PhD Job Market Candidates
For our Economics candidates, please email Malaina Brown, Eric Budish, and Matt Notowidigdo. For our Finance and Joint Program in Financial Economics candidates, please email Stefan Nagel. Please contact Malaina Brown for all other job market candidates.
Interested in recruiting our PhD candidates? We are happy to share relevant opportunities across sectors with our students, either on a recruiter’s behalf or by providing contact information to reach student directly. If you would like to share an advert and/or organize a recruitment event with our program, please email our office at phd@chicagobooth.edu.
You can find candidates on the job market by area: Accounting, Behavioral Science, Econometrics and Statistics, Economics, Finance, Joint Program in Financial Economics, Management Science and Operations Management, and Marketing.
We also invite you to review job market candidates at the University of Chicago’s Kenneth C. Griffin Department of Economics.
Candidates for the 2025-2026 cycle will be added to this page on a rolling basis. You can find full details about recent and past PhD student Career Outcomes on our site.
Accounting Candidates
Jewel Evans
Job Market Paper: "Impact of Affirmative Action on Minority Access to Capital"
Dissertation Committee: Anna Costello (Chair), Alex Imas, Christian Leuz, Amoray Riggs-Cragun, and Christopher Stewart
Research Interests: Discrimination, corporate governance, corporate social responsibility
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Ginha Kim
Job Market Paper: "Regulatory Firm Boundaries and Corporate Venture Capital Investments"
Dissertation Committee: Hans Christensen (Co-Chair); Christian Leuz (Co-Chair); Philip Berger; Charles McClure
Research Interests: Regulation, Financial Reporting, IO & Firm Dynamics
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Pietro Ramella
Job Market Paper: "Better AI, Worse Disclosures?"
Dissertation Committee: Anna Costello (Chair), Charles McClure, Haresh Sapra, Christopher Stewart, Luigi Zingales
Research Interests: Strategic disclosure, information economic theory, capital markets, AI
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Econometrics and Statistics Candidates
Jacy Anthis (Joint Program in Sociology and Statistics)
Job Market Paper: "Digital Minds: Human-Computer Interaction in the Era of Transformative Artificial Intelligence"
Dissertation Committee: Byron Aragam (Co-Chair), James Evans (Co-Chair; University of Chicago Department of Sociology), Bernard Koch (University of Chicago Department of Sociology), Nicholas Polson
Research Interests: Social computing, human-computer interaction, machine learning, natural language processing
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Ming Gao
Job Market Paper: "Statistical Optimality in Causal Structure Learning"
*Presentation is related to papers on optimality for neighborhood selection and optimal structure learning
Dissertation Committee: Bryon Aragam (Chair)
Research Interests: Statistical machine learning, Causal graphical models, Structure learning, Causal discovery, High-dimensional statistics
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Finance Candidates
Ching-Tse Chen
Job Market Paper: "The Economic Consequences of Lower Retail Trading Costs"
Dissertation Committee: Stefan Nagel (Chair), Pascal Noel, Taisiya Sikorskaya, Amir Sufi
Research Interests: Household Finance; Behavioral Finance.
