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CURRICULUM VITAE
August, 2005
Name:Timothy M. Bates
Address:College of Arts and Sciences
Wayne State University
656 W. Kirby, Room 3198 FAB
Detroit, MI 48202
Phone: (313) 577-0769
Fax: (313) 577-8800
E-mail:
Personal Information:Married, U.S. Citizen
Experience:
Present position:WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY, Distinguished Professor of Economics
Past positions:NEW SCHOOL FOR SOCIAL RESEARCH, Chair, Urban Policy Analysis graduate program; Professor, Urban Policy Analysis
THE UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT, Department of Economics Chairman; Professor of Economics
Short-term appointments:
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA, CHAPEL HILL. Floyd B. McKissick Visiting Scholar, Center for Urban and Regional Studies, 1999.
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. Fellow, 1993-94.
Joint Center for Political Studies. Visiting Scholar, 1988-89.
U.S. Bureau of the Census. American Statistical Association Research Fellow, 1988.
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY. Visiting Assistant Professor of Economics, 1977 Spring quarter. Also, Visiting Associate Professor of Economics, 1980 Summer Session.
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES. W.E.B. DuBois Research Scholar, Center for Afro-American Studies, 1977.
Education:
Ph.D., Economics, University of Wisconsin.
M.S., Economics, University of Wisconsin.
B.S., Economic History, University of Illinois.
Selected Publications
A.Books:
Race, Upward Mobility, and Self-Employment: An Illusive American Dream (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997).*
Banking on Black Enterprise: The Potential of Emerging Firms for Revitalizing
Urban Economies (Washington, D.C.: Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, 1993). *Fifth printing.
Major Studies of Minority Business (Washington, D.C.: Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, 1992). Second printing.
Political Economy of the Urban Ghetto, Daniel Fusfeld, joint author (Carbondale, Illinois: Southern Illinois University Press, 1984).* Third printing.
Financing Black Economic Development, William Bradford, joint author (New York: Academic Press, 1979).*
*Published simultaneously in hardback and paperback
B.Shorter Monographs:
Venture-Capital Investment in Minority Businesses (William Bradford, coauthor),
(Kansas City: E. M. Kauffman Foundation, 2003).
Case Studies of State Minority Business Assistance Programs (Washington, D.C.:
Council of State Community Development Agencies, 1993).
The Nature of the Growth Dynamic in Emerging Lines of Minority Enterprise (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of Commerce, 1985).
- Articles in Academic Journals:
2006. Understanding the Urban Development Potential of Black-Owned Businesses.
Journal of the American Planning Association. (forthcoming).
2006. Financing the Development of the Minority Venture Capital Industry. Economic
Development Quarterly. (William Bradford, co-author). Forthcoming.
2005. Analysis of Young Firms that have Closed: Delineating Successful from Unsuccessful Closures. Journal of Business Venturing. 20(3): 343-58.
2004. Analysis of Venture Capital Funds that Focus on Minority-Owned Businesses. Review of Black Political Economy. (William Bradford, co-author). 31(4): 27-44.
2003. Introduction: Use of Financial Services by Low-Income Households. Economic
Development Quarterly. (Constance Dunham, co-author). 17(1): 3-7. I was the co-editor of this special issue of the journal.
2003. Minority Business Serving Government Clients Amidst Prolonged Chaos in
Preferential Procurement Programs. Review of Black Political Economy: 29(3): 51-70.
2002. Government as Venture Capital Catalyst: Pitfalls and Promising Approaches. Economic Development Quarterly. 16(1): 49-59.
2002. Restricted Access to Markets Characterizes Women-Owned Businesses. Journal of Business Venturing. 17(4): 313-324.
2002. Moving Toward a More Effective SBA: Rejoinder to Tansey. Economic Development Quarterly. 16(2): 185-90.
2001. Minority Business Access to Mainstream Markets. Journal of Urban
Affairs. 23 (1): 41-56.
- Viewing Self-Employment as a Response to Lack of Suitable Opportunities for
Wage Work. National Journal of Sociology. Lisa Servon, co-author. 12 (2): 23-55.
2000. Financing the Development of Urban Minority Communities: Lessons of History. Economic Development Quarterly. 14 (3): 227-241.
