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.
Matrix of Job Market Candidates and Fields of Specialization
A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | R | S | T | U | V | W | Y | Z
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AKKUS, Oktay |
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| Thesis: “Essays on Endogenous Matching Applications” | |
| Job Market Paper: “Endogenous Matching and the Determinants of Underpricing in IPO Markets” | |
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| BASU, KARNA email: karna@uchicago.edu homepage: http://home.uchicago.edu/~karna/ |
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| Job Market Paper: 1. “Renegotiating with One's Self” 2. "The Provision of Commitment in Informal Banking Markets: Implications for Takeup and Welfare" | |
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| BRUZE, Gustaf email: gustaf@uchicago.edu homepage: http://home.uchicago.edu/~gustaf |
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| Thesis: “Schooling, Marriage, and Male and Female Consumption” | |
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| DAMRAKS, Tanapoom email: tanapoom@uchicago.edu homepage: http://home.uchicago.edu/~tanapoom |
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| Thesis: “Corporate Investment Structures in Dynamic Mechanism Design” | |
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| DECAROLIS, Francesco email: fdc@uchicago.edu homepage: http://home.uchicago.edu/~fdc |
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| Thesis: “Essays on Public Procurement” | |
| Job Market Paper: “When the Highest Bidder Loses the Auction: Theory and Evidence from Public Procurement” | |
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| GARCIA-VERDU, Santiago email: sgarciav@uchicago.edu homepage: http://home.uchicago.edu/~sgarciav |
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| Thesis: “Equilibrium Yield Curves under Regime Switching” | |
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| GETE, Pedro email: pgete@uchicago.edu homepage: http://home.uchicago.edu/~pgete |
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| 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 |
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| Thesis: “Experience and Labor Market Flows” | |
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| HONG, Sok Chul email: hongs@uchicago.edu homepage: http://home.uchicago.edu/~hongs |
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| 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 |
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| KIM, Kun-Ho email: kunhokim@uchicago.edu homepage: http://home.uchicago.edu/~kunhokim |
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| 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 |
| MOON, Seong Hyeok email: moon@uchicago.edu homepage: http://home.uchicago.edu/~moon |
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| 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 |
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| NAVA, Francesco email: franava@uchicago.edu homepage: http://home.uchicago.edu/~franava |
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| 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 |
| NISHIDA, Mitsukuni email: nishida@uchicago.edu homepage: http://home.uchicago.edu/~nishida |
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| Thesis: “Estimating a Model of Store Network Choice” | |
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Primary Fields: |
References: Jeremy Fox Ali Hortacsu Chad Syverson Jean-Pierre Dube |
| OZDAGLI, Ali K. email: ozdagli@uchicago.edu homepage: http://home.uchicago.edu/~ozdagli |
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| Thesis: “Financial Leverage, Corporate Investment and Stock Returns” | |
| Job Market Paper: “Financial Leverage, Corporate Investment and Stock Returns” | |
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Primary Fields: |
References: Fernando Alvarez (Co-Chair) Lars P. Hansen (Co-Chair) Anil Kashyap Robert Lucas |
| RIVADENEYRA, Francisco email: rivas@uchicago.edu homepage: http://home.uchicago.edu/~rivas |
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| Thesis: “Real Risk Premia in Segmented Asset Markets” | |
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Primary Fields: |
References: Fernando Alvarez Lars P. Hansen Monika Piazzesi |
| WAGNER, Mathis email: mwagner@uchicago.edu homepage: http://home.uchicago.edu/~mwagner |
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| Thesis: “Understanding the Labor Market Impact of Immigration” | |
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References: Robert Topel (Chair) Jonathan Guryan Steve Levitt John List |
| WANG, Yong email: wangyong@uchicago.edu homepage: http://home.uchicago.edu/~wangyong |
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| 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” | |
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References: Roger Myerson (Chair) Gary Becker Lars Peter Hansen Casey Mulligan Nancy Stokey |
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