Siona Robin Listokin

Assistant Professor

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Siona Robin Listokin is an assistant professor at the School of Public Policy. She received her PhD in business and public policy from the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley, and her BS from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. Listokin’s research interests include retirement and welfare policy, public finance, public management, and political economy.

Most recently, Listokin conducted research with Professors David Vogel, Pablo Spiller, and David Mowery at University of California and was a research fellow with the Aspen Institute’s Business and Society Group 2007. Listokin’s “The Management of Public Pension Funds” received the award for best paper from the Academy of Management 2006 Proceedings. The Haas School honored Listokin with the Orel Chrisman Crawford Dissertation Fellowship 2006–07 for the top female Haas PhD student.

Areas of Research

Political Economy
Private Regulation
Public Finance
Public Management
Retirement and Welfare Policy

Education
PhD, Business and Public Policy, Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley (2007)

BS, Finance and Statistics, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania (2000)

Areas of Research

Public Finance
Political Economy
Retirement and Welfare Policy
Public Management
Private Regulation

Research
"A Comment on Corporate Social Responsibility and Workers' Rights". Forthcoming, Comparative Labor Law and Policy Journal (with Aaron Chatterj).

"The Management of Pension Funds", Academy of Management Proceedings ("Best Papers"), 2006.

"Corporate Social Irresponsibility", Democracy Journal, Winter 2006 (with Aaron Chatterji).

"Comment on Property Tax Incidence", Housing Policy Debate, Vol. 17, Issue 1, 2006 (with David Listokin and Ioan Voicu).

Housing Rehabilitation in Navajo Country, in Indian Country: Economic Challenges and Opportunities, Fannie Mae, 2006.

The Impact of Editorial Slant, revise and resubmit, Journal of Politics (with Jason Snyder)

Research Positions
Research Fellow, 2007
The Aspen Institute, Business and Society Group

Research Assistant, 2003-2007
Haas School of Business, for Profs David Vogel, Pablo Spiller, and David Mowery

Consultant, 2006
California Commission for Jobs and Economic Growth, Sacramento CA

Research Associate, Case Study Author, 1998-2004
Center for Urban Policy Research, Rutgers University, NJ

Teaching
US Financial Policy and Processes, Corporate Social Responsibility, Microeconomics
School of Public Policy, George Mason University

Economics 101
University of California, Berkeley

Journal Articles
Listokin, S. R., and A. Chatterji. “A Comment on Corporate Social Responsibility and Workers’ Rights.” Comparative Labor Law and Policy Journal 30, no. 1 (2008).

Listokin, S. R., and J. Snyder. “The Impact of Editorial Slant.” Journal of Politics, (2008).

Listokin, S. R. “The Management of Pension Funds.” Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, (2008).

Listokin, S. R. and A. Chatterji. "Corporate Social Irresponsibility." Democracy Journal, (Winter 2006).

Listokin, S. R., D. Listokin, I. Voicu. "Comment on Property Tax Incidence." Housing Policy Debate, Vol. 17, Issue 1, (2006).

Listokin, S. R. "Housing Rehabilitation in Navajo Country." Indian Country: Economic Challenges and Opportunities, Fannie Mae, (2006).

Presentations and Proceedings
Listokin, S. R. Spoke at the Institutions and Governance Conference, Harvard Business School, Harvard University, 2008.

Listokin, S. R. Spoke at the Business Doctorate Forum University of California-Berkeley, Washington D.C. Campus, 2008.

Listokin, S. R. Spoke at the Center for the Study of Corporate Law Seminar, Yale Law School, Yale University, 2008.

Listokin, S. R. Spoke at the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management Annual Conference, Panel on Public Pension Funds, 2008.

Listokin, S. R. Spoke at the International Symposium on Ethics, Business and Society, University of Navarra, 2008.

Quick Facts

Ranked, by the National Science Foundation, as the number one program in its field for federal and total research expenditures.

Faculty have received grants from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Science Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and are Fulbright Scholars and Mellon Fellowship recipients.

In 2007 and 2008, The School’s 45 faculty produced 21 books, 61 book chapters, 14 edited volumes, and 75 refereed journal articles.

For 2007 and 2008 The School’s sponsored research expenditures totaled $17 million, faculty submitted 179 proposals, and The School supported 43 doctoral students.

Research per full-time faculty member for FY 07-08 totaled $123,030, making SPP among the largest funded in the university.

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