2007-2008 Job Market Candidates

Harvard University, Department of Economics

The Ph.D. candidates listed below would like to be considered for professional opportunities beginning Fall 2008. Additional information is available from Professors Kenneth Rogoff (617-495-6675)and Philippe Aghion (617-495-4022), Placement Directors or from Nicole Tateosian, Graduate Student Coordinator (natateos@fas.harvard.edu; 617-495-8927). A cv packet [pdf] can be downloaded here. A printable list [pdf] of our job market candidate can be downloaded here.

Programs are specificed by (E) for Economics, (BE) for Business Economics, and (PEG) for Political, Economy, and Government. References listed below are members of the Department of Economics unless otherwise indicated.

Atanassova, Antonia (E) atanass@fas.harvard.edu
Experimental, Development
Paper Title: "Managerial Discretion and Corporate Philanthropy: Field Experiments in the USA and Bulgaria"
Sendhil Mullainathan, Alvin Roth,Nava Ashraf

Banful, Afua Branoah (E) abanful@fas.harvard.edu
Public finance, Development, Microeconomics, Macroeconomics
Paper Title: "Can Institutions Reduce Clientelism? A Study of the District Assemblies Common Fund in Ghana"
Michael Kremer, Matthias Schuendeln, Rohini Pande

Berkelmans, Leon (E) berkelm@fas.harvard.edu
Macroeconomics, Monetary economics
Paper Title: "Imperfect Information and Monetary Models: Multiple Shocks and their Consequences"
N. Gregory Mankiw, Aleh Tsyvinksi, David Laibson,

Bruegmann, Elias (E) bruegman@fas.harvard.edu
Labor, Industrial organization
Paper Title: "Pharmaceutical Mergers and Innovation"
Lawrence Katz, David Cutler, Jeffrey Furman(Boston University),Caroline Hoxby(Stanford)

Chiang, Hanley (E) hchiang@fas.harvard.edu
Labor, Public
Paper Title: "How Accountability Pressure on Failing Schools Affects Student Achievement"
Caroline Hoxby (Stanford), David Cutler, Lawrence Katz

Do, Quoc-Anh (E) do@fas.harvard.edu
Development, Political economics, Macroeconomics
Paper Title: "Keeping Dictators Honest: the Role of Population Concentration"
Alberto Alesina, Philippe Aghion, Michael Kremer, Jerry Green

Dvir, Eyal (E) dvir@fas.harvard.edu
International finance, International trade
Paper Title: "Globalization, Optimal Auctions, and Exchange Rate Pass-Through"
Kenneth Rogoff, Elhanan Helpman, Gita Gopinath

Enikolopov, Ruben (E) enikolop@fas.harvard.edu
Political economy, Applied econometrics
Paper Title: "Politicians, Bureacurats and Patronage"
Andrei Shleifer, Alberto Alesina, James Robinson

Gelber, Alexander (E) gelber@fas.harvard.edu
Public, Labor
Paper Title: "Taxation and Family Labor Supply"
Lawrence Katz, David Cutler, Martin Feldstein, Caroline Hoxby (Stanford)

Guo, Kai (E) kaiguo@fas.harvard.edu
International finance, Macroeconomics
Paper Title: "Exchange Rates and Asset Prices in an Open Economy with Rare Disasters"
Kenneth Rogoff , Robert Barro, Emmanuel Farhi

Han, Li (E) lihan@fas.harvard.edu
Development, Political economy
Paper Title: "Marketing Politics? Economics Reforms and the Selection of Political Elites in China"
Michael Kremer, Rohini Pande (KSG) , Erica Field

Jurek, Jakub (BE) jjurek@hbs.edu
Asset Pricing
Paper Title: "Economic Catastrophe Bonds"
John Campbell, Joshua Coval(HBS), Erik Stafford (HBS) , Luis Viceira (HBS)

Kahn, Lisa (E) lisakahn@fas.harvard.edu
Labor, Organizational
Paper Title: "Asymmetric Information Between Employers"
Lawrence Katz, Claudia Goldin, Caroline Hoxby, (Stanford)

Kirson, Noam (E) kirson@fas.harvard.edu
Health Economics, Public, Political economy
Paper Title: "Work, Stress and Health: Some Adverse Effects of Female Labor Force Participation"
David Cutler, Andrei Shleifer, Claudia Goldin

