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Graduate Programs

Placement of PhD students by job market year

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    2021–2022

    • Embree, Robert (Essays in Public Economics and Political Economy, supervisor Shari Eli)
      Initial employment: Bridgewater Associates
    • Fok, Cheok In (Essays in Industrial Organization, supervisor Yao Luo)
      Initial employment: Competition Bureau Canada
    • Groga Bada, Joseph (Essays in Econometrics, supervisor Adonis Yatchew)
      Initial employment: Analysis Group
    • Hao, Yiran (Consumer's demand estimation and policy analysis, supervisor Victor Aguirregabiria)
      Initial employment: Xi'an Jiaotong University
    • Jaccard, Torsten Sochting (Essays in International Trade, supervisor Daniel Trefler)
      Initial employment: Vancouver School of Economics, University of British Columbia (after post-doc at Dartmouth)
    • Liu, Hui (Essays in Industrial Organization and Housing, supervisor Yao Luo)
      Initial employment: Tianjin University
    • Wagner, Jessica (Essay in the Economics of Education, supervisor Robert McMillan)
      Initial employment: Annenberg Institute, Brown University (post-doc)
    • Zou, Jiaqi (Essays in empirical microeconomics, supervisor Loren Brandt)
      Initial employment: Corvinus University

    2020–2021

    • Belisle, Louis (Essays on Banking Regulations and Financial Risk Modelling, supervisor Martin Burda)
      Initial employment: Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions (OSFI)
    • Herzog, Ian (The Economic Effects of Transportation Policy, supervisor Nathaniel Baum-Snow)
      Initial employment: Huron University College at Western University

    2019–2020

    2018–2019

    • Zhang, Haofei (Essays in Financial Economics: Empirical Corporate Finance, supervisor Jordi Mondria)
      Initial employment: Nankai University, School of Finance

    2017–2018

    • Daviet, Remi (Methods for Statistical Analysis and Prediction of Discrete Choices, supervisor Martin Burda and Christian Gourieroux)
      Initial employment: Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania (post-doc)
    • Fang, Limin (Three Essays in Industrial Organization, supervisor Victor Aguirregabiria)
      Initial employment: Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia
    • Orr, Patrick Scott (Essays on International Trade and Industrial Organization, supervisor Daniel Trefler)
      Initial employment: Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia
    • Xie, Erhao (Essays on Identification and Estimation of Empirical Games Without Equilibrium Assumption, supervisor Victor Aguirregabiria)
      Initial employment: Bank of Canada

    2016–2017

    • Habib, Ashique (Essays on Financial Institutions, Information Frictions, and Macroeconomics, supervisor Diego Restuccia)
      Initial employment: International Monetary Fund
    • Lavecchia, Adam (Essays in Public Economics, supervisor Michael Smart)
      Initial employment: University of Ottawa
      Current employment: Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, McMaster University
    • Marcoux, Mathieu (Essays on the identification and the estimation of empirical games, supervisor Victor Aguirregabiria)
      Initial employment: Université de Montréal
      Current employment: Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Université de Montréal
    • Morales, Juan Sebastian (Essays in the Economics of Violence and Conflict, supervisor Gustavo Bobonis)
      Initial employment: Collegio Carlo Alberto
      Current employment: Assistant Professor, Collegio Carlo Alberto, and Research Fellow, University of Turin
    • Murphy, Joshua (Costs, Benefits, and Efficiency of Air Quality Regulation, supervisor Robert McMillan)
      Initial employment: Natural Resources Canada

