughout the world. He is interested in public economy, with federalism (distribution of the capacities, mechanisms of financing) and with taxation (costs for collection, harmonization, local taxation, companies of State). In the economy of language, he treats variations of incomes and the impact of linguistic policies, whereas, in human resources, he is more focused on the distribution of income and social policies. He has been involved in numerous publications on these topics and has co-authored a number of publications and reports. His research topics include the Canadian internal market (why it does not exist), rates of return to university schooling in Canada, tax compliance costs in Canada, municipal expenditures and financing in Canada, and the use of property taxation for funding school boards in Canada. He is currently working on the differences in aging between the U.S. States and Canadian Provinces and is keen to collaborate with students and professors at the Andrew Young School to further this research. In the past, he has also been invited, as a visiting scholar to the University of Toronto and Australia National University and as an affiliate scholar to the Institute for Research on Public Policy and the C.D. Howe Institute.

He has served in various prestigious research positions, including:
• Research Coordinator for the Macdonald Commission
• Associate Director of the Review of Canadian Public Policy – Analyse de Politiques
• Assistant Director at the Centre de recherche et développement en économique, Université de Montréal • Research Coordinator, Income Distribution and Economic Security, Economic Research
• Royal Commission on the Economic Union and Development Prospects for Canada, Ottawa
• Member of the Pulpit of Economic Surveys Political and American of the University of Montreal
• Member of the editorial board, Canadian Tax Newspaper

2007

Mir Ahmad Khan, Visiting Scholar (November 2007-March 2008). 
Mir Ahmad Khan was a Visiting Research Scholar from Pakistan at the International Studies Program from November 2007 to March 2008. During his stay, he authored the research study “Assessing Enterprise Taxation and Investment Climate in Pakistan” with Dr. James Alm, under the Pakistan Tax Policy Review Project sponsored by World Bank. Khan received his Master’s degree in Economics from the University of Peshawar, Pakistan. He also attended a six-month training course on “Modules on Core Official Statistics” in Chiba, Japan, as part of the United Nations Statistical Institute for Asia and Pacific from October 2003 through March 2004, sponsored by Japan International Cooperation Agency. He is presently serving as Second Secretary in the Fiscal Research and Statistics Wing of Federal Board of Revenue, Revenue Division, Ministry of Finance, Pakistan. He has long been involved in fiscal research activities. He has also written a number of articles on topics related to taxation, which have been published in many journals.  

2007

Umar Wahid, Visiting Scholar (November 2007-March 2008) 
Mr. Umar Wahid was a Visiting Scholar from Pakistan at the International Studies, Andrew Young School of Policy Studies from November 2007 to March 2008. During his stay, he completed the research study “Incidence of Taxes in Pakistan: Premier and Preliminary Estimates” with Professor Sally Wallace under the Pakistan Tax Policy Review Project, sponsored by the World Bank. Mr. Wahid received his Master’s degree in Economics from Karachi University, Pakistan. He is a civil servant and started his career as Economic Investigator in the Planning and Development Division Islamabad; he later joined the Food and Agricultural Department Karachi as Research Assistant, where he served for four and half years. He has a long association with the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR), formerly known as CBR, where he served as Research Officer, followed by Deputy Director, and currently, he is serving FBR in the capacity of Secretary (Fiscal Research and Statistics). He has been involved in Fiscal Research activities in FBR and he is an author and co-author of a number of research papers published in various journals. His area of research has been macroeconomic management, fiscal policy, and tax administration reforms issues in Pakistan.    

2007

Guohua Wang, Visiting Professor (December 2006-February 2007) 
Dr. Guohua Wang was a visiting professor at the International Studies Program from the Central University of Finance and Economics (CUFE), China. He received his Ph.D. in Finance from the Institute for Fiscal Science, Ministry of Finance of China. He is a Professor and Vice President at CUFE. Meanwhile, he is a Vice President of the China International Tax Research Institution and Associate Secretary-General of China Public Finance Academy. He worked as an expert on China for the World Bank, Asia Bank, and OECD. During his visit, he focused on fiscal decentralization and local governance.  

2007

Nataliya Starostenko, Visiting Scholar (June-August 2007). Nataliya Starostenko was a visiting scholar at the International Studies Program from June to August 2007. During her visit, she studied the fiscal incentives in the context of budgetary reform in Ukraine. She was also working on performance budgeting in transitional countries. She received her Ph.D. in Finance from the Institute for Economy and Forecasting of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine in 2005. Dr. Starostenko specializes in fiscal policy at both national and local levels, tax assignment, intergovernmental fiscal relations, regional policy analysis, and the formation of economic clusters. She has extensive experience in research and teaching. She worked as a researcher at both governmental and non-governmental institutions in Ukraine and has combined research and management functions at one of the leading think tanks – The International Centre for Policy Studies. Nataliya Starostenko has also been engaged as a consultant in the World Bank project on promoting participatory budgeting in Ukraine.    

