Boston University Department of Economics

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Yiming Cao

Cao_Yiming

Fields: Development Economics, Political Economy, Economic History
Job Market Paper: The Social Costs of Patronage Ties: Lessons from the 2008 Sichuan Earthquake
CV | Website | yiming@bu.edu
References: Raymond Fisman, Dilip Mookherjee, Siddharth George, Samuel Bazzi, Nathan Nunn


Shuowen Chen

Chen ShuowenFields: Econometrics, Empirical Industrial Organization, Economics of Innovation
Job Market Paper: An Indirect Fixed Effects Estimator for Nonlinear Panel
CV| Website | swchen@bu.edu
References: Ivan Fernandez-Val, Hiroaki Kaido, Jean-Jacques Forneron


Enrico De Magistris

De Magistris Enrico

Fields: Microeconomic Theory, Game Theory, Mechanism Design
Job Market Paper: Choice of Outside Options in a Bargaining Model
CV | Website | enricodm@bu.edu
References: Bart Lipman, Juan Ortner, Chiara Margaria

 


Mengqi Deng

Deng MengqiFields: Applied Microeconomic Theory, Law and Economics, Political Economy
Job Market Paper: Biased Medias, a Bayesian Persuasion Analysis
CV | Website | mdeng@bu.edu
References: Juan Ortner, Andrew Newman, Alex White


Vittoria Dicandia

Dicandia Vittoria

Fields: Labor Economics, Public Economics
Job Market Paper: Technological Change and Racial Disparities
CV | Website | dicandia@bu.edu
References: Kevin Lang, Daniele Paserman, Joshua Goodman

 


Chen Gao

Gao Chen

Fields: Empirical Industrial Organization, Applied Microeconomics
Job Market Paper: Bargaining and Merger in Vertical Relationships: Empirics of Packaged Food with Limited Data
CV | Website | cgao14@bu.edu
References: Marc Rysman, Jihye Jeon, Jordi Jaumandreu


Pablo Guzman-Pinto

Fields: Labor Economics, Development Economics
Job Market Paper: Unemployment Insurance with Individual Savings Accounts
CV| Website | pguzmanp@bu.edu
References: Johannes Schmieder, Kevin Lang, Daniele Paserman


Alex Hoagland

Fields: Health Economics, Industrial Organization, Applied Econometrics
Job Market Paper: An Ounce of Prevention or a Pound of Cure? The Value of Health Risk Information
CV | Website | alcobe@bu.edu
References: Randall Ellis (co-advisor), Tal Gross (co-advisor), Marc Rysman, Jihye Jeon


Md. Deen Islam

Fields: International Economics, Development Economics, Macroeconomics
Job Market Paper: The Geography of Automation
CV | Website | mdislam@bu.edu
References: Stefania Garetto, Pascual Restrepo, Yuhei Miyauchi


Miaoqing Jia

Fields: Health Economics, Applied Theory, Development Economics
Job Market Paper: The demand uncertainty of medicine consumption with policy implication
CV | Website | jiam@bu.edu
References: Albert Ma, Randall Ellis, Marc Rysman


Sung-Yup Jung

Fields: Regional Economics, Urban Economics, Empirical Microeconomics
Job Market Paper: Industrial Parks and Regional Development: Evidence from South Korean Industrial Park Policy
CV| Website | sungyup@bu.edu
References: Yuhei Miyauchi, Siddarth George, Robert G King


Enjar Lkhagvajav

Fields: Macroeconomics, Economic Growth, Economics of Innovation
Job Market Paper: Patent Disclosure, Firm Innovation, and Growth
CV | Website | enjar@bu.edu
References: Stephen Terry, Pascual Restrepo, Adam Guren, Michael Meurer


Max McDevitt

Fields: Economic, History Political Economy, Applied Econometrics
Job Market Paper: Between the Board Room and Parliament: Special Legislation, Capital Investment, and Railway Directors in Parliament, 1854-1901
CV | Website | mjmcd@bu.edu
References: Robert Margo, Martin Fiszbein, James Feigenbaum


Ian Meeker

Fields: Industrial Organization, Quantitative marketing
Job Market Paper: Does Peter Piper Pick a Package of Pepper Inattentively? The Consumer Response to Product Size Changes
CV| Website | imeeker@bu.edu
References: Marc Rysman, Andrey Fradkin, Jihye Jeon


