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2025
| Name | Dissertation Title |
| Aakash Bhalothia | Essays on Labor Markets in Developing Countries |
| Giampaolo Bonomi | Essays on Disagreement and Communication |
| Steven Brownstone | Three Essays on Labor Markets in Telangana, India |
| Ishani Chatterjee | Three Essays in Development Economics |
| Erica Chuang | Essays on Natural Resource Policy Design |
| Brendan Dwyer | Three Empirical Essays in Development, Macro, and Environmental Economics |
| Angela Gu | Essays on U.S. Disability Policy |
| Vikram Jambulapati | Microeconomics of Consumer Financial Decisions |
| Muhammad Karim | Essays on Climate Resilience, Gender, and Education in Pakistan |
| Min Lee | Essays in Health and Public Economics |
| Xintong Li | Essays on Innovation and Financing in the Green Transition |
| Chen Lin | Advances in Optimal Subsidy Design and Synthetic Control Methods |
| Molly Shatto | Essays on Policy Interactions: A Macroeconomic Perspective |
| Yuli Xu | Three Essays on Inequality and Fertility |
2024
2023
2022
| Name | Dissertation Title |
| Alyssa Brown | Essays on Household Spending and the Social Safety Net |
| Yu-Chang Chen | Essays on Treatment Effect Heterogeneity and Policy Design |
| Anastasiia Faikina | Essays on the Political Economy of Development |
| Zhiyun Jiang | Three Essays on Environmental Economics |
| Arushi Kaushik | Essays in Development Economics |
| Arman Khachiyan | Essays in Applied Microeconomics |
| Youngju Lee | Essays on Applied Economics |
| Aleksandr Levkun | Essays on Strategic Mediation of Information |
| Jacob Orchard | Essays on Household Consumption and Relative Prices |
| Yanying Sheng | Essays in Applied Microeconomics |
| Jackson Somers | Essays on the Economics of Environmental Policy |
| Pietro Spini | Three Essays in Robust Causal Inference |
| Tara Sullivan | Essays on Choice |
| Mitchell Vanvuren | Essays on Macroeconomics with Imperfect Insurance |
| Davide Viviano | Essays in Policy Design and Statistical Inference |
| Jianan Yang | Essays on Development and Health Economics |
| Linyan Zhu | Essays on Monetary Policy and Asset Prices |
2021
| Name | Dissertation Title |
| Olga Denislamova | Essays in Macroeconomics |
| Zachary Goodman | Essays in Applied Microeconomics |
| Wesley Howden | Adaptation and Mitigation: Essays on Climate Economics |
| Peicong Hu | Essays on Strategic Information Transmission |
| Alexandre Kellogg | Essays on Expectations-Based Reference Dependence |
| Jonathan Leganza | Essays on Retirement and Medicare Policy |
| Yibin Liu | Essays in Corporate Finance |
| Bruno Lopez Videla Mostajo | Essays on the Political Economy of Development |
| Xiao Ma | Essays on International Trade |
| Julian Martinez Iriarte | Econometric Analysis of Unconditional Policy Effects |
| Alex Masucci | Essays on Physician Billing and Location Decisions |
| Alejandro Nakab | Essays on Workers' Human Capital Accumulation and Wage Experience Profiles |
| Camila Navajas Ahumada | Essays on Development Economics |
| Mariia Titova | Information and Political Economy: Two Illustrations |
| Wendy Zeng | Worker Mobility: Agglomeration, Wage Changes, and Entrepreneurship |
2020
2010-2019
2019
2018
| Name | Dissertation Title |
| Desmond Ang | Essays on Race and Political Economy |
| Jason Bigenho | Essays in Applied Microeconomics |
| Thomas Corringham | Wildfires, Floods, and Climate Variability |
| Asad Dossani | Essays on Inference from Option Markets |
| Erin Giffin | Essays in Microeconomic Theory and Experimental Economics |
| Pedram Heydari | Essays on Decision Theory and Economic Networks |
| Grant Johnson | U.S. Government Institutions and the Economy |
| Mauricio Romero | Three Essays on Improving Learning Outcomes in Africa |
| Won-Ki Seo | Representation Theory for Cointegrated Functional Time Series |
| Zhenting Sun | Essays on Non-parametric and High-dimensional Econometrics |
| Diego Vera-Cossio | Essays on Development Economics |
| Xiaxin Wang | Essays on the Economics of Taxation |
2017
2016
| Name | Dissertation Title |
| Richard Brady | Topics in voting and choice theory |
| Ayal Chen-Zion | Networks in labor markets and information |
| Adam Greenberg | Essays in Behavioral Economics |
| Sarojini Hirshleifer | Essays on Incentives, Human Capital and Productivity |
