2016 Ph.D. Graduates | Economics Department

We are pleased to present our 2015-2016 Ph.D. graduates. For contact information, a curriculum vitae, and other information about a given student, click on the appropriate link below.

Candidate and Fields of Specialization	Job Market Paper	References
Sam Flanders curriculum vita sflander@email.unc.edu web site Primary Field – Microeconomic Theory Secondary Field – Applied Microeconomics	Catfish: Matching Markets with Cheap Talk PhD received May 2016	Gary Biglaiser (Chair) Fei Li Peter Norman
Robert Gonzalez curriculum vita gonzalrm@live.unc.edu web site Primary Field – Development Economics Secondary Fields – Public Economics, Economic Demography	Social Monitoring and Electoral Fraud: Evidence from a Spatial Regression Discontinuity Design in Afghanistan PhD received May 2016	Klara Peter (Chair) Erica Field (Duke University) Donna Gilleskie David Guilkey
Matthew Horne curriculum vita mthorne@live.unc.edu web site Primary Field – Micro Theory Secondary Field – Industrial Organization	Liquidity Constrained Long-Term Contracting with Persistent Private Information PhD received May 2016	Gary Biglaiser (Chair) Fei Li Peter Norman
Yiyi Liu curriculum vita yiyil@email.unc.edu web site Primary Field – Micro Theory Secondary Field – Industrial Organization	Rethinking The Revelation Principle in The Institutional Design for PPP Contracts PhD received December 2015	Gary Biglaiser (Chair) Sarah Fuller Fei Li Sergio Parreiras Steven Rosefielde
Ruchita Manghnani curriculum vita manghnan@email.unc.edu web site Primary Field – International Trade Secondary Fields – Industrial Organization, Applied Microeconomics	Exports and Productivity: The Role of Imported Inputs and Investment in R & D PhD received May 2016	Patrick Conway (Chair) Ivan Kandilov (North Carolina State University) Tiago Pires Helen Tauchen
Melati Nungsari curriculum vita menungsari@davidson.edu web site Primary Field – Industrial Organization Secondary Fields – Market Design (Search and Matching Theory), Applied Game Theory, Public Economics	Externalities and Pricing on Multidimensional Matching Platforms PhD received May 2015	Gary Biglaiser (Chair) Vikram Kumar (Davidson College) Peter Norman Helen Tauchen
Pragya Singh curriculum vita pragya@email.unc.edu web site Primary Fields – Health Economics, Empirical Industrial Organization Secondary Field – Applied Econometrics	The Impact of Imperfect Information on Health Insurance Choice, Health Outcomes and Expenditures of the Elderly PhD received May 2016	Donna Gilleskie (Chair) Tiago Pires Helen Tauchen

Candidate and Fields of Specialization

Job Market Paper

References

Sam Flanders

curriculum vita
sflander@email.unc.edu
web site

Primary Field – Microeconomic Theory
Secondary Field – Applied Microeconomics

Catfish: Matching Markets with Cheap Talk

PhD received May 2016

Gary Biglaiser (Chair)
Fei Li
Peter Norman

Robert Gonzalez

curriculum vita
gonzalrm@live.unc.edu
web site

Primary Field – Development Economics
Secondary Fields – Public Economics,
Economic Demography