Johan Eklund (2010 Moscow) has been appointed Associate Dean of Jönköping International Business School.

A book by Velappan Sanathakumar (2001 Rio), Economic Analysis of Institutions: A Practical Guide, has just been published by Sage Publications, 2011.

Biniam Bedasso (2011 Chicago) has been awarded a Robert S. McNamara Fellowship by the World Bank.

Stephanie Chan (2009 Xiamen) is studying economics at Tinbergen Institute in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

Nissim Cohen (2009 Bratislava) will join the Department of Public Administration and Policy at Haifa University in Israel as a faculty member starting March 2012.

Galit Eizman (2009 Xiamen) recently taught a summer course at Yale University and presented a paper in Seoul, South Korea at the 2011 Asian Meeting of the Econometric Society. She is spending a second year at Harvard.

Rita Yi Man Li (2008 Philippines) is an assistant professor in the Department of Economics and Finance at Hong Kong Shue Yan University.

Sebastian Galiani (2001 Rio, 2002 St. Louis) is now James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor at Washington University in St. Louis.

Workshop alumni in the Chicago area met recently for dinner with Mary Shirley and Alexandra and Lee Benham. They include Chen Cheng (2010 Moscow), doctoral student at Northwestern University; Georgy Egorov (2004 Tucson), faculty member at Northwestern University; Wladimir Zanoni (2003 São Paulo), post-doctoral researcher at the University of Chicago; and Yunzhi Hu (2010 Shanghai), doctoral student at the University of Chicago.

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ALUMNI NEWS - July 2011

Yunzhi Hu (2010 Shanghai) is starting doctoral studies at the University of Chicago in economics. Nearby in Evanston, Chen Cheng (2010 Moscow) is starting doctoral studies at Northwestern University in the Kellogg School MEDS program, where Georgy Egorov (2004 Tucson) is a faculty member.

Queena Qian (2009 Xiamen) has an internship with the Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy in Germany.

Nissim Cohen (2009 Bratislava) is a post-doc at the Center for Study of Public Choice, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, USA.

V Santhakumar (2001 Rio) has a book coming out, Economic Analysis of Institutions: A Practical Guide, with a number of real world issues from India and developing countries on which new instititional economics can provide insight.

Ilona Otto-Banaszaks (2009 Bratislava) has recently published an article based on her workshop presentation, as has Elad Segev (2009 Xiamen). Khrystyna Pavlyk (2009 Bratislava) and Bruce Rayton (2001 Berkeley) have published a joint article.

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ALUMNI NEWS - January 2011

Alvin Ang (Singapore 2008) and his colleague Jeremaiah Opiniano have won first prize for Outstanding Research on Development at the Global Development Network competitions held this month in Bogota, Colombia. Since the GDN competitions began in 2000, seven workshop alumni (Santhakumar Velappan Nair, Konstantin Sonin, Sebastian Galiani, Miguel Jaramillo, Yang Yao, Raul Andrade, Alvin Ang) and one workshop faculty member (Juan Camillo Cardenas) have won first prizes. Nearly 6,500 researchers from over 100 countries have competed for the GDN prizes and medals.

Alfredo Paloyo (Singapore 2008) just obtained his doctoral degree with highest distinction - summa cum laude - at the Ruhr University of Bochum, Germany.

Galit Eizman (2009 Xiamen) is a visiting fellow at the Economics Department of Harvard University. Also in Cambridge,Yiqing Xu (2009 Xiamen) is doing graduate studies in political science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Rita Yi Man Li (2008 Philippines) is a lecturer at Hong Kong Shue Yan University.

Franz Loyola (2008 Beijing) is doing doctoral studies at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia, USA.

Elio Ferrato (2004 Tucson) has recently published two books, Inter-organizational Relationship and Hold-up in the Automotive Sector: A Study under the Economics of Transaction Costs Theory, and Developing Ethical Corporate Cultures: Developing Corporate Cultures to Comply With Organizational Strategies.

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