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Job Market Candidate Information

 Ph.D. Candidates for 2025-2026 Placement

 

Matt Weinberg

Director of Graduate Placement

Phone: (614) 292-3624

Email: weinberg.133@osu.edu

Miroslava Marshall

Coordinator of Graduate Placement

Phone: (614) 292-6867

Email: Marshall.624@osu.edu

Email: asc-econ-placement@osu.edu

                         


Name: Shivam Agrawal 
Email Address: Agrawal.158@osu.edu  
Job Market Paper: Milking Market Power: Raising Rivals' Costs in Dairy Markets
Area of Expertise: Industrial Organisation, Law and Economics 
References: Matthew C. Weinberg, Mike Abito, Jason Blevins 
Website: https://sites.google.com/view/shivamagrawal/home
Curriculum Vita


Name: Sooa Ahn 
Email Address: ahn.352@osu.edu 
Job Market Paper: The Impact of Nurse Practitioner Autonomy on Patient Sorting and Health Outcomes
Area of Expertise: Health Economics, Public Economics, Labor Economics 
References: Professor Kurt Lavetti, Professor Meta Brown, Professor Tamar Oostrom 
Website: https://sooaahn.github.io/
Curriculum Vita


Name: Robert (Bobby) Daniel 
Email Address: daniel.314@osu.edu   
Job Market Paper: Flexible Spatial Autoregression with an Unknown Transformation of the Weight Matrix
Area of Expertise: Econometrics, Applied Econometrics
References: Robert DeJong, Jason Blevins, Eric Mbakop 
Website: https://sites.google.com/view/robertdaniel
Curriculum Vita


Name: Youngjae Jeong 
Email Address: jeong.376@osu.edu   
Job Market Paper: An Empirical Framework for Discrete Games with Costly Information Acquisition
Area of Expertise: Econometrics , Empirical Industrial Organization 
References: Jason Blevins, Robert de Jong, Jose Miguel Abito 
Website: https://yjaejeong.github.io/
Curriculum Vita


Name: Sangdong Kim 
Email Address: kim.7984@osu.edu 
Job Market Paper: Public Debt and Foreign Investment in Aging Developed Economies
Area of Expertise: Macroeconomics, Public Finance
References: Gabriel Mihalache (advisor), Sean McCrary, Julia K. Thomas 
Website: https://sangdongkim.com
Curriculum Vita


Name: Sunmin Kim 
Email Address: kim.7962@osu.edu  
Job Market Paper: Airline Industry Dynamics 1993–2022
Area of Expertise: Industrial Organization, Applied Microeconomics 
References: Matthew Weinberg, Jose Miguel Abito, Jason Blevins 
Website: https://sites.google.com/view/sunminkim 
Curriculum Vita


Name: Pingchuan Ma 
Email Address: ma.628@osu.edu  
Job Market Paper: Constructing Quasiconcavity for Econometric Estimators
Area of Expertise: Econometrics Theory, Applied Econometrics 
References: Robert de Jong, Jason Blevins, Eric Mbakop 
Website:https://sites.google.com/view/pingchuanecon/
Curriculum Vita


Name: Sanghwa Moon 
Email Address: moon.518@osu.edu  
Job Market Paper: Official Lending and Self-Fulfilling Debt Crises 
Area of Expertise: International Macroeconomics, International Finance 
References: Gabriel Mihalache (advisor), Kyle Dempsey, Pok-Sang Lam 
Website:https://sites.google.com/view/sanghwamoon/
Curriculum Vita


Name: Yolunda Nabors 
Email Address: nabors.30@osu.edu 
Job Market Paper: Rank at Work, Health in Pregnancy: Workplace Social Status and Maternal Health
Area of Expertise: Health Economics, Labor Economics
References: Kurt Lavetti, Maya Rossin-Slater, Wesley Pech, Aaron Gamino
Website: https://yolundanabors.com 
Curriculum Vita


Name: Samantha Stelnicki
Email Address: sstelnicki@bates.edu 
Job Market Paper: What Makes an Expert: An experiment on delegation and expertise
Area of Expertise: Experimental Economics, Behavioral Economics, Microeconomic Theory
References: Paul Healy, John Rehbeck, Greg Leo
Website: https://sites.google.com/view/samanthastelnicki 
Curriculum Vita


Name: Smriti Verma 
Email Address: mailsmritiverma@gmail.com  
Job Market Paper: Forward Guidance in an Uncertain World
Area of Expertise: Macroeconomics, Monetary Policy, Household Heterogeneity 
References: Aubhik Khan (Advisor), Julia Thomas, Gabriel Mihalache Website:https://sites.google.com/view/smritiverma/
Curriculum Vita


Name: Lei Bill Wang 
Email Address: wang.13945@osu.edu  
Job Market Paper: Attention vs Choice in Welfare Take-Up: What Works for WIC?
Area of Expertise: Applied microeconomics, Econometrics 
References: Jason Blevins, Meta Brown, Alex Hollingsworth 
Website: https://sites.google.com/view/leibillwang/
Curriculum Vita


Name: Zexin Ye 
Email Address: ye.754@osu.edu  
Job Market Paper: Algorithmic Collusion under Observed Demand Shocks
Area of Expertise: Industrial Organization, Experimental Economics 
References: Huanxing Yang , Lixin Ye 
Website: https://zexinye.github.io
Curriculum Vita