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.

2010 - Amanda Stype
2009 - No incoming AAGA students
2008 - Quentin Brummet, Michael Busch
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:

2011 - Se Hoon Bang, Jong Duk Kim, Desu Liu, Brian Moore, Hoa Bao Nguyen and Iraj Rhamani
2010 - Randy Juras and Sung-guan Yun
2009 - Wei-Chih Chen, Jaesoo Kim, and Meng-Chi Tang
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

 

Peter Schmidt Award
Given in the student’s second year of the PhD program that, on the basis of his or her performance during the first year, shows the most promise for a distinguished career in economics. (Fellowship awarded in Spring one year after winning)

2011 - Kyong Hyun Koo
2010 - Sang-Hyun Kim
2009 - Quentin Brummet
2008 - Otávio Bartalotti
2007 - Se Hoon Bang
2006 - Youngjoo Choi

 

Red Cedar Award
Best research paper presented at the department's annual Spring Conference.

2011 - Co-Winners

Yeonjei Jung "Co-Marketing with Price Discrimination"

Kyungmin Kim "Multi-Product Competition in the Global Economy"

2010 - Otavio Bartalotti "Inverse Probability Weighted Estimation for Non-Smooth Objective Functions in General Missing Data Problems"

Honorably Mentioned:
Cui Cui Lu "Regression Estimation with Spatial Data"

2009 - Co-Winners

Se Hoon Bang "Behavior-Based Price Discrimination Favorable to Repeat Customers"

Desu Liu "Future Income and the Relationship Between Relative Risk Aversion and Demand for Risky Assets"

2008 - No Award Given

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 - Co-Winners

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"

Honorably Mentioned:
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?"

Honorably Mentioned:
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.

2011 - Keith Teltser
2010 - Daniel Litwok
2004 - Victor Balseca, Tybyu Burch, Michael Carlton
2003 - Sanders Chang, Shaun Holness
2001 - Pedro Almoguera