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Siona Robin Listokin-Smith

Assistant Professor of Public Policy

Main: 703-993-9756
Fax: 703-993-8215

3351 Fairfax Dr., MS 3B1
Arlington, Virginia 22201

Siona 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. Professor Listokin's research interests include retirement and welfare policy, public finance, public management, and political economy.

Most recently, Professor 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. Professor 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 Professor 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

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Education
Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley
Haas School of Business
Business and Public Policy
2002-2007
Thesis Advisor: Dr. Rui de Figueiredo
Thesis Title: Essays in Political Economy

B.S. University of Pennsylvania
The Wharton School
Finance and Statistics
1996-2000

Academic Position
Assistant Professor
School of Public Policy, George Mason University
Fall 2007 – Present

Research Scholar
Yale Law School, Yale University
August 2008-Present

Research
The Impact of Editorial Slant, revise and resubmit, Quarterly Journal of Political Science, (with Jason Snyder)

Institutional Investor Pressure for Corporate Social Responsisbility, submitted, Academy of Management Journal, (with Aaron Chatterji)

Motivations for Congressional Support for the Public Options, submitted, Health Affairs, (with Aaron Chatterji and Jason Snyder)

A Comment on Corporate Social Responsibility and Workers' Rights.Comparative Labor Law and Policy Journal, Volume 30(1), October 2008. (with Aaron Chatterj)

The Management of Pension Funds, revise and resubmit, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management

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)

The Management of Public Pension Funds, Academy of Management 2006 Proceedings, Best Papers, 2006

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

Working Papers
Can the OTC Derivatives Market Self Regulate? Evidence from Confirmations Backlogs. Presented at APPAM Annual Conference 2009

Public Pension Funds and Socially Responsible Investing: Cause or Effect? Presented at Academy of Management 2009 Annual Meeting (with Aaron Chatterji)

Corporate Political Contributions as Firm Strategy: Evidence from the 2003 Mad Cow Disease Trade Shock (with Aaron Chatterji and Jason Snyder)

The Management of Pension Funds: Does Governance Matter?, George Mason University SPP Working Paper Series

Collective Bargaining and Retirement Benefits, Dissertation Chapter, UC Berkeley

CSR with Uncertainty: A Formal Model

Hidden Health Costs: OPEBs and Pension Control, George Mason University SPP Working Paper Series

Invited Presentations
Association for Public Policy, Analysis and Management, Annual Conference, Fall 2009, "Can the OTC Derivatives Market Self Regulate? Evidence from Confirmations Backlogs"

Academy of Management, Annual Conference, Summer 2009, "Institutional Investors and Corporate Social Responsibility"

Transatlantic Policy Constortium Annual Meeting, May 2009, Jonkoping Sweden, "Cooperative Governance in Health Care and Retirement"

Association for Public Policy, Analysis and Management, Annual Conference, Fall 2008, "Early Evidence on Public Pension Fund OPEB's"

Yale Law School, October 2008, "Corporate Social Performance and Pension Fund Ownership"

International Symposium on Ethics, Business and Society, Spring 2008, University of Navarra, "A Skeptical Model of Doing Good"

Western Academy of Management, Annual Conference, Spring 2008 "CSR with Uncertainty"

Southwestern Political Science Association, Annual Conference, Spring 2008 "Hidden Health Costs"

Midwestern Political Science Association, Annual Conference, Spring 2008 "OPEB and Pension Governance"

Western Political Science Association, Annual Conference, Spring 2008 "Retiree Health Care Costs: Early Evidence"

School of Public Policy, George Mason, Brown Bag Lecture Serices, Fall 2007 "Early Evidence from OPEB", Fall 2007

Harvard School of Business, Institutions and Governance Conference, Fall 2007, "OPEB and Pension Governance"

London Business School, Transatlantic Doctoral Conference, Spring 2006, "The Governance of Pension Funds"

Academy of Management, Annual Conference, Summer 2006, Public and Non-Profits Division

Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management, Annual Conference, Fall 2006, Fiscal Management in State Government

Awards/Fellowships
Socrates Scholarship, The Aspen Institute (declined)
June 2009

Master's of Public Policy Teaching Award, School of Public Policy
2009, George Mason University

Tobin Project Regulation Research Grant (with Aaron Chatterji and Jason Snyder)
The Tobin Project, 2008

Best Paper, Academy of Management Proceedings
AOM, 2006

Orel Chrisman Crawford dissertation fellowship
Haas School of Business, PhD (for top female PhD student), 2006-2007

Bradley Dissertation Grant
Haas School of Business, 2006

Sasakawa fellowship
Haas School of Business, 2005-2006

Crawford foundation fellowship
2004-2005

Institute of Management, Innovation and Organization (imio) Grant
Haas School of Business, 2003-2004

Academic chair
Haas PhD Association, 2003

Research Positions
Research Consultant
Maximus, 2009

Research Scholar in Law
Yale Law School, Center for the Study of Corporate Law, 2008-2009

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

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

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

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

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

Economics 101 (Course Instructor), Marketing Statistics (Teaching Assistant)
University of California, Berkeley

Work Experience
Morgan Stanley
Analyst, New York NY, 2000-2001

US Senate
Intern, Senator Robert Torricelli, Washngton DC, 1998

Service
Member
Academy of Management, Western Academy of Management, Association of Public Policy and Management, American Political Science Association, Southwestern Political Science Association

Reviewer
Journal of Law, Economics and Organization, Academy of Management, Western Academy of Management

Journal Articles and Reviews
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. "Can the OTC Derivatives Market Self Regulate? Evidence from Confirmations Backlogs." Association for Public Policy, Analysis and Management, Annual Conference, Washington, DC, November 5-7, 2009.

Listokin, S. R. "Institutional Investors and Corporate Social Responsibility." Academy of Management, Annual Conference, Chicago, IL, Summer 2009.

Listokin, S. R. "Cooperative Governance in Health Care and Retirement." Transatlantic Policy Constortium Annual Meeting, Jonkoping Sweden, May 2009.

Listokin, S. R. "Early Evidence on Public Pension Fund OPEB's." Presented at the Association for Public Policy, Analysis and Management, Annual Conference, Fall 2008.

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. "A Skeptical Model of Doing Good." Presented at the International Symposium on Ethics, Business and Society, University of Navarra, Spring 2008.

Listokin, S. R. "CSR with Uncertainty." Presented at the Western Academy of Management, Annual Conference, Spring 2008.

Listokin, S. R. "Hidden Health Costs." Presented at the Southwestern Political Science Association, Annual Conference, Spring 2008.

Listokin, S. R. "OPEB and Pension Governance." Presented at the Midwestern Political Science Association, Annual Conference, Spring 2008.

Listokin, S. R. "Retiree Health Care Costs: Early Evidence" Presented at the Western Political Science Association, Annual Conference, Spring 2008.

SPP is recognized as one of the largest, most diverse, graduate public policy schools in the nation.

SPP is one of the fastest growing schools within George Mason University, which was ranked as the number one university to watch by U.S. News & World Report.

SPP’s Arlington campus is on the Metro Orange Line, mere minutes from Washington, D.C. – the global capital of policymaking.