Service Activities
Referee service for journal
publication:
Environmental and Resource Economics, Ecological Economics, Journal of
Environmental Management, Growth and Change, Journal of Economics,
Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, Journal of Great Plains Research,
Economic Inquiry
President Elect
Nebraska Economics and Business Association, 2008-2009.
Board Member:
Nebraska Economics and Business Association, 2007-present.
Strategic
Planning Council:
UNO School of Business, 2006-present.
Chair of committee, 2007-present.
Graduate Programs Council:
UNO School of Business, 2004-present.
Television Appearance:
“Consider This”, produced by UNO Television
and hosted by Omaha journalist Andrea McMaster, NETV 2, Cox Cable channel 16.
May 4, 2006.
Discussion of gasoline prices and their impact
nationally and locally.
Radio Invitation:
“Grow Omaha”, KKNR 1290, May 27, 2006. Discussed
global, national and local economic conditions.
Presentation
to the Faculty at Crestridge Elementary, Omaha, NE, for the Center for Economic
Education, March 2006:
Presentation on
The Economics of Externalities (click to view).
Presentation
of the Faculty at Crestridge Elementary, Omaha, NE, for the Center for Economic
Education, November 2006:
Presentation on the Determinants of Economic Growth (contact me for a copy of
this presentation).
Presentation
to the UNO MBA Association, March 2006:
Presentation on
Gasoline price volatility (click to view).
Numerous local
and state newspaper, radio, and television interviews, 2005 - present.
Grant and Consulting Work
- University of Nebraska at Omaha’s School of Business and the Office
of Latio/Latin American Studies. 2007-2008. Project involves developing
an economic impact study assessing the influence of Latino immigration on
the city of Omaha and the state of Nebraska.
- Cox Classic. 2007. Developed an economic impact study assessing
the impact that the Cox Classic Golf Tournament has on the city of Omaha.
- Nebraska Business Forecast Council, Bureau of Business Research (BBR),
University of Nebraska at Lincoln. 2006-present. Responsible for the
construction of transportation and trucking employment forecasts for the
state of Nebraska. Constructing econometric models linking employment and
income growth in Nebraska.
- City of Omaha (grant awarded by the City of Omaha to the BBR).
Annual Demographic and Economic Projections for the City of Omaha. Work in
progress with Eric Thompson, Department of Economics and Director of the BBR,
University of Nebraska at Lincoln. Winter, 2006-2007.
- Greater Omaha Chamber of Commerce. Contributor the Chamber’s
Economic Outlook, 2006 - present.
- Knights of Ak-Sar-Ben (KOA), Omaha, Nebraska, 2006-present. Developed an
economic impact study of KOA’s River City Roundup annual event on the city
of Omaha.
- Health
Economics Consulting Group LLC, 2005-present. Health policy issues.
Contributor to various economic issues related to health services,
infrastructure and other policy issues.
- Sample of current projects:
- Economic Impact of taxation on vendors selling calorically sweetened
beverages on the San Francisco, California economy (IMPLAN application).
- Assessing the economic benefits of health clinic expansion in the Las
Vegas, Nevada (IMPLAN application).
- Center for Econometric Model
Research, Indiana University, Director: R. Jeffery Green.
Development of a PC based, econometric US and regional energy price and
demand model, September 2000 – May, 2004.
- Global Business Information Network, Indiana University,
Director: Lawrence S. Davidson. Industry Survey Analysis, Summer, 1996,
October-November, 2001.
Professional
Memberships
Association for University Business and Economic Research
American
Economics Association
Association of Environmental and Resource
Economists
International Western Economics Association
National Association for Business Economics
Academy of Economics and Finance