Thomas Pearson

Fields: Labor Economics, Development Economics
Job Market Paper: U.S. Immigration Enforcement and Mexican Labor Markets
CV| Website | tpearson@bu.edu
References: Samuel Bazzi, Daniele Paserman, David Lagakos


Stefano Pica

Fields: Macroeconomics, Monetary Economics, Household Finance
Job Market Paper: Housing Markets and the Heterogeneous Effects of Monetary Policy Across the Euro Area
CV | Website | stpica@bu.edu
References: Adam Guren, Stephen Terry, Robert G King


Alden Porter

Fields: Labor Economics, Macroeconomics, Econometrics
Job Market Paper: On the Incomplete Ordering of Skills: A Study of Occupational Mobility and the Careers of Young Men
CV | Website | porteraw@bu.edu
References: Pascual Restrepo, Johannes Schmieder, Kevin Lang


Anlong Qin

Fields: Econometrics, Time Series Econometrics, Financial Econometrics
Job Market Paper: Modeling Regime Switching in High Dimensional Data with Applications to U.S. Business Cycles
CV| Website | qal@bu.edu
References: Zhongjun Qu Pierre Perron, Hiroaki Kaido


Hanna Schwank

Fields: Economic History, Labor Economics, Gender Economics
Job Market Paper: Disruptive Effects of Natural Disasters: The 1906 San Francisco Fire
CV | Website | hschwank@bu.edu
References: Samuel Bazzi, James Feigenbaum, Johannes Schmieder, Robert Margo


Martin Shu

Fields: Macroeconomics, Development Economics, Labor Economics
Job Market Paper: Selection, Structural Transformation, and the Cost Disease of Services
CV| Website | syshu@bu.edu
References: David Lagakos (co-advisor), Pascual Restrepo (co-advisor), Kevin Lang


Joseph Simmons

Fields: Macroeconomics, Monetary Economics, Industrial Organization
Job Market Paper: Real Rigidities Strike Back: Retailers, Sticky Basket Prices, and Monetary Non-Neutrality
CV | Website | jrsimmon@bu.edu
References: Adam Guren (co-advisor), Stephen Terry (co-advisor), Pascual Restrepo


Dongling Su

Fields: Macroeconomics, Finance
Job Market Paper: Fiscal and Monetary Policy Interactions in a Model with Low-Interest Rates
CV | Website | dlsu@bu.edu
References: Jianjun Miao, Adam Guren, Stephen Terry


Jingye Wang

Fields: International Finance, International Macroeconomics, Asset Pricing
Job Market Paper: Currency Premium and Capital Accumulation with External Habit
CV| Website | wjytx@bu.edu
References: Tarek Hassan, Stephen Terry, Andrea VedolinThomas Mertens


Meng Wu

Fields: Political Economy, Media Economics, Development Economics, Applied Microeconomics
Job Market Paper: Readers, Owners, and Media Slant: Evidence of the U.S. Media during the Sino-US Trade Conflict
CV| Website | wumeng@bu.edu
References: Raymond Fisman, Martin Fiszbein, Dilip Mookherjee


Fangning Yan

Fields: Empirical Industrial Organization, Applied Econometrics, Economics of Digitization
Job Market Paper: Freewheeling: A Spatial Structural Analysis of the Bike-Sharing Industry
CV| Website | riyan@bu.edu
References: Marc Rysman, Jihye Jeon, Jordi Jaumandreu, Andrey Fradkin


Guangzhi Ye

Fields: Macroeconomics, Corporate Finance
Job Market Paper: The Macro Impact of the Recovery Rate
CV| Website | gye@bu.edu
References: Stephen Terry, Adam Guren, Robert G King

 


Victor Yifan Ye

Fields: Computational Economics, Public Finance, Urban Economics
Job Market Paper: Simulating Endogenous Global Automation
CV| Website | victor@yifanye.com
References: Laurence Kotlikoff, Seth Benzell, David Altig, Charles Becker


Yoshifumi Yokota

Fields: Microeconomic Theory, Information Economics, Behavioral Economics
Job Market Paper: The Limits of Robust Information Design
CV| Website | yyokota@bu.edu
References: Bart Lipman, Larry Epstein, Juan Ortner


Kewei Zhang

Fields: Development Economics, Public Economics, Political Economy
Job Market Paper: Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid? Influencing Credit Allocation through Poverty Alleviation
CV| Website | zhangkw@bu.edu
References: Raymond Fisman, Dilip Mookherjee, Siddharth George


