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Job Market Candidates 2012-2013

Placement Officer: Kyle Bagwell 650-723-3251 kbagwell@stanford.edu

Placement Assistant: Susie Madsen Gilbert 650-725-6198 srmadsen@stanford.edu


Economics Department PHD Job Market Candidates

Job Market Candidates available2012 for positions in Summer/Fall 2013


John Anderson, john.anderson@stanford.edu
Web Site: http://www.stanford.edu/~jwanders/
Fields:

Energy & Environment, Industrial Organization, Econometrics


Job Market Paper: Experience & the Evolution of Wind Power Project Costs in the United States
Advisor(s):

Frank Wolak, Liran Einav, Peter Reiss



Marissa Beck, mrbeck@stanford.edu
Web Site: http://www.stanford.edu/~mrbeck
Fields:

Microeconomic Theory, Market Design


Job Market Paper: Incentives for Overbidding in Minimum-Revenue Core-Select
Advisor(s):

Paul Milgrom, Fuhito Kojima, Ilya Segal



George Bulman, gbulman@stanford.edu
Web Site: http://www.stanford.edu/~gbulman/
Fields:

Economics of Education, Public Economics, Labor Economics 


Job Market Paper: The Effect of Access to College Assessments on Enrollment and Attainment
Advisor(s):

Caroline Hoxby, Ran Abramitzky, Nicholas Bloom



Eun Yi Chung, eunyi@stanford.edu
Web Site: http://www.stanford.edu/~eunyi
Fields:

Econometrics


Job Market Paper: Asymptotically Valid and Exact New Permutation Tests
Advisor(s):

Joseph Romano, Frank Wolak, Han Hong



Dominic Coey, dcoey@stanford.edu
Web Site: http://www.stanford.edu/~dcoey/
Fields:

Health Economics and Industrial Organization


Job Market Paper: Physician Incentives and Treatment Choices in Heart Attack Management
Advisor(s):

Jon Levin, Liran Einav, Caroline Hoxby



Michael Dworsky, mdworsky@stanford.edu
Web Site: http://www.stanford.edu/~mdworsky/
Fields:

Primary: Health Economics, Public Finance, Applied Econometrics; Secondary: Labor Economics


Job Market Paper: Claim Rejections in Chile’s Private Sickness Insurance System: Are Large Disparities Across Health Conditions Optimal?
Advisor(s):

Luigi Pistaferri, Caroline Hoxby,  Liran Einav, 



Theresa Kuchler, tkuchler@stanford.edu
Web Site: http://www.stanford.edu/~tkuchler/
Fields:

Industrial Organization, Public Economics, Consumer Finance, Online Markets, Behavioral Economics


Job Market Paper: Sticking to Your Plan: Hyperbolic Discounting and Credit Card Debt Paydown
Advisor(s):

Jonathan Levin, Liran Einav, Caroline Hoxby



Tim Landvoigt, timl@stanford.edu
Web Site: http://www.stanford.edu/~timl/
Fields:

Macroeconomics, Financial Economics, Real Estate Economics


Job Market Paper: Aggregate Implications of the Increase in Securitized Mortgage Debt
Advisor(s):

Monika Piazzesi, Martin Schneider, Robert Hall



Shirlee Lichtman, shirlee@stanford.edu
Web Site: http://www.stanford.edu/~shirlee/
Fields:

Applied Microeconomics, Economics of Education, Economics of the Family


Job Market Paper: Does Banning Carbonated Beverages in Schools Decrease Student Consumption?
Advisor(s):

Ran Abramitzky, Caroline Hoxby, Matt Harding



Paul Ma, paulma@gmail.com
Web Site: http://www.stanford.edu/~paulma/
Fields:

Financial Disclosure, Empirical Asset Pricing, Behavioral Finance, Market Microstructure


Job Market Paper: Information or Spin? Evidence From Language Differences Between 8-Ks and Press Releases
Advisor(s):

