GIORGIO CANARELLA 2381 Hardin Ridge Dr. Henderson NV 89052 (702) 614-9503 (home) (949) 939-4021 (cell) giorgio.canarella@unlv.edu AREAS OF INTEREST
Financial Markets, Microeconomics, International Macroeconomics, Monetary Economics, Econometrics, Economic Theory, Corporate Finance, International Finance, Statistics, Mathematical Economics
EDUCATION
University of Virginia (1973) Ph.D. (Economics)
Thesis: Optimal Utilization of Depletable Resource: The Pontryagin-Maximum Principle Approach. (Advisors: J. K.Whitaker and B.T. McCallum)
Catholic University (Milan, Italy) (1966) Laurea (Economics and Commerce)
Thesis: Marx and Keynes: Historical and Theoretical Comparisons.
ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE
2013-2014: Visiting Lecturer, Department of Economics, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. 2010-2013: Visiting Lecturer, Department of Finance, University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
2007-2010: Visiting Lecturer, Department of Economics, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. 2007-present: Professor Emeritus, California State University, Los Angeles.
2004-2006: Director of Graduate Studies and MBA Program, College of Business and Economics, California State University, Los Angeles.
1980-2006: Professor of Economics and Statistics, California State University, Los Angeles.
1977-1979: Director, Bureau of Business and Economic Research, School of Business and Economics, California State University, Los Angeles.
1977-1980: Associate Professor of Economics and Statistics, California State University, Los Angeles. 1973-1977: Assistant Professor of Economics and Statistics, California State University, Los Angeles. TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Undergraduate Courses Taught at California State University, Los Angeles ECON 150 Economics for the Citizen
ECON 201 Principles of Economics (Macro) ECON 202 Principles of Economics (Micro)
ECON 209 Applied Business and Economic Statistics I ECON 303 Money, Banking and Financial Markets ECON 309 Applied Business and Economic Statistics II ECON 310 Intermediate Microeconomics
ECON 391 Quantitative Methods in Economics ECON 410 Advanced Microeconomics
ECON 401 Mathematical Economics ECON 414 Econometrics I
ECON 435 Economic Indicators and the Federal Reserve ECON 461 International Trade
Graduate Courses Taught at California State University Los Angeles ECON 502 MBA Economics
BUS 515 Global Economics
ECON 510 Seminar in Advanced Microeconomics I ECON 511 Seminar in Advanced Microeconomics II ECON 514 Seminar in Econometrics
ECON 520 Seminar in Advanced Macroeconomics I ECON 521 Seminar in Advanced Macroeconomics II ECON 590 Contemporary Economic Analysis and Policy
Undergraduate Courses Taught at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas ECON 261 Principles of Statistics I
ECON 262 Principles of Statistics II ECON 102 Principles of Microeconomics ECON 103 Principles of Macroeconomics HON 200B Microeconomics
ECON 302 Intermediate Microeconomics ECON 304 Money and Banking
ECON 345 Economic Development FIN 301 Principles of Managerial Finance FIN 312 Capital Markets
HON 125H Adventures in Data Analysis FIN 308 International Financial Management
Graduate Courses Taught at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. MBA 702 Statistics
MBA 735 International Business MBA 775 Data Modeling
RESEARCH
Inflation Targeting: Does It Matter? in progress, with Stephen M. Miller.
Persistence of Profits in the IT Industry: A Disaggregate Analysis, in progress, with Stephen M. Miller and Mahmoud Nourayi.
Asymmetric Adjustment and Inflation Dynamics, in progress, with Stephen Miller and Stephen Pollard. Purchasing Power Parity between the UK and the Euro Area, submitted to the Journal ofInternational Money and Finance, 2013 with Stephen M. Miller and Stephen K. Pollard.
An Alternative Test of the Trade-off Theory of Capital Structure, submitted to the Journal of Corporate
Finance, 2013 with Michael Sullivan and Mahmoud Nourayi.
Firm Profitability: Mean-Reverting or Random-Walk Behavior? Journal of Economics and Business, 2013 with Stephen M. Miller and Mahmoud Nourayi.
Unit Roots and Structural Change: An Application to US House-Price Indices, Urban Studies, 2012 with Stephen M. Miller and Stephen K. Pollard.
The Global Financial Crisis and Stochastic Convergence in the Euro Area, International Advances in Economic Research, 2011 with Stephen M. Miller and Stephen K. Pollard.
