Fulbright Scholar Program
2006 - 2007 Visiting Scholar Directory
Economics Back
Azid, Toseef
Professor, Markfield Institute of Higher Education, Leicestershire, United Kingdom
Lecturing: Economics of Muslim Countries
El Camino College, Department of Behavioral and Social Sciences, Torrance, CA, c/o Dr. Gloria Miranda
August 2006 - December 2006
(Scholar-in-Residence Program)

Bai, Shuqiang
Professor, Department of Economics, University of International Business and Economics, Beijing, China
Research: Competition Policy and the World Trade Organization
Georgetown University, Law Center, Institute of International Economic Law, Washington, DC, c/o Prof. John H. Jackson
August 2006 - August 2007

Belyalov, Toleu
Researcher, Baidala Research LLC, Almaty, Kazakhstan
Research: Prospects of Economic Reforms in Kazakhstan Within the Mid-Term Period
Columbia University, Department of Sociology, New York, NY, c/o Dr. Peter Bearman
September 2006 - June 2007

Biljanoska, Jovanka
Assistant Professor, Department of Tourism and Hospitality, University of St. Kliment Ohridski, Bitola, Macedonia
Research: Contemporary Achievements of International Trade and the Implementation of Customs and Freight Forwarding in the Macedonian University
College of Charleston, School of Business and Economics, Department of International Business, Charleston, SC, c/o Dr. Rene Dentiste Mueller
September 2006 - May 2007

Burkov, Alexey
Senior Teacher, Department of Economic Cybernetics, Mari State University, Yoshkar-Ola, Russia
Research: Comparative Statistical Analysis of the Provision Process of Employment of Specialist With Higher Education in the United States and Russia
Bowling Green State University, Department of Economics, Bowling Green, OH, c/o Dr. John Hoag
September 2006 - March 2007

Campi, Cinthia
Assistant Professor, Department of Industrial Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy
Research: Market Power and Vertical De-Integration in Restructured Electricity Markets
Northeastern University, Department of Economics, Boston, MA, c/o Dr. Steven Morrison
May 2007 - November 2007

Civcir, Irfan
Professor, Department of Economics, Faculty of Political Sciences, Ankara University, Ankara, Turkey
Research: Analysis of Liquidity in International Capital Markets
University of Michigan--Ann Arbor, Ross School of Business Administration, Mitsui Life Financial Research Center, Ann Arbor, MI, c/o Dr. E. Han Kim
September 2006 - February 2007

Djakeli, Kakhaber
Lecturer, Department of Economics, International Black Sea University, Tbilisi, Georgia
Research: Current Economic Models of Health Care Financing in the United States
Yale University, Division of Global Health, New Haven, CT, c/o Dr. Hong Wang
September 2006 - April 2007

Eid, Ashraf
Assistant Professor, Department of Public Finance, Faculty of Commerce, Alexandria University, Alexandria, Egypt
Lecturing and Research: Practice Teaching Public Policy-related Technological Changes Courses in the United States
Michigan State University, Department of Economics, East Lansing, MI, c/o Dr. Leslie Papke
June 2007 - August 2007

Fazlagic, Amir
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Services Management, Faculty of Management, Poznan University of Economics, Poznan, Poland
Research: Discovering the Roots of Intellectual Capital in Firms
Sam Houston State University, College of Business Administration, Department of General Business and Finance, Huntsville, TX, c/o Prof. Charles R. B. Stowe
October 2006 - March 2007

Gaisina, Sholpan
Professor, Management Department, Pavlodar University, Pavlodar, Kazakhstan
Research: Development of the Finance Infrastructure in the Agriculture of Kazakhstan
University of Nebraska--Lincoln, Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Department of Agricultural Economics, Lincoln, NE, c/o Dr. Lynn H. Lutgen
November 2006 - August 2007

Gomez Barroso, Jose Luis
Assistant Professor, Department of Applied Economics and Economic History, National University for Distance Education, Madrid, Spain
Research: The Future of Europe's Information Society and Its Related Public Policies
Columbia University, Business School, Institute for Tele-Information, New York, NY, c/o Dr. Eli Noam
November 2006 - April 2007