    2015–2016

    • Ali, Ayesha (The Impact of Electricity Outages on Households, supervisor Dwayne Benjamin and Gustavo Bobonis)
      Initial employment: Lahore University of Management Sciences
      Current employment: Assistant Professor - Tenure Track, Department of Economics, Lahore University of Management Sciences
    • Beattie, Robert Graham (Media Coverage of Climate Change, supervisor Robert McMillan)
      Initial employment: University of Pittsburgh (post-doc)
      Current employment: Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Loyala Marymount University
    • Chan, Jeffrey Mark (Essays in International Trade, supervisor Peter Morrow)
      Initial employment: Wilfrid Laurier University
      Current employment: Assistant Professor of Economics, Lazaridis School of Business and Economics, Wilfrid Laurier University
    • Cimon, David (Essays in Market Microstructure, supervisor Andreas Park)
      Initial employment: Bank of Canada
      Current employment: Assistant Professor of Finance, Lazaridis School of Business and Economics, Wilfrid Laurier University
    • Desgagnés, Hélène (Financial intermediaries, regulation, and macroeconomic stability, supervisor Margarida Duarte)
      Initial employment: Bank of Canada
      Current employment: Principal Economist, Bank of Canada
    • Karimova, Alfia (Three Essays in Health Economics, supervisor Michael Baker)
      Initial employment: University of Michigan, Population Studies Center
      Current employment: Assistant Research Scientist, Population Studies Center, University of Michigan
    • Liu, Mengxiao (Essays on Global Supply Chains, supervisor Daniel Trefler)
      Initial employment: Syracuse University
      Current employment: Assistant Professor, Department of Economics at Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University
    • Petronijevic, Uros (Incentives and Productivity in the Economics of Education, supervisor Robert McMillan)
      Initial employment: York University
      Current employment: Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, York University
    • Stockley, Lisa (How Do Expectations Influence Labour Supply? Evidence from Framed Field Experiments, supervisor Gustavo Bobonis)
      Initial employment: Charles River Associates
      Current employment: Associate Principal, Charles River Associates
    • Tang, Lei (Improving Student Achievement, supervisor Aloysius Siow)
      Initial employment: Shaanxi Normal University, Center for Experimental Economics
      Current employment: Assistant Professor, Center for Experimental Economics, Shaanxi Normal University
    • Yang, Qiao (Bayesian Nonparametric Methods in Financial Econometrics, supervisor John Maheu and Martin Burda)
      Initial employment: ShanghaiTech University
      Current employment: Assistant Professor, School of Entrepreneurship and Management, ShanghaiTech University
    • Yuan, Zhe (Essays on Network Competition in the Airline Industry, supervisor Victor Aguirregabiria)
      Initial employment: Wuhan University
      Current employment: Economist, Alibaba
    • Zhao, Xin (Essays on Information Acquisition, Auction Design, and Persuasion, supervisor Martin J. Osborne)
      Initial employment: University of Technology, Sydney (post-doc)
      Current employment: Post-Doctoral Fellow, Economics Discipline Group, University of Technology Sydney

    2014–2015

    • Brolley, Michael (Essays in Market Microstructure, supervisor Andreas Park and Ekaterina Malinova)
      Initial employment: Wilfrid Laurier University
      Current employment: Assistant Professor of Finance, Lazaridis School of Business and Economics, Wilfrid Laurier University
    • Cao, Jie (Essays in Macroeconomics, supervisor Xiaodong Zhu)
      Initial employment: Kellogg School of Management (Senior research associate)
      Current employment: Senior Research Associate, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
    • Dimitropoulos, Dimitrios (Three Essays in Industrial Organization and Energy Economics, supervisor Adonis Yatchew)
      Initial employment: NERA Economic Consulting
      Current employment: Associate, The Brattle Group
    • Halmrast, Nathan (Inter-marketplace competition, supervisor Andreas Park)
      Initial employment: Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
      Current employment: Policy Economist and Senior Quantitative Specialist, Supervision and Regulation Risk Specialist Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
    • Mak, Ho Nam (Three Essays on Youth Maturation, supervisor Aloysius Siow)
      Initial employment: Shanghai University of Finance and Economics
      Current employment: Assistant Professor, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics
    • Messacar, Derek Robert James (Essays on the Behavioural Economics of Retirement Savings, supervisor Robert McMillan)
      Initial employment: Statistics Canada
      Current employment: Research Analyst, Adjunct Professor, Social Analysis and Modelling Division, Department of Economics, Statistics Canada, Memorial University of Newfoundland
    • Tavares, Brian (Three Essays in Macroeconomics, supervisor Gueorgui Kambourov)
      Initial employment: Universidad Diego Portales, Chile
      Current employment: Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Universidad Diego Portales, Chile

