Placement History

Our graduates take the skills and knowledge they've gained here and move on to exciting opportunities in academia, research, government, and industry. Whether they’re joining top universities, shaping policy, or driving innovation in the private sector, they continue to make an impact. Explore examples of our placement history below to see where their next steps have taken them!

2025

Anirban Chattopadhyaya

Initial Placement: Associate, Analysis Group- Los Angeles

Thesis: "Competition For a New Automobile Technology and Impact of Station Build-out"

Jessica Montgomery

Initial Placement: Tenure-Track Assistant Professor- Gatton College of Business and Economics, Department of Finance and Quantitative Methods, University of Kentucky

Thesis: Essays on Property Rights Institutions and Financial Inclusion

Max Schnidman

Initial Placement: Senior Researcher, Microsoft, Office of the Chief Economist

Thesis: Music Ex Machina: How Spotify's Recommendations Affect Music Production

2024

Suchitra Akmanchi

Initial Placement: Department of Labor, Chief Evaluation Office

Thesis: Essays on Economics of Postdoctoral Education

Jenna Blochowicz

Initial Placement: Tenure-Track AP Iowa State University

Thesis: Bargaining for Exclusive Rights in Two-Sided Markets: The Case of the NFL and Broadcast channels

Yutong Chen

Initial Placement: Tenure-Track AP- College of Business, University of Texas at Arlington

Thesis: Three Essays on Development Economics

Ben Chenault

Initial Placement: Economist at ISO New England

Thesis: Essays on Environmental Economics of Land Use

Snigdha Das

Initial Placement: Lecturer- Department of Economics at James Madison University

Thesis: Corruption Incentives, and Deterrence in Common Pool Resource Scenarios: An Experimental Approach

Mrithyunjayan Nilayamgode

Initial Placement: James Madison University - Assistant Professor

Thesis: How People Borro: Properties and Interactions of Financial Instruments

Yi Ping

Initial Placement: Postdoctoral Research Fellow ---European Research University

Thesis: Leverage Cycle Over the Life Cycle: A Quantitative Analysis of Endogenous Leverage and Policy Implications

Donghyun Suh

Initial Placement: Economist, Bank of Korea

Thesis: Labor Market Implications of Technological Change

Tyler Wake

Initial Placement: Tenure-Track Denison University (Columbus, OH)

Thesis: Applications of Corporate and Theoretical Finance to Questions in Macroeconomics

2023

Dennis Campbell

Initial Placement: Consultant - NERA Economic Consulting

Thesis: An Empirical Analysis of a Two-Sided, Ad-Financed Media Platform with Targeted Advertising

Yan Chen

Initial Placement: Economist - International Monetary Fund

Thesis: Essays on Financial Macroeconomics

Dan Harper

Initial Placement: Assistant Professor - JMU

Thesis: The Effects of Liquidity, Information, and Beliefs in Experimental Asset Markets

Yooseon Hwang

Initial Placement: Postdoctoral Associate - New York University at Abu Dhabi; Consultant-- World Bank

Gizem Kutlu

Initial Placement: Lecturer - University of Bristol

Thesis: Essays on the Distribution of Gains from International Trade

Nan Liu

Initial Placement: Economist - Bates White Economic Consulting

Thesis: Essays on the Trade War, Processing Trade and Global Value Chains

Tyler Ludwig

Initial Placement: Postdoctoral Fellow - University of Texas, Austin

Fiorella Pizzolon

Initial Placement: Assistant Professor- Hamilton College

Thesis: Monetary and Fiscal Policy and Debt Structure in Small Open Economies

Hasan Toprak

Initial Placement: Economist - International Monetary Fund

Jiafeng Wu

Initial Placement: Quantitative Analyst Senior - Freddie Mac

Thesis: Essays on Pharmaceutical Pricing and Physician Incentives

2022

Dony Heru Achmad Ardiansyah

Initial Placement: Economist, Bank Indonesia

Thesis: Essays on Foreign Exchange Intervention

Ramiro Burga

Initial Placement: Policy Associate, SPHERE Institute

Thesis: Essays on Development Economics

Geoffrey Carr

Initial Placement: Clinical Assistant Professor, Darla Moore School of Business, University of South Carolina

Thesis: Macro Labor Dynamics: Aggregation and Insurance

Luan Falcao Daniel Santos

Initial Placement: Quantitative Analyst, Freddie Mac

Thesis: Deadly Politics: Political Connections, Intergovernmental Transfers, and Mortality

Md Amzad Hossain

Initial Placement: Assistant Professor, University of Arkansas, Sam M. Walton College of Business

Thesis: Essays on Development & Education Economics

Jaeki Jang

Initial Placement: Economist, Korea Institute for Industrial Economics and Trade

Thesis: Essays on the Life-cycle Choices

Spencer Kennedy

Initial Placement: Economist, Department of Justice

Thesis: Supply and Demand Influences on Teacher Qualifications

Ga Young Ko

Initial Placement: Assistant Professor, University of Tennessee

Thesis: Gender Discrimination in the Gig Economy

Rachel Lee

Initial Placement: Economist, International Monetary Fund

Thesis: Essays on Fiscal Policy and Sovereign Default

Jaeho Lee

Initial Placement: Economist, Bank of Korea

Thesis: Heterogeneity of Young and Old Individuals: Macroeconomic Effects and Policy Implications

Joaquin Saldain

Initial Placement: Senior Economist, Bank of Canada

Thesis: High-Cost Consumer Credit

Grace Toufeili

Initial Placement: Visiting Assistant Professor, Pennsylvania State University

Thesis: Essays on the Socioeconomic Impact of Migration

Brennan Williams

Initial Placement: Senior Economist, Center for Economics, U.S. Government Accountability Office

