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2007-2008 Job Market Candidates

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Contact Information
Placement Director:
Vijay Krishna
814-863-8543
placement@econ.psu.edu

Graduate Secretary &
Placement Assistant:
Lynn Sebulsky
814-865-1458
placement@econ.psu.edu

Penn State University
Department of Economics
608 Kern Graduate Bldg.
University Park, PA 16802

CANDIDATE: Hae Won Byun hqb100@psu.edu
PRIMARY FIELDS: Industrial Organization
THESIS TITLE: "An Empirical Study on Concert Ticket Pricing"
THESIS ADVISOR: Professor Joris Pinkse

CANDIDATE: Myeonghwan Cho muc152@psu.edu
PRIMARY FIELDS: Microeconomics, Game Theory
THESIS TITLE: "Local Public Goods and Repeated Prisioner's Dilemma Games on Networks"
THESIS ADVISOR:

Professor Kalyan Chatterjee

CANDIDATE: Avantika Chowdhury auc134@psu.edu
PRIMARY FIELDS: Microeconomic Theory, Game Theory
THESIS TITLE: "Essays on the Microeconomics of Network Formation"
THESIS ADVISOR: Professor Kalyan Chatterjee

CANDIDATE: Esra Durceylan eud104@psu.edu
PRIMARY FIELDS: International Trade, Industrial Organization
THESIS TITLE: "Industry Dynamics and Agency"
THESIS ADVISOR: Professor James Tybout
CANDIDATE: Jian Hong jhong@psu.edu
PRIMARY FIELDS: Econometrics
THESIS TITLE: "Nonparametric Estimation and Testing Using Control Function Approaches"
THESIS ADVISOR: Professor Quang Vuong

CANDIDATE: Maxim Ivanov mgi103@psu.edu
PRIMARY FIELDS: Microeconomcis, Game Theory
THESIS TITLE: "Essays on Theory of Information"
THESIS ADVISORS: Professor Kalyan Chatterjee
                                 Professor Vijay Krishna

CANDIDATE: Andrei Karavaev akaravae@psu.edu
PRIMARY FIELDS:  Game Theory
THESIS TITLE: "Essays in Economic Theory"
THESIS ADVISOR: Professor Kalyan Chatterjee

CANDIDATE: Shizuka Nishikawa nishikawas@wlu.edu
PRIMARY FIELDS: Microeconomic Theory
THESIS TITLE: "Essays on the Theory of Environmental Coalitions"
THESIS ADVISOR: Professor Kalyan Chatterjee

CANDIDATE: Jia Pan jzp121@psu.edu
PRIMARY FIELDS: Applied Mathematics
THESIS TITLE: "Optimal Intermediated Investment in a Liquidity-Driven Business Cycle"
THESIS ADVISORS: Professor Edward Green
                                   Professor Jenny Li

CANDIDATE: Dmitry Prudnichenko dap252@psu.edu
PRIMARY FIELDS: Industrial Organization
THESIS TITLE: "The Extent of Cooperation in R&D and Optimal Antitrust Legislation"
THESIS ADVISOR: Professor Kalyan Chatterjee

CANDIDATE: Mingzhe Tang mzt115@psu.edu
PRIMARY FIELDS: Industrial Organization
THESIS TITLE: "Empirical Studies on Local Competition, Regulation and Broadband Diffusion in the U.S. Telecommunications Industry"
THESIS ADVISOR: Mark Roberts
CANDIDATE: Li Wang luw119@psu.edu
PRIMARY FIELDS: Econometrics
THESIS TITLE: "Integrated Conditional Moment Tests for Parametric Conditional Distributions"
THESIS ADVISOR: Professor Herman Bierens

CANDIDATE: Roman Zakharenko rlz121@psu.edu
PRIMARY FIELDS: Development Economics
THESIS TITLE: "Essays on Migration and Development"
THESIS ADVISOR: Professor Barry Ickes