Ph.D.–Tulane University
B.A.–University of Connecticut

Professor Noiset received his Ph.D. from Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana. 

Dr. Noiset first worked as an economist in the Office of Tax Analysis at the U.S. Department of the Treasury. He subsequently spent a year in Riga, Latvia as the U.S. Treasury’s representative advisor to the Latvian Minister of Finance, and a year in Moscow as a member of a U.S. government sponsored Russia fiscal reform project.   Dr. Noiset has been advisor to a number of governments of the Former Soviet Union.  He has also worked with the Egyptian Ministry of Finance and most recently he helped the government of Vietnam develop a tax modeling capability.     

Dr. Noiset has taught economics at Fairfield University in Connecticut, Tulane University in New Orleans, and at the University of West Virginia.   His research focuses on the role of government in the economy with a particular emphasis on questions related to the centralized versus decentralized delivery and financing of government services. He has published articles on fiscal externality and tax competition in the Journal of Public Economics and the Journal of Urban Economics.