Thesis: The Economic Consequences of Hurricanes

2021

Hanna Charankevich

Initial Placement: Post-Doctoral Research Associate, Biocomplexity Institute, University of Virginia

Thesis: Bid Manipulation in Open Procurement Auctions

Brett Fischer

Initial Placement: Postdoctoral Fellow, California Policy Lab, UC Berkeley

Thesis: Addressing Racial Disparities in the Classroom and the Courtroom

Ekaterina Khmelnitskaya

Initial Placement: Assistant Professor, Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia

Thesis: Competition and Attrition in Drug Development

Seunghyeon Lee

Initial Placement: Economist, Bank of Korea

Thesis: Essays in Household Heterogeneity and Monetary Policy

Moogdho Mahzab

Initial Placement: Postdoctoral Fellow, Woods Institute for the Environment, Stanford University

Thesis: Tax-evading Politicians, Public Goods Provision and Public Health

Divya Pandey

Initial Placement: Postdoctoral Fellow, Evidence for Policy Design (EPoD)

Thesis: Essays on Gender Inequality and Human Capital Formation

Melissa Spencer

Initial Placement: Assistant Professor, University of Richmond

Thesis: The Economics of Women's Health Risks

Haruka Takayama

Initial Placement: Assistant Professor, University at Albany (SUNY)

Thesis: Essays on Firms' Foreign Direct Investment Decisions

2020

Emily Cook

Initial Placement: Assistant Professor, Tulane University

Thesis: Competing Campuses: An Equilibrium Model of the U.S. Higher Education Market

Salim Ergene

Initial Placement: Economist, Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey

Thesis: Essays on Bailouts

Devaki Ghose

Initial Placement: Economist, Development Economics Research Group (DECRG), World Bank

Thesis: Trade, Internal Migration, and Human Capital: Who Gains from India’s IT Boom?

Alex Gross

Initial Placement: Economist; US Department of Justice, Economic Analysis Group

Thesis: Bargaining in the Supply Chain

Hundanol Kebede

Initial Placement: Young Fellow, World Bank Program in Forced Displacement

Thesis: Essays on Road Infrastructure, Market Integration, and Development

Diego Legal-Cañisá

Initial Placement: Research Economist, Central Bank of Paraguay

Thesis: Consumer Bankruptcy and Labor Market Policies

Miguel Mascarua

Initial Placement: Economist, Central Bank of Mexico

Thesis: The Macroeconomic Consequences of Illegal Behavior

Megan Miller

Initial Placement: Economist, Federal Trade Commission Bureau of Economics

Thesis: Essays on Health Policy

Niveditha Prabakaran

Initial Placement: Assistant Professor, Estonian Business School

Thesis: Rural Perspectives in a Global Economy

Liu Siying

Initial Placement: Economist, Amazon

Thesis: Entry Decisions and Incumbents' Responses: Evidence from the Outpatient Surgery Market

Taheya Tarannum

Initial Placement: Researcher, Oxford Martin Programme on Technological & Economic Change, University of Oxford

Thesis: Essays on Labor and Health Economics: The Effect of Amazon Warehouses on Employment and Housing and the Effect of Managed Care for Long-Term Care

2019

Wenqiang (Robin) Cai

Initial Placement: Tax Transfer Pricing Associate, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP

Thesis: Three Essays on Retirement Policy

Ben Hamilton

Initial Placement: Assistant Professor, James Madison University

Thesis: Essays on Firm Learning and Trade Dynamics

Pingyu He

Initial Placement: Research Scientist, Facebook

Thesis: Essays on Globalization and Labor Markets

Dajun Lin

Initial Placement: Economic Researcher, American Institutes for Research

Thesis: Multi-Dimensional Abilities, Task Content of Occupations and Career Choices: A Dynamic Analysis

Cailin Slattery

Initial Placement: Assistant Professor of Economics, Columbia Graduate School of Business

Thesis: State Competition in the Market for Firms

Ia Vardishvili

Initial Placement: Assistant Professor, Auburn University

Thesis: Entrant Demographics, Option Value of Delay, and Business Cycles

2018

Selcen Cakir

Initial Placement: Assistant Professor, Boğaziçi University

Thesis: "Party Formation in Parliamentary Democracies"

Nick Embrey

Initial Placement: Economist with Fannie Mae

Thesis: "Essays on Macroeconomics and Labor Markets"

Guillermo Hausmann Guil

Initial Placement: Senior Economist, Bank of Lithuania

Thesis: "Essays on the Great Recession and the Austerity Period"

Elliott Isaac

Initial Placement: Assistant Professor, Tulane University

Thesis: "The Tax Treatment of Marriage and its Impact on Family Formation and Labor Supply"

Larry Kochard

Initial Placement: University of Virginia, McIntire School of Commerce

Thesis: Option Pricing and Higher Order Moments of the Risk-Neutral Probability Density Function

Ben Leyden

Initial Placement: Assistant Professor, Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management, Cornell University

Thesis: "There’s an App (Update) for That: A Structural Model of Product Updating under Digitization"

Gao Meng

Initial Placement: Associate, Analysis Group, Inc.

