PhD Job Market Candidates
This page contains a list of the Stevens Doctoral 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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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
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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 |
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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 |
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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
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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
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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 |
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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 |