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Placement of University of Virginia Ph.D. Students
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Year |
Student's Name |
Initial Job |
Thesis Title |
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| 2007 | Kyungsoo Cha | Korea Energy Economic Institute (KEEI) | Understanding the Effects of Stochastic Fiscal Policy Shocks on Business Cycle Fluctuations |
| 2007 | Scott E. Davis | CNA Corporation | A Structural Model of the Effects of Housing Vouchers on Housing Consumption and Labor Supply |
| 2007 | Jose M. Fernandez | University of Louisville, KY | A Dynamic Empirical Model of Patient Learning and Experimentation using Clinical Trial Data |
| 2007 | Chunwei La | Hong Kong Polytechnic University | Essays on International Trade and Human Capital |
| 2007 | Daniel MacKay | College of William and Mary, Public Policy School | Estimating the Impact of the Tax Reform Act of 1986 on Aircraft Demand |
| 2007 | Catherine Tyler Mooney | The University of Oklahoma | Market Power in the Media: A Structural Empirical Anlaysis of the Radio Broadcasting Industry, 1998-2003 |
| 2007 | Panayiotis M. Pourpourides | Cardiff Business School, Cardiff University | Essays on Wages and Wage Inequality Over the Business Cycle |
| 2007 | Marc Santugini | HEC Montreal, Institure of Applie Economics | Observational Learning in the Motion Picture Market |
| 2007 | Sarah Simmons | Rhodes College, TN | Welfare (to School?) to Work: How Welfare Reform Affects Collegiate Attainment |
| 2006 | Naoko Akashi | California State University, Fullerton | The Effects of Insurers' Hospital Choice Restrictions on the Demand for Health Care |
| 2006 | Erhan Artuc | Koc University | Essays on Trade Policy and Labor Mobility |
| 2006 | Keith Brand | Federal Trade Commission | A Structural Model of Health Insurance Choice and Health Care Demand in the Medicare Managed Care Program |
| 2006 | Paul Carrillo | George Washington University | An Equilibrium Search Model for Buyers and Sellers and an Empirical Application for the Real Estate Market |
| 2006 | Levent Celik | CERGE-EI | Essays on the Economics of Informative Advertising with Applications to the Television Industry |
| 2006 | Ufuk Devrim Demirel | University of Colorado at Boulder | Essays on Macroeconomic Policies and Stabilization |
| 2006 | Sangyeon Hwang | Samsung Economic Research Institute | Essays on Exchange Rates and Optimal Monetary Policy |
| 2006 | Jayani Jayawardhana | Center for Health Economic and Policy Studies, Medical University of South Carolina | Direct-to-Consumer Advertising and Welfare: A Structural Model of Consumers and Firms in the Market for Prescription Drugs |
| 2006 | Bilgehan Karabay | Central Bank of Turkey | Essays on International Trade and Political Economy: The Importance of Incentives, Information, and Globalization |
| 2006 | Serguey Khovansky | Mount Saint Mary College | Effects of Expected Utility Maximization on Composition and Pricing of Financial Derivatives |
| 2006 | Ken-Shih Lin | Fannie Mae | Essays on Asset Allocation and Option Returns |
| 2006 | Fangzhou(Carrie) Na | Fannie Mae | Derivative Pricing and Portfolio Choice under Flexible Non-Linear Return Dynamics |
| 2006 | Esen Onur | UC Davis (postdoc) | The Role of Asymmetric Information Among Investors in the Foreign Exchange Market |
| 2006 | Ganesh Seshan | Georgetown School of Foreign Service | Assessing the Distributional Impact of Trade Liberalization in a Developing Country |
| 2006 | Ki Eun Shim | SK Research Institute for SUPEX Management | Border Effects and FDI: Can FDI Explain the Border Puzzle? |
| 2005 | William Craighead |
Miami University of Ohio | Real Rigidities and Exchange Rate Dynamics |
| 2005 | Christina Rennhoff | St. Joseph's University | Employee Choice of Health Plan and Consumption of Health Care under Employer-Provided Plans |
| 2005 | Loren Smith | Federal Trade Commission | A Dynamic Equilibrium Model of Demand for New and Used Commercial Aircraft |
| 2005 | Sangwon Suh | Bank of Korea-Inst. for Monetary and Economic Res. | Orthogonal Polynomials in Pricing Options by the PDE and Martingale Approaches |
| 2005 | Steve Trost | US International Trade Commission | Issues in Corporate Philanthropy |
| 2005 | Ken Wilbur | USC Marshall School of Business (Marketing Dept) | Not All Eyeballs are Created Equal: A Structural Equilibrium Model of Television Advertisers, Networks, and Viewers |
| 2005 | Yutaka Yoshino | World Bank | Testing Pollution Havens Inside and Outside Regional Trading Blocs |
| 2004 | Craig Edwards | State Street Global Advisors | Option Pricing with Continuous-time Markov Chain Regime Switching |
| 2004 | Beth Freeborn | College of William and Mary | An Equilibrium Search Model of the Retail Cocaine Market and Drug Law Enforcement |
