Job Market Candidates 2012-13

Ryan Baranowski     
rbaranow@uci.edu | curriculum vitae

Concentrations:      Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics

Dissertation title:    Expectations and Informational Frictions

Job Market Paper:  Adaptive Learning and Monetary Exchange

Contacts: William Branch, Guillaume Rocheteau,  Fabio Milani

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Andrew C. Chang     
a.christopher.chang @gmail.com | curriculum vitae

Concentrations:     Industrial Organization, Public Economics, Public Finance

Dissertation title:   Topics in Innovation, Economic Growth, and Public Finance

Job Market Paper: Tax Policy Endogeneity: Evidence from R&D Tax Credits

Contacts: Linda R. Cohen*, David Neumark, Marianne P. Bitler,  Frances M. Leslie

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Payel Chowdhury 
pchowdhu@uci.edu | curriculum vitae

Concentrations:   Development Economics, Applied Econometrics, Industrial Organization

Dissertation title: Investment Climate, Female Ownership and Firm Performance: A Study of Formal and Informal Firms Across Developing Countries

Job Market Paper: Female Ownership and Firm Performance: Study of Informal Firms Across Developing Countries

Contacts: Priya Ranjan*,David Brownstone, Jiawei Chen

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Theodore F. Figinski   
tffiginski@gmail.com | curriculum vitae

Concentrations:    Labor Economics, Public Economics, Tax Policy

Dissertation title:  Essays on Public Policy

Job Market Paper: TBA

Contacts: Marianne Bitler*, David Neumark, Jan Brueckner, Larry Ozane
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Diego Grijalva
diego.grijalva@uci.edu | curriculum vitae

Concentrations:    Political Economy, Growth and Development Economics

Dissertation title:  Essays on Inequality, Institutional Change and Growth

Job Market Paper: Inequality and Economic Growth: Bridging the Short-run and Long-run

Contacts: Stergios Skaperdas, Priya Ranjan, Michael McBride

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Ryan Kendall 
kendallr@uci.edu | curriculum vitae

Concentrations:     Game Theory, Behavioral and Experimental Economics,  Industrial Organization

Dissertation title:    Behavioral Models of Competition: A Theoretical,  Experimental, and Empirical Approach

Job Market Paper:  How Middle-Movers come out on Top: A Theoretical and
Experimental Analysis

Contacts:  Donald Saari*, Michael McBride, Linda R. Cohen

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David Licata     
dlicata@uci.edu | curriculum vitae

Concentrations:    Macroeconomics, Monetary Economics

Dissertation title:  Time-Varying Preferences, Risk Premia, and Tobin Constraints

Job Market Paper: A Real Business Cycle Model with Capital-Constrained Equity Shares

Contacts: William Branch*, Guillaume Rocheteau, Fabio Milani

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Alicia Lloro   
alloro@uci.edu| curriculum vitae

Concentrations:    Econometrics, Transportation Economics, Environmental Economics

Dissertation title:  Essays on Econometrics and Transportation

Job Market Paper: Estimating the Rebound Effect: A Quasi-experiment with Hybrid Pairs

Contacts: David Brownstone*, Ivan Jeliazkov*, Kenneth Small
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Meryl Motika 
mmotika@uci.edu | curriculum vitae

Concentrations:     Labor Economics, Public Economics, Experimental Methods

Dissertation title:   Essays on Saving Behavior

Job Market Paper: Information and Planning in Saving Decisions

Contacts: David Neumark*, Michael McBride, Jan Brueckner

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Haelim Park     
parkhm@uci.edu | curriculum vitae

Concentrations:   Monetary Economics,  Macroeconomics, Money and Banking, Economic History, Applied Econometrics

Dissertation title:    Essays on Banking

Job Market Paper: Bank Lending and Monetary Shocks:  Re-examining the Impact of the Sterling Crisis of 1931 on London Commercial Banks

Contacts: Gary Richardson*, Daniel Bogart, Guillaume Rocheteau

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George C. Saioc     
gsaioc@uci.edu | curriculum vitae

Concentrations: Public Economics, Urban Economics, Housing Finance, Applie Microeconomics

Dissertation title: Essays on Public Policy and Real Estate Dynamics

Job Market Paper: Interconnected Markets: The Impact of Foreclosurs on Rental Rates

Contacts: Marianne P. Bitler*, Jan K. Brueckner, David Brownstone

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James Siodla
jsiodla@uci.edu |curriculum vitae

Concentrations:      Urban Economics, Applied Microeconomics, Economic History, Development Economics

Dissertation title:    Essays in Applied Microeconomics

Job Market Paper: Razing San Francisco: The Disaster as a Natural Experiment in Urban Redevelopment

Contacts: Dan Bogart*, Jan Brueckner, Gary Richardson, Manisha Shah
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Cathy Zhang
cmzhang@uci.edu |curriculum vitae

Concentrations:      Marcroeconomics, Monetary Economics, International Economics

Dissertation title:    Essays on Information Frictions and Liquidity in Macroeconomics

Job Market Paper: An Information-Based Theory of International Currencies

Contacts: William Branch*, Guillaume Rocheteau*, Fabio Milani, Gary Richardson
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Guoxiong Zhang
guoxionz@uci.edu |curriculum vitae

Concentrations:     Monetary Economics, International Economics, Econometrics (Bayesian and Classical)

Dissertation title:    Essays on International Economics

Job Market Paper: Trade Liberalization and Capital Flows: A Perspective of Comparative Advantage and Hetergeneous Firms

Contacts: Antonio Rodriguez-Lopez, Ivan Jeliazkov, Jiawei Chen
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