Is the Great Moderation Ending? UK and US Evidence, Modern Economy, 2010 with WenShwo Fang, Stephen M. Miller and Stephen K. Pollard.
Dynamic Return and Volatility Linkages between the North American Stock Markets, Nova Science
Publishers, 2010 with Stephen M. Miller and Stephen K. Pollard.
Dynamic Stock Market Interactions between the Canadian, Mexican and the United States Markets: The NAFTA Experience, in George I. Ellison, (ed.) Stock Returns: Cyclicity, Prediction and Economic Consequences, Nova Science Publishers, 2010 with Stephen M. Miller and Stephen K. Pollard.
Non-Financial Measures, Aggregation and Performance Evaluation: An Empirical Analysis of NBA Game Statistics, Journal of Business Inquiry, 2009 with Mahmoud M. Nourayi.
New Insights into Executive Compensation and Firm Performance: Evidence from a Panel of “New Economy” Firms, Managerial Finance, 2008 with Arman Gasparyan,
Executive Compensation and Firm Performance: Adjustment Dynamics, Non-linearity and Asymmetry,
Managerial and Decision Economics, 2008 with Mahmoud Nourayi.
Modeling the Volatility of the London Gold Market Fixing as an Asymmetric Power ARCH Process, The ICFAI Journal of Applied Finance, 2008 with Stephen Pollard
Asymmetry and Spillover Effects in the North American Equity Markets, Economics The Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal, 2007 (http://www.economics-ejournal.org) with Sunil Sapra and Stephen K. Pollard. Asymmetry and Spillover Effects in the North American Equity Markets, Economics discussion papers, The
Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal, 2007-35, August 2007
http://www.economics-ejournal.org/economics/discussionpapers/2007-35 with Sunil Sapra and Stephen K. Pollard.
Distribution Dynamics and Convergence in Latin America: A Non-parametric Analysis, Rivista Internazionale di Scienze Economiche e Commerciali (RISEC), 2006 with Stephen K. Pollard.
The Effects of Non-Recurring Gains and Losses on CEO Compensation, Journal of Corporate Ownership and
Control, 2006 with Mahmoud Nourayi and Sudha Krishnan.
Parameter Heterogeneity in the Neoclassical Growth Model: A Quantile Regression Approach, Journal of Economic Development, 2004 with Stephen K. Pollard.
The Human-Capital Augmented Solow Model and the OECD Sample, International Business and Economics Research Journal, 2003 with Stephen K. Pollard.
The Mixture of Distributions Hypothesis and the Russian Stock Market, Journal of Business and Economics Research, 2003 with Stephen K. Pollard.
An Empirical Analysis of the Interrelationships Between the Stock Market and the Economy, Rivista Internazionale di Scienze Economiche e Commerciali, 1992 with Stephen K. Pollard
Cointegration and Time-Varying Parameters, A Reply, The European Economic Review, 1993 with Stephen K. Pollard and Kon Lai.
Cointegration Between Exchange Rates and Relative Prices: Another View, The European Economic Review, 1990 with Stephen K. Pollard and Kon Lai.
Efficiency in Foreign Exchange Markets: A Vector Autoregressive Approach, Journal of International Money and Finance, 1988 with Stephen K. Pollard.
Unanticipated Money, Prices and Output in Latin America: An Empirical Investigation, Journal of Development Economics, 1989 with Stephen K. Pollard.
Tests of the Efficiency of Commodity Futures in a Multi-Contract Framework, Empirical Economics, 1987 with Stephen K. Pollard.
Unanticipated Money Growth and Output: A Quasi-Rational Expectations Approach, Proceedings of the American Statistical Association, 1986 with Neil Garston.
Tests of the Efficiency of Commodity Futures in a Multi-Contract Framework, Proceedings of the American Statistical Association, 1986 with Stephen K. Pollard.
Consistent Expectations of Money and Inflation, Proceedings of the American Statistical Association, 1985 with Neil Garston.
The Efficiency of the London Metal Exchange: A Test with Overlapping and Non- overlapping Data, Journal of Banking and Finance, 1986 with Stephen K. Pollard.
Econometric Testing of the Efficiency Hypothesis in Foreign Exchange Markets, International Review of Economics and Business, 1985.
Price and Quantity Expectations in the Agricultural Sector: The Case of Jamaica, Journal of Economic Development, 1985 with Stephen K. Pollard.
ARIMA Modeling of `New' U.S. Monetary Aggregates, in Villapeana (ed.), New Perspectives and New Directions in Theoretical and Applied Statistics, Wiley, 1987 with Stephen K. Pollard.
