Robert J. Eger III is an Associate Professor in the Reubin O'D. Askew School of Public Administration and Policy at Florida State University . His teaching interests are in the areas of government and nonprofit accounting, public financial management, applied quantitative analysis, and policy analysis. His research incorporates an array of public financial institutions including public authorities, municipal government boards, county governments, transit agencies, and state transportation departments. Dr. Eger has published on topics that include defense spending, public health financing, financing and accounting in government infrastructure, outsourcing in government, tax strategies and complexities, the generational differences and perceptions of municipal board members, tax evasion and auditing activity, and managing intergovernmental revenues. Dr. Eger's commentaries on government and nonprofit accounting and financial structures have appeared in the New York Times and the Los Angeles Times newspapers along with multiple local newspapers.

Recent Publications and Papers

Eger III, Robert J. and Bruce D. McDonald. (Forthcoming 2012). Moving Toward Comparability: Assessing Per Student Costs in K-12. Journal of Public Budgeting, Accounting, & Financial Management 24(4).

Eger III, Robert J., C. Kevin Fortner, Valerie A. Hepburn, and Catherine P. Slade (Forthcoming 2011). Does Institutional Structure Effect Public Health Expenditures? Public Budgeting & Finance.

Eger III, Robert J. (Forthcoming 2011) Examining Financial Behavior in Special Purpose Entities, Journal of Applied Business and Economics , 12(6).

Eger III, Robert J. and Subhashish Samaddar (2010). Outsourcing Decision Making in Public Organizations: A Proposed Methodology and Initial Analytic Results from a DOT. Transportation Research Record, No. 2199, 37-47.

Bruce D. McDonald and Robert J. Eger III. (2010). The Defense-Growth Paradigm: An Economic Investigation into Post-Soviet States. Peace Economics, Peace Science and Public Policy 16 (5).

Eger III, Robert J. and Jan Maridal. (2010). Implications of Tax Incremental Financing on Disadvantaged Families. Global Business & Economics Anthology 2010 (1), 179-187.

Maridal, Jan and Robert J. Eger III. (2010). Human Prosperity. Global Business & Economics Anthology 2010 (1), 268-280.

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