| 2004 | Hyejoon Im | POSCO Research Institute | Trading Blocs and Foreign Direct Investment: Theory and Empirics |
| 2004 | Sadayuki Ono | University of York | Essays on the Term Structure of Interest Rates and the Pricing of Equity Options |
| 2004 | Paul Sullivan | University of Michigan (postdoc) | A Dynamic Analysis of Educational, Occupational, and Inter-firm Mobility Decisions |
| 2004 | Haimanot Teferra | International Monetary Fund | Essays in Spillovers from Foreign Direct Investment and Economic Growth |
| 2003 | David Arseneau | Board of Governors | The Time Consistency Problem of Monetary Policy in the Open Economy: Theory and Evidence |
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2003 |
Kristin Adams Fink |
James Madison University |
Regime-Switching in the Term Structure of Interest Rates |
| 2003 | Jason Fink | James Madison University | Essays on Option Hedging and Estimation When Volatility is Stochastic |
| 2003 | Jessica S. Howell | California State University at Sacramento | A Structural Equilibrium Model of the Market for Higher Education: Assessing the Impact of Eliminating Affirmative Action |
| 2003 | Yun-Kwong Kwok | Deakin University (Australia) | Essays on Global Factor Trade and New Open Economy Macroeconomics |
| 2003 | Kara Olson | American University | The Consequences of U.S. Antidumping Laws |
| 2003 | Julia Rongying Qiu | Citigroup Corp. | Put Warrants: How They Hare are Valued and How They Affect Managerial Incentives |
| 2003 | Adam Rennhoff | Drexel University | A Theoretical and Empirical Investigation of Slotting Allowances in the Grocery Industry |
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2002 |
David Byrne |
Federal Reserve Board |
An Empirical Equilibrium Search-Matching Model of Unemployment |
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2002 |
Michelle Goeree |
Universiteit van Amsterdam |
Informative Advertising and the US Personal Computer Market: A Structural Empirical Examination |
| 2002 | Yong Joe | Fannie Mae |
Market Liquidity and Volatility Forecasting |
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2002 |
Ben Keen |
Texas Tech University |
A Theoretical and Empirical Examination of the Liquidity Effect |
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2002 |
Andre Kurmann |
University of Quebec-Montreal |
New Keynesian Price and Cost Dynamics: Theory and Evidence |
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2002 |
Richard Ruble |
Michigan State University |
Imperfect Competition between Buyers and Sellers |
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2002 |
John Turner |
University of Georgia-Athens |
The Patent Renaissance |
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2002 |
Yanchun Zhang |
San Francisco State University |
Essays on Current Account Dynamics |
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2001 |
Joe Attia |
Econ One, Inc. |
Financial and Economic Performance of Private Firms: The Case of Egypt |
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2001 |
Hua Fang |
Lukens Consulting Group, Inc. |
Jumps with Stochastic Rate: An Alternative Option Pricing Model |
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2001 |
Ben Keen |
Washington & Lee University |
A Theoretical and Empirical Examination of the Liquidity Effect |
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2001 |
Brian McManus |
Olin Business School at Washington University of St. Louis |
Nonlinear Pricing in an Oligopoly Market: The Case of Specialty Coffee |
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2001 |
Neil Seftor |
Mathematica Policy Research, Inc. |
Private Schools and the Market for Education: An Analysis of Objectives, Equilibria, and Responses to Government Policies |
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2001 |
Michelle Sheran |
UNC-Greensboro |
The Career and Family Choices of Women: a Dynamic Analysis of Labor Force Participation, Schooling, Marriage, and Fertility Decisions |
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2000 |
Spencer Graf |
Charles River Associates |
Research and Development Competition and the Persistence of Market Power: Theory and Evidence from the Chemical Industry |
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2000 |
Monica Hartmann |
University of St. Thomas |
An Examination of Airline Safety in a Structural Model of the Airline Industry |
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2000 |
Dan Jubinski |
College of William & Mary |
Equity Trading Volume and Volatility: An Investigation of fractional Integration and Cointegration |
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2000 |
Ellen Merry |
Federal Reserve |
The Effect of the Mortgage Interest Deduction on Mortgage Debt and Housing Demand |
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2000 |