Thesis: "Essays on International Capital Flows "

Allison Oldham Luedtke

Initial Placement: Assistant Professor, Saint Michael's College

Thesis: "Endogenous Network Formation: Theory and Application"

Aaron Phipps

Initial Placement: Assistant Professor, U.S. Military Academy, West Point

Thesis: Contract Theory in Complex Environments: Theory and Evidence on Effective Teacher Performance Incentives"

Meltem Poyraz

Initial Placement: Assistant Professor, Boğaziçi University

Thesis: "The Effect of Volatility on the Labor Market"

Daniel Savelle

Initial Placement: Postdoc, University of Mannheim

Thesis: Transparency and Search Markets

Jeffrey Schafer

Initial Placement: Associate Analyst, Congressional Budget Office

Thesis: “Asset Pricing in a Production Economy”

Zach Sullivan

Initial Placement: Economist, Federal Trade Commission in the Bureau of Economics

Thesis: Financial Incentives for Low-Income College Students: Effects on College Choice and Early-Career Decisions

John Turner

Initial Placement: University of Georgia

Thesis: The Patent Renaissance

James Weston

Initial Placement: Rice University, TX

Thesis: Essays in Empirical Market Microstructure

Xin Xue

Initial Placement: Quantitative Modeler, US Bank

Thesis: Essays on Agency Costs of Financial Intermediation

Yanchi Yu

Initial Placement: Associate with Cornerstone Research

Thesis: "Market Structure and Product Pricing Dynamics: Evidence from the U.S. Brewing Industry"

Liu Yubo

Initial Placement: Economist, Welch Consulting

Thesis: "Essays on the Labor Market Effects of Globalization"

Gang Zhang

Initial Placement: Assistant Professor, Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business

Thesis: "Essays on Great Recession and Financial Interconnection"

Nan (Tony) Zhang

Initial Placement: Department of Finance, City of New York

Thesis: Productivity and Labor Market Effects of Offshoring to Low-Wage Countries

Yiyi (Lily) Zhou

Initial Placement: Assistant Professor, Stony Brook University (SUNY)

Thesis: Bayesian Estimation of a Dynamic Equilibrium Model of Pricing and Entry in Two-Sided Markets: Application to Video Games

Zhe (Albert) Zhu

Initial Placement: Assistant Professor, Wayne State University

Thesis: "Essays on Income Inequality and Structural Transformation"

2017

Woo Jin Choi

Initial Placement: Research Fellow, Korea Development Institute (KDI)

Thesis: Essays in Open Macroeconomics and Exchange Rates

Murat Demirci

Initial Placement: Assistant Professor, Koç University

Thesis: The Impact of High-Skilled Immigrants on the Career Outcomes of Natives

Ilhan Guner

Initial Placement: Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Macroeconomics, University of Kent

Thesis: Essays in Macroeconomics

Dina Guo

Initial Placement: Quantitative Analyst Senior, PNC Bank

Thesis: Happy Together or Home Alone: A Structural Model of the Role of Health Insurance in Household Joint Retirement

Fang Guo

Initial Placement: Associate, Cornerstone Research

Thesis: Hospital Infant Formula Discharge Packages: A Blessing Or A Curse?

Xiaohui (Ivy) Huang

Initial Placement: Economist, Microsoft Corporation

Thesis: Productivity, Model Uncertainty, Home Production, and the New Home Sales Price in the U.S.

William (Bill) Johnson

Initial Placement: Senior Researcher, Health Care Cost Institute

Thesis: Essays on the Effects of Health Insurer and Health Care Provider Organization on Patient Treatments

Michael LaForest

Initial Placement: Research Director, Crime Lab New York (UChicago Urban Labs)

Thesis: The Effects of High School Career and Technical Education for Non-College Bound Students

Brett Lissenden

Initial Placement: Research Economist, RTI (Research Triangle Institute) International

Thesis: Essays on Private Health Insurance in Public Programs

Jorge Miranda-Pinto

Initial Placement: Lecturer (Assistant Professor), University of Queensland

Thesis: Production Networks and Aggregate Fluctuations: Evidence, Theory, and Policy

Nathaniel Pattison

Initial Placement: Assistant Professor, Southern Methodist University

Thesis: Essays on Consumer Credit Markets and Debtor Protections

2016

Vahid Gholampor

Initial Placement: Assistant Professor, Bucknell University

Thesis: Information Asymmetry and Expectations About Returns

Tianying He

Initial Placement: Senior, Ernst & Young LLP

Thesis: Essays on Income Taxation

Brendan LaCerda

Initial Placement: Economist, Moody's Analytics

Thesis: Too Much Information: Health Insurance Choice and the Affordable Care Act

Scott Laughery

Initial Placement: Associate Analyst, Congressional Budget Office

Thesis: Essays on the Production of Primary Health Care

Yohei Okawa

Initial Placement: Economist, World Bank

Thesis: Essays on International Portfolio Choice

Danila Pankov

Initial Placement: Economist, New York City Independent Budget Office

Thesis: The Effects of Sales Tax on Retailers' Employment and Prices: Evidence from Tax Exemptions

Carlos Pulido Hernandez

Initial Placement: Clinical Assistant Professor, Arizona State University

Thesis: Essays on International Economics

Ce (Matthew) Shi

Initial Placement: Assistant Professor, Chinese University of Hong Kong

Thesis: Catching Exclusive Eyeballs: Multi-Homing and Platform Competition in the Magazine Industry

Li (Chris) Zhang

Initial Placement: Research Associate, IMPAQ International

Thesis: Essays on Household Consumption and Spending Behavior

Zhou (Jo) Zhang

Initial Placement: Economist, Amazon

Thesis: Swiftboating: Misleading Advertising in Presidential Elections

2015

Catherine Alford

Initial Placement: Associate, The Analysis Group

Thesis: High Today vs Lows Tomorrow: Substance Use, Education, and Employment Choices of Young Men

