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Yelidá Blanco García, MA ’21: Examining Trade Across Borders with the World Bank
Jun. 4, 2021—Prior to her graduation from the GPED, Fulbright scholar Yelidá María Blanco García (’21, Dominican Republic) participated in the World Bank’s noted Doing Business project as a spring intern within the Trading Across Borders team. As an intern, she had the opportunity to contribute to the 2021 and 2022 Doing Business reports by assisting with the preparation of the...
Ebehireme Iyoha, PhD ’21: From Vanderbilt to the Fed to Harvard
Mar. 30, 2021—Ebehi Iyoha’s research applies network theory to the study of firm-to-firm interactions within and across countries’ borders. In her dissertation, she explores how US publicly-listed companies are affected by the efficiency of their customers and suppliers. Her research finds that central firms in the production network—such as General Motors, AT&T and Walmart—can have large impacts...
Immersion Vanderbilt: Thomas Hum’s semester in SE Asia will provide personal as well as academic immersion
Mar. 25, 2021—Thomas Hum’s Immersion project, planned for Spring 2022, will plunge him not only academically into studying the developing economies of China and Singapore, but also physically into the homes of families in the towns he will visit. As a participant in the School for International Training, he will travel to and study the growing financial centers...
Senior Lecturer Heather Luea wins prestigious teaching award
Mar. 23, 2021—Heather Luea, Senior Lecturer in Economics, is the 2021 winner for the Social Sciences of the University’s Harriet S. Gilliam Award for Excellence in Teaching by a Lecturer or Senior Lecturer. The Gilliam Award was established in 1995 in memory of Harriet S. Gilliam, B.A., 1966. The award recognizes a lecturer or senior lecturer who...
Harold Chiang, PhD ’20: Cutting-edge econometrics at Wisconsin-Madison
Mar. 23, 2021—Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Wisconsin-Madison As an econometrician, Harold works on bridging the division between cutting-edge econometric theory and the frontiers of empirical economic research. The tools developed in Harold’s research can be applied to different empirical economic questions in education, labor economics, international trade, and industrial organization, among others.
View our Spring 2021 McGee lecture on the economics of the COVID-19 pandemic
Mar. 20, 2021—View Spring 2021 McGee lecture, “The Macroeconomic Policy Response to the Pandemic: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly,” by Christina Romer of UC-Berkeley here.
Economics Department hires three new assistant professors
Feb. 12, 2021—Welcome to our new faculty, who will be starting in Fall 2021! Christopher Li comes to us from an assistant professorship in Political Science at Florida State University. He earned his Ph.D. in Economics from Northwestern in 2016, then held postdoctoral fellowships at Yale and Princeton before going to FSU. Interested in microeconomics and political...
Mariam Sanusi, BA’19: Combining Art and Economics
Jul. 7, 2020—Professional Fellow, Vanderbilt University Mariam Sanusi graduated with a double major in economics and art. She came to Vanderbilt as a transfer student from California, looking for smaller class sizes and a close-knit community. At Vanderbilt, Mariam got involved with the Women in Business student organization, served in the Undergraduate Senate, and worked as an...
Fiona Bultonsheen, BA’20: Empowering Individuals Through Fintech
Jul. 1, 2020—Associate Consultant, Capco Fiona Boultonsheen majored in Economics with a minor in Arabic. While at Vanderbilt, she was awarded a Critical Language Scholarship through the U.S. State Department to study Arabic in Amman, Jordan. Over the summer prior to her senior year, Fiona interned in financial services consulting at Capco with a focus in capital...