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New Economics Faculty
Fall 2007
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Marco Castaneda
302 Tilton Hall (504) 862-8352 marco@tulane.edu
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Washington University-St. Louis
Marco A. Castaneda received his B.A. with emphasis in Mathematics and Economics
from the University of Alaska in Juneau and his M.A. and Ph.D. in Economics
from Washington University in St. Louis. He teaches microeconomics,
industrial organization, and game theory.
His research is about the implications of incomplete
contracts and asymmetric information for understanding
the organization of production. Finally, he was
born in Mexico and enjoys playing golf and soccer.
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Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of California-Irvine
Keith Finlay received his B.A. in economics from Reed College.
He completed his doctoral work in economics in 2007 at the
University of California, Irvine.
His dissertation, "External Effects of Incarceration
in Labor and Marriage Markets," explores the effect of
greater employer access to criminal history records on the
labor market outcomes of ex-offenders and non-offenders. Dr.
Finlay is currently working on projects examining low skill
labor markets and the labor market effects of pre-employment
screening.
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Luciana Fiorini
209 Tilton Hall (504) 862-8343 lfiorini@tulane.edu
Visiting Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Brown University
Luciana was born in the city of Belo Horizonte, Brazil. She entered the
Federal University of Minas Gerais in 1992 and received her B.A. in 1996.
In the same year she entered the University of Sao Paulo to pursue the
M.A. in Economics, received in 2000. Luciana went to the United States
in 2001, when she started her studies at Brown University, finishing her
M.A. in 2002 and her Ph.D. in 2007.
Her research interests are Economic Theory, including Microeconomics
and Financial Economics. Her current work includes studies about the
welfare effects of public policy and of market frictions, such as constraints
on trade and access to markets. She is also interested in theory of consumption,
including issues as the market of status goods.
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Leandro Magnusson
308 Tilton Hall (504) 862-8355 lmagnuss@tulane.edu
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Brown University
Leandro is a Brazilian born in Sao Paulo, Brazil. He received
his B.A. and M.A. in Economics from the University of Sao Paulo. Before
starting the Ph.D. program at Brown, he worked at the Institute of Applied
Economics in Brasilia as a researcher in labor economics. Entering
Brown University in 2001, he received his M.A. in 2002 and Ph.D. in 2007.
His research interest is Econometrics, both classical and Bayesian. His
current research is focused on hypothesis testing for limited dependent
variable models with endogenous explanatory variables. His future
plans include the extension of his weak instruments robust tests to other
econometric models. He also wants to provide econometric expertise
to his colleagues at the Department of Economics.
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Jason Pearcy
207 Tilton Hall (504) 862-8354 pearcy@tulane.edu
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of Colorado-Boulder
Jason Pearcy received a B.S. in economics from Purdue University in 2001.
After working as an engineer, Jason went to the University of Colorado
at Boulder to pursue graduate studies in economics. Jason received his
M.A. in 2004 and Ph.D. in 2007.
Professor Pearcy's research interests are in applied microeconomics,
primarily in the fields of industrial organization and environmental
economics. His current research examines issues related to product
differentiation and price discrimination across time.
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