CURRICULUM VITAE

Education: PhD, Economics, University of Chicago, August 1979.

Current position: retired consultant, DIA Agency Inc., Ottawa, Canada.

Previous positions:

Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada:

1994 - Sessional Lecturer
1989 - Deputy Director, Kenya Long Range Planning Project
1988 - Senior Economist, Kenya Long Range Planning Project

1991 - Deputy Director, Government Reference Group
1988 - Group Director, Social Policy
1987 - Consultant to Ministère des finances du Québec
1983 - Assistant Group Director, Taxation
1980 - Senior Economist, Financial Markets

1979 - Associate Professor and Chairman
1978 - Assistant Professor and Acting Chairman
1972 - Assistant Professor
1971 - Assistant Professor and Acting Chairman
1967 - Lecturer, Department of Economics

1965 - Graduate student, University of Chicago (Economics)

1962 - Research assistant, Instituto de investigaciones económicas y sociales, Univ. of Buenos Aires, Argentine Republic.

Current interest:

Economic development, business history & more viewed through Argentine railway history.

Books:

Argentine Railways: seven papers on their economics and history, 2nd ed., Ottawa, 2010.

Who was Who in Argentine Railways 1860-1960, 2nd ed., Ottawa, 2011.

Ramsey Pricing by Railways, Saarbrücken: Lambert Academic Publishing, 2011.

Refereed Publications:

"On Input-Output Analyses with Incomplete Data," Canadian Journal of Regional Science, XVI:1 (Spring 1993), 115-22.

"Foreign Tax Credits, the Supply of Foreign Capital and Tax Exporting: A Numerical General Equilibrium Model of Corporate Tax Reform in Canada," with Paul Hobson and Wayne Thirsk, Journal of Public Economics, 45 (1991), 29-46.

"Ramsey Pricing by U.S. Railroads: Can it exist?", Journal of Transport Economics and Policy, Jan. 1984, 51-61.

Government Loan Subsidies, Economic Council of Canada, 1984.

"An Evaluation of Ramsey Pricing: Argentine Railways ça. 1905," Transportation Research Forum, Proceedings of the 24th Annual Meeting, 1983, XXIV(1), 418-29.

"An Agenda for Research in Transport Pricing in an Era of Deregulation," ICC Practitioners' Journal, 49(1), 1981, 23-32.

" Optimum Taxation and Two-Part Tariffs: The Case of Railway Rates," American Economic Review, 71(1), 1981, 65-79.

"The Central Argentine Railway and the Economic Development of Argentina, 1854-1881," Hispanic American Historical Review, 58(3), 1978, 468-73.
Blair Pearce Turner, The Sociedad Rural Argentina and Argentine Economic Policy During the Radical Era, 1916-1930, University of Florida dissertation, 1986, page 86, note 33, told well what this was about:
33. Goodwin has argued that railroad building followed demand: that railroads "were built in response to clearly discerned market patterns and economic opportunity." See "The Central Argentine Railway and the Economic Development of Argentina, 1854-1881," 613. There has been some debate over the issue of railroad-led development. Goodwin's case was criticised directly in Sylvester Damus's "Critique of Paul B. Goodwin's 'The Central Argentine Railway and the Economic Development of Argentina, 1854-1881," Hispanic American Historical Review. 58: 3 (August, 1978), 468-74. And, most of the authors listed above, including Cortés Conde, Ferns, Frigerio, Giberti, Gravil, and Wright have argued that railroads created demand: their construction preceded any real demand for their services in the areas in which they were constructed.

"Estimación de la demanda de transporte ferroviario," Desarrollo Económico, 7(25), 1967, 877-92 and 7(26), 176-78.

"La planeación ferroviaria en la Argentina," Desarrollo Económico, 5(20), 1966, 511-22.

"Sobre la demanda de liquidez," with M. Fernández López, Desarrollo Económico, 5(1), 1965, 175-210.

Other Papers:

"Al Centenario de la Ley Mitre," Boletín de la Asociación Rosarina Amigos del Riel, year xxiv, vol. 3, No. 99-100, Sept. 2007-April 2008, pp. 12-14.

"Analysis of some indicators of economic development of First Nation and northern communities," Institute on Governance, 2004 (with Kristina Liljefors).

Canada's Public Sector: A Graphic Overview, Economic Council of Canada, 1992.

"Notes for a Course on Computable General Equilibrium Models," University of Nairobi and Long Range Planning Division, Ministry of Planning and National Development, Nairobi, November and December 1992.

"Notas para un curso sobre modelos computables de equilibrio general", Centro de Investigaciones Económicas, Montevideo, Uruguay, 8 al 25 de junio de 1992.

"Effects of Taxation on Development of Guinea's Financial Sector," report to the World Bank, 11.29.1992.

"Effects of Taxation on Development of Burundi's Financial Sector," report to the World Bank, 3.2.1992.

"General Equilibrium Modeling for Instruction and Research in Public Finance: Gemodel 2.0 and Gemodel.USA," presented to 84th Annual Conference on Taxation, National Tax Association, Williamsburg, Virginia, November 10, 1991.