    2013–2014

    • Boik, Andre (Essays on Uniform Pricing and Vertical Contracts in Two-Sided Markets, supervisor Kenneth Corts)
      Initial employment: University of California, Davis
      Current employment: Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, University of California, Davis
    • Ding, Ding (Essays on Market Conditions and Corporate Investment Decisions, supervisor Xiaodong Zhu and Varouj A. Aivazian)
      Initial employment: Australian National University
      Current employment: Lecturer in Finance, Research School of Finance, Actuarial Studies & Statistics, Australian National University
    • Found, Adam (Essays in Municipal Finance, supervisor Adonis Yatchew)
      Initial employment: C. D. Howe Institute
      Current employment: Manager of Corporate Assets, City of Kawartha Lakes
    • Karapanagiotidis, Paul (Essays in Financial and Macro Econometrics, supervisor Christian Gourieroux)
      Initial employment: Canada Pension Plan Investment Board
      Current employment: Machine learning/statistical alpha researcher, WorldQuant
    • Li, Li (Three Essays in Sovereign Default, Self-control and Policy Implications, supervisor Shouyong Shi)
      Initial employment: Shanghai University of Economics and Finance
    • Priyo, Asad Karim Khan (Essays on Macroeconomics and Finance, supervisor Xiaodong Zhu)
      Initial employment: North South University, Bangladesh
      Current employment: Assistant Professor, School of Business and Economics, North South University, Dhaka, Bangladesh
    • Spanos, Grigorios (Essays in International Trade, supervisor Gilles Duranton)
      Initial employment: Aix-Marseille School of Economics
      Current employment: Post-Doctoral Fellow, Département d’Histoire, Economie et Société, University of Geneva
    • Takahashi, Hidenori (Essays in Procurement Auction, supervisor Victor Aguirregabiria)
      Initial employment: University of Mannheim
      Current employment: Associate Professor (tenure-track), Osaka School of International Public Policy (OSIPP), Osaka University
    • Xiong, Hui (Human Capital and Occupational Mobility, supervisor Diego Restuccia and Gueorgui Kambourov)
      Initial employment: Sichuan University
      Current employment: Associate Research Fellow, School of Economics, Sichuan University

    2012–2013

    • Bento, Pedro (Competition, Innovation, and Regulation: Accounting for Productivity Differences, supervisor Diego Restuccia)
      Initial employment: West Virginia University
      Current employment: Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Texas A&M University
    • Bird, Andrew (Taxation and Financial Decisionmaking, supervisor Michael Smart)
      Initial employment: Carnegie Mellon University
      Current employment: Assistant Professor of Accounting, Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University
    • Couture, Victor (Three Essays in Urban Economics., supervisor Gilles Duranton and Matthew Turner)
      Initial employment: University of California, Berkeley (Haas School of Business)
      Current employment: Assistant Professor of Real Estate, Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley
    • Lewis, Joshua (The Impact of Technological Change within the Home, supervisor Mark Stabile and Aloysius Siow)
      Initial employment: University of Montreal
      Current employment: Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, University of Montreal
    • Pivovarova, Margarita (Three Essays in Economics of Education, supervisor Dwayne Benjamin)
      Initial employment: Arizona State University
      Current employment: Assistant Professor of Economics, Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College, Arizona State University
    • Wagner, Peter A. (Essays on Learning and Strategic Investments, supervisor Martin J. Osborne)
      Initial employment: University of Bonn (post-doc)
      Current employment: Lecturer, Department of Economics, University of York

