PhD dissertations since 2010
AY 2023 - 2024
Dadmehr Digdar - Essays on Marriage Market and Intra-Household Allocation (Yuya Takahashi)
Sean Ewan - Essays in Empirical Industrial Organization (Yuya Takahashi)
Theresa Henry - Predicting Formal Financial Account Access Using Machine (Rachel Heath)
Reina Kawai - Evaluating Forecasts in Times of Financial Turmoil (Theo Eicher)
Jungyoon Kim - Three Essays on Econometrics of Networks (Alan Griffith)
Junwei Mao - Essays on Risk Avoidance Behaviors (Xu Tan)
Jackson Monroe - Three Essays on Regression Discontinuity (Alan Griffith)
Jorge Rivero - Contemporary Approaches to Classical Econometrics: Measure Transport Applications in Multivariate Inequality Analysis and Fixed Effects (Yanqin Fan)
Wendao Xue - Essays on Optimal Transport Theory and Causal Inference: A Theoretical and Empirical Approach (Yanqin Fan)
AY 2022-2023
Yacoub Alatrash - Essays on Macroeconomics and Economic Policy in Emerging Economies (Fabio Ghironi)
Qiliang Chen - Essays on Globalization, Skill Upgrading, and the Labor Market (Stephen Turnovsky)
Vinod Dharmarajan - Essays on Industrial Organization of Banking and Finance (Dong-Jae Eun)
Victoria Ziqi Hang - Essays on Information Gathering and Signal Design (Fahad Khalil/Jacques Lawarree)
Seungryul Jeong - Essays on Asset Pricing and International Finance (Chang-Jin Kim)
Yuming Liu - Essays on Empirical Asset Pricing and Time Series Forecasting (Eric Zivot)
Zhe Liu - Essays on Development Economics (Rachel Heath)
Yue Ma - Reddit, Retail Trading, and Uncertainty (Eric Zivot)
Gani Nurmukhametov - Essays on remittances and macroeconomic policy in developing economies (Fabio Ghironi)
Jeewon Park - Essays on the Various Aspects of Portfolio Flow in Emerging Markets (Yu-Chin Chen)
Kovid Puria - Essays on Financial Stability (Eric Zivot)
Zhou Yang - Essays on the Digital Transformation of Retail Grocery Industry (Yuya Takahashi)
AY 2021 - 2022
Ying-Chin Chen - Essays on Applied Econometrics (Yuya Takahashi)
Luis Diego Granera Vega - Essays in Health and Development (Rachel Heath)
Qifan Huang - Essays on Industrial Organization and Platform Economy (Yuya Takahashi)
Samin Jalali - Heterogeneous Impact of Medicaid Expansion Program in Oregon and Generalizing Effects to Other States (Jing Tao/Anirban Basu)
Kyongjun Kwak - Essays on International Capital Flows and Management in Emerging Market Economies (Yu-Chin Chen)
Yida Li - Essays on International Finance and Currency Economics (Yu-Chin Chen)
Hyeonseok Park - Non-likelihood based methods for the estimation and inference in econometric models (Yanqin Fan)
Ferdous Sardar - Essays on Health Behaviors in Developing Countries (Rachel Heath)
Chujian Shao - Essays on International Trade and Macroeconomics (Stephen Turnovsky)
Tongyuan Shen - Essays on Dynamic Contracting with Present Bias (Fahad Khalil/Jacques Lawarree)
Kwong-Yu Wong - Essays in Empirical Industrial Organization (Yuya Takahashi)
Lia Xu - Essays on the Economics of the Motion Picture Industry (Yuya Takahashi)
Castiel Zhuang - Essays on China's Health Care and Skill Upgrading Decisions (Yuya Takahashi)
2021
Ibrahim Demir - Demographic Change, Social Security, and Lifetime Decision Making (Stephen Turnovsky)
Thor Dodson - The Impact of Roads on Agglomeration (Robert Halvorsen)
Joan Camilo Granados Castro - Essays on International Macroprudential Policy Interactions (Yu-Chin Chen)
Shuo Jiang - Essays on the Econometrics of Games (Yanqin Fan)
Kathy Jung - Digital Platforms and the Sharing Economy (Patrick Bajari) - summer 2022
Taehoon Kwon - Essays in Development Economics (Rachel Heath)
Ryan Mitchell - Using Mixed Frequency Data to Forecast Recessions and GDP (Yu-Chin Chen)
Yuan Gao Rollinson - Policies as Determinants for Economic Performance (Theo Eicher)
Pushpak Sarkar - Essays on Financial Market (Eric Zivot/Yu-Chin Chen)
