2010-2011
Doctoral Degrees

• Ilker Dastan, "Labor Market Effects of Obesity, Smoking & Alcohol Use,"  Advisor: Louise B. Russell.
  
  
• Shuming Lin, "Dissertation title: Essays on High Skilled Migration," Advisor: Ira N. Gang
  
  
• Li Liu, "The Economic Effect of Corporate Income Taxation" Advisor: Rosanne Altshuler and Hilary Sigman
  
  
• Emel Yildirim, "Three essays in Applied Econometrics," Advisor: Roberto Chang
  
  
• Ying Zhang, "Essays on Late Bidding in Internet Auctions," Advisor: Martin K. Perry

2009-2010
Doctoral Degrees

• Lili Cai, "Essays on Financial Econometrics," Advisor: Norman Swanson

• Volkan Cetinkaya, "The Welfare Implciations of Minimum Advertised price Programs," Advisor: Martin Perry

• Guo Chen, "Essays on Model Selecton using Bayesian Inference," Advisor:  Hiroki Tsurumi

• Andres Fernandez, "Essays on Aggregate Fluctuations in Emerging Economies," Advisor:  Roberto Chang

• Jie Lu, "Essays on Behavioral Financea and Market Microstructure," Advisor:  Bruce Mizrach

• Luis Palacios, "Essays on Exchange Rate, Monetary and Fiscal Policies in Dollarized Economies," Advisor: Roberto Chang

• Huiying Zhang, "Essays on Semiparametric Cox Proportional Hazard Models,"  Advisor: Hiroki Tsurumi

2008-2009
Master’s  Degrees

• Gulin Cakmak, “Turkish Assimilation:  A Cross-Country Study,” Advisor:  Ira Gang
  
  
• Sebnem Kulaksizoglu, “Modeling the Relation between U.S. Excess Money Growth and Inflation with a Smooth Transition Regression Model,”   Advisor   John Landon-Lane
  
  
• Iljin Sung, The Determinants of Aggregate Health Care Expenditure:  Re-examination of Newhouse’s conjecture,”  Advisor:  John Landon-Lane

Doctoral Degrees 2008-2009

• Alejandro Arrieta, “Measuring Overtreatment:  A Structural Model to Estimate the Impact of Non-Clinical Factors on Healthcare Utilization,”  Advisor:  Roger Klein
  
  
• Ethel Fonseca, “Essays in Empirical International Trade,” Advisor::Thomas Prusa
  
  
• Yue Li, “Essays on Foreign Direct Investment and Globization” Advisor: Thomas Prusa
  
  
• Faisal Rabby, “Essays on the Post 9/11 Labor Markets for “Muslims” in the West –Evidence from the U.S. and the U.K,” Advisor:  Ira Gang
  
  
• Levent Ulku, “Essays in Mechanism Design,” Advisor:  Richard McLean
  
  
• Nii Ayi Amah, "Essays on Forecasting. Advisor:  Norman Swanson
  
  
• Noha Emara, "Essays on the Effect of Inflation Volatility and Institutions on Growth and Development," Advisor Richard McLean
  
  
• Liuling Li, "Essays on Bayesian Analysis of Financial Economics," Advisor:  Hiroki Tsururmi
  
  
• Xianghua Liu, "Essays on Bayesian Inference in Financial Economics," Advisor:  Hiroki Tsurmi
  
  
• Soumyanetra Munshi, "Essays on Democratication and Taxation," Advisor: Tomas Sjostrom
  
  
• Chan Shen, "Healthcare Dicisions: Formulation and Application of Semiparametric Methods," Advisor Roger Klein

2007-2008

Master’s Degrees 

• Sharad Bhasker, “Financial Market Interdependence: The Copla-GARCH Model,” 
  Advisor:  Hiroki Tsurumi
  
  
• Chung Wen Chang, “A Bayesian Analysis of Markov Switching Regression with ARMA-GARCH Errors:  An Application to the Taiwanese Exchange Rate,” Advisor:  Hiroki Tsurumi
  
  
• Berna Falay, “Intergenerational Income Mobility: A Comparison of East and West German,” Advisor:  Mark Killingsworth
  
  
• Stonier Grunow, “Reciprocal Feedback of Unemployment Levels and Primary and Secondary Education Spending,” Advisor:  Colin Campbell
  
  
• Elsa Malena Izaguirre, “Markov Switching Models:  Applications to Peruvian Real GDP and U.S. Consumption:  1984-2007,”   Advisor: John Landon-Lane.
  
