Economics – Featured Students | Bryan School of Business and Economics

Satyaki Chakravarty

Ph.D. in Economics, UNC Greensboro, anticipated Spring 2023
M.Sc. in Economics, Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics, 2016
B.Sc. in Economics, Ramakrishna Mission Vidyamandira, 2014

Satyaki Chakravarty is a Ph.D. Candidate on the job market in 2022-23. He specializes in the economics of innovation. In particular, he is interested in the invention and patenting strategies of different types of inventors, and their relation to the ecosystem of innovation. His job market paper studies patenting activity of small entities around the America Invents Act (AIA) of 2011. In previous work, he has studied patent pendency and its determinants among Indian and foreign inventors patenting in India and has policy papers on competition policy, and determination of royalty for intellectual property in India. Visit his website: satyaki4.github.io for details.

Hitanshu Pandit

Ph.D. in Economics, UNC Greensboro, anticipated Spring 2023
M.A. in Economics, Central University of Kerala, 2018
B.Sc. (Hons.) in Mathematics, University of Delhi, 2014

Hitanshu Pandit is a Ph.D. Candidate on the job market in 2022-23. He specializes in the Applied Microeconomics. In particular, he is interested in the labor, Health, and Urban Economics. In his job market paper, he uses mobile-device location data to explore the relationship between minimum wages and the employment activity in the US labor market. He is also a part of the evaluation team with Center for Housing and Settlement Studies and Department of Economics, UNCG; evaluating the Impact of the Tiered Care Coordination Pilot Project funded by the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services. Visit his website: hitanshupandit.com for details.

Thea Yutong Liu

Ph.D. in Economics, University of North Carolina Greensboro, expected May 2023
M. A. in Applied Microeconomics, University of North Carolina Greensboro, December 2019
B.A. in Economics & Psychology, William Jewell College, May 2018

Thea Yutong Liu is a Ph.D. Candidate on the job market in 2022-2023. She is an economist who specializes in applied microeconomic topics including Health, Public, and Behavioral Economics. Her current research focuses on substance use related public health issues. In her Job Market Paper, she studies the tax effects on excessive alcohol consumption using price elasticity as the informative tool. Her Ph.D. dissertation also includes research on excise tax pass-thru rates and policy simulation/program evaluation regarding alcohol excise tax.