Graduate Awards Academic Achievement Graduate Assistantships (AAGA) – Students who enhance the educational diversity of the student body of the program into which they are admitted, as evidenced in personal history and experience, research goals, or the promotion of understanding among persons of different background and ideas, or have demonstrated significant academic achievement by overcoming barriers such as economic, social, or educational disadvantage. 2008   Quentin Brummet, Michael Busch, Vladimir Fleurimond 2007   Timothy Fijalkovich, Stacy Miller, Elizabeth Quin, Andrew Webb 2006   Shannon Wobbe 2005   Juan Medina, Brian Moore 2004   Nicole Funari 2003   Deborah Foster 2002   Amena Mohammed 2001   Margaret Loudermilk Alliance for Graduate Education and the Professoriate (AGEP) Scholar Award - Applies funds from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and The Graduate School to provide substantial support for student recruitment, career development, and to foster the emergence of a racially and culturally inclusive community of scholars among graduate students. 2008   Terry-Ann Craigie, Brian Moore Delia Koo Fellowship – Funding for Chinese students their 1st academic year with matching department funds to help with their financial burden. 2004   Jingjing Yang Dissertation Completion Fellowships (DCF) – Allows students to devote full time to writing their dissertation with the goal that the dissertation will be completed during the tenure of the fellowship. Awarded from the Graduate School: 2008   Kampon Adireksombat, Tao Peng 2007   Byung-Cheol Kim, Irina Murtazashvili, Kamyar Nasseh, Patrice Whitely 2006   Michael Allgrunn, Margaret Loudermilk, Artem Prokhorov 2005   Ayman Reda, Nanyun Zhang Environmental Science & Policy Program Fellowship (ESPP) – To attract the strongest possible cohort of students to pursue doctoral education focused on the environment. 2007   Richard Melstrom 2005   Nicholas Sheard Red Cedar Award – Best research paper presented at the department’s annual Spring Conference. 2007   Jaesoo Kim – “The Intensity of Competition in the Hotelling Model: A New Generalization and Applications” Honorably Mentioned: Wei-Chih Chen – “Network Externality, Compatibility, and Foreign Entry Mode” Nicholas Sly – “Turnover and Technology” 2006   Merve Cebi – “The Effect of Husband’s Health Insurance on Married Women’s Labor Supply” Byung-Cheol Kim – “Bundling Incentives to Raise Switching Costs” 2005   Nathan Cook – “Motivations for Export Platform FDI as a Strategy for Serving Foreign Markets” Patrice Whitely – “What is the Direction of Causality between Trade and Growth?  A Panel Data Granger Causality Study” 2004   Margaret Loudermilk – “Estimation of Fractional Dependent Variables in Dynamic Panel Data Models with an Application to Firm Dividend Policy” 2003   Jiyoung Kwon – “The Effect of Concentration on Price in the Airline Industry” 2002   Pungpond Rukumnuaykit - 2001   Mark Jahn – “Are There Exploitable Market Inefficiencies in Online Auctions?” Kyeongwon Yoo – “Saving for a Rainy Day?  An Analysis of Farm Household Grain Storage Decisions in Rural China” Research Enhancement Award – Provided by the Office of the Vice President for Research and administered by the Graduate School and available to support research activities including travel to participate in workshops, data collection, short courses and extramural laboratory rotations. 2007   Nicholas Sly Summer Recruitment Fellowships – Used to bring new students to campus the Summer before their program begins. 2007   Otavio Bartalotti Summer Retention Fellowships – To support existing students during the Summer to help accelerate progress toward their degree. 2008   Otavio Bartalotti, Maksym Ivanyna, Elizabeth Quin 2007   Deborah Foster 2006   Brian Moore Travel Grants – Funds from the Graduate School that are available for graduate students to travel domestically or internationally to present their research projects or course work. 2008   Otavio Bartalotti European Economics and Finance Society Conference, Prague, CZECH REPUBLIC Merve Cebi, Kang-Hung Chang 2nd Biennial Conference of the American Society of Health Economists, Durham, NC Jaesoo Kim 7th International Industrial Organization Conference, Washington, DC Tao, Peng, Ilya Rahkovsky, Nicholas Sly Midwest Economics Association Annual Conference, Chicago, IL 2007   Kampon Adireksombat National Tax Association Annual Conference, Columbus, OH Sanders Chang 7th Annual Missouri Economics Conference, Columbia, MO Deborah Foster Association for Public Policy Analysis & Management Conference, Washington, DC Byung-Cheol Kim International Industrial Organization Conference, Savannah, GA Jaesoo Kim Southern Economic Association 77th Annual Meetings, New Orleans, LA Hoa Bao Nguyen Pacific Trade and Development Young Scholars Conference, Hanoi, VIETNAM Pamela Ortiz-Arevalo XXI Annual Conference of the European Society for Population Economics (ESPE), Chicago, IL 2006   Nathan Cook, Anastasia Semykina American Economic Association/Allied Social Science Associations Annual Meeting, Boston, MA Christopher Douglas International Industrial Organization Conference, Boston, MA Midwest Macroeconomics Conference, St. Louis, MO Irina Murtazashvili International Industrial Organization Conference, Oxford, UNITED KINGDOM Kamyar Nasseh Midwest Econometrics Group Fall Meetings, Cincinnati, OH Saharat Pongsree Midwest Economics Association Conference, Chicago, IL Makoto Tanaka Kansai University, Osaka, JAPAN Yokohama National University, Yokohama, JAPAN Na Yang Eastern Economic Association Annual Conference, Philadelphia, PA Midwest Economics Association Conference, Chicago, IL 2005   Pedro Almoguera Southwestern Economics Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA Jiyoung Kwon International Industrial Organization Conference, Atlanta, GA Irina Murtazashvili Midwest Econometrics Group Annual Meeting, Carbondale, IL Southern Economic Association (SEA) Conference, Washington, DC Anastasia Semykina Midwest Econometrics Group Annual Meeting, Carbondale, IL 2004   Vladimir Hlasny Mississippi Valley Economic Association Annual Conference, Nashville, TN Myungsup Kim, Jiyoung Kwon Southern Economic Association Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA Artem Prokhorov Australian Conference of Economists, Sydney, Australia Nanyun Zhang International Industrial Organization Conference, Chicago, IL 2003   Margaret Loudermilk American Economic Association/Allied Social Science Associations Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA Ren Mu, Pungpond Rukumnuaykit, Firman Witoelar Northeast Universities Development Consortium, New Haven, CT Iva Petrova 8th Meeting of Latin America & Caribbean Economic Association, Puebla, Mexico Hyuk-Jae Rhee Southern Economics Association Annual Meeting, San Antonio, TX University Fellowships Distinguished (UDF) – Recognizing academic achievement, research goals, demonstrated leadership potential, and contribution to a diverse educational community. 2004   Katherine Landry Enrichment (UEF) – Recognizing academic achievement, research goals, contribution to a diverse educational community, and a record of overcoming obstacles. 2004   Victor Balseca, Tybyu Burch, Michael Carlton 2003   Sanders Chang, Shaun Holness 2001   Pedro Almoguera

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