Master's Program Alums Obtaining Ph.D.s, Top Placements

Master's Program Alums Obtaining Ph.D.s, Top Placements

31 March 2010 12:00AM

The Wharton School, the University of Toronto and Quinnipiac University will each have a new assistant professor next year who graduated from the Master’s in Economics Program at Duke.
 
Alumni Adam Aiken (’05), Byung Soo Lee (’06) and Daniel Taylor (’05) will complete their Ph.D.s this spring and have now finalized their job decisions.
 
Dan Taylor, a Ph.D. student in accounting at the School of Business at Stanford University has taken a position at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Dan's research interests include the pricing of accounting information, market imperfections, asymmetric information in capital markets, individual investors, regulation and applied econometrics.
 
Adam Aiken, a Ph.D. student in the department of finance at the W. P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University will join the faculty at Quinnipiac University. Adam's research interests include investments, hedge funds, and performance evaluation.
 
Byung Soo Lee, a Ph.D. student in economics at Pennsylvania State University, will be working next year at the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto. Byung Soo’s research interests are game theory and its foundations.
 
“We are very happy with these great placements and expect this trend to continue with future MA alums,” said MA Program Director Charles Becker. “Congratulations to these three excellent students who are reaping the benefits of their hard work.”
 
Learn more about these students and how the Master’s program in economics at Duke prepared them for their future work in this earlier article.