2007

Yousif M.A. Bashir El Tahir, Visiting Scholar (January-April 2007). Yousif M. A. Bashir El Tahir was a visiting scholar from Sudan from January to April 2007. Yousif received a Master of Science degree in economics from Khartoum University, Sudan. He has worked for the Government of Sudan in the Ministry of Finance and National Economy for over eight years. During his career, he has worked with various international agencies including the World Bank and the IMF, and the African Development Bank.  

2007

Dr. Ai-Young Kim (until March 2007) continued as a visiting professor from Nam Seoul University in Seoul, South Korea, who had been associated with ISP in  October 2006. Currently, she is an associate professor in the Department of International Trade at Nam Seoul University, South Korea, and has worked as an economic council advisor for several local governments in South Korea. Prior to joining the faculty of Nam Seoul University, she worked for the Daegu Securities and Investment Company as a senior manager. Her research interests cover open macroeconomics, international finance, and the foreign exchange market.  

2007

Peter Mischler, visiting scholar from the University of Fribourg in Switzerland, was associated with ISP from October 2006 until March 2007. Currently, he is a research associate and Ph.D. candidate at the University of Fribourg. During his visit, he finished his dissertation on expenditure equalization in Switzerland and elaborated on a paper on the incidence of fiscal equalization programs. His research interest is local public finance, especially intergovernmental transfers, fiscal equalization, and regional development.  

2007

Dr. Keqing Zhou was a visiting scholar from China from September 2006 to February 2007. He was born in Sichuan, China, in 1972. He received his Bachelor of Science in economics in 1996, and his Ph.D. in Economics in 2004, both at Southwestern University of Finance and Economics (SWUFE). Currently, he is an Assistant Professor in the School of Public Finance and Taxation at SWUFE. His research fields are fiscal federalism, fiscal decentralization, tax competition, public expenditure, public transfers, and governmental revenue.  

2007

Dr. Laura Piedra-Muñoz visited from University of Almeria (UAL) in Spain from February to June 2006. She earned her Economic and Business Sciences degree in1999, and her Ph.D. in Economics in 2005, both at the UAL. Currently, she is an Associate Professor in the Department of Applied Economics at UAL. Her research fields are public expenditure, public transfers, and public housing programs.

2006

Dr. Ai-Young Kim was a visiting professor from the Nam Seoul University in Seoul, South Korea, from October 2006 to March 2007. She is an associate professor in the Department of International Trade at Nam Seoul University and has worked as an economic council advisor for several local governments in South Korea. Prior to joining the faculty of Nam Seoul University, she worked for the Daeyu Securities and Investment Company as a senior manager. Her research interests include macroeconomics, international finance, and the foreign exchange market.

2006

Peter Mischler was a visiting scholar from the University of Fribourg, Switzerland, from October 2006 to March 2007. He is a research associate and Ph.D. candidate at the University of Fribourg. During his visit, he finished his dissertation on expenditure equalization in Switzerland and write a paper on the incidence of fiscal equalization programs. His research interest is in local public finance, especially intergovernmental transfers, fiscal equalization, and regional development

2006

Dr. Keqing Zhou was a visiting scholar from China from September 2006 to February 2007. He earned his bachelor of economics in 1996, and his Ph.D. in Economics in 2004, both at Southwestern University of Finance and Economics (SWUFE). He is an Assistant Professor in the School of Public Finance and Taxation at SWUFE. His research fields are fiscal federalism, fiscal decentralization, tax competition, public expenditure, public transfers, and governmental revenue.

2006

Dr. Ana Herrero Alcalde visited from Universidad Nacional de Educacion a Distancia (UNED) in Spain from January to May 2006. Professor Herrero got her Law degree from the Universidad Complutense of Madrid in 1996 and her Ph.D. in Economics from the Universidad Nacional de Educacion a Distancia (UNED) in 2004. Currently, she is an Associate Professor in the Department of Applied Economics and Public Finance of the UNED, and an external researcher of the Institute of Fiscal Studies, part of the Spanish Ministry of Finance. Her research fields are fiscal federalism, equalization transfers, and decentralization of the welfare state.

2006

Dr. Dillon Alleyne was a visiting professor from November 2005 to January 2006. Professor Alleyne currently lectures in Public Finance and Econometrics in the Department of Economics at the University of the West Indies, Mona, Kingston, Jamaica. His published works have been in the areas of tax burden analysis, taxation and labor supply, and migrant transfers. He has worked in Fiscal Policy and related issues for the Government of Jamaica, the World Bank, the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), and the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB). Prior to joining the staff at the Department of Economics, Mona, he was a Research Fellow at the Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and Economic Studies (SALISES) in Mona, Jamaica. Dillon Alleyne is a Guyanese citizen.

