Job Market Placements 2012-13

PhD Economics job market candidates for the 2012–13 academic year, including their placements and research interests.

Placement Officer: Professor Maitreesh Ghatak
Placement Administrator: Samantha Keenan

Toni Ahnert
Research Economist at the Bank of Canada (Financial Studies Division)
Research Interests:
Financial Economics (Primary)
Microeconomics, Banking, Macroeconomics (Secondary)

Michael Boehm
Assistant Professor (Tenure Track) at the Department of Economics, Bonn University
Research Interests:
Labour Economics, Applied Microeconometrics

Anne Brockmeyer
Young Professionals Programme, World Bank
Research Interests:
Public Finance, Development Economics

Wenya Cheng
Lecturer in Economics at the University of Manchester
Research Interests:
Labour, Development

Nathan Converse
Economist at the Federal Reserve Board (Global Financial Flows Section)
Research Interests:
Macroeconomics, International Economics (Primary)
Applied Econometrics, Political Economy (Secondary)

Francisco Costa
Assistant Professor at the Graduate School of Economics, Getulio Vargas Foundation (EPGE/FGV), Rio De Janeiro, Brazil
Research Interests:
Environmental/Energy Economics, Development Economics (Primary)
Behavioural Economics, Applied Microeconomics (Secondary)

Benjamin Faber
Assistant Professor at the Department of Economics, UC Berkeley
Research Interests:
International Trade, Development Economics (Primary)
Urban Economics, Applied Microeconomics(Secondary)

Luca Fornaro
Researcher at Centre de Recerca en Economia Internacional (CREI) and Adjunct Professor at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Research Interests:
International Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics

Abhimanyu Gupta
Lecturer at the University of Essex
Research Interests:
Econometrics

Fadi Hassan
Assistant Professor at Trinity College Dublin
Research Interests:
Development Macroeconomics, International Economics (Primary)
Applied Econometrics, Macroeconomics (Secondary)

Sebastian Kodritsch
Post-doctoral Research with a joint appointment at Humboldt University of Berlin and WZB
Research Interests:
Economic Theory, Psychology and Economics (Primary)
Industrial Organisation, Political Economy (Secondary)

Attakrit Leckcivilize
Post-doctoral Researcher at Institute of Labour Economics, Leibniz Universität Hannover
Research Interests:
Labour Economics, Applied Econometrics (Primary)
International Economics, Macroeconomics (Secondary)

Fabio Sanches
Research Fellow at the Department of Economics, University of Sao Paulo
Research Interests:
Empirical Industrial Organisation, Applied Econometrics

Christoph Ungerer
Economist at the European Commission (Greek Economic Adjustment Programme)
Research Interests:
Macroeconomics, Finance, Applied Econometrics

Daniel Vernazza
Associate Economist for the CEE Region at Unicredit (London)
Research Interests:
Labour Economics, Macroeconomics (Primary)
Applied Econometrics, Development Economics (Secondary)

Post-doctoral candidates (PhD Economics, LSE)

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
Research Interests:
International Trade, Industrial Organization (Primary)
Macro/Monetary Economics (Secondary)