Faculty Awards and Activities

Katherine (Kace) Chalmers

Published a paper with Dr. Robert Wassmer, Department of Public Policy and Administration, CSUS, on "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.

Is continuing work on the following papers: 

“Local Economic Development: In the Pursuit of Public Interest or Public Choice?”

“An Evaluation of the Distributional Effects of Various Development Programs on Inter-Regional Areas Using CGE.”

“What Really Determines Whether a Manufacturing Firm Locates and Remains in California (Or Any State)?”

Smile Dube

Presented two papers at the African Finance Journal Conference in Cape Town held July 10-12, 2008 titled: “Foreign Direct Investment and Electricity Consumption on Economic Growth: Evidence from South Africa,” this paper is forthcoming in International Economics (Economia Internazionale); and “FDI, Portfolio Investment Inflows and Profit Remittances: A Causality Analysis for the South African Economy.” 

Is currently working on a paper with Yan Zhou titled, “Aggregate Import Functions for China, India, Brazil and South Africa (CIBS), 1970-2007.”

Published a paper titled, "Stock Prices and the Exchange Rate in a Monetary Model: A ARDL Bounds Testing Approach using South Africa Data," in the African Finance Journal, Vol. 10, Part 1, 2008 page 1.

Craig Gallet Eiffel Tower

Presented a paper, “Meat Meets Meta: A Quantitative Review of the Price Elasticity of Meat,” at the Hawaii International Conference on the Social Sciences in May 2008.

Forthcoming Publications:

“Snuff the Puff: International Evidence on the Determinants of Anti-Smoking Policy,” in the Applied Economics Letters.

“The Determinants of Laws Restricting Youth Access to Tobacco,” with Gary Hoover and Junsoo Lee in Contemporary Economic Policy.

“The Determinants of Tobacco Control in Europe,” with Jesse Catlin in Social Science Journal.

Jessica Howell

Has a paper forthcoming titled, "The Educational Pipeline for Health Care Professionals: Understanding the Source of Racial Differences," with Ivora Hinton, Elizabeth Merwin, Steven Stern, Sarah Turner, Ishan Williams, and Melvin Wilson, in The Journal of Human Resources.

"Postsecondary Preparation and Remediation: Examining the Effect of the Early Assessment Program at California State University," written with Michal Kurlaender and Eric Grodsky and presented at the Western Economic Association Annual Conference, Honolulu, HI (July 2008) and at the Dale Tillery Summer Institute for Community College Leadership, Berkeley, CA (August 2008).

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.

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.

Esen Onur

Has a paper forthcoming in the International Journal of Finance and Economics titled, “The Role of Asymmetric Information Among Investors in the Foreign Exchange Market.” Esen also presented this paper at the INFINITI conference in Dublin, Ireland in June 2008.

Presented a paper titled, “A Dynamic Model of the Foreign Exchange Market,” at the Western Economic Association International (WEAI) Meetings in Hawaii, July 2008.

Is currently working on a paper titled, “Determination of Odds in Prediction Markets: Coexistence of Posted-offer and Double-auction Designs,” along with Levent Celik, from CERGE-EL.

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.

Ta-Chen Wang

Has a paper titled, "Paying Back to Borrow More: Reputation and Bank Credit Access in Early America,” forcoming in the journal, Explorations in Economic History.

Published Banks, “Credit Markets and Development – A Study of Entry and Competition,” Journal of Economic History 68, No. 2 (2008): 438-461.

Presented a paper titled, “Paying back to borrow more: Reputation and bank credit access in early America,” at the 2007 Social Science History Association meetings in Chicago and Business History Conference in Sacramento.

Currently working on: “Financial Market and Industry Structure: A Comparison of Banking and Textile Industry between Boston and Philadelphia in Early Nineteenth Century.”

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 2007 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

Stephan Kroll

 Stephan is now at Colorado State University in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics.  His email address there is Stephan.kroll@colostate.edu and his webpage link is: http://dare.colostate.edu/skroll/index.aspx

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