Ryan Bain

• CV (pdf)

Education

• Ph.D. Economics, Washington State University (expected)  June 2020
• B.S. Economics, Texas A&M University 2009

Academic Advisors

• T. Randall Fortenbery, PhD
• Vicki McCraken, PhD
• Robert Rosenman, PhD

Research Interest

• Primary: Applied Econometrics
• Secondary: Industrial Organization, International Trade, International Development

Presentations

• Western Economic Association International“Forecasting Basis in Eastern Washington Winter Wheat Markets: Testing the Accuracy of Full-and-Limited-Information Structural, ARMA, and ARMAX Time-Series Approaches”Session Title:  Mathematical and Quantitative Methods I.   Seattle, WA.   2013.
• 2013 NCCC-134 Conference on Commodity Price Analysis, Forecasting, and Market Risk Management“Understanding Public Information: Impacts on Local Markets”   St. Louis, MO.   2013.
•   Posters Northwest Agribusiness Executive Seminar“Impact of Crop Condition Reports on National and Local Wheat Markets”         Stevenson, WA.   2014.

Work in Progress

• Impact of Crop Condition Reports on National and Local Wheat Markets
• Is a Beer in the Bottle Worth Two in the Can? – A Discrete Choice Analysis of Consumer Demand for Craft Beer in Cans and Bottles
• Hedonic Price Estimation for Pacific Northwest Wheat Characteristics

Research Experience:

• Research Assistant, Washington State UniversityDr. Randy Fortenbery,  Aug 2011 – May 2013, June 2014 – PresentProjects on white winter wheat basis forecasting, wheat futures price analysis, and corn ethanol structural equation modelling.
• Research Assistant, Thomas Roney LLC, Economic Consulting (Fort Worth, TX)Thomas Roney, January 2010 – August 2010“Estimating Duration of Economic Damages in Wrongful Termination Cases: Recent Literature on Duration and Magnitude of Earnings Losses from Job Loss” Journal of Legal Economics.  2012.  18(2): pp. 107–127.Conducted literature review and contributed to early drafts.

Teaching Experience

• Instructor School of Economic Sciences, Washington State University EconS 101 – Fundamentals of  Microeconomics     Summer, Fall 2013 and Spring
•  Teaching AssistantSchool of Economic Sciences, Washington State UniversityEconS 302 – Intermediate Macroeconomics  EconS 491 – Advanced Topics in Economics: Game Theory  Spring 2011
• EconS 101 – Fundamentals of Microeconomics  Fall 2010
• Guest LecturerSchool of Economic Sciences, Washington State UniversityEconS 101 – Fundamentals of Microeconomics               Math  105 – Exploring Mathematics Fall 2014

Leadership and Service

•  President School of Economic Sciences Graduate Student Association June 2012 – May 2013
• Secretary School of Economic Sciences Graduate Student Association June 2011 – May 2012

 

Computer Skills

• Programming (Advanced):   STATA, Mathematica
• Programming (Proficient):   R, Matlab, Octave, Python

 

Languages

• English (fluent)
• Spanish (basic proficiency)