GMU Job Market Candidates

Job Market Candidates - Fall 2007

If you have any questions concerning our students or need further assistance in contacting prospective candidates, please do not hesitate to call Richard Wagner, Director of the PhD program, at (703) 993-1132.

Michael Clark

Dissertation Title: The Smithian Approach to Economics(
Fields: Constitutional Political Economy, Austrian Economics, Public Choice Economics
Advisor: Dan Klein - dklein@gmu.edu
Job Paper: "Presuming Liberty? An Omissions Analysis of the JEL’s Review of the ERP"
Links: CV
Email: mclark4@gmu.edu

Daniel D'Amico

Dissertation: "The Imprisoner's Dillema: The Political Economy of the Criminal Justice System" (Abstract)
Fields: Constitutional Political Economy, Austrian Theory of the Market Process
Advisor: Peter J. Boettke - pboettke@gmu.edu
Job Paper: “The Use of Knowledge in Proportionate Punishment”
Links: Teaching Evaluations, CV, Homepage
Email: danieljdamico@gmail.com

Isaac DiIanni

Dissertation Title: "An Economic Analysis of Judicial Incentives " (Abstract)
Fields: Law and Economics, Public Economics, Computational Agent-based Modeling
Advisor: Richard Wagner- rwagner@gmu.edu
Job Paper: The Role of Competition in the Market for Adjudication
Links: Teaching Evaluations; CV; Home Page
Email: idiianni@yahoo.com

Michael Makowsky

Dissertation Title: "A Dynamic Model of Religious Groups, Divides, and Extremism"(Abstract)
Fields: Economics of Religion, Public Economics, Multi-Agent Computational Modeling
Advisor: Laurence Iannaccone - Larry@econzone.com
Job Paper: Reducing Religious Extremism: A Model of Populations and Policy
Links: Teaching Evaluations; CV; Home Page: mason.gmu.edu/~mmakowsk
Email: mmakowsk@gmu.edu

Andrew J. Nelson

Dissertation Title: "Foreign Direct Investment: Third Country Effects on Location, Host Country Labor Market Spillovers, and Interactions with Trade and Growth" (Abstract)
Fields: Monetary Economics, International Economics
Advisor: Carlos Ramirez- cramire2@gmu.edu
Job Paper:
Links: Teaching Evaluations; CV; Home Page
Email: anelson3@gmu.edu

Gordon Smith

Dissertation Title: "The Effect of a Generalized Appreciation in the Exchange Rates of East Asian Currencies on U. S. Trade Imbalances" (Abstract)
Fields: Monetary, International, Public Choice
Advisor: Willem H. Thorbecke- wthorbec@gmu.edu
Job Paper: A Bilateral or Multilateral Exchange Rate Appreciation in East Asia: Which has the Greater Impact on the U.S. Trade Deficit?
Links: Teaching Evaluations; CV
Email: gsmith2@gmu.edu

Yongjing Zhang

Dissertation Title : "The Political Economy of the Evolution of China Towards An Authoritarian Market Economy" (Summary)
Primary Fields: Political Economy/Public Choice, Public Finance, Behavioral Economics, Applied Microeconomics. Secondary Fields: Law and Economics, International Economics.
Advisor: Charles Rowley - crowley@gmu.edu
Job Paper: "China's Evolution towards An Authoritarian Market economy – Key Steps on the Path to Institutional Reform"
Links: Teaching Evaluations; CV; Home Page: mason.gmu.edu/~yzhanga
Email: yzhanga@gmu.edu