Committee Chair, Mary Thomas Keim, An Empirical Study of the Financial Condition of Private Colleges and Universities and the Propensity to Insure Debt , unpublished doctoral dissertation, Heinz School, Carnegie-Mellon University, February, 1998. Associate Professor of Accounting, University of California-Irvine.

Committee Member, George R. G. Clarke, Redistribution and Family Formation: Theory and Evidence on Individual and Collective Decision Making , unpublished doctoral dissertation, University of Rochester, October, 1996; 1997 Outstanding Dissertation Award, National Tax Association. Young Professionals Program, World Bank.

Committee Chair, Cindy Bryce, Alternative Approaches to Estimating the Efficiency of Health Maintenance Organizations, April, 1996, unpublished doctoral dissertation, Heinz School, Carnegie-Mellon University. Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.

Committee Member, Tom Nechyba, Fiscal Federalism and Local Public Finance: A General Equilibrium Approach with Voting, unpublished doctoral dissertation, University of Rochester, April, 1994. Associate Professor of Economics, Duke University. [First Place in 1994 Dissertation Competition of Association of Public Policy and Management; Second Place in 1994 Dissertation Competition of National Tax Association.]

Committee Member, Hideo Konishi, Essays in Positive Public Economics: City Formation, Local Public Goods, and Tax Reform, unpublished dissertation, University of Rochester, April, 1994; Associate Professor of Economics, Boston College.

Committee Member, Miguel Gouveia, Essays on Income Taxation, unpublished dissertation, Department of Economics, University of Rochester, September, 1991. [Honorable Mention, 1992 Dissertation Competition from the National Tax Association-Tax Institute of America]; Associate Professor of Economics, University of Lisbon.

Committee Member, Holly Johnston, Empirical Studies in Management Accounting: Three Essays on the U.S. Airline Industry 1981-1985, unpublished dissertation, School of Urban and Public Affairs, Carnegie-Mellon University, October, 1990; [1991 Outstanding Dissertation Award in Management Accounting, American Accounting Association]; Assistant Professor of Accounting, Boston University.

Chair, Prodipto Ghosh, Simulating ``Greenhouse Gases'' Emissions Due to Energy Use by a Computable General Equilibrium Model of a National Economy, unpublished dissertation, School of Urban and Public Affairs, Carnegie-Mellon University, June, 1990; Senior Environmental Specialist, Asian Development Bank.