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Graduate Students on the Job Market

Advisors

Bent Sorensen
Graduate Director
(713) 743-3841 bent.sorensen@mail.uh.edu

Ms. Amber Pozo
Graduate Program Administrator
(713) 743-3805 apozo@uh.edu

2007-08 Job Placement List

Name Fields of Interest/ Thesis Title References

Faruk Balli
527 Al-Maktoum Street
Dubai, UAE
+971 4 2242472-623
Email

Web site

International Macroeconomics, Monetary Eocnomics, International Finance, Financial Economics

“Essays on Financial Integration and Risk Sharing Among Euro Members”

Bent Sorensen (advisor)
David Papell
Jeff Fleming

Can Dogan
5839 S. Braeswood Blvd.
Houston, TX 77096
(832) 876-3380
Email

Web site

 

International Trade, Industrial Organization

“A Multi-Sector Specific Factors Model of the U.S Economy with Skilled and Unskilled Labor as Mobile Factors

Roy Ruffin (advisor)
Chinhui Juhn
Emin Dinlersoz

Mayank Gautam
2111 Holly Hall St., Apt 2310
Houston, TX 77054
(832) 488-7092
Email

Web site

International Macroeconomics,
Development Economics, Political Economy

“Essays on International Financial Integration"

Bent Sorensen (advisor)
Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan
Dietrich Vollrath

Cahit Guven
6220 Alder Drive. #4018
Houston, TX  77081
(832) 876-3324
Email

Web site

Applied Macroeconomics, Micro Foundations of Macroeconomics,
Behavioral Economics

"Reversing the Question. Does Happiness Affect Individual Economic Behavior? Evidence from Surveys from Netherlands and Germany."

Bent Sorensen (advisor)
Nathaniel Wilcox
Dietrich Vollrath

Larry L. Howard
2750 Holly Hall St., Unit 911
Houston, TX 77054
(832) 863-1418
Email

Web site

Public Economics (H), Health, Education, and Welfare (I)

“Essays on State and Local Public Economics in the United States”

Alok Bhargava (co-advisor)
Steven Craig (co-advisor)
Aimee Chin
Rebecca Thornton

Chung-Liang Lin
5514 Griggs Rd.
Apt. 2931
Houston, TX 77021
(832) 692-6020
Email

Applied Econometrics, Empirical Macro, Dynamic Choice under Uncertainty

"Consumption Choices, Income Processes and the risk of Out-of-Pocket Health Costs in the Buffer Stock Model of Savings"

Bent Sorensen (advisor)
Nathaniel Wilcox
Chinhui Juhn

Tanya Molodtsova
2255 Braeswood Park Dr.
Apt.2333
Houston, TX 77030
(281) 907-3934
Email

Web site

International Macroeconomics, Times Series Econometrics

“Out-of-Sample Exchange Rate Predictability with Taylor Rule Fundamentals and Real-Time Data”

David Papell (advisor)
Bent Sorensen
Christian Murray

Alex Nikolsko-Rzhevskyy
Department of Economics
University of Houston
220 McElhinney Hall
Houston, TX 77204-5019
(832) 858-2187 (cell)
Email

Web site

Monetary Policy, Time Series Econometrics/ Forecasting, International Economics

“Essays on Monetary Policy Evaluation with Taylor Rules and Real-Time Data”

David Papell (advisor)
Christian Murray
Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan

Hatice Ozer-Balli
6245 Renwick Dr.  #4708
Houston, TX 77081
(713) 743-3821 (office)
(713) 432-0026 (home)
(832) 692-4767 (cell)
Email

Web site

Time Series Econometrics, International Macroeconomics, International Finance

“Three Essays on Estimation of Economic Models”

David Papell (co-advisor)
Christian Murray (co-advisor)
Bent Sorensen
Rebecca Thornton

Nishith Prakash
204 Mc Elhinney Hall
Department of Economics
University of Houston
Houston, TX 77204-5019
(713) 743-3854 (Work)
(713) 794-0670 (Home)
(832)-474-6341 (Cell)
Email
Web site

Development Economics, Labor Economics, Applied Econometrics

“Essays on Affirmative Action: Evidence from Job and Political Reservation Policies in India”

Aimee Chin (advisor)
Chinhui Juhn
Steven Craig
Rebecca Thornton