Placement of University of Virginia Ph.D. Students
| Year | Student's Name | Initial Job | Thesis Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | Daniel Becker | Federal Trade Commission | Non-Wage Job Characteristics and the Case of the Missing Margin |
| 2009 | Daniel Carroll | Federal Reserve Bank | Three Essays on the Political Economy of Progressive Income Taxation |
| 2009 | Eric Fesselmeyer | National University of Singapore, Department of Economics (post doc) |
A Structural Learning Model of Retail Product Select with Information Spillovers |
| 2009 | Sarah Hastedt | National Center for Education Statistics | Essays on the Economics of Education |
| 2009 | Tarun Jain | Indian School of Business, Hyderabad | Institutions and Incentives in Developing Countries |
| 2009 | Jurate Liaukonyte | Cornell University | Empirical Models of Advertising Content |
| 2009 | Young-Joon Park | Korea Institute for International Economic Policy (KIEP) | Essays on Household Finance and Macroeconomy |
| 2009 | Uma Radhakrishnan | Center for Economic Studies, US Census Bureau | A Dynamic Structural Model of Contraceptive Use and Employment Sector Choice For Women in Indonesia |
| 2009 | Bo Sun | Federal Reserve Board | Asset Returns and Executive Compensation Under Earnings Management |
| 2009 | Jonathan Williams | University of Georgia | Excess Capacity, Exclusionary Behavior, and Welfare: A Dynamic Model of Competition in the Airline Industry |
| 2008 | Juan Carlos Bisso | NERA - National Economic Research Associates, Madrid | Three Essays on the Economic Incentives of Law and Contracts |
| 2008 | AJ Bostian | Univ. of New South Wales, Australian School of Business, Center for Energy & Environmental Markets (post doc) | Essays on Learning and Utility in Two Experiments |
| 2008 | Maria Fitzpatrick | Stanford University, Institute for Economic Policy Research (post doc) | Early Start: The Economics of Early Childhood Education |
| 2008 | Kien T. Le | University of Virginia, Weldon-Cooper Center | Essays on the Agricultural Household Model and Applied Econometrics |
| 2008 | Angela Moore Smith | James Madison University, VA | An Experimental Study of Exclusive Contracts |
| 2008 | Jing Yin | PriceWaterhouseCoopers | Esays on Dynamic Macroeconomics |
| 2008 | Oleksandr Zhylyevskyy | Iowa State University | A Bad Peace or a Good War: A Structural Estimation Model of Spousal Conflict and Divorce |
| 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 Lai | Hong Kong Polytechnic University | Essays on International Trade and Human Capital |
| 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 | Richard Nelson | University of Utah | Is the Best Offense a Good Defense? Theory and Evidence of Trade-Induced Defensive Innovation in Developing Countries |
| 2007 | Panayiotis M. Pourpourides | Cardiff University, Cardiff, Wales | Essays on Wages and Wage Inequality Over the Business Cycle |
| 2007 | Marc Santugini | HEC Montreal, Institure of Applied 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 |
| 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 |
| 2002 | David Byrne | Federal Reserve Board | An Empirical Equilibrium Search-Matching Model of Unemployment |
| 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 |
| 2002 | Ben Keen | Texas Tech University | A Theoretical and Empirical Examination of the Liquidity Effect |
| 2002 | Andre Kurmann | University of Quebec-Montreal | New Keynesian Price and Cost Dynamics: Theory and Evidence |
| 2002 | Richard Ruble | Michigan State University | Imperfect Competition between Buyers and Sellers |
| 2002 | John Turner | University of Georgia-Athens | The Patent Renaissance |
| 2002 | Yanchun Zhang | San Francisco State University | Essays on Current Account Dynamics |
| 2001 | Joe Attia | Econ One, Inc. | Financial and Economic Performance of Private Firms: The Case of Egypt |
| 2001 | Hua Fang | Lukens Consulting Group, Inc. | Jumps with Stochastic Rate: An Alternative Option Pricing Model |
