Department of Economics

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  Kyu Bong Cho

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  Job Market Paper: "The Effects of Loan Growth on Bank Performance: Small versus Large Banks"

  Fields of Concentration: Financial Economics, Banking, Industrial Organization

  References (Email): George Pennacchi (Chair) | Charles Kahn | Rustom Irani | Ji Hyung Lee

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  Eric Zou

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  Job Market Paper: "Unwatched Pollution: The Effect of Intermittent Monitoring on Air Quality"

  Fields of Concentration: Environmental Economics, Health Economics

  References (Email): Dan Bernhardt | Tatyana Deryugina | Don Fullerton | Nolan Miller (Chair) | David Molitor

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  Rui Fan

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  Job Market Paper: "Predictive Quantile Regressions Under Persistence and Conditional Heteroskedasticity"

  Fields of Concentration: Econometric Theory, Applied Econometrics, Financial Econometrics

  References (Email): Ji Hyung Lee (Co-Chair) | Anil Bera (Co-Chair) | Roger Koenker | Xiaofeng Shao

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  Zening Li

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  Job Market Paper: "Free Riding on the Search of Others: Information Externalities in the Mortgage Industry"

  Fields of Concentration: Applied Microeconomics, Industrial Organization

  References (Email): George Deltas (Chair) | Dan Bernhardt | Seung-Hyun Hong

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  Nicolas L. Bottan

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  Job Market Paper: "Choosing Your Pond, Measuring Preferences for Relative Consumption"

  Fields of Concentration: Public Economics, Labor Economics, Behavioral Economics
  
  

  References (Email): Dan Bernhardt (Chair) | David Albouy | Jeffrey Brown | Ben Marx

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  Amirhossein Amini Behbahani

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  Job Market Paper: "Air Pollution, Housing Prices, and Costs of Sanctions: A Natural Experiment"

  Fields of Concentration: Environmental Economics, Urban Economics, Development, Applied Microeconomics

  References (Email): Hadi S. Esfahani (Chair) | Dan Bernhardt | Firouz Gahvari | Daniel McMillen

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  Sen Ma

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  Job Market Paper: "Can Foreign Direct Investment Increase the Productivity of Domestic Firms? Identifying FDI Spillovers from Borders of Chinese Dialect Zones"

  Fields of Concentration: Development, International, Labor and Environment

  References (Emails): Richard Akresh (Chair) | Ben Marx | Daniel P. McMillen | Adam Osman

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  Rodrigo Schneider

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  Job Market Paper: "Crime and Political Effects of a Concealed Weapons Ban in Brazil"

  Fields of Concentration: Public Policy, Applied Econometrics, Political Economy, Comparative Politics and Development

  References (Emails): Rebecca Thornton (Chair) | Dan Bernhardt | Jose Antonio Cheibub

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  Lingling Sun

  Materials coming soon!

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  Hui Wen

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  Job Market Paper: "Global Corporate Social Responsibility Reporting Regulation: Drivers and Impacts on Sustainable Development"

  Fields of Concentration: Environmental, Resource, and Energy Economics, Industry Organization, Corporate Social Responsibility

  References (Emails): George Deltas (Chair) | Madhu Khanna| Eftichios Sartzetakis

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  Meysam Zare

  Materials coming soon!

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  Jhih-Chian Wu

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  Job Market Paper: "The Role of On-the-Job Search in Hiring Dynamics and Matching Efficiency: A Bayesian-Estimated DSGE Model"

  Fields of Concentration: Macroeconomics, Labor Economics and Applied Time Series Econometrics

  References (Emails): Eliza Forsythe (Co-Chair) | Minchul Shin (Co-Chair) | George Deltas

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  Luis Felipe Sáenz

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  Job Market Paper: "Time-Varying Capital Intensities and the Hump-Shaped Evolution of Economic Activity in Manufacturing"

  Fields of Concentration: Growth and Development, Macroeconomics, Economic History

  References (Emails): Stephen L. Parente (Chair) | Marcelo Bucheli | Anne P. Villamil | Robert E. Lucas, Jr.

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  Xin Wang

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  Job Market Paper: "Why Do Stock Exchanges Compete on Speed, and How?"

  Field of Concentration: Market Microstructure (the analysis, design and regulation of trading mechanisms for securities), Financial Intermediation and Macro-Finance

  References (Emails): Dan Bernhardt (Chair) | Mao Ye (Co-Chair) | Neil Pearson

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  Jianfeng Xu

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  Job Market Paper: "Statistical Discrimination, Tasted-based Bias, and Cognitive Bias - Analyzing Grading Bias Caused by Handwriting Quality in a Randomized Control Trial"

  Fields of Concentration: Labor Economics, Development Economics, Behavioral Economics, Economics of Education

  References (Emails): Dan Bernhardt (Co-Chair) | Rebecca Thornton (Co-Chair) | Bhash Mazumder | Elizabeth Powers