"Input-Output Course Notes," Republic of Kenya, Long Range Planning Division (LRPD), January 1991.

"Productivity Change in Kenya: 1967 to 1986", Republic of Kenya, LRPD, Technical Paper (TP) 90-08.

"A Social Accounting Matrix and CGE Model Data Base for 1986," Republic of Kenya, LRPD, TP 90-05.

"Input-Output Tables at Constant Prices for Kenya, 1967-86," Republic of Kenya, Long Range Planning Unit (LRPU), TP 89-12, with Eugene Beaulieu and Daniel Johnson.

"Input-Output Tables for Kenya, 1986," Republic of Kenya, LRPU, TP 89-07, with Daniel Johnson.

"Input-Output Tables for Kenya, 1981," Republic of Kenya, LRPU, TP 89-04.

"Effective Protection in Kenya," Republic of Kenya, LRPU, TP 89-03, with Eugene Beaulieu.

"A Computable General Equilibrium Model of the Kenyan Economy," Republic of Kenya, LRPU, TP 89-02, with William Milne, Richard Robicheau and Cameron Short.

"On the Efficiency Cost of Redistribution," Carleton University MS, 1989, unpublished.

"Federal Sales Tax Reform: General Equilibrium Simulation Analysis of its Effects on the Québec Economy," prepared for the Direction des politiques de taxation, Ministère des finances, Gouvernement du Québec, January 1988.

Chapters in Road Map for Tax Reform, Economic Council of Canada, 1987.

Chapters in The Taxation of Savings and Investment, Economic Council of Canada, 1987.

"The Welfare Effects of Property Taxation in an Open Economy," with Wayne Thirsk and Paul Hobson, Economic Council of Canada, Discussion paper No. 320, March 1987.

"Micro-computer Simulation with a General Equilibrium Model of Canada," Economic Council of Canada, Discussion paper No. 311, August 1986.

"Practical Issues in Mortgage Finance with Applications to the Standard and Indexed Mortgages," with André Ryba and Jacques Carrière, Economic Council of Canada, Discussion Paper No. 228, April 1983.

Chapters in Intervention and Efficiency, Economic Council of Canada, 1982.

"Value and Cost of Service Concepts Before the ICC," with Alexis Bucovsky, Merrill J. Roberts and Herbert O. Whitten, prepared for the United States Postal Service, May 18, 1982.

"Ramsey Pricing and its Applications," Proceedings of the Transportation Research Forum Seminar on Transport Pricing, Costing, and User Charges, Washington, D.C., April 5-7, 1982.

"La elasticidad de sustitución de factores en la Argentina: comentario de un artículo de Luisa Montuschi," El Trimestre Económico, 37(2), 1970, 415-17.

"Argentine Railways: How Inefficient Are They?", The Review of the River Plate, 21 April 1967, pp. 87-89.

"Looking Realistically at Railway Economics," Review of the River Plate, 31 January, 1967, pp. 117-8 and 1970, 415-17.

"Railway Planning: Confused Economists", The Review of the River Plate, 31 October, 1966, pp. 149-52.

"Rail Transport Economics and Fallacies", The Review of the River Plate, 12 September, 1966, pp. 407-08.

"¿Ferrocarriles o caminos?", El Economista (Buenos Aires), 31 June, 1961, pages 1 and 2.

"El problema ferroviario: ¿Operación salvataje o salvaje?, El Economista, 24 June, 1961, page 1.

"El levantamiento de vías férreas", El Economista, 17 June, 1961, pages 1 and 3.

Other publications:

Canada Pension Plan Emulator, software for calculation of CPP contributions and benefits, Ottawa, DIA Agency, Inc., 1997-ff.
Co-authors: Christian W. Damus and the late Kristina Liljefors.

GEMODEL 2.0, General equilibrium modeling software and manual, Ottawa: DIA Agency, Inc., 1985.

GEMODEL 3.0, Multi-country general equilibrium modeling software and manual, Ottawa: DIA Agency, Inc., 1991.

GEMODEL.USA, General equilibrium modeling software and manual, Ottawa: DIA Agency, Inc., 1987.

GEMODEL.PRO, General equilibrium modeling software and manual, Ottawa: DIA Agency, Inc., 1998.

Economists' TOOLKIT, mathematical software and manual, Ottawa: DIA Agency, Inc., 1986.

Introduction to Applied General Equilibrium Modeling, text and software with 40 didactic exercises, Ottawa: DIA Agency, Inc., 1990.

LP for Windows, linear programming software for optimization subject to constraints, Ottawa: DIA Agency, Inc., 1993.

IO&SAM for Windows, for activity and price projections with input-output and social accounting matrix models, RAS adjustment of data, multiplier decomposition, and computation of various measures of productivity change, Ottawa: DIA Agency, Inc., 1995.

Translation:

Epraim Eshag and Rosemary Thorpe, "Las consecuencias económicas y sociales de las políticas económicas ortodoxas aplicadas en la República Argentina durante los años de postguerra," Desarrollo Económico, vol. 4, No. 16, enero-marzo 1965.

Memberships:

American Economic Association,
Canadian Executive Service Overseas (CESO/SACO).