    2011–2012

    • Boskovic, Branko (Air Quality, Externalities, and Decentralized Environmental Regulation, supervisor Robert McMillan)
      Initial employment: University of Alberta
      Current employment: Senior Data Scientist, Wealthsimple
    • Dusha, Elton (Political economy frictions and macroeconomic outcomes, supervisor Shouyong Shi)
      Initial employment: Universidad de Chile
      Current employment: Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Facultad de Economía y Empresa, Universidad Diego Portales
    • Jin, Xin (Three Essays in Bayesian Financial Econometrics, supervisor John Maheu)
      Initial employment: Shanghai University of Finance and Economics
      Current employment: Associate Professor, School of Economics, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics
    • Mallory, Julie (Financial Markets as a Mechanism for Environmental Overcompliance, supervisor Varouj A. Aivazian and Andreas Park)
      Initial employment: Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, Toronto
      Current employment: Portfolio Manager, Canada Pension Plan Investment Board
    • Ranasinghe, Ashantha (Idiosyncratic distortions, misallocation and TFP losses, supervisor Diego Restuccia)
      Initial employment: University of Manitoba
      Current employment: Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, University of Alberta
    • Wang, Luhang (Three Essays on Chinese Economy, supervisor Loren Brandt)
      Initial employment: Xiamen University
      Current employment: Associate Professor, School of Economics and Wang Yanan Institute for Studies in Economics, Xiamen University
    • Yang, Nathan (Economic Spillovers and Learning from Others, supervisor Victor Aguirregabiria)
      Initial employment: Post-doctoral Associate and Lecturer, Yale University School of Management
      Current employment: Assistant Professor in Marketing, Desautels Faculty of Management, McGill University

    2010–2011

    • Capatina, Elena (Life-cycle Effects of Health Risk, supervisor Gueorgui Kambourov)
      Initial employment: University of New South Wales
      Current employment: Lecturer, Research School of Economics, Australian National University
    • Dan, Ioana (Gender and Occupational Riskiness, supervisor Aloysius Siow and Gueorgui Kambourov)
      Initial employment: Charles River Associates
      Current employment: Principal, Antitrust and Competition Practice, Charles River Associates
    • Dippel, Christian (Essays in international political economy, supervisor Daniel Trefler)
      Initial employment: UCLA, Anderson School of Management
      Current employment: Assistant Professor of Economics, Anderson School of Management, University of California, Los Angeles
    • Doda, Baran (Three Essays on Macroeconomics, supervisor Diego Restuccia)
      Initial employment: Postdoc at LSE (Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change)
      Current employment: Senior Project Manager, Adelphi
    • Hachem, Kinda (Essays on Banking, Institutions, and Macroeconomic Activity, supervisor Shouyong Shi)
      Initial employment: University of Chicago, Booth School of Business
      Current employment: Associate Professor of Business Administration, University of Virginia
    • Kapoor, Sacha (Three Essays in Personnel Economics, supervisor Dwayne Benjamin)
      Initial employment: Postdoc at University of Chicago, then Erasmus University
      Current employment: Associate Professor of Economics, Erasmus School of Economics, Erasmus University Rotterdam
    • Lai, Tat-kei (Essays on the Economics of Organization, supervisor Arthur J. Hosios)
      Initial employment: Copenhagen Business School
      Current employment: Associate Professor, Department of Economics & Quantitative Methods, IÉSEG School of Management
    • Macartney, Hugh (The Dynamic Effects of Educational Accountability, supervisor Robert McMillan)
      Initial employment: Duke University
      Current employment: Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Duke University
    • Shen, Leilei (Multi-Product Firms and Trade Liberalization: A Dynamic Model of Entry, Exit, and Investment, supervisor Daniel Trefler)
      Initial employment: Kansas State University
      Current employment: Associate Professor, Department of Economics, Kansas State University
    • Song, Yong (Modelling Financial Markets in a Bayesian Framework, supervisor John Maheu)
      Initial employment: University of Technology, Sydney
      Current employment: Lecturer, Department of Economics, University of Melbourne
    • Sun, Ling (Essays on Money, Business Cycles and Household Formation, supervisor Shouyong Shi)
      Initial employment: Brock University
      Current employment: Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Brock University
    • Tombe, Trevor (Dual-Economy Trade and Income Differences, supervisor Xiaodong Zhu)
      Initial employment: Wilfred Laurier University
      Current employment: Associate Professor, Department of Economics, University of Calgary
    • Ye, Mingxiao (Essays in Industrial Organisation: market performance, supervisor Frank Mathewson)
      Initial employment: Department of Health, Bermuda
      Current employment: Data Scientist, Data Science Lead, CIB, JPMorgan Chase & Co

