Job Market Paper: "Costly Dispute Resolution Under Limited Commitment: A Mechanism Design Approach"
Main Fields: Applied Micro Theory
Secondary Fields: Development Economics, Law and Economics
Supervisor: Professor Gilat Levy

Radu Ban

World Bank: Economist

Job Market Paper: "Is Deliberation Equitable? Evidence from Transcripts of Village Meetings in South India"
Main Feilds: Development Economics
Secondary Fields: Political Economy, Applied Microeconomics
Supervisor: Professor Tim Besley

Dave Donaldson

Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Assistant Professor

Job Market Paper: "Railroads of the Raj: Estimating the Impact of Transportation Infrastructure"
Main Feilds: Development Economics, International Economics, Economic History
Secondary Fields: Environmental Economics, Urban/Regional Economics
Supervisors: Professor Tim Besley, Professor Robin Burgess

Sonia Goncalves

NERA Economic Consulting: Consultant

Job Market Paper: "Power to the People: The Effects of Participatory Budgeting on Municipal Expenditures and Infant Mortality in Brazil"
Main Feilds: Development Economics, Public Economics, Political Economy
Secondary Fields: Labour Economics, Applied Econometrics, Microeconomics
Supervisors: Dr Oriana Bandiera, Professor Robin Burgess

Anisha Gosh

Carnegie Mellon University: Assistant Professor

Job Market Paper: "Asset Pricing with Regime Shifts in Consumption and Dividend Growth"
Main Feilds: Asset Pricing, Financial Econometrics
Secondary Fields: Macroeconomics
Supervisor: Professor Oliver Linton

Stephen Hansen

Universitat Pompeu Fabra: Assistant Professor

Job Market Paper: "What They Don't Know Can't Hurt You: The Benefits of Limited Feedback in Organizations"
Main Feilds: Organizational Economics
Secondary Fields: Contract Theory, Microeconomic Theory
Supervisors: Professor Gilat Levy, Professor Andrea Prat

Ilze Kalnina

University of Montreal: Assistant Professor

Guy Mayraz

Nuffield College, University of Oxford: Post-doctoral Research Fellow

Job Market Paper: "Priors and Desires - A Model of Payoff-Dependent Beliefs"
Main Feilds: Microeconomic Theory, Behavioural Economics, Decision Theory, Game Theory
Secondary Fields: Subjective Well-being, Behavioural Finance
Supervisor: Dr Erik Eyester

Michael McMahon

University of Warwick: Assistant Professor

Job Market Paper: "Inventories in Motion: A New Approach to Inventories of the Business Cycle"
Main Fields: Macroeconomics, Monetary Economics, Banking
Secondary Fields: Applied Econometrics
Supervisor: Professor Francesco Caselli

Juan Pablo Rud

Royal Holloway, University of London: Assistant Professor

Job Market Paper: "Electricity Provision and Industrial Development: Evidence from India"
Main Fields: Development Economics, Applied Econometrics
Secondary Fields: Microeconomics
Supervisor: Professor Robin Burgess

Urban Sila

Bank of Slovenia, Analysis and Research Centre

Job Market Paper: "Can Family-Support Policies Help Explain Differences in Working Hours across Countries?"
Main Fields: Labour Economics
Secondary Fields: Applied Microeconomics, Applied Econometrics, Macroeconomics
Supervisor: Professor Alan Manning

Fabian Waldinger

University of Warwick: Assistant Professor

Job Market Paper: "Peer Effects in Science - Evidence from the Dismissal of Scientists in Nazi Germany"
Main Fields: Labour Economics, Applied Microeconomics, Economics of Education
Secondary Fields: Economic History
Supervisor: Professor Steve Pischke

Post-Doctoral Candidates 2008/2009

Maria Bas

Centre D'Etudes Prospectives et D'Informations Internationales (CEPII), Paris: Research Fellow

Job Market Paper: "Trade, Technology Adoption and Wage Inequalities: Theory and Evidence"
Main Feilds: International Economics, International Trade, Microeconometric Studies
Secondary Fields: Development Economics

Gabriel Leon

University fo Cambridge, St Catherine's College: Assistant Professor

Raffaella Sadun

Harvard Business School: Assistant Professor

Job Market Paper 1: "Does Planning Regulation Protect Independent Retailers?"
Job Market Paper 2: "Americans Do I.T. Better: US Multinationals and the Productivity Miracle"
Main Fields: Strategy, Labour Economics, Applied Microeconometrics
Secondary Fields: Organisational Economics, Management, Productivity