Charles de Bartolome published “Who’s in Charge of the Central City? The Conflict between Efficiency and Equity in the Design of a Metropolitan Area” in the Journal of Urban Economics. He also presented at the Canadian Public Economics Group Conference in June 2005.

Nicholas Flores became a principal investigator at the Nation Center for Earth-surface Dynamics (NCED). NCED is a National Science Foundation Science and Technology Center located at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. NCED’s principal investigators are from Johns Hopkins University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Princeton University, University of California Berkeley, University of Colorado, University of Illinois, and University of Minnesota.
        He also joined the advisory board for the City of Aspen’s Climate Change Impact Assessment. The Aspen Global Change Institute is conducting the Climate Change Impact Assessment as part of the City of Aspen’s Canary Initiative, a resolution passed in March to address the potential risks of global warming.

Philip Graves had two papers come out in 2004, has one coming out in September 2005, and another forthcoming in 2006. He also wrote a book review in 2005 for the Journal of Economic Literature. Phil has begun a book titled Environmental Economics for Environmentalists: How to Play Within the “Rules of the Game” and Win! He has three publishers, based on a preliminary table of contents, waiting to see sample chapters that are nearly complete. Since the last Faculty Notes, Phil has presented The Gosnell Lecture at the Rochester Institute of Technology (“Proper Valuation of Public Goods: Policy Implications,” September 22, 2004). In addition, he presented “Resource Misallocation from Goods Misvaluation: When Psychological Underpinnings of Demand Matter,” “Linking Regional Science and Urban Economics: Long Run Interactions Among Preferences for Amenities and Public Goods,” and “Over-Development of Rural Areas Due to Non-Optimal Urban Public Good Provision,” at the 51st Annual North American Meetings of the Regional Science Association International, Renaissance Seattle, Seattle, Washington, November 11–13, 2004.

Frank Hsiao has published the following papers: “The Chaotic Attractor of Foreign Direct Investment—Why China? A Panel Data Analysis” (with Mei-Chu Hsiao), Journal of Asian Economics, Fall 2004; “Korea and Taiwanese Productivity Performance: Comparisons at Matched Manufacturing Levels” (with Changsuh Park), Journal of Productivity Analysis, Spring 2005. His paper, “Colonialism, Learning and Convergence: A Comparison of India and Taiwan,” appeared as the leading paper in the Journal of the Asia Pacific Economy (with Mei-Chu Hsiao), May 2005. His previous paper, “Miracle Growth in the Twentieth Century—International Comparisons of East Asian Development” (with Mei-Chu Hsiao), originally published in World Development, 2003, has been translated in Japanese and published in Kaetsu University Research Review, Tokyo, Japan, December 2004. Several papers are still in the pipeline.
        In January 2005, Frank served as a discussant at a session of the Association of Indian Economic Studies (AIES) at the 2005 Allied Social Science Associations (ASSA) Annual Meeting in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He was an invited speaker at the Taiwanese History and Culture Symposium, San Diego, California, in February, and at the Midwest Conference of the Intercollegiate Taiwanese American Students Association (ITASA), Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, in April. He presented a paper on “Taiwan and China: Special State-to-State Economic Relations and Taiwan”s FTA Policy” (with Mei-Chu Hsiao) at a conference hosted by the Department of Economics, the City College of the City University of New York, New York, in May, and also served as a chair at the International Symposium on the U.S.-Taiwan Free Trade Agreement: Challenges and Prospects, Washington, D.C., in May.

Keith Maskus edited, along with Professor Jerome Reichman of Duke University Law School, a book titled International Public Goods and the Transfer of Technology under a Globalized Intellectual Property Regime, Cambridge University Press, 2005. His recent publications include: “Quantifying the Impact of Services Liberalization in a Developing Country” (with Denise Konan) World Bank Policy Research Paper 3193, Journal of Development Economics, 2006, forthcoming; “Transfer of Technology to Developing Countries: Unilateral and Multilateral Policy Options” (with Bernard M. Hoekman and Kamal Saggi), World Bank Policy Research Paper 3332, World Development, Vol. 33, No. 10, October 2005, forthcoming; “Using the International Trading System to Foster Technology Transfer for Economic Development,” Michigan State University Law Review, Vol. 2005, No. 1, Spring, 219–242; “Vertical Pricing and Parallel Imports” (with Yongmin Chen), Journal of International Trade and Economic Development, Vol. 14, No. 1, March 2005, 1–18; “The Price Impact of Parallel Imports in Pharmaceuticals: Evidence from the European Union” (with Mattias Ganslandt), Journal of Health Economics, Vol. 23, No. 5, September 2004, 1035–1057.
        During the past year, Keith presented papers at several conferences: Chinese Economists Society, Conference on “Sustainable Economic Growth in China,” Chongqing, June 2005; CREI, World Bank, and Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Conference on “R&D and Innovation in the Development Process,” Barcelona, June 2005; Keio University and Yokohama National University, Conference on “East Asian Economic Linkages: Trade, Innovation, and Growth,” Yokohama, Japan, December 2004.

Robert McNown recently published the following: “A Time Series Model of Fertility and Female Labour Supply in the UK,” Applied Economics, Volume 37, Number 5, March 2005, 521–532 (with Cristóbal Ridao-Cano); “The Effect of Child Benefit Policies on Fertility and Female Labor Force Participation in Canada,” Review of Economics of the Household, Volume 2, number 3, September 2004, 237–254 (with Cristóbal Ridao-Cano). Cristóbal Ridao-Cano, a 2002 PhD Graduate, currently works as an economist for the World Bank.

Mushfiq Mobarak recently published the following: “Democracy, Volatility and Development,” The Review of Economics and Statistics 87 (2), May 2005; “The Impact of Urban Spatial Structure on Travel Demand in the United States,” The Review of Economics and Statistics 87 (3), August 2005 (with A. Bento, M. Cropper, and K. Vinha).
        During the past year he received several awards: the Junior Faculty Development Award, University of Colorado at Boulder, 2005, for research on “Are There Negative Spillovers from Decentralization? Declining Water Quality in Brazil”; the Dean’s Fund for Excellence Grant Award, University of Colorado, 2004 for research on “The Political Economy of Electricity Distribution”; the Center for Advancement in Research and Teaching in the Social Sciences Grant Award, 2004–05 for research on “Do Multi-National Corporations Seek Out Politically Connected Firms? Evidence on Local Partner Search by MNCs in Indonesia.”
        Mushfiq also presented at seminars in the Economics Departments at Columbia University, University of Illinois, and the University of Colorado at Denver in addition to the Trade Workshop at the National Bureau of Economic Research.

Anna Rubinchik-Pessach has presented her work “Does It Take a Tyrant to Implement a Good Reform?” (jointly with Ruqu Wang) at the Macroeconomics and Political Economy workshop at Tel-Aviv University (December 2004), the Canadian Economic Theory Meetings in Vancouver (March 2005) and at the 16th International Conference on Game Theory in Stonybrook (July 2005). She also presented the paper “Demand for Contract Enforcement and Gains from Trade” (jointly with Roberto M. Samaniego) at the Public Economic Theory Meetings in Marseille (June 2005) and a paper titled “Composition of Public Spending and the Architecture of the Cabinet” at the Stanford Institute for Theoretical Economics (August 2005).