    2009–2010

    • Blit, Joel (R&D satellites as a medium for sourcing remote knowledge, supervisor Daniel Trefler)
      Initial employment: George Washington University
      Current employment: Assistant Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, University of Waterloo
    • Forand, Jean Guillaume (Essays in Political Economy and the Economics of Organisations, supervisor Martin J. Osborne)
      Initial employment: University of Waterloo (after postdoc at Wallis Institute, Univ of Rochester)
      Current employment: Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, University of Waterloo
    • Hoffmann, Florian (Estimating Models of Earnings and Mobility Dynamics using Administrative Data, supervisor Philip Oreopoulos and Shouyong Shi)
      Initial employment: University of British Columbia
      Current employment: Assistant Professor, Vancouver School of Economics, University of British Columbia
    • Magesan, Arvind (Essays on Empirical Dynamic Games, supervisor Victor Aguirregabiria)
      Initial employment: University of Calgary
      Current employment: Associate Professor, Department of Economics, University of Calgary
    • Rempel, Max (Three Essays in Industrial Organization and Labor Economics, supervisor Aloysius Siow)
      Initial employment: Pressehaus Bintz-Verlag, then Geschäftsführer [CEO] of Mittelhessische Druck- & Verlagsgesellschaft
      Current employment: Executive Director, Mittelhessische Druck- und Verlagshaus GmbH & Co.
    • Swee, Eik Leong (Three Essays in Empirical Development Economics, supervisor Dwayne Benjamin)
      Initial employment: University of Melbourne
      Current employment: Senior Lecturer, Department of Economics, University of Melbourne
    • Tsuyuhara, Kunio (Essays on Dynamic Contracts, supervisor Shouyong Shi)
      Initial employment: University of Calgary
      Current employment: Associate Professor, Department of Economics, University of Calgary
    • Wang, Hui (Essays on Applied Microeconomics, supervisor Aloysius Siow)
      Initial employment: Peking University
      Current employment: Assistant Professor, Department of Applied Economics, Guanghua School of Management, Peking University

    2008–2009

    • He, Zhongfang (Structural Breaks and Forecasting in Empirical Finance and Macroeconomics, supervisor John Maheu)
      Initial employment: Bank of Canada
      Current employment: Director, ALM Quantitative Analytics, RBC
    • Li, Zhe (Environmental Policies, Heterogeneous Firms and Labor Market Dynamics, supervisor Shouyong Shi)
      Initial employment: Shanghai University of Finance and Economics
      Current employment: Associate Professor, School of Economics, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics
    • Rahaman, Mohammad (Managerial Discretion, Corporate Financial Flexibility, and Investment Dynamics, supervisor Varouj A. Aivazian)
      Initial employment: Sobey School of Business, St Mary's University, Halifax
      Current employment: Associate Professor of Finance (with tenure), Sobey School of Business, St Mary's University
    • Ritter, Moritz (Essays on Money, Trade and the Labour Market, supervisor Shouyong Shi)
      Initial employment: Temple University
      Current employment: Associate Professor, Director of Undergraduate Studies, Department of Economics, Temple University
    • Ward, Courtney (Public health and public policy: lessons for respiratory health, supervisor Dwayne Benjamin and Mark Stabile)
      Initial employment: Dalhousie University
      Current employment: Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, University of Toronto
    • Xu, Peng (Nontradable Market Index and Its Derivatives, supervisor Christian Gourieroux)
      Initial employment: Finance department, École supérieure des sciences économiques et commerciales
      Current employment: Associate Academic Director of Master in Finance, ESSEC Business School, Asia-Pacific
    • Zhang, Min (Unemployment Insurance Eligibility and the Dynamics of the Labor Market, supervisor Miquel Faig)
      Initial employment: Shanghai University of Finance and Economics
      Current employment: Associate Professor, School of Economics, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics
    • Zhou, Simiao (Debt Financing, Bankruptcy Reorganizations and Corporate Investment, supervisor Varouj A. Aivazian)
      Initial employment: Shanghai University of Finance and Economics
      Current employment: Director of Research, PW Portfolio Analytics (PWPA) Inc.