| Jungbin Hwang | Fixed smoothing asymptotic theory in over-identified econometric models in the presence of time-series and clustered dependence. |
| Jacob Johnson | Essays in Decisions, Institutions, and the Environment |
| Michael Levere | Essays on Early Childhood and Adolescence |
| Yoshiyuki Miyoshi | Essays in Public Finance |
| Arman Rezaee | Improving Governance and Wellbeing in Fragile States: Three Essays |
| Henrique Romero | Essays on Social Insurance, Education, and Health |
| Brigitte Roth Tran | Essays on Finance, the Environment, and Philanthropy |
| Alison Sanchez | Essays in decision making and beliefs |
| Gonzalo Valdes | Essays in International Economics |
2015
2014
| Name | Dissertation Title |
| Travis Brayak | Effects of Matching in Economics: Social Networks and the Marriage Market |
| Andrew Chamberlain | Policy and Behavior: Essays in Applied Microeconomics |
| Linchun Chen | Essays on Identification and Weak Identification |
| Alex Imas | Emotional Dynamics in Social Behavior and Choice Under Uncertainty |
| Michael Kuhn | Heterogeneity in Time Preference: Measurement, Manipulation and Importance for Economic Policy |
| Charles Lin | Essays in Microeconomic Theory |
| Jong-Myun Moon | Essays in Econometrics |
| Stephen Morris | Identification of Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium Models |
| Ketki Sheth | Essays in Development Economics |
| Myung Kyu Shim | Essays in Macroeconomics |
| Fan Xia | The Term Structure of Interest Rates, Monetary Policy, and Macroeconomy |
| Jedrzej Zieleniak | Essays on Education Policy |
2013
2012
| Name | Dissertation Title |
| Ben Backes | Essays on the Impacts of Affirmative Action |
| J. A. Bohren | Information and Incentives in Stochastic Games, Social Learning and Crowdsourcing |
| Thomas Daula | Essays in Macroeconomics |
| Kirti Gupta | Economics of Intellectual Property: Valuation, Strategy and Policy Impact |
| Soojin Jo | The Impact of Uncertainty and Risk Measures |
| Benjamin Kay | Essays on Frictions in Financial Macroeconomics |
| Aeimit Lakdawala | Essays in Monetary Policy |
| Antung Liu | Three Essays at the Intersection of Public Finance and Environmental Economics |
| Doungdao Mahakitsiri | Trade and Institutions |
| Danielken Molina | Three Essays on International Trade |
| Shalini Nageswaran | Essays on Liquidity of U.S. Common Stocks |
| Leah Nelson | Investments in Children in Developing Countries |
| Kevin Novan | Essays on Energy and Environmental Policy |
| Aaron Schroeder | Essays on Consumer Behavior |
| Martin Tobal | Distributional Effects of Trade and Tariffs Between and Within Countries |
2011
2010
2000-2009
2009
| Name | Dissertation Title |
| Scott Borger | Essays on migration and monetary policy |
| Grayson Calhoun | Limit theory for overfit models |
| Meng Huang | Essays on testing conditional independence |
| Lei Meng | Essays on rural -urban migration in hinterland China |
| Lindsay Oldenski | Nonroutine tasks in international trade |
| Young Park | Essays on biased self image |
| Adam Sanjurjo | Essays in decision making under cognitive load |
2008
| Name | Dissertation Title |
| Andra Ghent | Essays in monetary economics |
| Bryan Goudie | Essays on regional and firm -level productivity, military spending, and technology |
| Munechika Katayama | Dynamic analysis in productivity, oil shock, and recession |
| Christopher Nekarda | Measuring U.S. labor market dynamics |
| Seth Pruitt | Three essays on macroeconomics |
| Christopher Reicher | Three essays on estimation of policy disturbances |
| Jason Shafrin | Essays on health economics |
| Christopher Wignall | The economics of real estate brokerage and contracts |
| Ruojun Wu | Essays on the predictability and volatility of returns in the stock market |
| Scott Borger | Essays on migration and monetary policy |
2007
2006
| Name | Dissertation Title |
| Andrew Caffrey | Essays on investor and mutual fund behavior |
| Bolong Cao | Debt financing and the dynamics of agency costs |
| Tolga Cenesizoglu | Essays on the stock market's reaction to macroeconomic news |
| Nagore Iriberri | Essays in behavioral game theory: Auctions, hide and seek, and coordination |
| Masako Miyanishi | Essays on hypothesis testing in the presence of nearly integrated variables |
