If Toronto’s loyal hockey fans are looking for a winning team, they should start following the city’s economists. PhD candidate Guangbin Jeremy Hong, for example, may not do his best work on the ice, but he has now scored a hat trick with his job market paper.
The Canadian Labour Economics Forum (CLEF) awarded Hong its Best Paper Award during a special session held at the 2024 Annual Meeting of the Canadian Economic Association in Toronto on Friday, May 31. The paper, Two-Sided Sorting of Workers and Firms: Implications for Spatial Inequality and Welfare, also won both the Bank of Canada Graduate Student Paper Award, and the European Economic Association & UniCredit Foundation Best Job Market Paper Award.
“During his time here at the University of Toronto, Jeremy has made many interesting, thoughtful, and helpful contributions that faculty, staff, and other students can all appreciate,” said Professor Ettore Damiano, Chair of the Department of Economics. “CLEF’s recognition of Jeremy’s accomplished job market paper is another sign that his instincts as a researcher are well-developed and attuned to the needs of policymakers, decision makers, and their advisors. We are all proud to witness these early-stage successes as Jeremy starts his career.”
After his thesis defense this summer, Hong will spend the 2024-2025 academic year as Postdoctoral Fellow at the Mansueto Institute of Urban Innovation and Kenneth C. Griffin Department of Economics at the University of Chicago. In August 2025, he will join the Department of Economics at Michigan State University as an Assistant Professor.
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