PhD Job Market Candidates

This page contains a list of the PhD Program’s current job market candidates for the 2022–23 academic year.

Please email Malaina Brown about our job market candidates. For our Finance and Joint Program in Financial Economics candidates, please email Zhiguo He.

We also invite you to review job market candidates at the University of Chicago’s Kenneth C. Griffin Department of Economics.

Accounting

Student	Job Market Paper	Dissertation Chair(s)	Research Interests	Contact Info
June Huang	"The Politics of CSR Activity: Evidence from Press Releases"	Christian Leuz	Relationships between Firms and Government, Corporate Social Responsibility, Financial and Non-Financial Disclosure	June's Website June's CV Email June
Kalash Jain	"Processing Industry Classification"	Philip Berger	Information Processing Frictions in the Capital Markets, Financial Statement Analysis, Empirical Asset Pricing	Kalash's Website Kalash's CV Email Kalash
Sinja Leonelli	"Minority Whistleblowers: Evidence from the LGBTQ+ Community"	Hans Christensen	Misconduct, Regulation, Enforcement, ESG	Sinja's Website Sinja's CV Email Sinja

Behavioral Science

Student	Job Market Paper	Dissertation Chair(s)	Research Interests	Contact Info
Cintia Hinojosa	"Critical narratives counter psychological and structural barriers to equity"	Jane Risen & Christopher Bryan	Value-Based Behavioral Interventions, Racial Equity Narratives, Health and Social Policy, Youth Participatory Action Research	Cintia's Website Email Cintia
David Munguia Gomez	"The Policy–People Gap: Decision-Makers Choose Policies That Favor Different Applicants than They Select When Making Individual Decisions"	Emma Levine	Merit, Advantage and Disadvantage, Ethics, Judgment and Decision Making	David's Website David's CV Email David
Kristina Wald	"Ignorance can be trustworthy: The effect of social self-awareness on trust"	Shereen Chaudhry	Impression Management, Social Judgment, Communication, Trust	Kristina's Website Kristina's CV Email Kristina

Econometrics & Statistics

Student	Job Market Paper	Dissertation Chair(s)	Research Interests	Contact Info
Rui Da	"Market Efficiency with Many Investors"	Zhiguo He & Dacheng Xiu	Asset Pricing, Econometrics, Machine Learning	Rui's Website Rui's CV Email Rui
Yuexi Wang	"Adversarial Bayesian Simulation"	Nicholas Polson & Veronika Rockova	Deep Learning, Approximate Bayesian Inference, Machine Learning, Bayesian Nonparametrics	Yuexi's Website Yuexi's CV Email Yuexi

Finance

Student	Job Market Paper	Dissertation Chair(s)	Research Interests	Contact Info
William Cassidy	"Elections Have Consequences: The Impact of Political Agency on Climate Policy and Asset Prices"	Lubos Pastor	Political Economy, Asset Pricing, Climate Finance	Will's Website Will's CV Email Will
Aditya Chaudhry	"Do Subjective Growth Expectations Matter for Asset Prices?"	Ralph Koijen & Stefan Nagel	Asset Pricing, Macrofinance	Aditya's Website Aditya's CV Email Aditya
Agustin Hurtado	"The Effect of Minority Bank Ownership on Minority Credit"	Raghuram Rajan & Luigi Zingales	Corporate, Entrepreneurial, Household Finance	Agustin's Website Agustin's CV Email Agustin
Seongjin Park	"Flexible Rent Setting and Rental Income"	Amir Sufi	Household Finance, Housing Markets, Political Economy, and Macroeconomics	Seongjin's Website Seongjin's CV Email Seongjin
Yang Su	"Local Government Financial Constraint and Spending Multiplier in China"	Zhiguo He	Public Finance, Real Estate, Banking, Chinese Financial Markets	Yang's Website Yang's CV Email Yang
Nishant Vats	"Safety Nets, Credit, and Investment: Evidence from a Guaranteed Income Program"	Raghuram Rajan & Amir Sufi	Finance and Development, Corporate Finance, Financial Intermediation	Nishant's Website Nishant's CV Email Nishant

Joint Program in Financial Economics

Student	Job Market Paper	Dissertation Chair(s)	Research Interests	Contact Info
Xindi He	"Non-Fungible Cash in the Stock Market"	Lubos Pastor	Asset Pricing, Behavioral Finance, Macro-Finance	Xindi's Website Xindi's CV Email Xindi
Fulin Li	"Retail Trading and Asset Prices: The Role of Changing Social Dynamics"	Ralph Koijen & Stefan Nagel	Asset Pricing, Macroeconomics	Fulin's Website Fulin's CV Email Fulin

Management Science/Operations Management

Student	Job Market Paper	Dissertation Chair(s)	Research Interests	Contact Info
Tahsin (Deniz) Akturk	"Managing Resources for Shared Micromobility: Approximate Optimality in Large-Scale Systems"	Ozan Candogan & Varun Gupta	Service Systems, Inventory Management, Networks, Stochastic Systems	Deniz's Website Deniz's CV Email Deniz
Zuguang Gao	"Aggregating Distributed Energy Resources: Efficiency and Market Power"	John Birge & Varun Gupta	Sustainable Operations, Power/Energy Systems, Electricity Market, Environmental Policy	Zuguang's Website Zuguang's CV Email Zuguang
Lisa Hillas	"Designing Service Menus for Bipartite Queueing Systems"	Rene Caldentey & Varun Gupta	Queueing, Game Theory, Fairness	Lisa's Website Lisa's CV Email Lisa
Cagla Keceli	"Thompson Sampling for Infinite-Horizon Discounted Decision Processes"	Dan Adelman	Decision Processes, Optimization, Statistical Learning, Healthcare Analytics	Cagla's CV Email Cagla
Gorkem Unlu	"Instability and Stability of Parameter Agnostic Policies in Parallel Server Systems"	Yuan Zhong	Stochastic Systems, Statistical Learning, Optimization	Gorkem's Website Gorkem's CV Email Gorkem
Yueyang Zhong	"Behavior-Aware Queueing: When Strategic Customers Meet Strategic Servers"	Amy Ward	Stochastic Modeling, Service Operations Management, Behavioral Queueing, Learning in Queues	Yueyang's Website Yueyang's CV Email Yueyang

Marketing

Student	Job Market Paper	Dissertation Chair(s)	Research Interests	Contact Info
Akshina Banerjee	"The Language That Drives Engagement: A Systematic Large-scale Analysis of Headline Experiments"	Oleg Urminsky	Impact of Linguistic cues on Consumer Decision-Making, Natural Language Processing, Hierarchical Choices, Consumer Behavior	Akshina's Website Akshina's CV Email Akshina
Xinyao Kong	"Consumer Forward Looking and Interest Rate Pass Through in Financed Vehicle Purchases"	Jean-Pierre Dubé	Quantitative Marketing, Dynamic Pricing, Brands and Branding, Econometric Methods	Xinyao's Website Xinyao's CV Email Xinyao
Alexander Moore	"Searching for Value: Optimal and Heuristic Consumer Search"	Daniel Bartels & Reid Hastie	Consumer Search, Judgment and Decision Making, Consideration Sets, Moral Psychology	Alex's Website Alex's CV Email Alex
Yuji Winet	"Ending on a Familiar Note: Perceived Endings Motivate Repeat Consumption"	Ed O'Brien	Consumer Behavior, Variety Seeking, Social Influence, Judgment and Decision Making	Yuji's Website Yuji's CV Email Yuji

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