Zinan Wang - Market Power, Globalization and Labor Market Trends (Stephen Turnovsky)
Chi-Hui Yen - Essays on the Economics of Payment Card Industry (Yuya Takahashi)
2020
Shikha Agarwal - Regional Variation in U.S. Homeownership Rates (Eric Zivot/Thomas Gilbert)
Dmitry Brizhatyuk - Essays on business cycles and endogenous growth (Fabio Ghironi)
An-Tsu Chen - Essays on Information Economics (Xu Tan/Quan Wen)
Eui Ran Chon - Essays on Labor and Development Economics (Elaina Rose)
Iffat Chowdhury - Essays on Development Economics (Rachel Heath)
Ziran Ding - Trade Policy with Firm Heterogeneity, Variable Markups, and Foreign Direct Investment (Theo Eicher)
Justin Downs - Essays on Optimal Contracts with Overconfidence (Fahad Khalil/Jacques Lawarree)
Zhe Jiang - Essays on Trade Liberalization and Labor Market Adjustments (Fabio Ghironi)
Yurim Lee - Essays on the Macroeconomics of Market Reforms and Self-Employment (Fabio Ghironi)
Elodie Marlet - The Mining Industry in Sub-Saharan Africa: Employment, Migration and Remittances (Philip Brock)
Eunmi Park - Essays on Empirical Industrial Organization (Dong Eun)
Xuetao Shi - Uniform Inference when parameters are subject to linear inequality constraints (Yanqin Fan)
2019
Nahyeon Bak - Essays on Dynamic Consumers' Brand Choice (Patrick Bajari)
Guillermo Gallacher - Essays on Globalization and Structural Change (Fabio Ghironi)
Marie Guldin - Essays on Fish Processors and Catch Shares (Robert Halvorsen/Chris Anderson)
Agraj Gupta - Essays on Regulations in Peer-To-Peer Markets (Patrick Bajari)
Daisoon Kim - Essays on International Trade and Business Cycles (Fabio Ghironi)
Jonghyun Kim - Essays on the Effects of Structural Reforms (Fabio Ghironi)
Sungcheol Kim - Three Essays on Capital Inflows to Emerging Markets (Philip Brock)
Rory Mullen - Essays on Firm-level and Aggregate Productivity and Risk (Fabio Ghironi)
Jingyi Ren - Essays on Currency Risks and Returns (Eric Zivot/Yu-Chin Chen)
Andres Mauricio Sanchez Jabba - After The Flood (Rachel Heath)
Hyo Jin Sonn - Essays on Financial Economics (Eric Zivot/Yu-Chin Chen)
Yang Su - Three Essays on Household Asset Allocation (Stephen Turnovsky/Thomas Gilbert)
2018
Keita Abe - Essays on Dynamic Behavior of Harvesters in Fisheries (Robert Halvorsen/Chris Anderson)
Yeuan (Allen) Chen - Three Essays in Fisheries Economics (Robert Halvorsen/Chris Anderson)
Andrew Clayton - Essays on Social Demand Estimation: Evidence from CAPS and Steam (Elaina Rose)
Yang Fan - Essays in Corporate Finances and Firm Dynamics (Mu-Jeung Yang)
Austin Gross - Behavioral Responses to Congestion Pricing (Robert Halvorsen)
Ken Ho - Essays on Dynamic Markets (Quan Wen)
Shih-Ting Huang – Essays on Policy Evaluation (Elaina Rose)
Shih-Tang Hwu - Essays on Nonparametric and Dynamic Time-Series Econometrics (Yanqin Fan/Chang-Jin Kim)
Weng-Chi (Florence) Lei - Three Essays on Foreign Trade, Offshoring and International Rivalry (Kar-Yiu Wong)
Mishita Mehra - Essays in Skilled Immigration Policy (Fabio Ghironi)
Jennifer Meredith - The Impact of Fisheries Reform: Property Rights Markets and the Drivers of Outmigration in Rural Alaska (Rachel Heath)
Byunghoon Nam - Essays on Exchange Rates and Term Structures (Yu-chin Chen)
Kara Ng - Essays on Financial Forecasting (Eric Zivot)
Raghav Paul - Three Essays on Policy Issues in International Macroeconomics (Fabio Ghironi)
Anthony Sanford - Essays in Asset Pricing: Extensions and Applications of the Recovery Theorem (Eric Zivot/Mu-Jeung Yang)
Sangeetha Srinivasan - Essays on Fitting Factor Models for Asset Returns (Eric Zivot)
Yun-Ling (Jocelyn) Wang - Essays on Bristol Bay Sockeye Salmon Commercial Fishery – Management Policies and Pricing Mechanism (Fahad Khalil/Chris Anderson)
2017
Vladimir Dashkeev – Essays on Heterogeneity in Fiscal Unions (Stephen Turnovsky)
Nail Hassairi – Essays on Labor Supply (Yoram Barzel)
