Job Market Candidates

Thank you for visiting our Economics Job Market Candidates page. We are pleased to present our 2023-2024 PhD job market candidates.

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

 

 

 

Joshua D. Ammons

Joshua D. Ammons
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Dissertation Title: Three Essays on the Political Economy of Nonviolent Action
Advisor: Christopher Coyne
ccoyne3@gmu.edu 
Primary Fields: Development, International Economics
Secondary Fields: Market Process, Public Choice
Job Paper: Institutional Effects of Nonviolent and Violent Revolutions
Email: jammons3@gmu.edu

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Denver M. Casey

Denver M. Casey
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Dissertation Title: Investigating the Conditions for Multiple Media of Exchange
Advisor: Lawrence White
lwhite11@gmu.edu 
Primary Fields: Monetary Economics, Public Choice
Secondary Fields: Macroeconomics
Job Paper: Conditions for the Usage of Multiple Media of Exchange
Email: dcasey3@gmu.edu

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Edgar Castro Mendez

Edgar O. Castro Mendez
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Dissertation Title: Three Essays on Public Economics and Market Interventions
Advisor: Cesar A. Martinelli cmarti33@gmu.edu
Primary Fields: Applied Microeconomics, Experimental Economics 
Secondary Fields: Industrial Organization
Job Paper: Price Distortions and Hording: An Experiment
Email:  ecastrom71@gmail.com

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Amy Crockett

Amy Crockett
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Dissertation Title:  Essays on the Political Economy of Education and Peace
Advisor: Christopher Coyne
ccoyne3@gmu.edu
Primary Fields: Political Economy, Applied Microeconomics
Secondary Fields: 
Job Paper:
Email:  acrocket@gmu.edu

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Shan Gui

Shan Gui
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Dissertation Title:  Three Essays on Dynamic Mechanism Design
Advisor: Daniel Houser dhouser@gmu.edu
Primary Fields: Behavioral and Experimental Economics
Secondary Fields: Political Game Theory
Job Paper: Non-clairvoyant Dynamic Mechanism Design: Experimental Evidence
Email:  sgui@gmu.edu

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Sarah Palor Sylvester

Sarah Palor Sylvester
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Dissertation Title:  Essays on Cryptocurrencies: Experiments Measuring Attitudes, Uses, and Mechanisms
Advisor: Kevin McCabe  kmccabe@gmu.edu
Primary Fields: Applied Microeconomics, Experimental Economics
Secondary Fields: Financial Economics, Law and Economics
Job Paper: Cryptocurrencies: Experiments on Individual Attitudes and Perceptions
Email:  ssylves@gmu.edu

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Olga Shanks

Olga Shanks
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Dissertation Title:  Three Essays in Industrial Organization and Political Economy
Advisor: Garett Jones  gjonesb@gmu.edu
Primary Fields: Industrial Organization, Political Economy 
Secondary Fields: 
Job Paper: Increasing Returns to Scale and Markups
Email:  ostaradu@gmu.edu

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Hairuo Tan

Hairuo Tan
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Dissertation Title:  Three Essays on Adam Smith's Moral Philosophy and Political Economy
Advisor: Daniel Klein  dklein@gmu.edu
Primary Fields: Smithian Political Economy, History of Economic Thought 
Secondary Fields: Philosophy of Economics
Job Paper: Adam Smith and Confucius on Morality: A Comparative Study of The Theory of Moral Sentiments and The Analects of Confucius
Email:  htan6@gmu.edu

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Alexander N. Taylor

Alexander N. Taylor
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Dissertation Title:  Essays in the Economic History of Media
Advisor: Noel Johnson njohnsol@gmu.edu
Primary Fields: Political Economy, Economic History 
Secondary Fields: Applied Econometrics
Job Paper: Monumental Effects: Confederal Monuments in the Post-Reconstruction South
Email: ataylo46@gmu.edu

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Jianxin Wang

Jianxin Wang
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Dissertation Title:  Three Essays on Alcohol Economics
Advisor: Daniel Houser dhouser@gmu.edu
Primary Fields: Applied Microeconomics, Experimental Economics, Behavioral Economics
Secondary Fields: Applied Econometrics, Behavioral Finance
Job Paper: Social Norm Obedience is the Primary Source of the Gender Competitiveness Gap
Email: jianxin.wang12@gmail.com

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