Graduate Outcomes/Achievements
Master’s students complete graduate-level coursework in their first year and work on their master’s theses in their second year. They are expected to aim high and strive to produce theses of a quality suitable for publication in academic journals.
Master's Thesis Highlight—Dohee Kwon
Highlights
- Distinguishes effects of ethnic vs. non-ethnic immigrants in Korea.
- Ethnic Korean immigrants reduce cultural facilities in the long run.
- Non-Korean immigrants show no impact on local amenities.
- Ethnic Korean inflows do not affect native migration.
- Non-Korean inflows attract modest native population inflows.
Link to Full Paper Class of 2025
Master's Thesis Highlight—Zhiyuan Sun
Highlights
- ICT trade drives demand for skilled, knowledge-intensive workers.
- Greater ICT exports/imports boost employment in IT-related sectors.
- Uses panel data from 35 European countries over 13 years.
- Fixed effects with IV address endogeneity concerns.
- ICT trade fosters skill development and employment growth.
Class of 2024
Master's Thesis Highlight—Killian da Fonseca
Highlights
- China import competition has mixed effects on manufacturing jobs.
- Final goods imports positive; intermediate inputs and exports negative.
- Large firms and SMEs respond differently to China trade shocks.
- Effects significant mainly for Poland and Romania.
- China trade may lower productivity in some manufacturing sectors.
Class of 2024
Graduate Students
Master's Students
Last name, First name; thesis title, graduation year
- Shao, Yihui; ongoing
- Janik, Mateusz; ongoing
- Boulter, John; ongoing
- Mao, Yizhou; ongoing
- Yoo, Young Min; ongoing
- Amsellem, Benjamin; "The Effect of Commercial Dependence on the Reaction of International Trade to Natural Disasters: an empirical investigation," graduated in September 2025
- Kwon, Dohee; "Differential Impacts of Ethnic Korean and Non-Korean Immigrants on Local Amenities in South Korea," graduated in September 2025
- Ng, Jia Xin; "The Share of Elderly Population on Migration Patterns," graduated in September 2025
- da Fonseca, Killian; "The China trade shock and Central Eastern European manufacturing employment: a firm size class analysis," graduated in September 2024
- Issarankura Na Ayudhaya, Kanisorn; "The Effects of Distance and Internet on International Trade," graduated in September 2024
- Nawrocki, Miku; "The Impact of Trade Dependence on Food Security," graduated in September 2024
- Sun, Zhiyuan; "Job Opportunities in the Digital Age: The Impact of ICT Trade on Employment," graduated in September 2024
- Pusewey, Luis; "The effects of immigration and asylum on German wages," graduated in September 2023