Kojima, Fuhito (E) kojima@fas.harvard.edu
Microeconomic theory, Game theory, Market design
Paper Title: "Incentives and Stability in Large Two-Sided Matching Markets"
Alvin Roth, Drew Fudenberg, Tayfun Sonmez(Boston College)

Kovner, Anna (BE) akovner@hbs.edu
Corporate finance, Behavioral finance, Private equity
Paper Title: "The Private Equity Advantage: Leveraged Buyout Firms and Relationship Banking"
Paul Gompers (HBS) , David Scharfstein (HBS) , Jeremy Stein, Joshua Lerner (HBS)

Lee, Robin (BE) lee54@fas.harvard.edu
Industrial organization, Microeconomic theory
Paper Title: "Vertical Integration and Exclusivity in Platform and Two-sided Markets"
Ariel Pakes, Alvin Roth, Susan Athey, Michael Schwarz (Yahoo)

Martin, Ian (E) iwmartin@fas.harvard.edu
Finance, Macroeconomics
Paper Title: "The Lucas Orchard"
John Campbell, Robert Barro, Jeremy Stein

Neiman, Brent (E) neiman@fas.harvard.edu
International finance, Macroeconomics, Trade
Paper Title: "Multinationals, Intrafirm Trades, and International Macro Dynamics"
Kenneth Rogoff, Elhanan Helpman, Gita Gopinath

Petrescu, Ioana (E) petrescu@fas.harvard.edu
Public, Economics of National Security
Paper Title: "Income Taxation and Self-Employment: The Effects of Progressivity in Countries with Tax Evasion"
David Cutler, Martin Feldstein, Andrei Shleifer, Silvia Ardagna

Petrova, Maria (PEG) mpetrova@fas.harvard.edu
Political economy, Applied microeconomics
Paper Title: "Newpapers and Parties: How Advertising Revenues Created and Independent Press"
Alberto Alesina, Andrei Shleifer, Kenneth Shepsle, Robert Bates

Schnabl, Philipp (PEG) schnabl@fas.harvard.edu
Corporate finance, Development
Paper Title: "Financial Globalization and the Tranmission of Credit Supply Shocks: Evidence from an Emerging Market"
Sendhil Mullainathan, Jeremy Stein, Andrei Shleifer, Edward Glaeser

Serfaty-de Medeiros, Karine (E) kdemed@fas.harvard.edu
International
Paper Title: "Demand Uncertainty and the Patterns of Trade"
Elhanan Helpman, John Campbell, Pol Antras

Shastry, Gauri Kartini (E) shastry@fas.harvard.edu
Development, Public, Labor
Paper Title: "Human Capital Response to Globalization: Education and Information Technology in India"
Michael Kremer, Caroline Hoxby (Stanford) , David Cutler

Sims, Katharine (PEG) kresims@fas.harvard.edu
Environmental and Natural Resource Economics, Development, Political economy
Paper Title: "The Effects of Protected Areas on Land Use and Local Economic Development: Evidence from Northern Thailand"
Robert Stavins (KSG) , Rohini Pande (KSG) , William Clark (KSG) , Suzanne Cooper (KSG)

Summers, Garrett (E) gsummers@fas.harvard.edu
Public, History, Labor
Paper Title: "Ethnic and Racial Differences in Judicial Outcomes: Chicago's Shifting Winds of Justice, 1870-1930"
David Cutler, Claudia Goldin, Jeffrey Miron, Subramanian Swamy

Tobacman, Jeremy (E) jeremy.tobacman@economics.ox.ac.uk
Applied microeconomics, Finance, Development, Behavioral
Paper Title: "Payday Loans, Uncertainty, and Discounting"
David Laibson, Edward Glaeser, Martin Browning (Oxford) , Markus Mobius

Tortorice, Daniel (E) tortoric@fas.harvard.edu
Macroeconomics
Paper Title: "Separation Rate Volatility and the Value of Work"
N. Gregory Mankiw, David Laibson, James Stock

Weinzierl, Matthew (E) weinzier@fas.harvard.edu
Public, Macroeconomics
Paper Title: "The Suprising Power of Age-Dependent Taxes"
Caroline Hoxby (Stanford) , N. Gregory Mankiw, Aleh Tsyvinski