Job Market Candidates

Thank you for visiting our Economics Job Market Candidates page. We are pleased to present our 2016-2017 job market candidates.

If you have questions concerning our students or need further assistance in contacting prospective candidates, please contact the dissertation advisor listed.

Scott A. Burns

Dissertation Title:  Finance For All: Three Essays on How Best to Promote Financial Development in the Developing World
Advisor:  Lawrence H. White lwhite11@gmu.edu
Primary Fields:  Monetary Economics, Austrian Economics
Secondary Fields: Public Choice, Development Economics, History of Economic Thought
Job Paper:  Finance for All: How Market-led Innovations Have Transformed Financial Access in the Developing World
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Email: sburns13@gmu.edu

Rosolino Candela

Dissertation Title: Three Essays on the Economics of Property Rights with Applications to the Political Economy of Italian Unification
Advisor: Peter J. Boettke pboettke@gmu.edu
Primary Fields: Austrian Economics, Development Economics
Secondary Fields: Public Choice, History of Economic Thought
Job Paper: The Political Economy of Italian Unification: Insecurity of Property Rights and the Role of Land Reform
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Email: rcandela@gmu.edu

Byron B. Carson

Dissertation Title: The Political Economy of Epidemiology
Advisor: Christopher Coyne ccoyne3@gmu.edu
Primary Fields: Public Choice, Austrian Economics
Secondary Fields: Development and Health Economics
Job Paper: Responsiveness and Firm-led Disease Prevention: Three Cases from the 2014 Ebola Epidemic in Liberia
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Email: bcarson2@gmu.edu

James Caton

Dissertation Title: An Agent-based Theory of Social Economy
Advisor: Richard E. Wagner rwagner@gmu.edu
Primary Fields: Agent-based Computational Economics, Entrepreneurship
Secondary Fields: Market Process Theory, Monetary Economics
Job Paper: Entrepreneurship, Search Costs, and Ecological Rationality in an Agent-based Economy
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Email: jcaton@gmu.edu

Darwyyn Deyo

Dissertation Title: Law and Labor Markets: Three Essays on Individual Decision Making
Advisor: Thomas Stratmann tstratma@gmu.edu
Primary Fields: Labor Economics, Law and Economics
Secondary Fields: Health Economics, Economics of Crime
Job Paper: Licensing and Product Quality: Evidence Using Yelp Consumer Reviews
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Email: ddeyo@gmu.edu

Anna B. Faria

Dissertation Title: Coffee Culture: Three Essays on the Political Economy and Development of Brazil in the Early Twentieth Century
Advisor: Peter J. Boettke pboettke@gmu.edu
Primary Fields: Development Economics, Economic History
Secondary Fields: Political Economy
Job Paper: Coffee, Immigrants and Growth in Brazil
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Email: faria.annab@gmail.com

Theresa S. Finley

Dissertation Title: Essays on Religion and Institutions in European Economic History
Advisor: John V.C. Nye jnye@gmu.edu
Primary Fields: Economic History, Institutional Economics
Secondary Fields: Economics of Religion, Law and Economics
Job Paper: Free Riding in the Monastery: Club Goods, the Cistercian Order and Agricultural Investment in Ancien Regime France
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Email: tfinley@gmu.edu

Mikhail Freer

Dissertation Title: Essays on Preference Extensions
Advisor: Cesar Martinelli cmarti33@gmu.edu and Marco Castillo marco.castillo@tamu.edu
Primary Fields: Economic Theory, Experimental Economics
Secondary Fields: Market Design, Political Economy
Job Paper: A Revealed Preference Test of Quasi-Linear Preferences
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Email: mfreer@gmu.edu

Cameron Harwick

Dissertation Title: Credit and Cranium: Three Essays on the Meaning of Money
Advisor: Lawrence H. White lwhite11@gmu.edu
Primary Fields: Monetary Economics
Secondary Fields: Macroeconomics, New Institutional Economics
Job Paper: Helicopters and the Neutrality of Money: An Essay in Loanable Fundamentalism
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Email: thrica@gmail.com

