Established in 1988 through a gift from Dr. Robert V. Roosa, PhD ’42 econ, who served as undersecretary of the treasury for monetary affairs (1961-64) and was a Wall Street investment banker.Robert V. Roosa Dissertation Fellowship is in Monetary Economics. For the purpose of this award, "Monetary Economics" is to be interpreted broadly to include international finance, money and banking, monetary theory and policy, and the analysis of financial markets. The Robert V. Roosa Dissertation Fellowship in Monetary Economics is a highly competitive award program that covers tuition for three terms, GradCare health insurance, and a stipend. There is one recipient of this departmental award every other year.
Candidate Recipient:
Hiroshi Toma
Hiroshi Toma is a sixth-year student in the PhD in Economics program at the University of Michigan. His research fields are Macroeconomics and International Trade.
His research agenda focuses on how financial mechanisms transmit international macroeconomic shocks across small open economies, how economic expectations are formed and how this affects the macroeconomy and how firm-to-firm trade networks are shaped.
Prior to starting the PhD program, he earned his Master and Bachelor degrees in Economics from the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru.
Precandidate Receiptient
Shawdi Mehrvarzan
Shawdi Mehrvarzan is a first-year PhD student in Economics. Originally from Kirkland, Washington, she received her A.B. in Economics with high honors and Mathematics from Dartmouth College. Before coming to Michigan, Shawdi also served two years as a Research Assistant for the Council of Economic Advisers. Her research interests largely center around international macroeconomics and trade.
