The Stevens Doctoral Program allows scholars to envision and conduct original, cutting-edge research.
Here are some of our PhD students’ recent dissertation topics.
PhD Proposals and Defenses
Our PhD Students’ Recent Dissertation Topics
| Proposal/Defense | Student Name and Dissertation Area | Date | Committee |
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| 2023 Defenses and Proposals |
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| Proposal: "Central Bank Corporate Credit Programs - Commitment Matters" | Rayhan Momin (Finance) |
Thursday, June 15, 2023 at 3:15 p.m. | Zhiguo He (Co-Chair), Raghuram Rajan (Co-Chair), Stefan Nagel, Quentin Vandeweyer, and Fabrice Tourre (Copenhagen Business School) |
| Proposal: "Stochastic Modeling and Control in Ridesharing and Online Systems" | Amir Alwan (Management Science/Operations Management) |
Tuesday, June 13, 2023 at 12:00 p.m. | Barış Ata (Chair), René Caldentey, Amy Ward, Yuan Zhong, and Yuwei Zhou |
| Proposal: "The Effectiveness of Monetary and Psychological Incentives Across Cultures" | Danila Medvedev (Behavioral Science) |
Thursday, June 8, 2023 at 11:30 a.m. | Thomas Talhelm (Chair), Ayelet Fishbach, Joshua Jackson, and Anuj Shah |
| Proposal: "Mental Accounting and Consumer Time Preferences" | Minkwang Jang (Behavioral Marketing) |
Friday, June 2, 2023 at 1:00 p.m. | Oleg Urminsky (Chair), Daniel Bartels, Ayelet Fishbach, Avner Strulov-Shlain, and Abigail Sussman |
| Defense: "Last-mile delivery of malaria prevention products in the DRC: An inventory management model under supply chain disruptions" | Robert Montgomery (Management Science/Operations Management) |
Wednesday, May 24, 2023 at 9:00 a.m. | Barış Ata (Chair), René Caldentey, Levi DeValve, Linwei Xin, and Amy Lehman (Lake Tanganyika Floating Health Clinic; in absentia) |
| Defense: "Heterogeneous Consumer Dynamics and the Financing Gap" | Xinyao Kong (Quantitative Marketing) |
Tuesday, May 23, 2023 at 2:00 p.m. | Jean-Pierre Dubé (Chair), Giovanni Compiani, Ali Hortaçsu (Department of Economics, University of Chicago), and Anita Rao (McDonough School of Business, Georgetown University) |
| Proposal: "Commuting Infrastructure in Fragmented Cities: Evidence from Santiago" | Olivia Bordeu Gazmuri (Economics) |
Tuesday, May 23, 2023 at 12:30 p.m. | Erik Hurst (Co-Chair), Esteban Rossi-Hansberg (Co-Chair; Department of Economics, University of Chicago), Milena Almagro, and Jonathan Dingel |
| Proposal: "The Origins of Parenting Style" | Lillian Rusk (Economics) |
Monday, May 22, 2023 at 12:30 p.m. | Magne Mogstad (Chair; Department of Economics, University of Chicago), Jack Mountjoy, Matthew Notowidigdo, and Derek Neal (Department of Economics, University of Chicago) |
| Defense: "Critical Narratives Counter Psychological and Structural Barriers to Racial Equity" | Cintia Hinojosa (Behavioral Science) |
Friday, May 19, 2023 at 1:00 p.m. | Jane Risen (Co-Chair), Christopher Bryan (Co-Chair; McCombs School of Business, University of Texas at Austin), Anuj Shah, and Thomas Talhelm |
| Defense: "Designing Service Menus for Bipartite Queueing Systems" | Lisa Hillas (Management Science/Operations Management) |
Tuesday, May 9, 2023 at 1:30 p.m. | René Caldentey (Co-Chair), Varun Gupta (Co-Chair), Amy Ward, Yuan Zhong, and Philipp Afèche (Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto) |
| Proposal: "Scalable High-Dimensional Multivariate Linear Regression with Feature-Distributed Data" | Shuo-Chieh Huang (Econometrics & Statistics) |
Friday, May 5, 2023 at 2:00 p.m. | Ruey Tsay (Chair), Mladen Kolar, Tengyuan Liang, and Veronika Rockova |
| Proposal: "Self-Interest and Altruism: Exploring Behaviors with Multiple Motivations" | Melissa Beswick (Behavioral Science) |
Wednesday, May 3, 2023 at 1:30 p.m. | Oleg Urminsky (Chair), Reid Hastie, Ann McGill, and Ed O’Brien |
| Proposal: "Inference for Two-stage Experiments under Covariate-Adaptive Randomization" | Jizhou Liu (Econometrics & Statistics) |
Monday,May 1, 2023 at 3:00 p.m. | Christian Hansen (Co-chair), Azeem Shaikh (Co-chair; Department of Economics, University of Chicago), Tetsuya Kaji, and Max Tabord-Meehan (Department of Economics, University of Chicago) |
| Defense: "Impact of Mental Representation on Consumer Behaviors: Implications for Mental Budgeting and Prediction Algorithm Preferences" | Lin Fei (Behavioral Marketing) |
Wednesday, April 26, 2023 at 10:00 a.m. | Dan Bartels (Co-chair), Berkeley Dietvorst (Co-chair), Reid Hastie, and Luxi Shen (Chinese University of Hong Kong Business School) |
| Defense: "Linguistic Cues Can Affect Decision-Making in the Absence of Full Comprehension" | Akshina Banerjee (Behavioral Marketing) |
Tuesday, April 25, 2023 at 1:00 p.m. | Oleg Urminsky (Chair), Daniel Bartels, Shereen Chaudhry, and Abigail Sussman |
| Defense: "Retail Trading and Asset Prices: The Role of Changing Social Dynamics" | Fulin Li (Joint Program in Financial Economics) |
Tuesday, April 25, 2023 at 10:00 a.m. | Ralph Koijen (Co-chair; in absentia), Stefan Nagel (Co-chair), Lars Peter Hansen, Zhiguo He, and Harald Uhlig (Department of Economics, University of Chicago) |
| Proposal: "How Product Reviews Impact Consumers’ Judgments, Emotions, and Purchase Behaviors" | Daniel Katz (Behavioral Marketing) |
Monday, April 24, 2023 at 1:30 p.m. | Daniel Bartels (Co-chair), Abigail Sussman (Co-chair), Reid Hastie, and Oleg Urminsky |
| Defense: "Safety Nets, Credit and Investment: Evidence from a Guaranteed Income Program" | Nishant Vats (Finance) |
Wednesday, April 19, 2023 at 10:00 a.m. | Raghuram Rajan (Co-chair), Amir Sufi (Co-chair), Emanuele Colonnelli, Scott Nelson, Pascal Noel, Michael Weber (in absentia), Constantine Yannelis, and Elisabeth Kempf (Harvard Business School) |
| Defense: "Processing Industry Classification" | Kalash Jain (Accounting) |
Wednesday, April 19, 2023 at 10:00 a.m. | Philip Berger (Chair), Valeri Nikolaev, Haresh Sapra, and Christopher Stewart |
| Defense: "Fairness and Merit in the Selection of Advantaged and Disadvantaged Applicants" | David Munguia Gomez (Behavioral Science) |
Wednesday, April 19, 2023 at 9:00 a.m. | Emma Levine (Chair), Christopher Hsee, Jane Risen, and L. Taylor Phillips (Stern School of Business, New York University) |
| Proposal: "Essays on Information in Consumer Contexts" | Shweta Desiraju (Behavioral Marketing) |
Monday, April 17, 2023 at 2:15 p.m. | Berkeley Dietvorst (Co-chair), Oleg Urminsky (Co-chair), Daniel Bartels, and Abigail Sussman |
| Defense: "Essays on Novelty and Familiarity Seeking in Temporal and Social Contexts" | Yuji Winet (Behavioral Science) |
Monday, April 17, 2023 at 2:00 p.m. | Ed O'Brien (Chair), Ayelet Fishbach, Ann McGill, and Jane Risen |
| Defense: "Deep Approximate Bayesian Inference" | Yuexi Wang (Econometrics & Statistics) |
Monday, April 17, 2023 at 2:00 p.m. | Veronika Rockova (Co-chair), Nicholas Polson (Co-chair), Sanjog Misra, and Chao Gao (Department of Statistics, University of Chicago) |
| Defense: "The politics of CSR activity: Evidence from press releases" | June Huang (Accounting) |
Wednesday, April 12, 2023 at 3:00 p.m. | Christian Leuz (Chair), Marianne Bertrand, Hans Christensen, João Granja (in absentia), and Michael Minnis |
| Defense: "Local Government Financial Constraint and Spending Multiplier in China" | Yang Su (Finance) |
Tuesday, April 11, 2023 at 9:00 a.m. | Zhiguo He (Chair), Raghuram Rajan, Anthony Zhang, and Eric Zwick |
| Defense: "Essays on Managing Resources in the Sharing Economy" | Tahsin (Deniz) Akturk (Management Science/Operations Management) |
Monday, April 10, 2023 at 12:00 p.m. | Ozan Candogan (Co-chair), Varun Gupta (Co-chair), John Birge, Amy Ward, Linwei Xin, and Yuan Zhong |