| Agusto Nieto Barthaburu | Essays on microeconomics and statistical decision making |
| Jose Rangel | Stock market volatility and price discovery: Three essays on the effect of macroeconomic information |
| Marius Rodriguez | Essays on financial analysts' forecasts |
2005
2004
2003
| Name | Dissertation Title |
| Maximilian Auffhammer | Essays in environmental and regional economics |
| Daniel Chiquiar-Cikurel | Essays on the regional implications of globalization: The case of Mexico |
| Raffaella Giacomini | Essays in forecast evaluation |
| Pauline Kennedy | Three essays on the prediction and identification of currency crises |
| Shinobu Nakagawa | Important roles of housing stock in consumer behaviors |
| Steven Sumner | Bank equity and the monetary transmission mechanism |
| Daniel Vine | Sourcing the decline in United States GDP volatility: Evidence from the automobile industry |
| Elliot Williams | Essays in multiple comparison testing |
2002
| Name | Dissertation Title |
| Elena Bisagni | The overnight interbank market in the United States and in the Euro area |
| Jin Cho | Three essays on testing hypotheses with irregular conditions |
| Andrew Patton | Applications of copula theory in financial econometrics |
2001
2000
1990-1999
1999
| Name | Dissertation Title |
| Cynthia Bansak | Essays on labor market discrimination and job stability |
| Alfonso Dufour | Essays on the econometrics of inter-trade durations and market liquidity |
| Changho Han | Multi -variate estimation and forecasting with artificial neural networks |
| Namwon Hyung | Essays on panel and nonlinear time series analysis |
| Yongil Jeon | Four essays on forecasting evaluation and econometric estimation |
| Magnus Lofstrom | Three essays on the role of skills and education in immigration and self-employment |
| Makoto Shimoji | Essays in game theory and application: Extensive form rationalizability, and demotion in employment relationships |
| Aaron Smith | Stochastic permanent breaks |
| Takashi Yamashita | Housing as an asset in portfolio decisions |
| Kang-Oh Yi | Three essays on quantal response equilibrium model |
1998
| Name | Dissertation Title |
| Marvin Barth | Essays on the transmission of monetary policy |
| Maria Candido | Financial market liquidity, asset pricing, and financial crises |
| Miguel Costa-Gomes | Essays on behavior and cognition in experimental game theory |
| Alejandro Gaviria | Three essays on social interactions and intergenerational mobility |
| Ling-Ling Huang | The econometric analysis of economic growth: Three essays |
| Tae-Hwan Kim | The shrinkage least absolute deviation estimator in large samples and its application to the Treynor-Black model |
| Joe Lange | An intraday analysis of stock market liquidity |
| Yi-Chen Lin | Essays on sectoral shifts and input reallocation |
| Gang Lin | Nesting regime-switching GARCH models and stock market volatility, returns and the business cycle |
| Donald McCubbin | Three empirical investigations in environmental economics |
| Suzanne Seagrave | The role of expensive technologies in the new medical marketplace |
1997
| Name | Dissertation Title |
| Yin-Feng Gau | Heteroskedastic volatility of foreign exchange rates |
| Jyh-Chyi Gong | The dynamics of social interaction |
| Andreas Gottschling | Three essays in neural networks and financial prediction |
| Tomoo Inoue | Business fixed investment and nonlinear time series analysis |
| Sumio Ishikawa | Empirical studies on the nonlinear economic models |
| Eric Johnson | Essays on education and income mobility |
| Oscar Jorda | The econometrics of irregularly spaced time series data in macroeconomic research |
| Imho Kang | An analysis of United States monetary policy |
| Ya-Hue Lee | The power of residual-based cointegration tests, and the dynamics of female fertility, education and labor supply |
| Pedro Pereira | Three essays on cost-reducing investment |
| Jamie Shkolnik | School resource allocation and the production of education |
| Scott Spear | Essays in finance and time series econometrics |
| Ching Tong | Social networks and dynamic interaction among imperfectly rational agents |
1996
| Name | Dissertation Title |
| Fabrizio Germano | Two papers in mathematical economics |
| Scott Gilbert | Modelling economic regimes via semi-nonparametric regression |
