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click here for a list of former OSU Economics Ph.D.’s who are returning to the job market.
Andrzej Baranski
Advisor: James D. Peck, peck.33@osu.edu and John Kagel, kagel.4@osu.edu
Dissertation Title: "Essays in Legislative Bargaining and Durable Goods Monopoly with Quality Improvement"
Fields: Experimental Political Economy, Industrial Organization
Advisor: Huanxing Yang, yang.1041@osu.edu
Dissertation Title: "Essays on Strategic Interaction and Consumer Rewards Programs"
Fields: Industrial Organization, Microeconomic Theory
Yang Chen
Advisor: Trevon D. Logan, logan.155@osu.edu
Fields: Labor Economics, Demographic Economics, Applied Econometrics
Hye-Lin Choi
Advisor: Paul Evans, Evans.21@osu.edu
Dissertation Title: "Essays in Multinational Firms and Productivity Growth of Domestically-Owned Firms"
Fields: International Economics, Macroeconomics, Economic Development
Advisor: Paul Evans, Evans.21@osu.edu
Dissertation Title: "Essays on Macroeconomics: Structural Analysis of Fiscal Policies and Empirical Investigation of Aggregate Labor Market Business Cycle Behaviors"
Job Market Paper: "A General Equilibrium Model of the Consumption Response to Government Expenditures"
Fields: Macroeconomics, Econometrics, Computational Econ.
Xiaoyi Han
Advisor: Lung-fei Lee, Lee.1777@osu.edu
Dissertation Title: "Essays on Spatial Econometrics: Estimation and Model Selection for Spatial Models"
Job Market Paper: "Bayesian Estimation of a Spatial Autoregressive Model With an Unobserved Spatial Weight Matrix"
Fields: Econometrics, Applied Econometrics, Urban & Regional Econ.
Nancy Haskell
Advisor:Bruce Weinberg, weinberg.27@osu.edu
Dissertation Title: "Economic Perspectives on Popularity, Conformity, and Delinquency"
Job Market Paper: "The Pull of Popularity: Explaining Conformity in Student Behaviors" and "Rejected, Dejected, and Delinquent: Understanding the Behavior of Social Outcasts"
Fields: Labor Economics, Applied Microeconomics
Semin Kim
Advisor: Yaron Azrieli, azrieli.2@osu.edu
Dissertation Title: "Essays in Mechanism design and Positive Political Theory: Voting Rules and Behavior"
Fields: Microeconomic Theory, Mechanism Design Theory, Experimental Economics
Chiranjit Kundu
Advisor: Matthew S. Lewis, mslewis@clemson.edu
Dissertation Title: "Essays in Empirical Industrial Organization of US Domestic Airline Industry"
Job Market Paper: "Welfare Effects of Free Entry in the presence of Product Differentiation: Evidence from US Domestic Airline Industry"
Fields: Empirical Industrial Organization, Applied Microeconomics
Rong Li
Advisor: Bill Dupor, billdupor@gmail.com
Dissertation Title: "Essays on the Aggregate and Distributional Effects of Government Spending Shocks"
Fields: Macroeconomics, Fiscal and Monetary Policy, Applied Econometrics
Jonghyeon Oh
Advisor: Julia K. Thomas, thomas.2108@osu.edu
Dissertation Title: "Essays on Real Business Cycle and Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium Models with Heterogeneous Agents"
Fields: Quantitative Macroeconomics, Computational Economics
Jian Shen
Advisor: Dan Levin, Levin.36@osu.edu, and Lixin Ye, ye.45@osu.edu
Dissertation Title: "Essays on Nonlinear Pricing, Quality Investment, and Consumer Search"
Fields: Industrial Organization, Applied Microeconomic Theory
Jing Zhang
Advisor: Donald Haurin, haurin.2@osu.edu and Robert de Jong, De-Jong.8@osu.edu
Dissertation Title: "Three Essays on House Prices"
Job Market Paper: "House Price Dynamics"
Field: Real Estate Economics, Urban Economics, Applied Econometrics
Advisor: Julia K. Thomas, thomas.2108@osu.edu
Dissertation Title: "Essays on Financial Development and Macroeconomic Dynamics with Heterogeneous Agents"