Ph.D. Student



Matthew T. Cole

520 Prince Lucien Campbell Hall mcole@uoregon.edu
541.346.1268 541.346.1243 (dept fax)

Complete CV
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BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

Cole received his B.A. in Economics in 2001 from The University of Northern Iowa and his M.A. in Economics in 2003 from The University of Iowa. He was a Visiting Instructor at Grand Valley State University from 2004-2005 and expects to receive his Ph.D. from the University of Oregon in 2009.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Cole is currently interested in International Trade and Applied Microeconomics.

FIELDS

Core and Field courses completed (Instructors):

PUBLICATIONS

  • Cole, Matthew, M. Ryan Haley, and Aaron Lowen, (2008) "A Note on Bilateral Trade Agreements in the Presence of Irreversible Investment and Deferred Negotiations," Economics Bulletin, Vol. 6, No. 34 pp. 1-10.

WORKING PAPERS

"The Choice of Modeling Firm Heterogeneity and Trade Restrictions," Working Paper.

"Tariff Jumping with Heterogeneous Firms," Working Paper.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Cole has independently taught Principles of Microeconomics, Principles of Macroeconomics, Business Economics, and Public Finance at Grand Valley State University and Intermediate Microeconomics, and International Economic Issues at The University of Oregon. He has also served as a teaching assistant for Principles of Microeconomics, Money and Banking, and International Trade at The University of Iowa. He is currently a graduate teaching fellow at the University of Oregon and has led discussion sections for Principles of Microeconomics, and the Ph.D. Econometrics course. In the future, he looks forward to teaching International Trade and Microeconomics at both graduate and undergraduate levels.

COOL LINKS

Sites that are helpful for LaTeX users;

Working with Stata: Though I rarely use M.S. Word, the program outreg can still be handy, especially if you are one of my EC 524 students. Check out this website, that I found, for a very nice tutorial on outreg. If you prefer much nicer output, there seems to be quite a few different options popping up to incorporate LaTeX output. If you are running a model with only one specification or getting summary statistics, I recommend using outtex and sutex. You can find out more from here; If you are running multiple specifications, I have been beginning to use est2vec and est2tex. The only help file I have been able to find as of yet is here; For my EC 424/524 students: a nice powerpoint that I found on the web for difference-in-difference:
DiffInDiff

 
Updated: August 26, 2008

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