History of Graduate Student Departmental Awards

Benjamin C. Horne Prize

2022-23

• Andre Gray

2021-22

• Kevin Winseck

2020-21

• Anastasiia Faikina

2018-19

• Wesley Howden

2017-18

• Yanjun (Penny) Liao

2016-17

• Samuel Krumholz

2015-16

• Jeffrey Shrader

2014-15

• Mauricio Romero

2013-14

• Jamie Mullins

2012-13

• Stephie Fried

Clive Granger Research Fellowship

2022-23

• Tanner Eastmond
• Sabareesh Ramachandran
• Hannah Bae
• Songyu He

2021-22

• Stefan Faridani
• Wanchang Zhang
• Minki Kim
• Katherine Rittenhouse
• Parker Rogers
• Jin Xi

2020-21

• Mitch Van Vuren
• Nikolay Kudrin
• Jianan Yang
• Rebecca Royer
• Jackson Somers
• Danil Dmitriev

2019-20

• Masha Titova
• Sophie Sheng
• Camila Navajas
• Xiao Ma
• Alejandro Nakab
• Davide VIviano & Haitian Xie

2018-19

• Nobuhiko Nakazawa
• Jonathan Leganza
• Anastasiia Faikina
• Daniela Vidart
• Chu (Alex) Yu
• Julian Martinez-Iriarte

2017-18

• Xuejing(Shirley) Lu
• Samuel Krumholz
• Peicong Hu
• Bruno Lopez-Videla
• Lam Nguyen
• Runjing Lu

2016-17

• Emilien Gouin-Bonenfant
• Seung-Keun Martinez
• Mauricio Romero
• Zhenting Sum
• Fanglin Sun
• Desmond Ang

2015-16

• Roy Allen
  
• Mitch Downey
  
• Ce Liu
  
• Shihan Xie

2014-15

• Richard Brady
  
• Zachary Breig
  
• Leland Farmer
  
• Claudio Labanca
  
• Arman Rezaee
  
• Jeffrey Shrader

2013-14

• Qihui Chen
  
• Matt Gibson
  
• Matt Goldman
  
• John Rehbeck
  
• Nels Lind
  
• Tamara Sheldon

2012-13

• Denise Clayton
  
• Zheng Fang
  
• Michael Kuhn
  
• Myungkyu Shim
  
• Igor Vaynman
  
• Fan "Dora" Xia

2011-12

• Hie Joo Ahn
  
• Dallas Dotter
  
• Stephie Fried
  
• David Kaplan
  
• Lindsay Rickey
  
• Larry Schmidt 

2010-11

• Samuel Bazzi
  
• Aislinn Bohren
  
• Kristy Buzard
  
• Soojin Jo
  
• Antung Liu
  
• Matthew Niedzwiecki

2009-10

• Ben Backes
  
• Ben Gilbert
  
• Minseong Kim
  
• Leah Nelson
  
• Charles Sprenger
  
• Jing Wu

Graduate Student Research Seminars (GSRS)

2022-23

• Sabareesh Ramachandran, "Targeting in in-kind programs: A study of housing subsidies"

2021-22

• Frances Lu, "Land concentration, structural transformation, and rural labor market"

2020-2021

• Pietro Spini
• Radhika Goyal

2019-2020

• Rahdika Goyal

2018-2019

• Alyssa Brown 

2017-18

• Bruno Lopez Videla
• Fanglin Sun

2016-17

• Ying Feng

2015-16

• Nels Lind
• Claudio Labanca

2014-15

• Erin Wolcott

2013-14

• Kilian Heilmann, "The Effectiveness of International Trade Boycotts"

2012-13

• Matthew Goldman, "Live by the Three, Die by the Three?"