Andrew Barr

Initial Placement: Assistant Professor, Texas A&M University

Thesis: Fighting for Education: Financial Aid and Non-traditional Students

Renzo Castellares

Initial Placement: Research Economist, Central Bank of Peru

Thesis: Essays in International Economics

Bingbing Dong

Initial Placement: Assistant Professor, Central University of Finance and Economics (CUFE), Beijing

Thesis: Asset Pricing, Monetary Policies, and the Zero Lower Bound

Sherry Forbes

Initial Placement: Social Scientist, Giant Oak

Thesis: Essays in Economics

Everett (Rett) Grant

Initial Placement: Economist, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas

Thesis: Exposure to International Crises: Trade vs Financial Contagion

Jiao Hu

Initial Placement: Research Associate, Moody's Analytics

Thesis: Optimal Government Debt with Consumer Bankruptcy

Amanda Kurzendoerfer

Initial Placement: Economist, Bates White Economic Consulting

Thesis: Essays in International Trade

Ignacio Martinez

Initial Placement: Economist, Mathematica

Thesis: MOOCs as a Massive Research Laboratory

Heidi Schramm

Initial Placement: Economist, Joint Committee on Taxation, U.S. Congress

Thesis: Essays on Taxation, Formal Sector Work, and Social Insurance in Mexico

Alex Smith

Initial Placement: Assistant Professor, U.S. Military Academy, West Point

Thesis: Essays on the Economics of Education

Jieran Wu

Initial Placement: Assistant Professor, Zhejiang University, China

Thesis: Dispersed Information, Excess Volatility, and Business Cycles

2014

Ismail

Initial Placement: Assistant Professor, ADA University, Baku, Azerbaijan

Thesis: Worker Selection, Hiring, and Vacancies

Felipe Benguria

Initial Placement: Assistant Professor, University of Kentucky

Thesis: Essays in International Economics

Jonathan Eggleston

Initial Placement: Economist, Social, Economic, and Housing Statistics, Division, U.S. Census Bureau

Thesis: Spousal Labor Supply and Unemployment: Estimates from a Household Search Model

Raju Huidrom

Initial Placement: Research Economist, Development Prospects Group, The World Bank

Thesis: Essays on Macro-Financial Linkages and Monetary Policy

Haiyan Liu

Initial Placement: Assistant Professor, University of South Florida

Thesis: A Structural Model of Advertising Signaling and Social Learning: The Case of the Motion Picture Industry

L. Patten Mahler

Initial Placement: Assistant Professor, Centre College, KY

Thesis: Three Essays on Teacher Labor Markets

Charles Murry

Initial Placement: Assistant Professor, Penn State University

Thesis: Advertising in Vertical Relationships: An Equilibrium Model of the Automobile Industry

Asli Senkal

Initial Placement: Assistant Professor, TOBB-University of Economics and Technology, Ankara, Turkey

Thesis: Essays on Institutional Frictions and Misallocation

Huzeyfe Torun

Initial Placement: Economist, Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey

Thesis: Policy Impacts of Early Labor Market Outcomes

Sarah Tulman

Initial Placement: Research Agricultural Economist, Economic Research Service, USDA

Thesis: Altruism (?) in the Presence of Costly Voting: A Theoretical and Experimental Analysis

2013

Stephen Bruestle

Initial Placement: Research Economist, Federal Housing Finance Agency

Thesis: Targeted Advertising in the Information Age

Christopher Clapp

Initial Placement: Assistant Professor, Florida State University

Thesis: Should My Car Move or Should We? An Intra-Household Model of Residential Commuting Choices

Sisr Debnath

Initial Placement: Assistant Professor, Indian School of Business, Hyderabad

Thesis: Three Empirical Essays on Development Economics in India

Stephanie Demperio

Initial Placement: Consultant, Antitrust and Intellectual Property, NERA

Thesis: Cigarette Taxes, Smoking Bans, and Smoking Behavior

Daniel Fried

Initial Placement: Analyst, Congressional Budget Office

Thesis: Inflation, Default, and the Currency Composition of Foreign Debt

Parth Havnurkar

Initial Placement: Economist, Federal Housing Finance Agency

Thesis: Three Essays on Structural Macroeconomics

Jeffrey Hulbert

Initial Placement: Associate, The Analysis Group

Thesis: Three Essays on Health Insurance

Mariusz Kolczykiewicz

Initial Placement: Senior Policy Associate, Acumen

Thesis: Marriage Markets, Timing of First Marriage, and Child Outcomes

Michael Schreck

Initial Placement: Associate, The Analysis Group

Thesis: Voluntary Contribution Behavior in Social Giving Environments: Experiments in the Lab and Field

Sean Sullivan

Initial Placement: Antitrust Attorney, Federal Trade Commission

Thesis: An Experimental Study of Settlement Delay in Pre-trial Bargaining with Asymmetric Information

2012

Aaron Butz

Initial Placement: Economist, Joint Committee on Taxation, U.S. Congress

Thesis: Do Higher Order Approximations Help Identify Structural Parameters?

