Dino Falaschetti


Education and Certification

PhD - Washington University in St. Louis (Economics, 1999)

AM - Washington University in St. Louis (Economics, 1996)

MBA with High Honors - University of Chicago (Economics and Finance, 1994)

Certified Public Accountant (Illinois, certificate no. 52,878, 1990)

BS with Distinction - Indiana University (Business, 1989) 


Current Positions

Florida State University, College of Law, Associate Professor of Law & Economics (2007 – present), and Departments of Economics and Political Science, Associate Professor (2008 – present, by courtesy) 

Stanford University, Hoover Institution, Campbell National Fellow (Fall 2007, Summer 2008, Summer-Fall 2009)

Economic Advisors, Business intelligence and litigation support (2000 – present)


Past Positions

Montana State University, Department of Agricultural Economics and Economics, Associate Professor (2006–07), Assistant Professor (2002–06)

Executive Office of the President, Council of Economic Advisers (Chairmen Ben Bernanke and Edward Lazear), Senior Economist (2005–06) 

University of California at Berkeley, School of Public Health, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Scholar in Health Policy Research (2001–03) 

University of Tennessee, Department of Economics, Assistant Professor and member of the graduate and Physician Executive MBA faculties (2000–02)

Washington University in St. Louis, Center in Political Economy, Research Fellow (Spring 2000)

INDETEC International, Litigation Support Group, Economist (1996–99)

Whitman Corporation, Manager of Corporate Finance (1991–93), Staff and In-Charge Financial Statement Auditor (1990–91), Intern (1988) 


Other Experience

Top Secret Security Clearance (2005–06)

Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, Beige Book Contact (2003–06)

Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, Visiting Co-Author (2002–04)


Books and Articles

Top 5% Author: Social Science Research Network, http://ssrn.com/author=301243

Interests: Politics, law, and economic performance; corporate governance; business regulation and non-market strategy


Books, Edited Volume, and Invited Chapters

1.Political Economy (edited with Andrew Rutten and Norman Schofield).  London: Routledge Major Works Series.  (Under contract) 


Volume 1.  Modeling Politics

Volume 2.  Mature and Developing Polities

Volume 3.  Politics and Economic Performance

Volume 4.  Corporate Governance


2.Democratic Governance and Economic Performance: How Accountability can go too far in Politics, Law, and Business.  2009.  New York: Springer-Verlag. 


3.Money, Financial Intermediation, and Governance (with Michael J. Orlando, and foreword by Antoine Martin).  2008.  Edward Elgar Publishing. 


4.Constraining Rational Choice: Allocation Versus Efficiency and the Origin of Commitment Problems (with Gary Miller).  2004.  In Irwin Morris, Joe Oppenheimer, and Karol Soltan (eds.) Politics from Anarchy to Democracy (pp. 110-131).  Palo Alto: Stanford Law and Politics. 


5.Contributions (with Steve Parsons) to the Encyclopedia of Healthcare Management.  2004.  Michael J. Stahl (ed.).  Thousand Oaks, London, New Delhi: Sage Publications. 


Scholarly Articles 

6.An Information Market Proposal for Regulating Systemic Risk (with Matthew Beville and Michael Orlando).  Forthcoming in the University of Pennsylvania Journal of Business Law.  Working paper available at http://ssrn.com/abstract=1461003


7.Auditor Independence and the Quality of Information in Financial Disclosures:  Evidence for Market Discipline vs. Sarbanes-Oxley Proscriptions (with James Brown and Michael Orlando).  Forthcoming in the American Law and Economics Review.  Working paper available at http://ssrn.com/abstract=1468988


8.Shareholder Democracy and Corporate Governance.  2009.  Review of Banking and Financial Law (Boston University School of Law) 28:553-580. 


9.Can Lobbying Prevent Anticompetitive Outcomes? Evidence on Consumer Monopsony in Telecommunications.  2008.  Journal of Competition Law and Economics 4(4):1065-96. 


10.Does a Hospital’s Profit Status Affect its Operational Scope? (with Marco Castañeda).  2008.  Review of Industrial Organization 33(2):129-59.  Awarded Best Paper by a Junior Author by the Industrial Organization Society. 


11.Aggregate Health Expenditures, National Income, and Institutions for Private Property.  2005.  Economics & Politics 17(3):391-429. 


