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 2012 Job Market Candidates

Placement Director:
Dilip Abreu
609-258-4021

 
Placement Assistant:
Laura Hedden
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Job Market Candidate Summary Sheet             

 

Adriano Basso [cv] [webpage] drnbasso@gmail.com
Research Interests: microeconomic theory, choice theory
Paper Title: "Recursive Mechanisms for Updating Beliefs Over Sets of Laws"
References:  Wolfgang Pesendorfer, Faruk Gul, Stephen Morris

 

Karyne Charbonneau [cv] [webpage] kcharbon@princeton.edu
Research Interests: international trade, econometrics, public policy, environmental economics
Paper Title: "Multiple Fixed Effects in Nonlinear Panel Data Models - Theory and Evidence"
References:  Bo Honoré, Stephen Redding, Jan de Loecker

 

Sungmun Choi [cv] [webpage] sungmunc@princeton.edu
Research Interests: political economy, public economics, behavioral economics
Paper Title: "Do Interest Groups Reward Politicians for their Votes in the Legislature? Evidence from the Recent Financial Crisis"
References: John Londregan, Alan Blinder, Harvey Rosen

 

Gonzalo Cisternas [cv] [webpage] gcistern@princeton.edu
Research Interests: microeconomic theory, game theory, information economics, corporate finance 
Paper Title: "Two-sided Learning and Moral Hazard"  
References: Yuliy Sannikov, Stephen Morris, Dilip Abreu

 
 

Wei Cui [cv] [webpage] weicui@princeton.edu
Research Interests: macroeconomics, financial economics, time series, international finance
Paper Title: "Delayed Capital Reallocation" 
References: Nobu Kiyotaki, Markus Brunnermeier, Ben Moll, Tom Sargent

 

Qi Ge [cv] [webpage] qge@princeton.edu
Research Interests: environmental economics, energy economics, empirical industrial organization
Paper Title: "Decomposing the Effects of Gasoline Price and Vehicle Usage: a Structural Approach"
References: Henry Farber, Uwe Reinhardt

 

Leandro Gorno [cv] [webpage] lgorno@princeton.edu
Research Interests: microeconomic theory, industrial organization, decision theory, game theory, learning, bounded rationality
Paper Title: "Dynamic Monopoly Pricing When Competing With New Experience Substitutes"
References: Faruk Gul, Wolfgang Pesendorfer, Stephen Morris

 
 
Diogo Guillen [cv] [webpage] dguillen@princeton.edu
Research Interests: macroeconomics, international finance
Paper Title: "Financial Wedges, Frictions, and Open Economy Puzzles"
References: Oleg Itskhoki, Nobu Kiyotaki, Mark Aguiar
 
 

Nikolaj Harmon [cv] [webpage] nharmon@princeton.edu
Research Interests: labor economics, political economy, econometrics
Paper Title: "Are Workers Better Matched in Large Labor Markets?"
References: David Lee, Raymond Fisman, Alex Mas

 
 

Tatiana Homonoff [cv] [webpage] homonoff@princeton.edu
Research Interests: public finance, behavioral economics, labor economics, health economics
Paper Title: "Can Small Incentives Have Large Effects? The Impact of Taxes Versus Bonuses on the Demand for Disposable Bags"
References: Henry Farber, David Lee, Alex Mas

 
Vadim Iaralov [cv] [webpage] viaralov@princeton.edu
Research Interests: microeconomic theory, political economy, behavioral economics
Paper Title: "Protest Dynamics in a Police State"
References: Roland Bénabou, Stephen Morris, Tom Romer
 
Penka Kovacheva [cv] [webpage] pkovache@princeton.edu
Research Interests: development economics (especially transition economies), labor economics, economic demography
Paper Title: "Transition, Wage Uncertainty and Fertility: Evidence from Russia and Ukraine"
References: Anne Case, Henry Farber, Alicia Adsera
 
 
Yan Lau [cv] [webpage] yanlau@princeton.edu
Research Interests: labor economics, economics of education, applied microeconomics, public policy
Paper Title: "Step Up or Give Up: Student Response to Increased Competition from the Dragon Cohort"
References: Alex Mas, Harvey Rosen, Cecilia Rouse
 
 

Nicholas Lawson [cv] [webpage] nlawson@princeton.edu
Research Interests: labor economics, public economics, international trade
Paper Title: "Fiscal Externalities and Optimal Unemployment Insurance"
References: David Lee, Orley AshenfelterRichard Rogerson

 
Yi Li [cv] [webpage] yili@princeton.edu
Research Interests: private equity, corporate finance, financial economics
Paper Title: "Reputation, Volatility, and Performance Persistence of Private Equity"
References: Wei Xiong, David Sraer, Hyun Shin
 
 
Weicheng Lian [cv] [webpage] wlian@princeton.edu
Research Interests: macroeconomics, financial economics, real estate economics
Paper Title: "Long-Term Dynamics of Housing Price and Quantity"
References: Nobu Kiyotaki, Wei Xiong, Esteban Rossi-Hansberg, Mikhail Golosov
 
 

Giridhar Parameswaran [cv] [webpage] gparames@princeton.edu
Research Interests: political economy, law & economics/judicial politics, public finance, applied microeconomics
Paper Title: "Psychological Belief Distortions and Debt"
References: John Londregan, Stephen Morris, Marco Battaglini, Harvey Rosen

 
Yoonsoo Park [cv] [webpageyoonpark@princeton.edu
Research Interests: labor economics, public economics, economics of education
Paper Title: "Employment Protection and Long-Term Employment Relationships"
References: Henry Farber, Kirill Evdokimov, Orley Ashenfelter
 
 
Paul Scott [cv] [webpageptscott@gmail.com
Research Interests: industrial organization, agricultural and environmental economics, microeconomics
Paper Title: "Dynamic Discrete Choice Estimation of Agricultural Land Use"
References: Jan de Loecker, Bo Honoré, Steven Berry
 
 
Tomasz Swiecki [cv] [webpagetswiecki@princeton.edu
Research Interests: international trade, macroeconomics
Paper Title: "Intersectoral Distortions, Structural Change and the Welfare Gains from Trade"
References: Gene Grossman, Stephen Redding, Esteban Rossi-Hansberg
 
 
Meixia Zhang [cv] [webpagemeixiaz@princeton.edu
Research Interests: applied theory, decision theory
Paper Title: "A Model of Online Publishing: the Case of arXiv.org"
References: Faruk Gul, Roland Bénabou, Alex Mas