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Job market candidates
SFU Economics is pleased to introduce the following job market candidates for your consideration.
Marieh Azizirad
marieh_azizirad@sfu.ca
sites.google.com/view/marieh-azizirad
linkedin.com/in/marieh-azizirad-1a8b3248
Primary research interests: Macroeconomics, Monetary Economics
Secondary research interests: Applied Time-series, Applied Search and Matching Theory, Experimental Economics
Thesis: Fisher vs Keynes: Does an Interest Rate Hike Cause Inflation to Increase or Decrease?
PhD Supervisor: Lucas Herrenbrueck
PhD Committee members: Bertille Antoine, Luba Petersen
Liang Diao
ldiao@sfu.ca
sites.google.com/view/liangdiao/home
Research fields: Applied microeconomics, economic history, property rights
Thesis: Collective Defense by Common Property Arrangements: The Rise and Fall of the Kibbutz
Supervisor: Douglas Allen
Committee member: Gregory Dow
Minoru Higa
minoru_higa@sfu.ca
minoruhiga.com
Primary research interests: Environmental, Labor, Development, and Urban Economics
Job Market Papter: Traffic Congestion and Labor Supply: Evidence from Smartphone data.
PhD Supervisory Committee: Fernando Aragon, Hendrik Wolff & Kevin Schnepel
Wenqian Sun
wenqians@sfu.ca
linkedin.com/in/wenqians
CV
Primary research interests: Econometrics, Macroeconometrics
Thesis: Simulation-based estimation with many auxiliary statistics applied to long-run dynamic analysis
PhD Supervisor: Bertille Antoine
Boxi Yang
boxi_yang@sfu.ca
https://sites.google.com/view/boxiyang/home
www.linkedin.com/in/boxiyang
Primary research interests: Applied econometrics, labour economics, development economics
Thesis: The Second Sex in the Family: the Effect of Family Size and Sibling Structure on Gender Role Attitudes
PhD Supervisor: Chris Bidner
PhD Committee member: Fernando Aragon Sanchez
Shelly Fei Yu
fya24@sfu.ca
linkedin.com/in/shellyfeiyu
Primary research interests: Applied econometrics, Environmental economics, Urban and transportation economics
Thesis: Economics of bikes: the effects of bike infrastructure on bike ridership, public transportation, and air quality
PhD Supervisor: Hendrik Wolff
recent placements (2021 - 2022)
| Anil Donmez | The Brattle Group (Associate) |
| Xiaolin Sun | Monash University (Postdoctoral Research Fellow) |
| Shirleen Manzur | Social Research and Demonstration Corporation (Researcher) |
SFU Economics has had a 100% placement rate for our outgoing PhD graduates. Almost 200 graduates have gone on to teach in universities all over the world; serve as advisors or officials in provincial, state, and national governments; or are employed in a variety of roles in the private sector.
To see a full list of SFU econ PhD placements please click here.