12.Is Auditor Independence Endogenous? Evidence and Implications for Public Policy (with Michael Orlando).  2003.  Research Division Working Paper 03-13, Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City. 


13.Credible Commitments and Investment: Do Checks on the Ability or Incentive for Opportunism Matter?  2003.  Economic Inquiry 41(4):660-74. 


14.Can Theoretically Latent Groups Influence Policy Decisions?  The Case of Telecommunications Policy.  2003.  Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization 19(1):83-105. 


15.Golden Parachutes: Credible Commitments or Evidence of Shirking?  2002.  Journal of Corporate Finance 8(2):159-78. 


16.Does Partisan Heritage Matter?  The Case of the Federal Reserve.  2002.  Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization 18(2):488-510. 


17.Constraining Leviathan: Moral Hazard and Credible Commitment in Constitutional Design (with Gary Miller).  2001.  Journal of Theoretical Politics 13(4):389-411. 


Other Articles

18.If We Want Low-Priced Homeowners Insurance, We Need Political Risk Insurance (with Christopher Douglass).  2009.  Orlando Sentinel, January 29. 


19.Rocking the Fed’s Boat (with Michael J. Orlando).  2008.  Hoover Digest (4):47-52. 


20.When Deficits Make Sense.  2008.  Hoover Digest (3):72-5. 


21.Cutting the Dividends Tax…and Corporate Governance Too? (with Michael J. Orlando).  2005.  Corporate Ownership & Control 3(2):31-4.


22.Optimization in the Production of Governance Services:  Lessons for the Regulation of Auditor Independence (with Michael Orlando).  2004.  Financiële Studievereniging Rotterdam (FSR) Forum 6(2):16-23.


23.Book review of Usha Haley’s (2001) Multinational Corporations in Political Environments.  New Jersey, London, Singapore, and Hong Kong: World Scientific.  Published in the 2002 International Journal of Organizational Analysis 10(3):290-2. 


Working Papers

24.A Difficulty in the Concept of Affirmative Action: Evidence from Females in Legislatures.  Available at http://ssrn.com/abstract=1433520


25.Electoral Accountability and Consumer Monopsony: Evidence from Elected vs. Appointed Regulators.  Available at http://ssrn.com/abstract=645401


26.Can Electoral Mobility Diminish Economic Performance?  Evidence from the US Telecommunications Sector.  Available at http://ssrn.com/abstract=413583


27.The Confederate Flag: Southern Heritage or Racial Bias?  Available at http://ssrn.com/abstract=988225


Dissertation (supported by a Center in Political Economy Fellowship)

Decisions, Decisions, Decisions: Essays on How Interested Individuals Influence Collective Choices


Committee and readers: Marcus Berliant (chair), Gary Miller, Robert Parks, Norman Schofield, Lee Benham, and Itai Sened 


Courses Taught

Law: Business Associations, Corporate Finance, Economic Regulation of Business, Insurance Law: A Law and Political Economy Approach

Executive MBA: Managerial Economics

Graduate: Math for Economists, Microeconomics, Macroeconomics

Undergraduate: Economics and Politics of Strategy, Health Economics, Macroeconomics (principles and intermediate), Microeconomics (principles), Money and Banking


Academic, Professional, and Public Presentations    

2009

1.NERA Economic Consultants (New York, NY)

2.Capital Campus California (Mercatus Center at GMU and UC Berkeley Law)

3.Stanford University (Hoover Institution)

4.University of San Diego (American Law and Economics Association)

5.Florida State University (College of Law)

6.Florida State University (Economics of Crime Symposium)

7.Florida House of Representatives (Office of the Speaker-Designate)

8.Florida Chamber Property Insurance Summit (Orlando, FL)

9.University of Chicago Alumni Club (Tallahassee, FL)

10.Capital Campus Florida (Mercatus Center at GMU and Florida State Law)

11.Florida Senate (Select Committee on Florida’s Economy)

12.State of the Florida Insurance Market Summit (Orlando, FL)  


2008

13.University of Texas (Law, Business & Economics)

14.Cornell University (Corporations, Shareholders, and Policy)

15.Cornell University (Law and Economics)

16.Washington University in St. Louis (CNISS)

17.University of Toronto (ISNIE)