| 2001 | Ben Keen | Washington & Lee University | A Theoretical and Empirical Examination of the Liquidity Effect |
| 2001 | Brian McManus | Olin Business School at Washington University of St. Louis | Nonlinear Pricing in an Oligopoly Market: The Case of Specialty Coffee |
| 2001 | Neil Seftor | Mathematica Policy Research, Inc. | Private Schools and the Market for Education: An Analysis of Objectives, Equilibria, and Responses to Government Policies |
| 2001 | Michelle Sheran | UNC-Greensboro | The Career and Family Choices of Women: a Dynamic Analysis of Labor Force Participation, Schooling, Marriage, and Fertility Decisions |
| 2000 | Spencer Graf | Charles River Associates | Research and Development Competition and the Persistence of Market Power: Theory and Evidence from the Chemical Industry |
| 2000 | Monica Hartmann | University of St. Thomas | An Examination of Airline Safety in a Structural Model of the Airline Industry |
| 2000 | Dan Jubinski | College of William & Mary | Equity Trading Volume and Volatility: An Investigation of fractional Integration and Cointegration |
| 2000 | Ellen Merry | Federal Reserve | The Effect of the Mortgage Interest Deduction on Mortgage Debt and Housing Demand |
| 2000 | James Weston | Rice University | Essays in Empirical Market Microstructure |
| 1999 | Thorsten Beck | Young Professionals Program at World Bank | Essays in International Trade and Financial Development |
| 1999 | Larry Kochard | McIntire School of Commerce | Option Pricing and Higher Order Moments of the Risk-Neutral Probability Density Function |
| 1999 | Steve Lange | Fannie Mae | Essays on Volatility and Comovement |
| 1999 | Yu-Li Wang | National Dong Hwa University, Taiwan | What Moves the Exchange Rate before a Monetary Union? |
| 1998 | C. Monica Capra | University of Arkansas | Noisy Expectation Formation in One-Shot Games. |
| 1998 | Jose Canals-Cerda | University of Colorado at Boulder |
Equilibrium Models of the Labor Market: A Theoretical and Empirical Investigation. |
| 1998 | Laura L. Clauser | U.S. Department of Treasury | A Dynamic, General Equilibrium Analysis of Flood Insurance, Floodplain Development, and Sea Level Rise. |
| 1998 | Kevin H. McIntyre | Regional Financial Associates, Inc. | Three Essays in International Business Cycles. |
| 1998 | Jorge A. Raygoza | Universidad Iberoamericana | The Distribution of Benefits of Site-and-Services Programs in Developing Countries: Does Mexico's National Solidarity Program Have an Urban Bias. |
| 1998 | Julia K. Thomas | Carnegie Mellon University | Nonconvexities, Discrete Individual Choices and the Business Cycle. |
| 1997 | Tim R. Adam | Hong Kong University of Science & Technology |
Dynamic Corporate Risk Management. |
| 1997 | Mikel R. Ham | Economic Analysis Corp. | Rental-Car Service Tenure and Downstream Vertical Integration in the Automobile Industry. |
| 1997 | Fredrick M. Holt | Census Bureau | The Family's Decision to Migrate: A Dynamic Analysis. |
| 1997 | Allison M. Ivory | Joint Committee on Taxation (U.S. Congress) |
The Effect of the 1986 Tax Reform Act on Labor Supply and Tax Payer Compliance. |
| 1997 | Fidel Perez-Sebastian | Public University of Navarra | Invention and Use: Two Models of Technology Adoption. |
| 1996 | Robert T. Burrus | Kenyon College | Demand Abatement, Supply Reduction and Legalization: A Theoretical Analysis of Drug Policy. |
| 1996 | Anthony W. Cheng | Social Security Administration | Estimating the Market Value of Deposit Insurance for Savings and Loans. |
| 1996 | Eric P. Eller | UNC-Greensboro | Tariff Barriers, Liberalization, and Economic Growth. |
| 1996 | Jeffrey R. Havsy | Chicago Board of Trade | A Model of Improved Option Pricing Through Theoretical Volatility Determination. |
| 1996 | Neeta Sinha | Bristol, Myers, and Squibb | Estimation of the Effects of Alternate Food Subsidies on Nutrition Levels. |
| 1996 | Todd R. Stinebrickner | University of Michigan (Post-doc) |
A Dynamic, Discrete Choice Model of Teacher Attrition. |
