Roger Tutterow

Professor of Economics

Atlanta/ 256 B&E

(678) 547-6164

Tutterow_RC@mercer.edu

 

EDUCATION

 

Ph.D., Economics, Georgia State University, August 1990

M.A., Economics, Georgia State University, March 1988

B.S., Decision Science, Berry College, November 1983

 

ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE

 

2005 -                      Professor of Economics, Mercer University

2000 - 2005             Professor of Economics, Kennesaw State University

1995 - 2000             Associate Professor of Economics, Kennesaw State University

1991 - 1995             Assistant Professor of Economics, Kennesaw State University

1990 - 1991             Assistant Professor of Economics, West Virginia University

1989 - 1990             Instructor of Economics, Georgia State University

1988 - 1989             Instructor of Economics, Kennesaw State College

1999 - 2006             Visiting Professor, University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad.

2004                        Visiting Professor, Institute for Policy Studies, Seoul, Korea.

  

ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE

 

2005 - 2006             Dean, Stetson School of Business & Economics, Mercer University

1995 - 2005             Chair, Department of Economics, Finance & Quantitative Analysis, Kennesaw State University

 

PUBLISHED RESEARCH:  PEER REVIEWED JOURNALS

 

"On the Rank, Generalized Lorenz, and Overtaking Criteria for Evaluating Stochastic Income Regimes" (with R. Saposnik), Southern Economic Journal, Volume 58, Number 3, (January 1992), 583-592.

 

"Recent Evidence on Commodity Prices as Leading Indicators of CPI Inflation", Atlantic Economic Journal, (June 1995).

 

"The Effect of Estate Taxes on Family Business: Survey Results", Family Business Review, (with J. Astrachan), Volume IX, Number 3, (Fall 1996), 303-314.

 

"Estate Taxes and the Investment Decision in Closely Held Firms", Family Business Review, (with R. Saposnik and J. Tompkins), Volume IX, Number 3, (Fall 1996), 315-320.

 

RESEARCH PRESENTATIONS

 

"On Risk-Sharing and Overtaking", 61st Conference of the Southern Economic Association, Nashville, TN, November 1991.

 

"On Coalition Behavior and the Foundations of Characteristic Function Games", 67th Annual Conference of the Western Economic Association, San Francisco, CA, July 1992.

 

“Rational Coalition Behavior and Coalition Form Games: How Characteristic are Characteristic Functions?", 19th Meetings of the Eastern Economic Association, Washington, DC, March 1993.

 

“On the Attainment of Uniform Overtaking for Stochastic Income Regimes with Risk Sharing", 20th Meetings of the Eastern Economic Association, Boston, MA, March 1994.

 

"On a Class of Linear Income Orderings", 21st Meetings of the Eastern Economic Association, New York, NY, March 1995.

 

"Ordering Stochastic Income Distributions", 22nd Meetings of the Eastern Economic Association, Boston, MA, March 1996.

 

"Ordering Stochastic Income Distributions", 72nd Meetings of the Western Economic Association, Seattle, WA, July 1997.

 

"Estate Taxes and Capital Investment", 24th Meetings of the Eastern Economic Association, New York, NY, February 1998.

 

“Ethnic Clubs, Assimilation and Income Distribution”, 25th Meetings of the Association of Private Enterprise Education, Las Vegas, NV, April 2000.

 

"Estate Taxes and the Investment Decision", 19th Meetings of the National Tax Association, Baltimore, MD, November 10, 2001.

 

“The Effect of the Olympics on Atlanta Employment”, 71st Meetings of the Southern Economic Association, Tampa, FL, November 19, 2001.

 

PUBLISHED RESEARCH: OTHER

 

"Time Series Forecasting Models", "Exponential Smoothing Models", "Risk Aversion", "Stochastic Dominance", "Herfindahl-Hirschman Index", “Translog Cost Functions” in Encyclopedia of Managerial Economics, Robert McAuliffe editor, Blackwell Publishing, 1997, 2004.

 

PUBLICATIONS: BOOK REVIEWS

 

Gambling and Speculation: A Theory, a History and a Future of Some Human Decisions by Reuven Brenner with Gabrielle A. Brenner, (Book Review), Southern Economic Journal, Volume 60, Number 2, (October 1993) 534-536.

 

RESEARCH REPORTS

 

“Business Conditions and Higher Education in Georgia”, research report for the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia, 1996. 

 

“Workforce Preparation and Higher Education in Georgia”, research report for the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia, 1997.

 

“The Role of the University System in a Global Economy” research report for the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia, 1997.

 

“Business Conditions and Higher Education in Georgia”, research report for the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia, 1998.

 

“Talent and Technology for the New Economy”, research report for the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia, 2000.

 

“The Economic Impact of Georgia’s 25 Private College and Universities” research report for the Georgia Foundation of Independent Colleges, 2001.

 

“The Economic Impact of Georgia’s Private College and Universities” research report for the Georgia Foundation of Independent Colleges, 2004.

 

WORKING PAPERS

 

"Ordering Stochastic Income Distributions" (with Rubin. Saposnik).

 

“The Forecasting Performance of Bond Yields Spread for Economic Activity”

 

"On Risk Sharing and the Attainment of Uniform Overtaking”