Department of Economics, Concordia University
1455 Maisonneuve Blvd. West, Montreal, QC H3G 1M8, Canada

phone: (514)848-2424ext 5726
e-mail: dlkhagva@alcor.concordia.ca
web: http://sites.google.com/site/dlkhagva

Current Position

Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Concordia University

Research Fellow of CIREQ

  
Education

Ph.D. in Economics, University of Rochester, 2007

Research Areas

Macroeconomics, Labour Economics, Computational Methods in Economics and Finance

Courses Taught at Concordia

International Finance (econ443)
Intermediate Macroeconomics (econ303)
Advanced Labour Economics (econ483/583)
Topics in Labour Market Dynamics (MA/PhD level)

Publication

“Discretization of Highly Persistent Correlated AR(1) Shocks”, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 2010, Vol. 34. joint with R. Galindev.

Working Papers

“Big Locational Differences in Unemployment Despite High Labor Mobility" (revise and resubmit in JME)

“A Dynamic Perspective on Why More Educated Mover More Often" 

“Key Moments in the Rouwenhorst Method”

“Cyclicality of Search Intensity in a Competitive Search Model”, joint with Paul Gomme

"A Moment Matching Method for Approximating Vector Autoregressive Processes by Finite-State Markov Chains", joint with Nikolay Gospodinov    

Work in Progress

      Calibration and Simulation of DSGE Models, joint with Paul Gomme

      Wage Dynamics and Industrial Mobility, joint with Stephane Auray and Antoine Terracol

      Unemployment Benefits in a Multi-Sector Economy, joint with David Fuller

Conference Presentation

Asian Meeting of Econometric Society, Seoul, Korea, Aug 2011
Canadian Economic Association Meeting, Toronto, Ontario, June 2011
Midwest Macroeconomics Meetings, Nashville, Tennessee, May 2011
The Stockman Conference, Rochester, New York, U.S.A, Oct 2010
The Ulaanbaatar Economic Policy Meeting, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, Jul 2010
North American Meeting of Econometric Society, Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.A, Jan 2010
The Wisconsin-Atlanta Fed Housing Conference, Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.A, Sep 2009
Canadian Economic Association Meeting, Toronto, Ontario, May 2009
Royal Economic Society Conference, University of Surrey, U.K., Apr 2009
North American Meeting of Econometric Society, New Orleans, U.S.A., Jan 2008 
Society of Economic Dynamics Meetings, Prague, Czech Republic, Jun 2007 
Midwest Macroeconomics Meetings, Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.A, May 2007 
European Society of Population Economics, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A, 2007
Midwest Macroeconomics Meetings, St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.A., May 2006

Conference Participation as an Organizer or a Session Chair

The Ulaanbaatar Economic Policy Meeting, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, 2010 (as a local organizer)
Canadian Macroeconomic Study Group Meeting, Toronto, 2008 (as a session chair)
Royal Economic Society Meeting, Surrey, U.K., 2009 (as a session chair)
Canadian Economic Association Meeting, Toronto, 2009 (as a session chair)

Research Grants

Concordia University Team Grant, 2009-2010 (with A. Shneyerov (PI) and D. Majumdar)
Concordia University General Research Fund, SSHRC, 2008-2009
Start-Up Grant, Faculty of Arts and Science, Concordia University, 2007-2010

Review for Journals

Journal of Labor Research (3)
Journal of Monetary Economics (1)
Journal of Urban Economics (1)

Book Review

Macroeconomics by Stephen D. Williamson, Pearson Education Canada, 2009