PhD Job Market Candidates 2017/18
PhD Job Market Candidates 2017/18
Monday 6 Nov 2017Placement Officer
Prof. Dan Bernhardt
Room S2.89
Telephone: +44 (0) 24 7652 3470
Email: M dot D dot Bernhardt at warwick dot ac dot uk
Administrative Support
Natalie Deven
Room S0.90
Telephone: +44 (0) 24 7657 3452
Email: N dot S dot Deven at warwick dot ac dot uk
PhD Candidates
Anik Ashraf
- Placement Outcome: Assistant Professor, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (LMU)
- Fields: Development, Organizational Economics and Labor
- Supervisors: Christopher Woodruff, Rocco Macchiavello
- Curriculum Vitae: CV
- Job Market Paper: Do Rank Incentives Increase Productivity? Evidence from a Field Experiment
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Danilo Cascaldi-Garcia
- Placement Outcome: Economist, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
- Fields: Macroeconomics, Monetary Economics and Econometrics.
- Supervisors: Prof. Ana Galvão and Prof. Anthony Garratt (Warwick Business School)
- Curriculum Vitae: CV
- Job Market Paper: Amplification effects of news shocks through uncertainty
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Juan Castro Fernandez
- Placement Outcome: Junior Researcher, Colombian Central Bank
- Fields: Financial Macroeconomics, Business cycles, International Macroeconomics
- Supervisors: Thijs van Rens
- Curriculum Vitae: CV
- Job Market Paper: Optimistic Expectations and Financial Crises
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Conrado Cuevas Lopez
- Placement Outcome: Assistant Professor, INCAE Business School
- Fields: Financial Economics, Social Security, Microeconomic Theory
- Supervisors: Pablo Beker, Dan Bernhardt, Herakles Polemarchakis
- Curriculum Vitae: CV
- Job Market Paper: The Pied Piper of Pensioners, The Social Value of Information in Economies with Mandatory Savings
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Darina Dintcheva
- Fields: Mechanism Design, Political Economy, Economics of Privacy
- Supervisors: Francesco Squintani
- Curriculum Vitae: CV
- Job Market Paper: Proposing peace to belligerents with interdependent valuations
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Wentao Fu
- Fields: Microeconomic Theory, Information Economics, Industrial Organisation, Financial Economics
- Supervisors: Motty Perry and Jacob (Kobi) Glazer
- Curriculum Vitae: CV
- Job Market Paper: Optimal Contract to Reward Private Experimentation
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Gonzalo Gaete
- Placement Outcome: Coordinator of Microeconomic Policies, The Budget Office at the Chilean Ministry of Finance
- Fields: Primary: Economics of Education, Labor Economics. Secondary: Public Economics
- Supervisors: Fabian Waldinger (LSE), Clement de Chaisemartin (UCSB), Roland Rathelot (Warwick)
- Curriculum Vitae: CV
- Job Market Paper: Follow the Leader: Student Strikes, School Absenteeism and Long Term Implications for Education Outcomes
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Matteo Gamalerio
- Fields: Applied Econometrics, Political Economy, Public Economics, Economics of Migration
- Supervisors: Ben Lockwood and Mirko Draca
- Curriculum Vitae: CV
- Job Market Paper: Not welcome anymore: the effect of electoral incentives on the reception of refugees
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Nicolas Alejandro Lillo Bustos
- Placement Outcome: Assistant Professor, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana
- Fields: Economic History, Development Economics, Institutions and Growth, Agricultural Economics
- Supervisors:Sascha Becker
- Curriculum Vitae: CV
- Job Market Paper: Land Redistribution and Crop Choice: Evidence from Reform and Counter-Reform in Chile
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Paula Lopez-Pena
- Placement Outcome: Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Yale University and at Innovations for Poverty Action
- Fields: Applied Microeconomics and Development Economics
- Supervisors: Christopher Woodruff (primary advisor), Anandi Mani and James Fenske
- Curriculum Vitae: CV
- Job Market Paper: Stress Management Practices, Owner Well-Being, and Firm Outcomes in Bangladesh
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Nicolás Navarrete
- Placement Outcome: Postdoc at Paris School of Economics
- Fields: Labor Economics, Development Economics, Economics of Education, Applied Microeconomics.
- Supervisors: Clément de Chaisemartin, Sascha O. Becker
- Curriculum Vitae: CV
- Job Market Paper: The Effects of Homeownership Assistance on Labor Supply
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Patrick O'Callaghan
- Placement Outcome: Research Fellow, Australian Institute for Business and Economics
- Fields: Microeconomic theory, Decisions, Games, Public economics, Development economics.
- Supervisors/References:Peter Hammond (Warwick), John Quiggin (U Queensland), Max Stinchcombe (U Texas)
- Curriculum Vitae: CV
- Job Market Paper: Axioms for measuring utility on partial mixture sets and Prudent and open-minded case-based prediction with limited data
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Guillem Ordóñez
- Placement Outcome: Assistant Professor, University of Bristol
- Fields: Corporate Finance; Industrial Organization
- Supervisors: Prof. Dan Bernhardt; Prof. John Thanassoulis; Prof. Jacob Glazer
- Curriculum Vitae: CV
- Job Market Paper: Blockholder Disclosure Thresholds and Hedge Fund Activism
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Diego Solorzano Rueda
- Fields: Macroeconomics, Monetary Policy, Price and Wage Setting
- Supervisors: Huw Dixon, Natalie Chen, JC Gozzi
- Curriculum Vitae: CV
- Job Market Paper: Relationship Between Nominal Wage and Price Flexibility: Implications For Monetary Policy
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Zizhong Yan
- Placement Outcome: Assistant Professorship, Institute for Economics and Social Research (IESR) of Jinan University
- Fields: Econometrics, Applied Econometrics, and Economics of Education. Particular interests: 1) estimating treatment effects using both frequentist and Bayesian methods; 2) Bayesian approach to missing data problem; and 3) higher education and education in developing countries.
- Supervisors: Prof. Sascha O. Becker, Dr. Mingli Chen, Prof. Michael K. Pitt
- Curriculum Vitae: CV
- Job Market Paper: Estimating Average Treatment Effects in Evaluation Studies: Using Dirichlet Process Mixtures
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Vaclav Zdarek
- Fields: Primary: Macroeconomics, International Economics. Secondary: Fiscal and Monetary Policy, Household Finance, Applied Econometrics.
- Supervisors: Thijs van Rens and Marcus Miller
- Curriculum Vitae: CV
- Job Market Paper: Are Institutional Footprints Visible on Fiscal Policy?
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