PhD Job Market Candidates 2009/10

The following candidates are looking to commence employment from September 2010:

Yekaterina Chzhen

Research Fields: Labour Economics; Economics of Gender; Poverty and Inequality; and Applied Micro-Econometrics
Thesis title: Gender Differences in Earnings and Occupational Attainment in Great Britain and the European Union
Supervisors: Prof. Karen Mumford and Prof. Jonathan Bradshaw
Curriculum Vitae: CV
Job Market Paper: Women’s activity change and occupational mobility after childbirth in Europe: evidence from the European Community Household Panel

Mai Farid

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Research Fields: Open Economy Macroeconomics, Monetary Economics, Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium Models, and International Finance
Thesis title: Monetary Policy and Exchange Rate Volatility in Small Open Economies
Supervisors: Dr. F.G.Ozkan and Prof. Mike Wickens
Curriculum Vitae: CV
Job Market Paper: Vertical Production and Macroeconomic Persistence: the Case of an Emerging Market Economy

Megumi Kubota

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Research Fields: Open Economy Macroeconomics, International Finance, and Economic Modeling
Thesis title: Real Exchange Rate Misalignments
Supervisors: Prof. Mike Wickens and Prof. Peter N Smith
Curriculum Vitae: CV
Job Market Paper: Real Exchange Rate Misalignments: Theoretical Modelling and Empirical Evidence

Yu-Shan Lo

Research fields: Industrial organisation, Telecommunications, Regulation and competition policy
Thesis title: Essays on Telecommunications
Supervisor: Dr. Bipasa Datta
Curriculum Vitae: CV
Job Market Paper 1: Market Shares, Consumer Ignorance and the Reciprocal Termination Charges
Job Market Paper 2: Incentive to Supply the Mobile Virtual Network Operators with Demand-Side Investment

Francesco Mariotti

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Research fields: Applied Microeconometrics, Applied Microeconomics, Labour Economics, Household Behaviour, Consumption-Saving Decisions, Portfolio Allocations
Thesis title: Applications arising from Job Insecurity, Life Satisfaction and Portfolio Diversification in a Household Context
Supervisor: Prof. Karen Mumford
Curriculum Vitae: CV
Job Market Paper 1: Job Insecurity: A Collective Approach

Carlo Reggiani