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Furman Fellowships

Furman Fellows:

Yan Du (Angela)
MS in Economics, Oregon State University, 2007
Ph.D. in Economics, Oregon State University, 2008
Marketing Analyst for FedEx Services, Memphis, TN, 2008
William & Joyce Furman Fellow 2007-2008
2008 Joyce Furman Fellow 2006-2007
Dissertation: Assessing the Economic Impact of Domestic Airline Codesharing: A Case Study of the ATA and Southwest Airlines Agreement.
Yan Du is from Hefei, Anhui, PR China. She received her B.A. degree in Economics from Xiamen University in 2001 and a M.S. degree in Economics from Oregon State University in 2007. Her Ph.D. dissertation consists of two papers that examine various aspects of codesharing in the US airline industry. Yan Du recently was the recipient of a Scholarship from the World Conference on Transportation Research (WCTR) to attend and present her paper on the ATA/ Southwest airline codeshare agreement at the 2007 WCTR meetings in Berkeley, California. Her research interests include transportation economics, airline alliances in particular, network economics, the analysis of productivity and efficiency and industrial organization and antitrust.

Kyle Nakahara
MS in Economics, 2007
Joyce Furman Fellow 2005-2007
Thesis: Estimating the Impact of a Vehicle Mile Tax on Oregon Households
Kyle Nakahara completed both her B.S. and M.S. degrees in Economics at Oregon State University. During her graduate studies at OSU worked with Dr. McMullen and Dr. Zhang on a research project for the Oregon Department of Transportation that assessed the socio-economic impact of converting from a gasoline tax to a vehicle mile tax in Oregon. A native of Hawaii, Kyle has returned home and now works for the State of Hawaii as a Tax Analyst.

Scott Russell
M.S. in Economics, 2006
Joyce Furman Fellowship, 2005-2006
Paper title: Tacit Collusion: Evidence of Price Leadership and Sticky Downward Pricing in Retail Gasoline Markets
Scott Russell received a B.S. in Economics from Oregon State University in 2004 and then continued on to complete his Masters in Economics in 2006. His interest in transportation economics led him into research in gasoline pricing and then pipelines and energy. He is employed in Portland as a Business/Financial Analyst for TransCanada, one of the largest North American natural gas pipeline companies.
Jake Spratt
M.S. in Economics, 2007
Thesis: Parking Policy with Heterogeneous Agents
Jake Spratt has a B.S. degree from Washington State University (WSU) and completed his M.S. in Economics at Oregon State University (OSU) in Summer 2007. His interest in optimal pricing of parking evolved from his personal observations of student parking fee structures at WSU and OSU and developed into a thesis topic while he was a student in the Transportation Economics course. The Joyce Furman Fellowship provided support for his thesis research. Jake is now a first year law student at the University of Denver and he hopes to combine his knowledge of economics and law to pursue a career in business/corporate law.