Economics PhD Placements and Dissertations

Department of Economics Recent PhD Placements
2023 Placements

Holden A. Diethorn - Assistant Professor, Kenyon College
Mengdi Hao - NORINCO Group, China
Tao Jin - Health Care Data Analyst, NYS Office of Mental Health
Li Lu - Visiting Assistant Professor, SUNY Geneseo
Daisuke Nakamura - Cabinet Office, Government of Japan
Jinwook Nam - Korea Development Institute, South Korea
Allison Nunez - Coleridge Initiative, USA
Jayanta Talukder - Associate Fellow, National Council of Applied Economic Research, India
Jinman Pang - Research Scientist, Center for Health Workforce Studies, University at Albany, SUNY
Xue Wu - Fellowship, Center for Disease Control and Prevention

 

2022 Placements

Liang Fu - Xi'an Jiaotong - Liverpool University, China
Sai Sindhura Gundavarapu - Analysis Group
Min Jang - Postdoc at University of Pennsylvania
Nayoung Kim - Capital One
Soonhong Min - Korea Institute for Industrial Economics and Trade, South Korea
Yue Sheng - Zhongnan University of Economics and Law, China
Won Sung - Research Institute at Bank of Korea, South Korea

2021 Placements

Peter Dang - MVP Health Care
Jun Soo Lee - CDC
Yichuan Wang - New York State Office of Addiction Services and Supports

2020 Placements

Soumyadeb Chatterjee - Amazon
Holden Diethorn - Postdoc at NBER
Jihye Kim - Boston Medical Center
Fangning Li - Wells Fargo
Tu Nguyen - Earnin Inc.
Rongzi Shan - Shenyang Normal University, China
Cheng Yang - Liaoning University, China

2019 Placements

Yuan Fang - Southwest University of Finance and Economics, Chengdu, China
Siyang Li - Capital One Financial
Huifeng Yu - GM Financial

2018 Placements

Gusang Kang - Korea Institute for International Economic Policy (KIEP)
Minhee Kim - Korea Information Society Development Institute (KISDI)
Xiangshi Liu - Southwest University of Finance and Economics, Chengdu, China
Wuwei Wang - Southwest University of Finance and Economics, Chengdu, China
Linna Xu - GM Financial
Duong Ngotran - FPT University, Hanoi, Vietnam
Akihiro Nomura - Japanese Cabnet Office

2017 Placements

Marshall Makate - Assistant Professor, Curtin University, Australia
Garima Siwach - American Institutes for Research
Yu Zou - Senior Research Analyst, Excelsior College

2016 Placements

Rui Cheng - GM Financial
Richa Saraf - Wells Fargo Bank
Kyonghoon Kim - Senior researcher, Korea International Trade Association
Na Cheng - PricewaterhouseCoopers
Yunan Lu - State Street Corporation
Cong Yu - Capital One Financial

2015 Placements

Si Gao - Quantitive Analyst, Macquarie Group
Hong Jiang - Wells Fargo
Jungtaek Lee - Korean Insurance Research Institute
Xin Li - MKP Capital Management
Daisuke Moriwaki - Cabinet Office, The Government of Japan
Dzung Kieu Nguyen - Initial placement: Researcher, Vietnam National University-Hanoi; New positions: Lecturer, Duy Tan University and Lecturer, FPT University (2023)
Fang Song - JPMorgan Chase
Qingbin Wang - Assistant Professor, Johnson & Wales University
Sifan Zhou - Initial Placement: Post Doctoral Researcher, Center of Mathematical Sciences and Applications, Harvard University, New Position: Assistant Professor, WISE, Xiamen University

2014 Placements

Brian Fischer - International Planning & Research Corporation
Lili Wu - Assistant Professor, China University of Petroleum
Souvik Banerjee - Initial Position: Post Doctoral Researcher, University of Washington
Current position: Assistant Professor, Boston University School of Medicine
Pu Li - State Street Corporation
Dohyung Kim - Associate Fellow, Korea Development Institute
Liu Yang - Assistant Professor, Nanjing University
Yongchen Zhao - Assistant Professor, Towson University

2013 Placements

Hyuk Chung - Initial Position: Korea Information Society Development Institute (KISDI)
Current position: Assistant Professor, ChungAng University
Li Li - Senior Economist/Fiscal Policy Analyst, New York State Division of the Budget
Min Chen - Standard and Poor's
Lei Li - Farmers Insurance
Chen Cao - Aristeia Capital

2012 Placements

Jingya Song - Capital One
Gang Liu - Citigroup
Xiaomei Li - Fannie Mae
Heesoo Joo - Post Doctoral Fellow, Center for Disease Control and Prevention

2011 Placements

Ranajoy Chaudhury - American Express
Siddhartha Chattopadhyay - Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur
Paul Noroski - Visiting Lecturer, University of Pittsburgh

2010 Placements

Yangyi Shan - Marketing Director, Guangzhou Caseone Cellphone Accesories Co. Ltd.
Jianbo Tian - Freddie Mac
Burak Dindaroglu - Assistant Professor, Izmir University of Economics, Balcova-Izmir, Turkey

Economic Student Dissertations
2015 Dissertations

Dzung Kieu Nguyen - Three Essays on Household Inequality, Bargaining and Child Custody
Si Gao - Fiscal Policy, Laffer Curves and Economic Growth
Fang Song - Three Essays on Higher Education