Moonjung Choi

Initial Placement: The World Bank

Thesis: Export Prices and Market Access of Exporting Countries: Theories and Evidence

Elizabeth Cubbage

Initial Placement: Senior Analytical Consultant, SAS Institute

Thesis: Financial Deregulation and the Great Moderation

Dusan Curcic

Initial Placement: Digonex

Thesis: Consumer Overconfidence and the Choice of Cell Phone Plans

Erin Dunlop

Initial Placement: American Institutes for Research (AIR)

Thesis: Community Colleges and Educational Attainment: The Impact of Financial Aid and College Quality

Xiaohuan Lan

Initial Placement: Cheong Kong Graduate School of Business, Beijing, China

Thesis: Essays in Labor and Development Economics

Paul Landefeld

Initial Placement: Economist, Joint Committee on Taxation, U.S. Congress

Thesis: The Role of Transportation Costs in Trade and Wages

Vu Le

Initial Placement: Virginia Retirement System

Thesis: Essays on Global Asset Allocation

Xiangjun (April) Ma

Initial Placement: Assistant Professor, School of International Trade and Economics (SITE), University of International Business and Economics (UIBE), Beijing,China

Thesis: Organizational Boundaries, Transfer Prices and Export Prices of International Firms: Theories and Firm-Level Evidence

Supbhawong (Sav) Vichaphund

Initial Placement: National Science and Technology Development Agency, Ministry of Science and Technology, Royal Thai Government

Thesis: Three Essays in Applied Microeconomics

Ruwei Wang

Initial Placement: Senior Data Analyst, Capital One

Thesis: Disability Insurance in General Equilibrium

Nan (Tony) Zhang

Initial Placement: Department of Finance, City of New York

Thesis: Productivity and Labor Market Effects of Offshoring to Low-Wage Countries

Yiyi (Lily) Zhou

Initial Placement: Assistant Professor, Stony Brook University (SUNY)

Thesis: Bayesian Estimation of a Dynamic Equilibrium Model of Pricing and Entry in Two-Sided Markets: Application to Video Games

2011

Kang Jian

Initial Placement: Bank of America

Thesis: A Structural Equilibrium Model of Airline Dynamic Pricing Under Fixed Capacity

Marianne Corbishley

Initial Placement: Economist, Federal Housing Finance Agency

Thesis: For the Love of Shrink Wrap: A Structural Empirical Analysis of Bundling in the College Textbook Market

Shushanik Hakobyan

Initial Placement: Visiting Assistant Professor, Middlebury College, VT

Thesis: Essays on U.S. Trade Preference Programs

Gihoon Hong

Initial Placement: Assistant Professor, Indiana University at South Bend

Thesis: U.S. and Domestic Migration Decisions of Mexican Workers

Daniel Mackay

Initial Placement: Visiting Instructor of Economics, University of Richmond, VA

Thesis: Estimating the Impact of Investment Tax Credits on Aircraft Demand

Svetlana Pashchenko

Initial Placement: Assistant Professor, Uppsala University, Sweden

Thesis: Three Essays on Insurance Markets

2010

Altantsetseg (Alta) Batchuluun

Initial Placement: Associate Professor, National University of Mongolia

Thesis: Implications of Rational Inattention for Labor Supply and Portfolio Choice

Carlos Espina

Initial Placement: Deloitte

Thesis: Three Essays on Corporate Taxation and Aggregation Under Firm Heterogeneity

2009

Daniel Carroll

Initial Placement: Federal Reserve Bank

Thesis: Three Essays on the Political Economy of Progressive Income Taxation

Eric Fesselmeyer

Initial Placement: Post-doctoral Fellow, National University of Singapore, Department of Economics

Thesis: A Structural Learning Model of Retail Product Select with Information Spillovers

Sarah Hastedt

Initial Placement: Research Scientist, National Center for Education Statistics

Thesis: Essays on the Economics of Education

Tarun Jain

Initial Placement: Assistant Professor of Economics and Public Policy, Indian School of Business, Hyderabad

Thesis: Institutions and Incentives in Developing Countries

Jura Liaukonyte

Initial Placement: Assistant Professor, Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management, Cornell University

Thesis: Empirical Models of Advertising Content

Young-Joon Park

Initial Placement: Korea Institute for International Economic Policy (KIEP)

Thesis: Essays on Household Finance and Macroeconomy

Ponpoje (Poe) Porapakkarm

Initial Placement: Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Macau University,Taipa, Macau

Thesis: Three Essays on Incomplete Information in Macroeconomics

Uma Radhakrishnan

Initial Placement: Center for Economic Studies, US Census Bureau

Thesis: A Dynamic Structural Model of Contraceptive Use and Employment Sector Choice For Women in Indonesia

Bo Sun

Initial Placement: Federal Reserve Board

Thesis: Asset Returns and Executive Compensation Under Earnings Management

Olesia Verchenko

Initial Placement: Assistant Professor, Kyiv School of Economic

Thesis: Empirical Tests of Option Pricing Model

Jonathan Williams

Initial Placement: Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Terry College of Business, University of Georgia

Thesis: Excess Capacity, Exclusionary Behavior, and Welfare: A Dynamic Model of Competition in the Airline Industry

2008

Juan Carlos Bisso

Initial Placement: NERA - National Economic Research Associates, Madrid

Thesis: Three Essays on the Economic Incentives of Law and Contracts

AJ Bostian

Initial Placement: Post-doctoral Fellow, University of New South Wales, Australian School of Business, Center for Energy & Environmental Markets

Thesis: Essays on Learning and Utility in Two Experiments

Maria Fitzpatrick

Initial Placement: Post-doctoral Fellow, Stanford University, Institute for Economic Policy Research

Thesis: Early Start: The Economics of Early Childhood Education

Masahiro Kodama

Initial Placement: Institute of Developing Economies, Japan

Thesis: Essays on International Risk Sharing and Consumption Fluctuations in Developing Countries

Kien T. Le

Initial Placement: University of Virginia, Weldon-Cooper Center

Thesis: Essays on the Agricultural Household Model and Applied Econometrics

Angela Moore Smith

Initial Placement: Assistant Professor of Economics, James Madison University, VA

