Hello #EconTwitter, we are excited to introduce our 2024-25 Job Market Candidates. We have 9 candidates across fields this year; a thread. RT for visibility. You can find the list of candidates, their CVs and contact details on our website at uh.edu/class/economic…
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- Congratulations to @LuisEduSH on successfully defending his thesis today ! He has joined @the_IDB as a financial economist. Here, Dr. Luis is pictured with his committee.
- Hello ! The Dept of #Economics @UHouston is excited to be on #Twitter. Follow for updates regarding events, conferences, faculty/student #research, alumni news and admissions. Click the "Follow" button and be a part of the conversation! #EconTwitter #FirstTweet
- We warmly welcome all students coming to our dept today to present/attend the 2nd edition of TEAMS (Texas Applied Microeconomics Students) Workshop. This new initiative brings together Applied Microeconomics students working in Texas. Wish everyone an enriching day at Houston!
- Meet our incoming 2024 #PhD cohort ! We are happy to welcome you to Houston and to the UH Econ family and look forward to meet you all in less than a month when the Math bootcamp kicks off.
- Happy #Halloween! We had our annual Halloween party yesterday, a quick break from the grind for faculty and PhD students as the semester gets more intense. There were costumes, food, fun and a best costume award.
- Congratulations to our alumnus @PriyamEcon as he starts as an Assistant Professor @EconAtAshoka this fall !Replying to @EconAtAshokaUp next, Prof. Priyam Verma (@PriyamEcon) will join as an Assistant Professor. Check out his research here: sites.google.com/view/priyamver…
- Proud of our alumni @Prof_Nishith_P and @ChonKitAo making a mark at the DIME conference organized by @KDI_SCHOOL & @WorldBank happening now at Seoul ! @Prof_Nishith_P delivered the keynote and @ChonKitAo presented his research.
- Congratulations @RyanPMcGregor on successfully defending your PhD thesis last week ! He will be joining @SMUEconDept as a lecturer this fall.
- The end semester PhD student workshop kicks off. This is a 1 day workshop where all students make short presentations of their work to al the faculty in the department. An opportunity to get feedback from student and faculty colleagues outside one’s field as well.
- Replying to @UH_EconJordan Holbrook’s (@JordanCHolbrook) fields are Labor Economics, Health Economics, and Human Capital. In his JMP, Jordan investigates signaling and human capital development using data from high school and college student athletes. Read more here - jordanholbrook.github.io
- Nicolas Crouzet of @KelloggSchool presented his co-authored work on ‘Intangible Capital, non-rivalry and growth’ at the dept’s Macro seminar last week.
- Congratulations to our professors @hyunju_econ and Radek Paluszynski for their new publication coauthored with Sunyoung Lee of @SeoulNatlUni !``New bank regulation (Basel III) led to a contraction in bank credit in Korea and a boom in non-bank lending. Findings are supported by causal inference and heterogeneous agent GE model.'' From @hyunju_econ, Lee and Paluszynski: restud.com/capital-regula…
- Replying to @UH_Econ @Ladys_gw and @YujieZhangEconVictor Zuluaga's fields are International Trade, Macro Development, and Labor. In his JMP, Victor studies how policy distortions shape the distributional consequences of trade. Find out more about him and his work here vhzuluaga.com





















