Students
** Dissertation chair (35), * Dissertation co-chair (7), + Dissertation committee member (66)
Current
** Deepali Advani (CUNY-GC)
Pre-proposal
** Dragos Ailoae (CUNY-GC)
“Effects of State Recreational Marijuana Laws”
+ Aman Desai (CUNY-GC)
Pre-proposal
** Kyungtae Lee (CUNY-GC)
“Essay on Clean Cooking Energy in Developing Countries”
+ Helia Rabie (CUNY-GC)
Pre-proposal
+ Lulu Wang (CUNY-GC)
Essays in Machine Learning, Econometrics, and Computational Economics
2024
** Lucas Dowiak (CUNY-GC)
“Three Essays Applying Dynamic Models in Economics, Finance and Machine Learning ”
+ Goncalo Costa Pessa
“Essays on Monopoly Power in Housing Rental Markets”
+ Justine Guillochon
“Heterogeneous Household Expectations, Consumption Choices, and Trust.”
+ Minwoo Song
“Essays on Cryptocurrency Assets”
2023
** John Orellana (CUNY-GC)
“Essays on Real Estate, Flood Risk, and Political Sentiment”
2022
+ Somayeh Ahmadi (CUNY-GC)
“Essays on Empirical Asset Pricing Models”
* Kumarappan Annamalai
“Macroeconomic Adjustments of Global Convergence: Real Exchange Rate Response of Asia-Pacific Growth”
+ Mani Bayani (CUNY-GC)
“Essays on Machine Learning Methods in Economics”
** Ernesto Garcia (CUNY-GC)
“Liquidity Commonality with Factor Models”
+ Gabriel Movsesyan (CUNY-GC)
“Essays on Labor Economics”
* Ercio Munoz Saavedra (CUNY-GC)
“Essays on Intergenerational Mobility in Education”
** Yoshiko Oka (CUNY-GC)
“Essays on Entrepreneurship”
2021
+ Aparna Anand (CUNY-GC)
“Educational Investments in Low-Income Households: The Role of Parental Occupational Identity and Substitutability”
* Laxman Timilsina (CUNY-GC)
“Three Essays in Applied Microeconometrics”
** Ye Yang (CUNY-GC)
“Three Essays on Spatial Econometrics: The Matrix Exponential Spatial Specification”
* Nishant Yonzan (CUNY-GC)
“State Capacity and Armed Civil Conflict: Evidence from the Decade-Long Civil War in Nepal”
+ Humenghe (Ida) Zhao (CUNY-GC)
“Essays on Economic Uncertainty and Housing Market in China”
2020
+ Xiao Cheng (CUNY-GC)
“Global De-Diversification and Cross-Section of Stock Returns”
+ Ilhani Gunduz (CUNY-GC)
“Monetary and Fiscal Policies and the Stock Market”
** Olga Guska (CUNY-GC)
“Essays on the Application of the Machine Learning Methods in Finance and Policy Evaluation”
+ Miguel Acosta Henao (CUNY-GC)
“Essays in Macroeconomics of Emerging Markets”
+ Marius Mihai (CUNY-GC)
“Essays in Financial Economics and Applied Econometrics”
** Uchenna Oparah (CUNY-GC)
“Economics of Higher Education Productivity”
+ Gunnar Poppe Yanez (CUNY-GC)
“Essays in Quantitative Models of Retirement and Health”
2019
* Biwei Chen (CUNY-GC)
“Shapes and Transitions of the Interest Rate Term Structure.”