2011-12

• Samuel Bazzi, "Liquidity Constraints and Investment in International Migration: Theory and Evidence from Indonesia"

TA Excellence

2022-23

• Tanner Eastmond
• Min Surk Lee
• Karna Malaviya
• Xintong Li
• Angela Gu
• Churn Ken Lee
• Steven Yee

2021-22

• Ali Uppal
• Edoardo Briganti
• Jay Cizeski
• Jin Xi
• Min Surk Lee
• Xintong Li

2020-21

• Ishani Chatterjee
• Kevine Lee Winseck
• MinSurk Lee
• Connor Redpath
• Evgenii Baranov
• Weilin Chen
• Ziqi Chen 
• Aleksandr Levkun
• Ariel Tsai Chiang
• Michael Rogelio Chua
• Chen lin

• Sidney Corey Tate
• Sarah Zeng
• Sabareesh Ramachandran
• Danil Dmitriev
• Camila Eugenia Navajas Ahumada
• Jianian Yang

• Tara Sullivan 
• Zachary Goodman
• Linyan Zhu
• Olga Denislamova
• Pietro Spini
• Weilin Chen 

• Aleksandr Levkun
• Sarah Zeng
• Daniela Vidart
• Jacob Orchard
• Kevin Ray 
• Pietro Spini

• Veena Jevanandam Blume
• Runjing Lu 
• Chelsea Swete
• Yang Wang
• Alex Mascusi
• Fanglin Sun
• Claudio Labanca - STATA Lab

• Zheng Huang
• Veena Jeevanandam Blume
• Grant Johnson
• Vincent Leah-Martin
• Pablo Ruiz-Junco
• Shihan Xie
• Claudio Labanca - STATA Lab

• Nels Lind
• David Coyne
• Richard Brady
• Vincent Leah-Martin
• Bong Hwan Kim
• Grant Johnson
• Brigitte Roth Tran
• William Chi Chiao Leung
• Claudio Labanca

• Vincent Leah-Martin
• Andrew Chamberlain
• Marina Kutyavina
• Andrew Walcher
• Oleksiy Mnyshenko
• David Coyne

• Andrew Chamberlain
• Michael Levy
• Benjamin Miller
• Andrew Brownback
• Michael Kuhn
• Igor Vaynman

• Andrew Chamberlain
• Jong Myun Moon
• Shalini Nageswaran
• Matthew Niedzwiecki 
• Tamara Sheldon
• Igor Vaynman 

• Andrew Chamberlain
• Matthew Goldman
• Charles Lin
• Matthew Niedzwiecki
• Lawrence Schmidt (Undergraduate & Graduate Core)
• Fan (Dora) Xia

• Myungkyu Shim
• Jong Myun Moon
• Charles Lin
• Kevin Novan
  
• Kristy Buzard
  
• Nicholas Turner
  
• Jing Chen (Undergraduate Tutor)

• Ben Backes (Grad Course)
  
• Charles Lin
  
• Aren Megerdichian
  
• Bryan Tomlin
  
• Aaron Schroeder
  
• Jaime Thomas
• Li Zhou

• Aislinn Bohren (Grad Course)
  
• Scott Borger
  
• Hiroaki Kaido (Grad Course) 
  
• Timothy Keller
  
• Charles Lin
  
• Charles Sprenger
  

• Andra Chent
• Oana Tocoian
• Marya Gottlieb
• Philip Neary

• Ricardo Serrano-Padial
• Scott Borger
• Lone Christiansen
• Michael Ewens
• Cory Koedel
• Seth Pruitt

• Andra Ghent
• Greg Scott

Walter Heller Memorial Prize

• Jordan Mosqueda Juarez, "Private Transportation Markets and Endogenous Commuting Costs"
• Yuli Xu, "Liberalization to Inequality: How China’s State-Owned Enterprise Reform Restructures the Urban Labor Market"

2021-22

• Anjali Pai, "Bridging the Information Gap in Undergraduate Economics"
• Ali Uppal, "The Leverage Puzzle of Monetary Policy" 

2020-21

• Tjeerd de Vries, "Quantile Approach to Asset Pricing Models"
• Victor Sellemi, "Asset Pricing with Supply-Chain Risk"

2019-20

• David Viviano, 1st place, "Experimental Design under Network Interference"
• Shunsuke Hori, Runner-Up, "The Secular Decline in Aggregate Hours Worked in Japan: A Reinterpretation"

2018-19

• Alyssa Brown, tied, "Who Responds to a Free Lunch? Food Spending and the Summer Food Service Program"
• Anastasiia Faikina, tied, "Watching the State: Can New Technologies Promote (a Sense of) Democracy?"

