Job Market Candidates 2026-2027

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Matthew Brown

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Job Market Paper: The Effect of Recreational Marijuana Laws on Schizophrenia & Psychotic Disorders

Research Interests:  Health Economics / Labor Economics / Public Policy / Applied Microeconomics

Teaching Experience:  Principles of Microeconomics / Principles of Macroeconomics / Intermediate Microeconomic Theory / Writing in Economics / Labor Economics / Contemporary Problems in Economics

Major Advisor:  Delia Furtado / Bokyung Kim

 

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Xiaofeng Gong

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Job Market Paper: Cathedrals Opening Bazaars: Placing open-source software in the patent technology space

Research Interests: Industrial Organization / Digital Economy and Open-Source Software / Innovation and Patent Policy / Economic Sanctions / Applied Micro-econometrics

Teaching Experience: Principles of Microeconomics / Honors Principles of Macroeconomics

Major Advisor: Talia Bar

 

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Shangyue Jiang

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Job Market Paper: The Impact of Weather on U.S. Agricultural Capacity Utilization: A Multiple-Output Nonparametric Analysis 

Research Interests: Production Economics / Microeconomic Theory

Teaching Experience:  Principles of Macroeconomics / Economic Forecasting

Major Advisor:  Subhash Ray

 

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Keuncheol Lee

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Job Market Paper:  Commercial Real Estate Distress and Residential Mortgage Pricing: Evidence from U.S. Banks

Research Interests: Urban Economics / Real Estate Economics / Applied Microeconomics

Teaching Experience:  Principles of Macroeconomics

Major Advisor:  Stephen Ross

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Sirui Qiu

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Job Market Paper: Help or Harm? Unintended Consequences of Paid Family Leave Policy on Elderly Health

Research Interests:  Health Economics / Economics of Education / Family Economics

Teaching Experience:  Principles of Microeconomics

Major Advisor:  David Simon

 

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Meng Song

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Job Market Paper: When Less is More: School Schedule Reform and Student Outcomes

Research Interests: Labor Economics / Economics of Education / Public Policy / Digital Economics / Economics of Technology and AI / Applied Microeconometrics

Teaching Experience: Principles of Microeconomics / Principles of Macroeconomics / Intermediate Microeconomic Theory / Labor Economics / Behavioral Economics / Econometrics and Consulting / Economic Consulting and Applied Managerial Economics

Major Advisor:  Stephen L. Ross

 

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Feifan Wang

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Job Market Paper: Bootstrap Inference for Factor-Augmented Quantile Regression

Research Interests: Econometric Theory / Financial Econometrics / Time Series Forecasting

Teaching Experience: Writing in Economics / Econometrics I

Major Advisor:  Jungbin Hwang

 

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Jungbin Hwang

Associate Professor
jungbin.hwang@uconn.edu
860-486-2390

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Harim Kim

Assistant Professor
harim.kim@uconn.edu
860-486-3022

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Lisa Bono

Graduate Program Coordinator
lisa.bono@uconn.edu
860-486-4633