Graduate Economics Program - Job Candidates
We are pleased to present our current job market candidates. As a group, they have much experience in presenting and publishing their research and in teaching. Please feel free to review each candidate's CV by clicking on the student's name. You may contact the candidates directly via email, or contact the Graduate Economics Program Director Tamah Morant for more information about the candidates.
Our Graduate Economics program has a long history of preparing students for careers in academia, government and the private sector. The program has over 50 graduate faculty members from both College of Management and College of Agricultural and Life Sciences, providing a variety of fields of specialization including macro-monetary economics, international trade, econometrics, agricultural economics and environmental and resource economics. Given the program's strong empirical focus, our alumni have excelled not only in academia and government, but also in the corporate world with many of our graduates entering into applied research divisions of the private sector.
Ph.D. Job Candidates
(Curriculum Vitae are linked to the candidate's name. CVs are in HTML format unless otherwise noted. PDF files may be viewed using the FREE Adobe Acrobat Viewer.)
Rotua Lumbantobing
(email)
Fields: development economics, applied microeconomics, poverty alleviation, policy analysis
Dissertation: Locational Decisions with Respect to Water Access: Evidence of Sorting Equilibrium in Southwest Sri Lanka
Oleksandr Movchan (web-page)
(email)
Fields: applied time-series econometrics, state-space modeling, Kalman filtering, GMM and Bayesian estimation, financial econometrics, macroeconomics, monetary economics
Dissertation: “Measuring NonStationary Cycles: a Time-Deformation Approach”.
Gulcan Onel (web-page)
(email)
Fields:
agricultural demand and price analysis, agricultural trade and finance, agricultural policy, applied econometrics, statistics
Dissertation:
Modeling Nonlinear Dynamics in Agricultural Factor Markets
Bradley Sturgill
(email) (job market paper)
Fields: economic growth and development, macroeconomics, applied econometrics
Dissertation: Essays on Factor Shares, TFP Measurement, and Factor Eliminating Technical Progress
Ligia Vado Sequeira
(email)
Fields: agricultural economics, international trade, agricultural risk, insurance, international economic development.
Dissertation: Three Essays on Agricultural Risk, Insurance, and Technology
Hernan Tejeda (web-page)
(email)
Fields: applied econometrics and statistics, time series and applied microeconomics;
risk analysis in commodity markets, agricultural price analysis, crop insurance, financial economics.
Dissertation: A state dependent regime switching model of asymmetric adjustments – identifying volatility spillover effects from ethanol on corn, soybean and cattle markets
Ying Zhu
(email)
Fields of Interest: econometrics, statistical and modeling analysis
Master's Job Candidates
Lakshmi Ashok (web-page)
(email)
Fields of interest: corporate risk management, environmental economics
Brian Ford
(email)
Fields of interest: econometrics & quantitative analysis
Karin Ganter
(email)
Christelle Gahamanyi
(email)
Mary Gruebnau
(email)
Peter Lung
(email)