Job Market Candidates

Job Market 2022-2023

Placement Officers: Placement Coordinator:
Iourii Manovskii 
Professor of Economics
215-898-6880

Holger Sieg
Professor of Economics
215-898-7194
 

Gina Conway
Graduate Program Coordinator 
215-898-5691 
  
Main Department: 215-898-7701

Vita Pack 2022

2022-23 Job Market Candidates

Candidate Name

Research Interest

Job Market Paper

Faculty Advisor, Email

Andrew Arnold

Empirical Industrial Organization, Political Economy, and Public Economics

Estimating a Dynamic Game of Political Advertising

Holger Sieg
holgers@econ.upenn.edu

Cuimin Ba

 

Microeconomic Theory, Information Economics, Behavioral Economics

Robust Misspecified Models and Paradigm Shifts

Aislinn Bohren abohren@sas.upenn.edu 

George Mailath
gmailath@econ.upenn.edu

Emilio Borghesan

 

Labor Economics, Economics of Education, Applied Econometrics

The Heterogeneous Effects of Changing SAT Requirements in Admissions: An Equilibrium Evaluation

Petra Todd
ptodd@econ.upenn.edu

Sara Casella

 

Macroeconomics, Labor Economics, Macro-Finance

Women's Labor Force Participation and the Business Cycle

Jesus Fernandez-Villaverde jesusfv@econ.upenn.edu

Dirk Krueger
dkrueger@econ.upenn.edu

Assa Cohen

 

Financial Frictions, Macroeconomics

Concentration in OTC Markets and its Impact on Financial Stability

Guillermo Ordonez
ordonez@econ.upenn.edu

Alice Gindin

 

Microeconomic Theory and Political Economy

Dynamic Political Investigations: Obstruction and the Optimal Timing of Accusations

Aislinn Bohren
abohren@sas.upenn.edu

Jincheng (Eric) Huang

 

Macroeconomics, Labor Economics and Household Finance

Precautionary Mismatch

Victor Rios-Rull
vr0j@econ.upenn.edu

Nawaaz Khalfan

 

Microeconomic Theory, Information Economics, Search and Exploration, Mechanism and Market Design, Game Theory

Optimal Allocation with Noisy Inspection

George Mailath gmailath@econ.upenn.edu

Rakesh Vohra
rvohra@seas.upenn.edu

Dohan Kim

 

Macroeconomics and Banking

The Asymmetric Bank Distress Amplifier of Recessions

Enrique Mendoza
egme@econ.upenn.edu

Guillermo Ordonez
ordonez@econ.upenn.edu

Omer Koru

Macroeconomics, Labor Economics, Inequality

Technology Adoption by Firms and Distribution of Factor Income

Dirk Krueger dkrueger@econ.upenn.edu

Lucie L’Heudé

Empirical Industrial Organization

The Decline of Local News Coverage: Evidence from U.S. Newspapers

Holger Sieg
holgers@econ.upenn.edu

Ricardo Marto

 

Macroeconomics

Structural Change and the Rise in Markups

Jeremy Greenwood
jeremygr@econ.upenn.edu

Felipe Mazin

 

Macroeconomics, International Macroeconomics, Demographic Economics

Population Aging in Advanced and Emerging Economies: Capital Flows and Fiscal Spillovers

Dirk Kreuger dkrueger@econ.upenn.edu

Sean McCrary

 

Macroeconomics, Labor Economics, and Computational Economics

A Job Ladder Model of Firm, Worker, and Earnings Dynamics

Victor Rios-Rull
vr0j@econ.upenn.edu

Dick Oosthuizen

 

Macroeconomics, Computational Economics, Housing Economics

Institutional Housing Investors and the Great Recession

Enrique Mendoza
egme@econ.upenn.edu

Victor Rios-Rull
vr0j@econ.upenn.edu

Elsie Peng

 

Applied Microeconomics, Public Economics, Urban/Spatial Economics, Empirical Industrial Organization

The Dynamics of Urban Development: Evidence from New York

Gilles Duranton duranton@wharton.upenn.edu

Holger Sieg
holgers@econ.upenn.edu

Xincheng Qiu

 

Macroeconomics, Labor Economics, Public Economics

Vacant Jobs

Hanming Fang hanming.fang@econ.upenn.edu

Iourii Manovskii
manovski@econ.upenn.edu

Jason Sockin

Labor and Personnel Economics

Show Me the Amenity: Are Higher-Paying Firms Better All Around?

Andrew Shephard
asheph@sas.upenn.edu

Pedro Brandao Solti

Microeconomic Theory, Information Design, Learning Games

Social Learning with Heterogeneous Preferences

Andy Postlewaite apostlew@econ.upenn.edu

George Mailath
gmailath@econ.upenn.edu

Di Tian

 

Asset Pricing, Macro Finance, Industrial Organization and Applied Econometrics

Do Intermediaries Matter for Stock Returns? A Dynamic Demand System Approach

Xu Cheng
xucheng@econ.upenn.edu

Winston Wei Dou
wdou@wharton.upenn.edu

Xiaoliang Wang

 

Asset Pricing, International Macro Finance, Monetary Policy and Econometrics

Exchange Rates, US Monetary Policy and the Global Portfolio Flows

Nikolai Roussanov nroussan@wharton.upenn.edu

Frank Schorfheide  schorf@econ.upenn.edu

Jungsoo Yoo

 

Urban Economics, Real Estate Economics, Applied Microeconomics, Public Economics

Local Attachment and Residential Mobility: Evidence from White Flight in Boston

Holger Sieg
holgers@econ.upenn.edu

Boyuan Zhang

 

Econometrics, Machine Learning, Applied Macroeconomics, Climate Econometrics

Incorporating Prior Knowledge of Latent Group Structure in Panel Data Models

Francis X. Diebold fdiebold@econ.upenn.edu

Frank Schorfheide schorf@econ.upenn.edu