Gonzalez Diaz, Julio
Researcher, Department of Economics and Economic History, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
Research: Imperfect Information in Economic Models
Northwestern University, Kellogg School of Management, Department of Managerial Economics and Decision Science, Evanston, IL, c/o Dr. Ehud Kalai
October 2006 - December 2006

Henry de Frahan, Bruno
Professor, Department of Applied Biology and Agricultural Production, Catholic University of Louvain, Louvain-La-Neuve, Belgium
Research: Revisiting the Farm Problem and Public Interventions
University of California--Davis, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, Davis, CA, c/o Dr. Daniel Sumner
August 2006 - August 2007

Hidalgo Cabrillana, Ana
Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Carlos III University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Research: On Corporate Governance
Columbia University, Department of Economics, New York, NY, c/o Prof. Xavier Sala-i-Martin
April 2007 - March 2009

Huberman, Michael
Professor, Department of History, University of Montreal, Montreal, Canada
Lecturing and Research: Globalization's Challenge to Work and Pay in a Historical Perspective
Michigan State University, Office of International Studies and Programs, Canadian Studies Center, East Lansing, MI, c/o Dr. Philip Handrick
University of California--Los Angeles, Department of Economics, Los Angeles, CA, c/o Dr. Kenneth L. Sokoloff
September 2006 - June 2007

Inomkhodjayev, Kamolkhon
Chief, Ministry of Economy, Tashkent, Uzbekistan
Research: Simulating Tax Policy in the Input-Output Model for Uzbekistan
West Virginia University, Regional Research Institute, Morgantown, WV, c/o Dr. Randall Jackson
September 2006 - June 2007

Kathuria, Vinish
Associate Professor, Madras School of Economics, Chennai, India
Research: Can India Ever Catch Up?: Factors Affecting the Technology Gap
University of Colorado--Boulder, Department of Economics, Boulder, CO, c/o Dr. Keith Maskus
September 2006 - July 2007

Kawamura Ishiy, Enrique
Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, University of San Andres, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Research: Lender of Last Resort and Monetary Policies With Asymmetric Information in Banks and Financial Markets
Washington University, Department of Economics, St. Louis, MO, c/o Dr. Gaetano Antinolfi
December 2006 - March 2007

Khaykhadaeva, Oktyabrina
Professor, Department of Economics, Buryat State University, Buryatia, Russia
Research: Fiscal Federalism in the United States and the Russian Federation
Harvard University, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Cambridge, MA, c/o Dr. Lisbeth Tarlow
September 2006 - June 2007

Kholod, Nazar
Associate Professor, Department of Economic Theory, Ivan Franko L'viv University, L'viv, Ukraine
Research: Rebuilding Social Security Programs: Lessons for Ukraine
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Kennan Institute, Washington, DC, c/o Ms. Summer Brown
September 2006 - March 2007
(Fulbright/Kennan Institute Research Scholarship)

Kolomak, Evgeniya
Senior Fellow, Department of Territorial Systems, Russian Academy of Sciences-Siberian Branch, Novosibirsk, Russia
Research: Sub-Federal Administrative Regulation of Entry
University of Washington, Daniel J. Evans School of Public Affairs, Office of the Dean, Seattle, WA, c/o Dr. Linda Lake
September 2006 - March 2007

Kucher, Oleg
Senior Research Fellow, Land Resource Use and Protection Department, Council for Studying Productive Forces of Ukraine, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine
Research: Land Resource Conservation in the United States: Experience for Ukraine
Ohio State University--Columbus, Department of Agricultural, Environmental and Development Economics, Columbus, OH, c/o Dr. Alan Randall
October 2006 - September 2007

Larramona Ballarin, Gemma
Assistant Professor, Economic Analysis Department, Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain
Research: Migration and Growth
University of Pennsylvania, School of Arts and Sciences, Economics Department, Philadelphia, PA, c/o Dr. Jose-Victor Rios-Rull
September 2006 - February 2007

Lau, Sau Him
Associate Professor, School of Economics and Finance, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Research: Economic Miracle and Rapid Demographic Transition in East Asia: Past and Future
University of California--Berkeley, Center for the Economics and Demography of Aging, Berkeley, CA, c/o Dr. Ronald Lee
August 2006 - June 2007

