Program Expansion
The Ph.D. Program faculty in Economics at Cornell has expanded from 47 faculty in 1997 to 74 in 2009, most of the expansion being since 1998 and about half of the expansion is in the tenured faculty. This substantial growth is continuing today.
In 2008 we added five new field faculty members. These are:
Yaniv Grinstein:, Professor Grinstein is Associate Professor of Finance PhD, Carnegie Mellon. Professor Grinstein's research and teaching interests are in corporate finance and corporate governance. Professor Grinstein has published in several journals, including the Journal of Finance, the Journal of Financial Economics, the Journal of Financial Intermediation and others. His research has been widely cited in major newspapers such as The Economist, Financial Times, New York Times, Forbes, Time, Washington Post, as well as in Congress hearings. Professor Grinstein is the recipient of the Best Paper Award from the Journal of Financial Intermediation in 2006, and the Best Paper in Corporate Finance Award from the Southwestern Finance Association in 2005. He is also the recipient of the Clifford H. Whitcomb faculty fellowship in 2004-2005. Between the years 2006-2007 he visited the Securities and Exchange Commission as a visiting academic scholar
Kirabo Jackson; Profesor Jackson is Assistant Professor in the Labor Economics Department, ILR School, Cornell University. Kirabo received his PhD from Harvard University in the Department of Economics. His research interests include labor economics, public finance, economics of education, development, and applied econometrics.
Benjamin Ho; Professor Ho is a new assistant professor of economics who uses economics tools such as game theory and experimental economics to analyze social institutions that have traditionally been the purview of sociologists and psychologists. His research includes a theoretical analysis of how apologies are used to maintain relationships, as well as a statistical examination of the role apologies play in medical malpractice lawsuits. Another project uses game theory and experiments to investigate how what we consume is used to convey meaning and identity. Ho was the lead economist for energy and transportation at the White House Council of Economic Advisers and also worked as a research analyst for Morgan Stanley. He received his PhD in economics from Stanford Graduate School of Business.
Jordan Matsudaira; Professor Matsudaira is a labor economist whose work addresses the effects of education, health, and welfare policies on the behavior and well-being of vulnerable populations. His current research ranges from investigating the impact of bilingual education programs on the educational and economic outcomes of the children of immigrants to a study of whether and how schools strategically respond to incentives in federal subsidy programs to secure increased funding. In other efforts, he is examining the effects of increased staffing levels on patient outcomes in nursing homes, and the extent of monopsony power in the labor market for nurses. Jordan holds a Ph.D. in Economics and Public Policy from the University of Michigan, and was a Robert Wood Johnson Post-doctoral Fellow in Health Policy Research at University of California, Berkeley before coming to Cornell.
Emily Owens; Professor Owens is an assistant professor in the Department of Policy Analysis and Management. She joined the Cornell faculty in 2007 after receiving her Ph.D. in economics at the University of Maryland, College Park. Her primary area of research focuses on government regulation of criminal activity. This includes studying how government policies affect the prevalence of criminal activity as well as the structure of criminal justice systems. She is also a research fellow at the Jacob France Institute in Baltimore, Maryland
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