    2007–2008

    • Joanis, Marcelin (Essays on the Political Economy of the Centralized Provision of Local Public Goods, supervisor Robert McMillan)
      Initial employment: University of Sherbrooke
      Current employment: Professor, Department of Mathematics and Industrial Engineering, Polytechnique Montréal
    • Liu, Qing (Essays on International Economics, supervisor Shouyong Shi)
      Initial employment: Tsinghua University, China
      Current employment: Associate Professor, Department of Economics, Tsinghua University
    • McCaig, Brian (Empirical Essays on Poverty, Inequality, and Social Welfare, supervisor Loren Brandt)
      Initial employment: Australian National University
      Current employment: Associate Professor, Department of Economics, Wilfrid Laurier University
    • Mendes, Rhys (Information, Central Bank Communication, and Aggregate Fluctuations, supervisor Michelle Alexopoulos)
      Initial employment: Bank of Canada
      Current employment: Managing Director, International Economic Analysis Department, Bank of Canada
    • Zhang, Lijun (Essays on Global Sourcing with Intermediate Goods, supervisor Johannes Van Biesebroeck)
      Initial employment: Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
      Current employment: Assistant Teaching Professor, Department of Economics, University of Victoria

    2006–2007

    • Ahiabu, Stephen Eli (Essays on Money, Search and the Underground Economy, supervisor Shouyong Shi)
      Initial employment: Ernst & Young, San Jose
      Current employment: Executive Director, Transfer Pricing, Ernst and Young
    • Chan, Ping Ching Winnie (School Choice, Competition, and Public School Performance, supervisor Robert McMillan)
      Initial employment: Statistics Canada
      Current employment: Research Economist, Social Analysis Division, Statistics Canada
    • Chia, Yee-Fei (Essays in Childhood Obesity, supervisor Mark Stabile)
      Initial employment: Cleveland State University
      Current employment: Director, Criminal Justice & Immigration Research Directorate, Research & Statistics Divis, Ministry of Home Affairs Singapore
    • Hanna, Emily (Marital Status Decisions and Canadian Social Assistance Policy, supervisor Michael Baker)
      Initial employment: Allied Properties REIT
      Current employment: Vice President, Investments, Crown Realty Partners
    • Hashmi, Aamir Rafique (Essays on Market Structure, Innovation, Institutions & Technology Adoption, supervisor Diego Restuccia)
      Initial employment: National University of Sinagpore
      Current employment: Instructor (Tenure Track), Department of Economics, University of Calgary
    • Kim, Hankook (Three Essays on Foreign Direct Investment and Economic Development, supervisor Johannes Van Biesebroeck)
      Initial employment: Industry Canada
      Current employment: Senior Project Leader, Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada
    • Liu, Chun (Modelling Volatility in Financial Markets, supervisor John Maheu)
      Initial employment: Tsinghua University, China
      Current employment: Associate Professor, Department of Finance, Tsinghua University
    • Liu, Wei (Analysis of Risk Measures and Multi-Dimensional Risk Dependence, supervisor Christian Gourieroux)
      Initial employment: Fisk Trading, New York
      Current employment: Risk Quant, DoubleLine Group LP
    • Martinez Gorricho, Silvia (Essays in the Economics of Information Competition, supervisor Ettore Damiano)
      Initial employment: Universidad de Alicante, Spain
      Current employment: Assistant Professor of Economics, Universidad Católica de la Santísima Concepción
    • Morin, Louis-Philippe (The Effects of the 1997 Ontario Secondary School Reform on Human Capital Accumulation, Academic Performance & the Youth Labour Market, supervisor Robert McMillan)
      Initial employment: University of Ottawa
      Current employment: Associate Professor, Department of Economics, University of Ottawa
    • Mulraine, Millan (Macroeconomic Dynamics in Open Economies, supervisor Jack L. Carr)
      Initial employment: TD Bank (Economics)
      Current employment: Chief Economist, Economics Group, Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan
    • Ng, Ka Ho Travis (Essays on Outsourcing and Hold-up, supervisor Martin J. Osborne)
      Initial employment: Chinese University of Hong Kong
      Current employment: Associate Professor, Department of Economics, Chinese University of Hong Kong
    • Rosell, Carlos (Essays in the Economics of Technology and Innovation, and Development Economics, supervisor Diego Puga)
      Initial employment: Berenblut Consulting
      Current employment: Senior Economist, Finance Canada
    • Sun, Hongfei (Essays On Money, Banking and Payments, supervisor Shouyong Shi)
      Initial employment: Queen's University
      Current employment: Associate Professor, RBC Fellow, Department of Economics, Queen's University
    • Xu, Zhaoxia (Dynamic Adjustment of Financial Policy, supervisor Laurence Booth)
      Initial employment: Bank of Canada
      Current employment: Senior Lecturer, School of Banking and Finance, University of New South Wales

