Graduate Economics

Economics Ph.D. Candidates 2011-2012
Available for positions

Placement Officer: kevin.huang@vanderbilt.edu
PDF copy of VU CV packet

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   CARTER, Susan

susan.carter@vanderbilt.edu
(cell) 336-655-6912

CV

Primary Fields: Consumer Finance, Applied Microeconomics
Dissertation Title: Essays in Consumer Finance: Bankruptcy and Fringe Banking
Job Market Paper: "Payday Loan and Pawnshop Usage: The Impact of Allowing Payday Loan Rollovers"

Advisor : Paige Skiba

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   CHEN, Heng

heng.chen@vanderbilt.edu
(cell) 615-686-0316

CV

Primary Fields: Econometric Theory, Applied Econometrics
Dissertation Title:Essays on Wavelet Estimation of the Local Average Treatment Effect
Job Market Paper: "Local Polynomial Wavelet Estimation of the Local Average Treatment Effect"

Advisor: Yanqin Fan

 

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   CHEN, Kan

kan.chen@vanderbilt.edu
(cell) 615-945-2135

CV

Primary Fields: International Macroeconomics, Bayesian Econometrics
Dissertation Title:Essays on International Real Business Cycles
Job Market Paper: "General and Partial Equilibrium RBC Models for Open Economy"

Advisor: Mario Crucini

 

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   FADLON, Yariv

yariv.fadlon@vanderbilt.edu
(cell) 615-818-6932

CV

Primary Fields: Labor and Econometrics
Dissertation Title: Essays on Statistical Discrimination and on the Payoff to Publishing in Economics Journals
Job Market Paper: "Statistical Discrimination and the Implications of Employer-Employee Racial Matches"

Advisors: Andrea Moro     Myrna Wooders

 

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   GENTRY, Matthew

matthew.l.gentry@vanderbilt.edu
(cell) 615-416-0891

CV

Primary Fields: Empirical Industrial Organization, Microeconometrics
Dissertation Title: Essays on the Structural Econometrics of Selection and Search
Job Market Paper: "Displays, Sales, and In-Store Search in Retail Markets"

Advisor: Tong Li

 

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   GLANDON, P.J.

pj.glandon@vanderbilt.edu
(cell) 513-658-0050

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Primary Fields: Money, Macroeconomics, Industrial Organization
Dissertation Title: The Economics of Sales
Job Market Paper: "Sales and the (Mis)Measurement of Price Level Fluctuations"

Advisor: Ben Eden

 

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   HONG, Sunghoon

sunghoon.hong@vanderbilt.edu
(cell) 615-3397325

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Primary Fields: Game Theory, Public Economics, Experimental Economics
Dissertation Title: The Economics of Network Flows
Job Market Paper: "Network Bads: How Bottlenecks Matter "

Advisor: Myrna Wooders

 

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   NAKKAS, Alper

alper.nakkas@vanderbilt.edu
(cell) 615-983-0564

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Primary Fields:Industrial Organization, Advanced Economic Theory
Dissertation Title:Essays on Two-Sided Markets with Externalities
Job Market Paper: "Category Captainship: When Should Retailers Outsource Category Management?"

Advisor: Quan Wen

 

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   NIEMESH, GREGORY

gregory.t.niemesh@vanderbilt.edu
(cell) 703-909-6336

CV

Primary Fields: Economic History, Health Economics, Labor Economics
Dissertation Title:The Economic and Health Benefits of Food Fortification in the United States
Job Market Paper: "Ironing Out Deficiencies: Evidence from the United States on the Economic Effects of Iron Deficiency"

Advisor: William Collins

 

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   STROUP, Caleb

caleb.stroup@vanderbilt.edu
(cell) 704-609-6432

CV

Primary Fields: Financial Economics, International Economics, Industrial Organization
Dissertation Title: Essays in Financial and International Economics
Job Market Paper: "International Experience and Cross-Border Mergers"

Advisor: Peter Rousseau

 

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   YANG, Xiu

xiu.yang@vanderbilt.edu
(cell) 615-403-9951

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Primary Fields: Macroeconomics and Finance
Dissertation Title: Three Essays on Financial Development, Financial Integration and Growth
Job Market Paper: "Financial Integration and Economic Growth"

Advisor: Peter Rousseau