2026-2027 Job Market Candidates
Placement Officer: Keyvan Eslami (k.eslami@torontomu.ca)
Graduate Program Administrator: Karen Fajardo (ief@torontomu.ca)
Previous placements can be found here.
Sami Abdurahman
Dissertation: "Essays on Penalized Sieve Neural Network Estimators"
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Fields: Theoretical Econometrics, Applied Econometrics, Finance
Supervisor: Brennan Thompson
Alireza Baghbanferdows
Dissertation: "Essays on Health Inequality in Canada: Evidence from Canadian Administrative Data"
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Fields: Health Economics, Public Economics, Macroeconomics
Supervisor: Keyvan Eslami
Bowen Cheng
Dissertation: "Extreme dependence, risk spillovers, and news sentiment and financial market volatility"
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Fields: Financial Econometrics, Applied Econometrics, Empirical Finance
Supervisor: Cathy Ning
Bela Georgiev
Dissertation: "Essays in Applied Microeconomics"
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Fields: Development and Indigenous Economics, Applied Econometrics, Applied Microeconomics
Supervisor: Brennan Thompson
Matthew Hamang
Dissertation: "On the Linkage Between Intellectual Property Rights and Preferential Trade Agreements"
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Fields: International Trade, Industrial Organization, Game Theory, and Environmental Economics
Supervisor: Halis Yildiz
Raymond Morgan
Dissertation: "Essays on Spatial Development"
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Fields: Applied Microeconomics, Food Security, Indigenous and Northern Economics
Supervisor: Nicholas Li
Amin Shirazian
Dissertation: "Essays on Health Shocks and Other Precautionary Saving Motives"
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Fields: Macroeconomics, Health Economics
Supervisor: Keyvan Eslami