Faculty Awards and
Activities
Katherine
(Kace) Chalmers
Awarded in 2007 (with Dr. Robert Wassmer, Department
of Public Policy and Administration, CSUS), $12,000 from the Research
Fellows Program to complete their study, "What Really Determines Whether a
Manufacturing Firm Locates and Remains in California."
Presented a paper (co-written
with Dr. Walter Schwarm and Dr. Harvey Cutler), titled: "Small Matters:
Fiscal Policy Effects at the City Level," at the Regional Science
Association International (RSAI) in Savannah, Georgia, November 8-10th.
Smile Dube
Presented a paper, “Price
Controls in Zimbabwe: An Exercise of Reductio Absurdum,” at the National
University of Science and Technology (NUST), August 24, 2007.
Gave a seminar on “Exchange
Rates and Trade,” at the National University of Science and Technology (NUST)
in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, August 17, 2007.
Presented a paper, “Stock
Prices and the Monetary Model of the Exchange Rate: ARDL Bounds Approach Using South Africa
Data,” at the 4th Annual African Finance Journal Conference held in
Gaberone, Botswana, July 11-12, 2007.
Craig Gallet Eiffel Tower
Published article, "A
Comparative Analysis of the Demand for Higher Education: Results from a
Meta-Analysis of Elasticities," in the Economics Bulletin Vol. 9 (7) pp.
1-14. (2007)
Published article, "The
Demand for Alcohol: A Meta-Analysis of Elasticities." In the Australian
Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, vol. 51 (2) pp. 121-136. (2007)
President’s Award for Research & Creative
Activity, California State University, Sacramento, 2005.
Social Science & Interdisciplinary Studies Summer
Research Grant, California State University, Sacramento 2005.
Research & Creative Activity Awards, 2004 &
2002 .
Alumni Honors Award 2001 .
Jessica
Howell
Awarded in 2007 a Research and Creative Activities Grant for her study, “An Evaluation of the Early Assessment Program and its Effect on Students’ Postsecondary Application, Enrollment, and Academic Preparation at California State University, Sacramento.” Dr. Howell will study the impact of the Early Assessment Program on California students’ postsecondary outcomes.
Awarded in 2007, from the
American Institutes for Research, a grant to study remediation at CSUS and the
University of Houston, titled: “College Readiness to Degree Completion: Remedial Placement and Patterns of College
Persistence.”
Awarded in 2007, from the
Institute of Education Sciences (U.S. Department of Education), a grant to
study university activities that affect students’ persistence in a
baccalaureate degree program, titled, “The Effects of Institutional Practices
on Postsecondary Trajectories – Matriculation, Persistence and Time to Degree.”
Jonathan Kaplan
On January 10th 2008, Dr. Kaplan
was an invited panelist at the State of California Water Board’s Training
Academy held at the Claremont Hotel in Berkeley California where he discussed
his ongoing research project examining the long term economic interaction
between animal agriculture and salinity in California’s Central Valley.
Currently collaborating on the University of
California, Davis /State of California Water Resources Control Board Water
Salinity Project. This project is
assessing the long term economic consequences from increasing water salinity on
the agricultural economy within California’s Central Valley.
Presented a paper (With
Stephan Kroll, CSUS, Kristiana Hansen, UC Davis and Richard Howitt, UC Davis),
titled: “Valuing Options in California Water Markets: A Laboratory
Investigation,” at the 2007 Annual Meeting of the American Agricultural
Economists Association (July 29-August 1).
Prepared a report for the
Sacramento Regional Research Institute (SRRI) with Stephan Kroll, CSUS, “An Economic
Evaluation of a Rigs-to-Reefs Program for California Coastal Waters,” June 2007.
Published an article “Multiple Environmental
Externalities and Manure Management Policy,” in Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 32/1, pp.
115-134.
Recently completed a report titled “The Monetary Value
of Wetland Benefits in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta” (with Brian Currier)
for the Delta Mercury Collaborative through the Office of Water Programs at
California State University Sacramento.
Presented a
paper titled “Adaptive Management in a Dynamic Heterogeneous Watershed” at the
First Occasional Giannini Water Economics Workshop held at the University of
California, Davis in December 2006.
Awarded a CSU Faculty Research Fellowship to evaluate
the underestimation of traffic flows associated with the introduction of a big
box store, Summer 2006.
