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MIKHAIL I. MELNIK

Department of Business Administration

1100 South Marietta Parkway

Marietta, GA 30060-2896

(404) 216-9622

mmelnik@spsu.edu

Education

Ph.D. Georgia State University: Economics, August 2003.

Dissertation Title: “Issues in the Economics of e-Commerce”

Committee Chairman: Professor James Alm

M.A. Boston University: Economics, January 1998

B.S. Georgia State University: Economics and Physics, August 1995, Summa Cum Laude.

Areas of Concentration

Public Finance, Applied Microeconomics, Industrial Organization

Professional Experience

Southern Polytechnic State University (Marietta, GA)

Associate Professor of Economics 2011 – Present

Niagara University (Niagara University, NY)

Associate Professor of Economics 2011 – 2011

Assistant Professor of Economics 2006 – 2011

Georgia State University (Atlanta, GA)

Visiting Faculty (Summer Terms) 2007 – 2011

Visiting Assistant Professor of Economics 2005 – 2006

Visiting Assistant Professor of Economics 2003 – 2004

Nicholls State University (Thibodaux, LA)

Visiting Assistant Professor of Economics 2004 – 2005

Georgia State University Economic Forecasting Center (Atlanta, GA)

Research Specialist/Forecaster 2001 - 2003

Georgia State University (Atlanta, GA)

Instructor of Economics 1999 – 2003

Research Assistant (Russian Fiscal Reform Project) 1998 – 1999

Mercer University (Atlanta, GA)

Instructor of Economics 2000 – 2001

DeVry University (Decatur, GA)

Instructor of Economics 2000 – 2001

Boston University (Boston, MA)

Graduate Teaching Assistant (Ph.D. program) 1995 – 1997

Georgia State University (Atlanta, GA)

Physics Laboratory Instructor 1993 – 1995

Consulting Experience

Bloomberg News Corp.

Member of the panel of surveyed economists 2008 - present

Pearson Publishing 2013

Buffalo News

Economist/Consultant 2007 – 2012

Credit Suisse Bank

Consultant 2011

Oxford Publishers

Consultant 2010 – 2011

National Association of Purchasing Managers – Buffalo Chapter

Economist/Consultant 2007 - 2011

US Department of Defense

Naval Surface Warfare Center, Indian Head Marine Base (Indian Head, MD)

Senior Scientist – Consultant 2009

Teaching Experience

Introduction to Economics

Principles of Microeconomics

Principles of Macroeconomics

Global Economy

Intermediate Microeconomics

Intermediate Macroeconomics

International Finance

International Development

Managerial Economics (MBA)

International Economics (Ph.D./MA)

Statistics (MBA)

Advanced Quantitative Methods (MBA)

Published Research

“Does a Seller’s eCommerce Reputation Really Matter? Evidence from eBay Auctions,” (with James Alm). Journal of Industrial Economics. Volume L, No. 3, pp. 337-350, September 2002

“Sales Taxes and the Decision to Purchase Online”, (with James Alm). Public Finance Review. Volume 33, No. 2, pp. 184-212, March 2005.

“Taxing the ‘Family’ in the Individual Income Tax,” (with James Alm). Public Finance and Management. Volume 5, No 1, pp. 67-109, March 2005.

“Reputation, Information Signals, and Willingness to Pay for Heterogeneous Goods in Online Auctions”, (with James Alm). Southern Economic Journal. Volume 72, No. 2. pp. 171-194, October 2005.

“Insertion Fees and their Role on eBay,” Economics of Networks Abstracts, published by SSRN and Networks, Electronic Commerce and Telecommunications Institute. Working Paper Series, Volume 4, No 52, August 22, 2007.

“The Choice of Opening Prices on eBay”, (with James Alm and Yongsheng Xu), The Manchester School, Volume 77, Issue 4, pp. 411-429, June 2009.

“Determinants and Effectiveness of Advertising on eBay” (with Paul Richardson), The BRC Journal of Advances in Business, February 2010

“The Impact of Shipping Charges in Online Auctions: Evidence From Electronics Auctions on eBay” (with Paul Richardson), The BRC Academy Journal of Business, February 2010.

“Surface defects and their role in the shock sensitivity of cyclotrimethylene-trinitramine” (with Victor Bellitto, US Department of Defense), Applied Surface Science, Vol 256, issue 11, March 2010.

“Do eBay Sellers Comply with State Sales Taxes?” (with James Alm), National Tax Journal, 63(2), pp. 215-236, June 2010.

“Predicting the Shock Sensitivity of Cyclotrimethylene-Trinitramine” (with Victor Bellitto, Daniel Sorensen, Joseph Chang, US Department of Defense), Journal of Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry, Volume 102, Issue 2, pp. 557-562, November 2010.

“Listing Fees and Their Role on eBay: Evidence from a Natural Experiment,” Journal of Internet Commerce, Volume 10, Issue 4, November 2011.