| Josefa Monteagudo | Essays on international trade and economic growth |
| Cameron Odgers | Three papers on the theory and evidence of noncompetitive economic behavior |
| Lucio Picci | Essays on the comovements of output |
| Gabriel Quiros | Three essays in business cycles and finance |
| Joshua Rosenberg | Option hedging and valuation under stochastic volatility |
| Jeffrey Russell | Econometric analysis of irregularly spaced transaction data using a new class of accelerated failure time models with applications to financial transaction data |
| Nadine Watson | Positive minimum wage effects on employment: Alternative explanations |
1995
| Name | Dissertation Title |
| Paola Agostini | Economic analysis of ecologically sensitive areas in developing countries |
| Chi-Shing Chan | Resource allocation and oligopolistic markets |
| Melinda Deutsch | Aspects of the combination of forecasts, evaluation of policy models, and the characterization of the behavior of an economic system around its equilibrium |
| Nicholas Flores | Three essays concerning the valuation of environmental goods |
| Joseph Haimowitz | Empirical investigations into the dynamics of price adjustment |
| Lynette Hilton | The incentive effects of the welfare system |
| Jyotsna Jalan | Model specification and evaluation in econometrics |
| Kenya Kura | Essays on economic growth and development from an intergenerational perspective |
| Shinichi Sakata | High breakdown point estimation in econometrics |
| Junghwan Seo | Holding options in a theory of search |
1994
1993
| Name | Dissertation Title |
| Antonio Cabrales | Evolutionary game dynamics |
| Xiaohong Chen | Asymptotic properties of recursive m-estimators in an infinite-dimensional Hilbert space |
| Yongmiao Hong | Specification testing in econometrics using m-tests |
| Joao Issler | Common trends and common cycles in macroeconomic data |
| Bradley Kamp | Survey bias and quality incentives |
| Toru Konishi | Separation and long-run non-causality in a cointegrated system |
| Jaesun Noh | Essays on option market and testing for seasonal unit roots |
| Marion Picard | An analysis of inter-industry wage differentials: Two essays |
| Pu Shen | Essays on bid-ask spreads, term premia and excess returns |
| Chor Sin | Three essays on non-linear time series |
| Farshid Vahid-Araghi | Essays on common dynamic features in multiple time series |
| Steven Waters | Single origin zones and multiple sites: Extending the discrete choice travel cost model |
1992
| Name | Dissertation Title |
| Anna Alberini | The informational content of binary responses |
| Heather Anderson | Nonlinearities and shifts in macroeconomic regimes |
| Mark Kamstra | A collection of papers in econometric theory |
| Sharon Kozicki | Theory and applications of common features |
| Ping Kuo | The economics of rotating credit associations |
| Marie Racine | Arbitrage pricing theory, conditional coskewness and volatility shocks and time-varying coskewness and its value to investors |
| Jean Shelton | The economics of intergenerational transfers |
1991
1990
1980-1989
1989
1988
| Name | Dissertation Title |
| Gary Biglaiser | Noncooperative coalition formation |
| Yeu-Tien Chou | The role of risk in financial markets |
| Mustafa Chowdhury | The persistence and implied persistence of volatility of stock returns |
| Isamu Ginama | Estimation of precautionary savings in the U.S. and Japan |
| Ted Hong | The investigation of volatility in GARCH |
| John Horowitz | Three essays in intertemporal choice |
| Linda Hunter-Cormier | The effects of the demand side on trade |
| Joon-Kyung Kim | The role of money in economies with imperfect capital markets: Theory and empirical evidence |
| Kenneth Kroner | Multivariate simultaneous generalized Autoregressive Conditional Heteroskedasticity |
| Boon Lim | Essays on financial economics |
| Katherine McClain | Trend analysis of economic time-series |
| William Neilson | Generalized expected utility analysis: Theory and applications |
| Inigo Zapater | Two essays on information in economics |
1987
1986
| Name | Dissertation Title |
| Scott Brown | Post-sample forecasting comparisons and model selection procedures |
| Mark Johnson | Informational aspects of procedures for collective choice |
