Announcements
My collaborator and former PhD student Olivia Quek joins as a postdoc Waseda University. Last year she defended her Ph.D. thesis at the University of Tokyo. Her main advisor was Yasuyuki Sawada, now the Chief Economist at the Asian Development Bank. She also won a 2.5 million yen JSPS grant for support of her research. Olivia's dissertation resolves an economic puzzle related to the rice market in the Philippines. Photo caption: Olivia (left) meets with a rice trader in Laguna province of the Philippines to discuss the economic structure of the rice market.
My PhD student Huan (Chris) Wang wins a JSPS scholarship plus a 2.1 million yen research fund. Congratulations!
My former RA Yue Wu joins the Finance PhD program at the London School of Economics! Congratulations!
Interestingly, I have never met Yue in person. She started working for me as an RA remotely when she was an undergraduate at Renmin University.