2006

Dr. Jose Felix Sanz visited from the Universidad Complutense in Madrid, Spain, from September 2004 until March 2005. He was involved in editing a book with Jorge Martinez-Vazquez on the Spanish tax system as well as undertaking his own research with other members of the faculty.

2005

Dr. Konstantin Pahev visited from the Center for the Study of Democracy in Sofia, Bulgaria, from October 2004 to March 2005 under the Fulbright Senior Scholarship Program. His research interests cover taxation of small and medium-sized enterprises, taxation and international competitiveness, compliance management, and measurement.

2006

Cintia Martinez, from the University of Santiago De Compostela, Spain, was at AYSPS from September 2003 until December 2003. She worked with Jorge Martinez-Vazquez, Neven Valev and Felix Rioja.

2003

Jan Werner was visiting from Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universitat, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, in September 2003. Jan was researching the financing of local authorities in Germany, as well as future fiscal reforms and methods of resolution in Europe.

2003

Wu Xue was a Visiting Scholar from the Ministry of Finance of China from November 2002 to November 2003. The focus of her research was on tax assignment and tax reform. She is a senior editor for the Fiscal Science Research Institute of the Ministry of Finance of China.

2003

Dr. Konstantin Pahev visited from the Center for the Study of Democracy in Sofia, Bulgaria, from October 2004 to March 2005 under the Fulbright Senior Scholarship Program. His current research interests cover taxation of small and medium-sized enterprises, taxation and international competitiveness, compliance management, and measurement.

2004

Dr. Jose Felix Sanz-Sanz visited from the Universidad Complutense, in Madrid, Spain, from September 2004 until March 2005. He was involved in editing a book with Jorge Martinez-Vazquez on the Spanish tax system as well as undertaking his own research with other members of the faculty.

2004

Dr. Benno Torgler visited from the University of Basel, Switzerland, from September 2003 until August 2004. He collaborated with AYSPS faculty members on research regarding tax morale and tax compliance.

2004

Richard Hawkins, Assistant Professor, Department of Marketing and Economics at the University of West Florida, visited during the year. He worked with the Fiscal Research Program on the Seventh Edition of “Georgia Taxes: A Summary of Major State and Local Government Taxes,” and on other projects of fiscal importance.

The Fiscal Research Program participated in several presentations to international visitors to the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies. Visitors learned about various economic development research conducted in the FRP and the Young School. In February, the FRP participated in a conference on Local and Comparative Perspectives on Managing Atlanta’s Growth, presented by The Georgia State University Law Review and the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies.

2001

David M. Van Slyke (Georgia State University) spoke on The Mythology of Privatization in Contracting for Social Services, May 30, 2001.

2001

Catherine Freeman (Georgia State University) spoke on Resource Deployment and Student Achievement in Tennessee Middle Schools, August 2001.

2001

Casey Dawkins (Georgia Institute of Technology) spoke on Local Government Fragmentation and Residential Segregation: Evidence from the 2000 Census, October 2001.

2001

Ed Olsen (University of Virginia) spoke on Housing Programs for Low-Income Households, December 2001.

2001

The Andrew Young School of Policy Studies hosted Visiting Scholar, Min Zhao, from the Ministry of Public Security, part of the State Council of the People’s Republic of China. Her research interests focused on Science and Technology Policy in 2001.

2001

Sergei Paturyan, State Tax Administration of Armenia, IREX Scholar, his research focused on Tax Administration Reform. 2001

2001

Mr. Andrei Timofeevis was a visiting scholar at the International Studies Program from September 2001 through May 2002. Andrei was a member of the GSU team of the Fiscal Reform Project in the Russian Federation. He is currently finishing his dissertation for his Ph.D. in Economics from CERGE at Charles University in Prague. His thesis examines the relationship between fiscal federalism and growth in the context of transition economies

2001

Dr. Mark Rider was an Associate Professor of Economics at the Michael J. Coles College of Business, Kennesaw State University, and served as senior research fellow at the International Studies Program.

2002

Dr. Sri Mulyani Indrawati, the Director of LPEM (Faculty of Economics) at the University of Indonesia in Jakarta, was a visiting faculty member at the Andrew Young School from August 2001 to Nov. 2002. She taught and mentored the Indonesian students in the Indonesian Master’s program as well as gave several seminar presentations and co-authored articles and reports with faculty. She recently accepted a post as the country liaison for Indonesia at the International Monetary Fund (IMF).

2002

Dr. Huang Ran was the Deputy Director of the Policy Division and is responsible for policy studies and the medium-long term fiscal planning in the Ministry of Finance in China. He was a visiting scholar at the International Studies Program of the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies from June 2002 to December 2002. Dr. Huang’s research focused on fiscal reform in transitional economies and a research study called “Non-tax Revenue: Chinese Experience and Some Normative Issues”.

