Job Market Paper Title: "Has Job Polarization Squeezed the Middle Class? Evidence from the Allocation of Talents"
Main Fields: Labour Economics, Applied Microeconometrics
Supervisor: Professor Steve Pischke
Advisors: Professor Luis Garicano, Professor Alan Manning, Dr Yona Rubinstein

Anne Brockmeyer

Young Professionals Programme, World Bank

Job Market Paper Title: "An Anatomy of the Response to Taxation: Evasion, Avoidance and Investment by UK Firms"
Main Fields: Public Finance, Development Economics
Supervisors: Professor Robin Burgess, Dr Henrik Kleven

Wenya Cheng

Lecturer in Economics at the University of Manchester

Job Market Paper Title: "Tariffs and Employment: Evidence from Chinese Manufacturing Industry"
Main Fields: Labour, Development
Supervisor: Professor Alan Manning

Nathan Converse

Economist at the Federal Reserve Board (Global Financial Flows Section)

Job Market Paper Title: "Captial Flow Volatility and Maturity Mismatch in Emerging Markets"
Main Fields: Macroeconomics, International Economics
Secondary Fields: Applied Econometrics, Political Economy
Supervisor: Dr Gianluca Benigno

Francisco Costa

Assistant Professor at the Graduate School of Economics, Getulio Vargas Foundation (EPGE/FGV), Rio De Janeiro, Brazil

Job Market Paper Title: "Can Rationing Affect Long Run Behaviour? Evidence from Brazil"
Main Fields: Environmental/Energy Economics, Development Economics
Secondary Fields: Behavioural Economics, Applied Microeconomics
Supervisors: Professor Robin Burgess, Dr Gharad Bryan, Professor Gilat Levy

Benjamin Faber

Assistant Professor at the Department of Economics, UC Berkeley

Job Market Paper Title: "Trade Liberalization, the Price of Quality, and Inequality: Evidence from Mexican Store Prices"
Main Fields: International Trade, Development Economics
Secondary Fields: Urban Economics, Applied Microeconomics (Secondary)
Supervisors: Professor Robin Burgess, Dr Daniel Sturm

Luca Fornaro

Researcher at Centre de Recerca en Economia Internacional (CREI) and Adjunct Professor at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra

Job Market Paper Title: "International Debt Deleveraging"
Main Fields: International Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics
Supervisor: Professor Christopher Pissarides,Dr Gianluca Benigno

Abhimanyu Gupta

Lecturer at the University of Essex

Job Market Paper Title: "Estimation of Higher-Order Spatial Autoregressive Models"
Main Fields: Econometrics
Supervisor: Professor Peter Robinson

Fadi Hassan

Assistant Professor at Trinity College Dublin

Job Market Paper Title: "The Price of Development"
Main Fields: Development Macroeconomics, International Economics
Secondary Fields: Applied Econometrics, Macroeconomics
Supervisors: Dr Bernardo Guimaraes, Dr Rachel Ngai
Advisor: Professor Robert Wade

Sebastian Kodritsch

Post-doctoral Research with a joint appointment at Humboldt University of Berlin and WZB

Job Market Paper Title: "On Time-Inconsistency in Bargaining"
Main Fields: Economic Theory, Psychology and Economics
Secondary Fields: Industrial Organisation, Political Economy
Supervisor: Dr Erik Eyster
Advisor: Professor Balazs Szentes

Attakrit Leckcivilize

Post-doctoral Researcher at Institute of Labour Economics, Leibniz Universität Hannover

Job Market Paper Title: "The Impact of Supply Chain Disruptions: Evidence from the Japanese Tsunami"

Research Interests:
- Labour Economics, Applied Econometrics (Primary)
- International Economics, Macroeconomics (Secondary)
Supervisor: Professor Alan Manning

Fabio Sanches

Research Fellow at the Department of Economics, University of Sao Paulo

Job Market Paper Title: "Public Banks Improve Private Banks Performance: Evidence from a Dynamic Structural Model"
Main Fields: Empirical Industrial Organisation, Applied Econometrics
Supervisor: Professor Martin Pesendorfer

Christoph Ungerer

Economist at the European Commission (Greek Economic Adjustment Programme)

Job Market Paper Title: "Monetary Policy, Hot Housing Markets and Leverage"
Main Fields: Macroeconomics, Finance, Applied Econometrics
Supervisor: Professor Christopher Pissarides
Advisor: Dr Ethan Ilzetzki

Daniel Vernazza

Associate Economist for the CEE Region at Unicredit (London)

Job Market Paper Title: "Does Absolute or Relative Income Motivate Migration?"
Main Fields: Labour Economics, Macroeconomics
Secondary Fields: Applied Econometrics, Development Economics
Supervisor: Professor Silvana Tenreyro

Post Doctoral Candidates

Erlend Berg

Lecturer at the University of Bristol

      ◾Job Market Paper Title: "Motivating Knowledge Agents: Incentive Pay vs Social
          Proximity"
     ◾ Main Fields: Development Economics
     ◾ Secondary Fields: Applied Microeconomics, Labour Economics, Public
          Economics

Thomas Breda

Institute of Public Policy, Paris School of Economics

Job Market Paper Title: "Stereotypes, Discrimination, and the Gender Gap in
Science: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in a French Higher Education
Institution"
Main Fields: Labour Economics
Secondary Fields: Applied Microeconomics, Industrial Relations
Post-doc supervisor: Professor Alan Manning

Qi Zhang

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, International Growth Centre (IGC), LSE and University of Oxford
Research Officer, Oxford Centre for the Analysis of Resource Rich Economies (OxCarre), University of Oxford

Job Market Paper Title: "Income Distribution and the Price Level: The Balassa-
Samuelson Relationship Re-considered"
Main Fields: International Trade, Industrial Organization
Secondary Fields: Macro/Monetary Economics

PhD Job Market Information