Kexin Zhang

Fields: Development Economics, Applied Microeconomics
Job Market Paper: Long-Run Impact of the High School or College Education: Evidence from the Reinstatement of the Gaokao in China
CV| Website | kz628@bu.edu
References: Samuel Bazzi, Daniele Paserman, Dilip Mookherjee, Mahesh Karra


Luke Zinnen

Fields: Macroeconomics, Banking, Financial Engineering
Job Market Paper: How Do You Solve a Problem Like Nomura? Remedies for Fraud with Market-Level Consequences
CV| Website | wjytx@bu.edu
References: Robert G King, Pascual Restrepo, Christophe Chamley


 

 

 

 

Past Candidates


Undral Byambadalai

Fields: Econometrics, Applied Microeconomics
Job Market Paper: Identification and Inference for Welfare
C.V. | Website | undral@bu.edu
References: Hiroaki Kaido, Ivan Fernandez-Val, Albert Ma, Jean-Jacques Forneron


Lester Chan

Fields: Microeconomic Theory, Industrial Organization
Job Market Paper: Weight-Ranked Divide-and-Conquer Contracts
C.V.| Website | lctlabc@bu.edu
References: Albert Ma, Bart Lipman, Alex White


Pablo Cuellar Tapia

Fields: Applied Microeconomic Theory, Law and Economics
Job Market Paper: Voluntary disclosure of evidence in plea bargaining
C.V. | Website | pcuel@bu.edu
References: Juan Ortner, Bart Lipman, Dilip Mookherjee

 


Taosong Deng

Fields: Econometrics, Quantitative Macroeconomics, Empirical Finance
Job Market Paper: Inference in Predictive Regressions with Persistent Predictors
C.V.| Website | tsdeng@bu.edu
References: Zhongjun Qu, Pierre Perron, Jean-Jacques Forneron

 


Gerard Domenech Arumi

Fields: Labor Economics, Public Economics, Political Economy
Job Market Paper: Neighborhoods, Perceived Inequality and Preferences for Redistribution: Evidence from Barcelona
C.V. | Website | domenech@bu.edu
References: Daniele Paserman, Ray Fisman, Johannes Schmieder

 


Thomas Gautier

Fields: Empirical Industrial Organization, Applied microeconomics
Job Market Paper: Bargaining and Merger in Vertical Relationships: Empirics of Packaged Food with Limited Data
C.V.| Website | cgao14@bu.edu
References: Marc Rysman, Jihye Jeon, Jordi Jaumandreu


Youming Liu

Fields: Industrial Organization, Environmental Economics, Chinese Economy
Job Market Paper: Competition for Exclusivity and Customer Lock-in
C.V. | Website | yorkliu@bu.edu
References: Marc Rysman, Shanjun Li, Jihye Jeon, Panle Jia Barwick


Sophia Ying Liu

Sophia Ying Liu

Fields: Health Economics, Economic History, Empirical Microeconomics
Job Market Paper: Re-evaluating the Effects of the 1918 Influenza Pandemic on Human Capital Development: The Role of the Great Depression
C.V. | Website | yliu0518@bu.edu
References: Robert Margo, Daniele Paserman, Randall Ellis, Jay Zagorsky


Enkhjargal Lkhagvajav

Enkhjargal LkhagvajavFields: Macroeconomics, Economic Growth, Economics of Innovation
Job Market Paper: The Effect of Patent Disclosure on Firm Innovation and Growth
C.V. | Website | enjar@bu.edu
References: Stephen Terry, Pascual Restrepo, Adam Guren, Michael Meurer


Yang Ming

Yang MingFields: Macroeconomics, Economics of Innovation, Applied Econometrics
Job Market Paper: Good Dispersion in Bad Times: A Story of R&D Heterogeneity
C.V. | Website | mingyang@bu.edu
References: Christophe Chamley, Stephen Terry, Jianjun Miao, Robert G. King


Julio Ortiz

Cao_YimingFields: Macroeconomics, Econometrics
Job Market Paper: Spread too Thin: The Impact of Lean Inventories
C.V. | Website | jlortiz@bu.edu
References: Stephen Terry, Adam Guren, Pascual Restrepo


