Graduate Program / Career Placement / Current Job Market Candidates
Job market candidates from the Department of Economics at the University of Chicago 2009-10
See individual candidates' links below. Additional information, including a packet of CVs, may be requested from:
Ali Hortacsu, Co-Director of Placement, 773-702-5841
Samuel Kortum, Co-Director of Placement, 773-702-8250
Julie Less, Graduate Student Affairs Administrator, 773-702-8254
Prospective employers may also contact the students and their advisors directly via the e-mail addresses provided below in the table. Many of these students also have a separate home page on which you may find a copy of their job market paper, curriculum vitae, and an abstract for the dissertation, all in either .pdf or .ps format, which require Adobe Acrobat Reader. To inform the Department about a job opening, internship or another available professional opportunity for graduate students, please contact Julie Less. She will post that information in the Department and inform interested students. For opportunities and openings for undergraduate students, contact Robert Herbst.
See also: CVs of the Chicago Booth School of Business Job Market Candidates
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CALIENDO, Lorenzo |
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| Thesis: "Essays on International Trade, Macroeconomics and Development" | |
| Job Market Paper: "Estimates of the Trade and Welfare Effects of NAFTA." | |
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| CLEMENS, Adam email: aclemens@uchicago.edu homepage: http://home.uchicago.edu/~aclemens |
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| Thesis: "Essays on Worker Compensation" | |
| Job Market Paper: "Fast Track Positions and Human Capital Acquisition" | |
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| COSTA, Alejo email: alejo@uchicago.edu homepage: http://home.uchicago.edu/~alejo |
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| Thesis: “Sovereign Default Risk under Model Uncertainty” | |
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| DA SILVA PINHEIRO, Tiago email: pinheiro@uchicago.edu homepage: http://home.uchicago.edu/~pinheiro |
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| Thesis: “Earnings Manipulation, Manager's Compensation and Reputation” | |
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| DE LA HUERTA, Adriana email: ahuerta@uchicago.edu homepage: http://home.uchicago.edu/~ahuerta |
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| Thesis: “Essays on Microfinance” | |
| Job Market Paper: “Microfinance in Rural and Urban Thailand: Policies, Social Ties and Successful Performance.” | |
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| GOLDMANIS, Maris email: mgoldma@uchicago.edu homepage: http://home.uchicago.edu/~mgoldma |
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| Thesis: “A Model of Exploration and Site Development in the Petroleum Industry” | |
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| GUPTA, Tarun email: tarun@uchicago.edu homepage: http://home.uchicago.edu/~tarun |
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| Thesis: “Life-Cycle Effects of Internal Habit Formation on Portfolio Choice and Consumption” | |
| Primary Fields: Asset Pricing Financial Economics Secondary Fields: Macroeconomics Time Series Econometrics Numerical Analysis |
References: Fernando Alvarez Harald Uhlig Lars Peter Hansen |
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KIM, Albert Young-Il |
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| Thesis: “Impact of Birth Subsidies on Fertility: Empirical Study of Allowance for Newborn Children” | |
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| MAN, Tien Yuek (Priscilla) email: ptyman@uchicago.edu homepage: http://home.uchicago.edu/~ptyman |
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| Thesis: “Essays on Game Theory” | |
| Job Market Paper: “Forward Induction Equilibrium” | |
| Primary Fields: Game Theory Economic Theory/Mathematical Economics Secondary Fields: Price Theory Contract Theory |
References: Philip Reny Roger Myerson Hugo Sonnenschein |
| MARISCAL, Asier email: asier@uchicago.edu homepage: http://home.uchicago.edu/~asier |
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| Thesis: “Global Ownership Patterns” | |
| Job Market Paper: “Global Ownership Patterns" | |
| Primary Fields: International Economics Secondary Fields: Macroeconomics |
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| MEJIA, Luis-Fernando email: lfmejia@uchicago.edu homepage: http://home.uchicago.edu/~lfmejia |
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| Thesis: “Entrepreneurship and Interest Rate Shocks in a Small Open Economy” | |
| Primary Fields: Macroeconomics International Finance Monetary Economics Secondary Field: Economic Development and Growth Financial Economics |
References: Fernando Alvarez Robert Shimer Balazs Szentes |
| MOLL, Benjamin email: bmoll@uchicago.edu homepage: http://home.uchicago.edu/~bmoll |
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| Thesis: “Entrepreneurship and Capital Misallocation in Developing Countries” | |
| Job Market Paper: “Productivity Losses from Financial Frictions: Can Self-financing Undo Capital Misallocation?” | |
| Primary Fields: Macroeconomics Growth Secondary Field: Development Financial Economics |
References: Robert M. Townsend (Chair) Fernando Alvarez Francisco J. Buera Robert E. Lucas, Jr. |
| MORENO, Jorge O. email: jmoreno@uchicago.edu homepage: http://home.uchicago.edu/~jmoreno |
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| Thesis: “Essays on Matching, Banking, and the Credit Market” | |
| Job Market Paper: "Heterogeneity, Matching, and the Hedonic Structure of the Credit Market" | |
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References: Robert M. Townsend (Chair) Gary S. Becker Pierre A. Chiappori Raghuram G. Rajan |
| PEREZ-SAIZ, Hector email: hector1@uchicago.edu homepage: http://home.uchicago.edu/~hector1 |
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| Thesis: “Building New Plants or Entering by Acquition? Estimation of an Entry Model for the US Cement Industry” | |
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References: Jeremy Fox (Co-Chair) Chad Syverson (Co-Chair) Ali Hortacsu Dennis W. Carlton |
| SALAS, Sergio email: ssalas@uchicago.edu homepage: http://home.uchicago.edu/~ssalas |
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| Thesis: “Liquidity and Monetary Policy” | |
| Primary Fields: Macroeconomics Money and Banking Secondary Field: Econometrics Growth |
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| TEIGNIER-BAQUE, Marc email: marctb@uchicago.edu homepage: http://home.uchicago.edu/~marctb |
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| Thesis: “The Role of Trade in Structural Transformation” | |
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References: Robert E. Lucas, Jr. Nancy Stokey Thomas Chaney Samuel Kortum |
| TRACHTER, Nicholas email: trachter@uchicago.edu homepage: http://home.uchicago.edu/~trachter |
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| Thesis: “Essays on the Dynamics of Post-Secondary Education” | |
| Job Market Paper: "Ladders in Post-Secondary Education: Academic 2-Year Colleges as a Stepping-Stone" | |
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References: Fernando Alvarez (Chair) Derek Neal Robert Shimer |
| WOLTHOFF, Ronald email: wolthoff@uchicago.edu homepage: http://home.uchicago.edu/~wolthoff |
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| Job Market Paper: “Applications and Interviews: A Structural Analysis of Two-Sided Simultaneous Search” | |
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References: Jaap Abbring Gerard Van Den Berg Pieter Gautier Ali Hortacsu Philipp Kircher Robert Shimer |
