B.Mak Arvin
Ph.D., Department of Economics, Trent University, Canada
EDUCATION
Colston's School, Bristol, UK
B.Sc. (Hons.), University of London, 1981
M.Phil., Oxford University, 1983
Ph.D., Queen's University, 1988
FIELDS OF SPECIALIZATION
Applied Microeconomics, Labour Economics
CURRENT RESEARCH INTERESTS
GENERAL: Applied Microeconomics
SPECIFIC: Economics of Foreign Aid
MEMBERSHIP OF PROFESSIONAL BODIES
1. Canadian Economics Association (since 1983)
2. American Economics Association (since 1982)
EDITORSHIP OF JOURNALS
1. Guest Editor of a special issue of the International Journal of Development Planning Literature (Volume 15, Number 2, 2000) entitled Foreign Aid: Perspectives on the Past, Blue Prints for the New Millennium. A publication of the Jan Tinbergen Institute of Development Planning.
2. Book Review Editor of the International Journal of Development Planning Literature (since 2000.)
SERVING ON THE EDITORIAL BOARD OF PROFESSIONAL JOURNALS
1. Member of the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Applied Business and Economic Research (since 2003).
2. Member of the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Development Planning Literature (since 1998).
3. Member of the Editorial Board of the Briefing Notes in Economics (since 1995).
SERVING ON OTHER EDITORIAL BOARDS
1. Member of the Editorial Board of the International Encyclopedia of Public Policy. (A 4-volume set of 400 original articles to be published by Routledge: London and New York in 2006.) Appointed in late 2002.
BOOKS PUBLISHED
1. B. Mak Arvin (ed.) New Perspectives on Foreign Aid and Economic Development. Westport, Connecticut: Praeger, 2002, 312 pp. [This monograph includes chapters by the editor.]
2. B. Mak Arvin, jointly with Ismail Shariff, Business Cycles in a Dynamic Economy. Redding, California: CAT Publishing Company, 2002, 180 pp.
REFEREEING SERVICE
Acted as a referee/assessor and written reports for:
1. American Economic Review
2. Applied Economics
3. Briefing Notes in Economics
4. Canadian Journal of Development Studies
5. Canadian Journal of Economics
6. Canadian Public Policy
7. Economic Inquiry
8. International Journal of Applied Business and Economic Research
9. International Journal of Development Planning Literature
10. Journal of Labor Economics
11. Journal of Public Economics
12. Journal of Public Economic Theory
13. Journal of Risk and Insurance
14. Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRCC) -- Ottawa
15. Southern Economic Journal
RESEARCH GRANTS AWARDED
1. Allocation of Foreign Aid and Economic Development: New Theoretical and Empirical Perspectives, Trent University, 2000-01.
2. "Goodwill Creation in Foreign Aid Disbursements - A new Approach to Analyzing Donor Behaviour", Trent University, 1993-94.
3. "Linking Debt Relief to a Country's Ability-to-Pay: An Alternative Approach to Curing the Debt Overhang", Trent University, 1993-94.
4. "An Empirical Investigation of Pension Funding Levels in Canada", Trent University, 1991-92.
5. "Training, Banking, and Labour Turnover", Trent University, 1991-92.
6. "Pension Insurance in the U.S.", Trent University, 1991-92.
7. "The Consequence of Imperfect Capital Markets for the Structure of Long Term Employment Contracts", Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRCC), including a research time stipend, 1989-90.
8. "The Consequence of Imperfect Capital Markets for the Structure of Long Term Employment Contracts", Trent University, 1989-90. I declined the award.
9. "Private Pensions and Labour Contracts", Trent University, 1988-89.
10. "A Role for Private Pensions in Labour Contracts", Trent University, 1987-88.
Note: I have also been placed in Category 4A in the SSHRCC Research Grants Competition (recommended for funding but not awarded a grant). Since 1994 I have held a number of personally-funded research grants.
