PhD Job Market Candidates
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You can find candidates by area: Accounting, Behavioral Science, Econometrics and Statistics, Economics, Finance, Joint Program in Financial Economics, Management Science and Operations Management, and Marketing. Note that candidates entering the Marketing job cycle are currently live.
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Accounting
Jonas Piero Dalmazzo
Job Market Paper: "The Effects of Alternative Data on Misreporting"
Research Interests: Disclosure, Capital Markets, Misreporting, Regulation, Banking
Dissertation Committee: Philip G. Berger (Chair), Christian Leuz, Delphine Samuels, João Granja
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Yanzi (Yvonne) Han
Job Market Paper: "The Precision Trap: How R&D Reclassification Distorts Investment"
Research Interests: Disclosure; corporate finance; intangible capital; corporate governance
Dissertation Committee: Valeri Nikolaev (Chair), Haresh Sapra, Douglas Skinner, Anthony Welsch, and Anastasia Zakolyukina
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Behavioral Science
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Econometrics and Statistics
Jizhou Liu
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Research Interests: Econometrics, Causal Inference, Design and Analysis of Randomized Experiments
Dissertation Committee: Christian Hansen (Co-chair), Azeem Shaikh (Co-chair), Tetsuya Kaji, Max Tabord-Meehan
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Zhouyu Shen
Job Market Paper: "Can Machines Learn Weak Signals?"
Research Interests: Machine Learning, High Dimensional Statistics, Time-series Econometrics, Financial Econometrics
Dissertation Committee: Dacheng Xiu (Chair), Christian B. Hansen, Tengyuan Liang, Chao Gao
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Boxin Zhao
Job Market Paper: "Statistical Learning and Optimization under Distribution Shift"
Research Interests: Distribution Shift, Transfer Learning, Probabilistic Graphical Models, and Federated Learning
Dissertation Committee: Mladen Kolar (Co-Chair), Cong Ma (Co-Chair),Tengyuan Liang, and Sanmi Koyejo
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Cong Zhang
Job Market Paper: "Asset Pricing in Digital Economy with Regulations"
Research Interests: Asset Pricing; Applied Econometrics; Financial Regulations
Dissertation Committee: George M Constantinides (Co-chair), Jeffrey R Russell (Co-chair), Lars Peter Hansen, Chad Syverson
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Economics
Lucy Msall
Job Market Paper: "Never-Realized Capital Gains"
Research Interests: Public Economics, Household Finance, Law & Economics, Innovation
Dissertation Committee: Marianne Bertrand (co-chair), Mikhail Golosov, Magne Mogstad (co-chair), Eric Zwick
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Fern Ramoutar
Job Market Paper: "Market Power in Residential Real Estate: Evidence from Chicago Rental Properties"
Research Interests: Urban Economics, Industrial Organization, Applied Microeconomics
Dissertation Committee: Thomas Wollmann (Chair), Erik Hurst, Matthew Notowidigdo
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Yixin Sun
Job Market Paper: "Learning is in the Air: Clean Air as an Experience Good"
Research Interests: Environment; Development; Health
Dissertation Committee: Marianne Bertrand (Chair), Fiona Burlig, Josh Dean, Michael Greenstone
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Finance
Rayhan Momin
Job Market Paper: "Effects and Design of Central Bank Corporate Credit Facilities"
Research Interests: Asset Pricing, International Finance, Macro-Finance, Monetary Policy
Dissertation Committee: Raghuram Rajan (Co-Chair), Zhiguo He (Co-Chair), Stefan Nagel, Quentin Vandeweyer, and Fabrice Tourre
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Joint Program in Financial Economics
Manav Chaudhary
Job Market Paper: "Regulator Beliefs"
Research Interests: Asset pricing, Behavioral Economics, Intermediation, and Regulation
Dissertation Committee: Ralph Koijen (Co-Chair), Stefan Nagel (Co-Chair), Niels Gormsen, Lars Hansen.
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Jingoo Kwon
Job Market Paper: "Forecast Dispersion and Information Selection"
Research Interests: Asset pricing, Behavioral finance
Dissertation Committee: Stefan Nagel (Chair), Francesca Bastianello, Lars Hansen, and Ralph Koijen
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Federico Mainardi
Job Market Paper: "The Impact of Fiscal Policy on Financial Institutions, Asset Prices, and Household Behavior"
Research Interests: Asset pricing, macro-finance, public finance
Dissertation Committee: Ralph Koijen (Chair), Lars Hansen, Rohan Kekre, Stefan Nagel, Eric Zwick
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Ben Marrow
Job Market Paper: "The Pricing of Earnings News"
Research Interests: Empirical asset pricing, Behavioral and institutional finance
Dissertation Committee: Stefan Nagel (Chair), Ralph Koijen, Lubos Pastor, Niels Gormsen, Lars Hansen
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Management Science and Operations Management
Ebru Kasikaralar
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Research Interests: Queueing theory; Applied AI; Computational methods for solving high-dimensional stochastic control problems
Dissertation Committee: Baris Ata (Chair), Amy Ward, Yuan Zhong, XY Han
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Dilara Sonmez
Job Market Paper: "Reconfiguring Primary Care Resources for Clinical and Financial Success in Value-Based Care"
Research Interests: Data analysis, healthcare, optimization, machine learning
Dissertation Committee: Daniel Adelman (Chair)
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Yucel (Naz) Yetimoglu
Job Market Paper: "Patient Selection for Xenotransplant Human Clinical Trials: A Data-Driven Approach"
Research Interests: Machine learning, Big data analytics, Healthcare operations, Optimization
Dissertation Committee: Baris Ata (Chair)
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Marketing
Rafael Batista
Job Market Paper:"Words that Work: Using Language to Generate Hypotheses"
Research Interests: Consumer Psychology, Judgment & Decision-Making, Financial Decision-Making, Language, Lab and Field Experiments, Algorithmic Behavioral Science
Dissertation Committee: Abigail Sussman (Co-Chair), Sendhil Mullainathan (Co-Chair), Jean-Pierre "JP" Dub茅, Ayelet Fishbach
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Nicholas Herzog
Job Market Paper: "Misestimating Credit Card Balances: The Effect of Right-Digit Recall Errors on Spending"
Research Interests: Financial Decision-Making, Consumer Behavior, Moral Psychology
Dissertation Committee: Daniel Bartels (Chair), Berkeley Dietvorst, Stephanie Smith, and Abigail Sussman
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Kevin Lee
Job Market Paper: "Generative Brand Choice"
Research Interests: Industrial Organization, AI, Product Design, Decision Making
Dissertation Committee: Sanjog Misra (Chair), Eric Budish, Pradeep Chintagunta, Giovanni Compiani
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Jiaqi Yu
Job Market Paper: "Outward vs. Inward Thinking Use Different Heuristics: How Reframing Prevalence Influences Consumers’ Impact Judgments and Choices"
Research Interests: Cues and Heuristics, Product Packaging, Labeling, Consumer Inferences
Dissertation Committee: Oleg Urminsky (Chair), Daniel Bartels, Shereen Chaudhry, Kristin Donnelly
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