    2005–2006

    • Eid, Jean (Essays in Empirical Industrial Organization, supervisor Frank Mathewson)
      Initial employment: Wilfrid Laurier University
      Current employment: Associate Professor, Lazaridis School of Business and Economics, Wilfrid Laurier University
    • Gomez Albert, Alonso (Essays in Market Integration and Economic Forecasting, supervisor Angelo Melino)
      Initial employment: CPP Investment Board
      Current employment: Senior Portfolio Manager, CPP Investment Board
    • Hong, Qing (International Taxation and Income-shifting Behaviour of Multinational Corporations, supervisor Michael Smart)
      Initial employment: Bank of Canada
      Current employment: Tax Policy Officer, Intergovernmental Tax Policy, Evaluation and Research Division, Tax Policy, Finance Canada
    • Huangfu, Xiuhua Stella (Three Essays on Monetary Search Model, supervisor Miquel Faig)
      Initial employment: University of Sydney
      Current employment: Senior Lecturer, School of Economics, Unversity of Sydney
    • Leo, Teng Wah (Three Essays on the Impact of Child Custody Laws on Child Educational Attainment, supervisor Aloysius Siow)
      Initial employment: St. Francis Xavier University
      Current employment: Associate Professor, Department of Economics, St. Francis Xavier University
    • O'Gorman, Melanie (Accounting or Disparity: Essays on Agricultural Development & Racial Earnings Inequality, supervisor Shouyong Shi)
      Initial employment: University of Winnipeg
      Current employment: Associate Professor, Department of Economics, University of Winnipeg
    • Sufana, Razvan (Modelling Multivariate Risk: Applications to Term Structure & Derivative Pricing, supervisor Christian Gourieroux)
      Initial employment: York University
      Current employment: Associate Professor, Department of Economics, York University
    • Xiao, Junji (A Study of the U.S. Digital Camera Market, supervisor Frank Mathewson)
      Initial employment: Shanghai University of Finance & Economics
      Current employment: Associate Professor, UTS Business School, Economics Discipline Group, University of Technology Sydney

    2004–2005

    • Fan, Jia-Zhueng (Essays in the Economics of Aging, supervisor Michael Baker)
      Initial employment: Australian National University
      Current employment: Associate Professor, Department of Economics, National Taiwan University
    • Liu, Runjuan (The Impact of Globalization on Firms and Workers, supervisor Daniel Trefler)
      Initial employment: University of Alberta
      Current employment: Alexander Hamilton Associate Professor, Alberta School of Business, University of Alberta
    • Neill, Christine (Higher Education Policy, Education Outcomes & Credit Constraints, supervisor Michael Baker)
      Initial employment: Wilfred Laurier University
      Current employment: Associate Professor, Assistant Chair of Department of Economics, Department of Economics, Wilfrid Laurier University
    • Nunn, Nathan (Domestic Institutions, International Trade and Economic Development, supervisor Daniel Trefler)
      Initial employment: University of British Columbia
      Current employment: Frederic E. Abbe Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, Harvard University
    • Rybakov, Konstantin (Essays on Matching: N-Lateral Matching with K-Decisions & Matching with Coordination Frictions, supervisor Carolyn Pitchik)
      Initial employment: University of Windsor
      Current employment: Manager, Ernst & Young

