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Vita
Odd J. Stalebrink is an Associate Professor of Public Administration at the School of Public Affairs at the Pennsylvania State University. His research and teaching specialization is in the area of Public Budgeting and Financial Management. His scholarly work has appeared in numerous peer reviewed journals including but not limited to Financial Accountability and Management, Critical Perspectives on Accounting, Journal of Public Budgeting Accounting and Financial Management, The Accounting Forum, American Review of Public Administration, and the Journal of Public Budgeting and Finance. He is a member in the Association for Budgeting and Financial Management (ABFM); the National Tax Association (NTA); the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management (APPAM); and the European Accounting Association (EAA). He holds a Ph.D. in Public Policy from the School of Public Policy, George Mason University, VA, and Masters and Bachelor degrees in Business Administration from Jönköping International Business School (JIBS), Sweden.
His service efforts have covered a broad range of activities, including, but not limited to, involvement in several continuing education workshops targeting state and local government officials; served as president elect of a state ASPA chapter; and served the academic community as a referee for a large number of peer-reviewed academic journals. He has also served on the Transportation Research Board’s Task Force on Asset Management and has been Workshop Coordinator and Co–developer for programs of the Washington Metropolitan Council of Governments, the Virginia Department of Transportation Technology Transfer Center, the Maryland Technology Transfer Center, and the District of Columbia Department of Public Works Office of Transportation. He holds a Ph.D. in Public Policy from the School of Public Policy, George Mason University, VA, and a Master of Business Administration degree from Jönköping International Business School, Sweden.
He has consulting experience in areas of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) and Transportation Asset management and has been a research associate at the Center for Transport Policy and Logistics at George Mason University, VA.
Education
- Ph.D. in Public Policy, School of Public Policy, George Mason University
- M.Sc. in Business Administration, Jönköping International Business School, Sweden
- B.Sc. in Business Administration; Jönköping International Business School, Sweden
Research Areas
- Governmental Accounting
- Performance Budgeting
- Investment Administration
- Entreprenuership and Regional economic developent
Professional Affiliations
- American Society of Public Administration (ASPA)
- Association for Budegeting and Financial Management (ABFM)
- The National Tax Association (NTA)
- The Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management (APPAM)
- The European Accounting Association (EAA)
Course Offerings
- PADM 502: Fiscal Decision Making
- PADM 522: Government Financial Management
- PADM 523: Public and Non–Profit Accounting and Financial Reporting
Selected Publications
Odd J. Stalebrink. "National Performance Mandates and Intergovernmental Collaboration: An Examination of the Program Assessment Rating Tool (PART)," American Review of Public Administration. Forthcoming.
Odd J. Stalebrink (2008) "Infrastructure Reporting in Small and Rural Governments: A Pilot Study of Local Governments in West Virginia," In Civil Infrastructure Reporting and Asset Management: Best Practices and Opportunities, edited by Sue McNeil and Adjo Amekudzi. American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Special Publication.
Velda Frisco and Odd J. Stalebrink. "Congressional Use of the Program Assessment Rating Tool," Journal of Public Budgeting & Finance, Summer 2008. pp. 1–22.
Odd J. Stalebrink (2007) "An Investigation of Discretionary Accruals and Surplus-Deficit Management: Evidence from Swedish Municipalities," Financial Accountability and Management. Vol. 23, No. 4, November, pp. 441–458.
Odd J. Stalebrink and John F. Sacco (2007) "Rationalization of Financial Statement Fraud in Government: An Austrian Perspective," Critical Perspectives on Accounting (CPA), Vol. 18, pp. 489–507
Odd J. Stalebrink and John F. Sacco (2006) "Public Sector Investment Failures: Theoretical Contributions from New Institutional and Austrian Economic Theory," Journal of Public Budgeting, Accounting and Financial Management Vol. 18, Issue 3, pp. 351–375.
Odd J. Stalebrink (2004), "The Hayek and Mises Controversy: Bridging Differences," Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics, vol. 7, no. 1, Spring, pp. 27–38.
Odd J. Stalebrink and John F. Sacco (2003), "An ‘Austrian’ Perspective on Commercial Accounting Practices in the Public Sector," Accounting Forum, vol. 23, no. 3, pp. 339–358.
Jonathan L. Gifford and Odd J. Stalebrink (2002), "Remaking Transportation Organizations for the 21st Century: Consortia and the Value of Organizational Learning," Transportation Research A: Policy and Practice, vol. 36 no.7, pp. 645–657.
Jonathan L. Gifford and Odd J. Stalebrink (2002), "ITS Standardization: Lessons from a Consortium Approach," International Journal of Technology, Policy and Management, vol. 1, no. 3, pp. 56–71.
Jonathan L. Gifford and Odd J. Stalebrink (2001). "Transportation Demand Management." In Handbooks in Transport – Handbook 3: Transport Systems and Traffic Control , edited by Kenneth Button and David Hensher. Elsevier Science Ltd. pp. 199–208.
Odd J. Stalebrink and Jonathan L. Gifford (2000), "Transportation Asset Management and the Value of Enterprise-Based Financial Reporting Practices." Transportation Research Record, no.1729, 51–56.