University of Rochester

Isha Khan

Ph.D. Student in Economics

I am a Ph.D. student in Economics at the University of Rochester. My interests are in Macroeconomics, Econometrics, and Computational Economics, as well as monetary economics, inflation dynamics, international macroeconomics, and quantitative and computational methods.

My current work uses econometrics and computational methods to study dynamic economic relationships in long-run and cross-country data.

Research

Do Trade Deficits Really De-Industrialize? Manufacturing Shares and Trade Balances

with Christopher Ball

Forthcoming, Economics Letters

We study whether persistent trade deficits are systematically associated with declines in manufacturing share across countries. The analysis combines a cross-country panel with alternative deficit classifications, group comparisons, and panel regressions. The results challenge the view that trade deficits alone systematically predict manufacturing decline.

Code and replication files

150 Years of Inflation: Monetary, New Keynesian, and Fiscal Theory Conceptualizations

Research Assistant to Christopher Ball

This project compares long-run inflation patterns with predictions from Monetarist, New Keynesian, and Fiscal Theory frameworks using more than a century of international data, time-series and panel analysis, and Markov-chain transition models.

News Language Use Around U.S.-Involved Geopolitical Events

Event-window analysis of New York Times coverage using readability, lexical rarity, pre/post regressions, and placebo tests.

GitHub

State-Level Manufacturing Share and Its Drivers

State-level panel and machine-learning project using PCA, classification methods, linear regression, and penalized regression to study manufacturing-share dynamics.

GitHub

Curriculum Vitae

University of Rochester — Ph.D. in Economics, 2026–present. Quinnipiac University — B.S. Economics, B.A. Mathematics, and B.S. Data Science (Honors), 2026.

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Contact

toishakhan@gmail.com · GitHub · LinkedIn