PhD Job Market Candidates
For our Economics candidates, please email Malaina Brown, Eric Budish, and Matt Notowidigdo. For our Finance and Joint Program in Financial Economics candidates, please email Zhiguo He. Please contact Malaina Brown for all other job market candidates.
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.
We also invite you to review job market candidates at the University of Chicago’s Kenneth C. Griffin Department of Economics.
You can find full details about current and past PhD student Career Outcomes here.
Accounting
Roope Keloharju
Job Market Paper: Hidden Ownership: Money Laundering Enforcement and Its Impact on Tax Haven Firms' Ownership Disclosures
Dissertation Chairs: Hans Christensen
Research Interests: Financial crime, nonprofit sector, foreign investment disclosure
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Maria Khrakovsky
Job Market Paper: Disrupting Consistency in Accounting
Dissertation Chair: Philip Berger
Research Interests: Regulation, accounting standards, incentives and contracting, disclosure
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Fabian Nagel
Job Market Paper: Consumer Bankruptcy Audits
Dissertation Chair: Christian Leuz
Research Interests: Banking, Auditing, Consumer Credit
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Hristiana Vidinova
Job Market Paper: Forward-Looking Loan Loss Provisioning Under Imperfect Forecasts
Dissertation Chairs: Haresh Sapra
Research Interests: Accounting Theory, Banking, Behavioral Studies, CSR
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Behavioral Science
Check back next year for candidates in Behavioral Science.
Econometrics and Statistics
Shuo-Chieh Huang
Job Market Paper: Model Selection for Unit-root Time Series with Many Predictors
Dissertation Chair: Ruey S. Tsay
Research Interests: Distributed learning, Time series analysis, Optimal transport, Econometrics
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Economics
Olivia Bordeu
Job Market Paper: Commuting Infrastructure in Fragmented Cities
Dissertation Chairs: Erik Hurst and Esteban Rossi-Hansberg
Research Interests: Trade, Spatial Economics, Urban Economics, Public Finance
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William Cockriel
Job Market Paper: Machines Eating Men: Shoemakers and their Children After the McKay Stitcher
Dissertation Chairs: Richard Hornbeck
Research Interests: Economic History, Labor Economics
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Benedict Guttman-Kenney
Job Market Paper: Unraveling Information Sharing in Consumer Credit Markets
Dissertation Chairs: Matthew Notowidigdo and Neale Mahoney
Research Interests: Household Finance, Behavioral
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Pauline Mourot
Job Market Paper: Sorting and Complementarities in Healthcare: Hospitals and Surgeons
Dissertation Chairs: Neale Mahoney (co-chair), Joshua D. Gottlieb (co-chair)
Research Interests: Health Economics, Labor Economics, Industrial Organization, Organizational Economics, and Public Economics
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Lillian Rusk
Job Market Paper: The Origins of Parenting
Dissertation Chair: Magne Mogstad and Matthew Notowidigdo
Research Interests: Applied microeconomics, labor economics
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Christoph Schlom
Job Market Paper: Price Distribution Regulation
Dissertation Chairs: Phil Reny
Research Interests: Economic Theory, Industrial Organization
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Karthik Srinivasan
Job Market Paper: Paying Attention
Dissertation Chairs: Alexander Frankel and Devin Pope
Research Interests: Applied Microeconomics, Behavioral Economics, Labor Economics
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Finance
Young Soo Jang
Job Market Paper: Are Direct Lenders More Like Banks or Arm’s-Length Investors? Evidence from Loan Agreements and COVID-Related Distress
Dissertation Chairs: Steven Kaplan and Amir Sufi
Research Interests: Corporate Finance, Entrepreneurial Finance
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Joint Program in Financial Economics
Zhiyu Fu
Job Market Paper: Flighty Capital Flows and the Making of Risky Currency
Dissertation Chairs: Ralph Koijen and Greg Kaplan
Research Interests: Asset pricing and international macro finance
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Sangmin (Simon) Oh
Job Market Paper: Social Inflation
Dissertation Chair: Ralph Koijen
Research Interests: Asset pricing, Insurance, Household Finance, Macroeconomics
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Michael Varley
Job Market Paper: Contractual Lock-in: Prepayment Penalties and Mobility
Dissertation Chairs: Amir Sufi
Research Interests: Real Estate, Banking, Household Finance, Corporate Finance
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Jingtao Zheng
Job Market Paper: Dividend Flows and the Foreign Exchange Rate
Dissertation Chairs: Raghuram Rajan and Wenxin Du
Research Interests: International finance, asset pricing, commercial real estate, FinTech.
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Management Science and Operations Management
Amir Alwan
Job Market Paper: Stochastic Modeling and Control in Ridesharing and Online Systems
Dissertation Committee Members: Baris Ata, Rene Caldentey, Amy Ward, Yuan Zhong, and Yuwei Zhou
Research Interests: Stochastic Modeling and Control; Operations/Supply Chain Management; Online Content Moderation; Machine Learning
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Gulin Tuzcuoglu
Job Market Paper: Studying the Effect of Team Familiarity in Surgical Teams
Dissertation Chairs: Dan Adelman
Research Interests: Machine Learning, Data Science, Causal Inference, Operations Research, Forecasting
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Marketing
Shweta Desiraju
Job Market Paper: Reason defaults: Presenting defaults with reasons for choosing each option helps decision makers with minority interests
Dissertation Chairs: Berkeley Dietvorst & Oleg Urminsky
Research Interests: Consumer Well-Being, Defaults, Change over Time, Savings
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Minkwang Jang
Job Market Paper: Consumer Time Preferences from Goal-Management Perspective
Dissertation Chair: Oleg Urminsky
Research Interests: Consumer Decisions over Time, Intertemporal Choice, Social Inferences in the Marketplace, Judgment and Decision Making
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Daniel Katz
Job Market Paper: How Product Reviews Impact Consumers’ Judgments, Emotions, and Purchase Behaviors
Dissertation Chairs: Daniel Bartels & Abigail Sussman
Research Interests: Financial Decision Making, Consumer Behavior, Text Analysis
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Yuxiao Li
Job Market Paper: Who Brings Home the Bacon? How Individuals Living in the Same Household Shop
Dissertation Chair: Pradeep Chintagunta
Research Interests: Quantitative Marketing, Empirical IO, Shopping Behavior, Family Economics
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Walter Zhang
Job Market Paper: Optimal Comprehensible Targeting
Dissertation Chair: Sanjog Misra
Research Interests: Quantitative Marketing, Personalization, Machine Learning, Econometric Methods
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