| Defense: "Minority Whistleblowers: Evidence from the LGBTQ+ Community" | Sinja Sussek (Accounting) |
Monday, April 10, 2023 at 10:30 a.m. | Hans Christensen (Chair), Philip Berger, Christian Leuz, Thomas Rauter, and John Gallemore (Kenan-Flagler Business School, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) |
| Defense: "Elections Have Consequences: The Impact of Political Agency on Climate Policy and Asset Prices" | William Cassidy (Finance) |
Thursday, April 6, 2023 at 12:00 p.m. | Lubos Pastor (Chair), Zhiguo He, Stefan Nagel, Pietro Veronesi, and Elisabeth Kempf (Harvard Business School) |
| Defense: "Do Subjective Growth Expectations Matter for Asset Prices?" | Aditya Chaudhry (Finance) |
Thursday, April 6, 2023 at 10:00 a.m. | Ralph Koijen (Co-chair), Stefan Nagel (Co-chair), Niels Gormsen, and Lars Peter Hansen |
| Defense: "Flexible Rent Setting and Rental Income" | Seongjin Park (Finance) |
Tuesday, April 4, 2023 at 9:00 a.m. | Amir Sufi (Chair), Michael Weber, Anthony Zhang, and Eric Zwick |
| Defense: "Non-fungible Cash in the Stock Market" | Xindi He (Joint Program in Financial Economics) |
Thursday, March 30, 2023 at 11:00 a.m. | Lubos Pastor (Chair), Lars Peter Hansen, Zhiguo He, and Stefan Nagel |
| Proposal: "Learning in Operational Settings" | Cagla Keceli (Management Science/Operations Management) |
Wednesday, March 22, 2023 at 3:00 p.m. | Dan Adelman (Chair), John Birge, Rad Niazadeh, and Kiran Turaga (Yale School of Medicine) |
| Proposal: "Optimal Mechanism Design for Sequential Decision Making Processes" | Boxiang (Shawn) Lyu (Econometrics & Statistics) |
Thursday, March 16, 2023 at 11:00 a.m. | Mladen Kolar (Chair), Rad Niazadeh, Sanmi Koyejo (Department of Computer Science, Stanford University) and Haifeng Xu (Department of Computer Science, University of Chicago) |
| Defense: "The Architecture of Grassroots-Oriented Corporate Philanthropy in China" | Yuhao Zhuang (ad hoc Joint Program in Sociology and Business) |
on Monday, February 13, 2023 at 4:00 p.m. | Elisabeth Clemens (Co-chair; Department of Sociology, University of Chicago), Amanda Sharkey (Co-chair; W. P. Carey School of Business, Arizona State University), Brayden King (Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University), and Dingxin Zhao (Department of Sociology, University of Chicago) |
| Proposal: "Last-mile delivery of malaria prevention products in the DRC: An inventory management model under supply chain disruptions" | Robert Montgomery (Management Science/Operations Management) |
February 7, 2023 at 10:00 a.m. | Barış Ata (Chair), René Caldentey, Levi DeValve, Linwei Xin, and Amy Lehman (Lake Tanganyika Floating Health Clinic) |
| Proposal: "Designing Service Menus for Bipartite Queueing Systems" | Lisa Hillas (Management Science/Operations Management) |
January 30, 2023 at 10:00 a.m. | René Caldentey (Co-Chair), Varun Gupta (Co-Chair), Amy Ward, Yuan Zhong, and Philipp Afèche (Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto) |
| Defense: "The Year-End Effect in the Foreign Exchange Market" | Yusheng Fei (Joint Program in Financial Economics) |
Wednesday, January 25, 2023 at 2:30 p.m. | AHarald Uhlig (Department of Economics, University of Chicago), Wenxin Du, Ralph Koijen, and Michael Weber |
| Proposal: "Impact of Mental Representation on Consumer Behavior: Implications for Mental Budgeting and Prediction Algorithm Preferences" | Lin Fei (Behavioral Marketing) |
January 25, 2023 at 9:00 a.m. | Daniel Bartels (Co-Chair), Berkeley Dietvorst (Co-Chair), Reid Hastie, and Luxi Shen (Chinese University of Hong Kong Business School) |
| Proposal: "Heterogeneous Consumer Dynamics and the Financing Gap" | Xinyao Kong (Quantitative Marketing) |
Tuesday, January 10, 2023 at 2:00 p.m. | Jean-Pierre Dubé (Chair), Giovanni Compiani, Ali Hortaçsu (Department of Economics, University of Chicago), and Anita Rao (McDonough School of Business, Georgetown University) |
| Defense: "Essays on Applied Optimization Models" | Zuguang Gao (Management Science/Operations Management) |
Friday, January 6, 2023 at 2:00 p.m. | John Birge (Co-Chair), Varun Gupta (Co-Chair), Levi DeValve, and Tamer Başar (Grainger College of Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) |
| 2022 Defenses and Proposals |
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Defense: "Essays in Behavioral and Labor Economics" |
Tony Ditta |
Tuesday, December 20, 2022 at 11:00 a.m. | Devin Pope (Chair), Joshua Dean, Andrew McClellan, and Heather Sarsons (Vancouver School of Economics, University of British Columbia) |
| Proposal: "Many Server Queueing Models with Applications to Service Operations Management" | Yueyang Zhong (Management Science/Operations Management) |
Monday, November 21, 2022 at 2:00 p.m. | Amy Ward (Chair), John Birge, Ozan Candogan, and Raga Gopalakrishnan (Smith School of Business, Queen's University) |
| Defense: "Inventory Strategies and Online Order Fulfillment in a Multi-Tier Network" | Yanyang (Alex) Zhao (Management Science/Operations Management) |
Wednesday, November 2, 2022 at 2:00 p.m. | John Birge (Co-Chair), Linwei Xin (Co-Chair), Levi DeValve, and Yuan Zhong |
| Proposal: "Processing Industry Classification" | Kalash Jain (Accounting) |
Tuesday, November 1, 2022 at 1:30 p.m. | Philip Berger (Chair), Valeri Nikolaev, Haresh Sapra, and Christopher Stewart |
| Proposal: "Critical Narratives Counter Psychological and Structural Barriers to Equity" | Cintia Hinojosa (Behavioral Science) |
Wednesday, October 12, 2022 at 9:30 a.m. | Jane Risen (Co-Chair), Christopher Bryan (Co-Chair; McCombs School of Business, University of Texas at Austin), Anuj Shah, and Thomas Talhelm |
| Proposal: "Minority Whistleblowers: Evidence from the LGBTQ+ Community" | Sinja Leonelli (Accounting) |
Thursday, October 6, 2022 at 1:20 p.m. | Hans Christensen (Chair), Phil Berger, John Gallemore, Christian Leuz, and Thomas Rauter |
| Proposal: "The politics of CSR activity: Evidence from press releases" | Junfan (June) Huang (Accounting) |
Thursday, September 29, 2022 at 1:20 p.m. |
Christian Leuz (Chair), Marianne Bertrand, Hans Christensen, João Granja, and Michael Minnis |
| Proposal: "Inventory Strategies and Online Order Fulfillment in a Multi-Tier Network" | Yanyang (Alex) Zhao (Management Science/Operations Management) |
Monday, September 26, 2022 at 2:00 p.m. | John Birge (Co-Chair), Linwei Xin (Co-Chair), Levi DeValve, and Yuan Zhong |
| Proposal: "Rent Stickiness and Its Implications for Rent and Vacancy Growth" | Seongjin Park (Finance) |
Thursday, September 22, 2022 at 11:45 a.m. | Amir Sufi (Chair), Michael Weber (in absentia), Anthony Zhang, and Eric Zwick |
| Proposal: "Essays in Behavioral and Labor Economics" | Tony Ditta (Economics) |
Thursday, September 15, 2022 at 11:00 a.m. | Devin Pope (Chair), Joshua Dean, Andrew McClellan, and Heather Sarsons (Vancouver School of Economics, University of British Columbia) |
| Defense: "Seeking Advice in the Workplace: Attributions to Competence, Credit, and Collaboration" | Donovan Rowsey (Behavioral Science) |
Wednesday, September 14, 2022 at 9:30 a.m. | George Wu (Chair), Reid Hastie, Alex Imas, and Richard Thaler |
| Proposal: "Safety Nets, Credit, and Productive Activity: Evidence from a Guaranteed Income Program for Small Entrepreneurs" | Nishant Vats (Finance) |
Wednesday, September 7, 2022 at 1:30 p.m. | Raghuram Rajan (Co-chair), Amir Sufi (Co-chair), Emanuele Colonnelli, Scott Nelson, Pascal Noel, Michael Weber (in absentia), Constantine Yannelis, and Elisabeth Kempf (Harvard Business School) |
| Proposal: "Banking on Inequality" | Agustin Hurtado (Finance) |
Tuesday, August 23, 2022 at 10:30 a.m. | Raghuram Rajan (Co-chair), Luigi Zingales (Co-chair), Amir Sufi, and Eric Zwick |