2002

Yang Yuangen was a visiting scholar at the International Studies Program of the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies from June 2002 to June 2003. He was here at GSU to study different aspects of the American Fiscal Policy system.

2002

Dr. Zhihua Zhang from the Ministry of Finance of China was a visiting scholar at the International Studies Program during May-June 2002. Professor Zhang collaborated with Jorge Martinez-Vazquez on a paper, “The System of Equalization Transfers in China.”

2002

Dr. Atul Sarma, Professor of Economics, Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi Centre, and Director (Non- Executive) of the Steel Authority of India, was a visiting scholar in the ISP from March 18 through April 18, 2002. He presented seminars on “A Decade of India’s Fiscal Reform” and “The Working of Fiscal Federalism in India.” Professor Sarma collaborated with various faculty members and was available to Ph.D. and Master’s students. Professor Sarma’s current research focuses on power sector reforms in India and a research study called “Power Sector Reforms in India: Learning from Private Sector Management” that he has initiated is in progress. Recently he finished a study entitled “Emerging Indo-ASEAN Economic Partnership in a Globalizing World,” which is forthcoming in published form.

2002

Wu Xue is a visiting scholar at the International Studies Program. The focus of her research is on tax assignment and tax reform. She is a senior editor for the Fiscal Science Research Institute of the Ministry of Finance of China.

2002

Mr. Manoj Shrestha was a visiting scholar with the Andrew Young School at GSU from February 15 through March 28, 2002. Mr. Shrestha, an Under-Secretary with the Ministry of Local Development in Nepal, visited the School as part of the Humphrey Fellowship Program, dividing his time between the Andrew Young School and the Daniel J. Evans School of Public Affairs at the University of Washington in Seattle. The Humphrey Fellowship is funded by the U.S. Department of State and managed by the Institute of International Education (IIE). Mr. Shrestha was engaged in research on fiscal decentralization issues relevant to Nepal, collaborated with AYSPS faculty, and gave several visiting lectures.

2002

Dave Solomon of Witswatersrand University, South Africa visited Atlanta to discuss intergovernmental fiscal relations research and collaboration. November 8-9, 1999. Professor Solomon also worked as a lecturer in the Uganda Training Program directed by Georgia State University.

1999

The Andrew Young School of Policy Studies hosted Visiting Scholar, Anne Gronski, from the University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany. Her research interests focused on analyzing the role of the Johannesburg Stock Exchange in fostering economic growth in South Africa.

2000

The Andrew Young School of Policy Studies hosted Visiting Scholar, Avinash Samboo, from the University of Mauritius. His research interests focused on the social security system.

2000

Sergei Paturyan, a senior official with the Armenia Tax Inspectorate took part in a three-month independent research program sponsored by the U.S. Information Agency.

1997

Anatol Carganciu, Vice-Rector from the Moldova Academy of Economics spent 3 months in Atlanta conducting tax policy research.

1997

Svetlana Stratan, a professor of Economics from the Moldova Academy of Economics spent 3 months in Atlanta conducting tax policy research.

1997

Galina Ribac, a professor of Economics from the Moldova Academy of Economics spent 3 months in Atlanta conducting tax policy research.

1997

Valentina Tolpinskaia, a professor of Economics from the Moldova Academy of Economics spent 3 months in Atlanta conducting tax policy research.

1997

Vladimir Moldoev from the Gaidar Institute in Russia visited to do research on tax system reforms in the Russian Federation.

September-November 1997

Vasel Hudak of the Institute for East West Studies visited to discuss research issues in Eastern Europe.

1997

Dewald Roode and Mauritz Oberholzer of the Department of Informatics at the University of Pretoria visited in August 1997. 

Angel Yoingco, Chief Fiscal Consultant for the Philippines Senate visited to discuss tax policy in September 1997. 

Dr. Roman Mogilevsky, a Professor of Economics at the Russian-Kyrgyz Slavic University in Kyrgyszstan, was a visiting scholar to the School of Policy Studies for three months to participate in a joint research project with JORGE MARTINEZ-VAZQUEZ. The project focused on revenue forecasting and modeling design for the newly formed state of Kyrgyszstan.

1996

Dr. Valentina David was a visiting scholar from Moldova to SPS for six months this year. Her research on fiscal policy reform in Moldova was guided by JORGE MARTINEZ-VAZQUEZ AND SALLY WALLACE, and she is now a senior economist with the U.S. Embassy in Chisnau, Moldova. Both she and Dr. Mogilevsky were funded under the Department of State’s Freedom Support Act, which places research scholars at U.S. institutions for three to six months.

1996