Recent Publications

Recent Publications - Dr. Calin Valsan

Dr. Calin Valsan
Williams School of Business

Dr. Valsan’s contributions include:
“The Market for Art in Canada” in A Guide to International Art Markets, James Goodwin editor, Kogan Page, forthcoming in 2008 (with Derrick Chong)

“The Invisible Hands behind the Student Evaluation of Teaching: The Rise of the New Managerial Elite in the Governance of Higher Education,” September 2007 (with Robert Sproule), Working paper

“Hammer Prices and Pre-Auction Estimates: A Study in Abstract Art,” July 2007 (with Robert Sproule), Working paper

“Hedonic Models and Pre-Auction Estimates: Abstract Art Revisited,” Economic Bulletin, volume 26, 5, 2006, 1-10 (with Robert Sproule)

 “Talking Prices: Symbolic Meanings of Prices on the Market for Contemporary Art,” by Olav Velthuis: Princeton, Princeton University Press, 2005, 288 pp., in Journal of Cultural Economics, volume 30, 2, September 2006, 165-169 (Book review)

“The Determinants of Borrowing in the Case of the Newly Exchange-Listed Firms in Romania: When Adverse Selection Meets Cronyism,” Post-Communist Economies, 17, 1, March 2005

"Do Stockholders Really Hedge Against Changes in Inflation?" Journal of Current Research in Global Business, Winter 2003, 1-10. (with Bahram Dadgostar)

"Canadian versus American Art: What Pays Off and Why," Journal of Cultural Economics, 26, Kluwer Academic Publishing, 2002, 203-216

"Three Measures of Corporate Restructuring in a Transition Economy: the Case of the Newly Privatized Romanian Companies," Post-Communist Economies, Vol. 13, No. 1, 2001, 121-128

"Early Privatization in Romania: The Period of Management and Employee Buyouts -1991 to 1995," Eastern European Economics, November-December 1999, 35-54 (with G. Rodney Thompson)

Nine case studies to accompany Foundations of Financial Management by Block, Hirt, and Short, Seventh Canadian Edition, McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 2005.
Nine case studies to accompany Fundamentals of Corporate Finance by Ross, Westerfield, Jordan, and Roberts, Fifth Canadian Edition, McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 2004
Valsan, Calin. 2001. Nine accompanying case studies. In Ross, Westerfield, Jordan, and Roberts Fundamentals of Corporate Finance. Fourth Canadian Edition: MacGraw-Hill Ryerson.