Univertsity of Chicago: Department of Economics

Graduate Program / Career Placement / Current Job Market Candidates

Job market candidates from the Department of Economics at the University of Chicago 2008-09

Additional information, including a packet of CVs, may be requested from:

Casey Mulligan, Co-Director of Placement, 773-702-6576

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.

CVs of All Job Market Candidates | List of GSB Student Resumes

Matrix of Job Market Candidates and Fields of Specialization


AB | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | MNO | P | R | S | T | U | V | W | Y | Z

AKKUS, Oktay
email: akkus@uchicago.edu

homepage: http://home.uchicago.edu/~akkus

Thesis: “Essays on Endogenous Matching Applications”
Job Market Paper: “Endogenous Matching and the Determinants of Underpricing in IPO Markets”

Primary Field:
Industrial Organization

Secondary Field:
Corporate Finance
Applied Econometrics
Computational Economics

References:
Ali Hortacsu (Chair)
Jeremy Fox
Chad Syverson

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BASU, KARNA
email:
karna@uchicago.edu
homepage: http://home.uchicago.edu/~karna/
Job Market Paper: 1.  “Renegotiating with One's Self”  2.  "The Provision of Commitment in Informal Banking Markets: Implications for Takeup and Welfare"

Primary Fields:
Development Economics
Behavioral Economics
Applied Micro Theory

References:
Abhijit Banerjee
Xavier Gabaix
Roger Myerson


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BRUZE, Gustaf
email:
gustaf@uchicago.edu
homepage: http://home.uchicago.edu/~gustaf
Thesis: “Schooling, Marriage, and Male and Female Consumption”

Primary Fields:
Labor/Human Capital

Secondary Fields:
Growth and Development

References:
Casey Mulligan (joint Chairman)
Ali Hortacsu (joint Chairman)
Jeremy Fox

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DAMRAKS, Tanapoom
email:
tanapoom@uchicago.edu
homepage: http://home.uchicago.edu/~tanapoom
Thesis: “Corporate Investment Structures in Dynamic Mechanism Design”

Primary Field:
Finance/Asset Pricing
Industrial Organization
Macroeconomics

Secondary Fields:
Computational Economics
Contract Theory

References:
Robert M. Townsend
Roger B. Myerson
Milton Harris

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DECAROLIS, Francesco
email:
fdc@uchicago.edu
homepage: http://home.uchicago.edu/~fdc
Thesis: “Essays on Public Procurement”
Job Market Paper: “When the Highest Bidder Loses the Auction: Theory and Evidence from Public Procurement”

Primary Fields:
Industrial Organization
Applied Microeconomics

Secondary Fields:
Economic Theory
Public Economics
Computational Economics
Political Economy

References:
Ali Hortacsu
Roger Myerson
Philip Reny
Timothy Conley

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GARCIA-VERDU, Santiago
email:
sgarciav@uchicago.edu
homepage: http://home.uchicago.edu/~sgarciav
Thesis: “Equilibrium Yield Curves under Regime Switching”

Primary Fields:
Financial Economics
Monetary Economics

Secondary Field:
Computational Economics
Econometrics

References:
Lars P. Hansen (Chair)
Monika Piazzesi
Fernando Alvarez

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GETE, Pedro
email:
pgete@uchicago.edu
homepage: http://home.uchicago.edu/~pgete
Thesis: “Housing Markets and Current Account Dynamics”
Primary Fields:
Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics
International Economics

Secondary Fields:
Financial Economics
Growth
References:
Anil Kashyap
Monika Piazzesi
Samuel Kortum

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GORRY, Aspen
email:
aspen@uchicago.edu
homepage: http://home.uchicago.edu/~aspen

Thesis: “Experience and Labor Market Flows”

Primary Fields:
Macroeconomics

Secondary Fields:
Trade and Growth
Public Finance
Labor/Human Capital

References:
Robert Shimer
Fernando Alvarez
Derek Neal
Nancy Stokey

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HONG, Sok Chul
email:
hongs@uchicago.edu
homepage: http://home.uchicago.edu/~hongs
Thesis: “The Health and Economic Burdens of Malaria: The American Case”
Job Market Paper: “Can Technology and Income Reduce the Burden of Obesity?”
Primary Fields:
Health Economics
Technophysio Evolution
Economic History
Development Economics

