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Job market candidates

¶¡ÏãÔ°AV Economics is pleased to introduce the following job market candidates for your consideration.

Matheus Thompson Bandeira

matheust@sfu.ca  
  
  

Primary research interests: Applied theory, political economy and development economics 
Thesis: Essays on the politics of weakly institutionalized environments
PhD Supervisor: Chris Bidner

Stan Hetalo

stan_hetalo@sfu.ca  
  
  

Primary research interests: Causal inference and applied microeconomics (environmental, labour, and transportation)
Thesis: Essays on the economic impacts of wildfire smoke
PhD Supervisor: Kevin Schnepel

Esmaeil Izadi

eizadi@sfu.ca  
  

Primary research interests: Political Economy, Applied Microeconomics
Thesis: Three Essays in Political Economy of Development
PhD Supervisor: Chris Bidner

Louise Huiqian Song

huiqians@sfu.ca  
  
  

Primary research interests: Applied Microeconomics, Development Economics, Environmental Economics, Economic History 
Thesis: Three essays on the applications of property rights theory
PhD Supervisor: Doug Allen

Finn (Zhifeng) Sun

zhifeng_sun@sfu.ca  
  

Primary research interests: Applied Microeconomics, Development
Thesis: Three essays on Intergenerational Relationships and Social Mobility
PhD Supervisor: Chris Bidner

Hung Truong

hung_truong@sfu.ca  
 

Primary research interests: Behavioral and experimental macroeconomics (lab and surveys), monetary policy and central bank communication, learning and expectations, computational economics
Thesis: Essays in central banking and macroeconomic expectations
PhD Supervisor: Isabelle Salle (uOttawa), Luba Petersen

Shayan Zarifian

szarifia@sfu.ca  
 
 

Primary research interests: Empirical Industrial Organization, Applied Econometrics
Thesis: Three essays on market dynamics, price mechanisms, and policy applications
PhD Supervisor: Alexander Karaivanov and Krishna Pendakur (joint supervision)

Recent Placements

¶¡ÏãÔ°AV Economics has had a 100% placement rate for our outgoing PhD graduates. Almost 200 graduates have gone on to teach in universities all over the world; serve as advisors or officials in provincial, state, and national governments; or are employed in a variety of roles in the private sector.

To see a full list of ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV econ PhD placements please click here

2022 - 2023

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Warwick 
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, French National Institute for Research on Agriculture, Food and the Environment (INRAE) 
Assistant Professor, School of Management at Universidad de los Andes
Economist, BC Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations
Senior Research Associate, Education & Skills Team at the Conference Board of Canada

 2021 - 2022

The Brattle Group (Associate) 
Monash University (Postdoctoral Research Fellow)
Shirleen Manzur Social Research and Demonstration Corporation (Researcher)