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Sean Higgins will join Northwestern University as an Assistant Professor

Sean Higgins is an Assistant Professor of Finance at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. He is an applied microeconomist with interests in household finance, corporate finance, and development economics. His research studies how technology reduces frictions in financial markets, and the effect of reducing these frictions on households and small businesses. He received a BS and PhD in Economics from Tulane University. Prior to joining Kellogg, he was a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley.

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Yang WangAssistant Professor, Capital University of Economics and Business (CUEB), Beijing, China
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Stephanie Fortune-TaylorEconomist, U.S. International Trade Center
Michael SpanbauerResearch Project Manager, Mississippi State University
Rui WangData Analyst, Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine
Naoto AoyamaAssociate Professor, Aomori Public University, Aomori, Japan
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Arjun BediDevelopment Economics Professor, International Institute of Social Studies, Holland
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Tao ChenManager Statistical Forecasting at Fruit of the Loom
Xudong ChenAssociate Professor of Economics at Baldwin Wallace University
Xia ChenSenior Manager for Transfer Pricing, EY, Australia
Praveen DhankharDirector Health Economics and Outcomes Research, AstraZeneca Corp.
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Benjamin LaneTeam Leader, World Health Organization, Philippines
Pia LawAssistant Professor, Tillman School of Business, University of Mount Olive
Zemin LuAssociate Professor of Economics, United International College
Glynn LunneyJoseph Merrick Jones Chair and McGlinchey Stafford Professor of Law, Tulane University
Sunita ManianAssociate Professor of Political Economy, Georgia College & State University
Leonard MillsCEO, VerteOZ
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Yedan ZhangSenior Data Scientist, Stanley Black and Decker
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