Message from the Director of Graduate Studies
Recent PhDs
Department of Economics
Graduate Program
| Is Minnesota for Me? | Program Description | Continuing in the Program |
|---|---|---|
| The Workshop System | Recent PhDs | MA in Economics |
| The Graduate Student Handbook | ||
2009
| Name | Adviser | Thesis Title | Initial Placement | Position |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Enrica DiStefano | Zvi Eckstein | Home Leaving in Italy: Why So Late? | Bank of Italy | Economist |
| Turkmen Goksel | Timothy Kehoe Fabrizio Perri |
Essays in International Economics | Ankara University | Assistant Professor |
| Mehmet Gurdal | Aldo Rustichini | Social Decision Making | ||
| Christos Ioannou | Aldo Rustichini | Algorithimic Bounded Rationality, Optimality and Noise | University of Cyprus | Lecturer |
| Jinxiong Li | Tom Holmes | Academic Coupels and the Economics of the Co-Location Problem | Nankai University | Associate Professor |
| Daniil Manaenkov | Patrick Kehoe | Essays on Macroeconomics and Asset Pricing | University of Michigan-RSQE | Assistant Research Scientist |
| Stefania Marcassa | Larry Jones | Essays on Family and Labor Economics | Paris School of Economics | Assistant Professor |
| Pricila Maziero | Larry Jones Patrick Kehoe |
Optimal Social Insurance, Private Information, and Non-Exclusive Contracting | University of Pennsylvania-Wharton School | Assistant Professor |
| Shi Qi | Tom Holmes | Essays on Market Dynamics, Regulation and Advising | Florida State University | Assistant Professor |
| Miguel Ricaurte | Timothy Kehoe Patrick Bajari |
Essays on Structural Changes, Trade and Development | Central Bank of Chile | Senior Professional Economist |
| Daniel Samano-Penaloza | Narayana Kocherlakota | Essays on Redistribution | Banco de Mexico | Research Economist |
| Katherine Schmeiser | Timothy Kehoe | Essays on Firm Choice and International Trade | Mount Holyoke College | Assistant Professor |
| Steven Schmeiser | Tom Holmes | Essays on Market Dynamics, Regulation and Advertising | Federal Trade Commission | Economist |
| Ina Simonovska | Timothy Kehoe Fabrizio Perri |
Essays on International Economics | University of California-Davis | Assistant Professor |
| Radoslaw Stefanski | Timothy Kehoe Fabrizio Perri |
Essays on Structural Transformation in International Economics | University of Oxford | Post Doctoral Researcher |
| Junichi Suzuki | Patrick Bajari Thomas Holmes |
Essays in Empirical Industrial Organization | University of Toronto | Assistant Professor |
| Simge Tarhan | Larry Jones | Essays on Corruption | Colby College | Visiting Assistant Professor |
| Evsen Turkay Pillai | Marcel Richter Jan Werner |
Two-sided Uncertainty in Persuasion Games | Vassar College | Assistant Professor |
| Yelena Tuzova | Timothy Kehoe | Essays on Tax Policy and International Trade | Le Sarl Ecopa | Economist |
| Jungwon Yeo | Patrick Bajari | Two Essays on FCC Spectrum Auctions | Singapore Management University | Assistant Professor |
| Jia Yuan | Patrick Bajari | Essays on Sponsored Search Auctions | University of Macau | Assistant Professor |
2008
| Name | Adviser | Thesis Title | Initial Placement | Position |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Laurence Ales | Larry Jones | Risk Sharing with Private Information | Carnegie Mellon University | Assistant Professor |
| Erem Atesagaoglu | V. V. Chari | Essays on Taxes, Financial Markets and the Corporate Sector | SUNY-Stony Brook | Assistant Professor |
| Francesca Carapella | V. V. Chari | Essays in Monetary Economics | Einaudi Institute in Economics and Finance (Rome) | Assistant Professor |
| Andrew Cassey | Thomas Holmes Sam Kortum |
State Export Behavior and Policy | Washington State University | Assistant Professor |
| Fabrizio Colonna | Zvi Eckstein | Essays on Labor Markets | Bank of Italy | Economist |
| Javier Fernandez-Blanco | Michele Boldrin Fabrizio Perri |
Essays on Directed Research | Universidad Carlos III, Madrid, Spain | Assistant Professor |
| Mark Gibson | Cristina Arellano Timothy Kehoe |
Essays on Protectionism and Productivity | Washington State University | Assistant Professor |
| Jaroslaw Grygolec | Aldo Rustichini | Neuroeconomics of Social Decisions | CIMEC, University of Trento, Italy | Post Doc |
| Roozbeh Hosseini | Larry Jones | Evaluating the Role of Social Security in Providing Annuity Insurance | Arizona State University | Assistant Professor |
| Wen-Tai Hsu | Thomas Holmes Sam Kortum |
Central Place Theory and Zipf’s Law | Chinese University of Hong Kong | Assistant Professor |
| Hakan Inal | Marcel Richter Jan Werner |
Designing Auction Mechanisms for Multiple Goods | Virginia Commonwealth University | Visiting Assistant Professor |
| Vadym Lepetyuk | V. V. Chari Patrick Kehoe |
Essays on Optimal Policy Design in Macroeconomics | University of Alicante | Assistant Professor |
| Jaromir Nosal | V. V. Chari Patrick Kehoe |
Essays on Macroeconomics | Columbia University | Assistant Professor |
