Associate Professor
Contact Information
Phone: 703-993-9756
:703-993-8215
Mason Square, Van Metre Hall, Room 651
3351 Fairfax Drive
Arlington, VA 22201
MSN: 3B1
Biography
Siona Listokin-Smith is an associate professor in the Schar School of Policy and Government at George Mason 鶹.
Her research interests include financial regulation and competition, public finance, and corporate governance. She teaches master's and doctoral courses on research methods, public finance, microeconomics, and corporate social responsibility. She is especially interested in researching and applying pedagogical best practices in teaching research methods and applied economics.
Listokin has published articles in the Journal of Financial Regulation and Compliance, the International Journal of Corporate Governance, Health Management, Policy and Innovation, and the IUP Journal of Governance and Public Policy. She is currently the PI on a research grant that examines investment networks between institutional investors, including public pension funds and hedge funds.
She received her PhD in business and public policy from the Haas School of Business at the 鶹 of California, Berkeley, and her BS from the Wharton School at the 鶹 of Pennsylvania.
Curriculum Vitae
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ScharSchoolofPolicyandGovernment George Mason 鶹
3351FairfaxDrive
Arlington, VA 22201
Tel:(703) 993-9756
slistoki@gmu.edu
ACADEMICPOSITIONS
SCHAR SCHOOL OF POLICY ANDGOVERNMENT
Associate Professor
August 2014-Present
Director, Master of Public Policy Program August 2014-July 2016
Assistant Professor August 2007-July 2014
YALE LAW SCHOOL,YALEUNIVERSITY
Research Scholar, Center for the Study of Corporate Law
2008-2010
EDUCATION
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT BERKELEY, HAAS SCHOOL OFBUSINESS
Ph.D. in Business Administration, 2007 Dissertation: “Essays on Political Economy”
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA, THE WHARTONSCHOOL
B.S.,2000
Concentration: Finance andStatistics
RESEARCH
Peer ReviewedPublications
- DataCollectionStrategy:EvidencefromtheAndroid AppMarket.JournalofBusiness and Technology, forthcoming 2019.
- DoesIndustryRegulationofConsumerDataPrivacyWork?IEEEPrivacyandSecurity, Volume 15, Issue 2, March2017.
- TheSelf-Regulationof Data PrivacyandSecurity, Journal of InformationTechnology and Privacy Law, Vol 32, 2015.
- An Analysis of U.S. Congressional Support for the Affordable Care Act, HealthManagement,Policy andInnovation,Vol2:1,2014,pp.1-9.(withAaron Chatterjiand Jason Snyder)
- Meta-Regulation of OTCDerivatives Contracts Post Reform, Journal of FinancialRegulationandCompliance,Vol21:2,May2013,pp.188-200.
- Institutional Investors and Proxy Proposals.International Journal of CorporateGovernance, Vol. 2, No. 3/4, 2011, pp. 288-304.
- GlobalPensionFundActivism:AReviewoftheLargest GovernmentPensionSystems, IUPJournalofGovernanceandPublicPolicy,Vol.VI,No.3,2011,pp.35-49.
- InstitutionalInvestorCompositionandProxyAccess Proposals.Corporate Governance InternationalReview:ConferenceProceedings,September2010.
- ACommentonCorporateSocial ResponsibilityandWorkers’Rights. Comparative LaborLawandPolicyJournal,Volume30(1), October2008,pp.11-16.(withAaron Chatterj)
- CommentonProperty TaxIncidence,HousingPolicy Debate,Vol.17,Issue1,2006,pp. 27-44. (with David Listokin and Ioan Voicu)
Books
- Issues in Globalisation, Growth and Governance: An Asian Perspective.WorldScientific,2014.(co-editedwithTonyCavoliandRamkishen Rajan).
BookChapters
- AsianInstitutionalInvestor Ownership,inGlobalisation,Growth andGovernance:An Asian Perspective,Tony Cavoli, Siona Listokin and Ramkishen Rajan, eds, World Scientific, January 2014.