| 1996 | Christopher A. Swann | University of Michigan (Post-doc) |
A Dynamic Analysis of Marriage, Labor Force Participation, and Participation in the AFDC Program. |
| 1996 | Alexander R. Wolman | Richmond Federal Reserve | Four Essays on Monetary Economics. |
| 1995 | Lisa R. Anderson | American University | Information Cascades. |
| 1995 | Peter M. Bearse | University of Tennessee | Essays on the Economics of Crime. |
| 1995 | Michelle L. Canfield | William & Mary | Speculative Attacks and a Balance of Payments Crisis: An Optimizing Approach. |
| 1995 | Jessica B. Horowitz | Putnam, Hayes, & Bartlett, Inc. | Are Team Owners in the National Football League Profit Maximizers? |
| 1995 | Thomas D. Jeitschko | Texas A&M University | The Role of Information in Sequential Auctions. |
| 1995 | Gladys C. Lopez | ITAM (Mexico) | Equilibrium Behavior in Posted Price Markets. |
| 1995 | Maria A. Mabry | UNC-Asheville | The Effects of State Incentives to Business on Location and Factor Usage. |
| 1995 | Roger R. Rodriguez | J.W. Wilson Consulting (D.C.) | The Buying Option for Electric Utilities: New Regulatory Policies in Electricity Generation. |
| 1995 | Benjamin P. Scafidi | NYU Law School | Neighborhood, Housing and School Choice. |
| 1994 | Amy D. Crews | Syracuse | Self-Selection and Administrative Selection in the Estimation of the Effects of In-Kind Transfers. |
| 1994 | Dirk W. Early | Southwestern College | Causes of Homelessness: An Empirical Analysis Using Choice-Based Sampling. |
| 1994 | John R. Elder | Bryant College | The Effects of Monetary Policy Uncertainty: A Heteroskedastic Vector Autoregression Analysis. |
| 1994 | Thomas Kinnaman | Bucknell | Three Essays on the Economics of Household Solid Waste Disposal and the Effect of Unit-Based Pricing. |
| 1994 | Richard McGrath | William & Mary | Saving Differences Among Generations or Over Time? An Investigation of the Saving Slowdown of the 1980's. |
| 1994 | Catherine O'Connor | Ohio State | Early-Out Incentives: A Case Study of the U.S. Army's VSI/SSB Programs. |
| 1994 | Debra M. Patterson | Trinity University-Texas | General Equilibrium Models of Eastern European Transition. |
| 1993 | David Chesser | Univ. of Missouri at Columbia | An Empirical Analysis of the Implications of the Sticky- and Flexible-Price Assumptions. |
| 1993 | Andrew J. Holliday | Washington & Lee Univ. | The Measurement of Antitrust Enforcement. |
| 1993 | Charles F. Kramer | International Monetary Fund | Macroeconomic Uncertainty And Asset Markets: Perspectives On The Size And January Anomalies. |
| 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. |
| 1993 | R. David Mullin | Marietta College | Enhancing Taxpayer Compliance: Experimental Evidence on Alternative Policies. |
| 1993 | Zhenhui Xu | William & Mary | The Chinese Economy in the 1980's. |
| 1993 | Daniel Zabinski | Agency for Health Care Policy and Research | The Inefficiency of the Tax Preference for Employer-Provided Health Insurance. |
| 1992 | Gregory Hopper | Philadelphia Federal Reserve | Three Essays in International Finance. |
| 1992 | Regis Renault | Univ. of Cergy-Pontoise (France) | Strategic Behavior in Long Term Relationships. |
| 1992 | Francisco Ruge-Murcia | Cambridge Univ., UK (post doc) | Essays On Credibility, Fiscal Reform and Inflation Stabilization. |
| 1991 | Eric Engen | UCLA | Precautionary Saving, Consumption, and Taxation in a Life-Cycle Model with Stochastic Earnings and Mortality Risk |
| 1991 | Derek Neal | Univ. of Chicago | Sources of Inter-Industry Wage Differentials. |
| 1991 | Michael Palumbo | Univ. of Houston | Health Uncertainty Near the End of the Life Cycle. |
| 1991 | D. Keith Sill | Philadelphia Federal Reserve | Money in the Cash-in-Advance Model: An Empirical Implementation. |
| 1991 | Mitchell Stern | Univ. of Tennessee | Estimation & Testing of the Poisson Jump-Diffusion Model for Option on Stocks. |
| 1991 | Harold York | Exxon Corporation | A General Equilibrium Model of International Tax Competition. |