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Job Market Candidates

2026-2027


Placement Director: Dr. Mike Geruso
Placement Coordinator: Kimberly Terry 

The job market candidates for the 2022-2023 academic year will be posted by mid-October. 

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AISHWARYA AGARWAL
Job Market Paper: How Persistent are the Effects of Enforcement? Evidence from Fisheries Patrols
Field: Industrial Organization​​​​​​​
Advisor: Gabriel Englander, Jackson Dorsey, Dan Ackerberg, and Robert Town
CV: PDF
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FRANCESCO CONTI
Job Market Paper: “To be free, we have to be vague” – Ambiguous Communication in Corporation Games
Field: Game Theory, Ambiguity, Mechanism Design, Microeconomic Theory
Advisor: Vasiliki Skreta, Maxwell Stinchcombe, Svetlana Boyarchenko, Rafael Veiel, and William Fuchs
CV: PDF
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FAHEEM GILANI
Job Market Paper: Tax Design When Firms Can Conceal and Divide Activity
Field: Microeconomic theory: Ambiguity Aversion, Strategic Experimentation, Taxation
Advisor: Maxwell Stinchcombe, Caroline Thomas, V. Bhaskar, Vasiliki Skreta, and William Fuchs
CV: PDF
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NATHAN HATTERSLEY
Job Market Paper: On the Value of Sales Quotas
Field: Industrial Organization
Advisor: Eugenio Miravete
CV: PDF
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RAYMOND HE
Job Market Paper: Everything In Moderation: The Currency-Maturity Composition of Sovereign Debt
Field: Macroeconomics, International Economics, Labor Economics
Advisor: Andres Drenik, Saroj Bhattarai, Oliver Pfauti, and Zachary Stangebye
CV: PDF
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HUSANG KIM
Job Market Paper: The Perceived Monetary Policy Rule: Identification and Macroeconomic Implications
Field: Macroeconomics, Business Cycle, Asset Pricing
Advisor: Olivier Coibion, Saroj Bhattarai,  and Christoph Boehm
CV: PDF
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YUJIN KWON
Job Market Paper: Identification and Estimation of Generalized Selection Models, with an Application to Texas Direct
Field: Econometrics, Applied Microeconometrics, Economics of Education
Advisor: Brendan Kline, Jason Abrevaya, Xinyue Bei, and Lauren Schudde
CV: PDF 
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XINRONG LIU
Job Market Paper: What to Measure: Optimal Monitoring under Adverse Selection and Moral Hazard
Field: Microeconomic Theory, Information Economics, Mechanism Design
Advisor: Vasiliki Skreta
CV: PDF
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RIKUTO ONISHI
Job Market Paper: Exchange Rate Disconnect with Disagreeing Arbitrageurs
Field: Macroeconomics, International Macro and Finance
Advisor: Olivier Coibion, Stefano Eusepi, and Christoph Boehm
CV: PDF
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SURYANSH UPMANYU
Job Market Paper: Soft Skills, Hard Times: Why New College Graduates Are Falling Behind
Field: Macroeconomics, Labor Economics
Advisor: Andres Drenik, Olivier Coibion, and Richard Murphy
CV: PDF
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KAI WU
Job Market Paper: Crowding (with Yizhen Gu, Qu Tang, and Ben Zou)
Field: Public Economics, Networks, Urban Economics, Environmental Economics
Advisor: Marika Cabral, Jackson Dorsey, Nitya Pandalai-Nayar, and Cody Tuttle
CV: PDF
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ZIHENG YU
Job Market Paper: The Case of Apple’s Restrictions on Super Apps: Is the U.S. Department of Justice Right?​​​​​​​
Field: Microeconomic Theory, Game Theory, Theoretical Industrial Organization
Advisor: Thomas Wiseman, David Sibley, V. Bhaskar, and John Hatfield
CV: PDF
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ZIYUE XU
Dissertation: Essays on Health and Environmental Economics
Field: Health Economics, Environmental Economics, and Public Economics
Advisor: Manuela Angelucci
CV: PDF
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JIQING ZHAO
Job Market Paper: Efficient Instrumental Variable Estimation under Sequential Missingness
Field: Econometrics
Advisor: Jason Abrevaya
CV: PDF
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