Hannah K. Mead Kling

Dissertation Title: Implications of Regional Segregation for Regulation and Productivity
Advisor:  Garett Jones gjones@gmu.edu
Primary Fields:  Regional Economics, Public Choice
Secondary Fields: Productivity, Regulation
Job Paper: Land-use regulations as exclusion: A GIS analysis
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Email: hmead@gmu.edu

Cheryl Litman

Dissertation Title: Behavior Under Scrutiny
Advisor: Thomas Stratmann tstratma@gmu.edu
Primary Fields: Applied Microeconomics, Institutional Economics
Secondary Fields: Economic History, Sports Economics
Job Paper: Affiliation Bias: Evidence from Figure Skating
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Email: cheryl.litman@gmail.com

Erik W. Matson

Dissertation Title: Reason, Science, and Political Economy: Interpretations from David Hume and Adam Smith
Advisor: Daniel B. Klein dklein@gmu.edu
Primary Fields: History of Economic Thought
Secondary Fields: Philosophy of Economics
Job Paper: The Sympathetic Formation of Reason and the Limits of Science
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Email: ewmatson@gmail.com

Robert L. Mayo

Dissertation Title: Three Essays on Other-Regarding Preferences in One-Shot Anonymous Games
Advisor: Kevin McCabe kmccabe@gmu.edu
Primary Fields: Behavioral Economics, Experimental Economics
Secondary Fields: Agent-based Computational Economics
Job Paper: Decomposing Altruism: An Experiment to Quantify Warm Glow by Demographic Group
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Email: rmayo3@gmu.edu

Edward Austin Middleton

Dissertation Title:  Projectors and Sympathetic Credit Markets in 18th Century Scotland
Advisor:  David M. Levy dlevy@gmu.edu
Primary Fields: History of Economic Thought, Monetary Theory
Secondary Fields: Public Choice
Job Paper:  Adam Smith, Jeremy Bentham, and Usury Laws: "Projectors" Reconsidered in their 18th Century Context
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Email:  emiddlet@odu.edu

Raymond Niles

Dissertation Title: Three Essays on the Entrepreneurial Business Cycle
Advisor: Peter J. Boettke pboettke@gmu.edu
Primary Fields: Monetary and Banking
Secondary Fields: Austrian Economics, History of Economic Thought
Job Paper: The Unresolved Problem of Gratuitous Credit in Austrian Banking Theory
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Email: rniles2@gmu.edu

Julia R. Norgaard

Dissertation Title: Economics of Illicit Behaviors: Terrorism and the Internet Wild West
Advisor: Thomas Stratmann tstratma@gmu.edu
Primary Fields: Applied Microeconomics, Political Economy
Secondary Fields: Development, Law and Economics
Job Paper: Reputation in the Internet black market: an empirical and theoretical analysis of the Deep Web
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Email: jnorgaar@gmu.edu

Sarah Oh

Dissertation Title:  Essays in Broadband Economics
Advisor:  Tyler Cowen tcowen@gmu.edu
Primary Fields:  Applied Microeconomics
Secondary Fields: Law and Economics, Monetary Economics
Job Paper: Broadband Stimulus in the Recovery Act: What Concerned 71 Economists?
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Email: soh5@gmu.edu

Ion Sterpan

Dissertation Title: Polycentricity and the Theory of Order
Advisor:  Peter J. Boettke pboettke@gmu.edu
Primary Fields:  Austrian Economics, Public Choice
Secondary Fields:  New Institutional Economics, Social Philosophy
Job Paper: Polycentric Systems as Error Correctors
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Email: isterpan@gmu.edu

Peter Twieg

Dissertation Title: Investigating the Emergence of Endogenous Institutions in Virtual World Experiments
Advisor: Kevin McCabe kmccabe@gmu.edu
Primary Fields: Experimental Economics, Institutional Economics
Secondary Fields: Behavioral Economics, Public Economics
Job Paper: The Determinants of Territorial Property Rights in a Spatial Commons Experiment
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Email: twiegp@gmail.com