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Chicago Booth PhD students are innovative researchers who have been exposed to some of the best  ideas and best teaching in the world. Trained to constantly question and test ideas, they are prepared to push their research to the highest level in a demanding environment.

If you are interested in our Economics students, please contact Professor Canice Prendergast. If you are interested in students in our other dissertation areas, please contact Malaina Brown.

2009-10 Job Market Candidates

Student Dissertation Area AdvisorResearch Interests

Denis Chaves
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Finance John Cochrane Empirical Asset Pricing, Theoretical Asset Pricing, Financial Econometrics
Pengqin (George) Gao
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Econometrics & Statistics Tim Conley Empirical Asset Pricing, Financial Econometrics 
Wesley R. Gray
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Finance Pietro Veronesi Behavioral Finance, Asset Pricing, Networks, Hedge Funds
Jennifer Hitler
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Organizations & Markets Ronald Burt Social Networks, Social Capital, Career Mobility & Turnover
Elisabeth Honka
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Marketing Pradeep Chintagunta

Consumer Search Behavior, Insurance Industry, Consideration Set Formation

Christopher Hrdlicka
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Finance John Cochrane Trading Volume, Housing and Capital Specificity, Asset Pricing
Roni Kisin
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Finance Raghuram Rajan Empirical Corporate Finance, Financial Intermediation, Interactions of Corporate Finance and Labor Economics
Pepa Kraft
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Accounting Ray Ball Role of Financial Reporting for Pricing & Contracting, Rating Agencies, Off-Balance Sheet Financing
Jeff Ng
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Accounting Merle Erickson Tax Accounting, Financial Accounting, IFRS
Christian Opp
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Finance Lars Hansen (Department of Economics, University of Chicago) Asset Pricing, Finance and Growth, Financial Institutions, Information Acquisition

Jessica Pan
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Economics Marianne Bertrand Labor Economics, Applied Microeconomics, Economics of Education and Development
Alexi Savov
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Finance George Constantinides (Co-Chair), Doug Diamond (Co-Chair) Empirical Asset Pricing, Information and Asset Prices, Active versus Passive Investing
Shastri Sandy
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Finance Luigi Zingales Empirical Corporate Finance, Corporate Governance, Interaction between Shareholders and the Firm
Edward (Ned) Smith
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Organizations & Markets Damon Phillips Economic Sociology, Financial Markets, Social Network Analysis
Francisco (Paco) Vazquez-Grande
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Econometrics & Statistics Lars Hansen (Co-Chair), Ruey Tsay (Co-Chair) Finance, Econometrics, Computational Economics, Macroeconomics
Shanshan Wang
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Management Science/Operations Management Dan Adelman Supply Chain Management, Contracting, Game Theory, Applied OR Modeling, Dynamic Optimization under Uncertainty

Song (Alex) Yang
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Management Science/Operations Management John Birge Operations-Finance Interface, Supply Chain Management, Dynamic Pricing, Stochastic Models and Optimization, Financial Engineering

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Last Updated 12/1/09