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Graduate Programs

PhD Job Candidates

The following PhD candidates are seeking full time employment. For more information on any of these students, please contact either the students directly or Diego Restuccia (Placement Officer). A package of all the students' CVs is available for download.

Bento, Pedro

Research fields: Competition, Productivity, Macroeconomics
Dissertation title: Competition, Innovation, and Regulation: Accounting for Productivity Differences
Dissertation committee: Diego Restuccia, Xiaodong Zhu, Gueorgui Kambourov
Contact: pedro.bento@utoronto.ca, cell phone 647-218-3266
Website: https://sites.google.com/site/pbentoecon/

Bird, Andrew

Research fields: Public Economics, Corporate Finance, Empirical Microeconomics
Dissertation title: Taxation and Financial Decisionmaking
Dissertation committee: Michael Smart, Robert McMillan, Laurence Booth, Alex Edwards
Contact: a.bird@utoronto.ca, cell phone 647-618-2956
Website: http://individual.utoronto.ca/andrewbird/

Couture, Victor

Research fields: Applied microeconomics, Urban Economics, Public Economics, Transportation
Dissertation title: Three Essays in Urban Economics.
Dissertation committee: Gilles Duranton, Matthew Turner, Robert McMillan, William Strange
Contact: victor.couture@utoronto.ca, cell phone 647-225-3399
Website: http://individual.utoronto.ca/vcoutu/index.html

Karasik, Leonid

Research fields: International Trade
Dissertation title: Three Essays in International Trade
Dissertation committee: Daniel Trefler, Peter Morrow, Kunal Dasgupta
Contact: leonid.karasik@utoronto.ca, home phone 416-651-5518, cell phone 647-864-6493
Website: http://individual.utoronto.ca/leokarasik

Lewis, Joshua

Research fields: Health economics, Economic history, Applied econometrics
Dissertation title: Essays in empirical microeconomics
Dissertation committee: Mark Stabile, Aloysius Siow, Dwayne Benjamin, Robert McMillan
Contact: joshua.lewis@utoronto.ca, cell phone 647-292-7271
Website: http://individual.utoronto.ca/lewisj/

Pivovarova, Margarita

Research fields: Labour Economics, Economics of Education
Dissertation title: Three Essays in Economics of Education
Dissertation committee: Dwayne Benjamin, Gustavo Bobonis, Philip Oreopoulos
Contact: rita.pivovarova@utoronto.ca, home phone 416-736-4217, cell phone 416-736-4217
Website: https://sites.google.com/site/ritapivovarova/

Wagner, Peter A.

Research fields: Microeconomic Theory, Information economics
Dissertation title: Essays on Learning and Strategic Investments
Dissertation committee: Martin J. Osborne, Colin Stewart, Ettore Damiano
Contact: pa.wagner@utoronto.ca, cell phone 647-785-2876
Website: http://individual.utoronto.ca/paw/

Xiong, Hui

Research fields: Macroeconomics, Labor Economics and International Economics
Dissertation title: Human Capital and Occupational Mobility
Dissertation committee: Diego Restuccia, Gueorgui Kambourov, Shouyong Shi
Contact: h.xiong@mail.utoronto.ca, home phone 416-463-8883, cell phone 647-989-1817
Website: http://individual.utoronto.ca/h_xiong/