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Bianca He
Job Market Paper: "Financing Intangibles"
Dissertation Committee: Yueran Ma (Co-Chair), Amir Sufi (Co-Chair), Steve Kaplan, Raghu Rajan
Research Interests: Corporate Finance, intangibles, innovation, entrepreneurial finance
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Jessica Li
Job Market Paper: "Complementarity of Bank and Market Debt in Dynamic Debt Structure"
Dissertation Committee: Doug Diamond (Co-Chair), Zhiguo He (Co-Chair, Stanford GSB), Lars Hansen, Anil Kashyap, Yueran Ma, Amir Sufi
Research Interests: Corporate debt, capital structure, asset pricing, intermediation, OTC markets
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Edoardo Marchesi
Job Market Paper: "When AI Meets Entrepreneurship: Evidence from the Commercialization of ChatGPT"
Dissertation Committee: Emanuele Colonnelli (Chair), Steven Kaplan, Pascal Noel, Gregory Brown (UNC Chapel Hill)
Research Interests: Entrepreneurial finance; innovation; venture capital and private equity; corporate finance
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Meichen Qian
Job Market Paper: “Bridging Segmented Markets: the Role of Active Investors”
Dissertation Committee: Stefan Nagel (Chair); Lubos Pastor; Taisiya Sikorskaya; Anthony Zhang
Research Interests: Asset pricing, financial intermediation, market micro-structure, sustainable finance
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Joint Program in Financial Economics Candidates
Filippo Cavaleri
Job Market Paper: "Fiscal Insurance and the Pricing of Government Debt"
Dissertation Committee: Stefan Nagel (Co-Chair), Zhiguo He (Co-Chair, Stanford Graduate School of Business), Ben Brooks (Department of Economics), Lars Hansen (Department of Economics), Quentin Vandeweyer
Research Interests: Government debt and asset prices, safe assets, term structure and fixed income, macro-finance
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Joanna Harris Murphy
Job Market Paper: "Valuing Local Climate Policy: Evidence from Firm Behavior and Financial Markets"
Dissertation Committee: Lars Peter Hansen (Co-Chair), Lubos Pastor (Co-Chair), Luigi Zingales, Eric Zwick
Research Interests: Sustainable Finance, Regulation, Asset Pricing
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Management Science and Operations Management Candidates
Dilara Sonmez
Job Market Paper: "Optimizing Primary Care Delivery Under Value-Based Contracts: Empirical Evidence, Structural Estimation, and Decision Models"
Research Interests: Data science, healthcare operations, optimization, machine learning
Dissertation Committee: Daniel Adelman (Chair)
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Marketing Candidates
Soaham Bharti
Job Market Paper: "Consumers Prefer Products that Work Using Directionally Consistent Causal Chains"
Dissertation Committee: Abigail Sussman (Co-Chair), Berkeley Dietvorst (Co-Chair), Daniel Bartels, and Kristin Donnelly
Research Interests: Consumer decision-making, causal reasoning, preference construction, multi-attribute Choice, forecasting algorithms
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Fatemeh Gheshlaghpour
Job Market Paper: "Policy Design and Evaluation under Multiple Instruments"
Dissertation Committee: Pradeep K. Chintagunta (Co-Chair), Sanjog Misra (Co-Chair), Günter Hitch, Malika Korganbekova
Research Interests: Personalization & Targeting, Advertising Content, Policy Evaluation and Optimization
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Hung Ho
Job Market Paper: "Overconsumption and Self-Control: Empirical Evidence from Cigarette Purchases"
Dissertation Committee: Avner Strulov-Shlain (Chair), Pradeep Chintagunta, Jean-Pierre Dube, Andreas Kraft
Research Interests: Behavioral industrial Organization, marketing & policy, retail pricing
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Yusu Wang
Job Market Paper: "When Quantity Provides Security: Financial Constraints Increase Consumer Preferences for Quantity"
Dissertation Committee: Abigail Sussman, Oleg Urminsky, Ann McGill
Research Interests: Consumer behavior; financial resources; corporate social impact; financial decision-making; corporate social responsibility (CSR); profitability; experiments; regression, machine learning; natural language processing (NLP).
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Ningyin (Ariel) Xu
Job Market Paper: "Reference-Dependent Pricing"
Dissertation Committee: Jean-Pierre Dubé (Co-Chair), Sanjog Misra (Co-Chair), Avner Strulov-Shlain, Bradley Shapiro
Research Interests: Differential pricing, empirical IO, behavioral economics
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Lydia Zhao
Job Market Paper: "Household Fleet Choice and Usage"
Dissertation Committee: Brad Shapiro (Chair); Pradeep Chintagunta; Giovanni Compiani; Andreas Kraft
Research Interests: Marketing and public policy, sustainability, sales and service management
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