2026 Candidates

Jacopo Ballabio
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Job Market Paper: Chronos and Kairos: Cultural Concepts of Time and Intertemporal Choice
References: Michela Giorcelli (Co-Chair), Paola Giuliano (Co-Chair), Natalie Bau, Nico Voigtlander, Romain Wacziarg

Nicholas Emery-Xu
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Job Market Paper: Firm in the clouds: Supplier market power and technology adoption in the cloud computing industry
References: John Asker (Chair), Hugo Hopenhayn, Will Rafey

Maria Elena Guerrero Amezaga
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Job Market Paper: The Supply-Side Effects of Targeted Financial Aid: Evidence from Colombia
References: Natalie Bau (Chair), John Asker, Juliana Londoño-Vélez, Will Rafey

TJ Hedin
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Job Market Paper: The Effects of Prosecution on Future Offending
References: Yotam Shem-Tov (Chair), Martha Bailey, Till von Wachter

Jeff Hill
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Job Market Paper: Pecking Order of Subscriptions: Attention, Ads, and Streaming Competition
References: Simon Board (Chair), Chris Surro, Ed McDevitt

Toshihiko Hirasawa
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Job Market Paper: Consumer Search with Rational Inattention
References: Simon Board (Co-Chair), Alexander Bloedel (Co-Chair), Jay Lu

Ali Haider Ismail
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Job Market Paper: Welfare Implications of Reserve Regimes
References: Saki Bigio (Co-Chair), Lee Ohanian (Co-Chair), Pierre-Olivier Weill, Andy Atkeson, Chris Surro (Teaching Reference)

Felipe Leal
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Job Market Paper: Payment Terms and Heterogeneous Shock Transmission in Production Networks
References: Saki Bigio (Co-Chair), Hugo Hopenhayn (Co-Chair), Andy Atkeson, Ariel Burstein

Jiaer Janet Liu
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Job Market Paper: Design of the U.S. Treasury Secondary Market: Venue Sorting, Competing Mechanisms, and Allocative Efficiency
References: Pierre-Olivier Weill (Chair), John Asker, Andrew Atkeson, Will Rafey

Theodore Naff
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Job Market Paper: Human Capital Insurance
References: Lee Ohanian (Co-Chair), Oleg Itskhoki (Co-Chair), Hugo Hopenhayn, Pablo Fajgelbaum, Pierre-Olivier Weill

Jared Rutner
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Job Market Paper: Firm Dynamics and Private Credit
References: Andrew Atkeson (Co-Chair), Saki Bigio (Co-Chair), Shohini Kundu, Pierre-Olivier Weill, Erica Jiang

Jack Sitarski
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Job Market Paper: Rationing to Endogenously Informed Consumers
References: Moritz Meyer-ter-Vehn (Co-Chair), Alexander Bloedel (Co-Chair), Simon Board, Ed McDevitt (Teaching Reference)

Liang (Sunny) Tan
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Job Market Paper: Government Venture Capital, Production Networks, and Aggregate Productivity in China
References: Lee Ohanian (Chair), David Baqaee, David Autor, Jon Vogel

Fanwen Zhu
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Job Market Paper: Human capital expansion and the rat race for good jobs
References: Michela Giorcelli (Co-Chair), Daniel Haanwinckel (Co-Chair), Pablo Fajgelbaum
Placement Directors
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Placement Coordinators
Chiara Paz and Alice Wang
Email | (310) 206-1413

