Erik Walters

Founded in 1997 by Victor Canto, La Jolla Economics is an economics research firm located in La Jolla, California. The firm offers economic, political and industry research to institutional and corporate investors. Their research focuses on analyzing the investment implications of domestic and international governmental policies. La Jolla Economics uses a top-down approach to analyze and identify changing trends in the world's economies. They focus on the impact of fiscal and monetary policy changes on economic and financial variables such as real GDP growth rates, inflation, p/e ratios and the rates of returns on various asset classes. The firm seeks to determine the impact on stock prices in the aggregate. In addition, La Jolla Economics seeks to identify how changes in interest rates, inflation rates, oil prices, exchange rates, tax rates, regulation and trade restrictions will affect various industry lines and asset classes.