Cheonghum Park

Cheonghum ParkFields: Political Economy, Behavioral Finance, Labor Economics
Job Market Paper: Investor Attention to Firm versus Market-wide Information Shocks: Evidence from North Korean Missile Tests
C.V. | Website | chpark@bu.edu
References: Ray Fisman, Daniele Paserman, Sam Bazzi


Fernando Payro Chew

Fernando Payro ChewFields: Microeconomic Theory, Decision Theory, Behavioral Economics
Job Market Paper: Mixture-Dependent Preference for Commitment
C.V. | Website | fpayro@bu.edu
References: Larry Epstein, Jawwad Noor, Bart Lipman


Anlong Qin

Anlong QinFields: Econometrics, Time Series Econometrics, Financial Econometrics
Job Market Paper: Modeling Regime Switching in High Dimensional Data with Applications to U.S. Business Cycles
C.V. | Website | qal@bu.edu
References: Zhongjun Qu, Pierre Perron, Hiroaki Kaido


Zhouxiang Shen

Zhouxiang ShenFields: Macroeconomics, Finance
Job Market Paper: Production of private safe assets and macroprudential policy
C.V. | Website | zxshen@bu.edu
References: Jianjun Miao, Stephen Terry, Adam Guren


Chenlu Song

Chenlu SongFields: Health Economics, Applied Microeconomics
Job Market Paper: What Saves More: Coinsurance or Copayment?
C.V. | Website | csong@bu.edu
References: Randall Ellis, Albert Ma, Robert Margo


Lisa Tarquinio

Lisa TarquinioFields: Development Economics, Political Economy, Environmental Economics
Job Market Paper: The Politics of Drought Relief: Evidence from Southern India
C.V. | Website | LTarq@bu.edu
References: Dilip Mookherjee, Tarek Hassan, Ray Fisman


Silvia Vannutelli

Silvia VannutelliFields: Public Economics, Political Economy, Labor Economics
Job Market Paper: From Lapdogs to Watchdogs: Random Auditor Assignment and Municipal Fiscal Performance in Italy
C.V. | Website | svann@bu.edu
References: Ray Fisman, Daniele Paserman, Ilyana Kuziemko, Johannes Schmieder


Shuang Wang

Shuang WangFields: Industrial Organization, Applied Microeconometrics
Job Market Paper: Price Competition with Endogenous Entry: The Effects of Marriott & Starwood’s Merger in Texas
C.V. | Website | shuangw@bu.edu
References: Marc Rysman, Hiroaki Kaido, Jihye Jeon, Jacob LaRiviere


Anna Weber

Anna WeberFields: Labor Economics, Public Economics
Job Market Paper: The Big House Far From Home: Spatial Distance and Criminal Recidivism
C.V. | Website | eaweber@bu.edu
References: Kevin Lang, Daniele Paserman, James Feigenbaum


Meng Wu

Meng WuFields: Applied Microeconomics, Development Economics, Political Economy
Job Market Paper: Readers vs owner? What drives media attention on China in the United States during the Sino-US trade conflict
C.V. | Website | wumeng@bu.edu
References: Raymond Fisman, Martin Fiszbein, Dilip Mookherjee


Dongwei Xu

Dongwei XuFields: Macroeconomics, Asset Pricing, International Economics
Job Market Paper: Labor Adjustment Cost: Implications for Asset Prices
C.V. | Website | xud@bu.edu
References: Marianne Baxter, Stephen Terry, Andrea Vedolin


Guang Zhang

Guang ZhangFields: Econometrics, Empirical Finance
Job Market Paper: Quasi Monte Carlo Kalman Filter for Nonlinear and Non-Gaussian State Space Models
C.V. | Website | gzhang46@bu.edu
References: Zhongjun Qu, Pierre Perron, Jean-Jacques Forneron


Nan Zhao

Nan ZhaoFields: Microeconomic Theory, Contract Theory
Job Market Paper: Dynamic Incentive Provision When Evaluation Takes Time
C.V. | Website | zhaonan@bu.edu
References: Bart Lipman, Juan Ortner, Chiara Margaria


Xiaoxi Zhao

Xiaoxi ZhaoFields: Health Economics, Industrial Organization
Job Market Paper: The Effect of Medical Loss Ratio Regulation on Insurers’ Pricing
C.V. | Website | xiaoxiz@bu.edu
References: Randall Ellis, Marc Rysman, Leila Agha, Christopher Whaley