2025-26 Job Market Candidates | Kenneth C. Griffin Department of Economics

2025-26 Job Market Candidates

Joseph Battles

Research Focuses

Health Economics, Public Finance

Job Market Paper

"Do Pharmacies Matter?"

References

Manasi Deshpande, Joshua Gottlieb, Matthew Notowidigdo, Bradley Shapiro

Aditya Bhandari

Research Focuses

Spatial Economics, International Trade, Macroeconomics

Job Market Paper

“Technology and the Geography of Industrial Policy"

References

Esteban Rossi-Hansberg, Erik Hurst, Rodrigo Adão

Filippo Cavaleri

Research Focuses

Finance, Macrofinance, Asset Pricing, Theory

Job Market Paper

"Fiscal Insurance and the Pricing of Government Debt"

References

Zhiguo He, Stefan Nagel, Benjamin Brooks, Lars Peter Hansen, Quentin Vandeweyer

Raman Singh Chhina

Research Focuses

Macroeconomics, Economic Growth, Entrepreneurship, Finance

Job Market Paper

"Startups and the State"

References

Ufuk Akcigit, Greg Kaplan, Mikhail Golosov

Michael G. Cuna

Research Focuses

Behavioral Economics, Applied Microeconomics, Experimental Economics

Job Market Paper

"The Hidden Curriculum"

References

Leonardo Bursztyn, John A. List, Alex Imas

Nimisha Gupta

Research Focuses

International Finance, Macroeconomics, Monetary Economics

Job Market Paper

“Dollar Movements, Borrowing Constraints, and Firm Investment”

References

Guido Lorenzoni, Rohan Kekre, Mikhail Golosov

Joanna Harris Murphy

Research Focuses

Environmental Economics, Finance, Public Finance

Job Market Paper

"Valuing Local Climate Policy: Evidence from Firm Behavior and Financial Markets"

References

Lars Peter Hansen, Lubos Pastor, Luigi Zingales, Eric Zwick

Faraz Hayat

Research Focuses

Development Economics, Public Finance, Environmental Economics, Energy

Job Market Paper

"Do Value-Added Taxes Distort Input Decisions? Evidence from Pakistan"

References

Michael Greenstone, Robin Burgess, Ijaz Nabi, Tim Dobermann

Karan Jain

Research Focuses

Macroeconomics, Public Finance, Spatial Economics

Job Market Paper

"Capital Tax Competition and Inequality"

References

Mikhail Golosov, Esteban Rossi-Hansberg, Erik Hurst

Edward Jee

Research Focuses

Development Economics and Econometrics

Job Market Paper

"Traps and Transfers"

References

Michael Kremer, Stéphane Bonhomme, Anne Karing, Sid Kankanala

Furkan Kilic

Research Focuses

Macroeconomics, Economic Growth, Innovation, Firm Dynamics

Job Market Paper

"Spatial Allocation of Inventors, Knowledge Diffusion and Growth"

References

Ufuk Akcigit, Veronica Guerrieri, Mikhail Golosov

Chanwool Kim

Research Focuses

Industrial Organization, Public Economics, Applied Microeconomics, Household Finance

Job Market Paper

"Retail Pharmacy Closures and the Declining Drug-Retail Complementarity"

References

Jean-Pierre Dubé, Ali Hortaçsu, Milena Almagro

Xianglong Kong

Research Focuses

International Trade, Industrial Organization, Production Networks, Firm Dynamics, Labor Economics

Job Market Paper

"Learning in Firm-to-Firm Trade"

References

Esteban Rossi-Hansberg, Rodrigo Adao, Chad Syverson, Felix Tintelnot

Clara (Yehyun) Kyung

Research Focuses

Labor, Education, Applied Microeconomics

Job Market Paper

"Resources or Rewards? The Impacts of School District Funding and Incentives on Student Outcomes"

References

Derek Neal, Jack Mountjoy, Evan Rose

Chun Pong (Conroy) Lau

Research Focuses

Econometrics, Applied Microeconomics, Industrial Organization

Job Market Paper

"Aggregating treatment effects across multiple outcomes"

References

Alexander Torgovitsky, Stéphane Bonhomme, Azeem Shaikh, Max Tabord-Meehan

Feng Lin

Research Focuses

Spatial Economics, International Trade, Macroeconomics

Job Market Paper

"Sorting, Displacement, and the Limited Welfare Benefits of Non-Local Firms"

References

Chang-Tai Hsieh, Esteban Rossi-Hansberg, Christina Patterson

Ashton Pallottini

Research Focuses

Environmental Economics, Public Economics, Behavioral Economics, Experimental Economics

Job Market Paper

"Onset of Offsets: The Evolution of Social Rewards in Demand for Environmental Goods"

References:

Michael Greenstone, Leonardo Bursztyn, Koichiro Ito

Francesco Ruggieri

Research Focuses

Public Finance, Urban Economics, Applied Microeconometrics

Job Market Paper

"Overlapping Jurisdictions and the Provision of Local Public Goods in U.S. Metropolitan Areas"

References

Michael Greenstone, Magne Mogstad, Alexander Torgovitsky

Haruka Uchida

Research Focuses

Labor, Education, Experimental Economics

Job Market Paper

"What Do Blind Evaluations Reveal? How Discrimination Shapes Representation and Quality"

References

John List, Michael Dinerstein, Evan Rose

Karen Wu

Research Focuses

Industrial Organization, Microeconomic Theory

Job Market Paper

"Collusion-Robust Auction Design: Posted Price and a Knockout Auction"

References

Benjamin Brooks, Philip J. Reny, Doron Ravid

Ruoxuan (Rebecca) Wu

Research Focuses

Development Economics, Labor, Household Economics

Job Market Paper

"Beliefs, Reputation, and Barriers to Entry in Online Labor Markets"

References

Marianne Bertrand, Christina Brown, Michael Dinerstein

Shijian Yang

Research Focuses

Spatial Economics, Urban Economics, International Trade

Job Market Paper

"Optimal Land Use Regulations"

References

Esteban Rossi-Hansberg, Daniel McMillen, Jonathan Dingel

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