Fields of Specialization

• Applied Econometrics, Macroeconomics, International Finance, Experimental Macroeconomics

Education

• Ph.D. (Economics), University of Hawaii at Manoa, December 2007
• Master of Public Policy, Hitotsubashi University, Japan 2002
• Recipient of the Japanese Government Scholarship (Monbukagakusho)
• B.A. (Economics, First Class Honors), Thammasat University, Thailand, 2000

Dissertation

Three Essays on Inflation Dynamics, Foreign Purchases of U.S. Government Bonds, and U.S. Home Prices

• Imperfect Common Knowledge, Price Stickiness, and Inflation Inertia
• Foreign Central Banks and U.S. Bond Risk Premia (job market paper)
• U.S. Home Prices and Fundamentals: Evidence from Long-Term U.S. and Local Markets

Research Experience

Research Assistant, 1/04-12/07         University of Hawaii Economic Research Organization (UHERO)

• Drafted reports and prepared presentations on Hawaii and global economic outlook
• Developed and maintained econometric models to forecast U.S., Japan, and Hawaii’s economies.
• Initiated and developed Perl and AREMOS codes to automate data collection and database maintenance of 10,000+ economic indicators.

Research Assistant, 5/05-8/05           Water Resources Research Center

• Collaborated with a team of economists to develop a mathematical model to determine the optimal path of public expenditures on prevention and control of invasive species in Hawaii.
• Transformed the model into Mathematica code.

Teaching Experience

• Instructor, "Financial Markets and Institutions," UH Manoa, Summer 2006
• Instructor, "Intermediate Macroeconomics," UH Manoa, Fall 2003 and Summer 2004
• Teaching Assistant, "Principles of Economics," UH Manoa, Fall 2002 and Spring 2003

Honors and Scholarships Received

• Burnham O. Campbell Dissertation Award in Economics, UH Manoa, 2007
• Arts and Sciences Advisory Council Awards, UH Manoa, 2005
• High Passes on Microeconomics and Macroeconomics Qualifying Exams, UH Manoa, 2004
• The Best Master's Thesis of the 2002 Program and Graduation Commencement Speaker, Asian Public Policy Program, Hitotsubashi University

Publication

• “Beyond the Lamppost: Optimal Prevention and Control of the Brown Treesnake in Hawaii,”
  (with Kimberly M. Burnett, Sean D’Evelyn, Brooks A. Kaiser, and James A. Roumasset)
  Ecological Economics, Forthcoming
  

Computer Skills

• Stata, MATLAB, Mathematica, AREMOS, PcGive, Ox, SAS, GAUSS, E-Views
• Perl, Unix/Linux, Mac, PHP, MySQL, L^AT_EX, MS Office

Other Activities

• Participant, the Barcelona LeeX Experimental Economics Summer School in Macroeconomics,
  Universitat Pompeu Fabra, June 2007
• Participant, Visiting Graduate Student Workshop in Experimental Economics,
  George Mason University, August 2005
• Reviewer, The Economics of Macro Issues, by Roger L. Miller and Daniel K. Benjamin, Second Edition,
  Pearson Addison-Wesley, 2005
• Reviewer, Macroeconomics, by David C. Colander and Edward, N. Gamber, Prentice Hall, 2002

References

Carl Bonham (Dissertation Chair) Associate Professor University of Hawaii at Manoa Department of Economics & UHERO Tel: (808) 956-7605 E-mail: bonham@hawaii.edu	Byron Gangnes Associate Professor University of Hawaii at Manoa Department of Economics & UHERO Tel: (808) 956-7285 E-mail: gangnes@hawaii.edu
Katerina V. Sherstyuk Associate Professor University of Hawaii at Manoa Department of Economics Tel: (808) 956-7851 E-mail: katyas@hawaii.edu	Xiaojun Wang Assistant Professor University of Hawaii at Manoa Department of Economics Tel: (808) 956-7721 E-mail: xiaojun@hawaii.edu