18.Florida State University (Political Science)

19.Florida State University (Economics)


2007

20.State of the Florida Insurance Market Summit (Orlando, FL)

21.NYU School of Law (Conference on Empirical Legal Studies)

22.Washington University in St. Louis (Center in Political Economy)

23.Kiwanis International (Bozeman, MT)

24.Midwest Political Science Association (Chicago, IL)

25.Gallatin Association of Realtors (Bozeman, MT)

26.Florida State University (College of Law)

27.Naval Postgraduate School (Business and Public Policy)

28.Santa Clara University (Economics)

29.Opportunity Link (Keynote address, Great Falls, MT)

30.Tulane University (Economics)


2006

31.Aspen Pointe Speakers Series (Bozeman, MT)

32.Montana Council on Economic Education (Keynote address, Helena, MT)

33.University of Colorado (ISNIE)

34.Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City

35.The White House (Center for the Study of the President)

36.George Washington University (Washington Area Finance Association)

37.NERA Economic Consultants (San Francisco, CA)


2005

38.Southern Economic Association (Washington, DC)

39.Department of Homeland Security (Washington, DC)

40.Public Choice Society (New Orleans, LA)


2004

41.University of Guelph (Economics)

42.Stanford University (Society for Political Methodology)

43.Western Economic Association (Vancouver, BC)

44.Washington University in St. Louis (Center in Political Economy)


2003

45.Montana State University (Conference on Collective Action)

46.Robert Wood Johnson Scholars in Health Policy Research (Aspen, CO)


2002

47.Western Economic Association (Seattle, WA)

48.Robert Wood Johnson Scholars in Health Policy Research (Aspen, CO)

49.Vanderbilt University (Midwest Macroeconomics Conference)

50.Public Choice Society (San Diego, CA)

51.Montana State University (Agricultural Economics & Economics)


2001

52.Washington University in St. Louis (CNISS)

53.University of California at Berkeley (ISNIE)

54.Vanderbilt University (Economics)

55.Public Choice Society (San Antonio, TX)

56.University of Maryland (Political Science)


2000

57.Midwest Political Science Association (Chicago, IL)

58.Midwest Economic Association (Chicago, IL)

59.Public Choice Society (Charleston, SC)

60.University of Tennessee (Economics)

61.Yale University (RWJF Scholars)

62.University of California at Berkeley (RWJF Scholars)

63.West Virginia University (Economics)

64.Econometric Society (Boston, MA)


1999

65.Econometric Society (University of Wisconsin)

66.Michigan State University (Political Science)

67.World Bank (ISNIE)

68.Purdue University (Midwest Economic Theory)

69.Midwest Political Science Association (Chicago, IL)

70.Public Choice Society  (New Orleans, LA)


1998

71. Midwest Political Science Association (Chicago, IL)


Media Appearances

Quoted in “American Woman Shares Nobel in Economics.”  Washington Times, October 13, 2009.

Quoted in “Consumer Group Urges Insurance Bill Veto.”  Bradenton Herald (Tampa, FL), May 5, 2009.

Featured guest on “Open Range” (KMMS, AM 1450, Fox News affiliate for southwest Montana), June 28, 2007.  Topic – “Retirement Security.” 

Featured guest on “Open Range” (KMMS, AM 1450, Fox News affiliate for southwest Montana), June 18, 2007.  Topic – “Money 101.” 

Featured guest on “Open Range” (KMMS, AM 1450, Fox News affiliate for southwest Montana), May 21, 2007.  Topic – “The Fed.” 

Featured guest on “Open Range” (KMMS, AM 1450, Fox News affiliate for southwest Montana), April 2, 2007.  Topic – “Affordable Housing.” 

Featured in “Poor People Need More Opportunities, MSU Economist Says.”  Bozeman Daily Chronicle (Montana), February 27, 2007.

Featured in “Poverty Should be Fought on Personal Level.”  Great Falls Tribune (Montana), January 28, 2007. 

Featured in “Economist Brings White House Experience to MSU Business Students.”  Dillon Tribune (Montana), November 29, 2006. 

“White House Advisor at MSU.”  Miles City Star (Montana), November 28, 2006. 

Featured in “Economist Brings White House Experience to MSU.” Bozeman Daily Chronicle (Montana), November 27, 2006. 