| Proposal: "The Role of Non-Diagnostic Language Cues in Decision Making" | Akshina Banerjee (Behavioral Marketing) |
Tuesday, July 26, 2022 at 2:00 p.m. | Oleg Urminsky (Chair), Daniel Bartels, Shereen Chaudhry, and Abigail Sussman |
| Proposal: "Essays on novelty and familiarity seeking in temporal and social contexts" | Yuji Winet (Behavioral Science) |
Tuesday, July 26, 2022 at 1:00 p.m. | Ed O'Brien (Chair), Ayelet Fishbach, Ann McGill, and Jane Risen |
| Proposal: "Elections Have Consequences: The Impact of Political Agency on Climate Policy and Asset Prices" | William Cassidy (Finance) |
Tuesday, July 26, 2022 at 1:00 p.m. | Lubos Pastor (Chair), Zhiguo He, Stefan Nagel, Pietro Veronesi, and Elisabeth Kempf (Harvard Business School) |
| Proposal: "Government Financial Constraint and Fiscal Multiplier in China" | Yang Su (Finance) |
Wednesday, July 20, 2022 at 11:00 a.m. | Zhiguo He (Chair), Raghuram Rajan, Anthony Zhang, and Eric Zwick |
| Proposal: "Deep Approximate Bayesian Inference" | Yuexi Wang (Econometrics & Statistics) |
Tuesday, July 19, 2022 at 3:00 p.m. | Nicholas Polson (Co-chair), Veronika Rockova (Co-chair), Sanjog Misra, and Chao Gao (Department of Statistics, University of Chicago) |
| Proposal: "Hidden Fees in Mortgage Markets: Evidence from Prepayment Penalties" | Michael Varley (Joint Program in Financial Economics) |
Thursday, June 23, 2022 at 11:00 a.m. | Amir Sufi (Chair), Scott Nelson, Pascal Noel, Constantine Yannelis, and Michael Dinerstein (Department of Economics, University of Chicago) |
| Proposal: "Fickle Capital Flows: Causes and Consequences" | Zhiyu Fu (Joint Program in Financial Economics) |
Wednesday, June 22, 2022 at 5:00 p.m. | Ralph Koijen (Co-chair), Greg Kaplan (Co-chair; Department of Economics, University of Chicago), Wenxin Du, and Zhiguo He |
| Proposal: "Seeking Value: Optimal and Heuristic Consumer Search" | Alexander Moore (Behavioral Science) |
Wednesday, June 22, 2022 at 1:00 p.m. | Daniel Bartels (Co-chair), Reid Hastie (Co-chair), Pradeep Chintagunta, Alex Imas, Oleg Urminsky, and Nicholas Reinholtz (Leeds School of Business, University of Colorado Boulder) |
| Defense: "Essays on Imperfect Humans and Imperfect Algorithms" | Diag Davenport (Behavioral Science) |
Thursday, June 16, 2022 at 1:00 p.m. | Sendhil Mullainathan (Co-chair), Devin Pope (Co-chair), Richard Thaler, and Betsy Levy Paluck (Department of Psychology, Princeton University) |
| Proposal: "Non-fungible cash in the stock market" | Xindi He (Joint Program in Financial Economics) |
Thursday, June 9, 2022 at 10:00 a.m. | Lubos Pastor (Chair), Lars Peter Hansen, Zhiguo He, and Stefan Nagel |
| Proposal: "Selection Decisions about Advantaged and Disadvantaged Applicants" | David Munguia Gomez (Behavioral Science) |
Thursday, June 9, 2022 at 9:00 a.m. | Emma Levine (Chair), Christopher Hsee, Jane Risen, and Taylor Phillips (Stern School of Business, New York University) |
| Proposal: "The Origins of Monetary Policy Zeitgeist" | Sangmin (Simon) Oh (Joint Program in Financial Economics) |
Wednesday, May 25, 2022 at 2:00 p.m. | Ralph Koijen (Chair), Niels Gormsen (in absentia), Lars Peter Hansen, and Stefan Nagel |
| Proposal: "The Effect of (Social) Self-Awareness on Trust" | Kristina Wald (Behavioral Science) |
Wednesday, May 25, 2022 at 1:00 p.m. | Shereen Chaudhry (Chair), Nick Epley, Emma Levine, and Jane Risen |
| Defense: "Machine Learning for Queue Prioritization: Applications to the Emergency Department" | Gizem Yilmaz (Management Science/Operations Management) |
Tuesday, May 24, 2022 at 10:00 a.m. | Dan Adelman (Chair), Varun Gupta, Rad Niazadeh, and Thomas Spiegel (University of Chicago Medicine) |
| Proposal: "Great Expectations? The Causal Impact of Expected Returns on Asset Demand and Prices" | Aditya Chaudhry (Finance) |
Monday, May 16, 2022 at 3:00 p.m. | Ralph Koijen (Co-chair), Stefan Nagel (Co-chair), Niels Gormsen, and Lars Peter Hansen |
| Defense: "Shared Intangibles & Technology Revolutions: Evidence from the Energy Sector" | Nam Vera Chau (Finance) |
Wednesday, April 27, 2022 at 2:00 p.m. | Amir Sufi (Chair), Lars Peter Hansen, Steven Kaplan, Pascal Noel (in absentia), and Constantine Yannelis |
| Defense: "Product Attributes, Cross Elasticities and Dynamic Market Structure in a Category with Many Products" | Wenxi Li (Econometrics & Statistics) |
Wednesday, April 27, 2022 at 2:00 p.m. | Pradeep Chintagunta (Co-chair), Ruey Tsay (Co-chair), Anita Rao, and Bradley Shapiro |
| Defense: "Operational Issues in Large Jail and Judiciary Systems" | Russell (Charlie) Hannigan (Management Science/Operations Management) |
Wednesday, April 27, 2022 at 10:00 a.m. | Barış Ata (Chair), John Birge, Donald Eisenstein, and Varun Gupta |
| Defense: "Consumer Behavior and the Rise of Broadband: A Retail Apocalypse?" | Uyen Tran (Quantitative Marketing) |
Tuesday, April 26, 2022 at 3:30 p.m. |
Günter Hitsch (Chair), Pradeep Chintagunta, Sanjog Misra, and Sarah Moshary |
| Defense: "Debt and Water: Effects of Bondholder Protections on Public Goods" | Kelly Posenau (Finance) |
Tuesday, April 26, 2022 at 3:00 p.m. | Anil Kashyap (Chair), Jessica Jeffers, Amir Sufi, and Eric Zwick |
| Defense: "Essays in Household and Housing Finance" | John Heilbron (Finance) |
Thursday, April 21, 2022 at 2:00 p.m. | Amir Sufi (Chair), Elisabeth Kempf, Scott Nelson, and Anthony Zhang |
| Defense: "Labor Market Power and Technological Change in US Manufacturing" | James Traina (Joint Program in Financial Economics) |
Thursday, April 21, 2022 at 9:30 a.m. | Erik Hurst (Co-chair), Chad Syverson (Co-chair), Brent Neiman (in absentia), Luigi Zingales (in absentia), and Ali Hortaçsu (Department of Economics, University of Chicago) |
| Defense: "Essays in Financial Markets" | Seyedehsan Azarmsa (Joint Program in Financial Economics) |
Tuesday, April 19, 2022 at 4:00 p.m. | Ralph Koijen (Co-chair), Pietro Veronesi (Co-chair), Lars Peter Hansen, Constantine Yannelis, and Lin William Cong (SC Johnson College of Business, Cornell University) |
| Defense: "Venture Capital and Private M&A Contracting" | Lauren Vollon (Accounting) |
Tuesday, April 19, 2022 at 10:00 a.m. | Hans Christensen (Chair), Steven Kaplan, Mark Maffett, and Delphine Samuels |
| Defense: "Disclosing Labor Demand" | Gurpal Sran (Accounting) |
Monday, April 18, 2022 at 11:00 a.m. | Christian Leuz (Chair), Philip Berger, Hans Christensen, and Thomas Rauter |
| Defense: "Essays on the Economics of Controversial Policies" | Rafael Jiménez Durán (Joint Program in Financial Economics) |
Friday, April 15, 2022 at 2:00 p.m. | Leo Bursztyn (Co-chair; Department of Economics, University of Chicago), Pietro Tebaldi (Co-chair; Department of Economics, Columbia University), Kevin Murphy, and Ali Hortaçsu (Department of Economics, University of Chicago) |
| Defense: "Are (Nonprofit) Banks Special? The Economic Effects of Banking with Credit Unions" | Andrés Shahidinejad (Economics) |
Friday, April 15, 2022 at 11:30 a.m. | Matthew Notowidigdo (Chair), Robert Gertner, Constantine Yannelis, and Neale Mahoney (Department of Economics, Stanford University) |
| Defense: "Flexible Fairness: How Context Shapes Social Preferences" | Elizabeth Huppert (Joint Program in Psychology and Business) |
Friday, April 15, 2022 at 9:00 a.m. | Jean Decety (Chair; Department of Psychology, University of Chicago), Emma Levine, Jane Risen, and Alex Shaw (Department of Psychology, University of Chicago) |
| Defense: "Costs of Political Polarization: Evidence from Mutual Fund Managers during Covid-19" | Matthew (Blair) Vorsatz (Finance) |
Wednesday, April 13, 2022 at 3:00 p.m. | Lubos Pastor (Chair), Elisabeth Kempf, Ralph Koijen, Stefan Nagel, and Pietro Veronesi |
