EDUCATION:

Ph.D., Economics, University of Michigan, 1987.

Primary fields: economic development, international trade and finance. Secondary fields: econometrics, history of economic thought.

Dissertation title: "The Impact of Self-Sufficiency on Regional Industrial Growth and Productivity in Post-1949 China: The Case of Jiangsu Province."

M.A., Economics, University of Michigan.

B.A., Chinese Studies, University of Denver.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Currently, full professor of economics at Kennesaw State University, and Director, China Research Center. Teaching economic development, intermediate microeconomics, international business, global economics, and international business on-line for the University of Georgia's Web MBA Program. Has taken over 150 students to China with the off-campus study Political-Economy Seminar in China with Carleton College. Past analyst with International Programs, U.S. Census Bureau, Eurasia Branch, and the China Division, World Bank. Has traveled throughout Asia and Southeast Asia, lived in China, and speaks Mandarin Chinese.

FELLOWSHIPS AND GRANTS ACKNOWLEGED FROM:

Kennesaw State University; William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan; American Council of Learned Societies; Alfred P. Sloan Foundation; Pacific Cultural Foundation; National Academy of Sciences, Committee on Scholarly Communications with the People's Republic of China; Rackham Dissertation Grants, University of Michigan; Andrew Mellon Fellowship, University of Pittsburgh; and the University of Denver.

PUBLICATIONS:

"Funding Economic Transition in China: The Privatization Option," Eurasian Geography and Economics, 45.5 (2004):382-394.

"Consolidated Engineering Goes to China," (with Travis Maples), in Readings and Cases in International Management: A Cross-Cultural Perspective, by David C. Thomas (Sage, 2003).

"China Joins the WTO: How, Why, and What Now?," Business Economics  (April 2002):26-32.

"The East Asian Miracle? Thailand Melts Down," (with Mary Bumgarner), Casenet, 2001.

"Capital Mobility and Investor Confidence: The Case of Hong Kong and China," (with Mary Bumgarner), Pacific Economic Review  5.2 (June 2000):263-278.

"A Comment on ‘On the Empirical Content of the Factor-Contents Theory of Trade: A Regional Test’," (with Donald R. Grimes), Osaka Economic Papers  49.1 (October 1999):249-254.

"The Future of Hong Kong and China: Insights from Economic Theory," (with Mary Bumgarner), in Lin Guijin and C. Jayachandra, eds., Vol.6: The Managerial Process and Impact of Foreign Investment in Greater China, Advances in Chinese Industrial Studies  series edited by Nigel Campbell (London: JAI Press, 1999).

"Client Flow through the Women, Infants, and Children Public Health Program," (with Billie Ann Brotman and Mary Bumgarner), Journal of Health Care Finance  25.1 (Fall 1998):72-77; also pp.185-190 in Judith J. Baker and R. W. Baker, Health Care Finance: Basic Tools for Nonfinancial Managers (Gaithersburg, MD: Aspen Publishers, 2000).

"Exports and Economic Growth in China," (with Jong H. Park), pp.33-49 in Farok J. Contractor, ed., Economic Transformation in Emerging Countries: The Role of Investment, Trade and Finance, Series in International Business and Economics, (Amsterdam: Elsevier, 1998).

"China’s Foreign Trade and Investment Strategies: Implications for the Business Environment," (with Jong H. Park), Business Economics XXXII.4 (October 1997):29-35.

"Export Performance and Economic Growth in China: Evidence from Cross-Provincial Analysis," (with Jong H. Park), Applied Economics  29 (1997):1353-1363.

"Reply to 'A Comment on 'Industry's Response to Market Liberalization in China: Evidence from Jiangsu Province'," Economic Development and Cultural Change  45.3 (April 1997):671-674.

"China's Economic Progress: Is It Sustainable?," in William Joseph, ed., China Briefing: The Contradictions of Change  (M. E. Sharpe, 1997).

"Options for Market Reforms in China," Economic Development and Cultural Change  42.4 (July 1994):869-878.

"The Study of the Chinese Economy," in The American Study of Contemporary China, pp.82-119. Armonk, New York: M.E. Sharpe and The Woodrow Wilson Center Press, 1993.

"The Economy in Overdrive: Will It Crash?," Current History, special issue on China 92.575 (September 1993):260-264.

"Industry's Response to Market Liberalization in China: Evidence from Jiangsu Province," Economic Development and Cultural Change  41.1 (October 1992):27-50.

"Taxation Reform in China's Public Finance," in Joint Economic Committee, Congress of the United States, China's Economic Dilemmas in the 1990s: The Problems of Reforms, Modernization, and Interdependence, pp.167-185. U.S. Government Printing Office, 1991 and M.E. Sharpe, 1992.

"Central-Provincial Investment and Finance: The Cultural Revolution and its Legacy in Jiangsu Province," in William Joseph, Christine Wong, and David Zweig, eds., New Perspectives on the Cultural Revolution, pp.197-215. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1991.

"The Spatial Implications of China's Economic Reforms, 1978 to 1988," in Gregory Veeck, ed., The Uneven Landscape: Geographic Studies in Post-Reform China, pp.9-27. Geoscience Publications, Louisiana State University, 1991.

"Socialism and Economic Development: The Politics of Accumulation in China," in Arif Dirlik and Maurice Meisner, eds., Marxism and the Chinese Experience: Issues in Chinese Socialism, pp.136-151. M. E. Sharpe, 1989.

"Low Expectations, High Growth: China's Economy in 1987," in Anthony J. Kane, ed., China Briefing, 1988, pp.19-36. Boulder, CO: Westview, 1988.

OTHER PUBLICATIONS AND WORKING PAPERS:

Global Economics, (with Mary Bumgarner and Jennifer DeLaney), 2^nd edition (SC: Travenners Publishing Co., 2000).

"Competing Strategies of FDI and Technology Transfer to China: American and Japanese Firms," William Davidson Institute Working Paper No.218, (with Mark W. Fruin), (January 1999), University of Michigan.

Case: "Consolidated Engineering Goes to China," (with Travis Maples), November 1999.

Case: "Establishing a Successful Joint Venture in China: Selecting a Partner," (with Michael Shwartsman), 1998.

"Technology Policy and China's Global Competitiveness," Working Paper No. 98-011, and "Capital Mobility and Asymmetric Information: The Case of Hong Kong and China," (with Mary Bumgarner), Working Paper No. 98-012, Center for International Business Education and Research Working Papers, Georgia Institute of Technology, http://www.ciber.gatech.edu/workingpaper/working_papers_98.htm.

"China's Export Growth," The Census and You  29.7 (July 1994):12.

"China's Export Potential," Eurasia Bulletin  (Summer 1994):2-9.

"China's Export Growth: Is It All Toys from Guangdong?," Asian Pacific Economic Review  (Summer 1994):32.

"China's Export Production Profile, U.S. Bureau of the Census, CIR Staff Paper No.71 (March 1994).

"China Experiments with Stock Markets," Asian Pacific Economic Review  (Spring 1993):15.

"Problems and Options in China's Public Finance," Center for International Research, U.S. Bureau of the Census, CIR Staff Paper No.67 (November 1992).

"Inter-Provincial and Central-Local Relations in China: Measures of Economic Integration and Decentralization," research report prepared for the Center for International Research, U.S. Bureau of the Census (July 1992).