Research

Papers

Selected Research Grants and Contracts

  • Kansas Economy Modeling, Research Improvement Award, GRF-University of Kansas (with Anthony Redwood), 1984-1986
  • Kansas Economic Modeling Project, Board of Regents Award (with Anthony Redwood), 1986- ($300,000 a year, currently the project funding is part of IPPBR budget)
  • Return on Public Investment, Kansas Technology Enterprise Corporation, 1991-
  • Kansas Water Supply and Demand, Water Resource Institute (with Bob Glass), 1991-1992
  • Existing Potential Legal and Economics Aspects of Kansas Water Markets, Water Resource Institute (with Norm Clifford, Bob Glass and John Peck), 1994
  • USAID Fiscal Restructuring Project with Barents Group, Moscow. 1994-1996
  • Fiscal Management Training Project, NTF - World Bank/Barents Group Moscow Russia 1998-
  • Promoting Compassion and Generosity through Attachment Security: The Cognitive and Neural Underpenning of Generocity Enhancement. Co-PI With Omri Gillath PI, and Ruth Ann Atchley Co-PI. 150,000 $, University of Notre Dame, 10/1/2010 to 5/31/2012

Papers Presented & Scheduled to be Presented at Professional Meetings

  • Promoting Generosity through Attachment Security. With Gillath, O., Atchley, Science of Generosity Conference, October 18-20 2012, Philadelphia, PA.
  • Panelist: Future Directions of research, The Science of Compassion: Origins, Measures and Interventions July, 19-22 2012.Telluride, CO.
  • Promoting Generosity through Attachment Security. With Gillath, O., Atchley, R., M., Young, K., Imran, A., Sakaluk, J., & Lee.J . Paper to be presented at the annual meeting of the International Association for Relationship Research (IARR), Gillath, O., Atchley, R., El-Hodiri, M., Young, K., Imran, A., Sakaluk, J., & Lee, J Chicago, Illinois, July 2012
  • Reconciling Veblen and Mrx via Adam Smith, American University in Cairo, June 2012.
  • Towards a Behavioral Model of a Capitalist Business Enterprise. Fourth Euro-African Conference in Finance and Economics (CEAFE 2012) will be held at the American University in Cairo, May 7-9, 2012
  • Why Kazakhstan should not listen to Orthodox Economists about International Economic Disorders, International Scientific Conference on international Evconomic Disorders, of Kazakh National University named after Abu Nasr Ali al-Farabi, Almaty, Kazakhstan 8-10 December 2010.
  • You Can't get There from Here, African Econometric Society Annual Conference, July 7-9 , 2010 Cairo Egypt
  • Accumulation and Maintenance of Social Capital; Faculty development and maintenance in Higher Education. (Invited Plenary paper) Conference celebrating the 75th anniversary of Kazakh National University named after Abu Nasr Ali al-Farabi, Almaty, Kazakhstan 12-15 October 2009.
  • Where Should Econopmetricians Go, and what they can do once they get there. Tobe presented in: Logic, Game Theory, and Social Choice 6, Tsukuba, Japan Aug. 26 to 29 2009-05-27
  • The truth about the invisible hand: What Adam Smith really said. To be Presentented at the IX Conference of the Society for Advancement of Economic Theory, Ischia, Italy June 30 to July 6 2009.
  • Towards a Non-mythical Theory of the Business Enterprise, WEAI Pacific Rim Conference, Kyoto, Japan, March 09.
  • Applications of Islamic Value systems to economics, Conference on Doing Business in an Islamic Environment, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, March 2006.
  • Spiritual Capital of positive and negative productivity, Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities, Honolulu HI January 9-16 2006.
  • Discussion of business environment from Islamic Perspective, International Conference on Doing Business in Islamic Asia. Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, June 21-23 2005
  • Islamic Morality and Economic Theory, Business Environment from an Islamic Perspective, AlAzhar University, Cairo Egypt February 12 2005.
  • The Smithian Economic Surplus and the Development of Islamic Social Economies with Ron Stanfield and Mary Wrenn. The 2004 Middle East & Central Asia Politics, Economics and Society Conference; Transition and Inequality in the 21st Century. Sept. 9th –11th 2004, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, USA.
  • Tax Reform, the Russian Experience, IIF congress, presentation as member of the Russian Delegation, Moscow 1999
  • Taxation of Human Capital with Fred Van Vleck, Vienna Workshop on Dynamical Systems, Vienna 1997
  • American Economic Theory, Plenary Presentation, Vienna Workshop on Dynamical Systems, Vienna 1997
  • Gains from Trade with Exhaustible Resources; A Preliminary Investigation in a General Equilibrium Model , with Janett Highfill, International Trade and Finance Association conference, San Jose, Costa Rica, May 1995
  • Discussion in George Stigler Prospective by invitation workshop sponsored by Liberty Fund, Chicago, IL May 1995
  • Taxation of Human Capital with Fred Van Vleck, SIAM Conference on Control, St Louis MO April 1995