Jenny Ho - Essays on Machine Learning in Applied Microeconomics (Pat Bajari)
Wan-Jung Hsu – Essays in Financial Economics (Eric Zivot/Levis Kochin)
Seunghan Lee – Essays on Stock Prices and Equity Premium (Chang-Jin Kim)
Alexander Rodivilov – Essays on Contract Theory and Mechanism Design (Fahad Khalil/Jacques Lawarrée)
Laine Rutledge – Essays on Labor Market Returns for Women in Developing Countries (Rachel Heath)
2016
Mahama Samir Bandaogo – Essays on Fiscal Policy, Monetary Policy, and Currency Unions: Exploring the Role of Informality and Labor Mobility (Ghironi/Chen)
Pasita Chaijaroen – Essays on Economic Impacts of Coral Bleaching: Evidence from Indonesia (Rachel Heath)
Thomas Fillebeen – How Do Small Players Deduce Beliefs about Uncertainty? A Look at Texas Shale Oil Investments (Robert Halvorsen/Chris Anderson)
Ming He – Nonparametric Identification and Structural Estimation of Auction Models (Yanqin Fan)
Alex Henke – Essays on Corruption and Enforcement (Fahad Khalil/Jacques Lawarrée)
Yangguang Huang – Essays on Procurement, Scoring Auction, and Quality Manipulation Corruption (Quan Wen/Yanqin Fan)
Alex Hubbard – Macroeconomic Dynamics of Market Risk Capital Requirements and Credit Supply Interdependence (Philip Brock)
Ying Jiang – Essays on the Analysis of Dynamic Games (Pat Bajari)
Kyungkeun Kim – Essays on International Asset Allocation and Pricing (Yu-chin Chen)
David Oxborrow – Essays on International Demographic Economics (Stephen Turnovsky)
Galip Kemal Ozhan - Essays in International Finance and Macroeconomics (Fabio Ghironi)
Inhwan So – Essays on Monetary Policy in Small Open Economies (Yu-chin Chen)
Miaoyu Yang – Essays on Machine Learning and Hedonic Models (Pat Bajari)
Muxin Zhai – Essays on Environmental and Health Economics (Robert Halvorsen)
2015
Bijetri Bose – Essays on Nonprofit Competition (Neil Bruce)
Yi-An Chen – Three Essays on Financial Economics (Eric Zivot)
Sora Chon – Estimation and Identification Issues in Monetary Policy Rules (Chang-Jin Kim)
Kaihua Deng – Another Look at Stock Return Comovement: Some New Evidence and Test (Eric Zivot)
Chien-Hao Fu – Essays on Intergenerational Transfers and Living Arrangements (Neil Bruce)
Ranganai Gwati – Foreign Exchange Options and the Economics of Exchange Rates (Yu-chin Chen)
Chasya Hoagland – The Impact of Identity and Self-Perception on Labor Market Outcomes (Yoram Barzel)
Woo Hyung Hong – Essays on Information, Competition, and Pricing Dynamics in the Retail Gasoline Market (Fahad Khalil)
Nick Huntington-Klein – Beliefs, Choice Structure, and Human Capital Investment (Elaina Rose)
Atsuko Izumi – Three Essays on Corporate Finance and Firm Dynamics (Mu-Jeung Yang)
Seojin Lee – Essays on the Puzzles in International Finance (Chang-Jin Kim)
Zhi Li – Private Provision of Public Goods: Uniform Price Mechanisms with a Threshold and Dynamics with a Tipping Point (Quan Wen/Chris Anderson)
Ruixuan Liu – Identification and Inference of Duration Models Driven by Stochastic Processes (Yanqin Fan)
Hui Mai – Three Essays on Family Economics (Seik Kim)
Javier Pereira – Essays in Financial Intermediation and Credit Risk (Yu-chin Chen)
Jorge Rojas Vallejos – Essays on Inequality, Economic Activity, and Globalization: Theory and Evidence (Stephen Turnovsky)
Syed Galib Sultan – Essays on Price Discovery Measure, Exchange-Traded Funds, and Liquidity (Eric Zivot)
2014
Shamma Alam – Three Essays in Development and Health Economics (Hendrik Wolff)
Emre Aylar – Essays on Time Series Econometrics (Eric Zivot)
Lin-Chi Hsu – Essays on the Economics of Crime and Family (Elaina Rose)
Benjamin Keefer – Essays on Risk and Uncertainty: Insights from Behavioral Economics (Fahad Khalil/Jacques Lawarrée)
Jaeho Kim – Essays on Bayesian Econometrics (Chang-Jin Kim)
David Kuenzel – Essays on Institutional and Macroeconomic Aspects of International Trade (Theo Eicher)
