PhD Candidates on the Job Market

Questions regarding candidates should be directed to:

Bin Chen, Job Placement Director and Associate Professor of Economics
binchen@rochester.edu
(585) 275-5781

For administrative questions please contact Graduate Coordinator Elizabeth Proctor by email at ealouisa@ur.rochester.edu or by phone at (585) 275-8625.

2024-2025 Job Market Candidates

Interested in hiring a department graduate? See our brochure of current job market candidates or review the list below.

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Chunya Bu

Job market paper: Business Cycle Accounting with Goods and Capital Market (Dis)Integration

Fields: International Macro, International Finance, Monetary Policy

References: Yan Bai, George Alessandria, Gaston Chaumont

Email: cbu2@ur.rochester.edu

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Woosuk Choi

Job market paper: Risk Aversion, Occupation Choice, and Earnings Dynamics

Fields: Labor Economics, Personnel Economics, Applied Microeconometrics

References: Ronni Pavan, Lisa Kahn, John Singleton

Email: woosuk.choi@rochester.edu

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Lorenz Ekerdt

Job market paper: Self-Selection and the Diminishing Returns of Research (with Kai-Jie Wu)

Fields: Macroeconomics, Growth, Economics of Innovation

References: Mark Bils, George Alessandria, Martha Stinson

Email: lekerdt@gmail.com

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Lena Harris

Job market paper: Drought and Investment in Electricity Markets

Fields: Enviornment and Resource Economics, Health Economics

References: John Singleton, Lisa Kahn, Elaine Hill

Email: h.harris@rochester.edu

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Xiaonan Ma

Job market paper: Earnings Dynamics, Transitions, and Stepping-stone Employers

Fields: Macroeconomics, Labor Economoics

References: Mark Bils, Yan Bai, Narayana Kocherlakota

Email: xiaonan.ma@rochester.edu or economics.ma@outlook.com

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Marcos Mac Mullen

Job market paper: Government Spending and International Transmission: Fiscal Rules in Imperfect Financial Markets

Fields: Macroeconomics, International Finance, International Trade

References: George Alessandria, Yan Bai, Gaston Chaumont

Email: mmacmull@ur.rochester.edu

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Changwoo Park

Job market paper: Stable matchings under two-sided asymmetric incomplete information

Fields: Microeconomic Theory, Market Design, Game Theory

References: William Thomson, Paulo Barelli, Yu Awaya

Email: cpark47@ur.rochester.edu

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Joao Rudge Leite

Job market paper: Heterogeneous Banks and Transmission of Monetary Policy

Fields: Macroeconomics, Banking, International Finance

References: Yan Bai, George Alessandria, Matias Moretti

Email: jrudgele@ur.rochester.edu

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Jose Villegas Gomez

Job market paper: Consumer Debt Moratoria

Fields: Household Finance, Corporate Finance, Labor Economics, International Macroeconomics

References: Yan Bai, George Alessandria

Email: jose.villegas.eco@gmail.com

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