Ph.D. Student


John Kandrac


455 Prince Lucien Campbell Hall jkandrac@uoregon.edu
541.346.1305 (office) 541.346.1243 (dept fax)

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BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

John Kandrac received his B.B.A. in Finance in 2003 from The College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, VA. Prior to entering the Ph.D. Program at Oregon, John was employed as an Analyst and Portfolio Assistant with JPMorgan Chase & Co. in New York, NY and Atlanta, GA.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

John specializes in applied macroeconomics and econometrics with applications to empirically modeling monetary and business cycle dynamics. Current interests include empirically identifying monetary transmission mechansims and determining the degree to which they depend on the structure of financial institutions. He has additional interests in macroeconomic forecasting and the corresponding time series econometric methods.

COURSEWORK

Core and Field courses completed or in progress (Instructors):
Other courses completed or in progress (Instructors):

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

At the University of Oregon, John has independently taught Money and Banking (EC370), Monetary Policy (EC470), Principles of Macroeconomics (EC202), and Intermediate Macroeconomic Theory (EC313).

In addition, John has served as a Graduate Teaching Fellow for Econometrics, Monetary Policy, Intermediate Macroeconomic Theory, Principles of Macroeconomics, Development Economics, Principles of Microeconomics, Topics in Economics, and Public Economics. Primary responsibilities have included teaching labs and discussion sections. At W&M, he has served as a Teaching Assistant for Rock Climbing I.

PAPERS AND WRITING SAMPLES

"A Discussion of the Structural Change in the Average Duration of Unemployment," Manuscript prepared for Seminar in Time Series Analysis. Paper
  • Gauss code:
      • A program which implements Diebold and Chen's (1996) bootstrap version of a Supremum test found in Andrews (1993). Download
      • Code for the UC-ARIMA trend/cycle decomposition was adapted from that made available by James Morley which can be found here.
"Protectionist Trade Policies and Steel Plant Survival," Manuscript prepared for Seminar in Industrial Organization. Paper
  • R code provided upon request.

OTHER INTERESTS

In addition to economics John enjoys rock climbing, fly fishing, backpacking, chess, and playing the banjo.

MISCELLANEOUS

Bicycle map of the Eugene/Springfield area (approx. 5MB)
Trout stocking schedule -- South Willamette Watershed
North American Vexillological Association
Appalachian Trail Conservancy


Updated: January 2008

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