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Job market candidates
SFU Economics is pleased to introduce the following job market candidates for your consideration.
Matheus Thompson Bandeira
matheust@sfu.ca
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Primary research interests: Applied theory, political economy and development economics
Thesis: Essays on the politics of weakly institutionalized environments
PhD Supervisor: Chris Bidner
Esmaeil Izadi
eizadi@sfu.ca
Primary research interests: Political Economy, Applied Microeconomics
Thesis: Three Essays in Political Economy of Development
PhD Supervisor: Chris Bidner
Louise Huiqian Song
huiqians@sfu.ca
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Primary research interests: Applied Microeconomics, Development Economics, Environmental Economics, Economic History
Thesis: Three essays on the applications of property rights theory
PhD Supervisor: Doug Allen
Finn (Zhifeng) Sun
zhifeng_sun@sfu.ca
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Primary research interests: Applied Microeconomics, Development
Thesis: Three essays on Intergenerational Relationships and Social Mobility
PhD Supervisor: Chris Bidner
Hung Truong
hung_truong@sfu.ca
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Primary research interests: Behavioral and experimental macroeconomics (lab and surveys), monetary policy and central bank communication, learning and expectations, computational economics
Thesis: Essays in central banking and macroeconomic expectations
PhD Supervisor: Isabelle Salle (uOttawa), Luba Petersen
Shayan Zarifian
szarifia@sfu.ca
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Primary research interests: Empirical Industrial Organization, Applied Econometrics
Thesis: Three essays on market dynamics, price mechanisms, and policy applications
PhD Supervisor: Alexander Karaivanov and Krishna Pendakur (joint supervision)
Recent Placements
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.
2023 - 2024
| Stanislav Hetalo | Senior Economist, Economic Research at the Conference Board of Canada |
2022 - 2023
| Marieh Azizirad | International Monetary Fund (Economist); Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Warwick |
| Liang Diao | Postdoctoral Research Fellow, French National Institute for Research on Agriculture, Food and the Environment (INRAE) |
| Minoru Higa | Assistant Professor, School of Management at Universidad de los Andes |
| Wenqian Sun | Economist, BC Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations |
| Boxi Yang | Senior Research Associate, Education & Skills Team at the Conference Board of Canada |