References:
Robert Fogel
Gary Becker
Hoyt Bleakley
Louis Cain
Mine Cinar

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KIM, Kun-Ho
email:
kunhokim@uchicago.edu
homepage: http://home.uchicago.edu/~kunhokim
Thesis: “Improvement in Prediction through Disaggregation”
Job Market Paper: “Time-varying Risk Aversion”
Primary Fields:
Time Series Econometrics

Secondary Fields:
Empirical Asset Pricing
Applied Macroeconomics
References:
Robert E. McCulloch
Susanne M. Schennach
Harald Uhlig
Arnold Zellner

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MOON, Seong Hyeok
email:
moon@uchicago.edu
homepage: http://home.uchicago.edu/~moon
Thesis: “Two Essays on Human Skill Formation”
Job Market Paper:“Multi-dimensional Human Skill Formation with Multi-dimensional Parental Investment"
Primary Fields:
Labor Economics
Applied Econometrics

Secondary Fields:
Applied Microeconomics
Development Economics

References:
James Heckman
Flavio Cunha
Azeem Shaikh

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NAVA, Francesco
email:
franava@uchicago.edu
homepage: http://home.uchicago.edu/~franava
Thesis: “Games of Commitment”
Job Market Paper: “Quantity Competition in Networked Markets”
Primary Fields:
Economic Theory
Contract Theory
Industrial Organization

Secondary Field:
Money and Banking
Political Economy
Computational Economics
References:
Hugo Sonnenschein
Roger Myerson
Phil Reny
Balazs Szentes

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NISHIDA, Mitsukuni
email:
nishida@uchicago.edu
homepage: http://home.uchicago.edu/~nishida
Thesis: “Estimating a Model of Store Network Choice”

Primary Fields:
Industrial Organization

Secondary Field:
Computational Economics
Econometrics

References:
Jeremy Fox
Ali Hortacsu
Chad Syverson
Jean-Pierre Dube

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OZDAGLI, Ali K.
email:
ozdagli@uchicago.edu
homepage: http://home.uchicago.edu/~ozdagli
Thesis: “Financial Leverage, Corporate Investment and Stock Returns”
Job Market Paper: “Financial Leverage, Corporate Investment and Stock Returns”

Primary Fields:
Macroeconomics
Money and Banking
Financial Economics

Secondary Fields:
Labor/Human Capital

References:
Fernando Alvarez (Co-Chair)
Lars P. Hansen (Co-Chair)
Anil Kashyap
Robert Lucas

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RIVADENEYRA, Francisco
email:
rivas@uchicago.edu
homepage: http://home.uchicago.edu/~rivas
Thesis: “Real Risk Premia in Segmented Asset Markets”

Primary Fields:
Monetary Economics

Secondary Fields:
Asset Pricing

References:
Fernando Alvarez
Lars P. Hansen
Monika Piazzesi

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WAGNER, Mathis
email:
mwagner@uchicago.edu
homepage: http://home.uchicago.edu/~mwagner
Thesis: “Understanding the Labor Market Impact of Immigration”

Primary Fields:
Labor Economics
Applied Microeconomics/Price Theory

Secondary Fields:
Experimental Economics
Industrial Organization
Public Economics

References:
Robert Topel (Chair)
Jonathan Guryan
Steve Levitt
John List

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WANG, Yong
email:
wangyong@uchicago.edu
homepage: http://home.uchicago.edu/~wangyong
Thesis: “Essays on Political Economy and Economic Development”
Job Market Paper: “Fiscal Decentralization, Endogenous Policies, and Technology Adoption: Theory and Evidence from China and India's FDI”

Primary Fields:
Political Economy
Growth and Development
Economic Theory

Secondary Fields:
International Economics
Public Finance

References:
Roger Myerson (Chair)
Gary Becker
Lars Peter Hansen
Casey Mulligan
Nancy Stokey

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