Professional Service

Reviewer - Article / Manuscript

• 2017: Asia Development Bank Institute (ABDI) Workshop in Tokyo, Japan. Reviewed 9 papers for the Asia Development Bank Institute (ADBI) workshop held in Tokyo, Japan (September, 2017), and made recommendations to the organizing committee.
• 2017: Referee for PRJ. Refereed an article. "How Could the Harris-Todaro Model be Improved?" for Review of Urban and Regional Development Studies (January 2017).
• 2016: Referee for PRJ (International). Refereed an article, "Modern Agricultural Development: Environmental and Economic Effects," for Asia-Pacific Journal of Accounting and Economics (January 2016).
• 2015: Referee for PRJ (International). Refereed an article, "FDI Technology Spillovers, Geography, and Spatial Diffusion," for International Review of Economics and Finance (August 2015).
• 2015: Referee for PRJ (International). Refereed an article, "Employment Effect of Manufacturing Outsourcing: Evidence from China" for The World Economy (June 2015)
• 2015: Referee for PRJ (International). Reviewed an article, Unemployment, Wage Inequality and International Factor Movement in the Presence of Agricultural Dualism," for Review of Development Economics (January).
• 2014: Referee for PRJ (International). Reviewed an article, "Would a Free Trade Agreement with China Hurt Unskilled Labor in Taiwan?" for Asia-Pacific Journal of Accounting and Economics (October 2014).
• 2014: Referee for PRJ (International). Refereed an article, "Trans-Pacific Tariff Barrier: A Case of Five Asia-Pacific Developing Countries and Canada," for Review of Development Economics (March).
• 2014: Referee for PRJ (National). Refereed an article, "Organizational Efficiency and the Choice of Technology in Economic Development," for Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization (January).
• 2013: Referee for PRJ (National). Refereed an article, "Quality of Institutions and Outsourcing," for International Economic Journal (July).
• 2013: Referee for PRJ (National). Refereed an article, "Specific vs Ad Valorem Strategic Export Subsidies with Taxation Distortion," for Review of International Economics (May).
• 2013: Referee for PRJ (National). Refereed an article, "Is Direct FDI in Healthcare Desirable in Developing Economy?" for International Review of Economics and Finance (January).
• 2012: Referee for PRJ (International). Served as a referee for Canadian Journal of Economics (January)
• 2011: Referee for PRJ (National). Served as a referee for Review of Development Economics (July).
• 2010: Referee for PRJ. Served as a referee for Review of International Economics (October).
• 2010: Referee for PRJ. Served as a referee for Southern Economic Journal (March).
• 2010: Referee for PRJ. Served as a referee for Asia-Pacific Journal of Accounting and Economics (February).
• 2008: Referee for PRJ. Served as a referee for Review of Development Economics (July).
• 2007: Referee for PRJs. Served as referee for: International Review of Economics and Finance (January), Review of Development Economics (March), Canadian Journal of Economics (May), Asia-Pacific Journal of Accounting and Economics (August).
• 2006: Referee for PRJs. Served as referee for Pacific Economic Review (November)
• 2005: Referee for PRJ. Served as referee for Review of Development Economics (January).
• 2004: Referee for PRJs. Served as referee for: Review of Development Economics (February), Research Journal of Business Disciplines (May), Review of International Economics (August).
• 2004: Book Review. Reviewed the Prospectus of Managerial Economics book written by Paul Komolli of the University of Kansas at the request of Addison Wesley Publishing Company.
• 2003: Referee for PRJs. Served as referee for: Review of International Economics (August), Journal of Asian Economics (January)

Institutional Service

Department Assignments

Chair

• 2018-2019: Personnel Committee
• 2018-2019: University Library Committee
• 2015-2016: Department Representative for the University Library
• 2014-2015: Department Committee for Pre-tenure and Promotion
• 2014-2015: Department Committee for Pre-tenure and Promotion
• 2010-2011: Department Promotion Committee
• 2010-2011: Department Tenure Committee
• 2010-2011: Department Chair Evaluation Committee
• 2009-2010: Department representative for the University Library
• 2008-2009: Search Committee for a Finance Faculty
• 2008-2009: Search Committee for an Economics Faculty
• 2007-2008: Department Chair Evaluation Committee
• 2007-2008: Search Committee for an Economics/Statistics faculty
• 1982-1983 – 2008-2009: Department representative for the University Library

College Assignments

Member

• 2018-2019: Construction Management Faculty Recruiting Committee
• 2018-2019: Graduate Programs Committee
• 2018-2019: Faculty Academic and Professional Impact Committee
• 2017-2018: Graduate Program Committee
• 2016-2017 – 2017-2018: Personnel Committee
• 2015-2016 – 2017-2018: Faculty Academic and Professional Impact Committee
• 2015-2016: Graduate Programs Committee
• 2015-2016: Faculty Academic and Professional Impact Committee
• 2011-2012 – 2014-2015: Faculty Development Committee Lamar University
• 2012-2013: Personnel Committee Lamar University
• 2010-2011: Administrative Review Committee for Associate Dean
• 2009-2010: Promotion Committee
• 2007-2008 – 2009-2010: Promotion Committee Lamar University

University Assignments

Member

• 2018-2019: University Council
• 2018-2019: Graduate Faculty
• 2015-2016: Graduate Faculty Review Committee
• 2015-2016: Graduate Faculty
• 2015-2016: Graduate Faculty Review Committee
• 2015-2016: University Library Committee
• 2013-2014: Administrator Review Committee for University Library Director, David Carroll
• 2005-2006 – 2009-2010: University Library Committee
• 2004-2005 – 2008-2009: University Faculty Senate
• 2004-2005 – 2007-2008: University Registration and Grading Committee
• 1983-1984 – 2009-2010: Graduate Faculty