John Shoven, Dave Larcker, Charles MC Lee, Ivan Marinovic



Roy Mill, roymill@stanford.edu
Web Site: http://www.stanford.edu/~roymill
Fields:

Economic History and Applied Microeconomics


Job Market Paper: Race, Skin Color, and Economic Outcomes in Early Twentieth-Century America
Advisor(s):

Ran Abramitzky, Liran Einav, Avner Grief, Gavin Wright



Alejandro Molnar, aimolnar@gmail.com
Web Site: http://www.stanford.edu/~amolnar
Fields:

Industrial Organization, Trade


Job Market Paper: Congesting the Commons: A Test for Strategic Congestion Externalities in the Airline Industry
Advisor(s):

Tim Bresnahan, Jon Levin. Kalina Manova



Luke Stein, lstein@stanford.edu
Web Site: http://www.stanford.edu/~lstein/
Fields:

Corporate Finance, Labor Economics


Job Market Paper: The Effect of Uncertainty on Investment, Hiring, and R&D: Causal Evidence from Equity Options
Advisor(s):

Nick Bloom, Ran Abramitzky, Caroline Hoxby



Xu Tan, xutan@stanford.edu
Web Site: http://www.stanford.edu/~xutan/
Fields:

Microeconomic Theory, Game Theory, Social Network, Experimental Economics


Job Market Paper: Information Revelation in Competitions with Common and Private Values:Theory and Experiment
Advisor(s):

Matt Jackson (primary), Kyle Bagwell, Muriel Niederle



Edison Yu, edisonyu@stanford.edu
Web Site: http://www.stanford.edu/~edisonyu/
Fields:

Macroeconomics and Finance


Job Market Paper: Dynamic Market Participation and Information Aggregation
Advisor(s):

Martin Schneider, Monika Piazzesi, Manuel Amador



Assaf Zimring, assafzim@gmail.com
Web Site: http://www.stanford.edu/~assafzim/
Fields:

International Trade, Economics of Innovation


Job Market Paper: Costs of Autarky - Lessons From the Gaza Blockade 2007-2010
Advisor(s):

Kyle Bagwell, Doireann Fitzgerald, Kalina Manova, Petra Moser


Other Job Market Candidates

Job Market Candidates available November 2012 for positions in Summer/Fall 2013


Aaron Bodoh-Creed, acreed@cornell.edu
Web Site: http://www.arts.cornell.edu/econ/ab882/
Fields:

Microeconomic Theory, Behavioral Economics, Finance, Industrial Organization


Job Market Paper: Conversations About Type: Privacy, Grammars, and Taboos; Large Matching Markets: Risk, Unraveling, and Incentive Compatibility
Advisor(s):

Ilya Segal, B. Douglas Bernheim, Paul Milgrom



[Post Doc] Marc Hafstead, mha337@stanford.edu
Web Site: http://www.stanford.edu/~mha337
Fields:

Macroeconomics, Environmental Economics, Monetary Economics


Job Market Paper: The Short and Long Run Aggregate Implications of Reducing Firing Costs
Advisor(s):

Nick Bloom, Larry Goulder, John Taylor



David Hansen, davidrhansen@gmail.com
Web Site: https://economics.byu.edu/Pages/Faculty/David-Hansen.asp
Fields:

Development Economics and Labor Economics


Job Market Paper: The Effects of Crime on Educational Investment: A Policy Simulation Approach
Advisor(s):

Giacomo DeGiorgi, Eric Eide,

Lars Lefgren



Alex Ho Lun Wong, hlwong@stanford.edu
Web Site: http://www.stanford.edu/~hlwong/
Fields:

Development Economics, Health Economics, Education Economics


Job Market Paper: Providing Quality Infrastructure in Rural Villages: The Case of Rural Roads in China
Advisor(s):

Scott Rozelle, Grant Miller, Aprajit Mahajan