JAI KEDIA
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JAI KEDIA

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This is my personal/professional website. I am a Ph.D. candidate in Economics at the University of California, Irvine. My primary fields of interest are macroeconomics, macro-finance, behavioral finance, and Bayesian time-series econometrics. I am currently looking for research/teaching jobs following the completion of the 2022-23 academic year. Keep scrolling to find out what I've been working on recently or use the links at the top to get my CV or access ​more info on my research, teaching, and contact information.

Updates:

  • Nov 2022: Presented my job market paper at the 92nd Annual Meeting of the Southern Economic Association. I was nominated by the Economics department at UC Irvine to present at this conference.
  • Oct 2022: Passed my prospectus exam in pursuit of my Ph.D.
  • Oct 2022: Presented my job market paper virtually at the 1st PhD Workshop on Expectations in Macroeconomics hosted by the Barcelona School of Economics.
  • July 2022: Taught my first class as a full-time instructor. The course was titled “Global Economy” and  is designed to serve as an introduction to the aggregate economy. Find the syllabus here.
  • June 2022: Received an Honorable Mention for the Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award from the Dept. of Economics at UC Irvine.
  • May 2022: Presented my paper "Investor Heuristics and Biases: Quantitative Effects on the U.S. Business Cycle" at the 56th Annual Meetings of the Canadian Economics Association held virtually on May 31.
  • May 2022: Attended the Behavioral Macroeconomics Research Boot Camp hosted by the NBER at Berkeley, CA on May 9-10.
  • Mar 2022: Presented my paper "Investor Heuristics and Biases: Quantitative Effects on the U.S. Business Cycle" at the 29th Symposium of the Society for Nonlinear Dynamics & Econometrics held virtually on March 10-11. 
  • Oct 2021: Published this website for the first time. I also prepared my first ever academic CV!
  • Feb 2021: Completed my second-year paper entitled "The Effects of Investor Confidence Shocks on Business Cycles." You can find the most recent version of it here. 
  • Sep 2020: Advanced to candidacy in pursuit of my Ph.D.
  • Dec 2019: Received my M.A. in Economics from UC Irvine.
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