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Paul Thistle
University of Nevada Las Vegas

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paul.thistle@unlv.edu

Dept. of Finance

UNLV

4505 Maryland Pkwy

Box 6008

Las Vegas NV 89154

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Dept. of Finance

College of Business

UNLV

Paul Thistle is Professor and Chair of Finance at the University of Nevada Las Vegas. He earned his B.B.A. from the University of Portland and his M.S. and Ph.D. in Economics from Texas A&M University. Prior to joining the Department, he taught at the University of Arizona, the University of Alabama and Western Michigan University. During 1990-1991 he was a Heubner Post-Doctoral Fellow in Insurance at the Wharton School. He teaches the courses in insurance and risk management and corporate risk management as well as other courses in finance.

His research interests are primarily in insurance economics and corporate finance. His current projects focus on liability insurance and on CEO compensation. He has published in the American Economic Review, Econometrica, Geneva Risk and Insurance Review, Journal of Business, Journal of Corporate Finance, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Journal of Risk and Insurance, and Review of Economics and Statistics and other journals.

Fall 2009
Office Hours: 3:45-5:00 TR and by appointment
Courses: FIN 321 Corporate Risk Mangement

The best online tools for personal finance HERE (from WSJ)

Financial Crisis, Recession and Reform

A very good introduction to key concepts Financial Crisis for Beginners
(from Baseline Scenario)

Steven Kaplan (Chicago GSB) "The Financial Crisis and Bailout" (Oct 2008)

"The '08 Economy Explained" (Nov 2008)

Simon Johnson "Economic Recovery and the Coming Financial Crisis" (Sept 2009)

Why Banks Get Bailed Out I: "Discretion and Financial Regulation" (Interfluidity - S.R. Waldman) "Given the discretion to do so, financial regulators will always do the wrong thing."

Why Banks Get Bailed Out II: "The Next Financial Crisis: It's Coming and We Just Made It Worse" (Boone and Johnson TNR Nov. 2009)

Why Banks Get Bailed Out III: "Banking on the State" (Haldane and Alessandi Nov 2009)

"The Value of the 'Too Big To Fail' Big Bank Subsidy" (Baker and McArthur CEPR)

Bernanke on the "Too Big to Fail" Problem

"Bernake on Banking" (Boone and Johnson NYT)

"Too Big To Fail, Too Big To Exist Act" (Introduced by B. Sanders I-VT)

"Are Finance Professors To Blame for the Financial Crisis?" (Time )

Unemployment Rates by Demographic Group - interactive (NYT)

Is Anything Too Big To Fail?

One View of the Bank Stress Tests

How the Fed and Treasury really decide who gets a bailout!

MORE INFORMATION: Financial Crisis and Recession HERE

MORE INFORMATION: Financial and Economics News and Blogs HERE

"The Skyrocketing Cost of Attending College" (Catherine Rampell, NYT)

"The Real Cost of College" (Sandy Baum NYT)

Health Care and Health Care Reform HERE

Selected Research

Negligence, Ignorance and the Demand for Liability Insurance, with V. Bajtelsmit, Geneva Risk and Insurance Review, forthcoming

Detours and Frolics on the Internet: Employer Liability and Management Control of Cybertorts, with R. Aalberts and D. Hames, Journal of Business Research, (December 2009) 62:1335-1341.

CEO Tenure, the Risk of Termination and Firm Value, with J. Brookman, Journal of Corporate Finance, (June 2009) 15: 1335-1341

The Reasonable Person Negligence Standard and Liability Insurance, with V. Bajtelsmit, Journal of Risk and Insurance, (December 2008), 75:815-823.

Adverse Selection with Frequency and Severity Risk: Alternative Risk Sharing Provisions, with J. Ligon, Journal of Risk and Insurance, (December 2008), 75: 825-846

More publications and working papers, HERE