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Dan Bernhardt
Hadi Esfahani
Tatyana Deryugina
Dan McMillen
Jiyoung Chae
Job Market Paper: A Flexible Model for Spatial Volatility with an Application to the Chicago Housing Market
Fields of Concentration: Applied Econometrics, Spatial Econometrics, Urban Economics, Real Estate Economics
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Daniel McMillen
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Sebastian Laumer
Job Market Paper: Government Spending between Active and Passive Monetary Policy
Fields of Concentration: Primary: Macroeconomics, Fiscal Policy, Bayesian and Time Series Econometrics, Secondary: Monetary Economics and Big Data
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Dan Bernhardt
Minchul Shin
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Job Market Paper: Robust Permutation Test for Equality of Distributions under Covariate-Adaptive Randomization
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Dan Bernhardt
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Fields of Concentration: Mathematical Econometrics and Empirical Macroeconomics
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Minchul Shin
Dana Shaat
Fields of Concentration: Labor, Economics of Education, and Public Policy
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Job Market Paper: The Long-Term Consequences of Oil and Gas Extraction: Evidence from the Housing Market
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Job Market Paper: Global Green Deal: International Cooperation on Net-Zero Carbon Emission
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