| Defense: "What are you waiting for? Factors that influence patient decisions and experiences" | Annabelle Roberts (Behavioral Science) |
Friday, April 8, 2022 at 10:00 a.m. |
Ayelet Fishbach (Chair), Emma Levine, Ann McGill, and Oleg Urminsky |
| Defense: "Superstar Firms and Consumer Welfare" | Zhonglin Li (Economics) |
Monday, March 28, 2022 at 3:00 p.m. | Chad Syverson (Chair), Milena Almagro, Marianne Bertrand, and Thomas Wollmann |
| Proposal: "Social Networks and Retail Trading" | Fulin Li (Joint Program in Financial Economics) |
Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 10:30 a.m. | Ralph Koijen (Co-chair), Stefan Nagel (Co-chair), Lars Peter Hansen, Zhiguo He, and Harald Uhlig (Department of Economics, University of Chicago) |
| Proposal: "Consumer Behavior and the Rise of Broadband: A Retail Apocalypse?" | Uyen Tran (Quantitative Marketing) |
Monday, March 7, 2022 at 11:45 a.m. | Günter Hitsch (Chair), Pradeep Chintagunta (in absentia), Sanjog Misra, and Sarah Moshary |
| Proposal: "Essays on Imperfect Humans and Imperfect Algorithms" | Diag Davenport (Behavioral Science) |
Wednesday, March 2, 2022 at 1:30 p.m. | Sendhil Mullainathan (co-chair), Devin Pope (co-chair), Richard Thaler, and Betsy Levy Paluck (Department of Psychology, Princeton University) |
| Proposal: "Advice Seeking, Taking, and Consequences to Perceived Competence" | Donovan Rowsey (Behavioral Science) |
Monday, February 28, 2022 at 3:00 p.m. |
George Wu (Chair), Reid Hastie, Alex Imas, and Richard Thaler |
| Defense: "Machine Learning, Quantitative Portfolio Choice, and Mispricing" | Carter Davis (Finance) |
Tuesday, February 15, 2022 at 10:00 a.m. | Lubos Pastor (Chair), Niels Gormsen, Ralph Koijen, and Stefan Nagel |
| Defense: "Context-Dependent Utility" | Xilin Li (Behavioral Science) |
Monday, February 7, 2022 at 4:30 p.m. | Christopher Hsee (Chair), Alex Imas, Ed O'Brien, and Yang Yang (Warrington College of Business, University of Florida) |
| Proposal: "Essays on Applied Optimization Models" | Zuguang Gao (Management Science/Operations Management) |
Friday, February 4, 2022 at 2:00 p.m. | John Birge (Co-chair), Varun Gupta (Co-chair), Levi DeValve, and Tamer Başar (Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) |
| Proposal: "Machine Learning for Queue Prioritization: Applications to the Emergency Department" | Gizem Yilmaz (Management Science/Operations Management) |
Tuesday, January 25, 2022 at 11:00 a.m. | Dan Adelman (Chair), Varun Gupta, Rad Niazadeh, and Thomas Spiegel (University of Chicago Medicine) |
| Proposal: "Context-Dependent Utility" | Xilin Li (Behavioral Science) |
Tuesday, January 11, 2022 at 4:00 p.m. | Christopher Hsee (Chair), Alex Imas, Ed O'Brien, and Yang Yang (Warrington College of Business, University of Florida) |
| Proposal: "An Analysis of Pretrial Detention and Turnarounds in the Cook County Jail" | Russell (Charlie) Hannigan (Management Science/Operations Management) |
Tuesday, January 11, 2022 at 1:30 p.m. | Baris Ata (Chair), John Birge, Donald Eisenstein, and Varun Gupta |
| Proposal: "The Year-End Effect in the Foreign Exchange Market" | Yusheng Fei (Joint Program in Financial Economics) |
Tuesday, January 11, 2022 at 10:30 a.m. | Harald Uhlig (Chair; Department of Economics, University of Chicago), Wenxin Du, Ralph Koijen, and Michael Weber |
| 2021 Defenses and Proposals | |||
| Proposal: "Venture Capital and Private M&A Transactions" | Lauren Vollon (Accounting) |
Friday, December 10, 2021 at 10:30 a.m. | Hans Christensen (Chair), Steven Kaplan, Mark Maffett, and Delphine Samuels |
| Proposal: "Big-Box Store Expansion and Consumer Welfare" | Zhonglin Li (Economics) |
Tuesday, December 7, 2021 at 4:00 p.m. | Chad Syverson (Chair), Milena Almagro, Marianne Bertrand, and Thomas Wollmann |
| Proposal: "Essays on Managing Resources in the Sharing Economy" | Tahsin (Deniz) Akturk (Management Science/Operations Management) |
Thursday, December 2, 2021 at 2:00 p.m. | Ozan Candogan (co-chair), Varun Gupta (co-chair), John Birge, Amy Ward, Linwei Xin, and Yuan Zhong |
| Proposal: "Product Attributes, Cross Elasticities and Dynamic Market Structure in a Category with Many Products” | Wenxi Li (Econometrics & Statistics) |
Wednesday, November 17, 2021 | Pradeep Chintagunta (co-chair), Ruey Tsay (co-chair), Anita Rao, and Bradley Shapiro (in absentia) |
| Proposal: "Product Attributes, Cross Elasticities and Dynamic Market Structure in a Category with Many Products” | Wenxi Li (Econometrics & Statistics) |
Wednesday, November 17, 2021 | Pradeep Chintagunta (co-chair), Ruey Tsay (co-chair), Anita Rao, and Bradley Shapiro (in absentia) |
| Proposal: "Are (Nonprofit) Banks Special? The Economic Effects of Banking with Credit Unions” | Andres Shahidinejad (Economics) |
Friday, November 12, 2021 | Matthew Notowidigdo (Chair), Robert Gertner, Constantine Yannelis, and Neale Mahoney (Department of Economics, Stanford University) |
| Proposal: "Debt and Water: Effects of Bondholder Protections on Public Goods” | Kelly Posenau (Finance) |
Monday, October 18, 2021 | Anil Kashyap (Chair), Jessica Jeffers, Amir Sufi, Eric Zwick |
| Proposal: "Disclosing Labor Demand” | Gurpal Sran (Accounting) |
Thursday, September 30, 2021 | Christian Leuz (Chair), Philip Berger, Hans Christensen, and Thomas Rauter |
| Proposal: "Advantages of Political Diversity: Evidence from Mutual Fund Managers during Covid-19” | Matthew (Blair) Vorsatz (Finance) |
Tuesday, September 28, 2021 | Lubos Pastor (Chair), Elisabeth Kempf, Ralph Koijen, Stefan Nagel, and Pietro Veronesi |
| Proposal: "Content moderation, user behavior, and welfare” | Rafael Jimenez Duran (Joint Program in Financial Economics) |
Friday, September 24, 2021 | Leo Bursztyn (Co-chair; Department of Economics, University of Chicago), Pietro Tebaldi (Co-chair; Department of Economics, Columbia University), Kevin Murphy, and Ali Hortaçsu (Department of Economics, University of Chicago) |
| Proposal: "Credit Constraints and the Valuation of Public Amenities” | John Heilbron (Finance) |
Wednesday, August 4, 2021 | Amir Sufi (Chair), Elisabeth Kempf, Scott Nelson, and Anthony Zhang |
| Defense: "Machine Learning in Empirical Asset Pricing” | Shihao Gu (Econometrics & Statistics) |
Thursday, July 29, 2021 | Dacheng Xiu (Chair), Tengyuan Liang, Nicholas Polson, and Bryan Kelly (Yale School of Management). |
| Proposal: "Machine Learning in Empirical Asset Pricing” | Shihao Gu (Econometrics & Statistics) |
Friday, July 9, 2021 |
Dacheng Xiu (Chair), Tengyuan Liang, Nicholas Polson, and Bryan Kelly (Yale School of Management) |
| Defense: "Essays in Bayesian Inference and Deep Learning” | Jianeng Xu (Econometrics & Statistics) |
Monday, June 14, 2021 | Nicholas Polson (Chair), Veronika Rockova, Ruey Tsay, and Dacheng Xiu |
| Proposal: "What are you waiting for? Factors that influence patient decisions and experiences” | Annabelle Roberts (Behavioral Science) |
Friday, May 21, 2021 | Ayelet Fishbach (Chair), Emma Levine, Ann McGill, and Oleg Urminsky |
| Defense: "No Shock Waves through Wall Street? Market Responses to the Risk of Nuclear War” | David Finer (Finance) |
Tuesday, May 11, 2021 | Luigi Zingales (Chair), Stefan Nagel, Lubos Pastor, Michael Weber, and Dacheng Xiu |
| Proposal: "Essays in Bayesian Inference and Deep Learning” | Jianeng Xu (Econometrics & Statistics) |
Monday, May 3, 2021 | Nick Polson (Chair), Veronika Rockova, Ruey Tsay, and Dacheng Xiu |
| Proposal: "Flexible Fairness: How context shapes social preferences” | Elizabeth Huppert (Joint Program in Psychology and Business) |
Wednesday, May 12, 2021 | Jean Decety (Chair; Department of Psychology, University of Chicago), Emma Levine, Jane Risen, and Alex Shaw (Department of Psychology, University of Chicago) |
