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| Address: | Home: 919-765-5699 |
| 107 Gardner Hall, CB #3305 | Cell: 443-802-8421 |
| University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | Email: petranka@email.unc.edu |
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3305
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I am a 2009 Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Economics
at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. My research interests are in Game Theory, Conflict Theory, Political Economics, Industrial Organization, and the Economics of Education.
I successfully defended my dissertation on Nov. 17, 2009.
My primary line of research explores the effect conflict has in nontraditional economic scenarios. In my dissertation, I examine the way in which voter heuristics and candidate affect have influenced American presidential politics over the last five decades. I incorporate a voting model consistent with recent findings of behavioral psychologists that incorporates the conflict that exists when two candidates espouse the same platform. I also add to the theoretical foundations of conflict by deriving a basis for ratio-form conflict success functions that allows a threshold microeconomic interpretation.
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