About GTAP: PhD Students
Lauren Benavidez
Spring 2026
Dissertation: TBD
Interests/Skills:
- International Trade and development
- Food Security
- Agricultural policy
Profile
Elizabeth Fraysse
Spring 2026
Dissertation: TBD
Interests/Skills:
- Climate change impact/policies
- Agricultural policy
- Land use
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Debadrita 'Rimi' Kundu
Summer 2023
Dissertation: Consequences of economic and environmental shocks on household consumption behavior
Interests/Skills:
- Health, Environment, Sustainable Development
- Consumer Behavior, Food Security, Climate Change
- Casual Inference, Quasi-Experimental Methods and Microeconometrics
- Partial and General Equilibrium Modeling
Profile
Maria Filipa Seara Pereira
Spring 2026
Dissertation: TBD
Interests/Skills:
- International trade and trade policy
- Development Economics
- CGE modeling
- Microsimulation
Profile
Pattawee Puangchit
Summer 2025
Dissertation: "Impact of the ASEAN Economic Community on Agricultural Trade"
Interests/Skills:
- International Trade
- Trade Policies and Non-tariff measures/barriers
- Agribusiness Marketing
- Microeconomics
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Zhan Wang
Summer 2022
Dissertation: "Integrated Analysis of Economic Development, Pollution and Ecosystem Services"
Interests/Skills:
- Environmental protection and Sustainable development
- Spatial econometrics
- Programming and regression (Python, R)
- Partial Equilibrium Modeling (GEMPACK)
- GIS analysis (QGIS, ArcGIS)
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