- PublicEmployeePensions andInvestments, in TheHandbookonStateandLocal GovernmentFinance,Bob EbelandJohnPeterson,eds,Oxford鶹Press,2012, pp. 843-868.
- CollaborativeGovernanceandtheUSHealthcareandRetirementSystems, in RepositioningEuropeandAmerica forGrowth,Eberhard BohneandSharlie Karlsson, eds,LITVerlag,TransatlanticPublicPolicySeries,Vol.5.LIT-VerlagPublishers,2010, pp 277-294.
- ChallengesandStrategiesforEconomicDevelopmentinIndianCountry: CaseStudyof the NavajoNation,inHousingandEconomic DevelopmentinIndian Country:Challenge andOpportunity, TransactionPress, 2006, pp. 325-372.
Other ScholarlyWork
- U.S.PublicPension FundsandAlternativeInvestments:UnevenInvestmentPolicies, UnevenResults,InstituteforNewEconomic ThinkingPolicyPaper,January2015.(With Julia Pfaff, Karelle Samuda and Janine Wedel)
- Digital AdvertisingAlliance. Encyclopediaof BigData, eds ConnieMcNeelyand Laurie Schintler, Springer Meteor, forthcoming.
- NetworkAdvertisingInitiative.EncyclopediaofBigData, edsConnieMcNeelyand Laurie Schintler, Springer Meteor, forthcoming.
- We the People Fix the Budget: Americans’ Preferences for Revenue Increases and SpendingCuts,TaxNotes,April2013,pp188-195.(withYairListokin andSamson Mesele)
- Bookreviewof SubprimeNation: AmericanPower, Global Power andtheHousing Bubble,JournalofPlanningEducation andResearch,September2013.
- ImprovingtheIncentivesforHistoricPreservation:AReplytoDavidKohtze, TexasLaw Review,Vol90,2012.pp285-294.(withDavidListokin)
- CorporateSocialIrresponsibility,DemocracyJournal,Issue3,Winter2007,pp.52-63. (with Aaron Chatterji)
- The Management of State Employee Retirement Systems, Academy of ManagementProceedings, Best Papers, pg. C1-C16, 2006.
Research Related toTeaching
- GraduateEducationinPoliticalScience(withKatieCahillandAnoinette Christophe). PS:PoliticalScienceandPolitics.July2013,pp653-654.
- Graduate Education and Professional Development (with Robert McKeever). PS:Political ScienceandPolitics. July2011, pp. 658-659.
Submitted Research and WorkingPapers
- U.S. Public Pension Funds and Alternative Investments: Uneven Investment Policies, Uneven Results, Public Budgeting and Finance. (With Julia Pfaff, Karelle Samuda and Janine Wedel), Revise and resubmit.