Test of Efficiency and Expectational Rationality in the Gold Market, Proceedings of the American Statistical Association, 1985 with Stephen K. Pollard.
Rational Monetary Policy and Consistent Expectations, Proceedings of the American Statistical Association, 1985 with Neil Garston.
Efficiency of Commodity Futures: A Vector Autoregression Analysis, Journal of Futures Markets, 1985 with Stephen K. Pollard.
Structural Neutrality and Interest Rates, Rivista Internazionale di Scienze Economiche e Commerciali, 1983 with Neil Garston.
Monetary and Public Debt Shocks: Tests and Efficient Estimates, Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, 1983 with Neil Garston.
Monetary Expectations and Nominal Interest Rates, Proceedings of the American Statistical Association, 1983 with Neil Garston.
The Elasticity of Substitution and the Rate of Adjustment, Rivista Internazionale di Scienze Economiche e Commerciali, 1982 with Neil Garston.
The Rational Expectation of Income: A Test with Italian Data, Rivista Internazionale di Scienze Economiche e Commerciali, 1981 with Neil Garston.
Money Expectations and Interest Rates, Journal of Macroeconomics, 1982 with Neil Garston.
The Rational Expectation of Income, Proceedings of the American Statistical Association, 1981 with Neil Garston.
Determination of Nominal Interest Rates, Rivista Internazionale di Scienze Economiche e Commerciali, 1981 with Neil Garston.
The Demand for Money: Some Evidence from Western Europe, Schweizerische Zeitschrift fur Volkwirtschaft and Statistik, 1978 with Richard Roseman.
Birth, Marriages and Economic Cycles: An Application of Spectral Techniques, Proceedings of the American Statistical Association, 1978 with Donald Snyder.
A Study of Inflation in Italy (1953-1975), Rivista Internazionale di Scienze Economiche e Commerciali, 1977. The Law of Priority of Heavy Industry: A Theoretical and Empirical Inquiry, L'Est, Rivista di Sovietologia,
1976.
The Long Swing: A Spectral and Cross-Spectral Comparison of Nineteenth and Twentieth Century, Nebraska Journal of Economics, 1977 with Donald Snyder.
A Spectral Analytic Test of the Monetarist Hypothesis: The Case of Post-War Italy, Rivista Internazionale di Scienze Economiche e Commerciali, 1977 with Donald Snyder.
User Cost in a Dynamic Theory of the Firm, Rivista Internazionale di Scienze Economiche e Commerciali, 1976.
Monetarist and Keynesian Macroeconomics, Quarterly Journal of Studies and Research in Human Sciences, 1976.
The Optimal Utilization of Slaves, Journal of Economic History, 1975 with John Tomaski.
The Problem of Autocorrelation in the Economic Analysis of Consumption Function, Giornale degli Economisti e Annali di Economia, 1975 with Paul T. Mu and K.T. Hsia.
Economic Development of Bulgaria, L'Est, Rivista di Sovietologia, 1975.
Efficiency and Productivity in Soviet Industry, 1950-1962, L'Est, Rivista di Sovietologia, 1974. The Yugoslav Firm in Western Economic Literature, L'Est, Rivista di Sovietologia, 1974.
Optimal Use of Natural Resources: A Consumer's Surplus Approach, Rivista di Politica Economica, 1974. Plan and Market, L'Est, Rivista di Sovietologia, 1973.
A Model of Optimal Monetary Growth, Virginia Essays in Economics, 1972. CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
Profitability: random walk or mean-reverting behavior? Eastern Economic Association, 2012.
Unit Roots and Structural Change: An Application to US House-Price Indices, Eastern Economic Association, 2010.
Executive Compensation and Firm Performance, Oxford Business and Economics Conference, 2007.
A Switching ARCH (SWARCH) Model of Stock Market Volatility: Some Evidence from Latin America, InternationalBusiness & Economics Research (IBER) Conference, 2005.
The Dynamics of the London Gold Fix Volatility: An APARCH Analysis, Joint Meetings of the American Statistical Association, 2005.
The Effect of Non-recurring Gains and Losses on the CEO's Compensation, Western Regional Meetings of the American Accounting Association, 2005.
Distributional Dynamics of Per Capita Income in Latin America: A Nonparametric Density Approach, Joint Meetings of the American Statistical Association, 2004.
The Human-Capital Augmented Solow Model and the OECD Sample, International Applied Business Research (IABRC) Conference, 2003.
