University of Oregon

2011-2012 PhD Candidates

Thomas Groll

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Dissertation: The Economics of Commercial Lobbying
Fields: Public Economics, Political Economics, Industrial Organization, Applied Microeconomics
Committee: Christopher J. Ellis (Chair), Shankha Chakraborty, Nicholas Sly

Donghyun (Don) Lee

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Dissertation: Essays on Cross-border Mergers and Acquisitions, Technology, and Frictional Costs
Fields: International trade, Applied Econometrics, and Macroeconomics
Committee: Bruce Blonigen (Chair), Nick Sly, Wesley Wilson

Hui-Hsuan (Sandy) Tang

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Dissertation: Essays on the Economics of Higher Education
Fields: Economics of Education, Labor Economics, Applied Microeconomics
Committee: Larry Singell (Chair), Glen Waddell (co-Chair), Benjamin Hansen

Matthew P. Taylor

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Dissertation: Risk Aversion and Information Acquisition Across Real and Hypothetical Settings
Fields: Environmental Economics, Experimental Economics, Behavioral Economics, and Applied Microeconomics
Committee: Trudy Ann Cameron (Co-Chair), William T. Harbaugh (Co-Chair), Van W. Kolpin

Brian Vander Naald

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Dissertation: Essays in Environmental and Public Economics
Fields: Environmental Economics, Public Economics, Applied Econometrics
Committee: Trudy Ann Cameron (Chair), Jason Lindo, Ben Hansen

2010-2011 PhD Placements

John Kandrac

Dissertation: Essays on the Role of Financial Intermediaries in the Transmission of Monetary Policy
Fields: Macroeconomics, Applied Econometrics
Committee: Mark Thoma (Chair), Jeremy Piger, Shankha Chakraborty

Sean Severe

Dissertation: Monetary Policy Issues Arising from Bank Concentration
Fields: Macroeconomics, Monetary Policy, Growth and Development, Applied Econometrics
Committee: Mark A Thoma (Co-Chair), Wesley W. Wilson (Co-Chair), Shankha Chakraborty

Toni Sipic

Dissertation: Political Economy of Environmental Disasters and Voluntary Approaches in Environmental Policy
Fields: Environmental Economics, Political Economy, Industrial Organization, Applied Microeconomics, and Econometrics
Committee: Trudy Ann Cameron (Chair), Wesley W. Wilson, Benjamin Hansen

2009-2010 PhD Placements

Anna-Maria Aksan

Dissertation: Three Essays in Disease and Economic Development
Fields:macroeconomics, economic development, and international economics
Committee: Shankha Chakraborty (Chair), Bruce Blonigen, Peter Lambert

Eric Duquette

Dissertation: Choice Difficulty and Subjective Risk Perceptions in Environmental Economics
Fields: Applied Microeconomics, Environmental Economics, Behavioral Economics, Experimental Economics, Neuroeconomics
Committee: Trudy Ann Cameron (Chair), William T. Harbaugh, Jason Lindo

Silke Friedrich

Dissertation: Essays on Political Economy Issues
Fields: Public Economics, International Economics
Committee: Chris Ellis (Co-Chair), Bruce Blonigen (Co-Chair), Glen Waddell

Eric Gaus

Dissertation: Issues in Macroeconomic Models with Learning
Fields: international economics, macroeconomics
Committee: George Evans (Co-Chair), Jeremy Piger (Co-Chair), Shankha Chankraborty

Andrea Giusto

Dissertation: Heterogeneity Issues in Macroeconomics
Fields: Macroeconomics, Econometrics, Monetary Economics, International Economics
Committee: George Evans (Chair), Shankha Chakraborty, Van Kolpin

Nick Muller

Dissertation: Biblical Contracts
Fields: Economics of religion
Committee: Joe Stone (Chair), Jo Anna Gray, Larry Singell

Peter Stiffler

Dissertation: Health Economics: Policy Outcomes, Individual Choice, and Adolescent Behavior
Fields: Labor and Environmental Economics
Committee:Trudy Ann Cameron (Co-Chair), Glen Waddell (Co-Chair), Anne van den Nouweland

Peter Williams

Dissertation: Structural Change and Economic Development
Fields: Growth and Development, macroeconomics, trade
Committee: Shankha Chakraborty (Chair), Bruce Blonigen, Chris Ellis

David Wozniak

Dissertation: Essays in Experimental Economics: Examining the Effects of Ambiguity and Competition
Fields: experimental economics, microeconomics, econometrics, and labor economics
Committee: William Harbaugh (Chair), Trudy Cameron, Van Koplin

2009-2009 PhD Placements

Matthew Cole

Initial placement: Visiting Assistant Professor, UC-Dublin
Dissertation: Strategic Trade Policy with Heterogeneous Firms
Fields: International Economics, Industrial Organization, and Applied Econometrics
Committee: Bruce Blonigen (Co-Chair), Ron Davies (Co-Chair), Peter Lambert

Ryan Herzog

Initial placement: Assistant Professor, Gonzaga University
Dissertation: Testing Savings and Investment Rates to Understand Capital Mobility and Current Account Dynamics
Fields: time-series and panel data econometrics, international economics, macroeconomics, and labor economics
Committee: Nicolas Magud (Chair), Stephen Haynes, Jeremy Piger

Erica Johnson

Initial placement: Assistant Professor, Gonzaga University
Dissertation: Willingness to Pay for Health Risk Reductions: The Importance of Scenario Adjustment, Household Structure, and Type of Disease
Fields: Health
Committee: Trudy Cameron (Chair)

