Job Candidates
We are pleased to present our current job market candidates. As a group, they have much experience in presenting and publishing their research and in teaching. Please feel free to review each candidate's CV by clicking on the student's name. You may contact the candidates directly via email, or contact the Graduate Economics Program Director Tamah Morant for more information about the candidates.
Our Graduate Economics program has a long history of preparing students for careers in academia, government and the private sector. The program has over 50 graduate faculty members from both College of Management and College of Agricultural and Life Sciences, providing a variety of fields of specialization including macro-monetary economics, international trade, econometrics, agricultural economics, environmental and resource economics, microeconomics, and financial economics. Given the program's strong empirical focus, our alumni have excelled not only in academia and government, but also in the corporate world with many of our graduates entering into applied research divisions of the private sector.
PhD Job Candidates
(Curriculum Vitae are linked to the candidate's name. CVs are PDF files unless otherwise noted. PDF files may be viewed using the FREE Adobe Acrobat Viewer.)
Neveen Ahmed
(email)
Fields: macroeconomic policy, financial economics, economics of retirement, industrial organization
Dissertation: Three Essays on Portfolio Choice: An Empirical Investigation
Fatih Altunok (website)
(email)
Fields: financial economics, macroeconomics, corporate finance, applied econometrics
Dissertation: Three Essays on Trade Credit
Hee-Jung Choi
(email)
Fields: agricultural economics, applied microeconomics, industrial organization, applied econometrics
Dissertation: Three Essays on the Welfare Effect of Organic Milk Introduction
Michael Fan (website)
(email)
Fields: econometric theory, shrinkage estimation, model selection
Dissertation: The Adaptive Lasso Method for Instrumental Variable Selection
Yehushua Shay Fatal
(email)
Fields: industrial organization, econometrics, business management
Dissertation: The Effect of Ethanol Plant Siting on the Corn Market
Kevin Furlong (web-site)
(email)
Fields: industrial organization, applied microeconomics, econometrics
Dissertation: The Competitive Effects of Variety
Timothy Hamilton (web-site)
(email)
Fields: environmental economics, applied microeconomics, microeconometrics
Dissertation: A Multi-Level Residential Sorting Model with an Application to Quality Adjusted Income
Xu Han (web-page)
(email)
Research Presentation: Tests for Overidentifying Restrictions in Factor-Augmented VAR Models
Fields: econometrics, forecasting, empirical macroeconomics
Dissertation: Structural Break, Model Selection, and Overidentification in Dynamic Factor Models
Chien-Yu Huang (web-page)
(email)
Fields: macroeconomics, economic growth, applied econometrics, international finance
Dissertation: Information and Supporting Services in a R&D-based Variety Expansion Model of Economic Growth
Lei Ji (web-page)
(email)
Fields: economic growth and development, international trade, macroeconomics, industrial organization, econometrics
Dissertation: Dynamic Comparative Advantage and Trade under Schumpeterian Growth
Jonathan Lee (web-page)
(email)
Fields: environmental economics, industrial organization
Dissertation: A Quasi-Experimental Approach to Estimating the Value of Reducing Risk
Feng Qiu (web-page)
(email)
Fields: agricultural policy analysis, risk and insurance modeling, market and price analysis, applied econometrics
Dissertation: Three Essays on Government Policy and Farmland Markets
Ligia Vado Sequeira
(email)
Fields: agricultural economics, international trade, agricultural risk, insurance, international economic development.
Dissertation: Three Essays on Agricultural Risk, Insurance, and Technology
Hernan Tejeda (web-page)
(email)
Fields: applied econometrics and statistics, time series and applied microeconomics; risk analysis in commodity markets, agricultural price analysis, crop insurance, financial economics.
Dissertation: Issues Regarding Price Risk in Agricultural Commodity Markets
Cengiz Tunc (web-page)
(email)
Fields: housing economics, portfolio allocation, asset pricing, macroeconomics, time series
Dissertation: Essays on Housing Investment and Portfolio Allocation
Qifeng Weng (web-page)
(email)
Fields: econometrics, applied microeconomics
Congnan Zhan (website)
(email)
Fields: empirical industrial organization, applied microeconomics, applied econometrics
Dissertation: Essays on Empirical Analysis of Price Discrimination
Haiqing Zheng (website)
(email)
Fields: financial econometrics, asset pricing, mathematical finance, empirical market
microstructure, risk management
Dissertation: Modeling Volatility and Durations with High-Frequency Financial Data
Master's Job Candidates
Lakshmi Ashok (web-page)
(email)
Fields of interest: corporate risk management, environmental economics
Peter Lung
(email)
Shujun Zhang
(email)