“Frankfort Innovation Index: Measuring the Capital City’s Innovativeness.” In preparation for publication consideration.

other recent scholarly contributions (an excerpt from the latest involvement): 2/10/2021 Yahoo Mail - AAEA Revised Reviewer Instructions 1/3 AAEA Revised Reviewer Instructions From: AAEA (info@aaea.org) To: g_horse2000@yahoo.com Date: Tuesday, February 9, 2021, 11:35 AM EST Dear Swagata, Thank you for volunteering to review abstracts for the 2021 AAEA Annual Meeting in Austin, TX. August 1-3, 2021. Every year, volunteers like you are what help make our meeting possible! Below are the revised instructions for reviewing abstracts. Please have abstracts reviewed by the end of the day Wednesday, February 24. 2/10/2021 Yahoo Mail - AAEA Revised Reviewer Instructions 3/3 REVIEWS COMPLETED Thank you very much for your time and dedication to AAEA and the 2021 Annual Meeting. This portion of the abstract review process is extremely important. Again, if you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact me. Kindly, Hattie Salzman Admin and Project Coordinator, AAEA (414) 918-3190 hsalzman@aaea.org | www.aaea.org

2. As you may be aware, peer-reviewed publications in disciplines and areas of interests such as mine take a substantial amount of time to materialize.
3. You may also know, publishing in applied economics is associated with very high rejection rates; hence it usually takes several submissions in several journals before acceptance can occur.
4. I have been in 100% teaching appointments since 2012, often having to teach overload. This does not make it as easy to do research and conduct scholarly activities as with a less teaching load. Yet I published five (5) full-length peer-reviewed articles since then.
5. Last but not least, please also consider the fact that I was unanimously approved (5-0) by the University T&P Committee for promotion (to full Professor) along with tenure in the 2018-19 cycle (see image of first page of the committee's letter showing vote tally below).