Department of Economics
Faculty Professional Development Activities
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- Professional Affiliations
- Member, American Economic Association.
- Member, Association for Public Policy and Management.
- Member, American Education Finance Association.
- Member, Population Association of America.
- Member, Western Economics Association.
- Consultant, California Department of Education, 2002-2003.
- Review of book entitled Smoke-Filled Rooms: A Postmortem on the Tobacco Deals, written by Kip Viscusi, Social Science Journal, Forthcoming.
- Housing Price Dynamics in Kern County, March 2001, Kern Economic Journal.
- Does Crime Pay? The Economics of Prison Location, with Todd Cherry and Mitch Kunce, October 2000, Kern Economic Journal.
- Review of book entitled Networks, Infrastructure, and the New Task for Regulation, edited by Sichel and Alexander, Review of Industrial Organization, December 1997.
- Member, Editorial Board, Southern Business and Economic Journal, 1997-present.
- Referee, Applied Economics, International Journal of Industrial Organization, Journal of Economics, Review of Industrial Organization, Contemporary Economic Policy, American Economic Review, Journal of Economics and Business, Environmental and Resource Economics.
- Consultant, Wuestoff Medical Center (Melbourne, FL), Spring 1997.
- Statistics Orientation Seminar, Executive MBA Residency, College of Business, University of Central Florida, August 1996 and August 1997.
- Member, Nominating Committee, Association for Evolutionary Economics, 2002, 2003.
- Member, Veblen-Commons Award Committee, Association For Evolutionary Economics, 2000.
- Member, Editorial Board, Journal of Economic Issues, 1995-2000
- Referee: Journals
- Journal of the History of Economic Thought
- History of Political Economy
- Review of Political Economy
- Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology
- Journal of Economic Issues
- Cambridge Journal of Economics
- Review of Social Economy
- Referee: Publishing Houses
- Routledge Publishers
- Prentice Hall
- Kluwer Academic Publishers
- University of Michigan Press
- Pluto Press
- Referee, Staffordshire University, U.K., Promotion Decision of Nicholas Adnett to University Professor, December, 1997
- Referee, Department of Economics, Hofstra University, Tenure decision of Dr. Nicholas Kozlov, January, 1996
- Discussant, Missouri Valley Economic Association Conference, February, 2004: Two Panels.
- Chair, History of Economics session, American Economic Association Meetings, January, 2004.
- Panel Organizer, Western Social Science Association, April, 1998
- Panel Organizer, Western Social Science Association, April, 1997
- Delegate, Encuentro Intercontinental Por la Humanidad y Contra el Neoliberalismo, Chiapas, Mexico, July 28-August 3, 1996 (Economics Division)
- Visiting Fellow, Center for Full Employment and Price Stability, University of Missouri, Kansas City, 2001-2
- Visiting Scholar, Wolfson College, University of Cambridge, Fall 1995 (Michaelmas Term)
- Seminar Presentations:
- The Origin of Money; The Illusion of the Epoch; John Locke on Property and Money; Keynes’s Economic Program; The Conditions Under Which Free Trade is Beneficial. National Autonomous University of Mexico, November, 2003.
- Property Rights and Property Relations; Property and Democracy: The Economic Constraint. Center for Full Employment and Price Stability, University of Missouri, Kansas City, 2001-2.
- Veblen and Marx: Points of Equivalence. Association for Evolutionary Economics Summer School, University of Missouri, Kansas City, August, 2001
- PostKeynesian Workshop; Seminar in Economic Methodology, Department of Economics, University of Cambridge, Fall, 1995
- Guest Lectures:
- University of California, Riverside, 1996
- DeMontfort University, 1993
- Staffordshire University, 1992
- University of Utah, 1984
- Association for Evolutionary Economics: Organized website discussion on “Neoclassical Truth?” April, 2002
- Referee, NSF Awards for Research Projects, 1987
- Discussant, History of Economics Society Meeting, June 1981
- External Ph.D. Thesis Examiner, McGill University, 1980
- Referee, Journal of Econometrics, Journal of Human Resources, Urban Education
- Member, American Economic Association, Association for Public Policy Analysis & Management (APPAM), Southern Economic Association, Western Economic Association
- Invited Presentations
- Economics Colloquium, University of the Pacific, 4/2004
- Southern Economic Assoc. 73rd Annual Conference, San Antonio TX, 11/2003
- Twenty-Fifth Annual APPAM Research Conference, Washington DC, 11/2003
- Applied Microeconomics Workshop, University of Virginia, 10/2002
- Applied Microeconomics Workshop, UNC at Greensboro, 11/2002
- Twenty-Fourth Annual APPAM Research Conference, Dallas TX, 11/2002
- Professional Affiliations
- American Agricultural Economics Association
- Association of Environmental and Resource Economists
- Western Agricultural Economics Association
Stephan Kroll
- Reviewer of Papers, Grants etc.