- The Impact of Editorial Slant, revise and resubmit, Quarterly Journal of Political Science, (with Jason Snyder)
- AreChiefPrivacyOfficers Private?TheSocial NetworkBehavioroftheC-suite
TEACHING
SchoolofPolicy,GovernmentandInternationalAffairs, GeorgeMason鶹
Courses
U.S. Information Technology Policy (MPP) Managerial Economics for Policy Analysis (MPP)
US Financial Policy, Processes and Procedures (MPP) Advanced Public Budgeting (MPP)
Corporate Social Responsibility and Public Policy (MPP) Research Design for Public Policy (PhD)
International Financial Institutions(ICP)
PhD DirectedReadings
Big Data Policy, Private Regulation, Medical Self-Regulation, Transaction Cost Economics, Mandatory Spending and Entitlements, Institutional Economics, Wealth Transfers and Public Policy, Critical Research on Corporate Social Responsibility, Political Economy and US Policy, Propensity Score Matching, Budget Theory, Fiscal Policy
MPP DirectedReadings
National Energy Policy, Derivatives Regulation and Policy, Financial Literacy in Alexandria and Arlington Country
DoctoralCommittees
CommitteeMember:5
鶹ofCalifornia,Berkeley
Economics 101
Marketing Statistics (TA)
PRESENTATIONS
PresentationsRelated toResearch
PublicPolicy SymposiumontheLawandEconomicsofPrivacyandDataSecurity, Moderator, George Mason 鶹 May 2019
PrivacyLawScholarsConference,Discussant,May2019
SupremeCourt EconomicReviewRoundtable,AntoninScaliaLawSchoolatGeorgeMason 鶹, Discussant, February 2019
ProgramonEconomicsofPrivacy,鶹ofArizonaJamesE.Rogers CollegeofLaw, Panel Discussant, December 2018
Privacy Law Scholars Conference, Discussant, June 2018
IEEE Privacy Aware Computing Symposium, August 2017
PrivacyLawScholarsConference,PaperAuthor,June2016
Lawand Economics Center, Privacy Fellowship Roundtable, December 2016
Lawand Economics Center, Workshop on Consumer Protection, June 2016
PrivacyLawScholarsConference,PaperDiscussant,June2016
MediaPost, The Reckoning on AdTech, Panelist, January 2016
Federal Trade Commission PrivacyCon, Discussant, January 2016
Harvard Business School, Self Regulation of Consumer Data Privacy, November 2015
Law and Economics Center, The Law and Economics of Privacy and Data Security, Spring 2015
IEEE Symposium of Security and Privacy Short Talk, Spring 2015, Measuring Data Privacy and Security
The Association of Private Enterprise, Annual Conference 2015, Regulation of Privacy and Security
George Mason 鶹 SPGIA Brown Bag, Self-Regulation of Data Privacy and Security
George Mason 鶹 School of Law, “Self-Regulation of Consumer Data Privacy and Security,” Fall 2014
Ohio State 鶹, “Public Pension Fund Governance in 2013,” Spring 2013
鶹 of Notre Dame Law School, “The Role of Intermediaries in Corporate Governance: Public Pension Plans,” Fall 2012
SSSA Conference, “Institutional Investor Ownership Type and Proxy Access Reforms,” Spring 2011
Discussant, Institutions and Governance Conference, Harvard Business School, Fall 2010
Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, joint conference with GMU, “Institutional and Foreign Investor Composition,” Fall 2010
Nanyang Technological 鶹, joint conference with GMU, “A Review of Global Public Pensions,” Fall 2010
The Wharton School at the 鶹 of Pennsylvania, “Institutional Investor Composition and Proxy Access Proposals,” Fall 2010
School of Public Policy, George Mason, Brown Bag Lecture Series, “Corporate Governance Reforms After the Crisis: Which Shareholders Matter?” Spring 2010
Association for Public Policy, Analysis and Management, Annual Conference, “Can the OTC Derivatives Market Self Regulate? Evidence from Confirmations Backlogs,” Fall 2009
Academy of Management, Annual Conference, “Institutional Investors and Corporate Social Responsibility,” Summer 2009
Transatlantic Policy Consortium Annual Meeting, Jonkoping Sweden, “Cooperative Governance in Health Care and Retirement,” May 2009
Association for Public Policy, Analysis and Management, Annual Conference, “Early Evidence on Public Pension Fund OPEB’s,” Fall 2008
Yale Law School, “Corporate Social Performance and Pension Fund Ownership,” October2008 International Symposium on Ethics, Business and Society, 鶹 of Navarra, “A Skeptical Model of Doing Good,” Spring 2008
