2021 Job Market Candidates
Placement Director: Professor Gianluca Violante
609-258-4003, violante@princeton.edu
Ph.D. Program Administrator: Laura Hedden
609-258-4006, lhedden@princeton.edu
| Name and Contact Information | Fields of Study | Job Market Paper | References | |
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Stefano Baratuche Phone: (609) 608-6600 Website Resume |
Industrial Organization | “Easing Business Credit Constraints Through Online Lending”
Jakub Kastl (advisor) |
Jakub Kastl Nicholas Buchholz Kate Ho |
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Emily Battaglia Phone: (814) 360-0531 Website CV |
Labor Economics Health Economics |
“The Effect of Hospital Closures on Maternal and Infant Health”
Leah Boustan and Ilyana Kuziemko (advisors) |
Leah Boustan Ilyana Kuziemko Henry Farber |
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Carlos Burga Phone: (609) 516-6175 Website CV |
Corporate Finance Macroeconomics |
“Bank Competition, Capital Misallocation, and Industry Concentration: Evidence from Peru”
Adrien Matray and Eduardo Morales (advisors) |
Adrien Matray Eduardo Morales Richard Rogerson Atif Mian |
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Riccardo Cioffi Phone: (609) 423-5568 Website CV |
Macroeconomics Finance |
“Heterogeneous Risk Exposure and the Dynamics of Wealth Inequality”
Gianluca Violante (advisor) |
Gianluca Violante Richard Rogerson Moritz Lenel Benjamin Moll |
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José-Luis Cruz Phone: (609) 874-3366 Website CV |
International Trade Environmental Economics |
“Global Warming and Labor Market Reallocation”
Ezra Oberfield (advisor) |
Ezra Oberfield Esteban Rossi-Hansberg Stephen Redding |
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Ana Luiza Dutra Phone: (609) 455-8881 Website CV |
Industrial Organization Education |
“Mergers in Higher Education”
Adam Kapor and Kate Ho (advisors) |
Adam Kapor Kate Ho Chris Neilson |
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Abhishek Gaurav Phone: (609) 635-8325 Website CV |
Econometrics | “Bias Aware Confidence Interval for Density Estimation”
Michal Kolesar (advisor) |
Michal Kolesar Ulrich Mueller Bo Honore Taranbir Singh Rakesh Garwal |
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Sergii Kiiashko Phone: (341) 400-9258 Website CV |
Macroeconomics International Economics |
“Labor Market Integration and Fiscal Competition”
Mark Aguiar (advisor), June 2018 (completed Ph.D.) |
Mark Aguiar Yuriy Gorodnichenko Mikhail Golosov |
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Faizaan Kisat Phone: (856) 905-3854 Website CV |
Development Economics Corporate Finance |
“Loan Officers, Algorithms, & Credit Outcomes: Experimental Evidence from Pakistan”
Atif Mian (advisor) |
Atif Mian Thomas Fujiwara Mica Sviatschi Richard Rogerson |
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Thomas Kroen Phone: (609) 933-4888 Website CV |
Finance Banking Macroeconomics |
“Payout Restrictions and Bank Risk-Shifting”
Atif Mian (advisor) |
Atif Mian Markus Brunnermeier Motohiro Yogo |
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Dake Li Phone: (609) 937-2990 Website CV |
Time Series Econometrics Empirical Macroeconomics |
“Semi-parametric Identification of SVAR Models with Zero Lower Bound”
Christopher Sims (advisor) |
Christopher Sims Mikkel Plagborg-Moller Mark Watson |
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Nikita Melnikov Phone: (609) 933-0971 Website CV |
Political Economy Development Applied Microeconomics |
“Mobile Internet and Political Polarization”
Thomas Fujiwara (advisor) |
Thomas Fujiwara Mica Sviatschi Ilyana Kuziemko Ekaterina Zhuravskaya |
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Leon Musolff Phone: (609) 933-5213 Website CV |
Industrial Organization Economics of Digitization |
“Entry into Two-Sided Markets Shaped by Platform-Guided Search”
Jakub Kastl (advisor) |
Jakub Kastl Kate Ho Adam Kapor |
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Rafael Parente Phone: (609) 356-6616 Website CV |
Macroeconomics International Trade |
“Minimum Wages, Earnings Inequality and the Informal Sector”
Stephen Redding (advisor) |
Stephen Redding Richard Rogerson Gregor Jarosch |
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Parth Parihar Phone: (856) 417-6473 Website CV |
Microeconomic Theory Political Economy |
“When Incumbency Limits Productivity”
Leeat Yariv (advisor), September 2021 (completed Ph.D.) |
Leeat Yariv Matias Iaryczower Wolfgang Pesendorfer |
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Evgenii Safonov Phone: (347) 971-7179 Website CV |
Microeconomic Theory | “Slow and Easy: A Theory of Browsing”
Wolfgang Pesendorfer (advisor) |
Wolfgang Pesendorfer Faruk Gul Pietro Ortoleva |
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Simon Schmickler Phone: (609) 933-2898 Website CV |
Finance | “In Good Times and in Bad: High-Frequency Market Making Design, Liquidity and Asset Prices”
Motohiro Yogo (advisor) |
Motohiro Yogo Markus Brunnermeier Wei Xiong |
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Kecy Wu Phone: (609) 937-8817 Website Resume |
Finance | “Capitalizing Ventures”
Nobuhiro Kiyotaki (advisor) |
Nobuhiro Kiyotaki Jonathan Payne Moritz Lenel |
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Mu Zhang Phone: (609) 937-2916 Website CV |
Microeconomic Theory | “A Theory of Choice Bracketing under Risk”
Faruk Gul (advisor) |
Faruk Gul Wolfgang Pesendorfer Pietro Ortoleva Xiaosheng Mu |
Postdocs and Other Visitors
| Name and Contact Information | Fields of Study | Job Market Paper | References | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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Adriana Corredor-Waldron Phone: (217) 751-2804 Website CV |
Applied Microeconomics Health Economics |
“Spillover Effects of Medicare Policy on Medicaid: Evidence from the Nursing Home Industry”
Janet Currie (advisor) |
Janet Currie Nolan Miller Mark Borgschulte |
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Michael Thaler Phone: (917) 692-3047 Website CV |
Behavioral Economics Experimental Economics Political Economy |
“The Supply of Motivated Beliefs”
Leeat Yariv (advisor) |
Leeat Yariv Matthew Rabin Roland Benabou Christine Exley |
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Esmée Zwiers Phone: (609) 516-4202 Website CV |
Health Economics Labor Economics Economic Demography |
“The Lifecycle Fertility Consequences of the Great Depression and WWII: Evidence from the Netherlands”
Janet Currie (advisor) |
Janet Currie Anne Gielen Olivier Marie |