| Defense: "Choice Frictions in Large Assortments” | Olivia Natan (Quantitative Marketing) |
Monday, April 26, 2021 | Pradeep Chintagunta (Co-Chair), Jean-Pierre Dubé (Co-Chair), Anita Rao, and Ali Hortaçsu (Department of Economics, University of Chicago) |
| Defense: "Essays on Macroeconomics Models with Dispersed Information” | Yu-Ting Chiang (Joint Program in Financial Economics) |
Monday, April 26, 2021 | Mikhail Golosov (Chair), Fernando Alvarez, Lars Peter Hansen, and Yueran Ma |
| Defense: "The Importance of Investor Heterogeneity: An Examination of the Corporate Bond Market” | Jian (Jane) Li (Joint Program in Financial Economics) |
Thursday, April 22, 2021 | Zhiguo He (Co-Chair), Ralph Koijen (Co-Chair), Douglas Diamond, Lars Peter Hansen, and Anil Kashyap |
| Defense: "Influence of Liquidity Information on Liquidity Holdings in the Banking System” | Yao Lu (Accounting) |
Wednesday, April 21, 2021 | Christian Leuz (Chair), Valeri Nikolaev, Haresh Sapra, and Douglas Skinner |
| Defense: "An Economic Analysis of Collateralized Loan Obligations” | Shohini Kundu (Finance) |
Tuesday, April 20, 2021 | Anil Kashyap (Chair), Douglas Diamond, Ralph Koijen, Yueran Ma, Raghuram Rajan, and Amir Sufi |
| Defense: "Spillover of Local Economic Shocks through Multi-market Banks: Evidence from Trade Liberalization” | Gursharan Bhue (Finance) |
Monday, April 19, 2021 | Amir Sufi (Chair), Emanuele Colonnelli, Joao Granja, and Eric Zwick |
| Defense: "Essays in Econometrics” | Connor Dowd (Econometrics & Statistics) |
Monday, April 19, 2021 | Christian Hansen (Chair), Max Farrell, Panos Toulis, and Constantine Yannelis |
| Defense: “The Green Bonding Hypothesis: How do Green Bonds Enhance the Credibility of Environmental Commitments?” | Shirley Lu (Accounting) |
Wednesday, March 31, 2021 | Hans Christensen (Chair), Marianne Bertrand, Christian Leuz, and Haresh Sapra |
| Defense: "Essays on the Econometrics of Dependent Data" | Jianfei Cao (Econometrics and Statistics) |
Tuesday, March 30, 2021 | Christian Hansen (Chair), Max Farrell, Tetsuya Kaji, and Panos Toulis |
| Defense: "Collective Response to Scarcity: How the Resource Environment Shapes Social Networks" | Kariyushi Rao (Behavioral Science) |
Thursday, March 18, 2021 | Reid Hastie (Chair), Ronald S. Burt, Michael Gibbs, Emir Kamenica, Richard Thaler, and John Levi Martin (Department of Sociology, University of Chicago) |
| Proposal: "Robust IV Inference with Clustering Dependence" | Jianfei Cao (Econometrics and Statistics) |
Monday, February 1, 2021 | Christian Hansen (Chair), Max Farrell, Tetsuya Kaji, and Panos Toulis |
| 2020 Defenses and Proposals |
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| Proposal: "Disclosing with Strategic Interactions: Unintended Externalities of Bank Liquidity Disclosure" | Yao Lu (Accounting) |
Thursday, October 1, 2020 | Christian Leuz (Chair), Valeri Nikolaev, Haresh Sapra, and Douglas Skinner |
| Defense: "Three Essays on Financial Decision-Making" | Samuel Hirshman (Behavioral Science) |
Friday, September 25, 2020 | Abigail Sussman (Co-Chair), Richard Thaler (Co-chair), Alex Imas, and Oleg Urminsky |
| Proposal: "The Green Bonding Hypothesis: How Green Bonds Enhance the Credibility of Environmental Commitments" | Shirley Lu (Accounting) |
Thursday, September 24, 2020 | Hans Christensen (Chair), Marianne Bertrand, Christian Leuz, and Haresh Sapra |
| Proposal: "Investment as Innovation: Open Technology Cycles and the Energy Case" | Nam (Vera) Chau (Finance) |
Wednesday, August 26, 2020 | Amir Sufi (Chair), Lars Peter Hansen, Steven Kaplan, and Constantine Yannelis |
| Defense: "Political Cognition in a Liberal Democracy: The Effects of Election Outcomes on Perceived Corruption, Perceived Legitimacy, and Voluntary Compliance with the Law" | Anirudh Tiwathia (Joint Program in Psychology and Business) |
Monday, August 3, 2020 | Devin Pope (Chair), Reid Hastie, George Wu, and William Goldstein (Professor Emeritus, Departments of Psychology and Comparative Human Development, University of Chicago) |
| Defense: "Personalized Versioning: Product Strategies Constructed from Experiments on Pandora" | Ali Goli (Quantitative Marketing) |
Monday, July 27, 2020 | Pradeep Chintagunta (Co-Chair), Jean-Pierre Dubé (Co-Chair), Günter Hitsch, and Anita Rao |
| Proposal: "Machine Learning, Quantitative Portfolio Choice, and Mispricing" | Carter Davis (Finance) |
Friday, July 24, 2020 | Lubos Pastor (Chair), Niels Gormsen, Ralph Koijen, and Stefan Nagel |
| Defense: "The Effect of Nativenesss of Language on Social Norm Adherence" | Becky Ka Ying Lau (Joint Program in Psychology and Business) |
Wednesday, July 1, 2020 | Boaz Keysar (Chair; Department of Psychology, University of Chicago), Nicholas Epley, Thomas Talhelm, and Oleg Urminsky |
| Proposal: "Collective response to scarcity: How the resource environment shapes social networks" | Kariyushi Rao (Behavioral Science) |
Tuesday, June 23, 2020 | Reid Hastie (Chair), Ronald Burt, Michael Gibbs, Emir Kamenica, Richard Thaler, and John Levi Martin (Department of Sociology, University of Chicago) |
| Proposal: "Spillover of Local Economic Shocks through Multi-Market Banks: Evidence from Trade Liberalization" | Gursharan Bhue (Finance) |
Friday, June 19, 2020 | Amir Sufi (Chair), Emanuele Colonnelli, Joao Granja, and Eric Zwick |
| Proposal: "The Importance of Investor Heterogeneity: An Examination of the Corporate Bond Market" | Jian (Jane) Li (Joint Program in Financial Economics) |
Friday, June 12, 2020 | Zhiguo He (Co-Chair), Ralph Koijen (Co-Chair), Douglas Diamond, Lars Peter Hansen, and Anil Kashyap |
| Proposal: "Returns to Personalizing Implicit Prices: Evidence from Field Experiments at Pandora Music" | Ali Goli (Quantitative Marketing) |
Tuesday, June 9, 2020 | Pradeep Chintagunta (Co-Chair), Jean-Pierre Dubé (Co-Chair), Günter Hitsch, and Anita Rao |
| Defense: "Dynamic Dispatch and Centralized Relocation of Cars in Ride-hailing Platforms" | Nasser Barjesteh (Management Science/Operations Management) |
Tuesday, May 26, 2020 | Baris Ata (Co-Chair), Sunil Kumar (Co-Chair; Johns Hopkins University), Ozan Candogan, Varun Gupta, Amy Ward, and Yuan Zhong |
| Proposal: "Strategic Uncertainty Over Business Cycles" | Yu-Ting Chiang (Joint Program in Financial Economics) |
Tuesday, May 19, 2020 | Mikhail Golosov (Chair; Department of Economics, University of Chicago), Lars Peter Hansen, and Yueran Ma |
| Proposal: "Choice Frictions in Large Assortments" | Olivia Natan (Quantitative Marketing) |
Friday, May 15, 2020 | Pradeep Chintagunta (Co-Chair), Jean-Pierre Dubé (Co-Chair), Anita Rao, and Ali Hortaçsu (Department of Economics, University of Chicago) |
| Proposal: "Liquidity Constraints and Real Effects of Financial Intermediaries: Risk Intensification and Collapse in the Leveraged Loan Market" | Shohini Kundu (Finance) |
Thursday, May 14, 2020 | Anil Kashyap (Chair), Douglas Diamond, Ralph Koijen, Yueran Ma, and Raghuram Rajan |
| Defense: "Investigating the Effects of Including Discount Information in Advertising" | Shirsho Biswas (Quantitative Marketing) |
Tuesday, May 12, 2020 | Pradeep Chintagunta (Chair), Sanjay Dhar, Jean-Pierre Dube, and Anita Rao |
| Defense: "Essays on Financial Intermediaries and Monetary Policy" | Stefano Pegoraro (Joint Program in Financial Economics) |
Thursday, May 7, 2020 | Lars Peter Hansen (Co-Chair), Zhiguo He (Co-Chair), Douglas Diamond, and Pietro Veronesi |
| Defense: "When Shrouded Prices Signal Transparency: Consequences of Price Disaggregation" | Shannon White (Behavioral Science) |
Wednesday, May 6, 2020 | Abigail Sussman (Chair), Christopher Hsee, Jane Risen, and Oleg Urminsky |