  
• Ram Regunathan, “Religious Fractionalization and Social Conflict,” Advisor: Ira Gang
  
  
•  Haengsun Kim – M.A. with exam option

 2007-2008

Doctoral Degrees

• John Bowblis, “The Impact of the Firm, Individual and Government Choice on Health Outcomes,”
  Advisor:  Roger Klein
  

• Bodhisattva Ganguli, “Essays on International Trade, Protectionism and Financial Flows,”
  Advisor:  Thomas Prusa
  

• George Joseph, “Essays on Decision Making,” Advisor:  Barry Sopher
  

• Yoko Ibuka, “Models in Finance and Medicine using Bayesian Inference,”
  Advisors:  Hiroki Tsurumi and Louise Russell
  

• Maria Lauve, “Demand Estimation and Policy Implications in Markets for Casino Gaming and Electricity,” Advisor:  Martin  Perry
  

2006-2007

Master's Degrees

• Tingting Ding (MA with exam option)

Doctoral Degree

• Shaolin Chen, "Self-Destructive Cost Reduction and the Pseudo-Declining Industries," Advisor: Colin Campbell
  
  
• Leah Traub, "Emprirical Essays in International Financial Markets," Advisor:  Roberto Chang

2005-2006

Master's Degrees

• Ibrahim Bakir, "Trade Effects of Turkey's Accession to the European Customs Union," Advisor:  Hilary Sigman

Doctoral Degrees

• Arnisa Abazi, "Applied Models for Assessment of Economic and Financial Risk," Advisor:  Hiroki Tsurumi
  
  
• Piu Banerjee, "Banking Industry Concentration, Bank Risk Taking and Loan Pricing," Advisor: Joseph Hughes
  
  
• Geetesh Bhardwaj, "Essays in Prediction and Specification Analysis," Advisor:  Norman Swanson
  
  
• Saubhik Deb, "Essays on Crises and Recoveries," Advisor:  Michael Bordo
  
  
• Sung Won Kang, "The Polictical Economy of Social Security Expansion from 1935 to 1983,"  Advisor:  High Rockoff
  
  
• Hyesun Kim, "The Role of Econometrics in Policy Evaluations: The Liquidity Trap Case," Advisor: Hiroki Tsurumi

2004-2005

Master’s Degrees

• Deepa Bhat, “Strictly Speaking: The effects of liability rules on the speed of state superfunded cleanups,” Advisors:  : Hilary Sigman and Thomas Prusa.
  
  
• Anindita Basu, “The Duration of Private Insurance in the Light of Welfare Measure in 1996.” Advisor:  Hiroki Tsurumi.
  
  
• Seo Yeon Hong, “Application of CKLS Model with ARMA-GARCH Errors to Weekly Data on Foreign Exchange Rates.” Advisor: Hiroki Tsurumi
  
  
• Iryna Kosse, “Income Inequality,” Advisor: Ira Gang.
  
  
• Volodymyr Kosse, "Estimation of Intertemporal Elasticity of Substitution Coefficient and Testing Constancy of this Coefficient over Time,” Advisor: Hiroki Tsurumi.
  
  
• Arnav Sheth, “A Deeper Look at Subjective Discount Rates,” Advisor: Barry Sopher.
  
  
• Seetha Vaidyanathuan, “An Analysis of Martial Durations in the United States.” Advisor: Mark Killingsworth.

Doctoral Degrees

• Sonal Dhingra, “Capital Markets: Access and Denial,” Advisor:  Michael Bordo.
  
  
• Oleg Korenok, “Essays on Dynamics of Output and Prices,” Advisor:  Bruce Mizrach.
  
  
• Raymond MacDermott, “Essays on Foreign Direct Investment,” Advisor:  Thomas Prusa.
  
  
• Xufeng Qian, “Three Essays on Econometrics of Interest Rate and Housing-Mortgage Market,” Advisor:  Hiroki Tsurumi.
  
  
• Chiung Min Tsai, “Alternative Dynamic Capital Asset Pricing Models: Theories and Empirical Result,” Advisor: Cheng Few Lee.
  
  
• Defne Turker, “Bayesian Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of Blood Transfusion for Hip Fracture Repair Patients,” Advisor: Louise Russell.
  
  
• Wenhui Wei, “Foreign Direct Investment in China,” Advisor:  Manoranjan Dutta.
  
  
• Byoung Hark Yoo, “Bayesian Finance in Macroeconomic Analysis,” Advisor: Hiroki Tsurumi.