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March 27, 2025

MSU Economics March research roundup: Eguia, Zhang, Imberman and Chen

Department faculty have been featured in the media, won awards and published their research

The MSU Department of Economics faculty continue to advance research and outreach through their publications and engagement with the media. 

Publications

Jon X. Eguia, Dimitrios Xefteris, Lognormal (re)distribution: A macrofounded theory of inequality, European Economic Review, Volume 170, 2024, 104863, ISSN 0014-2921,: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.euroecorev.2024.104863

He, Simin, Jiabin Wu, Hanzhe Zhang, and Xun Zhu. 2024. "Decentralized Matching with Transfers: Experimental and Noncooperative Analyses." American Economic Journal: Microeconomics 16 (4): 406–39. https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/mic.20230030.

Yumi Koh, Jing Li, Yifan Wu, Junjian Yi, Hanzhe Zhang, Young women in cities: Urbanization and gender-biased migration, Journal of Development Economics, Volume 172, 2025, 103378, ISSN 0304-3878, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jdeveco.2024.103378.

Hu Y, Zhang H. Borrowing Stigma and Lender of Last Resort Policies. Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis. 2025;60(1):374-405. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022109023001187.

In the Media

Reported by MSU Today, Scott Imberman was named one of the top national education influencers by the annual Rick Hess Edu-Scholar Public Influence Rankings. 

Awards

Kaicheng Chen, economics doctoral candidate, won Best Student Paper Award for “Inference in High-Dimensional Panel Models: Two-Way Dependence and Unobserved Heterogeneity,” at the 2024 Midwest Econometrics Group Conference held at University of Kentucky: https://gatton.uky.edu/meg2024

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