Featured in “MSU Instructor Returns from Advising at the White House.”  Miles City Star (Montana), November 27, 2006. 

Featured in “Presidential Adviser Returns to MSU.”  Great Falls Tribune (Montana), November 26, 2006.

Featured in “Economist Brings White House Experience to MSU Students.”  Sidney Herald–Leader (Montana), November 26, 2006. 

Written testimony for US Treasury Secretary John Snow, quoted in “White House Opposes Muni-Bond Bailout.”  Wall Street Journal, October 7, 2005, p. C4. 

Featured in “MSU Economist Picked to Advise White House.”  Bozeman Daily Chronicle (Montana), July 1, 2005. 

Interviewed on “Social Security Reform.”  KXLF (CBS television affiliate for southwest Montana), June 27, 2005. 

Quoted in “Full Steam Ahead: Local Economy Continues to Gain Ground After Year of Record Growth.”  Business to Business: A Trade Journal for Southwest Montana, February 17, 2004. 

Featured in “Interest Rates.”  Business to Business: A Trade Journal for Southwest Montana, September 30, 2003. 


Service

Professional

Referee - American Law and Economics Review, American Political Science Review, Comparative Political Studies, Economic Inquiry, Economics & Politics, Industrial and Corporate Change, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Journal of Economics, Journal of Law, Economics, & Organization, Journal of Public Economic Theory, Journal of Theoretical Politics, National Science Foundation, Public Finance Review, Review of Economics and Statistics, Southern Economic Journal 

Chair/Discussant - Econometric Society, International Society for New Institutional Economics, Midwest Economic Association, Midwest Political Science Association, Public Choice Society, Western Economics Association


University, College, and Department

Florida State Law – Moot court; Capital Campus Florida (with the Mercatus Center at George Mason University); Law, Business, and Economics (SSRN Journal); Healthcare Law Society; Middle Eastern Law Students’ Association; JD/MBA, MS, and PhD joint degree programs

Montana State University – Department advisory (2); graduate affairs; junior search; masters theses (4); political economy reading group

University of Tennessee – Graduate program; macroeconomic search; masters thesis (mathematics); Ph.D. qualifying exams for microeconomic theory and public finance; undergraduate honors thesis 

Washington University – President of Graduate Student Association; seminar in political economy


Conference Sponsorship and Organization

Corporate Governance and US Economic Performance: A View from the Council of Economic Advisers.  Distinguished lecture by the Honorable Randall S. Kroszner, University of Chicago, February 25, 2005

Studies in Public and Private Governance, Vancouver, BC, June 30 – July 3, 2004 (a set of organized panels for the Western Economic Association)

Conference on Collective Action, Montana State University, July 25-26, 2003


Competitive Academic Awards

Montana State University: Research enhancement awards (3); Buy-out for Enhancing Scholarship and Teaching (BEST)

University of Tennessee: Scholarly research grant

Washington University: Center in Political Economy Dissertation Fellow, John Stuart Mill Graduate Fellow, John M. Olin Fellow, summer research grants (3)


References

Greg Adams

President

Nth-Degree Analytics, LLC

Bozeman, MT 59715 


James Brown

Assistant Professor

Department of Finance

Iowa State University

Ames, IA 50011 


Lee Benham

Professor

Department of Economics

Washington University

St. Louis, MO 63130 


Stephen Day

Managing Director 

Navidar Group, LLC 

New York, NY 10017


Robert Fleck

Professor

Department of Economics

Montana State University

Bozeman, MT 59717 


Jonah Gelbach

Associate Professor

Department of Economics

University of Arizona

Tucson, AZ 85721 


Fred Karlinsky

Partner 

Colodny, Fass, Talenfeld, Karlinsky & Abate, P.A.

Ft. Lauderdale FL 33394 


Randall Kroszner

Norman R. Bobins Professor

Booth School of Business

University of Chicago

Chicago, IL 60637 


Gary Miller

Professor

Department of Political Science

Washington University

St. Louis, MO 63130 


Michael Orlando

Principal

Economic Advisors, Inc.

Denver, CO 80209 


Scott Roeth

Executive Vice President

1-800-Doctors

Woodbridge, NJ 07095 


Rick Stroup 

Professor

Department of Economics

North Carolina State University

Raleigh, NC 27695