2023-24 Job Market Candidates
Placement Officers: Germán Pupato (gpupato@torontomu.ca)
Graduate Program Administrator: Karen Fajardo (ief@torontomu.ca)
![Umaima Imran](/content/dam/economics/jobmarket/Photo_Umaima.png)
Umaima Imran
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Thesis: "Misallocation of Resources, Political Connections and Effective Tax Rates in the presence of External Flows"
(PDF file) Job Market Paper (opens in new window) : Misallocation of Resources, Political Connections and External Flows
Fields: Development Economics, International Economics and Political Economy
Supervisors: Dr. Claustre Bajona, Dr. Hyunju Lee
![Umaima Imran](/content/dam/economics/jobmarket/Jeoyeon-2.jpg)
Jaeyeon Kim
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Thesis: "Essays on the Linkage between Modes of Foreign Market Entry and Merger Policy: Roles of Economies of Scale, Cost Synergy and Trade Costs"
Job Market Paper: Foreign Market Entry and Merger Policy with Economies of Scale
Fields: Microeconomics, International Trade, Industrial Organization
Supervisor: Dr. Halis Murat Yildiz
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Jeremey Ponrajah
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Thesis: "Stock-bond dependence structure, extreme risk spillovers, and safe haven currencies"
(PDF file) Job Market Paper (opens in new window) : Safe haven currencies: Extreme comovements between exchange rates and financial market risk
Fields: Financial Econometrics, Empirical Finance, Risk Management
Supervisors: Dr. Cathy Ning, Dr. Leo Michelis
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Homayoun Shirazi
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Thesis: "The Effects of Monetary and Macroprudential Policies in the Rental and Housing Markets"
(PDF file) Job Market Paper (opens in new window) : Sticky Rent Prices, House Prices, and Monetary Policy in the Business Cycle
Fields: Macroeconomics, Financial Economics, Applied Econometrics
Supervisor: Dr. Leo Michelis