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Public Affairs Faculty

Barry Rubin
Professor

Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1977

Professor Barry Rubin is currently involved in several areas of research. He is exploring the link between climate change and regional economic activity by developing and applying simultaneous equation econometric models of multi-county and multi-state regions. These models are designed to highlight the economic development impacts associated with global warming. The models translate changes in average and peak temperatures, precipitation, degree days, and cloud cover into effects on regional employment, unemployment, income, population, schools, and government, and allow for the exploration of adaptation and mitigation policies. Over the past five years, Barry has also investigated the impacts of gaming on economic activity for the State of Indiana, has worked extensively on urban enterprise zones as economic development tools, and has investigated the link between strategic planning efforts of cities and their community development capacity. Other current projects include empirical studies of the factors that lead to the success of collaborative management in public sector organizations and the regional economic development impacts of transportation investments.

Barry teaches in the areas of statistics, quantitative methods, urban policy, economic development, and information systems. He has served as an advisor or consultant to the Indiana Department of Commerce, the City of Bloomington Planning Department and City Council, the Bloomington Urban Enterprise Zone Board, and the Monroe County Planning Department. He has been very active in establishing past and future directions for information technology within both the School of Public and Environmental Affairs and Indiana University. For several years, he served as Associate Dean and Associate Executive Director of Indiana University Computing Services.

Awards

Recent Publications

Labor Management Partnerships: A New Approach to Collaborative Management (with R. Rubin), PricewaterhouseCoopers Endowment for the Business of Government, July, 2001, (36 pages).

"Creeping Legalism in Public Sector Grievance Arbitration: A National Perspective" (with R. Rubin), Journal of Collective Negotiations in the Public Sector, Vol. 30, No. 1 (March) 2001, pp. 27-44.

"A Heuristic Model for Collaboration Within Labor-Management Relations: Part II, The Indianapolis Experience" (with R. Rubin), Journal of Collective Negotiations in the Public Sector, Vol. 29, No. 2 (June) 2000, pp. 139-151.

"Successful Collaborative Management and Collective Bargaining in the Public Sector: An Empirical Analysis" (with R. Rubin and A. Rolle), Public Productivity and Management Review, Vol. 22, No. 4 (June) 1999, pp. 533-552.

"Economic Impacts of Transportation Investments: The Case of Federal Express" (with C. Oster and J. Strong), The Transportation Journal (January) 1998, pp. 34-44.

"Assessing the State-Level Consequences of Global Warming: Socioeconomic and Energy Demand Impacts" (with S. Gailmard, D. March, and A. Septoff), World Resource Review, Vol. 9, No. 3, 1997, pp. 379-398.