Thesis: An Experimental Study of Exclusive Contracts

Jing Yin

Initial Placement: PriceWaterhouseCoopers

Thesis: Esays on Dynamic Macroeconomics

Oleksandr Zhylyevskyy

Initial Placement: Assistant Professor of Economics, Iowa State University

Thesis: A Bad Peace or a Good War: A Structural Estimation Model of Spousal Conflict and Divorce

2007

Kyungsoo Cha

Initial Placement: Korea Energy Economic Institute (KEEI)

Thesis: Understanding the Effects of Stochastic Fiscal Policy Shocks on Business Cycle Fluctuations

Scott E. Davis

Initial Placement: CNA Corporation

Thesis: A Structural Model of the Effects of Housing Vouchers on Housing Consumption and Labor Supply

Jose M. Fernandez

Initial Placement: Assistant Professor, College of Business, University of Louisville, KY

Thesis: A Dynamic Empirical Model of Patient Learning and Experimentation Using Clinical Trial Data

Chunwei Lai

Initial Placement: Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Thesis: Essays on International Trade and Human Capital

Catherine Tyler Mooney

Initial Placement: University of Oklahoma

Thesis: Market Power in the Media: A Structural Empirical Analysis of the Radio Broadcasting Industry, 1998-2003

Richard Nelson

Initial Placement: University of Utah

Thesis: Is the Best Offense a Good Defense? Theory and Evidence of Trade-Induced Defensive Innovation in Developing Countries

Panayiotis Pourpourides

Initial Placement: Cardiff University, Cardiff, Wales

Thesis: Essays on Wages and Wage Inequality Over the Business Cycle

Marc Santugini

Initial Placement: HEC Montreal, Institute of Applied Economics

Thesis: Observational Learning in the Motion Picture Market

Sarah Simmons

Initial Placement: Rhodes College, TN

Thesis: Welfare (to School?) to Work: How Welfare Reform Affects Collegiate Attainment

2006

Esen Onur

Initial Placement: Post-doctoral Fellow, University of California-Davis

Thesis: The Role of Asymmetric Information Among Investors in the Foreign Exchange Market

Naoko Akashi

Initial Placement: California State University, Fullerton

Thesis: The Effects of Insurers' Hospital Choice Restrictions on the Demand for Health Care

Erhan

Initial Placement: Koc University, Turkey

Thesis: Essays on Trade Policy and Labor Mobility

Keith Brand

Initial Placement: US Federal Trade Commission

Thesis: A Structural Model of Health Insurance Choice and Health Care Demand in the Medicare Managed Care Program

Paul Carrillo

Initial Placement: George Washington University

Thesis: An Equilibrium Search Model for Buyers and Sellers and an Empirical Application for the Real Estate Market

Ufuk Devrim Demirel

Initial Placement: University of Colorado at Boulder

Thesis: Essays on Macroeconomic Policies and Stabilization

Sangyeon Hwang

Initial Placement: Samsung Economic Research Institute

Thesis: Essays on Exchange Rates and Optimal Monetary Policy

Bilgehan Karabay

Initial Placement: Central Bank of Turkey

Thesis: Essays on International Trade and Political Economy: The Importance of Incentives, Information, and Globalization

Serguey Khovansky

Initial Placement: Mount Saint Mary College, NY

Thesis: Effects of Expected Utility Maximization on Composition and Pricing of Financial Derivatives

Ken-Shih Lin

Initial Placement: Fannie Mae

Thesis: Essays on Asset Allocation and Option Returns

Ganesh Seshan

Initial Placement: Georgetown School of Foreign Service

Thesis: Assessing the Distributional Impact of Trade Liberalization in a Developing Country

Ki Eun Shim

Initial Placement: SK Research Institute for SUPEX Management

Thesis: Border Effects and FDI: Can FDI Explain the Border Puzzle?

2005

William Craighead

Initial Placement: Miami University of Ohio

Thesis: Real Rigidities and Exchange Rate Dynamics

Jayani Jayawardhana

Initial Placement: Center for Health Economic and Policy Studies, Medical University of South Carolina

Thesis: Direct-to-Consumer Advertising and Welfare: A Structural Model of Consumers and Firms in the Market for Prescription Drugs

Christina Rennhoff

Initial Placement: St. Joseph's University, MO

Thesis: Employee Choice of Health Plan and Consumption of Health Care under Employer-Provided Plans

Loren Smith

Initial Placement: US Federal Trade Commission

Thesis: A Dynamic Equilibrium Model of Demand for New and Used Commercial Aircraft

2004

Beth Freeborn

Initial Placement: College of William and Mary, VA

Thesis: An Equilibrium Search Model of the Retail Cocaine Market and Drug Law Enforcement

Hyejoon Im

Initial Placement: POSCO Research Institute, Seoul, Korea

Thesis: Trading Blocs and Foreign Direct Investment: Theory and Empirics

Sadayuki Ono

Initial Placement: University of York, UK

Thesis: Essays on the Term Structure of Interest Rates and the Pricing of Equity Options

2003

David Arseneau

Initial Placement: Board of Governors, Federal Reserve

Thesis: The Time Consistency Problem of Monetary Policy in the Open Economy: Theory and Evidence

Jessica S. Howell

Initial Placement: California State University at Sacramento

Thesis: A Structural Equilibrium Model of the Market for Higher Education: Assessing the Impact of Eliminating Affirmative Action

Yun-Kwong Kwok

Initial Placement: Deakin University (Australia)

Thesis: Essays on Global Factor Trade and New Open Economy Macroeconomics

Kara Olson

Initial Placement: American University, DC

Thesis: The Consequences of U.S. Antidumping Laws

Julia Rongying Qiu

Initial Placement: Citigroup Corp.

