Doctoral Grants

2016

Kunal Sachdeva for “Selling Your Longevity May Extend Your Life: Evidence from the Life Settlement Market”
Dongwook Shin for “Tractable Dynamic Sampling Strategies for Quantile-Based Ordinal Optimization”
Shiri Melumad for “The Distinct Psychology of Smartphone Usage”

Arpit Gupta for “Foreclosure Contagion, Household Rollover Risk, and the Subprime Mortgage Crisis.” Download the paper.
Colleen Honigsberg for “Disentangling Disclosure and Enforcement: The Case of Hedge Fund Regulation.” Download the paper.
Lijian Lu for “Sourcing Strategies: Onshore and Offshore Procurement.” Download the paper.
Sungyong Chang for “Vertical Disintegration, Industry Cyclicality, and Vulnerability of Entrepreneurial Firms without R&D Units: Evidence from the Global Semiconductor Industry 2005-2014” Download the paper.

Matthieu Bellon, Department of Economics, Columbia University, for research titled “The Impact of Trade Liberalization on Labor Markets: A Dynamic Approach of Firm Behavior”
Jaehyun Cho, Columbia Business School, for research titled “Revisiting Investor Rationality in Mutual Fund Flows”

Ye Li, Columbia Business School, for research titled “Uncover the Relation Between Exchange Rate Dynamics and Stochastic Volatility in International Stock Returns”
Zhi Liu, Columbia Business School, for research titled “Acknowledgement of Cultural Differences and Support for Social, Organizational and Education Change: Urban-Rural Comparisons in China”

Prabhat Barnwal, School of International and Public Affairs, for research on welfare policies and hidden risks in an emerging economy
Aaron Baum, School of International and Public Affairs, for research titled “Microfinance-Based Distribution System for Health Commodities: Project to Expand Access to Micronutrient Powders in Rural Haiti”
Xian Huang, political science department, Columbia University, for research titled “Political Economy of Health: Risk and Income Redistribution in China’s Social Health Insurance”
Andres Liberman, Columbia Business School, for research on the effects of loan renegotiation, with evidence from credit card data.
Zhi Liu, Columbia Business School, for research titled “Exonerating Leaders from Unethical behaviors for the Good of the Organization: Particularism versus Universalism in East Asian and North American Cultures”
Nicole Ngo, School of International and Public Affairs, for research on Nairobi’s industrial sector and the role of air quality regulations

Jia Guo, Columbia Business School, for research titled “What Drives the Chinese Art Market? The Case of Elegant Bribery.” Download the paper.
Claudius Hildebrand, Columbia Business School, for research on the cultural construction of choice

Aurelia Mok, for research on “Antecedents and Effects of Dual Cultural Identities of Chinese Immigrants in Australia.” Download the paper.
JaeBin Ahn for research on “The Great Trade Collapse and Trade Finance Premium”