Rudy Santore
| Department of Economics 513 Stokely Management Center The University of Tennessee Knoxville, TN 37996 |
phone: 865-974-6081 fax: 865-974-4601 rsantore@utk.edu |
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
EDUCATIONAssociate Professor, Department of Economics, University of Tennessee, Effective August 2005 - Present.
Research Fellow, Corporate Governance Center, University of Tennessee, September 2003 - Present.
Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, University of Tennessee, September 1999 - July 2005.
Professional MBA Instructor, University of Tennessee, September 1999 - December 2000.
Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Economics & Finance, Louisiana Tech University, September 1997 - June 1999.
Ph.D., Economics, The Ohio State University, June 1998
M.A., Economics, The Ohio State University, August 1997
B.S., Magna Cum Laude, Finance, La Salle University, June 1991
RESEARCH AREAS
| ● Industrial Organization | ● Law and Economics | |
| ● Public Economics | ● Experimental Economics |
PUBLICATIONS
"Hand in the Cookie Jar: An Experimental Investigation of Equity-based Compensation and Managerial Fraud," with David Bruner and Michael McKee, Southern Economic Journal, 75 (2), July 2008 (pp. 261–278).
"Contingency Fees, Moral Hazard, and Attorney Rents: A Laboratory Experiment," with Michael McKee and Joel Shelton, Journal of Legal Studies, June 2007, pp. 253–274.
"On Optimal Real Estate Commissions," with Donald Bruce, Journal of Housing Economics, 15(2), June 2006, pp. 156–166.
"Campaign Contributions with Swing Voters," with Manfred A. Dix, Economics and Politics 15 (3), November 2003, pp. 285–301.
"Candidate Ability and Platform Positions," with Manfred A. Dix, Economics Letters 76 (2), July 2002, pp. 189–194.
"Legal Fee Restrictions, Moral Hazard, and Attorney Rents," with Alan Viard, The Journal of Law and Economics, 44, n.2, pt.1, October 2001, pp. 549–572.
"Strategic State-Level Environmental Policy with Asymmetric Pollution Spillovers," with Yehuda Klein and David Robison, Journal of Public Economics, 80(2), May 2001, pp. 199–224.
"Pricing Differentiated Products with Indifferent Consumers," Economics Letters, 62(1), January 1999, pp. 43–52.
REVISE AND RESUBMITS
"Patent Pools as a Solution to Licensing Complementary Patents? Some Experimental Evidence," with David Bjornstad and Michael McKee, Journal of Law and Economics (in revision).
"Gambling with Tax Dollars," Bulletin of Economic Research (resubmitted).
"Managerial Incentives, Fraud, and Monitoring," with David Robison, The Financial Review (in revision).
UNDER REVIEW
WORKING PAPERS
WORK IN PROGRESS
FUNDED RESEARCH
"Intellectual Property in the Human Genome Research," (Co-PI with Michael McKee), Oak Ridge National Laboratories (project director: David Bjornstad),
TEACHING AWARDS AND HONORS
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CONFERENCES AND INVITED TALKS
"On the Efficient Siting of Noxious Facilities," Southern Economic Association, New Orleans, LA, November 2007.
"On the Efficient Siting of Noxious Facilities," Association of Public Economic Theory, Nashville, TN, July 2007.
"Managerial Incentives and Corporate Fraud," with David Robison. University of Mississippi, Oxford, MS, April 2006.
"Managerial Incentives and Corporate Fraud," with David Robison. Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, October 2005.
"Managerial Incentives, Fraud, and Efficiency," with David Robison. Western Economic Association International, Vancouver, BC, June 2004.
"Contingency Fees, Moral Hazard, and Attorney Rents: A Laboratory Experiment," with Michael McKee and Joel Shelton. Western Economic Association International, Vancouver, BC, June 2004.
"Equilibrium Contingent Fees with Heterogeneous Attorneys," Southern Economic Association, San Antonio, November, 2003.
"Gambling with Tax Dollars," Conference on Collective Action, Bozeman, MT, July 2003.
"Gambling with Tax Dollars," Public Choice Society, Nashville, TN, March 2003.
"On the Efficient Siting of Noxious Facilities," University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL, January 2003.
"Signaling Attorney Ability with Contingent Fees," Western Economic Association, Seattle, WA, June 2002.
"Signaling Attorney Ability with Contingent Fees," Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, April, 2002.
"Legal Fee Restrictions, Moral Hazard, and Attorney Rents," University of Nevada-Las Vegas, Las Vegas, NV, April 2001.
"Candidate Ability and Platform Positions," Public Choice Society, San Antonio, TX, March 2001.
"Legal Fee Restrictions, Moral Hazard, and Attorney Rents," Southern Economic Association Conference, Washington, D.C., November 2000.
"Legal Fee Restrictions, Moral Hazard, and Attorney Rents," Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, September 2000.
"Legal Fee Restrictions, Moral Hazard, and Attorney Rents," American Law and Economics Conference, New York, NY, May 2000.
"Optimal Taxation of a Class of Quality-Differentiated Items," International Conference on Public Economic Theory, Tuscaloosa, AL, May 1998.
OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
DEPARTMENTAL SERVICE
COLLEGE OF BUSINESS SERVICE
REFERENCES
| Professor Hajime Miyazaki Department of Economics The Ohio State University 1945 North High Street Columbus, OH 43210 Phone: (614) 292-7939 miyazaki.1@osu.edu |
Professor Kathryn E. Spier
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| Dr. Alan Viard Senior Economist Research Department Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas P.O. Box 655906 Dallas, TX 75265-5906 Phone: (214) 922-5172 Alan.Viard@dal.frb.org |
Professor James Peck Department of Economics The Ohio State University 1945 North High Street Columbus, OH 43210 Phone: (614) 292-0182 peck.33@osu.edu |