2017-18

• Daniel Leff Yaffe, 1st place, "The interstate multiplier"
• Alejandro Nakab, Runner-Up, "Fear of depreciation: Populist policies of income redistribution"

2016-17

• Emilien Gouin-Bonenfant, 1st prize, "Labor turnover, income risk and inequality"
• Chelsea Swete, Runner-Up, "Homophobia and the gay-straight wage gap"

2015-16

• Shihan Xie, tied, "The Transmission of Monetary Policy Through Local Housing Markets"
• Yanjun (Penny) Liao, tied, "Projection Bias in the Decision to Go Solar: Evidence on Costly Cancellations"

2014-15

• Mitch Downey, 1st prize, "Partial Automation:  Routine-Based Technical Change, Deskilling, and the Minimum Wage"
• Zachary Breig, Runner-Up, "Dynamic Delegation"

2013-14

• Qihui Chen, 1st prize, "Partially Linear IV Regression with Partial Identification"
• Shanthi Manian, Runner-Up, "Conflict and HIV Risk: The Impact of Mexico's Drug War"

2012-13

• Zheng Fang, 1st prize (tie), "Restore Bootstrap Consistency with Non-smooth Functionals"
• Igor Vaynman, 1st prize (tie), "Asymptotics of the Variance Targeting Estimator for (GARCH (p, q)) Process with Infinite Kurtosis"
• Jamie Mullins, Runner-Up, "Curves and Thresholds in Firm Emissions Reductions"

2011-12

• Larry Schmidt, Ist Prize, "Flexible Modeling of Conditional Quantiles without Crossing"
• Fan "Dora" Xia, Runner-Up, "Estimating Expected Bond Yields: Restriction by Factor Construction"
• Alex Imas, Runner-Up, "On Prosocial Incentives"

2010-11

• Samuel Bazzi, 1st Prize, "Income Shocks, Credit Constraints, and Barriers to International Migration: Evidence From Indonesia."
• Kelly Paulson, Runner-Up,"Using Conditional Exogeneity to Identify the Dynamic Binary Choice Model."

2009-10

• Laura Gee, 1st Prize, "Governing Ourselves: Does Third Party Enforcement Crowd out Peer Punishment?"
• Kristy Buzard, Honorable Mention, "Contract, Renegotiation, and Hold Up: Results on the Technology of Trade and Investment"
• Charles Lin, Honorable Mention, "Why People Vote: Ethical Motives and Social Incentives"

2008-09

• Aislinn Bohren, 1st Prize (tie), "Information - Processing Uncertainty in Social Learning"
• Doungdao Mahakitsiri, 1st Prize (tie), "Endogenous Free Trade Agreements: An Impact on the Intensive and Extensive Margins of Trade"

2007-08

• Hiroaki Kaido, 1st Prize, "Inference on Risk Neutral Measures for Incomplete Markets"
• Xun Lu, Honorable Mention, "Granger Causality and Dynamic Structural Systems"
• Aren Megerdichian, Honorable Mention, "Econometric Identification of Causal Parameters in Demand Systems"
• Alberto Rossi, Honorable Mention, "Forecasting the Equity Premium Using Boosted Regression Trees"

2006-07

• Scott Borger, 1st Prize (tie), "Real Time Monetary Policy Rules: Estimating Taylor Rule Parameters with High-Frequency Data"
• Ben Gillen, 1st Prize (tie), "A Note Extending Simple Solutions for Portfolio Identification"
• Bryan Tomlin, Honorable Mention, Untitled

2005-06

• Gray Calhoun
• Andra Ghent
• Elisa Hovander
• Meng Huang

2004-05

• Karim Chalak
• Lone Christiansen
• Dong Jin Lee

2003-04

• Tolga Cenesizoglu
• Jennifer Poole