2000. Rejoinder to Sheryll Cashin: Programs as Token Gestures. Economic Development Quarterly. 14 (3): 248-253 .
1999. Exiting Self-Employment: An Analysis of Asian Immigrant-Owned Small Businesses. Small Business Economics. 13 (3): 171-183.
1999. Race, Self-Employment, and Upward Mobility: Response to Butler. Small Business Economics. 12 (2): 89-90.
1998. Microenterprise as an Exit Route from Poverty. Journal of Urban Affairs. Lisa Servon, co-author. 20 (4): 419-441.
1998. Risk Factors Facing Newcomers to Franchising. Journal of Business Venturing. 13: 113-130.
1998. The Declining Status of African American Men in the New York Construction Industry. Economic Development Quarterly. David Howell, co-author. 12 (1): 88-100.
1997. Unequal Access: Financial Institution Lending to Black and White-Owned Small Business Startups. Journal of Urban Affairs. 19 (4): 487-495.
1997. The Minority Enterprise Small Business Investment Company Program: Institutionalizing a Nonviable Minority Business Assistance Infrastructure. Urban Affairs Review. (formerly the Urban Affairs Quarterly). 32 (5): 683-703.
1997. Financing Small Business Creation: The Case of Chinese and Korean Immigrant Entrepreneurs. Journal of Business Venturing. 12 (2): 109-124.
1997. Michael Porter’s Urban Agenda will not Revitalize America’s Inner Cities: What Will? Economic Development Quarterly. 11 (1): 39-44.
1996. Why are Firms Owned by Asian Immigrants Lagging Behind Black-Owned Business? National Journal of Sociology. 10 (2): 27-43 and 73-84.
1996. Do Preferential Programs Benefit Minority Business? American Economic Review. Darrell Williams, co-author. 86 (2): 294-298.
1996. The Financial Capital Needs of Black-Owned Businesses. Journal of Developmental Entrepreneurship. 1 (1): 1-16.
1995. Small Businesses Do Appear to Benefit from State/Local Government Economic Development Assistance. Urban Affairs Quarterly. 31 (2): 206-25.
1995. Individual Skill Levels and Labor Force Status among African American Males. Journal of Negro Education special issue on myths and realities of human abilities. 64 (3): 373-83.
1995. Why Do Minority Business Development Programs Generate So Little Minority Business Development? Economic Development Quarterly. 9 (1): 3-14.
1995. Self-Employment Entry Across Industries. Journal of Business Venturing. 10 (6): 143-56.
1995. Preferential Procurement Programs Do Not Necessarily Benefit Minority-Owned Businesses. Journal of Urban Affairs. Darrell Williams, co-author. 17 (1): 1-17.
1995. Preferential Procurement: A Rejoinder. Journal of Urban Affairs. Darrell Williams, co-author. 17 (1): 29-32.
1995. Look Before You Leap: The Franchise Route to Self-Employment. Review of Black Political Economy. William Bradford, co-author. 23 (4): 77-83.
1995. Analysis of Survival Rates Among Franchise and Small Business Startups. Journal of Small Business Management. 33 (2): 26-36.
1995. A Comparison of Franchise and Independent Small Business Survival Rates. Small Business Economics. 7 (4): 377-88.
1994. An Analysis of Korean Immigrant-Owned Small Business Startups with Comparisons to African American and Nonminority-Owned Firms. Urban Affairs Quarterly. 30 (2): 227-48.
1994. Utilization of Minority Employees in Small Business: A Comparison of Nonminority and Black-Owned Urban Enterprises. Review of Black Political Economy. 23 (1): 113-21.
1994. Social Resources Generated by Group Support Networks May Not be Beneficial to Asian Immigrant-Owned Small Businesses. Social Forces. 72 (3): 671-89.
1993. Asian American Success in Self-Employment. Economic Development Quarterly. Constance Dunham, co-author. 7 (2): 199-214.
1993. Racial Politics: Does It Pay? Social Science Quarterly. Darrell Williams, co-author. 74 (3): 507-22.
1992. Commercial Bank Lending Practices and the Development of Black-Owned Construction Companies. Journal of Urban Affairs. Caren Grown, co-author. 14 (1): 25-41.
