2020 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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Joseph Abadi Phone: (646) 241-4144 Website CV |
Finance Macroeconomics |
“Opaque Intermediation and Credit Cycles”
Markus Brunnermeier (advisor) |
Markus Brunnermeier Mark Aguiar Stephen Morris |
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Reyhan Ayas Phone: (609) 375-6791 Website CV Resume |
Labor Economics Economics of Education Economics of Discrimination |
“Validity and Diversity Implications of GRE-Optional Policies in Graduate School Admissions”
David Lee and Thomas Fujiwara (advisors) |
David Lee Thomas Fujiwara Elizabeth Bogan |
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Bruno Baranek Phone: (609) 423-5441 Website CV |
Industrial Organization | “Quality of Governance and Optimal Design of Public Procurement”
Jakub Kastl (advisor) |
Jakub Kastl Nicholas Buchholz Kate Ho |
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Kyle Chauvin Phone: (785) 218-1755 Website CV |
Microeconomic Theory Behavioral Economics |
“Unacknowledged Heterogeneity in Communication”
Faruk Gul (advisor), completed Ph.D. June 2017 |
Faruk Gul Roland Benabou Matthew Rabin |
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Emily Cuddy Phone: (816) 560-5704 Website CV |
Industrial Organization Health Economics |
“Competition and Collusion in the U.S. Generic Drug Market”
Janet Currie and Kate Ho (advisors) |
Janet Currie Kate Ho Bo Honoré |
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Nicolas Fernandez-Arias Phone: (301) 648-9081 Website CV |
Macroeconomics Growth Innovation |
“Endogenous Growth with Employee Spinouts, Noncompetes, and Creative Destruction”
Esteban Rossi-Hansberg (advisor) |
Esteban Rossi-Hansberg Richard Rogerson Gianluca Violante |
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Elisa Jacome Phone: (301) 275-5226 Website CV |
Public Finance Labor Economics |
“Mental Health and Criminal Involvement: Evidence from Losing Medicaid Eligibility”
Leah Boustan and Ilyana Kuziemko (advisors) |
Leah Boustan Ilyana Kuziemko Alexandre Mas |
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Lasse Mononen Phone: (609) 454-1468 Website CV |
Economic Theory | “State Dependent Utility and Ambiguity”
Pietro Ortoleva (advisor) |
Pietro Ortoleva Faruk Gul Wolfgang Pesendorfer |
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Christine Ostrowski Phone: (412) 965-2259 Website CV |
Macroeconomics Development |
“R&D Misallocation in China”
Richard Rogerson (advisor) |
Richard Rogerson Jeffrey Campbell Tricia Koroknay-Palicz |
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Parth Parihar Phone: (856) 417-6473 Website CV |
Microeconomic Theory Political Economy |
“Policy Decay and the Determinants of Gridlock”
Leeat Yariv (advisor) |
Leeat Yariv Matias Iaryczower Wolfgang Pesendorfer |
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Simon Quach Phone: (609) 721-5419 Website CV |
Labor Economics Public Economics |
“The Labor Market Effects of Expanding Overtime Coverage”
David Lee and Henry Farber (advisors) |
David Lee Henry Farber Alexandre Mas |
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Pellumb Reshidi Phone: (609) 375-7932 Website CV |
Microeconomic Theory Experimental Economics |
“Information Sequencing with Naïve Social Learning”
“An Experiment on Social Learning with Information Sequencing” Leeat Yariv (advisor) |
Leeat Yariv Roland Benabou Alessandro Lizzeri |
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George Sorg-Langhans Phone: (609) 865-2241 Website Resume |
Computational Economics Applied Economics |
“Solving High-Dimensional Dynamic Programming Problems using Deep Learning”
Richard Rogerson (advisor) |
Richard Rogerson Jesús Fernández-Villaverde Oleg Itskhoki Harvey Rosen Gianluca Violante |
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Rui Tang Phone: (609) 933-7027 Website CV |
Microeconomic Theory | “A Theory of Updating Ambiguous Information”
Faruk Gul (advisor) |
Faruk Gul Pietro Ortoleva Wolfgang Pesendorfer |
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Maximilian Vogler Phone: (609) 375-7854 Website Resume |
Applied Economics Machine Learning |
“Solving High-Dimensional Dynamic Programming Problems with Deep Learning”
Richard Rogerson (advisor) |
Richard Rogerson Jesús Fernández-Villaverde Oleg Itskhoki Benjamin Moll Gianluca Violante |
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Alexander Wise Phone: (609) 647-9718 Website CV Resume |
International Macroeconomics and Finance International Trade |
“Global Dynamics of Structural Change”
Richard Rogerson (advisor) |
Richard Rogerson Alan Blinder Eduardo Morales Stephen Redding |
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Jianing Ying Phone: (607) 280-0736 Website CV |
Development Labor Economicss |
“Impacts of the Transition from ‘One-Child’ Policy to ‘Two-Children’ Policy on Households in China”
Thomas Fujiwara (advisor) |
Thomas Fujiwara Leah Boustan Mica Sviatschi |
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Yifan Yu Phone: (413) 461-8536 Website CV |
Finance | “Hunt-for-Duration in the Corporate Bond Market”
Motohiro Yogo (advisor) |
Motohiro Yogo Adrien Matray Wei Xiong |
Postdocs and Other Visitors
| Name and Contact Information | Fields of Study | Job Market Paper | References | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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Florian Brandl Phone: (650) 785-9564 Website CV |
Microeconomic Theory Mathematical and Quantitative Methods |
“Belief-Averaged Relative Utilitarianism”
Wolfgang Pesendorfer (advisor) |
Felix Brandt Fuhito Kojima Hervé Moulin Wolfgang Pesendorfer |
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Sebastian Merkel Phone: (609) 786-0536 Website CV |
Macroeconomics Monetary Economics Macrofinance |
“The Macro Implications of Narrow Banking: Financial Stability vs. Growth”
Markus Brunnermeier (advisor) |
Klaus Adam Markus Brunnermeier Albert Marcet Yuliy Sannikov |
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Karsten Mueller Phone: (609) 934-8151 Website CV |
Finance Macroeconomics Political Economy |
“Credit Allocation and Macroeconomic Fluctuations”
Atif Mian (advisor) |
Atif Mian Thorsten Beck Thomas Fujiwara James Mitchell |