| Jeffrey Wooldridge | Asymptotic properties of econometric estimators |
1985
1984
1983
| Name | Dissertation Title |
| Norman Clifford | Efficiency with asymmetric information |
| Edward Coulson | Modelling variation in hedonic prices for housing attributes |
| Eitan Gerstner | Temporal price dispersion |
| Robert Marshall | An analysis of vacancies and price setting behavior in the rental housing market |
| Ichiro Takahashi | Sequential models of international trade, bargaining, and intertemporal price discrimination |
| Allan Young | Bargaining under incomplete information: Attitudes toward risk and strategic behavior |
1982
| Name | Dissertation Title |
| Ian Domowitz | Econometric estimation with dependent observations |
| Dennis Kraft | Extensions of the arch model with applications to United States inflation |
| Jeffrey McCombs | Physician price and treatment decisions: A multiple treatments model |
| Mike Phillips | Regulatory issues in a multiple species fishery: The case of San Pedro (California) |
| Russell Robins | Econometric models for time varying risk premiums |
1981
| Name | Dissertation Title |
| Guillermo Estebanez | Policies in open economies when prices do not clear markets: Three essays |
| Sandra Krieger | Tests for the misspecification of the role of policy variables in money market models: An application of the Lagrange multiplier test for weak exogeneity |
1980
| Name | Dissertation Title |
| Nancy Thornborrow | Older worker labor force participation |
| Mark Watson | Applications of Kalman filter models in econometrics |
1970-1979
1979
| Name | Dissertation Title |
| R. Michael Black | Two economic applications of dynamic optimization theory |
| Terry Chacon | Public employment in a macroeconomic model |
| Roseline Joyeux | Harmonizable processes in economics |
| George McCollister | New methods for identifying time series models and an evaluation of the economic indicators |
1978
| Name | Dissertation Title |
| Walter Lane | Product differentiation in a market with endogenous sequential entry |
1977
| Name | Dissertation Title |
| James Johnson | Optimal forecasting and the valuation of securities |
| Harold Nelson | The use of box-cox transformations in economic time series analysis: An empirical study |
1976
| Name | Dissertation Title |
| Richard Ashley | Postponed linear approximations in stochastic multiperiod programming |
| Darrel Cohen | The role of fiscal policy in financially disaggregated macroeconomic models |
| Paul Sommers | Birth control in an econometric simulation model |
1975
| Name | Dissertation Title |
| Charles Gregory | Optimal income redistribution |
| Stephen Huxley | An inter-regional input-output model for the state of Queensland, Australia, 1970-71 |
| Dharam Kapil | Discouraged worker versus additional worker hypothesis: Emperical analysis of labor force behavior and some implications |
| Tracy Lewis | Optimal resource management under conditions of uncertainty: The case of an ocean fishery |
| J. Stuart McMenamin | A disaggregated international linkage model: The supply price approach |
| Jean-Paul Pinard | A disaggregated international linkage model: The profit function approach |
1974
| Name | Dissertation Title |
| Richard O'Toole | Monetary policy in a neo-Keynesian growth model |
| Panagiotis Papakyriazis | Optimal experimental design in econometric models |
| William Roberts | Monetary expansion, capital accumulation and balance of trade |
1973
| Name | Dissertation Title |
| Richard Harriff | Economic theory and distributed lags |
| Daniel Williamson | A differential game version of the entry barrier problem |
1972
| Name | Dissertation Title |
| Adam Gifford | Environmental issues and economic growth |
| Dwight Lee | Dynamic profit maximization under conditions of monopoly |
| Michel Richonnier | Experimental design in econometrics: Some extensions |
| Subhash Thakur | Theory estimation of speculative capital movements |
1971
| Name | Dissertation Title |
| Joan Anderson | An econometric model of inflation, excess demand and changes in the wage rate |
| Robert McNown | A simulation study of the small sample properties of several distributed lag estimators |
1970
| Name | Dissertation Title |
| John Hardesty | An empirical study of the relationship between poverty and economic prosperity |