| Defense: "It’s surprisingly nice to meet you: An expectancy-value theory of people’s social engagement decisions" | Michael Kardas (Behavioral Science) |
Monday, May 4, 2020 | Nicholas Epley (Chair), Emma Levine, Ed O'Brien, and Boaz Keysar (Department of Psychology, University of Chicago) |
| Proposal: "Active Learning in Marketplaces and Online Platforms" | Yifan Feng (Management Science/Operations Management) |
Monday, May 4, 2020 | René Caldentey (Chair), John Birge, Linwei Xin, N. Bora Keskin (Fuqua School of Business, Duke University), and Christopher Ryan (Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia) |
| Defense: "Assessing Human Information Processing in Lending Decisions: A Machine Learning Approach" | Miao Liu (Accounting) |
Friday, May 1, 2020 | Christian Leuz (Chair), Philip Berger, Sendhil Mullainathan, and Valeri Nikolaev |
| Defense: "Assessing Bank Deposit Market Power Given Limited Consumer Consideration" | Eliot Abrams (Economics) |
Thursday, April 30, 2020 | Ralph Koijen (Co-Chair), Chad Syverson (Co-Chair), Douglas Diamond, Thomas Wollmann, and Ali Hortaçsu (Department of Economics, University of Chicago) |
| Defense: "Attitudinal Ambiguity and Dehumanization" | Jessica Lopez (Behavioral Marketing) |
Thursday, April 30, 2020 | Ann McGill (Chair), Berkeley Dietvorst, Ayelet Fishbach, and Oleg Urminsky |
| Defense: "Public Pensions and State Government Borrowing Costs" | Charles Boyer (Joint Program in Financial Economics) |
Thursday, April 30, 2020 | Lubos Pastor (Chair), John Heaton, Eric Zwick, and Michael Dinerstein (Department of Economics, University of Chicago) |
| Defense: "Institutional Investors as Information Suppliers: Evidence from Investment Conferences" | Johanna Shin (Accounting) |
Tuesday, April 28, 2020 | Philip Berger (Chair), Mark Maffett, Douglas Skinner, and Abbie Smith |
| Defense: "Optimal Banking System for Private Money Creation" | Xun (Douglas) Xu (Joint Program in Financial Economics) |
Friday, April 24, 2020 | Douglas Diamond (Co-chair), Zhiguo He (Co-chair), Raghuram Rajan, Amir Sufi, Luigi Zingales, and Roger Myerson (Department of Economics, University of Chicago) |
| Defense: "Do Auditors Help Prevent Data Breaches?" | Lisa Yao Liu (Accounting) |
Thursday, April 23, 2020 | Hans Christensen (Chair), Philip Berger, Christian Leuz, Mark Maffett, and Michael Minnis |
| Defense: "The Revolving Door and Insurance Solvency Regulation" | Ana-Maria Tenekedjieva (Finance) |
Tuesday, April 14, 2020 | Marianne Bertrand (Co-chair), Amir Sufi (Co-chair), Ralph Koijen, and Eric Zwick |
| Defense: "Customer Retention under Imperfect Information" |
Yewon Kin (Quantitative Marketing) |
Monday, April 6, 2020 | Sanjog Misra (Chair), Jean-Pierre Dubé, Sarah Moshary, and Bradley Shapiro |
| Proposal: "Essays on Revenue Management: Platform Economy and Optimization under Uncertainty" | Hongfan (Kevin) Chen (Management Science/Operations Management) |
Tuesday, March 31, 2020 | John Birge (Chair), Ozan Candogan, Amy Ward, N. Bora Keskin (Fuqua School of Business, Duke University), and Daniela Saban (Stanford Graduate School of Business) |
| Defense: "Disinterested, Lost, or Both? Estimating Productivity Thresholds from an Educational Field Experiment" | Hee Kwon (Samuel) Seo (Economics) |
Monday, March 16, 2020 | Michael Greenstone (Chair; Department of Economics, University of Chicago), Marianne Bertrand, Canice Prendergast, and Michael Dinerstein (Department of Economics, University of Chicago) |
| Proposal: "Essays on Ownership and Beliefs" | Samuel Hirshman (Behavioral Science) |
Friday, March 13, 2020 | Abigail Sussman (Co-Chair), Richard Thaler (Co-chair), Oleg Urminsky, and Alex Imas (Department of Social and Decision Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University) |
| Proposal: "Stochastic Tree Ensembles for Regularized Nonlinear Regression" | Jingyu He (Econometrics & Statistics) |
Friday, March 6, 2020 | Nicholas Polson (Co-chair), P. Richard Hahn (School of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences, Arizona State University; Co-chair), Tengyuan Liang, and Ruey Tsay |
| Defense: "Valuing Intrinsic and Instrumental Preferences for Privacy" | Xiaocai (Tesary) Lin (Quantitative Marketing) |
Monday, February 24, 2020 | Pradeep Chintagunta (Co-chair), Sanjog Misra (Co-chair), Bradley Shapiro, and Oleg Urminsky |
| Defense: "Estimation and Statistical Inference for High Dimensional Model with Constrained Parameter Space" | Ming Yu (Econometrics & Statistics) |
Tuesday, February 11, 2020 |
Mladen Kolar (Chair), Varun Gupta, Tengyuan Liang, and Rina Foygel Barber (Department of Statistics, University of Chicago) |
| Proposal: "The Architecture of Grassroots-Oriented Corporate Philanthropy in Contemporary China" | Yuhao Zhuang (Joint Program in Sociology and Business) |
Thursday, February 6, 2020 | Amanda Sharkey (Co-chair), Elisabeth Clemens (Co-chair; Department of Sociology, University of Chicago), Brayden King (Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University), and Dingxin Zhao (Department of Sociology, University of Chicago) |
| 2019 Defenses and Proposals |
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| "Investigating the Effects of Including Discount Information in Advertising" | Shirsho Biswas (Quantitative Marketing) | 2019 | Pradeep Chintagunta (Chair), Sanjay Dhar, Jean-Pierre Dube, and Anita Rao |
| "Estimation and Statistical Inference for High Dimensional Model with Constrained Parameter Space" | Ming Yu (Econometrics & Statistics) | 2019 | Mladen Kolar (Chair), Varun Gupta, Tengyuan Liang, and Rina Foygel Barber (Department of Statistics, University of Chicago) |
| "Shock Waves through Wall Street? Market Impacts of a Salient Disaster Risk during the Cold War" | David Finer (Finance) |
2019 | Luigi Zingales (Chair), Stefan Nagel, Lubos Pastor, Michael Weber, and Dacheng Xiu |
| "Institutional Investors as Information Suppliers: Evidence from Investment Conferences" | Johanna Shin (Accounting) | 2019 | Philip G. Berger (Chair), Mark Maffett, Douglas Skinner, and Abbie Smith |
| “Operational Issues in Organ Transplantations” | Ali (Cem) Randa (Management Science/Operations Management) | 2019 | Barış Ata (Chair), Varun Gupta, Günter J. Hitsch, and John Friedewald (Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University) |
| “Some Consequences of Price Complexity” | Shannon White (Behavioral Science) | 2019 | Abigail Sussman (Chair), Christopher Hsee, Jane Risen, and Oleg Urminsky |
| “Attitudinal Ambiguity and Dehumanization” | Jessica Lopez (Behavioral Marketing) | 2019 | Ann McGill (Chair), Berkeley Dietvorst, Ayelet Fishbach, and Oleg Urminsky |
| “Assessing the Strength and Weakness in Human Information Processing: A Machine Learning Approach” | Miao Liu (Accounting) | 2019 | Christian Leuz (Chair), Philip G. Berger, Sendhil Mullainathan, and Valeri Nikolaev |
| “Spillover Effects of Auditing: Evidence from Data Breaches” | Yao (Lisa) Liu (Accounting) | 2019 | Hans Christensen (Chair), Philip G. Berger, Christian Leuz, Mark Maffett, and Michael Minnis |
| “Public Pensions, Political Economy, and State Government Borrowing Costs” | Charles Boyer (Joint Program in Financial Economics) | 2019 |
Lubos Pastor (Chair), John Heaton, Eric Zwick, and Michael Dinerstein |
| “Partial Identification for Regression Discontinuity Donuts” | Connor Dowd (Econometrics & Statistics) | 2019 | Christian B. Hansen (Chair), Max Farrell, Panos Toulis, and Constantine Yannelis |
| “Pricing and Matching in Service Systems with an Emphasis on Ride-Hailing Systems” | Nasser Barjesteh (Management Science/Operations Management) |
2019 |
Baris Ata (Co-chair), Sunil Kumar (Co-chair; Johns Hopkins University), Ozan Candogan, Varun Gupta, Amy Ward, and Yuan Zhong |
