Job Market Candidates 2020-21

Andrew Benson
agbenson@uci.edu | CV
Concentrations: Political economy, Industrial organization
Dissertation Title: Three Essays in Energy
Job Market Paper: Global Divergence in Nuclear Power Plant Construction: the role of political decentralization
Contacts: Linda Cohen, Amihai Glazer, Damon Clark

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Kyung Nok Chun
knchun@uci.edu | CV

Concentrations: Public, Applied micro-theory, Labor
Dissertation Title: Three Essays on Collective Bargaining and Strikes
Job Market Paper: Do Union Officials Act in the Best Interests of Workers? Theory and Evidence from Right to Work Laws

Contacts: Stergios Skaperdas, Michelle Garfinkel, Matthew Freedman

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Cody Couture

ccouture@uci.edu | CV

Concentrations: macroeconomics, monetary economics, and macro-finance

Dissertation Title: "Essays on Central Bank Projections, Credibility, and Monetary Policy"
Job Market Paper: Differences between Central Bank and Private Sector Policy Rate Forecasts: Causes and Implications for Forward Guidance
Contacts: Eric Swanson, Gary Richardson, Fabio Milani

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Amir Goren
agoren@uci.edu | CV

Concentrations: Macroeconomics, Time Series Econometrics

Dissertation Title:
Job Market Paper: Inflation Targeting without a Phillips Curve

Contacts: Fabio Milani, Eric Swanson, Antonio Rodriguez-Lopez

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Mark Hup
mhup@uci.edu | CV

Concentrations: Economic History, Public Economics, Development Economics

Dissertation Title: Essays on Fiscal Modernization, Labor Coercion, State Capacity and Trade
Job Market Paper: Labor Coercion and State Capacity: Evidence from Colonial Indonesia

Contacts: Dan Bogart, Stergios Skaperdas, Gary Richardson, Vellore Arthi

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Patrick Neal Russell Julius
pjulius@uci.edu | CV

Concentrations: Experimental economics, political economy

Dissertation Title: "Using Game Theory and Experiments to Understand Cooperation and Conflict"

Job Market Paper: Experimental Public Goods Games with Progressive Taxation

Contacts: John Duffy, Mike McBride, Jean-Paul Carvalho

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Maximillian Littlejohn
mlittlej@uci.edu | CV

Concentrations: Macroeconomics, Monetary Economics, Finance, Applied Econometrics

Dissertation Title: Essays on Credit Markets, Monetary Policy, and Macroeconomic Activity

Job Market Paper: "The Credit Card and Small Business Lending Channels of Monetary Policy."

Contacts: Guillaume Rocheteau, Eric Swanson, William Branch

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Lucie Lebeau
llebeau@uci.edu | CV

Concentrations: Macroeconomics, Monetary Economics, Markets with Frictions

Dissertation Title: "Essays on decentralized asset, credit, and labor markets"

Job Market Paper: "Social engagement and the spread of infectious diseases"

Contacts: Guillaume Rocheteau, John Duffy, Pierre-Olivier Weill (UCLA), William Branch

Alexandra Marr
Marral@uci.edu | CV

Concentrations: Labor and Applied Econometrics

Dissertation Title: Three Essays in Economics: Neural Networks and Duration Models, Gender Identity and Unemployment Durations, News and Police Legitimacy.

Job Market Paper: Effects of Gender Identity on Unemployment Durations

Contacts: David Neumark and Mathew Freedman

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