Job Market Candidates 2013-2014

Placement Officer: Professor Leonardo Felli
Placement Administrator: Samantha Keenan

Royal Economic Society 2014 PhD Presentation Meeting

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Information on 2013/2014 candidates

Further information on our 2013/2014 job market candidates will be updated regularly!

 

Gunes Asik

CV  |  Job Market Paper  |  Personal Webpage

• Job Market Paper Title:  "Effectiveness of Stabilisation Funds in Managing Volatility in Oil-Rich Countries"
• Research Interests:
  • Macroeconomics, Labour Economics (Primary)
• Supervisor: Professor Christopher Pissarides 

 

Michael Best

Postdoctoral Researcher at Stanford University

• Job Market Paper 1 Title: "Housing Market Responses to Transaction Taxes: Evidence from Notches and Stimulus in the UK" 
• Job Market Paper 2 Title: "Salary Misreporting and the Role of Firms in Workers' Responses to Taxes: Evidence from Pakistan"
• Research Interests:  
  • Public Economics, Development Economics (Primary) 
• Supervisors: Professor Henrik Kleven, Professor Oriana Bandiera

 

Johannes Boehm

Assistant Professor at Sciences Po 

• Job Market Paper Title:  "The Impact of Contract Enforcement Costs on Outsourcing and Aggregate Productivity"
• Research Interests: 
  • Macroeconomics (Primary)
  • International Trade, Industrial Organisation, Law and Economics (Secondary)
• Supervisor: Professor Francesco Caselli
• Advisors: Professor Luis Garicano, Dr Catherine Thomas, Dr Veronica Rappoport 

 

Philippe Bracke

Economist at the Bank of England   

• Job Market Paper Title:  "House Prices and Rents: Micro Evidence from a Matched Dataset in Central London"
• Research Interests:
  • Macroeconomics, Real Estate Economics (Primary)
• Supervisors: Professor Silvana Tenreyro

 

Can Celiktemur

Economist at Compass Lexecon

• Job Market Paper Title:  "Competing Intermediaries in Bilateral Trade"
• Research Interests:
  • Micro Theory, Game Theory, Mechanism Design (Primary)
• Supervisors: Professor Balazs Szentes, Dr Francesco Nava 

 

Jason Donaldson

Assistant Professor at the University of Indiana   

• Job Market Paper Title:  "Procyclical Promises"
• Research Interests: 
  • Contract Theory, Corporate Finance Theory, Intermediation (Primary)
  • Systemic Risk, Inter-dealer Markets, Credit Ratings (Secondary)
• Supervisors: Professor Balazs Szentes, Dr Jean-Pierre Zigrand

 

Georg Graetz

Assistant Professor at the University of Uppsala

• Job Market Paper Title:  "Rise of the Machines: The Effects of Labour-Saving Innovations on Jobs and Wages"
• Research Interests:
  • Labour Economics (Primary)
  • Macroeconomics, Applied Econometrics (Secondary)
• Supervisors: Professor Francesco Caselli, Dr Guy Michaels 

 

Anett Hofmann

Assistant Professor at CREST ENSAE, Paris

• Job Market Paper Title:  "When Commitment Fails - Evidence from a Regular Saver Product in the Philippines"
• Research Interests: 
  • Development Economics, Behavioural Economics, Experimental Economics (Primary)
  • Applied Microeconomics, Public Economics (Secondary)
• Supervisors: Professor Oriana Bandiera, Professor Maitreesh Ghatak 
• Advisor: Dr Gharad Bryan

 

John Morrow

Lecturer at the University of Essex

• Job Market Paper Title:  "Monopolistic Competition and Optimum Product Diversity Under Firm Heterogeneity"
• Research Interests: 
  • International Trade, Development, Political Economy (Primary)

 

Melania Nica

Lecturer at the New College of the Humanities

• Job Market Paper Title:  "Conforming to Stand Out: A Model of Career Concerns with Biased Experts"
• Research Interests: 
  • Microeconomics, Political Economy, Corporate Finance (Primary)
  • Industrial Organisation, Applied Econometrics (Secondary)
• Supervisors: Dr Francesco Nava, Dr Pasquale Schiraldi 

 

Daniel Osorio

Economist at the Central Bank of Colombia

• Job Market Paper Title:  "Foreign Currency Debt and Optimal Monetary Policy: Is There a Role for the Exchange Rate in Completing Markets?"
• Research Interests: 
  • Macroeconomics (Primary)
  • Financial Economics, Banking (Secondary)
• Supervisor:  Dr Kevin Sheedy 

 

Michele Piffer

Postdoctoral Researcher at DIW, Berlin  

• Job Market Paper Title:  "Monetary Policy, Leverage, and Default"
• Research Interests:
  • Macroeconomics (Primary)
  • Monetary Economics (Secondary)
• Supervisor:  Professor Wouter Den Haan 
• Advisor: Dr Gianluca Benigno, Dr Kevin Sheedy

 

Sanchari Roy

Lecturer at the University of Sussex

• Job Market Paper Title:  "Sex Workers, Stigma and Self-Belief: Evidence from a Psychological Training Programme in India"
• Research Interests: 
  • Development Economics (Primary)
  • Applied Econometrics, Behavioural Economics (Secondary)

 

Claudia Steinwender

Postdoctoral Researcher at Princeton University and Assistant Professor at Harvard Business School

• Job Market Paper Title:  "Information Frictions and the Law of One Price: 'When the States and Kingdom became United'"
• Research Interests:
  • International Trade, Applied Microeconometrics (Primary)
  • Labour Economics, Economic History (Secondary)
• Supervisors: Professor Steve Pischke, Professor Gianmarco Ottaviano, Professor Luis Garicano 

 

Mazhar Waseem

Lecturer at the University of Manchester 

• Job Market Paper Title:  "Taxes, Informality and Income Shifting: Evidence from a Recent Pakistani Tax Reform"
• Research Interests: 
  • Public Economics (Primary)
  • Development Economics (Secondary)
• Supervisor: Professor Henrik Kleven 
• Advisor: Dr Johannes Spinnewijn

 

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