PhD Job Market Candidates
This page contains a list of the PhD Program’s current job market candidates for the 2020–21 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shirley Lu | "The Green Bonding Hypothesis: How Green Bonds Enhance the Credibility of Environmental Commitments?" |
Hans Christensen |
Disclosure Regulation, CSR Disclosure, ESG Evaluation, Sustainable Finance |
Shirley's Website
Shirley's CV Email Shirley |
| Yao Lu | "Disclosure Regulation and Strategic Interactions: Externalities of Bank Liquidity Disclosure" |
Christian Leuz |
Disclosure, Financial Reporting, Financial Institutions |
Yao's Website
Yao's CV Email Yao |
Econometrics & Statistics
| Student | Job Market Paper | Dissertation Chair(s) | Research Interests | Contact Info |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jianfei Cao | "Robust IV Inference with Clustering Dependence" |
Christian Hansen |
Panel Data Models, Weak Identification, High-Dimensional Methods |
Jianfei's Website
Jianfei's CV Email Jianfei |
| Connor Dowd | "Derivative Bounds for Regression Discontinuity Donuts and Extrapolation" |
Christian Hansen |
Causal Inference, Energy & Environmental Economics, Financial Decision Making, and Nonparametric Statistics |
Connor's Website
Connor's CV Email Connor |
Finance
| Student | Job Market Paper | Dissertation Chair(s) | Research Interests | Contact Info |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gursharan Bhue | "Spillover of Local Economic Shocks through Multi-market Banks: Evidence from Trade Liberalization" |
Amir Sufi |
Empirical Corporate Finance, Financial Intermediation, Industrial Organization |
Gursharan's Website
Gursharan's CV Email Gursharan |
| Carter Davis | "Machine Learning, Quantitative Portfolio Choice, and Mispricing" |
Lubos Pastor |
Asset Pricing, Machine Learning, Macroeconomics, Behavioral Finance |
Carter's Website
Carter's CV Email Carter |
| David Andrew Finer | "No Shock Waves through Wall Street? Market Reactions to the Risk of Nuclear War" |
Luigi Zingales |
Asset Pricing, Geopolitical Risk, Disaster Risk, Market Learning, Political Economy, Natural Language Processing |
David's Website
David's CV Email David |
| Shohini Kundu | "The Externalities of Fire Sales: Evidence from Collateralized Loan Obligations" |
Anil Kashyap |
Financial Intermediation, Regulation, Entrepreneurship, Emerging Market Finance |
Shohini's Website
Shohini's CV Email Shohini |
Joint Program in Financial Economics
| Student | Job Market Paper | Dissertation Chair(s) | Research Interests | Contact Info |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jane (Jian) Li | "The Importance of Investor Heterogeneity: An Examination of the Corporate Bond Market" |
Zhiguo He & Ralph Koijen |
Financial Intermediation, Macro-Finance |
Jane's Website
Jane's CV Email Jane |
Marketing
| Student | Job Market Paper | Dissertation Chair(s) | Research Interests | Contact Info |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Olivia Natan | "Choice Frictions in Large Assortments" |
Pradeep Chintagunta and Jean-Pierre Dube |
Product Variety, Information Frictions, Product Lines, Dynamic Pricing |
Olivia's Website
Olivia’s CV Email Olivia |