Minh Quang Dao

Vita

• Dr. Dao joined the Economics Department in the College of Sciences at Eastern Illinois University in 1987 immediately after he received his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois. He taught as an instructor at Hastings College from 1980 to 1983. He received his bachelor's degree in French and Economics in 1978 and his master's degree in Economics in 1980 from Oklahoma State University. He earned a Faculty Excellence Award in the area of research/creative activity in Spring of 1996. He was listed in Who's Who Among America's Teachers in Spring of 1998. He was a Teacher-Scholar in the College of Sciences in 1999 and in 2000.  He received a Professional Advancement Increase in May 2000. He has been visiting professor in the department of Economics at the University of Illinois since Summer of 2000, teaching Intermediate Macroeconomics and Economic Development.

Research

• His research areas of specialization include public finance and economic development in South and Southeast Asia. He is currently interested in research on the growth of government and on the economics of aging. Other research interests are in the areas of labor-managed firms in developing countries, rural development, and socioeconomic problems of Vietnamese elderly immigrants living in the United States. He has published several articles in the Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, theJournal of Economic Studies, Applied Economics Letters, andStudi Economici as well as the Journal of Contemporary Asia. He has served as referee for the Journal of Economics ,theJournalof Contemporary Business Issues, theAnnals of Tourism Research, and Choice. He also reviewed five books,Readings in Public Finance, 2^nd edition, by Samuel H. Baker and Catherine S. Elliott ,Principles of Economics, 4^th edition, by Karl E. Case and Ray C. Fair, Macroeconomics, 2^nd edition, by Roger Farmer, Control of Public Money by A. Premchand, and Sustainable Development in Asia, America and Europe with Global Applications by Jian-Ming Zhou.

Teaching

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Service

• Dr. Dao has served as advisor to the Educational Affairs Committee of the Student Society for Economics, also known as the Economics Club, at Eastern Illinois University. Within the Economics Department, he is a member of the Graduate Assistant Selection Committee, the Application Screening Committee, and the Assessment and Review of the Major Committees.
• He is currently chair of the Undergraduate Curriculum Committee and has served as Library Coordinator for the department since Fall of 1990.
• At the college level, Dr. Dao has been research advocate for the social sciences and in that capacity has been partially responsible for grant and fellowship award opportunities which are monthly published in the College of Sciences GRANTLINE.
• At the University level, he served on the Council on Faculty Research from 1989 to 1993. He served another term on this Council beginning in the Fall of 1996. From Fall of 1997 through Spring of 1999, he was Chair of this Council. He has also been serving as a reader/scorer for the Writing Competency Examination.

  While on the Council on Graduate Studies from 1990 to 1996, he has been chair of the Student Appeals Committee. He has represented the Council at the Committee on Academic Computing and the University Academic Assessment Committee. He has also served as Vice-Chair of the Council.

  In fall of 2001 he serves as a member of the Search Advisory Committee for Dean of the College of Sciences.

Publications

• "History of Land Tenure in Pre-1954 Vietnam," Journal of Contemporary Asia, Vol. 23 No. 1 (January 1993): 84-92.
• "Land Tenure in Vietnam After 1954," The South East Asian Review, Vol. XVIII, Nos. 1 & 2 (Jan-Dec 1993): 47-57.
• "Determinants of the Size of Government," Journal for Studies in Economics and Econometrics, Vol. 18 No. 2 (August 1994): 1-14.
• "Government Consumption, Economic Growth, and Cointegration: An Empirical Test of Wagner's Law," Studi Economici, No. 53, 1994/2: 55-65.
• "Determinants of Government Expenditures: New Evidence From Disaggregative Data," Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, Vol. 57, No. 1 (February 1995): 67-76.
• "A Competitive Model of the Growth of Government," (with Hadi S. Esfahani); Journal of Economic Studies, Vol. 22 No. 2 (1995): 4-20.
• "Monetary Policy, Output and Inflation in Bangladesh: A Dynamic Analysis," (with Abdur R. Chowdhury and Abu N.M. Wahid) Applied Economics Letters, Vol. 2 No. 3 (March 1995): 51-55. A longer version is reprinted in The Economy of Bangladesh: Problems and Prospects, Abu N.M. Wahid and Charles Weis, editors, Praeger, Westport, Conn. (1996): 107-18.
• "Government Consumption and Economic Growth in Middle-Income Economies," Journal for Studies in Economics and Econometrics, Vol.19 No. 2 (August 1995): 1-11.
• "Brunei: An Economy in Transition," Journal of Contemporary Asia, Vol. 26 No. 4, (October 1996): 505-11.
• "Tests of a Competitive Model of the Size and Growth of Government ,"(with Hadi S. Esfahani) Journal of Economic Studies, Vol. 26 No. 3, (1999): 209-20.
• "James M. Buchanan," in The Frontiers of Economics: Nobel Laureates 1969-99, Abu N.M. Wahid, editor, Greenwood Press, Westport, Conn. (forthcoming in 2001).
• "Empirical Regularities on the Growth of Government," Journal for Studies in Economics and Econometrics, forthcoming in November 2001.