Donald J. Reeb

Professor

Department of Economics
University at Albany
State University of New York
Albany, NY 12222

Telephone: (518) 442-4738
Fax: (518) 442-4736 (for the Department)
E-mail: dreeb@albany.edu

Ph.D., Syracuse University, Economics, 1963
M.P.A., Syracuse University, Public Administration, 1959
B.A., Wittenberg University, Political Science and Economics, 1958

Professor, Department of Economics, University at Albany, 1995

Joint Appointment, Program in Public Policy, Graduate School of Public Affairs, Rockefeller College, University at Albany, 1983-1995

Continuing Appointment, Department of Economics, University at Albany, 1970-1995

Associate Professor, Department of Economics, University at Albany, 1969-1995

Associate Professor, Department of Political Economy, Graduate School of Public Affairs, 1968-1969

Assistant Professor, Program in Political Economy, Graduate School of Public Affairs, 1965-1968

Part-time, Assistant Professor of Economics, North Carolina College for Negroes, Durham, North Carolina, 1964-1965

Assistant Professor, Department of Urban and Region Planning; and Joint Appointment with Department of Economics, School of Business, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1963-1965

State and local government policy and finance, especially research leading to legislation concerning municipal bond banks, mass transit financing, land value based on property taxes, acid rain, detergent additives, pollution fees, public utility taxation, wilderness area zoning and state government revenue sharing.

Member of the National Tax Association and the American Economic Association

"An Overview of State-Published Local Government Financial Data", Public Administration Review, September/October, 1994, pp. 496-500, with Edward Howe.

"Needed: A New Revenue Source for State and Local Government," Journal of Public Finance, (Prudential Bache), July 1990, pp. 21-25, with Louis R. Tomson.

"Major State and Local Taxes Imposed on U.S. Electric Utilities," Journal of State Taxation, 1990, pp. 3-27, with Edward Howe.

"The Political Economy of the Property Tax," in New York State Today: Politics, Government and Public Policy , second edition, edited by Peter W. Colby and John K. White, State University of New York Press, 1989, pp. 301-311, with Edward Howe.

Honored with a PEN certificate, an award given by members of the New York Senate, Assembly or Governor's Office, for outstanding work in achieving passage of legislation. The legislation permits local land value taxation in partial replacement of the property (land plus improvements) tax, 1993.

Appointed as member of the Board of Directors, Center for the Study of Economics, a Henry George not-for-profit organization dedicated to research and achieving legislative reform of property taxes, 1993.

National Tax Association appointment, to the board of advisors on Public Utility and Transportation Taxation, 1992.

University at Albany Collins Fellow. Award named for Evan Collins, a president of the University, to honor those faculty members who in their teaching, research, service and dedication to students best exemplify President Collins' work for the fulfillment of the purposes of this University, 1992.

Appointed Grand Marshall of the Faculty for the University, 1992-1995.

President's Award, Excellence in University Service, 1991.

President's Undergraduate Leadership Award, Outstanding Student Organization Advisory Award, SUNYA, 1989.

National Tax Association, annual conference, "Taxation of Public Utilities-The Historic Debate and the Current Record," Charleston, November, 1994.

National Tax Association, annual conference, "Two-Rate Taxation Comes to New York," Minneapolis, November, 1993.

New York State Network for Economic Research, "The Amsterdam Property Tax Proposal," Rockefeller Institute, 1992.

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