    2003–2004

    • Adamopoulos, Anastasios (Essays in Macroeconomics and Development, supervisor Xiaodong Zhu)
      Initial employment: York University
      Current employment: Associate Professor, Department of Economics, York University
    • Essaji, Azim (Three Essays on Regulatory Protectionism, supervisor Susan Horton)
      Initial employment: Wilfred Laurier University
      Current employment: Associate Professor, MABE Program Director, Lazaridis School of Business and Economics, Wilfrid Laurier University
    • Kantarevic, Jasmin (Three Essays in Labour Economics, supervisor Aloysius Siow)
      Initial employment: Ontario Medical Association
      Current employment: Senior Director, Economics, Ontario Medical Association
    • Ozawa, Noriko (Corporate Governance & Investment Incentives of Japanese Firms, supervisor Arthur J. Hosios)
      Initial employment: University of British Columbia
      Current employment: Senior Instructor, Economics, Department of Economics, Philosophy and Political Science, University of British Columbia, Okanagan campus

    2002–2003

    • Angyridis, Constantine (Essays on Optimal Fiscal Policy in a Small Open Economy, supervisor Xiaodong Zhu)
      Initial employment: Ryerson University
      Current employment: Associate Professor, Director of the International Economics and Finance Program, Ryerson University
    • Deri, Catherine (Essays in Immigrant Health and Health Service Utilization in Canada, supervisor Michael Baker)
      Initial employment: University of Ottawa
      Current employment: Associate Professor, Department of Economics, University of Ottawa
    • Gu, Xinhua (Essays on Search Models of the Capital Market, and Real Investment Options with Financing Constraints, supervisor Varouj A. Aivazian)
      Initial employment: Nanjing University
      Current employment: Associate Professor, Head of Department of Finance and Business Economics, Department of Finance and Business Economics, University of Macau
    • Han, Seungjin (Robust Equilibrium Allocations and Efficiency in Two-Sided Economic Problems, supervisor Martin J. Osborne)
      Initial employment: McMaster University
      Current employment: Professor, Chair of Research Committee, Department of Economics, McMaster University
    • Lileeva, Alla (Essays in International Trade and Foreign Direct Investment, supervisor Daniel Trefler)
      Initial employment: York University
      Current employment: Associate Professor, Department of Economics, York University
    • No, Joung Yeo Angela (Technology Externalities, supervisor Daniel Trefler)
      Initial employment: Carnegie-Mellon University
      Current employment: School of Economics, Yonsei University
    • Qiu, Jiaping (Essays on Portfolio Choice and Corporate Investmen, supervisor Varouj A. Aivazian)
      Initial employment: Wilfrid Laurier Business School
      Current employment: Professor of Finance, CIBC Chair in Financial Markets, DeGroote School of Business, McMaster University
    • Yang, Jun (Empirical Estimation of Default-free and Defaultable Term Structure of Interest Rules, supervisor Angelo Melino)
      Initial employment: Bank of Canada
      Current employment: Financial Markets, Market Risks and Vulnerabilities, Bank of Canada

    2000–2001

    • Milligan, Kevin (Empirical Essays on Behavioural Responses to Taxation, supervisor Jack Mintz)
      Initial employment: University of British Columbia
      Current employment: Professor of Economics, Vancouver School of Economics, University of British Columbia

    1999–2000

    • Berezin, Peter (supervisor Daniel Trefler)
      Initial employment: Economist, International Monetary Fund
      Current employment: Chief Global Strategist, BCA Research

    1998–1999

    • Yang, Xian (An Investigation of Asset Pricing Puzzles with Cyclical Risk Aversion and Intertemporal Substitution, supervisor Angelo Melino)
      Initial employment: Financial Engineer, Algorithmics
      Current employment: Senior Manager, Head of Model Validation Team, Algorithmics IBM Canada

    1996–1997

    • Dhami, Sanjit (Three Essays in the Formation and Evolution of Fiscal Policy Under Uncertainty and Asymmetric Information, supervisor Jack Mintz)
      Initial employment: Essex University
      Current employment: Professor, Department of Economics, University of Leicester