The Mixture of Distributions Hypothesis and the Russian Stock Market, European Applied Business
Research(EABR) Conference, 2003.
Unanticipated Money Growth and Output: A Quasi-Rational Expectations Approach,
Joint Meetings of the American Statistical Association, 1986.
Tests of the Efficiency of Commodity Futures in a Multi-Contract Framework, Joint Meetings of the American Statistical Association, 1986.
ARIMA Modeling of U.S. Monetary Aggregates, International Meetings of Statistics, 1985.
Rational Monetary Policy and Consistent Expectations of Inflation and Monetary Growth, Joint Meetings of the American Statistical Association, 1985.
Tests of Efficiency and Expectational Rationality in the Market for Gold: A Time Series Analysis, Joint Meetings of the American Statistical Association, 1985.
Efficiency in Foreign Exchange Markets: A Vector Autoregression Approach,
International Time Series Meetings, 1985.
Monetary Expectations and Nominal Interest Rates, Joint Meetings of the American Statistical Association, 1982.
The Elasticity of Substitution and the Rate of Adjustment, Joint Meetings of the American Statistical Association, 1981.
The Rational Expectation of Income: A Test with Italian Data, Joint Meetings of the American Statistical Association, 1980.
Birth, Marriages and Economic Cycles: An Application of Spectral Techniques, Joint Meetings of the American Statistical Association, 1978.
Spectral Analysis of the Friedman and Meiselman Controversy, Western Economic Association Meetings, 1977. The Demand for Corporate Charity, Western Social Science Association Meetings, 1977.
Cross-Spectral Estimation of Relationship Between Fertility and Aggregate Economic Activity in the United States, 1889-1972, Western Economic Association Meetings, 1976.
Dynamic Analysis of the Slave-Owning Firm, Western Economic Association Meetings, 1976. Demand for Money in Western Europe, Western Economic Association Meetings, 1976.
Autocorrelated Errors in the Estimation of Advertising Lag, Western Economic Association Meetings, 1976.
User Cost in the Theory of Optimal Capital Accumulation, Western Economic Association Meetings, 1975.
A Dynamic Model of the Illyrian Firm, Western Economic Association Meetings, 1975.
Optimal Use of Renewable Resources: A Consumer's Surplus Approach, Western Economic Association Meetings, 1974.
EDITORIAL WORK
Applied Economics, Economic Modelling, Empirical Economics, European Economic Review, Journal of Economic Development, Journal of Macroeconomics, Journal of Money, Credit and Banking , Modern Economy, Ekonomika, Journal of Credit Risk.
PROFESSIONAL REPORTS
History and Operation of the Food Stamp Program in Jamaica, A report prepared for
USAID/Jamaica, Planning Institute of Jamaica, Statistical Institute of Jamaica, 1988 with Stephen K. Pollard.
Food Deficit Assessment Analysis for Jamaica, A report prepared for USAID/Jamaica, Planning Institute of Jamaica, Statistical Institute of Jamaica, 1988 with Stephen K. Pollar
Production and Consumption Patterns for Food in Jamaica, A report prepared for USAID/Jamaica, Planning Institute of Jamaica, Statistical Institute of Jamaica, 1988 with Stephen K. Pollard.
Marketing Margins for Major Agricultural Commodities, A report prepared for USAID/Jamaica, Planning Institute of Jamaica, Statistical Institute of Jamaica, 1988 with Stephen K. Pollard.
Supply Parameter Estimates, A report prepared for USAID/Jamaica, Planning Institute of Jamaica, Statistical Institute of Jamaica, 1988 with Stephen K. Pollard.
Supply Use and Price Data for Major Agricultural Commodities, A report prepared for USAID/Jamaica, Planning Institute of Jamaica, Statistical Institute of Jamaica, 1988 with Stephen K. Pollard
CONSULTING ACTIVITIES
CESES (Center for the Study of Eastern European Economies, Milan) 1976-1984. Barton-Aschman Associates, Inc. 1988.
USAID/Jamaica and Center for Agricultural and Rural Development, Iowa State University 1988. Reviewer for Money and Banking, Business Statistics, and Principles of Economics extbooks.
AWARDS
Faculty Excellence Award, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, 2010. Institutional Grant, California State University, Los Angeles, 1975. Institutional Grant, California State University, Los Angeles, 1974.
Outstanding Faculty Paper Award, California State University, Los Angeles, 1983, 1986. Summer Research Grant, California State University, Los Angeles,1985.