1992. Factors Affecting New Firm Success and Their Use in Venture Capital Financing. The Journal of Small Business Finance. William Bradford, co-author. 2 (1): 23-38.
1991. Commercial Bank Financing of White and Black-Owned Small Business Startups. Quarterly Review of Economics and Business. 31 (1): 64-80.
1990. Entrepreneur Human Capital Inputs and Small Business Longevity. The Review of Economics and Statistics. 72 (4): 551-59.
1990. The Characteristics of Business Owners Data Base. The Journal of Human Resources. 25 (4): 752-56.
1989. The Changing Nature of Minority Business. The Review of Black Political Economy. 18 (2): 25-42.
1989. An Analysis of Small Business Size and Rate of Discontinuance. Journal of Small Business Management. Alfred Nucci, co-author. 27 (1): 1-7.
1989. Small Business Viability in the Urban Ghetto. Journal of Regional Science. 29 (4): 625-43.
1988. Do Black-Owned Businesses Employ Minority Workers? Review of Black Political Economy. 16 (4): 51-64.
1987. Self-Employed Minorities: Traits and Trends. Social Science Quarterly. 68 (3): 539-51.
1986. Characteristics of Minorities Who are Entering Self-Employment. The Review of Black Political Economy. 15 (2): 31-49.
1985. Entrepreneur Human Capital Endowments and Minority Business Viability. The Journal of Human Resources. 20 (4): 540-54.
1985. Impact of Preferential Procurement Policies on Minority-Owned Businesses. The Review of Black Political Economy. 14 (1): 51-68.
1985. A New Nationwide Data Base for Minority Business. Journal of Small Business Management. Antonio Furino, co-author. 23 (2): 41-52.
1984. Urban Economic Transformation and Minority Business Opportunities. The Review of Black Political Economy. 13 (3): 21-37.
1984. Black Economic Well-Being Since the 1950s. The Review of Black Political Economy. 12 (4): 5-40.
1983. The Declining Relative Incomes of Urban Black Households. Challenge. 26 (1): 48-9.
1983. The Potential for Black Businesses: Comment. The Review of Black Political Economy. 12 (2): 237-43.
1982. The Disintegration of Poland’s Economy. Monthly Review. Beth Bates, co-author. 33 (9): 11-19.
1981. Black Entrepreneurship and Government Programs. Journal of Contemporary Studies. 4 (4): 59-69.
1981. Effectiveness of the Small Business Administration in Financing Minority Businesses. The Review of Black Political Economy. 11 (3): 321-36.
1980. An Analysis of the Portfolio Behavior of Black-Owned Commercial Banks. The Journal of Finance. William Bradford, co-author. 35 (3): 26-36.
1979. The Perverse Effects of SBA Loans to Minority Wholesalers. Urban Affairs Quarterly. Alfred Osborne, co-author. 15 (1): 87-97
1978. Further Comment: Capital Markets and the Potential of Black Enterprise. Public Policy. 26 (1): 477-79.
1978. Profitability in Traditional and Emerging Lines of Black Enterprise. Journal of Urban Economics. 5 (1): 154-71.
1978. Lending Activities of Black-Owned Savings and Loan Associations. The Review of Black Political Economy. William Bradford, co-author. 8 (2): 202-10.
1977. Analysis of a Commercial Bank Minority Lending Program: Comment. The Journal of Finance. Donald Hester, co-author. 32 (4): 1783-89.
1977. Loan Default Among Black Entrepreneurs Forming New Central City Businesses. The Quarterly Review of Economics and Business. William Bradford, co-author. 17 (3): 25-32.
1976. Lending Activities of Black-Owned Commercial Banks. The Review of Black Political Economy. 6 (2): 173-88.
1975. Government as Financial Intermediary for Minority Entrepreneurs: An Evaluation. The Journal of Business. 48 (4): 541-57.
1975. Trends in Government Promotion of Black Entrepreneurship. The Review of Black Political Economy. 5 (2): 175-84.
1974. Employment Potential of Inner City Black Enterprise. The Review of Black Political Economy. 4 (4): 59-67.
1974. Financing Black Enterprise. The Journal of Finance. 29 (3): 747-61.
1973. An Econometric Analysis of Lending to Black Businessmen. The Review of Economics and Statistics. 55 (3): 272-83.
1973. The Potential of Black Capitalism. Public Policy. 21 (1): 140-44.
- Other Publications
“Financing Disadvantaged Firms”, in Credit Markets for the Poor,
ed. Howard Rosenthal (New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2005).