“Does it Pay to Promote on eBay?” (with Paul Richardson and Dan Tompkins), Journal of Promotion Management, Volume 17, Issue 4, pp. 438-456, November 2011.

“How Seller and Product Characteristics Impact Promotion on eBay” (with Paul Richardson and Dan Tompkins), Journal of Promotion Management, Volume 17, Issue 4, pp. 426-437. November 2011.

“Cross Border Shopping and State Use Tax Liabilities: Evidence from eBay Transactions” (with James Alm), Public Budgeting and Finance, Volume 32, Issue 1, pp. 5 – 35, Spring 2012.

“Predicting Macroscale Effects Through Nanoscale Features” (with Victor Bellitto), chapter 8 in Atomic Force Microscopy - Imaging, Measuring and Manipulating Surfaces at the Atomic Scale, published by InTech. ISBN 978-953-51-0414-8, March 2012.

“Does Online Cross-border Shopping Affect State Use Tax Liabilities?” (with Mikhail I. Melnik), forthcoming in National Tax Association, Proceedings of the 104th Annual Conference on Taxation, 2011, New Orleans, LA. Forthcoming.

Conference Participation and Presentations

“Does a Seller’s eCommerce Reputation Really Matter? Evidence from eBay Auctions” (with James Alm), presented Southern Economic Association meetings, November 2001, Tampa, FL

Invited participant, First Interdisciplinary Symposium on Online Reputation Mechanisms, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, April 2003, Boston, MA.

Invited discussant, Alternative Methods of Taxing Individuals, sponsored by International Policy Studies, Georgia State University, June 7-9, 2006, Stone Mountain, GA.

“The Choice of Opening Prices on eBay” (with James Alm and Yongsheng Xu), presented at the Southern Economic Association meetings, November 2006, Charleston, SC

“Insertion Fees and their Role on eBay”, presented at the Southern Economic Association meetings, November 2007, New Orleans, LA

“Insertion Fees and their Role on eBay,” presented at the 2008 Business Research Consortium of Western New York, Niagara University, NY.

Invited Panel Member, “Crisis and You”, a forum hosted by Georgia Institute of Technology, October 20, 2008, Atlanta, GA.

Invited speaker at The Buffalo Niagara Professional Alliance annual meeting, April 8, 2009, Williamsville, NY.

“Surface Defects and their Role in the Initiation Behavior of RDX” (with Victor Bellitto), presented at the 37th Annual Conference on Thermal Analysis and Applications, September 20-23, 2009, Lubbock, TX.

Invited speaker, National Association of Purchasing Management – Buffalo, December 9, 2009, Buffalo, NY.

“Cross Border Shopping and State Use Tax Liabilities: Evidence from eBay Transactions” (with James Alm), presented at the Annual Conference of the National Tax, November 2011, New Orleans, LA.

“Even on eBay it Pays to Buy in Volume: An Imitation of a Controlled Experiment” (with Paul Richardson), presented at the 2013 Business Research Consortium of Western New York, Buffalo, NY.

Professional Service

Reviewer

• Routledge, Global Economic Issues and Policies, 3rd edition, by Peter Daniels and David VanHoose

• Prentice Hall, Economics for Managers, 2nd edition, by Paul Farnham, 2008

• Thomson Higher Education Publishing, Economics for Management, R. J. Michaels, 2004

• Worth Publishers, Public Finance, Jonathan Gruber, 2004 (in print)

• South-Western Publishers, a division of Thompson Learning, Principles of Macroeconomics, Gottheil, F., 4th edition. 2002

• Addison-Wesley publishers. 2002

Referee

• Economic Inquiry, 2002

• Public Finance and Review, 2004-2006

• Ekonomia, 2005

• Review of Industrial Organization, 2005

• Southern Economic Journal 2005

• The Manchester School, 2006-2007

• Journal of Cultural Economics, 2007

• Fiscal Studies, 2007

• Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance, 2009

• Applied Economics, 2010

• Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 2010

News Citations

• Medill Reports by Northwestern University, 2013

• Invited guest on Bloomberg on Economy radio show, April 5, 2013

• The Buffalo News (numerous citations, 2008 - 2012)

• (July, 2010)

• National Public Radio (July 2010)

• The Atlanta Journal of Constitution (August 2008)

Honors and Awards

2009, 2011 Research Awards, Niagara University

2008 Summer Research Grand, Niagara University

The 2003 Excellence in Teaching Economics Award, April 2003, GSU

The Theodore C. Bayden Excellence in Teaching Economics Award, April 2002, GSU

Willie May Cathcart Scholarship, 1995, GSU

Sigma Pi Sigma

Languages

German – basic level

Russian – native

Computer Skills

C++, Visual C, Microsoft Visual Studio, STATA, GAUSS, SAS

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