- Journal of Environmental Economics and Management
- Grant Proposals for the U.S. EPA National Center for Environmental Research, Washington D.C., November 2002
- Annual Meeting of the American Agricultural Economics Assoc., Chicago, Aug. 2001.
- Presentations at Conferences and Workshops:
- Annual Meeting of the Canadian Economics Association, Ottawa, Canada, June 2003.
- Annual Meeting of the Public Choice Society, San Diego, CA, March 2002.
- Annual Meeting of the Canadian Economics Association, Montréal, Canada, June 2001.
- Barcelona Summer School for Experimental Economics, September 2000.
- European Summer School in Resource and Environmental Economics: International Dimension of Environmental Economics, Venice, July 2000.
- Annual Meeting of the Public Choice Society, Charleston, SC, March 2000 (2).
- University of Colorado Environmental and Resource Economics Workshop, Boulder, CO, July 1999.
- World Congress of Environmental and Resource Economists, Venice, Italy, June 1998.
- Western Social Science Association 40th Annual Conference, Denver, CO, April 1998.
- Presentations at Universities:
- Department of Economics, Loyola Marymount University, March 2003.
- Department of Economics, California State University, Sacramento, March 2003.
- Department of Environmental and Natural Resource Economics, University of Rhode Island, April 2000.
- School of Business, Clarkson University, Potsdam, New York, November 1999.
- Department of Economics, St. Lawrence University, Canton, New York, April 1999.
- Department of Environmental and Natural Resource Economics, University of Rhode Island, May 1998.
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University of Colorado Environmental and Resource Economics Workshop,
Boulder, CO, July 2003.
- Referee for Journal of Econometrics
- Reviewer of scholarly paper proposals for Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE) 28th Annual Conference
- Local Arrangements Coordinator for Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE) 27th Annual Conference
- Reviewer for Microeconomic Theory: Concepts and Connections by Michael Wetzstein for Southwestern Publishing
- Coordinator for Northern California Economics Challenge
- Discussant
- Fall 2003 - Society of Labor Economists (SOLE) 8th Annual Meeting
- Summer 2003 - Western Economic Association International (WEAI) 78th Annual Conference
- Fall 2000 - Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE) 25th Conference
- Spring 2000 - Midwest Economics Association (MEA) 64th Annual Meeting
- Summer 1999 - Western Economic Association International (WEAI) 74th Annual Conference
- Fall 2003 - “The Effects of Financial Aid on Student Access, Choice, and Performance” Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE) 28th Conference
- Summer 2003 - “Economics of Education” Western Economic Association International (WEAI) 78th Annual Conference
- Summer 2003 16th Annual National Conference on Race and Ethnicity in American Higher Education (NCORE)
- Winter 2003 2003 - Annual Convention of Allied Social Science Associations (ASSA)
- Fall 2002 - 14th Annual Envisioning California Conference
- Fall 2002 - National Council of Economic Education (NCEE) and National Association of Economics Educators (NAEE) 2002 Annual Conference
- Fall 2002 - Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE) 27th Conference
- Winter 2002 - 2002 Annual Convention of Allied Social Science Associations (ASSA)
- Professional Association Memberships
- American Economic Association (AEA)
- American Educational Research Association (AERA)
- Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE)
- Society of Labor Economists (SOLE)
- Western Economic Association International (WEAI)
- AFFILIATIONS
- American Economics Association
- Discussant
- Basitha, Arabinda, and Richard Startz "Why Were Changes in the Federal Funds Rate Smaller in the 1990's?" Presented at WEA meetings, July 2002.
