Job Market Placements 2018-19

PhD Economics job market candidates for the 2018–19 academic year, including their placements and research interests.

Placement Officer: Professor Mark Schankerman
Placement Administrator: John Curtis

Shan Aman-Rana
Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, University of Virginia
Research Interests:
Development Economics (Primary)
Organisational Economics (Secondary)

Clare Balboni
Assistant Professor of Economics, MIT
Research Interests:
Environmental Economics (Primary)
Trade, Development Economics (Secondary)

Andres Barrios-Fernandez
Senior Researcher, VATT Institute of Economic Research, Helsinki, Finland
Research Interests:
Economics of Education (Primary)
Labor Economics (Secondary)

Marcus Biermann
Post-doc, Université catholique de Louvain
Research Interests:
International Trade (Primary)

Carlo Cabrera
Post-doc, UCL, 2019-21
Research Interests:
Microeconomic Theory (Primary)

Laura Castillo-Martinez
IES Fellow, Princeton University, 2019-2020
Assistant Professor, Duke University, from July 2020
Research Interests:
Macroeconomics (Primary)

Weihan Ding
Lecturer in Economics, University of Exeter 2019-2021
Research Interests:
Political Economy (Primary)

Thomas Drechsel
Assistant Professor, University of Maryland College Park
Research Interests:
Macroeconomics (Primary)

Andreas Ek
Assistant Professor (Tenure Track) and Browaldh Scholar, Lund University
Research Interests:
Macroeconomics (Primary)
Labour Economics (Secondary)

Torsten Figueiredo Walter
Postdoctoral Researcher, Precision Agriculture for Development
Research Interests:
Development (Primary)

Giulia Giupponi
Post-doc, Institute for Fiscal Studies, 2019-2020
Assistant Professor, Bocconi University, 2020-
Research Interests:
Public Finance (Primary)
Labour Economics, Applied Microeconomics (Secondary)

Chao He
Economist Program, IMF
Research Interests:
International Finance (Primary)
Macroeconomics (Secondary)

Felix Koenig
IRS Fellow, Princeton University, 2019-2020
Assistant Professor, Carnegie Mellon University - Heinz School, 2020-
Research Interests:
Labor Economics (Primary)
Public Economics (Secondary)

Sevim Kosem
Research Economist, Bank of England
Research interests:
Macroeconomics (Primary)

Clement Minaudier
Assistant Professor, University of Vienna
Research Interests:
Political Economy (Primary)
Applied Microeconomic Theory (Secondary)

Kieu-Trang Nguyen
Assistant Professor, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
Research Interests:
Labor Economics (Primary)
Organizational Economics (Secondary)

Claudia Robles-Garcia
Assistant Professor in Finance, Stanford GSB
Research Interests:
Industrial Organization (Primary)
Finance (Secondary)

Claudio Schilter
Post-doc, University of Zurich
Research interests:
Applied Microeconomics (Primary)

Vincenzo Scrutinio
Researcher, University of Bologna
Research Interests:
Labor Economics (Primary)
Public Economics (Secondary)

Xuezhu Shi
Assistant Professor, UIBE, China
Research Interests:
Public Economics (Primary)
Development Economics, Family Economics (Secondary)

Roberto Sormani
Economist, Africa Gender Impact Evaluation Unit, World Bank
Research Interests:
Psychology and Economics (Primary)
Development Economics, Experimental Economics (Secondary)