  • Taxation of Human Capital, Invited presentation, Central Mathematical Economics Institute, Russian Academy of Science, Moscow, March 1995
  • Industrial Policy in the Context of Privatization. Invited address to Thirteenth Congress of The Egyptian Society for Legislation, Economics, and Statistics, Cairo, Egypt. November 1992
  • The Economics of Everything: The Economics of Time. The Fourth Viennese Workshop on Dynamic Economic Models and Optimal Control, Vienna, Austria. June 12-14, 1991
  • Ranking of Sectors in the Egyptian Economy, (with Hana'a Khair El Din, Cairo University). MEEA Meeting, Washington D.C. December 27-30, 1990
  • Internalizing Externalities and Parallel Computing. SIAM Annual Meeting, San Diego, California. July 17-21, 1989
  • Leading Sector Analysis with Uncertainty in Leontief Models, (with James Quirk). Regional Science Association 35th North American Meetings, Toronto, Canada. November 11-13, 1988
  • Positive Cone Controllability for Linear Control Systems with Delays, (with Fred Van Vleck). American Mathematical Society Eight Hundred Forty-fifth Meeting, University of Kansas. October 28-29, 1988
  • Modelling for Public Policy, (with David Burress and Norm Clifford). AUBER Conference 1988, Indianapolis, Indiana. October 9-12, 1988
  • Modelling the Kansas Economy, (with David Burress and Norm Clifford). Kansas Economic Outlook Conference, Lawrence, Kansas. October 7, 1988
  • Optimal Control with Several Criteria and Time Lags, (with Fred Van Vleck). DGOR, Berlin. September 13-16, 1988
  • A Dynamic I-S Curve. Eastern Economic Association, Boston, Massachusetts. March 1988
  • Optimization in the Channel Model II, (with Fred Van Vleck). DGOR, ULM. September 24 26, 1986
  • Optimization in the Channel Model I, (with Fred Van Vleck). 11th Symposium UBER Operation Research, Technische Hochschule Darmstadt. September 1-3, 1986
  • Efficiency, Discounting and Evaluation of Production Streams, (with William V. Weber). Econometric Society, New York, N.Y. December 1985
  • Demand Functions Over Time and the Permanent Income Hypothesis, (with William V. Weber). Eastern Economic Association, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. March 1985
  • Properties of Consumer's Demand Over Time. Second Vienna Workshop on Applications of Optimal Controls to Economics, Vienna, Austria. May 1984
  • Near Optima and Near Equilibria. Econometric Society Meetings, San Francisco. December 1983
  • Boom Towns, Queue up or Bust. Fourth International Conference on Mathematical Modeling, Zurich, Switzerland. August 15-17, 1983
  • Augmented Lagrangians and the Efficiency of Imperfect Competition. 11th IFIP Conference on System Modeling and Optimization, Copenhagen, Denmark. July 25-29, 1983
  • Supply of Labor: Midwest Mathematical Economics Association. Ann Arbor, Michigan. November 1981
  • Some Welfare Economic Remarks about Impacted Communities. Eastern Economic Association, Montreal, Canada. May 1980
  • Evaluation of Long Term Forecasting Models. JPL CALTCH Conference on Coal Models, Carmel, California. July 1979
  • Economic Policies and Optimal Management of Forest Resources. SIAM Meeting, Toronto, Canada. June 1979
  • Stadium Capacities and Attendance in Professional Sports, (with J. Quirk). ORSA TIMS Meeting, San Juan, Puerto Rico. October 1974
  • An Optimal Growth Model with Time Lags, (with Loehman and Whinston). Econometric Society Meetings, Detroit, Michigan. 1970
  • Optimal Growth with Time Lags, (with Andy Whinston). Kansas-Missouri Seminar in Theoretical and Applied Economics, Lafayette, Indiana. 1970
  • Decentralized Characterization of Optimal Economic Development Programs. Kansas-Missouri Seminar in Theoretical and Applied Economics. Boulder, Colorado. February 1969
  • Price Implications of Pareto Optimality in a Dynamic General Equilibrium Economic Model, (with Akira Takayama). The Econometric Society Meetings, Toronto, Canada. October 1967

Selected Research and Contracts

  • "Kansas Economy Modeling," Research Improvement Award, GRF-University of Kansas (with Anthony Redwood), 1984-1986.
  • "Kansas Economic Modeling Project," Board of Regents Award (with Anthony Redwood), 1986- (300,000$ a year, currently the project funding is part of IPPBR budget).
  • "Return on Public Investment," Kansas Technology Enterprise Corporation, 1991- .
  • "Kansas Water Supply and Demand," Water Resource Institute (with Bob Glass), 1991-1992.
  • "Existing Potential Legal and Economics Aspects of Kansas Water Markets," Water Resource Institute (with Norm Clifford, Bob Glass and John Peck), 1994.
  • USAID Fiscal Restructuring Project with Barents Group, Moscow. 1994-1996.
  • Fiscal Management Training Project, NTF - World Bank/Barents Group Moscow Russia 1998-2001.
  • Promoting Compassion and Generosity through Attachment Security: The Cognitive and Neural Underpenning of Generocity Enhancement. Co-PI With Omri Gillath PI, and Ruth Ann Atchley Co-PI. 150,000 $, University of Notre Dame, 10/1/2010 to 5/31/2012.