PhD Job Market Candidates
This page contains a list of the PhD Program’s current job market candidates for the 2021–22 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gurpal Sran | "Disclosing Labor Demand" |
Christian Leuz |
Disclosure and Transparency Regulation, Labor, Risk-Taking in Financial Institutions |
Gurpal's Website
Email Gurpal |
| Lauren Vollon | "Venture Capital and Private M&A Transactions" |
Hans Christensen |
Securities Regulation with a focus on the Effects of Disclosure and Transparency; Venture Capital; Private M&A Contracting |
Lauren's Website
Lauren's CV Email Lauren |
Economics
| Student | Job Market Paper | Dissertation Chair(s) | Research Interests | Contact Info |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Zhonglin Li | "Big-box Store Expansion and Consumer Welfare" |
Chad Syverson |
Industrial Organization, Applied Microeconomics |
Zhonglin's Website
Zhonglin's CV Email Zhonglin |
| Andrés Shahidinejad | "Are (Nonprofit) Banks Special? The Economic Effects of Banking With Credit Unions" |
Matthew Notowidigdo |
Household Finance, Public Economics, Banking, Nonprofit Organizations |
Andrés's Website
Andrés's CV Email Andrés |
Finance
| Student | Job Market Paper | Dissertation Chair(s) | Research Interests | Contact Info |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vera Chau | "Knowledge Spillovers and Technology Growth: Evidence from the Energy Industry" |
Amir Sufi |
Corporate Finance, Innovation and Growth, Energy and Environmental Finance, Household and Real Estate Finance |
Vera's Website Email Vera |
| John Heilbron | "Credit Constraints and Bias in Hedonic Amenity Valuations" |
Amir Sufi |
Household Finance, Public Finance |
John's Website
John's CV Email John |
| Kelly Posenau | "Debt and Water: Effects of Bondholder Protections on Public Goods" |
Anil Kashyap |
Empirical Corporate Finance, Public Finance, Financial Intermediation |
Kelly's Website
Kelly's CV Email Kelly |
| Blair Vorsatz | "Costs of Political Polarization: Evidence from Mutual Fund Managers during Covid-19" |
Lubos Pastor |
Asset Management, Political Beliefs, Sustainability, Collectibles (eg: Art) |
Blair's Website
Blair's CV Email Blair |
Joint Program in Financial Economics
| Student | Job Market Paper | Dissertation Chair(s) | Research Interests | Contact Info |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ehsan Azarmsa | "Financing Infrastructure with Inattentive Investors: The Case of US Municipal Governments " |
Ralph Koijen and Pietro Veronesi |
Public Finance, Macrofinance, Economic Inequality |
Ehsan's Website Ehsan's CV Email Ehsan |
| Rafael Jiménez Durán | "The Economics of Content Moderation: Theory and Experimental Evidence from Hate Speech on Twitter" |
Leonardo Bursztyn and Pietro Tebaldi |
Behavioral and Experimental Economics, Applied Microeconomic Theory, Industrial Organization, Economics of Social Media |
Rafael's Website Email Rafael |
| James Traina | "Labor Market Power and Technological Change in US Manufacturing" |
Erik Hurst and Chad Syverson |
Competition, Technology |
James's Website Email James |
Management Science/Operations Management
| Student | Dissertation Title | Dissertation Chair(s) | Research Interests | Contact Info |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Charlie Hannigan | "Reducing Case Lengths and Overstays in Large Jail Systems" |
Baris Ata |
Criminal Justice, Human Behavior in Queueing Systems, Structural Estimation, Conjoint Analysis |
Charlie's Website
Charlie's CV Email Charlie |
Marketing
| Student | Job Market Paper | Dissertation Chair(s) | Research Interests | Contact Info |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Annabelle Roberts | "Love is Patient: People are More Willing to Wait for Things They Like" |
Ayelet Fishbach |
Consumer Behavior, Judgment and Decision Making, Motivation, Intertemporal Choice |
Annabelle's Website
Annabelle's CV Email Annabelle |
| Uyen Tran | "Broadband Access and Demand Elasticities: Evidence From Over 500 Product Categories" |
Günter Hitsch |
Information Frictions, Empirical Industrial Organization, Consumer Behavior |
Uyen's Website
Uyen's CV Email Uyen |
Joint Program in Psychology and Business
| Student | Job Market Paper | Committee | Research Interests | Contact Info |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Elizabeth Huppert | "Being Dishonest about Dishonesty: The Social Benefits of Taking Absolute (But Hypocritical) Moral Stances" |
Jean Decety, Emma Levine, Alex Shaw, Jane Risen |
Behavioral Ethics, Moral Decision Making, Fairness, Hypocrisy |
Elizabeth's Website
Elizabeth's CV Email Elizabeth |
ad hoc Joint Program in Sociology and Business
| Student | Job Market Paper | Dissertation Chair(s) | Research Interests | Contact Info |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yuhao Zhuang | "Varieties of Competition: Nonprofit Status Hierarchies and Grassroots-Oriented Corporate Philanthropy in China" |
Amanda Sharkey and Elisabeth Clemens |
Organization Theory, Political Sociology, Economic Sociology, Qualitative, Statistical, and Computational Methods |
Yuhao's Website
Yuhao's CV Email Yuhao |