“Minority Business Assistance Programs are Not Designed to Produce Business Development”, in Entrepreneurship and Public Policy, ed. David Hart (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004).
“Use of Bank Credit to Finance Small Businesses”, in Financing Economic Development in the 21st Century, eds. Sammis White, Richard Bingham, and Edward Hill (Armank, NY: M. E. Sharpe, 2003).
“Financing the Development of Urban Minority Communities”, in Changing Financial Markets and Community Development, ed. Lynn Browne (Washington, D.C.:Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, 2001).
“Failure By Design: Minority Business Assistance Efforts,” in Race and Inner-City Poverty, ed. Michael Henry (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004).
“Available Evidence Indicates that Black-Owned Firms are Often Denied Equal Access to Credit,” in Business Access to Capital and Credit, eds. Jackson Blanton, Alicia Williams and Sherrie Rhine (Washington, D.C.: Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, 1999).
“Identifying and Measuring Discriminatory Barriers Facing Minority-Owned Businesses,” in A National Report Card on Discrimination in America: The Role of Testing, eds. Michael Fix and Margery Turner (Washington, D.C.: the Urban Institute, 1999).
“Is the U.S. Small Business Administration a Racist Institution?,” in Black Americans in the 21st Century, ed. Thomas Boston (New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 1999).
“Viewing Minority Business Assistance as a Job Creation Strategy,” in The Black Worker in the 21st Century, ed. Wilhelmina Leigh and Margaret Simms (Washington, D.C.: Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, 1999).
“Traditional Versus Emerging Lines of Black Business Enterprise,” in Encyclopedia of African American Business History, ed. Juliet Walker (New York: Greenwood Press, 1999).
“Federal Government Agencies and Black Business,” in African Americans and Business: The Path Toward Empowerment, ed. Lawrence Martin (Washington, D.C.: Association for the Study of Afro-American Life and History, 1998).
“Political Economy of Urban Poverty in the 21st Century: How Progress and Public Policy Generate Rising Poverty,” in The Inner City: Urban Poverty and Economic Development in the Next Century, eds. Thomas Boston and Catherine Ross (New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 1997).
“The Declining Status of African American Males in the New York City Construction Market,” in Race, Markets, and Social Outcomes, eds. Patrick Mason and Rhonda Williams (Boston: Kluwer, 1997) David Howell, co-author.
“Utilization of Minority Employees in Small Business,” in African Americans and Post-Industrial Labor Markets, ed. James Stewart (New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 1997).
“The Paradox of Urban Poverty,” in 1996 State of Black America, ed. John Jeffries (New York: National Urban League, 1996).
“Determinants of Survival and Profitability Among Asian Immigrant-Owned Small Businesses,” in Immigrants and Immigration Policy, eds. Harriet Duleep and Phanindra Wunnava (Greenwich, Connecticut: JAI Press, 1996).
“The Black Business Community,” Encyclopedia of African American Culture and History, eds. Cornell West and Jack Salzman, (New York: Macmillian, 1995).
“Theories of Entrepreneurship,” in Theories of Local Economic Development, eds. Richard Bingham and Robert Mier (Beverly Hills: Sage,1993).
“Facilitating Upward Mobility Through Small Business Ownership,” in Urban Labor Markets and Individual Opportunity, eds. George Peterson and Wayne Vroman, (Washington, D.C.: Urban Institute Press, 1992), Constance Dunham, joint author.
“Financial Capital Structure and Small Business Viability,” in Advances in Small Business Finance, ed. Rassoul Yazipour (New York: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1991).
“Circular Causation in Social Processes: The Case of the Ghetto and Black-Owned Businesses,” in New Approaches to the Analysis of Discrimination: ed. Richard Cornwall (New York: Praeger, 1991).
“Government Promotion of Minority Entrepreneurship: The Record in the U.S.A.” in Development of Entrepreneurship in the Backward Regions of India, ed. N.S. Bisht (Kumaun University Press, 1988).