2014 Dissertations

Pu Li - Three Essays on Consumption, Portfolio Choice and Retirement Accounts           
Hong Jiang - A Stochastic Volatility Model with Leverage Effect and Regime Switching           
Brian Fischer - Essays on Health Insurance Reform           
Liu Yang - Forecasting Binary Outcomes: Estimation, Evaluation and Combination           
Souvik Banerjee - Psychiatric Disorders and their Impact on Labor Market Outcomes: A Latent Variable Approach Using Clinical Indicators          
Qingbin Wang - Geometric Information of Yield Curve, Unspanned Stochastic Volatility and Affine Health-Jarrow-Morton Models          
Lili Wu - Housing Disparity in China: Evidence from Spatial Prices, Policy Transmission and Wealth Distribution         
Yongchen Zhao - Essays on Forcasting with Survey Data and Many Predictors: Combination, Evaluation and Applications
Xiaomei Li - Local Power of Panel Unit Root Tests – Impact of Initial Values in Finite Samples      Dohyung Kim - Early health and Human Capital Accumulation: An Econometric Analysis Using PSID-CDS,1997-2007

2013 Dissertations

Hyuk Chung - Essays on Firm-level Dynamics of Innovation           
Li Li - Essays on Elderly Asset Management: The Role of Medical Expenses and Housing           
Chen Cao - Three Essays on Asset Allocation and Pricing           
Min Chen - Social Interaction and Youth Smoking
Lei Li - Three Essays in Health and Labor Economics

2012 Dissertations

Jingya Song - The Dynamics of Health Disparities among American Children: Socioeconomic Status, Family Environment and Intergenerational Transmission
Gang Liu - Essays on Corporate Default Risk and Equity Return
Heesoo Joo - Health Disparities among the U.S. Elderly

2011 Dissertations

Ranajoy Chaudhury - Household Structure, Asset Accumulation and Labor Supply
Paul Noroski - Self Assessed Health, Anchoring Vignettes, and Unobserved Heterogeneity in the Health and Retirement Study
Siddhartha Chattopadhyay - Monetary Policy and New-Keynesian Macroeconomics

2010 Dissertations

Yangyi Shan - Two-Sided Altruism, Social Insurance and Elderly Consumption
Jianbo Tian - Credit Shift, the Shadow Banking System and Banking Asset Flexibility: Evidence from Banks' Balance Sheet from 1975 to 2010
Burak Dindaroglu - Essays on R&D Spillovers and R&D Productivity

2009 Dissertations

Arindam Mandal - Essays on the Macroeconomics of Labor Markets
Sohini Sahu - A Macroeconomic Analysis of the Sources of Economic Growth in India
Pal Santanu - Technological change, trade and wage differential in developing countries
Kitae Sohn - Essays in Education Economics

 

2008 Dissertations

Yun Zheng - Essays on the Impact of the Asian Crisis on Exchange Rates
Hua Lin - VA Medical Care and Health Disparity: An Economic Study Based on National Survey of Veterans
Xuguang Sheng - Uncertainty and Disagreement in Economic Forecasting
Christos Shiamptanis - Monetary Union: Inflation, Fiscal Policy, and Risk

2007 Dissertations

Miao Zhong - Estimation of Portfolio Value-at-Risk and Expected Shortfall Using Copulas, Extreme Value Theory, and Doubly Noncentral t Distribution
Fushang Liu - Uncertainty and Asymmetric Loss: Estimates Using Density Forecasts
He Yan - Essays on Job Search
Xin Yuan - Social Security Programs and Retirement Behaviors in Korea and China: a micro estimation
Zulkarnain Pulungan - Between and Within Health Dispairities: Determinates Across Race/Ethnicity and Regions in the US

2006 Dissertations

Santadarshan Sadhu - The Impact of Dowry Remittances on Family Consumption, Labor Supply and Asset Accumulation.

2005 Dissertations

Gultekin Isiklar - Essays on Macroeconomic Forecasting
Xuelian Wang - Essays on Risk Management and Dependence across Stock Markets
Kumarjit Mandal - Essays in Monetary Policy Rule

2004 Dissertations

Jabonn Kim - Essays on Identification and Interference in the Simultaneous Equation Model with Weak Instruments
Wanjoong Kim - Dynamics of Employment & Real Exchange Rates in Developing Countries: Evidence from Three Asian Countries
Vincent Yao - Essays on Transportation and Business Cycles
Emrah Arbak - Essays on Endogenous Preference and Norms
Nandini Chatterjee - Borrowing Constraints: Analysis Based on a Financial Survey of US Households
Xueda Song - Essays on Technological Change & Labor Markets
Oz Aydemir - Essays in the Application of Extreme Value Theory to Financial and Electricity Markets

2003 Dissertations

Anusuya Roy (Chatterjee) - Non-Random Selections in the Head Start Program

2002 Dissertations

Guibo Xing - An Econometric Analysis of Veterans' Health Care Utilization
Aysegul Kocer - Imperfect Competition in the Higher Education Market with Financial Aid
Ismael Arciniegas - Understanding Speculative Attacks Aftermath's with Computational Economics
Duc Le - Optimal Lumpy Investment with Costly Reversibility

2001 Dissertations

Kisalaya Basu - Sequential and Circular Migration of Labor: Theory, Decision Rules, and Evidence
Woopill Hwang - Hospital Responses to Prospective Payment System, New York State
Sumati Srinivas - Labor Market Compositional Effects of Productivity
Michael Collins - An Econometric Analysis of Labor Supply of Disabled and Aged Individuals: Evidence From the New beneficiary Data System

2000 Dissertations

Detelina Ivanova - Uncertainty, Sentiment, and Expectations: Essays in Econometric Forecasting
Chuanming Gao - Estimation of Limited Information Simultaneous Equations Models with Weak Instruments