CURRICULUM VITAE – SEPHORAH MANGIN
Email: [email protected]
http://sephorahmangin.info
Phone: +61 3 9903 2384
Citizenship: Australia and NZ
Aug 2012 –
Lecturer (Assistant Professor), Department of Economics, Monash University
Jan – July 2012
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Becker Friedman Institute, University of Chicago
Spring 2010
Visiting Scholar, Department of Economics, NYU Stern School of Business
EDUCATION
2007 – Feb 2012
PhD in Economics, University of Melbourne
Thesis: “Essays on the Microfoundations of Macroeconomics”
Advisors: Chris Edmond (primary), Ian King, John Creedy
External examiners: Ricardo Lagos, Robert Shimer
2002
Bachelor of Science, University of Melbourne (Major in Pure Mathematics)
2002
Bachelor of Arts (Hons), University of Melbourne (First Class Honours in Philosophy)
Thesis: “Gödel’s Incompleteness Theorems”
Fall 2001
Student Exchange (Mathematics), University of California, Berkeley
FIELDS
Macroeconomics, Search, Labor, Growth
WORKING PAPERS
A Theory of Production, Matching, and Distribution (R&R at the Journal of Economic Theory)
Unemployment and the Labor Share with Petr Sedlacek (R&R at the Journal of Monetary Economics)
How to Build a Production Function
Efficiency in Search and Matching Models: A Generalized Hosios Condition with Benoit Julien
PUBLICATIONS
Efficiency of Job Creation in a Search and Matching Model with Labor Force Participation with B. Julien.
Economics Letters, 150, pp 149-151, 2017
Illegal Migration and Policy Enforcement with Yves Zenou. Economics Letters, 148, pp 83-86, 2016
Directed Search, Unemployment, and Public Policy with B. Julien, J. Kennes & I. King.
Canadian Journal of Economics, 42 (3), pp 956-983, 2009
WORK IN PROGRESS
R&D Allocation and Aggregate Productivity
“Unemployment, Output, and Worker Heterogeneity”
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SEMINARS AND CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
2016: National University of Singapore; University of California, Santa Barbara; Discussant at North American Winter
Meeting of the Econometric Society, San Francisco
2015: UNSW; LAEF Workshop, Sydney (Laboratory for Aggregate Economics and Finance, UCSB)
2014: North American Winter Meeting of the Econometric Society, Philadelphia; Southern Workshop in
Macroeconomics, Auckland; Workshop of the Australasian Macroeconomics Society, Melbourne; University of
Edinburgh; VU Amsterdam; University of Bonn
2013: Workshop on Macroeconomic Dynamics, Melbourne; University of Edinburgh; University of Melbourne;
Deakin University; Australian National University
2012: SED Annual Meeting, Cyprus; Annual Meeting of the Search and Matching Research Group, Cyprus; North
American Summer Meeting of the Econometric Society, Evanston; Midwest Macro Meeting, University of Notre
Dame; Midwest Economic Association Meeting, Evanston; University of Queensland; University of Adelaide; Capital
Theory Working Group, University of Chicago; Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
2011: Philadelphia Fed; St Louis Fed; University of Wisconsin-Madison, PhD student workshop; Monash University;
University of Melbourne; North American Summer Meeting of the Econometric Society, St Louis
2009: University of Adelaide; Sydney-Melbourne Conference on Macro Theory, Sydney; Australian Conference of
Economists, Adelaide; Australasian Macroeconomics Workshop, Deakin University
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Monash/Melbourne Macroeconomics Reading Group organiser, 2015-2016
Monash Macro/Finance Workshop Co-organiser, 22 February 2016
Monash Macroeconomics Summer School Co-organiser, 23-26 February 2016
Research Committee Member, 2015-2016
Junior Recruitment Committee, 2013-2014
Monash Caulfield Seminar Co-ordinator, 2013
REFEREE ACTIVITIES
International Economic Review, Journal of Political Economy, Journal of Economic Theory
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2013-2016
2nd year undergraduate “Macroeconomics and Monetary Policy”
AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS
2008
2008
2007-2010
Participant, 3rd Lindau Meeting of Nobel Laureates in Economics
Kilmany Scholarship for highest result in Economics PhD coursework
Australian Postgraduate Award (full fellowship) for PhD program
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
Sep 2010 – Dec 2011
Jan 2008 – Apr 2008
Jun 2005 – Feb 2007
Aug 2004 – Jun 2005
Feb 2002 – Dec 2003
Research Assistant to Chris Edmond
Research Assistant to Ian King
Equity Analyst, Commonwealth Bank of Australia
Investment Analyst, Equity Trustees
Tutor (TA), Department of Philosophy, University of Melbourne
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