Dr. Eric Scorsone is an Extension Specialist and faculty member for State & Local Government located in the Department of Agricultural Economics at Michigan State University. Prior to coming to Michigan, Dr. Scorsone served as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Agricultural Economics and Director of Kentucky Rural Health Works at the University of Kentucky, Economist for the Colorado Governor’s Office of State Planning and Budget and as Senior Economist for the City of Aurora, Colorado. He received his Ph.D. in Agricultural Economics from Colorado State University in Local Public Finance and an M.S. in Agricultural Economics from Michigan State University. For his undergraduate training, he received a B.B.A. from Loyola University of Chicago.
Dr. Scorsone’s extension and outreach education work focuses on assisting communities in the areas of state & local public finance, local government service delivery, intergovernmental agreements and strategic planning. Dr. Scorsone provides formal training to county, city and township officials in the areas of intergovernmental cooperation, public finance & budgeting and general government. Dr. Scorsone has also worked on international development projects in Macedonia, Indonesia and Thailand.
Professional Interests
- Local government public finance
- Intergovernmental cooperation and consolidation
- Local government fiscal health
- Performance based budgeting
- Community Economic Development
Selected Publications
Association of Budgeting and Financial Management. “Looking for Explanations: The Relationship between Performance Based Budgeting and Government Expenditures”. November 2005, Washington D.C.
Southern Regional Science Association. “The Impact of Prison Spending on Kentucky County’s Fiscal Health”. March 2005, Washington D.C.
Scorsone, Eric A., Rita Somov, Ron Fleming and Victoria Burke “Role of Socioeconomic Forces in Entrepreneurship Development: The Case of Kentucky, United States” to be a chapter in Spatial Patterns of Entrepreneurship and Investment: Lessons and Implications for an Enlarged European Union, Edited by Iulia Traistaru, Ronald L. Moomaw, and Peter Nijkamp.
Scorsone, Eric A. and Stephan Weiler. “New Markets and Informational Asymmetries” Economic Development Quarterly Vol. 18, No. 3 August 2004.
Scorsone, Eric A. “Economic Progress in Appalachian Kentucky Communities”. Journal of Appalachian Studies Vol. 9 No.2 Fall 2003.
Scorsone, Eric A. “Encouraging Entrepreneurship in Rural Communities: The University of Kentucky Entrepreneurship Initiative”. Journal of Extension, January 2004
Funded Research Projects
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