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Job Market Candidates

Chicago Booth PhD students are innovative researchers who have been exposed to some of the best business 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.

2009-2010 Job Market Candidates

Student Dissertation Area Research Interests
Karen F. Bernhardt-Walther
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Economics Organizational Economics, Applied Theory

Denis Chaves
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Finance Empirical Asset Pricing, Theoretical Asset Pricing, Financial Econometrics
Pengqin (George) Gao
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Econometrics & Statistics Empirical Asset Pricing, Financial Econometrics 
Wesley R. Gray
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Finance Behavioral Finance, Asset Pricing, Networks, Hedge Funds
Jennifer Hitler
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Organizations & Markets Social Networks, Social Capital, Career Mobility & Turnover
Elisabeth Honka
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Marketing

Consumer Search Behavior, Insurance Industry, Consideration Set Formation

Christopher Hrdlicka
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Finance Trading Volume, Housing and Capital Specificity, Asset Pricing
Roni Kisin
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Finance Empirical Corporate Finance, Financial Intermediation, Interactions of Corporate Finance and Labor Economics
Pepa Kraft
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Accounting Role of Financial Reporting for Pricing & Contracting, Rating Agencies, Off-Balance Sheet Financing
Jeff Ng
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Accounting Tax Accounting, Financial Accounting, IFRS
Christian Opp
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Finance Asset Pricing, Finance and Growth, Financial Institutions, Information Acquisition

Jessica Pan
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Economics Labor Economics, Applied Microeconomics, Economics of Education and Development
Alexi Savov
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Finance Empirical Asset Pricing, Information and Asset Prices, Active versus Passive Investing
Shastri Sandy
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Finance Corporate Governance, Influence of Shareholders on the Firm
Edward (Ned) Smith
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Organizations & Markets Economic Sociology, Financial Markets, Social Network Analysis
Francisco (Paco) Vazquez-Grande
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Econometrics & Statistics Finance, Econometrics, Computational Economics, Macroeconomics
Shanshan Wang
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Management Science/Operations Management Supply Chain Management, Contracting, Game Theory, Applied OR Modeling, Dynamic Optimization under Uncertainty

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

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact Malaina Brown, associate director, PhD Program.

Browse CVs of the job market candidates in the university's Department of Economics.

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Last Updated 11/5/09