Thesis: Put Warrants: How They Hare are Valued and How They Affect Managerial Incentives

Adam Rennhoff

Initial Placement: Drexel University, PA

Thesis: A Theoretical and Empirical Investigation of Slotting Allowances in the Grocery Industry

2002

David Byrne

Initial Placement: Federal Reserve Board

Thesis: An Empirical Equilibrium Search-Matching Model of Unemployment

Kristin Adams Fink

Initial Placement: James Madison University, VA

Thesis: Regime-Switching in the Term Structure of Interest Rates

Jason Fink

Initial Placement: James Madison University, VA

Thesis: Essays on Option Hedging and Estimation When Volatility is Stochastic

Michelle Goeree

Initial Placement: Universiteit van Amsterdam

Thesis: Informative Advertising and the US Personal Computer Market: A Structural Empirical Examination

Yong Joe

Initial Placement: Fannie Mae

Thesis: Market Liquidity and Volatility Forecasting

Ben Keen

Initial Placement: Texas Tech University

Thesis: A Theoretical and Empirical Examination of the Liquidity Effect

Andre Kurmann

Initial Placement: University of Quebec-Montreal

Thesis: New Keynesian Price and Cost Dynamics: Theory and Evidence

Richard Ruble

Initial Placement: Michigan State University

Thesis: Imperfect Competition between Buyers and Sellers

2001

Joe Attia

Initial Placement: Econ One, Inc.

Thesis: Financial and Economic Performance of Private Firms: The Case of Egypt

Hua Fang

Initial Placement: Lukens Consulting Group, Inc.

Thesis: Jumps with Stochastic Rate: An Alternative Option Pricing Model

Brian McManus

Initial Placement: Olin Business School, Washington University of St. Louis

Thesis: Nonlinear Pricing in an Oligopoly Market: The Case of Specialty Coffee

2000

Monica Hartmann

Initial Placement: University of St. Thomas

Thesis: An Examination of Airline Safety in a Structural Model of the Airline Industry

Monica Hartmann

Initial Placement: University of St. Thomas

Thesis: An Examination of Airline Safety in a Structural Model of the Airline Industry

Dan Jubinski

Initial Placement: College of William & Mary, VA

Thesis: Equity Trading Volume and Volatility: An Investigation of fractional Integration and Cointegration

Ellen Merry

Initial Placement: Federal Reserve

Thesis: The Effect of the Mortgage Interest Deduction on Mortgage Debt and Housing Demand

James Weston

Initial Placement: Rice University, TX

Thesis: Essays in Empirical Market Microstructure

1999

Thorsten Beck

Initial Placement: Young Professionals Program, World Bank

Thesis: Essays in International Trade and Financial Development

Thorsten Beck

Initial Placement: Young Professionals Program, World Bank

Thesis: Essays in International Trade and Financial Development

Larry Kochard

Initial Placement: University of Virginia, McIntire School of Commerce

Thesis: Option Pricing and Higher Order Moments of the Risk-Neutral Probability Density Function

Steve Lange

Initial Placement: Fannie Mae

Thesis: Essays on Volatility and Comovement

Yu-Li Wang

Initial Placement: National Dong Hwa University, Taiwan

Thesis: What Moves the Exchange Rate before a Monetary Union?

1998

Jose Canals-Cerda

Initial Placement: University of Colorado-Boulder

Thesis: Equilibrium Models of the Labor Market: A Theoretical and Empirical Investigation.

C. Monica Capra

Initial Placement: University of Arkansas

Thesis: Noisy Expectation Formation in One-Shot Games

Laura L. Clauser

Initial Placement: U.S. Department of the Treasury

Thesis: A Dynamic, General Equilibrium Analysis of Flood Insurance, Floodplain Development, and Sea Level Rise

Kevin H. McIntyre

Initial Placement: Regional Financial Associates, Inc.

Thesis: Three Essays in International Business Cycles

Jorge A. Raygoza

Initial Placement: Universidad Iberoamericana

Thesis: The Distribution of Benefits of Site-and-Services Programs in Developing Countries: Does Mexico's National Solidarity Program Have an Urban Bias

Julia K. Thomas

Initial Placement: Carnegie Mellon University, PA

Thesis: Nonconvexities, Discrete Individual Choices and the Business Cycle

1997

Tim R. Adam

Initial Placement: Hong Kong University of Science & Technology

Thesis: Dynamic Corporate Risk Management

Erik Benrud

Initial Placement: University of Baltimore

Thesis: A Model of the Market for Economic Forecasts

Mikel R. Ham

Initial Placement: Economic Analysis Corp.

Thesis: Rental-Car Service Tenure and Downstream Vertical Integration in the Automobile Industry

Fredrick M. Holt

Initial Placement: U.S. Census Bureau

Thesis: The Family's Decision to Migrate: A Dynamic Analysis

Allison M. Ivory

Initial Placement: Joint Committee on Taxation, U.S. Congress

Thesis: The Effect of the 1986 Tax Reform Act on Labor Supply and Tax Payer Compliance

Fidel Perez-Sebastian

Initial Placement: Public University of Navarra, Spain

Thesis: Invention and Use: Two Models of Technology Adoption

1996

Robert T. Burrus

Initial Placement: Kenyon College, OH

Thesis: Demand Abatement, Supply Reduction and Legalization: A Theoretical Analysis of Drug Policy

