Thank you for visiting our Economics Job Market Candidates page. We are pleased to present our 2011-2012 job market candidates.
Our Job Market Candidates 2012 packet includes the candidates' CV and abstract of dissertation.
If you have any questions concerning our students or need further assistance in contacting prospective candidates, please contact the dissertation advisor listed.
Jason Arentz
Dissertation Title: The Political Economy of Autocracy: Insights from Economic Theory, Analytical History, and the Experimental Laboratory
Advisor: Charles K Rowley crowley@gmu.edu
Fields: Experimental Economics, Public Choice (primary); Entrepreneurship, Industrial Organization, Applied Microeconomics (secondary)
Job Paper: A political economic model of autocracy, in the spirit of Ronald Wintrobe
Homepage: http://jasonarentz.com
CV: http://jasonarentz.com/index.php/about1/
Email: jarentz@gmu.edu
Jared Barton
Dissertation Title: Lies, Damned Lies, and Elections: Three Essays in Experimental Public Choice
Advisor: Ragan Petrie rpetrie1@gmu.edu
Fields: Experimental Economics, Public Choice (primary); Public Economics, Applied Microeconomics (secondary)
Job Paper: What Persuades Voters? A Field Experiment on Political Campaigning
Homepage: http://www.jaredbarton.info
CV: http://mason.gmu.edu/~jbarton3/JPBartonCV.pdf
Email: jbarton3@gmu.edu
Nicholas Curott
Dissertation Title: Essays on the Theory and History of Money and Banking in Post-Revolutionary America
Advisor: Dr. Lawrence H. White lwhite11@gmu.edu
Fields: Money and Banking, Economic History, History of Thought (primary); Macroeconomics, Public Choice, Development (secondary)
Job Paper: America’s First Business Cycle? A Monetary Explanation for the Recession of 1797
Homepage: http://nicholascurott.com
CV: http://nicholascurott.com/uploads/Vitae_Curott.pdf
Email: ncurott@usouthal.edu
Nakul Kumar
Dissertation Title: The Political Economy of Disaster Relief Spending – A Study of the Indian Sub Continent
Advisor: Dr. John Nye jnye@gmu.edu
Fields: Institutional Economics, Public Choice (primary); Economics of Development (secondary)
Job Paper: Ties that bind. Tactical redistribution in coalition politics: Evidence from India (Available at: http://personal.denison.edu/~kumarn/kumar/
Home Page: http://personal.denison.edu/~kumarn/kumar/
CV: http://personal.denison.edu/~kumarn/kumar/
Email: nakul.kumar@gmail.com
William J. Luther
Dissertation Title: Money without a State
Advisor: Lawrence H. White lwhite11@gmu.edu
Fields: Monetary Economics, Macroeconomics (primary); Austrian Economics, Economic Development, Experimental Macroeconomics (secondary)
Job Paper: Positively Valued Fiat Money after the Sovereign Disappears (Available at: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1801563
Homepage: www.wluther.com
CV: http://www.wluther.com/site/Research_files/William%20J%20Luther%20CV.pdf
Email: wluther@gmu.edu
Christopher Martin
Dissertation Title: Sympathy, Poverty, and Justice: Three Essays on the History of Economics with an emphasis on Adam Smith
Advisor: Dr. Daniel Klein dklein@gmu.edu
Fields: History of Thought, Adam Smith (primary); Constitutional Political Economy, Economic History, Austrian Economics (secondary)
Job Paper: Sympathy in Economics: A Critical History
Homepage: http://www.christopherecon.org/
CV: http://www.christopherecon.org/home/cv
Email: cmartin6@richmond.edu or cmartinb@gmu.edu
Marta Podemska Mikluch
Dissertation Title: Human Action and Institutional Evolution: Between Cooperation and Coercion. Essays on the Political Economy of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.
Adviser: Richard E. Wagner rwagner@gmu.edu
Fields: Constitutional Political Economy, the Theory of the Market Process (primary); Economic History, Public Choice (secondary)
Job Paper: The Crumpled Constitution of the Compound Republic: Institutional Decay in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (Available at: http://www.podemska.com/Dissertation_files/job%20market%20paper.pdf
Homepage: http://www.podemska.com/
CV: http://www.podemska.com/CV.html
Email: mpodemsk@gmu.edu
Xiaofei (Sophia) Pan
Dissertation Title: Cooperation without sanctions: Theory and experiments
Advisor: Daniel E. Houser dhouser@gmu.edu
Fields: Behavioral Economics, Applied Microeconomics (primary); Experimental Economics, Behavioral Game Theory (secondary)
Job Paper: Social Approval, Competition and Cooperation
Homepage: http://mason.gmu.edu/~xpan2/
CV: http://mason.gmu.edu/~xpan2/CV_Pan.pdf
Email: xpan2@gmu.edu
Nicholas A. Snow
Dissertation Title: Whither Prohibition?
Advisor: Dr. Peter J. Boettke pboettke@gmu.edu
Fields: Austrian economics, constitutional political economy, law and economics
Job Paper: Rum Row and the Plunder Problem
Homepage: http://nicholasasnow.com/Site/Home.html
CV: http://nicholasasnow.com/Site/Research_files/Snow_CV.pdf
Email: nsnow@gmu.edu