| “The Revolving Door and Insurance Solvency Regulation” | Ana-Maria Tenekedjieva (Finance) | 2019 | Marianne Bertrand (Co-chair), Amir Sufi (Co-chair), Ralph Koijen, and Eric Zwick |
| “How Useful Are Machine Learning Tools in Predicting High Frequency Returns?” | An Qi (Econometrics & Statistics) | 2019 | Jeffrey Russell (Chair), Tengyuan Liang, Ruey Tsay, and Dacheng Xiu |
| “Monopsony Power in US Manufacturing” | James Traina (Joint Program in Financial Economics) | 2019 |
Erik Hurst (Co-chair), Chad Syverson (Co-chair), Brent Neiman, Luigi Zingales, and Ali Hortaçsu (Department of Economics, University of Chicago) |
| “Optimal Contracts for Experimenting Intermediaries” |
Stefano Pegoraro (Joint Program in Financial Economics) |
2019 |
Lars Peter Hansen (Co-chair), Zhiguo He (Co-chair), Douglas Diamond, and Pietro Veronesi |
| “Customer Retention under Imperfect Information” |
Yewon Kim (Quantitative Marketing) |
2019 |
Sanjog Misra (Chair), Jean-Pierre Dubé, Sarah Moshary, and Bradley Shapiro |
| “Wealth Inequality: An Informational Perspective” |
Seyedehsan Azarmsa (Joint Program in Financial Economics) |
2019 |
Pietro Veronesi (Chair), Lin William Cong, Lars Peter Hansen, and Constantine Yannelis |
| “A Run on Oil: Climate Policy, Stranded Assets, and Asset Prices” |
Michael Barnett (Joint Program in Financial Economics) |
2019 |
Lars Peter Hansen (Co-chair), Pietro Veronesi (Co-chair), Michael Greenstone (Department of Economics, University of Chicago), and Bryan Kelly (Yale School of Management; in absentia) |
| “Mind Perceptions and Consumer Judgments” |
Hye-young Kim (Behavioral Science) |
2019 |
Ann L. McGill (Chair), Reid Hastie, Oleg Urminsky, and Adam Waytz (Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University) |
| “Mergers, Aggregate Productivity, and Markups” |
Peter Chen (Finance) |
2019 |
Brent Neiman (Co-chair), Eric Zwick (Co-chair), Steven N. Kaplan, Amir Sufi, and Chad Syverson |
| “Estimation of Sequential Search Models” |
Jae Hyen Chung (Econometrics & Statistics) |
2019 |
Pradeep Chintagunta (Co-chair), Ruey Tsay (Co-chair), Misra Sanjog, and Raluca Ursu (Stern School of Business, New York University) |
| “Limited Attention: Implications for Financial Reporting” |
Jinzhi Lu (Accounting) |
2019 |
Haresh Sapra (Chair), Philip Berger, Jonathan Bonham, and Pingyang Gao |
| “Counterparty Risk and Repo Runs” |
Yiyao Wang (Joint Program in Financial Economics) |
2019 |
Douglas Diamond (Chair), Veronica Guerrieri, Lars Peter Hansen, Zhiguo He |
| “Can Institutional Investors Trade on News? Evidence from Macroeconomic and Firm-Level Announcements” |
Klakow Akepanidtaworn (Joint Program in Financial Economics) |
2019 |
Randall Kroszner (Chair), Samuel Hartzmark, Michael Weber, and Lawrence Schmidt (Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology) |
| “Expectation Error” |
Xiao Zhang (Finance) |
2019 |
Amir Sufi (Chair), Lin William Cong, Zhiguo He, and Stefan Nagel |
| “Does Fiscal Monitoring Make Better Governments? Evidence from the US Municipalities” |
Anna (Anya) Nakhmurina (Accounting) |
2019 |
Abbie Smith (Chair), Hans Christensen, Mark Maffett, and Douglas Skinner |
| “A Dragging Down Effect: Consumer Purchase Decisions in Response to Price Increases” |
Yiwen (Shirley) Zhang (Behavioral Marketing) |
2019 |
Christopher Hsee (Co-chair), Abigail Sussman (Co-chair), Ann McGill, and Oleg Urminsky |
| “Do Delays in Banks’ Loan Loss Provisioning Affect Economic Downturns? Evidence from the U.S. Housing Market” |
Sehwa Kim (Accounting) |
2019 |
Philip G. Berger (Chair), John Gallemore, Christian Leuz, and Valeri Nikolaev |
| “Clientele Political Ideology and Asset Prices” |
Alejandro Hoyos Suarez (Joint Program in Financial Economics) |
2019 |
Pietro Veronesi (Chair), Niels Gormsen, Samuel Hartzmark, and Lawrence Schmidt (Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology) |
| “Connections as Jumps: Estimating Financial Interconnectedness from Market Data” |
Willem van Vliet (Joint Program in Financial Economics) |
2019 |
Lars Peter Hansen (Chair), Stefan Nagel, Pietro Veronesi, and Azeem Shaikh (Department of Economics, University of Chicago; in absentia) |
| “It's Surprisingly Nice to Meet You: Toward an Expectancy-Value Theory of Social Approach and Avoidance Decisions” |
Michael Kardas (Behavioral Science) |
2019 |
Nicholas Epley (Chair), Emma Levine, Ed O’Brien, and Boaz Keysar (Department of Psychology, University of Chicago) |
| “The Impact of Government Policies on Retail Prices and Welfare” |
Justin Leung (Economics) |
2019 |
Marianne Bertrand (Chair), Neale Mahoney, Canice Prendergast, and Michael Greenstone (Department of Economics, University of Chicago) |
| “The Economic Consequences of Financial Audit Regulation in the Charitable Sector” |
Raphael Duguay (Accounting) |
2019 |
Christian Leuz (Chair), Marianne Bertrand, Hans Christensen, and Michael Minnis |
| “An Information Quality-Based Explanation for Delayed Loan Loss Provisioning During the 2008 Financial Crisis” |
Ling Yang (Accounting) |
2019 |
Hans Christensen (Chair), John Gallemore, Anya Kleymenova, and Valeri Nikolaev |
| “Financing the Gig Economy” |
Gregory Buchak (Joint Program in Financial Economics) |
2019 |
Amir Sufi (Co-chair), Amit Seru (Co-chair; Stanford Graduate School of Business), Steve Kaplan, Ufuk Akcigit (Department of Economics, University of Chicago), and Gregor Matvos (McCombs School of Business, University of Texas at Austin) |
| “Expectations in the Cross Section: Stock Price Reactions to the Information and Bias in Analyst-Expected Returns” |
Johnathan Loudis (Joint Program in Financial Economics) |
2019 |
Stefan Nagel (Co-chair), Bryan Kelly (Co-chair; Yale School of Management; in absentia), Lubos Pastor, and Lawrence Schmidt (Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology) |
| “The Risk of Risk-Sharing: Diversification and Boom-Bust Cycles” |
Paymon Khorrami (Joint Program in Financial Economics) |
2019 |
Lars Peter Hansen (Co-chair), Zhiguo He (Co-chair), Veronica Guerrieri, and Pietro Veronesi |
| “Essays on Cycles, Inequality and Race” |
Jung Sakong (Economics) |
2019 |
Amir Sufi (Chair), Marianne Bertrand, Raghuram Rajan (in absentia), and Luigi Zingales |
| “Arbitrage Comovement” | John Shim (Finance) |
2019 |
Eric Budish (Co-chair), Lubos Pastor (Co-chair), Stefan Nagel, Bryan Kelly (Yale School of Management; in absentia), and Tobias Moskowitz (Yale School of Management; in absentia) |
| “Learning-by-doing and Preference Discovery in Video Game Play” |
Charles Zou (Econometrics & Statistics) |
2019 |
Pradeep Chintagunta (Co-chair), Ruey Tsay (Co-chair), Anita Rao, and Bradley Shapiro |
| “The Effect of Language on Adherence to Social Norms” |
Becky Ka Ying Lau (Joint Program in Psychology and Business) |
2019 |
Boaz Keysar (Chair; Department of Psychology, University of Chicago), Nicholas Epley, Thomas Talhelm, and Oleg Urminsky |
| “A Dynamic Network Model for Large Dimension Order Flows in Financial Markets” |
An Qi (Econometrics & Statistics) |
2019 |
Jeffrey Russell (Chair), Tengyuan Liang, Ruey Tsay, and Dacheng Xiu |
| 2018 Defenses and Proposals |
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| “Essays on Dynamic Learning in Revenue Management and Logistics Network Management” |
Yifan Feng (Management Science/Operations Management) |
2018 |
René Caldentey (Chair), John Birge, Christopher Ryan, Linwei Xin, and N. Bora Keskin (Fuqua School of Business, Duke University) |
| “Rising Bank Market Power: The Role of Consumer Consideration and Online Banking” |
Eliot Abrams (Economics) |
2018 |
Ralph Koijen (Co-chair), Chad Syverson (Co-chair), Douglas Diamond, Thomas Wollmann, and Ali Hortaçsu (Department of Economics, University of Chicago) |