Christina Steiger

Initial placement: Assistant Professor, Northeastern University
Dissertation: Three Essays on Adaptive Learning, Institutions and Multiple Equilibria
Fields: Macroeconomics, Growth and Development, and Econometrics
Committee: George Evans (Co-Chair), Shankha Chakraborty (Co-Chair), Jeremy Piger

Annie Voy

Initial placement: Assistant Professor, Gonzaga University
Dissertation: Globalization and Child Labor
Fields: international trade, applied econometrics, labor economics, industrial organization and experimental economics
Committee: Ron Davies (Co-Chair), Shankha Chakraborty (Co-Chair), Bruce Blonigen

2007-2008 PhD Placements

Beiliei Cai

Dissertation: Essays in Health and Environmental Economics: Challenges in The Empirical Analysis of Micro-Level Economic Survey Data
Fields: environmental economics, health economics, applied microeconomics
Committee: Trudy Cameron (Chair), Robin McKnight, William Harbaugh

William Galose

Initial placement: Visiting Assistant Professor, SUNY Fredonia
Dissertation: Three Empirical Essays Regarding The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Supplemental Environmental Projects Policy
Fields: Environmental Economics, Law and Economics, Applied Microeconomics
Committee: Trudy Cameron (Chair), Robin McKnight, Wesley Wilson

Kelii Haraguchi

Initial placement: Visiting Assistant Professor, Willamette University
Dissertation: Three Essays on Mexican Migration to the United States
Fields: applied econometrics, labor economics, and international economics
Committee: Glen Waddell (Chair), Larry Singell, Joe Stone

Nino Sitchinava

Initial placement: Analysis Group
Dissertation Title: Trends in Trade in Intermediate and Finished Goods, Their Determinants and Effects
Fields: Microeconomics, Econometrics, International Trade, Industrial Organization
Committee: Bruce Blonigen, (co-chair), Ronald Davies (co-chair), Glen Waddell

2006-2007 Placements

Fahada Alturki

Initial placement: Monetary Agency, Saudi Arabia
Dissertation Title: Essays on Optimal Currency Areas
Committee: Nicolas Magud (co-chair), Bruce Blonigen (co-chair)

Dan Burghart

Initial placement: Post-doc in Paul Glimcher’s Neuroecon lab, New York University
Dissertation Title: Demand for Public Goods
Committee: Trudy Cameron (co-chair), Bill Harbaugh(co-chair), Glen Waddell

Chong-Uk Kim

Initial placement: Assistant Professor, Sonoma State University
Fields: International Economics, Macroeconomics, and Applied Econometrics
Committee: Bruce Blonigen (co-chair) and Mark Thoma (co-chair)

Helen Naughton

Initial placement: Visiting Assistant Professor, Oregon State University
Fields: International and Environmental
Committee: Ron Davies (co-chair), Glen Waddell (co-chair), Bruce Blonigen

Paul Shea

Initial placement: Assistant Professor, University of Kentucky
Fields: Macroeconomics and Time-Series Econometrics
Committee: George Evans (chair)

Hong Zhuang

Initial placement: Assistant Professor, University of Indiana – South Bend
Fields: International economics, Macroeconomics and Applied Econometrics
Committee: Bruce Blonigen (chair)

2005-2006 Placements

Bornali Bhandari

Initial placement: Department of Social Science, Fitchburg State College
Fields: International Economics, Development Economics, Macroeconomics, and Applied Econometrics
Committee: Bruce Blonigen (co-chair), Steve Haynes (co-chair)

Ryan Bosworth

Initial placement: Department of Political Science and Public Administration, North Carolina State University
Fields: Environmental Economics, Economics of Education, Applied Microeconomics, and Applied Econometrics
Committee: Trudy Cameron (chair)

Kevin Henrickson

Initial placement: Assistant Professor, Gonzaga University
Fields: Industrial Organization, Labor Economics, and Applied Microeconometrics
Committee: Wes Wilson (chair)

2004-2005 Placements

Avik Chakraborty

Initial placement: Assistant Professor, University of Tennessee
Fields: International Finance, Macroeconomics, and Applied Econometrics
Committee: George Evans (co-chair), Steve Haynes (co-chair)

Brad Curs

Initial placement: Assistant Professor, University of Missouri – Columbia
Fields: Labor Economics, Economics of Education, Applied Econometrics, and Industrial Organization
Committee: Larry Singell (chair), Glen Waddell

William Hall

Initial placement: Hollins University
Fields: Economic Growth and Development, International Economics, and Applied Econometrics
Committee: Bruce Blonigen (co-chair), Shankha Chakraborty (co-chair)

Michael Visser

Initial placement: Assistant Professor, Sonoma State University
Fields: Behavioral Economics, Applied Game Theory, Industrial Organization, Applied Econometrics
Committee: Bill Harbaugh (chair)

Dameon Wilbur

Initial placement: Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Puget Sound
Fields: IO, Game Theory, Micro Theory, Econometrics
Committee: Van Kolpin (chair)

2003-2004 Placements

Ed Birdyshaw

Initial placement: CSU-Fresno
Fields: Environmental and Natural Resource Economics, Public Economics, Microeconomic Theory, and Econometrics
Committee: Christopher Ellis (chair)

Oguzhan Dincer

Initial placement: Assistant Professor, Massey University
Fields: Economic Growth and Development, Public Economics, Applied Econometrics, Macroeconomics
Committee: Christopher Ellis (chair)

Mark Stater

Initial placement: Assistant Professor, University of Georgia
Fields: Labor Economics, Applied Econometrics, Applied Game Theory
Committee: Larry Singell (chair)