+ Pablo Crespo (CUNY-GC)
“Essays on applied machine learning for implied volatility interpolation and artificial counterfactuals”
** Beila Leboeuf (CUNY-GC)
“Essays on Paid Family Leave in the United States”
2018
** Orkideh Gharegozli (CUNY-GC)
“Synthetic Control and Dynamic Panel Estimation, A Case Study of Iran”
+ Tzuhao Huang (CUNY-GC)
“Essays in New Keynesian Monetary Policy”
+ Niloofar Sahebalzahami (CUNY-GC)
“Time Series and Cross Section Variation of Bold Risk Premia”
+ Evan Warshaw (CUNY-GC)
“Essays On the Behavior of Equity Prices and Exchange Rates”
+ Alev Yildirim (CUNY-GC)
“Essays on Banking and Corporate Finance”
2017
** Anna Arakelyan (CUNY-GC)
“Who Influences Your Outcomes? The Effect of Culture and Ethnic Origin, Neighborhood, and Peers on Personal Income: A Spatial Econometric Analysis of New York City”
** Aboozar Hadavand (CUNY-GC)
“Essays on Income Inequality”
+ Efstathia Korkou (CUNY-GC)
“Gender and Financial Risk Aversion”
+ Flora Leventi (CUNY-GC)
“Three essays in the European sovereign debt crisis with a special focus on Greece”
+ Jun Lou (CUNY-GC)
“Habit Utility, Surplus Consumption and Moody Investors”
** Gowun Park (CUNY-GC)
“Three Essays on Inequality in the United States”
+ Lindsey Piegza (CUNY-GC)
“Housing Market Liquidity and the Effect on U.S. Unemployment: An Application of the Oswald Principle to the U.S. Housing Market and Extension Isolating Regional Housing Market Clearing Ability and the Associated Effect on Unemployment”
+ Samuel Moon Young Jung (CUNY-GC)
“Essays on Financial Development and Income Inequality”
+ Junnan Zhao (CUNY-GC)
“Essays on the Impact of Exchange Rate Movements on Stock Return and Country Output”
2016
+ Onur Altindag (CUNY-GC)
“Three Essays on the Effects of Childbearing on Economic Well-being and Health”
** Thomas Hauner (CUNY-GC)
“Essays on Inequality and Macroeconomic Stability”
+ Aigbokhai Inuigbe (CUNY-GC)
“Empirical Essays in Health Economics”
** Sheyi Oladipo (CUNY-GC)
“Globalization, Income Inequality and the Labor Market: A Case Study of South Africa”
+ Alice Zulkarnain (CUNY-GC)
“Essays on the Well-being of an Aging Population"
2015
** Osman Dogan (CUNY-GC)
“Three Essays on Spatial Econometrics: Estimation Methods and Applications”
+ Joanne Guo (CUNY-GC)
“Essays on the Impacts of Quantitative Easing on Financial Markets”
+ Hyoung-Suk Shim (CUNY-GC)
“Economic Analysis of Transportation Systems”
+ Igor Sorkin (CUNY-GC)
“Essays on Law of One Price in Financial Markets and the Recent Financial Crisis”
+ Zhendong Zhao (CUNY-GC)
“Essays on the Economics of Aging”
** Benjamin Zweig (CUNY-GC)
“Essays on the economics and methodology of social mobility”
2014
+ Luz Salas (CUNY-GC)
“Essays on Saving Behavior of Low-income Households in Colombia”
** Suleyman Taspinar (CUNY-GC)
“Essays on robust estimators for non-identically distributed observations in spatial econometrics and time series models"
+ Hsinrong Wei (CUNY-GC)
“Does Financial Openness Affect Economic Growth in Asian Economies? A Case Study in Selected Asian Economies, 1980-2010”
2013
** Takuya Hasebe (CUNY-GC)
“Essays in Labor Economics and Econometrics: Applications of the Copula Method”
** Ilir Hysa (CUNY-GC)
“An analysis of the labor market, international migration and remittances during transition: the case of Albania”
2012
** Yan Jiang (CUNY-GC)
“Essays on Labor Market Matching, Labor Mobility, and Educational Mismatch”
+ Zhen Ma (CUNY-GC)
“A Summary of Some Estimators of Dynamic Panel Data Models and Their Applications”
2011
** Emiko Fukase (CUNY-GC)
“Essays on Globalization, Skills and Development”
* Lei Zhang (UT-Dallas)
“Three Essays on Macroeconomics and Applied Econometrics”
2010
+ Jing Sun (CUNY-GC)
“Essays on Foreign Direct Investment and Development: Evidence from China and Indonesia”
* Yu Xue (UT-Dallas)
“Essays on Occupational Choice and Human Capital Accumulation at Mid-Life”
2009
** Jielai Ma (UT-Dallas)
“Unobservable Clusters: Diagnostic Tests and Forecasts in the Dallas Housing Market”
+ Ti-Jen Tsao (CUNY-GC)
“Robust Estimators for Finite Mixtures of Count Data Regression Models and their Applications”
2008
+ Vera Holovchenko (UT-Dallas)
“Essays in Entry into Characteristic and Geographic Spaces”
