PhD Student, Paul Jung, Wins First Place in the Graduate-student-led Paper Competition at NARSC

Ph.D. Candidate Paul Jung received the first place award in the Graduate Student-led Paper Competition and Yimin and Xiao Zhuang Travel Award at the 2021 Annual North American Meetings of the Regional Science Association International in Denver, CO. The awards were for a paper co-authored with Drs. Jean-Claude Thill (UNC Charlotte) and Luis Galvis-Aponte (Central Bank of Colombia) on “State Failure, Violence and Trade: Dangerous Trade Routes in Colombia.” The paper revealed how logistic chain disruptions along the trade routes by armed violence impeded flow of trade shipments and led to degraded freight mobility.