Lepeyko, Tetyana
Chief, Management Department, Kharkiv National University of Economics, Kharkiv, Ukraine
Research: Regional Mechanism Transformations for Large Industrial Complexes in Transitive Economy
Indiana University--Bloomington, Department of Economics, Bloomington, IN, c/o Dr. Roy Gardner
January 2007 - July 2007

Li, Chaomin
Deputy Director, Institute of Finance and Economics Research, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, Shanghai, China
Research: The Specification and Legalization of the Chinese Idea of Ever Normal Granary in the United States
Iowa State University, Department of Economics, Ames, IA, c/o Dr. Robert Wisner
September 2006 - September 2007

Martinez Rico, Ricardo
Teaching Assistant, Department of Economics, Pablo de Olavide University, Sevilla, Spain
Research: Distributive Justice in Allocation Problems and Manipulability of Voting Rules
Brown University, Department of Economics, Providence, RI, c/o Dr. Roberto Serrano
May 2007 - April 2009

Mbabazi, Pamela
Senior Lecturer and Dean, Faculty of Development Studies, Mbarara University of Science and Technology, Mbarara, Uganda
Research: Development Studies Curriculum Restructuring to Meet Practical Needs in Economic and Social Development
Johns Hopkins University, International Development Program, Washington, DC, c/o Dr. Francis Fukuyama
March 2007 - July 2007

Meredova, Maral
Consultant, Union of Economists of Turkmenistan, Ashgabat, Turkmenistan
Research: The Openness of Trade: The U.S. Experience
Indiana University--Bloomington, Inner Asian and Uralic National Resource Center, Bloomington, IN, c/o Dr. William Fierman
November 2006 - May 2007

Morana, Claudio
Associate Professor, Department of Economics, University of Eastern Piedmont Amadeo Avogadro, Novara, Italy
Research: Long Memory and Nonlinearity in Financial Return Volatility: Modelling, Testing and Estimation
Michigan State University, Department of Economics, East Lansing, MI, c/o Prof. Richard Baillie
September 2006 - February 2007

Muchova, Eva
Assistant Professor, Department of Economic Theory, Faculty of National Economics, University of Economics, Bratislava, Slovak Republic
Research: Economic Growth With Respect to the Emergence of the New Economy
Western Washington University, College of Business and Economics, Department of Economics, Bellingham, WA, c/o Dr. Dennis Murphy
August 2007 - December 2007

Natawidjaja, Ronnie
Professor, Social Economics Department, Padjadjaran University, Bandung, Indonesia
Research: A Comparative Study on the Growth of Supermarkets in Developing Countries: An Agricultural Development Perspective
Michigan State University, Department of Agricultural Economics, East Lansing, MI, c/o Dr. Thomas Reardon
Center for Global Development, Washington, DC, c/o Dr. C. Peter Timmer
September 2006 - January 2007

Oh, Keun Yeob
Professor, Department of Economics and International Trade, Chungnam National University, Tae-jon, Korea
Research: The Effects of the Patent System on Industrial Productivity: Lessons From the United States
University of Colorado--Boulder, Department of Economics, Boulder, CO, c/o Dr. Keith Maskus
January 2007 - January 2008

Panteleeva, Olga
Associate Professor, Department of Economy and Management of Technical Service, Kostroma State Agricultural Academy, Kostroma, Russia
Research: Sustainable Development of Rural Areas Through the View of New Institutional Economics
University of Missouri--Columbia, Contracting and Organizations Research Institute, Columbia, MO, c/o Dr. Michael Sykuta
August 2006 - January 2007

Qin, Fengming
Professor, Finance Department, School of Economics, Shandong University, Jinan, China
Research: Internationalization of Financial Services in Emerging Countries and the Impacts of U.S. Banking Investments in China
Stanford University, Center for International Development, Stanford, CA, c/o Dr. Nicholas C. Hope
September 2006 - June 2007

Saha, Saroj
Professor, Department of Accounting and Information Systems, Faculty of Business Studies, Dhaka University, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Research: A Cost Effective and Transparent Public Procurement Policy for Bangladesh as an Effective Tool for Reduction of Corruption and Stimulating Development: Lessons From Law, Procedures and Practices Followed by the U.S. Government
Cornell University, South Asia Program, Ithaca, NY, c/o Dr. Alaka Basu
December 2006 - May 2007