| Cuneyt Orman | V. V. Chari | Essay on Financial Markets and Regulations | Bank of Turkey | Economist |
| Edgar Preugschat | Thomas Holmes | Essays in Labor Economics | BI School of Management - Oslo, Norway | Post Doc |
| Daniel Rodriguez-Delgado | Timothy Kehoe | Essays on Financial and Labor Frictions | International Monetary Fund | Economist |
| Unnikrishnan Sadasivan Pillai | Sam Kortum | Technological Progress in the Microprocessor Industry | SUNY-Albany (Engineering) |
Assistant Professor |
| Suhas Saha | Jan Werner | Two Essays in Financial Economics | University of Minnesota - Morris | Visiting Assistant Professor |
| Murat Seker | Sam Kortum | Essays on Establishment and Industry Dynamics | World Bank | Economist |
| Ruanjai Suwantaradon | Timothy Kehoe | Essays on Financial Frictions and Heterogeneous Firms in International Economics | Singapore Management University | Assistant Professor |
| Alexander Vostroknutov | Aldo Rustichini | Essays on Preferences and Decision Making | University of Maastrict - the Netherlands | Assistant Professor |
| Chun Xia | Jan Werner | Communication, Confidence and Asset Pricing | University of Hong Kong | Assistant Professor |
2007
| Name | Adviser | Thesis Title | Initial Placement | Position |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Salam Abdus | Sam Kortum | Obesity: the Role of Economic Incentives in Individuals’ Bodyweight Choice | Corell University | Lecturer |
| Konstantinos Arkolakis | Timothy Kehoe Sam Kortum |
Essays on Heterogeneous Firms in International Economics | Yale University | Assistant Professor |
| Simona Cociuba | Michele Boldrin Ellen McGrattan |
Essays on Growth and Development | Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas | Economist |
| Julian Diaz | Timothy Kehoe | Essays on International Economics | Bowdoin College | Assistant Professor |
| Lukasz Drozd | V. V. Chari Patrick Kehoe |
Understanding International Prices: Customers as Capital | University of Wisconsin - Madison | Assistant Professor |
| Nevzat Eren | Andrew McLennan Marcel Richter Jan Werner |
Communication in Financial Markets | ||
| Hui He | Michele Boldrin | Three Essays on Skill Premium, College Choice, and Investment-Specific Technological Change | University of Hawaii - Manoa | Assistant Professor |
| Yoshinori Kurokawa | Timothy Kehoe | Essays on Trade and Inequality | SUNY-Buffalo | Visiting Assistant Professor |
| Ronald Leung | Timothy Kehoe | Labor Mobility and Labor Inequality in Life Cycle Economics | University of Montreal | Assistant Professor |
| Wen-Chi Liao | Thomas Holmes | Technological Change and Cities | National University of Singapore | Assistant Professor |
| Ananth Ramanarayanan | Timothy Kehoe | Essays on International Economics | Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas | Economist |
2006
| Name | Adviser | Thesis Title | Initial Placement | Position |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hengie Ai | Michele Boldrin | Essays on Risk, Information and the Asset Market | Duke University | Assistant Professor |
| Nuray Akin | Timothy Kehoe | Population Aging, Immigration Policies and the Social Security System in Germany | University of Miami | Assistant Professor |
| Jesse Bishop | Sam Kortum | Substitution Elasticities and the Cost of Protection: Evidence from the 2002 U.S. Steel Tariffs | Federal Trade Commission | Economist |
| Sebastian Buttet | Michele Boldrin | Changes in Women’s Employment Across Cohorts: The Effect of Number and Timing of Births |
Cleveland State University | Assistant Professor |
| Sangwook Cho | Mariacristina De Nardi Larry Jones |
Essays on Macroeconomics and International Economics | University of New South Wales | Lecturer |
| Nicolas Figueroa | Marcek Richter | Two Essays in Mechanism Design | University of Chile - Department of Industrial Engineering (Centro de Economica Aplicada - CEA) | Assistant Professor |
| Suqin Ge | Zvi Eckstein | The College, Employment and Marriage Decisions of Young Women | Virginia Polytechnic and State University | Assistant Professor |
| Patrycja Grzelonska | Thomas Holmes | Bank Branching and Branch Networks | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Research Analyst |
| Krzysztof Makarski | Michele Boldrin | Essays in Macroeconomics | Bank of Poland | Research Economist |
| Alice Schoonbroodt | Michele Boldrin Larry Jones |
Baby Busts and Baby Booms: the Fertility Resopnse to Economic Shocks | University of Southampton | Lecturer |
| Carlos Serrano | Thomas Holmes
Sam Kortum |
The Market for Intellectual Property: Evidence from the Transfer of Patents | University of Toronto | Assistant Professor |
| Shino Takayama | Erzo Luttmer Jan Werner |
Essays on Asymmetric Information | University of Sydney | Lecturer |
| Fang Yang | Michele Boldrin Mariacristina De Nardi |
Essays on Consumption, Saving and Wealth Inequality | SUNY-Albany | Assistant Professor |
| Yuzhe Zhang | V. V. Chari Larry Jones |
Essays on Dynamic Economics | University of Iowa | Assistant Professor |