“Minority Business Set-Asides: Theory and Practice,” in Affirmative Action in Employment and Minority Business Set-Asides, United States Commission on Civil Rights (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1985).
“Small Business Administration Loan Programs,” in Sources of Financing for Small Business, eds. Paul Horvitz and R. Richardson Pettit (Greenwich, Connecticut: JAI Press, 1984).
“A Review of the Small Business Administration’s Major Loan Programs,” in Studies of Small Business Finance - A Report to Congress, by The Interagency Taskforce on Small Business (February 1982).
“Changes in the Economic Base and Occupational Structure of Older Industrial Cities,” Proceeding of the Eighth National Symposium on the State of the Black Economy, ed. Gerald F. Whittaker (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan, 1979).
“Black-Owned Banks and Black Business Development,” in Emerging Issues in Black Economic Development, eds., Benjamin Bobo and Alfred Osborne (Lexington, Massachusetts: Lexington Books, 1976).
Grants, Research Contracts, Awards, and Honors Received
Academy of Scholars, elected to membership in 2002.
Research Grant, Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, 2005.
Research Grant, Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, 2004.
Research Grant, Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, 2003.
Research Grant, Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, 2001.
Research Contract, U.S. Small Business Administration, 1999.
Research Grant, U.S. Small Business Administration, 1994.
Research Contract, U.S. Small Business Administration, 1994.
Fellowship recipient, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, 1993-94.
Research Contract, Regional Alliance for Small Contractors, New York City, 1993.
Research Contract, U.S. Department of Commerce, 1992.
Research Contract, New York State Department of Law, 1991.
Research Contract, City of Chicago Department of Law, 1990.
Research Grant, The Ford Foundation, 1989.
Research Grant, Joint Center for Political Studies, 1988.
Research Grant, U.S. Small Business Administration, 1988.
Research Fellowship, American Statistical Association/National Science Foundation,
1988.
Research Contract, U.S. Department of Commerce, 1984.
Research Contract, U.S. Department of Commerce, 1983.
Research Contract, U.S. Department of Commerce, 1982.
Research Grant, U.S. Department of Commerce, 1979.
Research Grant, University of California, Los Angeles, Institute of American Cultures,
1977.
University of Wisconsin, Genevieve Gorst Herfurth Award for Outstanding Research in
the Social Sciences, 1974.
Fellowship recipient, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, 1971-72.
Other Professional Activities
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1.Editorial board memberships (current):
Economic Development Quarterly
Journal of Business Venturing
Small Business Economics
Journal of Developmental Entrepreneurship
2.Referee for various scholarly journals including: Economic Development Quarterly, Small Business Economics, The Journal of Human Resources, Urban Affairs Review, Journal of Business Venturing, Journal of Urban Affairs, The Review of Economics and Statistics, American Economic Review, Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking, American Sociological Review, Review of Black Political Economy, Journal of Developmental Entrepreneurship, Social Science Quarterly, Journal of Economics and Business, Decision Sciences, Journal of the American Planning Association .
3.Referee for the National Science Foundation.
4.Selected professional activities:
Member, Scholars Network, Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, Washington, D.C.
Member, Minority Enterprise Development Advisory Council for the U.S. Secretary of Commerce.
Advisor, Project on Community Revitalization, Aspen Institute.
Member, President’s Task Force on Small Business.
Member, Research Panel, National Commission on Entrepreneurship.
Member, Advisory Board, Inroads Capital, Chicago, IL.
Member, Capital Access Task Force, U.S. Department of Commerce.
Consultant work performed for agencies and organizations;
U.S. Comptroller of the Currency
U.S. General Accounting Office
U.S. Department of Justice
Chicago Transit Authority
White House Conference on Small Business
State of Ohio Department of Economic Development
New York City Corporation Counsel
Port Authority of New York and New Jersey
City of Chicago Department of Law
New York State Solicitor General
New Jersey Commerce and Economic Growth Commission
Governor’s Commission on Discrimination in Public Procurement, State of New Jersey
Joint Center for Community Studies, Los Angeles, California
Minority Business Development Agency, U.S. Department of Commerce, Washington, D.C.
Small Business Administration, Washington, D.C.
Community Economic Development Office, City of Burlington, VT