Stephan Kroll
Panel discussant (with Dr.
Russell DiSilvestro (Philosophy Department) and Dr. Cheryl Osborne
(Gerontology)) on “Intergenerational Debt:
What do Young and Old Owe to Each Other?” on Tuesday, April 22, 2008 at
the 2008 CSUS Department of Philosophy - Nammour Symposium: “Young and Old.”
Presented a paper (with Kristiana Hansen, UC Davis;
Jonathan Kaplan, CSUS; and Richard Howitt, UC Davis), titled: “Valuing Options in California Water Markets:
A Laboratory Investigation,” at the 2007 Annual Meeting of the American
Agricultural Economists Association (July 29-August 1).
Poster presentation (with Enno Bahrs, University of
Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences, Vienna; and Matthias Sutter,
University of Innsbruck), “Trading Agricultural Payment Entitlements: An
Experimental Investigation.
David Lang
Published article,
"Financial Aid and Student Bargaining Power," 2007, The B.E. Journal
of Economic Analysis & Policy, 7:1 (Topics) Article 37.
Published article, "Class Rank, GPA, and Valedictorians: How
High Schools Rank Their Students," Spring 2007, American Secondary
Education, 35:2, pp. 36-48.
Published article, "Beyond the Open Door: Increasing
Student Success in the California Community Colleges (with Colleen Moore, Nancy
Schulock and Miguel Ceja), Institute for Higher Education Research and Policy,
California State University, Sacramento, Summer 2007.
Terri Sexton
Presented a paper at the Property Tax Policy
Roundtable sponsored by the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy and George
Washington Institute of Public Policy in Washington D.C., titled: “The
Increasing Importance of Assessment Limitations as a Means of Limiting Taxes on
Homeowners, “ on October 5, 2007.
Hosted a Forum: “The Economic and Social Impact of
Indian Gaming in the U.S.,” as well as presented a paper titled, “The Impact of
Indian Gaming on State and Local Finance,” on October 26, 2007 - Sponsored by
the Center for State and Local Taxation at the University of California, Davis.
Mark Siegler
Presented a paper, “Simpson’s Paradox and the
Incredibly Shrinking Historical Business Cycle,” at the Western Economic
Association International Conference in Seattle, WA, July 2007.
Outstanding Service Award, California State
University, Sacramento, 2006-2007 .
Kristin Van
Gaasbeck
Awarded the Social Sciences and Interdisciplinary
Studies (SSIS) Summer IT Pedagogy Fellowship, California State University,
Sacramento, Summer 2007 .
Presented and led panel discussion, “The Big Uneasy:
New Orleans Then & Now,” Celebrating Freedom: The Art of Willie Birch, 40 Acres Art
Gallery, Sacramento, CA. August 2007.
Presented a paper (co-authored with Ryan Brady, U.S.
Naval Academy), “A Model of Credit Card Liquidity: To Smooth or Not to Smooth,” at the Western
Economic Association International Annual Conference in Seattle, WA. July 2007.
Prepared a report for the Sacramento Regional Research
Institute (SRRI), “Understanding the Economic Effects of Migration to Broadband
Across California Counties,” June 2007.
Yung Yang
Published
a paper (co-authored with Myung Hoon Yi), "Does Financial Development
Cause Economic Growth? Implication for Policy in Korea," Journal of Policy
Modeling (2007).
Retired at the end of
the Fall 2008 semester after teaching at California State University,
Sacramento for 33 years.
Yan “Joni” Zhou
Paper accepted for publication in the journal Review
of International Economics, titled: “International Reserves and Fiscal
Policy in Developing Countries.”
Awarded the SSIS/ISR Fellowship Award for Spring 2008.
Our former faculty
Sean Corcoran
Sean is now at New York University – Institute for
Education and Social Policy, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences in
the Professions - Steinhardt School of Culture, Education and Human
Development.
His email address is sean.corcoran@nyu.edu and his webpage
link is: http://homepages.nyu.edu/~sc129/index.html
Yelena
Takhtamanova
Yelena is now at the Federal Reserve Bank of San
Francisco.
Her email address is:
Yelena.Takhtamanova@sf.frb.org
and her website address is: http://www.frbsf.org/economics/economists/staff.php?ytakhtamanova