Ph.D. Job Market Candidates

Placement Director

John Winters
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winters1@iastate.edu

Ezra Butcher

Ezra Butcher

Areas of interest: Agricultural Economics (Livestock), Industrial Organization

Job market paper: Production Dynamics and Disruption Responses in the Pork Supply Chain: A Structural Model of Hog and Pig Markets

CV | Major professor: Lee Schulz

Personal website

ebutcher@iastate.edu  

Rwit Chakravorty

Rwit Chakravorty

Areas of interest: Applied Microeconomics, Agricultural Production, Climate Change

Job market paper: Efficiency and Coordination of the Tile Drainage Investments in the US Corn Belt

CV | Major professor: David A. Hennessy, Hongli Feng

Personal website

rwitch@iastate.edu

Seongyeob Kim

Seongyeob Kim

Areas of interest: Industrial Organization, Market/Mechanism Design, Applied Economics

Job market paper: Product Purchasing Contest: A Strategy to Leverage Competition Among Customers

CV | Major professor: Bertan Turhan, Donghyuk Kim

Personal website

sykim10@iastate.edu

Shinyoung Kim

Shinyoung Kim

Areas of interest: Economics of Education, Labor Economics, Applied Microeconomics

Job market paper: The Effects of Losing Pell Grant Eligibility on Student Outcomes

CV | Major professor: Otávio Bartalotti, Brent Kreider

Personal website

skim1@iastate.edu 

Angelos Lagoudakis

Angelos Lagoudakis

Areas of interest: Agricultural Economics (Food and Health), Experimental and Behavioral Economics, Industrial Organization

Job market paper: Breaking Bad News: Economic Rationality, Emotion Regulation, and Cognitive Ability

CV | Major professor: Dermot Hayes, Elizabeth Hoffman

Personal website

angelosl@iastate.edu  

Ganna Prykhodko

Ganna Prykhodko

Areas of interest: Macroeconomics, Financial Economics, Economic Growth, Market Frictions

Job market paper: Everything Bubble

CV | Major professor: Juan Carlos Cordoba

Personal website

gprykhod@iastate.edu

Meenakshi Shekhar

Meenakshi Shekhar

Areas of interest: Macroeconomics, International Trade, Growth and Development

Job market paper: Sluggish Growth or Premature Decline? A Comparative Study of Indian Industrialization with China

CV | Major professor: Juan Carlos Cordoba, Rajesh Singh

Personal website

mshekhar@iastate.edu

Byoungmin Yu

Byoungmin Yu

Areas of interest: Industrial Organization, Platform Economics, Applied Microeconomics

Job market paper: Commission Fee Structure and Innovation in Digital Platforms

CV | Major professor: Donghyuk Kim

Personal website

baenghen@iastate.edu 

Yue Zhao

Yue Zhao

Areas of interest: Agricultural Economics, Energy Economics

Job market paper: Small Precautionary Response to Risk in Corn Seeding Rate Decisions 

CV | Major professor: David Hennessy

Personal website

yzhao19@iastate.edu