Seitenova, Ai-Gul
Consultant, Pragma Corporation--Regional Office, Almaty, Kazakhstan
Research: Construction of Disability Tables for Kazakhstan
Duke University, Department of Economics, Durham, NC, c/o Dr. Charles M. Becker
October 2006 - September 2007

Selvaraj, Sakthivel
Fellow, Institute for Human Development, New Delhi, India
Research: The Impact of Drug Price Policy in India
Harvard University, School of Public Health, Takemi Program, Boston, MA, c/o Dr. Michael R. Reich
September 2006 - July 2007

Sercovich Goldman, Francisco
International Consultant, University of the Republic, Montevideo, Uruguay
Lecturing: Science, Technology and Economic Development
Hofstra University, Department of Economics and Geography, Hempstead, NY, c/o Dr. Robert Guttmann
August 2006 - December 2006
(Scholar-in-Residence Program)

Shin, Dong Gyun
Associate Professor, Department of Economics, Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea
Research: New Evidence on the Returns to Education From a Sample of Educational Upgraders
University of Michigan--Ann Arbor, Department of Economics, Ann Arbor, MI, c/o Dr. Lutz Kilian
May 2007 - July 2007

Song, Wei
Associate Professor, School of Finance, Renmin University of China, Beijing, China
Research: The Choice of Exchange Rate Regimes: China's Perspective
University of California--Berkeley, Haas School of Business, Berkeley, CA, c/o Dr. Richard K. Lyons
September 2006 - July 2007

Telegdy, Almos Marton
Research Associate, Department of Economics, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary
Research: The Effect of Privatization and Ownership Forms on Employment and Wages in Hungary and Romania
W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, Kalamazoo, MI, c/o Dr. John Sutherland Earle
June 2007 - November 2007

Todorova, Tamara
Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, American University in Bulgaria, Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria
Lecturing: Economics of Reform and Transition
University of California--Berkeley, Haas School of Business, Berkeley, CA, c/o Dr. Oliver E. Williamson
September 2006 - January 2007

Wang, Yougui
Professor, Department of Systems Science, School of Management, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China
Research: Debt and Aggregate Transactions
Boston University, Physics Department, Boston, MA, c/o Dr. H. Eugene Stanley
September 2006 - August 2007

Weng, Yung-Ho
Professor, Department of Economics, National Chengchi University, Taipei, Taiwan
Research: Policy Implications for a Tariff System in a Mixed Oligopoly Model: Discriminatory Tariff Versus Most Favored Nation Principle
University of Wisconsin--Madison, Department of Economics, Madison, WI, c/o Dr. Kenneth West
August 2006 - July 2007

Yeldan, Alp Erinc
Professor, Department of Economics, Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey
Research: A Macroeconomic General Equilibrium Model for Turkey for Analyzing Stabilization Policy Alternatives
University of Massachusetts--Amherst, Political Economy Research Institute, Department of Economics, Amherst, MA, c/o Dr. Gerald Epstein
September 2006 - February 2007

Yumnam, Amar Singh
Professor, Department of Economics, Manipur University, Imphal, India
Research: Geography, Institutions and Development: Some Unexplored Issues
University of Southern California, College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, Department of Economics, Los Angeles, CA, c/o Dr. Jeffrey Nugent
August 2006 - April 2007

Zbuchea, Alexandra
Lecturer, Department of Communications and Public Relations, National School for Political Studies and Public Administration, Bucharest, Romania
Research: Museum and Education Within the Contemporary Society
Columbia University, Barnard College, Department of Anthropology, New York, NY, c/o Prof. Nan Rothschild
January 2007 - July 2007

Zekri, Ahmed
Professor, Economics and Management Department, Faculty of Law, Economics and Management, Mohamed V University, Rabat, Morocco
Lecturing: Economics and Culture of the Arab World
William Jewell College, Department of Business Administration and Economics, Liberty, MO, c/o Dr. Michael Cook
August 2006 - December 2006
(Scholar-in-Residence Program)

Zhang, Tiegang
Vice Dean, Economics School, Central University of Finance and Economics, Beijing, China
Research: An International Comparison of the Efficiency of Financial Markets: Performance and Policy Issues
Georgetown University, McDonough School of Business, Capital Markets Research Center, Washington, DC, c/o Dr. James J. Angel
September 2006 - July 2007

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