Anthony W. Cheng

Initial Placement: U.S. Social Security Administration

Thesis: Estimating the Market Value of Deposit Insurance for Savings and Loans

Eric P. Eller

Initial Placement: UNC-Greensboro

Thesis: Tariff Barriers, Liberalization, and Economic Growth

Jeffrey R. Havsy

Initial Placement: Chicago Board of Trade

Thesis: A Model of Improved Option Pricing Through Theoretical Volatility Determination

Neeta Sinha

Initial Placement: Bristol, Myers, and Squibb

Thesis: Estimation of the Effects of Alternate Food Subsidies on Nutrition Levels

Todd R. Stinebrickner

Initial Placement: University of Michigan (Post-doc)

Thesis: A Dynamic, Discrete Choice Model of Teacher Attrition

Christopher A. Swann

Initial Placement: University of Michigan (Post-doc)

Thesis: A Dynamic Analysis of Marriage, Labor Force Participation, and Participation in the AFDC Program

Alexander R. Wolman

Initial Placement: Federal Reserve, Richmond, VA

Thesis: Four Essays on Monetary Economics

1995

Lisa R. Anderson

Initial Placement: American University

Thesis: Information Cascades

Peter M. Bearse

Initial Placement: University of Tennessee

Thesis: Essays on the Economics of Crime

Michelle L. Canfield

Initial Placement: College of William & Mary, VA

Thesis: Speculative Attacks and a Balance of Payments Crisis: An Optimizing Approach

Jessica B. Horowitz

Initial Placement: Putnam, Hayes, & Bartlett, Inc.

Thesis: Are Team Owners in the National Football League Profit Maximizers?

Thomas D. Jeitschko

Initial Placement: Texas A&M University

Thesis: The Role of Information in Sequential Auctions

Gladys C. Lopez

Initial Placement: ITAM (Mexico)

Thesis: Equilibrium Behavior in Posted Price Markets

Maria A. Mabry

Initial Placement: University of North Carolina-Asheville

Thesis: The Effects of State Incentives to Business on Location and Factor Usage

Roger R. Rodriguez

Initial Placement: J.W. Wilson Consulting, Washington, D.C.

Thesis: The Buying Option for Electric Utilities: New Regulatory Policies in Electricity Generation

Benjamin P. Scafidi

Initial Placement: NYU Law School

Thesis: Neighborhood, Housing and School Choice

1994

Amy D. Crews

Initial Placement: Syracuse University

Thesis: Self-Selection and Administrative Selection in the Estimation of the Effects of In-Kind Transfers

Dirk W. Early

Initial Placement: Southwestern College, CA

Thesis: Causes of Homelessness: An Empirical Analysis Using Choice-Based Sampling

John R. Elder

Initial Placement: Bryant College, RI

Thesis: The Effects of Monetary Policy Uncertainty: A Heteroskedastic Vector Autoregression Analysis

Thomas Kinnaman

Initial Placement: Bucknell University, PA

Thesis: Three Essays on the Economics of Household Solid Waste Disposal and the Effect of Unit-Based Pricing

Richard McGrath

Initial Placement: College of William & Mary, VA

Thesis: Saving Differences Among Generations or Over Time? An Investigation of the Saving Slowdown of the 1980s

Catherine O'Connor

Initial Placement: Ohio State University

Thesis: Early-Out Incentives: A Case Study of the U.S. Army's VSI/SSB Programs

Debra M. Patterson

Initial Placement: Trinity University, TX

Thesis: General Equilibrium Models of Eastern European Transition

1993

David Chesser

Initial Placement: University of Missouri at Columbia

Thesis: An Empirical Analysis of the Implications of the Sticky- and Flexible-Price Assumptions

Andrew J. Holliday

Initial Placement: Washington & Lee University, VA

Thesis: The Measurement of Antitrust Enforcement

Charles F. Kramer

Initial Placement: International Monetary Fund

Thesis: Macroeconomic Uncertainty And Asset Markets: Perspectives On The Size And January Anomalies

R. David Mullin

Initial Placement: Marietta College, OH

Thesis: Enhancing Taxpayer Compliance: Experimental Evidence on Alternative Policies

Debbie Mullin

Initial Placement: Marietta College, OH

Thesis: The Porous Umbrella of the AFL: Evidence from Late Nineteenth-Century State Labor Bureau Reports on the Growth of American Unions

Zhenhui Xu

Initial Placement: College of William & Mary, VA

Thesis: The Chinese Economy in the 1980s

Daniel Zabinski

Initial Placement: Agency for Health Care Policy and Research

Thesis: The Inefficiency of the Tax Preference for Employer-Provided Health Insurance

1992

Gregory Hopper

Initial Placement: Philadelphia Federal Reserve

Thesis: Three Essays in International Finance

Regis Renault

Initial Placement: Univ. of Cergy-Pontoise (France)

Thesis: Strategic Behavior in Long Term Relationships

1991

Eric Engen

Initial Placement: UCLA

Thesis: Precautionary Saving, Consumption, and Taxation in a Life-Cycle Model with Stochastic Earnings and Mortality Risk

Derek Neal

Initial Placement: University of Chicago

Thesis: Sources of Inter-Industry Wage Differentials

Michael Palumbo

Initial Placement: University of Houston

Thesis: Health Uncertainty Near the End of the Life Cycle

D. Keith Sill

Initial Placement: Philadelphia Federal Reserve

Thesis: Money in the Cash-in-Advance Model: An Empirical Implementation

Mitchell Stern

Initial Placement: University of Tennessee

Thesis: Estimation & Testing of the Poisson Jump-Diffusion Model for Option on Stocks

Harold York

Initial Placement: Exxon Corporation

Thesis: A General Equilibrium Model of International Tax Competition