Dongwon Lee – Essays in International Finance (Stephen Turnovsky)
Edgar Luna – Parameter Instability, Expectations, Exogenous Fiscal Shocks, and the Relationship between Taxes and Government Spending (Levis Kochin)
Clark Lundberg – Time Scale Macroeconometrics (Eric Zivot)
Xuyang Ma – Essays on Return Predictability and Yield Factors (Eric Zivot)
Skylar Olsen – Essays on Water and Energy Economics (Hendrik Wolff)
Justin Robertson – Essays on Health Care Provider Behavior (Fahad Khalil)
Joseph Saenz – New Approaches to Institutional Portfolio Performance Attribution and Private Equity Risk (Eric Zivot)
Alice Su – Essays on Contract Theory (Fahad Khalil)
Yu-hsuan Su – Essays on Household Behavior in Developing Economies (Judith Thornton)
Ho Po Wong – Essays on Family Law and the Family (Elaina Rose)
2013
Joelle Abramowitz – Essays on Health, Family, and Work Choices (Judith Thornton)
Danny Brent – Essays on Water Resource Economics (Hendrik Wolff)
Ercument Cahan – Inferential Theory for Factor Models of Large Dimensions under Monotone Missing Data (Eric Zivot)
Joseph Dieleman – Three Essays on Government Health Expenditure (Hendrik Wolff)
Yu-Fan Huang – Essays on Empirical Macroeconomics (Richard Startz)
Kohei Kiya – Essays on Subjective Well-Being and Public Finance (Neil Bruce)
Sang Bum Ko – Essays on Traditional IRAs and Roth IRAs: Effects on Household Saving and the Participation Choice (Neil Bruce)
Daeyong Lee – Taxation and Household Financial Decisions: Evidence from the Bush Tax Acts (Neil Bruce)
Sui Luo – Empirical Analysis on U.S. Real Output (Richard Startz)
Xiaolin Sun – Essays on Applications of the Factor Model (Eric Zivot)
Dan Wang – Three Essays on Land Rights, Labor Mobility, and Human Capital Investment in China (Judith Thornton)
2012
Fei-Chien Chang – Pensions and Household Saving in the United States (Neil Bruce)
Brian Donhauser – Jump Variation from High-Frequency Asset Returns: New Estimation Methods (Eric Zivot)
Rodica Gilles – An Economic Analysis of Secure Messaging Between Patients and Providers (Seik Kim)
Jee Young Lee – Essays of Financial Econometrics (Eric Zivot)
Aditi Mitra – Essays on Macroeconomic Growth: The Role of Human Capital (Stephen Turnovsky)
Sumant Rai – Essays on Social Capital and Economics Growth (Stephen Turnovsky)
B. Daniel Willard – Fishing the Line: Spatial Response to Marine Protected Areas (Robert Halvorsen)
2011
Wahid Abdallah – Three Essays on the Economics of Corruption (Fahad Khalil)
D. Mark Anderson – Three Essays on Public Policy and Risky Youth Behavior (Claus Pörtner)
Sungjin Cho – Effects of Individual Retirement Accounts (IRAs) on Personal Savings (Neil Bruce)
Lindy Helfman- Essays on the determinants of aggregate foreign direct investment (Theo Eicher)
Cherl Hyun Kim – Essays on Price Discovery (Eric Zivot)
Momoe Makino – Essays on Population Economics and People’s Time Allocation (Claus Pörtner)
Krisztina Nagy – Term Structure Estimation with Missing Data (Richard Startz)
Jianguo Wang – The Study of a Developing Economy with Dual Production Structure (Stephen Turnovsky)
2010
Laura Berlinghieri – Essays on House Price Fluctuations in the U.S. (Richard Startz)
Kai-Hsi Chu – Essays on International Trade and Strategic Trade Policy (Edwin Wong)
Sebastian Fossati – Unit Root Tests, Structural Change, and Stationary Covariates (Eric Zivot)
Mike Hanlon – Transaction Costs, Legal Regimes and Intrahousehold Behavior (Yoram Barzel)
Pym Manopimoke – Essays on Empirical Macroeconomics: Inflation and Monetary Policy (Charles Nelson/Chang-Jin Kim)
Yu-I Peng – Social Security Claiming of the Elderly in the United States (Neil Bruce)
Nalina Varanasi – Essays in Labor Economics (Shelly Lundberg)
Edwin Wong – Determinants and Implications of Mortality Risk at the End of the Life Cycle (Claus Pörtner)