| “Expectation Error” |
Xiao Zhang (Finance) |
2018 |
Amir Sufi (Chair), Lin William Cong, Zhiguo He, and Stefan Nagel |
| “Measuring Intrinsic and Instrumental Privacy Preferences” |
Xiaocai (Tesary) Lin (Quantitative Marketing) |
2018 |
Pradeep Chintagunta (Co-chair), Sanjog Misra (Co-chair), Bradley Shapiro, and Oleg Urminsky |
| “Limited Attention: Implications for Financial Reporting” |
Jinzhi Lu (Accounting) |
2018 |
Haresh Sapra (Chair), Philip Berger, Jonathan Bonham, and Pingyang Gao |
| “Does Fiscal Monitoring Make Better Governments? Evidence from the US Municipalities” |
Anya Nakhmurina (Accounting) |
2018 |
Abbie Smith (Chair), Hans Christensen, Mark Maffett, and Douglas Skinner |
| “Can Institutional Investors Trade On News? Evidence from Macroeconomic and rm-level Announcements” |
Klakow Akepanidtaworn (Joint Program in Financial Economics) |
2018 |
Randall Kroszner (Chair), Samuel Hartzmark (in absentia), Michael Weber, and Lawrence Schmidt (Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology) |
| “Clientele Political Ideology and Asset Prices” |
Alejandro Hoyos Suarez (Joint Program in Financial Economics) |
2018 |
Pietro Veronesi (Chair), Niels Gormsen, Samuel Hartzmark (in absentia), and Lawrence Schmidt (Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology) |
| “Financing the Gig Economy” |
Gregory Buchak (Joint Program in Financial Economics) |
2018 |
Amir Sufi (Co-chair), Amit Seru (Co-chair; Stanford Graduate School of Business), Steven Kaplan, Ufuk Akcigit (Department of Economics, University of Chicago), and Gregor Matvos (McCombs School of Business, University of Texas at Austin) |
| “The Economic Consequences of Financial Statement Audit Regulation in the Charitable Sector” |
Raphael Duguay (Accounting) |
2018 |
Christian Leuz (Chair), Marianne Bertrand, Hans Christensen, and Michael Minnis |
| “Do Delays in Banks’ Loan Loss Provisioning Affect Economic Downturns? Evidence from the U.S. Housing Market” | Sehwa Kim (Accounting) |
2018 |
Philip Berger (Chair), John Gallemore, Christian Leuz, and Valeri Nikolaev |
| “Why Was Loan Loss Provisioning Delayed During the 2008 Financial Crisis? An Information Quality-Based Explanation” |
Ling Yang (Accounting) |
2018 |
Hans Christensen (Chair), John Gallemore, Anya Kleymenova, and Valeri Nikolaev |
| “Electronic Proxy Statement Dissemination and Shareholder Monitoring” |
Rachel Geoffroy (Accounting) |
2018 |
Philip Berger (Chair), Hans Christensen, Mark Maffett, and Abbie Smith |
| “Interbank Runs: A Network Model of Systemic Liquidity Crunches” |
Yinan Su (Joint Program in Financial Economics) |
2018 |
Lars Peter Hansen (Co-chair), Zhiguo He (Co-chair), Douglas Diamond, and Bryan Kelly (Yale School of Management) |
| “Essays on Implied Spherical Space Forms in Statistics: from Applications of Algebraic Topology to Interactive Graphical Tools” |
Xiaolong (David) Wu (Econometrics & Statistics) |
2018 |
Ruey Tsay (Chair), Christian Hansen, Drew Creal, and Robert McCulloch (School of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences, Arizona State University; in absentia) |
| “Money Creation by Illiquid Banks” |
Xun (Douglas) Xu (Joint Program in Financial Economics) |
2018 |
Douglas Diamond (Co-chair), Zhiguo He (Co-chair), Raghuram Rajan, Luigi Zingales, and Roger Myerson (Department of Economics, University of Chicago) |
| “Do ETFs Distort Stock Returns?” |
John Shim (Finance) |
2018 |
Eric Budish (Co-chair), Lubos Pastor (Co-chair), Stefan Nagel (in absentia), Bryan Kelly (Yale School of Management), and Toby Moskowitz (Yale School of Management; in absentia) |
| “The Intuitive Jurisprudence of Punishment” |
Jessica Bregant (Joint Program in Psychology and Business) |
2018 |
Eugene Caruso (Co-chair), Alex Shaw (Co-chair; Department of Psychology, University of Chicago), George Wu, and Katherine D. Kinzler (Department of Psychology, Cornell University) |
| “The Economics of Retail Food Waste” |
Robert Sanders (Quantitative Marketing) |
2018 |
Jean-Pierre Dubé (Chair), René Caldentey, Pradeep Chintagunta (in absentia), and Günter Hitsch |
| “Learning-by-Doing and Preference Discovery in Videogame Play Data” |
Charles Zou (Econometrics & Statistics) |
2018 |
Pradeep Chintagunta (Co-chair), Ruey Tsay (Co-chair), Anita Rao, and Bradley Shapiro |
| “Accruals Quality and Firm Value” |
Oleg Kiriukhin (Accounting) |
2018 |
Valeri Nikolaev (Chair), Christian Leuz, Douglas Skinner, and Chad Syverson |
| “The Bidirectional Influence of Anthropomorphic Entities on Consumers' Social Judgments: How Engaging with Anthropomorphic Entities Changes Attitudes and Behaviors toward People and Vice Versa” |
Hye-young Kim (Behavioral Science) |
2018 |
Ann McGill (Chair), Reid Hastie, Oleg Urminsky, and Adam Waytz (Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University) |
| “Are NBA Coaches Too Conservative with Players in Foul Trouble?” |
Daniel Walco (Behavioral Science) |
2018 |
Jane Risen (Co-chair), George Wu (Co-chair), Daniel Bartels, and Richard Thaler |
| “The Effects of Financial-Reporting Regulation on Market-Wide Resource Allocation” |
Matthias Breuer (Accounting) |
2018 |
Christian Leuz (Chair), Philip Berger, Richard Hornbeck, Haresh Sapra, and Luigi Zingales |
| “Competitor Scale and Mutual Fund Behavior” |
Laszlo Jakab (Finance) |
2018 |
Lubos Pastor (Chair), Samuel Hartzmark, Elisabeth Kempf, and Michael Weber |
| “The Real Cost of Financial Mistakes: Evidence from U.S. Consumers” |
Adam Jorring (Joint Program in Financial Economics) |
2018 |
Amir Sufi (Co-chair), Amit Seru (Co-chair; Stanford Graduate School of Business), Lars Peter Hansen, Lawrence Schmidt (Department of Economics, University of Chicago), and Gregor Matvos (University of Texas at Austin) |
| “Monetary Policy Spillovers through Invoicing Currencies” |
Weiting (Tony) Zhang (Joint Program in Financial Economics) |
2018 |
Tarek Hassan (Chair; Department of Economics, Boston University), Lars Peter Hansen, Brent Neiman, and Pietro Veronesi |
| “The Aggregate and Distributional Effects of Urban Transit Infrastructure: Evidence from Bogotá’s TransMilenio” |
Nick Tsivanidis (Economics) |
2018 |
Chang-Tai Hsieh (Chair), Marianne Bertrand, Erik Hurst, and Robert E. Lucas, Jr. (Department of Economics, University of Chicago) |
| “External Debt, Currency Risk, and International Monetary Policy Transmission” |
Ursula Wiriadinata (Finance) |
2018 |
Lubos Pastor (Co-chair), Fernando Alvarez (Co-chair; Department of Economics, University of Chicago), Brent Neiman, Michael Weber, and Tarek Hassan (Department of Economics, Boston University) |
| “Greater Than the Sum of the Parts: How Bundling Creates Value” |
Franklin Shaddy (Behavioral Marketing) |
2018 |
Ayelet Fishbach (Chair), Pradeep Chintagunta, Anuj Shah, and Itamar Simonson (Stanford Graduate School of Business; in absentia) |
| “Perceived Legitimacy and its Consequences for Governance” |
Anirudh Tiwathia (Joint Program in Psychology and Business) |
2018 |
Devin Pope (Chair), Reid Hastie, George Wu, and William Goldstein (Department of Psychology, University of Chicago) |
| “Expectations of Returns and Expected Returns in the Cross Section” |
Johnathan Loudis (Joint Program in Financial Economics) |
2018 |
Stefan Nagel (Co-chair), Bryan Kelly (Co-chair; Yale School of Management), Lubos Pastor, and Lawrence Schmidt (Department of Economics, University of Chicago) |
| “Collateralized Debt and Financial Crisis” |
Yiyao Wang (Joint Program in Financial Economics) |
2018 |
Douglas Diamond (Chair), Veronica Guerrieri, Lars Hansen, and Zhiguo He |
| “Mergers, Productivity, and Employment” |
Peter Chen (Finance) |
2018 |
Brent Neiman (Co-chair), Eric Zwick (Co-chair), Steve Kaplan (in absentia), Amir Sufi, and Chad Syverson |