James Weston |
Rice University |
Essays in Empirical Market Microstructure |
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1999 |
Thorsten Beck |
Young Professionals Program at World Bank |
Essays in International Trade and Financial Development |
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1999 |
Larry Kochard |
McIntire School of Commerce |
Option Pricing and Higher Order Moments of the Risk-Neutral Probability Density Function |
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1999 |
Steve Lange |
Fannie Mae |
Essays on Volatility and Comovement |
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1999 |
Yu-Li Wang |
National Dong Hwa University, Taiwan |
What Moves the Exchange Rate before a Monetary Union? |
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1998 |
C. Monica Capra |
University of Arkansas |
Noisy Expectation Formation in One-Shot Games. |
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1998 |
Jose Canals-Cerda |
University
of Colorado at Boulder |
Equilibrium Models of the Labor Market: A Theoretical and Empirical Investigation. |
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1998 |
Laura L. Clauser |
U.S. Department of Treasury |
A Dynamic, General Equilibrium Analysis of Flood Insurance, Floodplain Development, and Sea Level Rise. |
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1998 |
Kevin H. McIntyre |
Regional Financial Associates, Inc. |
Three Essays in International Business Cycles. |
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1998 |
Jorge A. Raygoza |
Universidad Iberoamericana |
The
Distribution of Benefits of Site-and-Services Programs |
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1998 |
Julia K. Thomas |
Carnegie Mellon University |
Nonconvexities, Discrete Individual Choices and the Business Cycle. |
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1997 |
Tim R. Adam |
Hong
Kong University of |
Dynamic Corporate Risk Management. |
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1997 |
Mikel R. Ham |
Economic Analysis Corp. |
Rental-Car Service Tenure and Downstream Vertical Integration in the Automobile Industry. |
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1997 |
Fredrick M. Holt |
Census Bureau |
The Family's Decision to Migrate: A Dynamic Analysis. |
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1997 |
Allison M. Ivory |
Joint
Committee on Taxation |
The Effect of the 1986 Tax Reform Act on Labor Supply and Tax Payer Compliance. |
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1997 |
Fidel Perez-Sebastian |
Public University of Navarra |
Invention and Use: Two Models of Technology Adoption. |
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1996 |
Robert T. Burrus |
Kenyon College |
Demand Abatement, Supply Reduction and Legalization: A Theoretical Analysis of Drug Policy. |
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1996 |
Anthony W. Cheng |
Social Security Administration |
Estimating the Market Value of Deposit Insurance for Savings and Loans. |
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1996 |
Eric P. Eller |
UNC-Greensboro |
Tariff Barriers, Liberalization, and Economic Growth. |
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1996 |
Jeffrey R. Havsy |
Chicago Board of Trade |
A Model of Improved Option Pricing Through Theoretical Volatility Determination. |
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1996 |
Neeta Sinha |
Bristol, Myers, and Squibb |
Estimation of the Effects of Alternate Food Subsidies on Nutrition Levels. |
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1996 |
Todd R. Stinebrickner |
University
of Michigan |
A Dynamic, Discrete Choice Model of Teacher Attrition. |
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1996 |
Christopher A. Swann |
University
of Michigan |
A Dynamic Analysis of Marriage, Labor Force Participation, and Participation in the AFDC Program. |
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1996 |
Alexander R. Wolman |
Richmond Federal Reserve |
Four Essays on Monetary Economics. |
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1995 |
Lisa R. Anderson |
American University |
Information Cascades. |
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1995 |
Peter M. Bearse |
University of Tennessee |
Essays on the Economics of Crime. |
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1995 |
Michelle L. Canfield |
William & Mary |
Speculative Attacks and a Balance of Payments Crisis: An Optimizing Approach. |
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1995 |
Jessica B. Horowitz |
Putnam, Hayes, & Bartlett, Inc. |
Are Team Owners in the National Football League Profit Maximizers? |
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1995 |
Thomas D. Jeitschko |
Texas A&M University |
