MARKETING

Marketing professor Naveen Donthu will chair the Relationship Management track at the next American Marketing Association educators' conference. Donthu has been appointed as associate book review editor for the Journal of Marketing Research and named the Katherine S. Bernhardt Research Professor.

RISK MANAGEMENT AND INSURANCE

Conrad S. Ciccotello, associate professor of risk management and insurance, has completed two articles this spring: "Contracts between Managers and Investors: A Study of Master Limited Partnership Agreements" in the Journal of Corporate Finance and "The Thrift IPO as the First Stage of Its Subsequent Sale" in Financial Markets, Institutions & Instruments. He also spoke in February to the Atlanta Society of Financial Analysts on estate planning and estate taxes.

Professors Perry Z. Binder and Susan L. Willey gave presentations at GSU's Teaching and Learning with Technology Expo on April 12.

William Feldhaus, associate professor of risk management and insurance, was the keynote speaker at the Non-bank Financial Institutions Development and Regulation Workshop, sponsored by the World Bank. The workshop presentation, held in February in Washington, D.C., explored the link between the development of a healthy insurance industry and the rate of economic growth in various countries around the world.

Professor Harold D. Skipper, C.V Starr Chair of International Insurance, presented a paper, "Liberalization of Insurance Markets: Issues and Concerns," in New York at the World Bank conference on Foreign Participation in Financial Systems in Developing Countries in April, Skipper conducted an executive education program for ING Group, Amsterdam, on the "Art of Insurance" in April. He has been appointed to the editorial board of the Journal of Risk Management.

SCHOOL OF ACCOUNTANCY

Lawrence D. Brown, Controllers RoundTable Research Professor, edited the book I/B/E/S Research Bibliography, which annotates 579 articles and working papers using analyst expectations data. This spring, Brown presented his research at Florida State University, Cornell University, the University of Connecticut and the University of Arkansas.

Professor William F. Messier, Jr. is the new editor of Auditing: A journal of Practice &Theory. He has recently published "An Experimental Assessment of Recent Professional Developments in Nonstatistical Audit Sampling Guidance" in that journal as well as "The Incidence and Detection: A Review and Integration of Archival Research" in the Journal of Accounting Literature. Messier made research presentations at the University of Alabama, the University of Notre Dame and the University of Florida.

Galen Sevcik, assistant professor of accountancy, has written "The Effect of Accounting Uncertainty and Auditor Reputation on Auditor Objectivity," which has been accepted for publication in Auditing: A Journal of Practice & Theory.

Associate professor of accountancy Ram S. Sriram's recent publications include "Operational and Strategic Benefits of Electronic Record Preservation and Controls: A Study of EDI Implementation" in the Journal of Information Systems; "Artificial Neural Networks Help Auditors Evaluate Client Financial Viability" in Decision Sciences; and "An Examination of the Effect of IT Investments on Firm Value: The Case of Y2K Compliance Costs" in the Journal of Information Systems. "E-Commerce: Implications for Accounting - An E-Scorecard Approach" and "An International Experimental Investigation of the Effects of Instructor Behavior on Accounting Students' Class Participation" were both presented at the 2000 National Meeting of the American Accounting Association.