- Chao, John, Valentina Corradi, and Norman Swanson, “An Out of Sample Test for Granger Causality.” Presented at the ASSA meetings, January 2000, Boston.
- Cochrane, John P., Fred R. Glahe, and Steven T. Call, “Fractional Reserve Banking and the Permanent Semi-Slump.” Presented at WEA meeting, July, 1998, Lake Tahoe, Nevada.
- Kahn, Aubhik, and B. Ravikumar, “Growth and Distribution when Productivity is Private Information.” Presented at SEA meeting November 25, 1996, Washington D.C.
- Marche, Gary, “The Effects of Incomes, Tastes and Future Expectations on the Demand for Illegal Drugs,” presented at ASSA meeting January 5, 1996, San Francisco, CA.
- Stauffer, Robert, “Back to Basics: The Key to the Velocity Puzzle is M1,” presented at ASSA meeting January 5, 1996, San Francisco, CA.
- Member of a panel on “California’s Byzantine Tax System: Tweak it or Overhaul?” at the California Manufacture and Technology Association Tax Symposium, Sacramento, CA, January 20, 2004.
- Presented “The Future of the Property Tax,” at the 101st annual conference of the California Assessor’s Association, October 29, 2003
- Testified before the California Commission On Tax Policy In the New Economy, in Sacramento, April 21, 2003 and in San Francisco, September 25, 2003.
- Hosted Summer Tax Institute, 2003, at UD Davis, June 22-26, 2003.
- Invited speaker at a conference titled “Are Californians Better Off Than They were 25 Years Ago?”, sponsored by the California Budget Project, March 12, 2003—presented “Residential Property Taxes and Values in the session titled “Housing and Land Use in the Wake of Proposition 13: How Has the Landscape Changed?”
- Presented results from LA Commercial property study at the March 13, 2003, Property Tax Briefing at the Senate Office of Research
- Participated in the development of materials for a property tax policy course for the International Association of Assessing Officers (IAAO) and the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, February 2003, Phoenix AZ.
- Invited speaker at the Tax Policy Roundtable sponsored by the Senate Office of Research, December 3, 2002.
- Invited speaker at a forum entitled “Taxes and Our Community: Is Our System Sustainable?” co-sponsored by Joint Venture Silicon Valley and California Policy Forum, Mountain View, September 26, 2002.
- Invited speaker at the Tax Policy Roundtable sponsored by the Senate Office of Research, December 3, 2002.
- Presented “The Taxation of Telecommunications in California,” to the Senate Office of Research, September 12, 2002.
- Made a presentation at a Property Tax Roundtable sponsored by the Senate Office of Research, August 5, 2002.
- Provided expert testimony before the California Commission on Tax Policy in the New Economy, January 29, 2002, Sacramento, California and March 20, 2002, Sunnyvale, California.
- Presented “Allocating Property Tax Revenue in California: Living with Proposition 13,” at the National Tax Association –Tax Institute of America Annual Conference on Taxation, November 8-10, 2001, Baltimore, Maryland.
- Presented “California’s Energy Crisis: Implications for Public finance and Taxation,” at the National Tax Association –Tax Institute of America Annual Conference on Taxation, November 8-10, 2001, Baltimore, Maryland.
- Made a presentation and moderated a session of the three-week State Department-sponsored International Visitor Project entitled “Privatization and the U.S. Economy,” July 5, 2001.
- Participated in a panel entitled “A Taxing History: 150 Years of Revolts and Results,” at the Tenth Annual Envisioning California Conference, September 24-26, 1998, Sacramento, California.
- Presented “Proposition 13 in Recession and Recovery”, at the Western Economic Association Annual Meetings in Stateline, Nevada, June 29, 1998.
- Invited speaker at the National Tax Association-Tax Institute of America Annual Conference on Taxation, October 8-11, 1995, San Diego, CA.
- Attended symposium, "Should the Federal Role in State Income Taxation Change?", April 28, 1994, University of California, Davis.
