L. Carolina Acuña Armenta
Concentrations:
Macroeconomics, Monetary Economics, Econometrics
Dissertation Title:
Essays in Macroeconomics: A Tale of Expectations
Job Market Paper:
Information frictions: Learning and Inattention in an Estimated New Keynesian Model
Contacts:
Fabio Milani, Ivan Jeliazkov, William Branch
Luis Esteban Maldonado Cabrera
Concentrations:
Macroeconomics, Econometrics, Monetary Economics, Financial Economics
Dissertation Title:
Essays on Asset Prices, Expectations Formation and Nonlinear Macroeconomic Effects
Job Market Paper:
Housing Price Bubbles and Macroprudential Policies, an Adaptive Learning Approach
Contacts:
Fabio Milani, Ivan Jeliazkov, William Branch
Derek Christopher
Concentrations:
Public Economics, Urban Economics, Immigration, Crime
Dissertation Title:
Essays on Immigration and Policy
Job Market Paper:
Homeownership in the Undocumented Population and the Consequenses of Credit Constraints
Contacts:
Matthew Freedman, Jan Brueckner, Emily Owens
Aria Golestani
Concentrations:
Economics of Crime, Public Economics
Dissertation Title:
Essays on gendered criminal justice
Job Market Paper:
Silenced: Consequences of Nuisance Property Ordinances
Contacts:
Emily Owens, Matthew Freedman, Damon Clark, Kerri Raissian (UConn), Brian Jenkins
Sidra Haye
Concentrations:
Health Economics, Public Economics, Applied Microeconomics
Dissertation Title:
Three Essays in Health Economics
Job Market Paper:
Many Doctors will See you Now: High-referring Physicians and Patient Outcomes
Contacts:
Damon Clark, Matthew Freedman, Mireille Jacobson
Shantanu Khanna
Concentrations:
Labor Economics, Development Economics, Experimental Economics
Dissertation Title:
Essays in Labor Economics
Job Market Paper:
Many Channels of Adjustment to a Higher Minimum Wage: Evidence from Restaurant Reviews
Contacts:
David Neumark, Matthew Freedman, John Duffy, Michael McBride
Yoonjung Kim
Concentrations:
Public Economics, Labor Economics, Applied Microeconomics
Dissertation Title:
Three Essays in Public Economics
Job Market Paper:
The Effects of Universal Free Lunch Provision on Student Achievement: Evidence from
South Korea
Contacts:
Matthew Freedman, Meera Mahadevan, Damon Clark
Kyle Kole
Concentrations:
Urban Economics and Public Economics
Dissertation Title:
"Three Essays in Urban Economics"
Job Market Paper:
Grocery Stores Raise Property Values: Evidence from FRESH
Contacts:
Jan Brueckner, Matthew Freedman, Jack Liebersohn
Taylor Mackay
Concentrations:
Public, Urban
Dissertation Title:
Source of Income Discrimination and the Housing Choice Voucher Program
Job Market Paper:
Source of Income Discrimination and the Housing Choice Voucher Program
Contacts:
Matthew Freedman, Emily Owens, and Jan Brueckner
Elizabeth Molly Maloney
Concentrations:
Microeconomics and Applied Econometrics
Dissertation Title:
The Gender Wage Gap: A Product of Misogyny and Gender Norms
Job Market Paper:
The Gender Wage Gap: A Product of Misogyny and Gender Norms
Contacts:
David Neumark
Nishtha Sharma
Concentrations:
Behavioral and Experimental Economics, Labor Economics, Political Economy, Applied
Microeconomics
Dissertation Title:
Essays in behavioral and labor economics
Job Market Paper:
Persistence of discrimination: Theory and experimental evidence
Contacts:
Stergios Skaperdas, Michael McBride, John Duffy, Meera Mahadevan
Zarak Sohail
Concentrations:
Labor Economics, Development Economics, Economics of Education, Political Economy
Dissertation Title:
Job Market Paper:
Remediation and Student Learning: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Pakistan
Contacts:
Dr. Damon Clark, Dr. Matthew Freedman, Dr. Arman Rezaee
Diana Joy Xiuyao Yang
Concentrations:
Fields: Empirical Asset Pricing, Monetary Economics, Financial Economics, Investment.
Methods: Bayesian Analysis, Text Analysis, Machine Learning
Dissertation Title:
Essays on Asset Pricing and Cryptocurrency
Job Market Paper:
Cross Sector Comovements and Policy Impact in the COVID 19 Stock Market: A Dynamic
Factor Approach
Contacts:
Gary Richardson, Ivan Jeliazkov, Matthew Harding
Erya Yang
Concentrations:
Decision Theory, Mechanism Design, Law and Econonomics
Dissertation Title:
Essays on heterogeneous preferences, planner-doer games, and persuasion
Job Market Paper:
Random Quasi-linear Utility
Contacts:
Igor Kopylov, Stergios Skaperdas, Paata Ivanisviliv, Michael McBride, Michelle Garfinkel
Nayib Rene Zamarripa
Concentrations:
Macroeconomics, Monetary Economics, International Macroeconomics
Dissertation Title:
Essays on Quantitative Macroeconomics and Monetary Policy
Job Market Paper:
Parameter instabilities and monetary policy in a Small Open Economy: Does the Bank
of England respond to the exchange rate?
Contacts:
Fabio Milani, Eric Swanson, William Branch
*Advisors
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