Western Academy of Management, Annual Conference, “CSR with Uncertainty,” Spring 2008
Southwestern Political Science Association, Annual Conference, “Hidden Health Costs,” Spring 2008
Midwestern Political Science Association, Annual Conference, “OPEB and Pension Governance,” Spring 2008
Western Political Science Association, Annual Conference, “Retiree Health Care Costs: Early Evidence,” Spring 2008
School of Public Policy, George Mason, Brown Bag Lecture Series, “Early Evidence from OPEB”, Fall 2007
Harvard School of Business, Institutions and Governance Conference, “OPEB and Pension Governance,” Fall 2007
London Business School, Transatlantic Doctoral Conference, “The Governance ofPension Funds,” Spring2006
Academy of Management, Annual Conference, Public and Non-Profits Division, Summer 2006
Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management, Annual Conference, “Fiscal Management in State Government,” Fall 2006
PresentationsRelated toTeaching
American Political Science Association Teaching and Learning Conference, “Happens When Public Policy Schools are Located in PS Departments?” Spring 2013
鶹 of Texas Brownsville, “Rethinking the Microeconomics Curriculum in Public Affairs Masters Programs,” Spring 2012
Panelist, Graduate Education, American Political Science Association Teaching and Learning Conference., Fall 2011
Panelist, Midwest Political Science Association Conference, “Political Science and the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning,” Spring 2011
American Political Science Association Teaching and Learning Conference, “Teaching ‘Other’ Disciplines to Graduate Students,” Spring 2011
Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Academy, Eastern Michigan 鶹, “Microeconomics in Public Policy Graduate Programs,” Spring 2010
Teaching Public Administration Conference, “Microeconomics in Public Policy Graduate Programs,” Spring 2010
American Political Science Association, Teaching and Learning Conference, Discussant on “Teaching Research Methods” Panel, Spring 2010
AWARDS/FELLOWSHIPS
George Mason 鶹 Law and Economic Center, PrivacyFellowship
2017and2015
Google Faculty Research Award
2015
Institute for New Economic Thinking Grant($100k)
2014
George Mason 鶹 Teaching Excellence AwardNomination
2013
Oscar M. Ruebhausen Fund Grant,Consultant
2012
School of Public Policy Teaching Award
2009,GeorgeMason鶹
Socrates Scholarship, The Aspen Institute (declined)
June 2009
Tobin Project Regulation Research Grant (with Aaron Chatterji and JasonSnyder)
TheTobinProject,2008
Best Paper, Academy of ManagementProceedings
AOM,2006
Orel Chrisman Crawford DissertationFellowship
HaasSchoolofBusiness, PhD(fortopfemalePhDstudent),2006-2007
Bradley DissertationGrant
HaasSchoolofBusiness,2006
SasakawaFellowship
HaasSchoolofBusiness,2005-2006
Crawford FoundationFellowship
2004-2005
Institute of Management, Innovation and OrganizationGrant
HaasSchoolofBusiness, 2003-2004
AcademicChair
HaasPhDAssociation,2003
OTHER RESEARCHEXPERIENCE
ResearchAssistant
HaasSchoolofBusiness, forProfsDavidVogel,PabloSpiller,andDavidMowery,2003-2007
Consultant
CaliforniaCommissionforJobsandEconomicGrowth, SacramentoCA,2006
Research Associate, Case StudyAuthor
CenterforUrbanPolicy Research,Rutgers鶹,NJ,1998-2004
PROFESSIONALSERVICE
Positions
Liason,Academy ofManagement(PNP)andAmerican PoliticalScienceAssociation(2011-2014)
Member
AcademyofManagement,WesternAcademyofManagement,AssociationofPublicPolicy and Management,AmericanPolitical ScienceAssociation,SouthwesternPoliticalScience Association
Reviewer
InternationalJournalofCorporateGovernance,PublicFinanceandBudgeting,Corporate GovernanceInternationalReview,JournalofLaw,EconomicsandOrganization,Academy of Management,WesternAcademy ofManagement,Journal ofPublicAdministrationEducation, Journal of Political Science Education
MEDIA
Research cited/published by The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, NPR, NBC News, Slate, The New Republic, Fortune Magazine, CNN.
Areas of Research
- Federalism/State and Local Government
- Microeconomics
- Political Economy
- Quantitative Methods
- Regulatory Policy
- Private Regulation
- Corporate Governance
- Public Finance