2011 Ph.D. Job Market Candidates
The Department of Economics is pleased to announce the following job market candidates for your consideration. Please contact Professor Henry Siu, the Director of Graduate Studies, henry.siu@ubc.ca, (604) 822-2919, or the students' thesis supervisors for additional information.
For a summary list of candidates in pdf format, please click here.
Nishant Chadha
nchadha@interchange.ubc.ca [webpage]
Thesis Title: Essays on Development and Political Economy - Abstract
Job Market Paper: Technological Change and Political Mobilization: Evidence from India
Research Fields: Development Economics, Political Economy
Thesis Committee:
• Mukesh Eswaran (Supervisor) eswaran@econ.ubc.ca
• Patrick Francois patrick.francois@ubc.ca
• Thomas Lemieux thomas.lemieux@ubc.ca
Guido Matias Cortes
guidock@interchange.ubc.ca [webpage]
Thesis Title: Essays on the Task Content of Occupations and Occupational Mobility - Abstract
Job Market Paper: Where Have the Middle-Wage Workers Gone? A Study of Polarization using Panel Data
Research Fields: Labor Economics, Macroeconomics
Thesis Committee:
• Giovanni Gallipoli (Supervisor) giovanni.gallipoli@ubc.ca
• Nicole Fortin nicole.fortin@ubc.ca
• David Green green@econ.ubc.ca
Changhua Yu
Thesis Title: Essays in international portfolio choice and monetary policy - Abstract
Job Market Paper: Equity Home Bias and International Portfolio Dynamics in a Monetary Open-Economy DSGE Model
Research Fields: International Finance, Monetary Economics, Macroeconomics
Thesis Committee:
• Michael Devereux (Supervisor) michael.devereux@ubc.ca
• Viktoria Hnatkovska viktoriya.hnatkovska@ubc.ca
• Henry Siu henry.siu@ubc.ca
Na Zhang
nazhang@interchange.ubc.ca [webpage]
Thesis Title: Essays on Corporate Leasing - Abstract
Job Market Paper: Leasing, Uncertainty, and Financial Constraint
Research Fields: International Finance, Macroeconomics, Corporate Finance
Thesis Committee:
• Michael Devereux (Supervisor) michael.devereux@ubc.ca
• Viktoria Hnatkovska viktoriya.hnatkovska@ubc.ca
• Amartya Lahiri amartya.lahiri@ubc.ca
Post-doctorate on the market this year
Dhimitri Qirjo
qirjo@interchange.ubc.ca [webpage]
Job Market Paper: Monitoring, Endogenous Comparative Advantage, and Immigration
Fields of Interest: International Trade and Economics of Immigration