The Role of Information in Sequential Auctions. |
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1995 |
Gladys C. Lopez |
ITAM (Mexico) |
Equilibrium Behavior in Posted Price Markets. |
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1995 |
Maria A. Mabry |
UNC-Asheville |
The Effects of State Incentives to Business on Location and Factor Usage. |
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1995 |
Roger R. Rodriguez |
J.W. Wilson Consulting (D.C.) |
The Buying Option for Electric Utilities: New Regulatory Policies in Electricity Generation. |
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1995 |
Benjamin P. Scafidi |
NYU Law School |
Neighborhood, Housing and School Choice. |
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1994 |
Amy D. Crews |
Syracuse |
Self-Selection and Administrative Selection in the Estimation of the Effects of In-Kind Transfers. |
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1994 |
Dirk W. Early |
Southwestern College |
Causes of Homelessness: An Empirical Analysis Using Choice-Based Sampling. |
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1994 |
John R. Elder |
Bryant College |
The Effects of Monetary Policy Uncertainty: A Heteroskedastic Vector Autoregression Analysis. |
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1994 |
Thomas Kinnaman |
Bucknell |
Three Essays on the Economics of Household Solid Waste Disposal and the Effect of Unit-Based Pricing. |
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1994 |
Richard McGrath |
William & Mary |
Saving Differences Among Generations or Over Time? An Investigation of the Saving Slowdown of the 1980's. |
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1994 |
Catherine O'Connor |
Ohio State |
Early-Out Incentives: A Case Study of the U.S. Army's VSI/SSB Programs. |
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1994 |
Debra M. Patterson |
Trinity University-Texas |
General Equilibrium Models of Eastern European Transition. |
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1993 |
David Chesser |
Univ. of Missouri at Columbia |
An Empirical Analysis of the Implications of the Sticky- and Flexible-Price Assumptions. |
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1993 |
Andrew J. Holliday |
Washington & Lee Univ. |
The Measurement of Antitrust Enforcement. |
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1993 |
Charles F. Kramer |
International Monetary Fund |
Macroeconomic Uncertainty And Asset Markets: Perspectives On The Size And January Anomalies. |
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1993 |
Debbie Mullin |
Marietta College |
The Porous Umbrella of the AFL: Evidence from Late Nineteenth-Century State Labor Bureau Reports on the Growth of American Unions. |
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1993 |
R. David Mullin |
Marietta College |
Enhancing Taxpayer Compliance: Experimental Evidence on Alternative Policies. |
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1993 |
Zhenhui Xu |
William & Mary |
The Chinese Economy in the 1980's. |
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1993 |
Daniel Zabinski |
Agency for Health Care Policy and Research |
The Inefficiency of the Tax Preference for Employer-Provided Health Insurance. |
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1992 |
Gregory Hopper |
Philadelphia Federal Reserve |
Three Essays in International Finance. |
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1992 |
Regis Renault |
Univ. of Cergy-Pontoise (France) |
Strategic Behavior in Long Term Relationships. |
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1992 |
Francisco Ruge-Murcia |
Cambridge Univ., UK (post doc) |
Essays On Credibility, Fiscal Reform and Inflation Stabilization. |
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1991 |
Eric Engen |
UCLA |
Precautionary Saving, Consumption, and Taxation in a Life-Cycle Model with Stochastic Earnings and Mortality Risk |
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1991 |
Derek Neal |
Univ. of Chicago |
Sources of Inter-Industry Wage Differentials. |
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1991 |
Michael Palumbo |
Univ. of Houston |
Health Uncertainty Near the End of the Life Cycle. |
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1991 |
D. Keith Sill |
Philadelphia Federal Reserve |
Money in the Cash-in-Advance Model: An Empirical Implementation. |
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1991 |
Mitchell Stern |
Univ. of Tennessee |
Estimation & Testing of the Poisson Jump-Diffusion Model for Option on Stocks. |
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1991 |
Harold York |
Exxon Corporation |
A General Equilibrium Model of International Tax Competition. |
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