- Invited speaker at "Reinventing California" Seminar Series at the State Capital sponsored by UC Davis Extension, April 22, 1994, Sacramento.
- Presented a paper, "Fiscal Constraints and Potential Sources of Revenue," at the California Business-Higher Education Forum Spring Meeting, April 7-9, 1994, La Quinta, California.
- Presented a paper, "Property Tax Reform in California", at the California Studies Conference VI: Bright Lights, Mean Streets: California as City, February 12, 1994, Oakland.
- Attended a symposium on State Taxation of Business Activities, March 26, 1993, University of California, Davis.
- Attended the American Agricultural Economics Association Annual Meetings in Vancouver, British Columbia, Aug. 5-8, 1990.
- Attended Financial Database Workshop sponsored by the Business Instructional Computing Council at Cal-Poly, Pomona, Feb. 7-9, 1990.
- "County Government Costs of Agricultural Land Conservation: California's Williamson Act," presented at the Spring 1990 session of the University Association of Research Scholars, CSUS.
- Attended the Western Agricultural Economics Association annual meetings in Coeur D'Alene, Idaho, July 9-13, 1989.
- Participant in the Western Economic Association's annual meetings in Stateline, Nevada, June 16-22, 1989.
- Participant in the Range Productivity Workshop sponsored by the University of California Agricultural Issues Center, June 28, 1989.
- Participant in a workshop on the University of California Agricultural Issues Center's major study project entitled "Growth & Change in the Great Central Valley: People and Agriculture," June 3, 1989.
- "Optimal Pricing Strategies for the Public Sector: The Case of Personalized Automobile License Plates," University Association of Research Scholars, Fall 1988, CSUS
- "The Consumption and Welfare Effects of Information in a Time-of-Day Pricing Experiment," presented at the annual meeting of the American Agricultural Economics Association, Knoxville, Tennessee, August, 1988.
- "The Economic Effects of Continuous Display Electricity-Use Monitors," presented at the University Association of Research Scholars, Fall 1987, CSUS.
- "Cooperatives as Entrants," presented at the annual meeting of The Society for Economic Dynamics and Control, Tempe, Arizona, March 9, 1988.
- Referee for Journal of Public Economics, Public Finance Quarterly, Journal of Consumer Affairs, National Tax Journal, and Contemporary Policy Issues.
- Reviewed manuscripts for Harper-Collins, Simon & Schuster, Richard D. Irwin, and Prentice Hall.
- Professional Memberships
- American Economic Association
- National Tax Association/Tax Institute of America
- Western Economic Association
- Manuscript Referee, The Journal of Economic History
- Conference Discussant
- Western Economic Association International Conference, 2003
- Government and Governance in Historical Perspective, All-University of California Group in Economic History Conference, UC Berkeley, 2001
- All-University of California Group in Economic History Conference, UC Riverside, 2000
- R&D, Investment, and Economic Growth in the 20th Century, UC Berkeley, 1999
- American Economic Association Annual Meetings, 1998
- All-University of California Group in Economic History, 1992
- Academic Associations
- CSUS Institutional Representative, Western Economic Association
- International
- Member, American Economic Association
- Member, The Cliometric Society
- Member, All-University of California Economic Group in Economic History
- Member, California Faculty Association
- Member, University of California, Santa Cruz Alumni Association
- Content Contributor, Aplia Inc., Spring 2003 – present
Created online interactive assignments for principles of macroeconomics and money and banking courses, and reviewed other contributors’ content. - Subject Matter Expert, Quisic Courseworks, Fall 2000 –
Winter 2001
Created content for Tuck Business School pre-MBA distance learning course. - Content Consultant, Harcourt e-Learning, Summer 1999
Reviewed Principles of Macroeconomics web materials for distance learning course. - Reviewer for Addison-Wesley-Longman, McGraw-Hill, Prentice Hall, and W.W. Norton
- Memberships
- American Economic Association, Fall 2001 - present.
- Phi Beta Kappa, Magna Cum Laude, Spring 1995 - present.
- National Economics Honorary Society, Fall 1994 - present.
