Ph.D. Candidates for 2025-2026 Placement
Director of Graduate Placement
Phone: (614) 292-3624
Email: weinberg.133@osu.edu
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
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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/
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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
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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/
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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/
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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/
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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
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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
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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/
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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/
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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
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