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
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Dissertation: "Essays on Penalized Sieve Neural Network Estimators"
Job Market Paper: "Kolmogorov-Arnold Sieve Networks for High-Dimensional Estimation and Inference (external link) "
Fields: Theoretical Econometrics, Applied Econometrics, Finance
Supervisor: Brennan Thompson
Alireza Baghbanferdows
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Dissertation: "Essays on Health Inequality in Canada: Evidence from Canadian Administrative Data"
Job Market Paper: "Health Inequality Beyond Universal Healthcare: Health Investment and the Formation of Socioeconomic Health Gaps (external link) "
Fields: Health Economics, Public Economics, Macroeconomics
Supervisor: Keyvan Eslami
Bowen Cheng
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Dissertation: "Extreme dependence, risk spillovers, and news sentiment and financial market volatility"
Job Market Paper: "Macro-Financial News Sentiment and Stock Market Volatility: A Machine Learning and Vine Copula Approach (external link) "
Fields: Financial Econometrics, Applied Econometrics, Empirical Finance
Supervisor: Cathy Ning
Bela Georgiev
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Dissertation: "Essays in Applied Microeconomics"
Job Market Paper: "Heterogeneous Treatment Effects of Nutrition North Subsidies: A Subgroup Analysis of Canadian Traditional Food Production (external link) "
Fields: Development and Indigenous Economics, Applied Econometrics, Applied Microeconomics
Supervisor: Brennan Thompson
Matthew Hamang
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Dissertation: "On the Linkage Between Intellectual Property Rights and Preferential Trade Agreements"
Job Market Paper: "On the Role of TRIPS in the Formation of Preferential Trade Agreements: Rule-Based vs. Negotiation-Based with Exogenous Product Quality (external link) "
Fields: International Trade, Industrial Organization, Game Theory, and Environmental Economics
Supervisor: Halis Yildiz
Raymond Morgan
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Dissertation: "Essays on Spatial Development"
Job Market Paper: " (PDF file) Vertical Integration in Uncompetitive Markets:
Evidence From the Acquisition of North Star Air by the North West Company (external link) "
Fields: Applied Microeconomics, Food Security, Indigenous and Northern Economics
Supervisor: Nicholas Li
Amin Shirazian
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Dissertation: "Essays on Health Shocks and Other Precautionary Saving Motives"
Job Market Paper: " (PDF file) Longevity as a Luxury: Saving Behavior at the Top of the Wealth Distribution (external link) "
Fields: Macroeconomics, Health Economics
Supervisor: Keyvan Eslami