+ Honsoo Kim (UT-Dallas)
“Job mobility and pension participation”
** Priyanka Singh (UT-Dallas)
“Earnings Risk and Occupational Choice”
** Chunbei Wang (UT-Dallas)
“Self-employment among Hispanic and immigrant populations”
2007
+ Gian Aryani Abutalebi (UT-Dallas)
“Bounded Rationality and Police Vehicles: The Political Economy of Law Enforcement Procurement Decisions”
** Irene Ngugi (UT-Dallas)
“The Effects of School Finance Equalization on Schooling Outcomes: A Study of the Robin Hood Policy in Texas”
+ Justin van der Sluis (University of Amsterdam)
“Successful entrepreneurship and human capital”
+ Fengxia (Cathleen) Xiao (UT-Dallas)
“Linking Venture-Capital Investment to New-Firm Formation”
2006
** Kruti Dholakia (UT-Dallas)
“Determinants of Birth Outcomes in Texas”
+ Farahnaaz Khakoo (UT-Dallas)
“Evaluating the impact of disaggregated foreign assistance on economic development in Sub Saharan Africa: a cross-country analysis”
+ Justin Mausel (UT-Dallas)
“Economic Growth and Convergence in the European Union: Evaluation Using a Multifaceted, Political Economic Approach”
2005
+ Tae-Sun Kim (School of Management, UT-Dallas)
“A study of bias and systematic change in nonlinear estimation of Bass model parameters”
2004
** Shungu Lokole (UT-Dallas)
“Human Capital Investments: Child Education and Economic and Cultural Incentives and Constraints in Côte d’Ivoire”
** Kalpana Pai (UT-Dallas)
“Academic Performance in Texas Schools: Micro-Econometric Models of Student Achievement”
2002
+ Lei Li (School of Management, UT-Dallas)
“Multinationality and performance : efficiency, endogeneity, and dynamics”
2001
** Mohammed Rab (UT-Dallas)
“Household Energy Demand in South Asia: An Approach towards Discrete/Continuous Models”
2000
+ Yaw Hansen (UT-Dallas)
“Air Quality Valuation from Hedonic Models: Applications of Recent Estimation Techniques”
+ Linda Loubert (UT-Dallas)
“The Political Economy of Public School Finance”
1999
+ Daniel O’Brien (UT-Dallas)
“Three essays on early academic achievement of minority and disadvantaged students”
** Hyo Park (UT-Dallas)
“Migration: the impact of earnings, life events, and labor market conditions”
+ Vinod Sutaria (UT-Dallas)
“The dynamics of new firm formation: the case of the Texas manufacturing sector, 1976-1991”
1997
** Yong-Sheng Chen (UT-Dallas)
“The relative efficiency of township-village-enterprises in Mainland China”
* Janet Gamble (UT-Dallas)
“Ambient air pollution and daily mortality in North Texas, 1990-1994: a time series analysis”
+ David Kelleher (UT-Dallas)
"The international provision of global public goods: the case of ozone layer preservation"
1996
+ Robert Coleman (UT-Dallas)
"Capital market inefficiency of firms financing research and development"
1995
+ Aparna Mitra (UT-Dallas)
"The effects of firm and industry structures on black/white wage inequality in the U.S. economy - 1988"
1994
+ Gang Chang (UT-Dallas)
"Savings, investment, and economic growth in developing countries: financial repression theory revisited"
+ Kyoun-Sup Chung (UT-Dallas)
"Hedonic models of housing prices: a critical appraisal of the assumptions"
+ Dejian Lai (Program of Mathematical Sciences, UT-Dallas)
"Contributions to non-linear time series analysis"
1993
+ Andrew Ewoh (UT-Dallas)
"Industrial structure, campaign contributions and policy outcomes"
** Zhiying Qi (on leave) (UT-Dallas)
Proposal title: “The economic determinants of manufacturing locations in the Philippines and implications for industrial dispersal policy”
1992
+ Hassan Ballout (UT-Dallas)
"Determinants of executive compensation."
+ Sung-Jong Kim (UT-Dallas)
"Productivity of cities: theory, measurement and policy implications: the Korean case"
1991
+ James Guseh (UT-Dallas)
"Government size and economic growth: a political economy framework"
+ Barbara Kilbourne (UT-Dallas)
"Occupational skill, gender and earnings"
1990
+ Cheon-Kwuan Kim (UT-Dallas)
"Economic diversity and stability of growth: U.S. metropolitan regions, 1978-1987"
+ Chinedu Lenard Inyama Anyanwu (UT-Dallas)
"The impact of arms production on industrial development: a statistical analysis of the LDCs"
1988
+ Anwar Al-Ali Quraan (UT-Dallas)
"Macroeconomic effects of worker remittances: the case of Jordan"