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Students On The Job Market
Ready for rigorous research challenges and teaching positions at the top schools.
2023-2024 Job Market Candidates
Eunkyung An
Ph.D. Candidate in Marketing
Advisors: Masakazu Ishihara (Co-Chair), Raluca Ursu (Co-Chair), Tulin Erdem, and Xiao Liu
Paper: "Habit Formation and Financial Rewards Through Digital Fitness"
Research Interests: Healthcare, Online/Mobile Consumer Behavior, Structural Model, Machine Learning
![Ph.D. Candidate in Economics](/sites/default/files/styles/480w_x_590h/public/2023-09/Melanie%20Friedrichs2.jpg?h=4ecf8430&itok=a956nOOw)
Melanie Friedrichs
Ph.D. Candidate in Economics
Advisors: Stan Zin (Chair), Venky Venkatswaran and Ricardo Lagos
Paper: "Inside Money, Employment, and the Nominal Rate"
Research Interests: Macro
![Ph.D. Candidate in Economics](/sites/default/files/styles/480w_x_590h/public/2023-09/Fran%C3%A7ois%20Miguet.jpg?h=bd3e077b&itok=4WOrZRsW)
François Miguet
Ph.D. Candidate in Economics
Advisors: Venky Venkateswaran (Chair), Virgiliu Midrigan, and Simon Gilchrist
Paper: "Household Balance Sheets and Firm Dynamics"
Research Interests: Macroeconomics, Finance, Firm Dynamics, Monetary Policy
![Ph.D. Candidate in Management](/sites/default/files/styles/480w_x_590h/public/2023-09/Olivia%20Foster-Gimbel_0.jpg?h=707be63d&itok=BfbM-2Ve)
Olivia Foster-Gimbel
Ph.D. Candidate in Management
Advisors: Taylor Phillips
Paper: "Authentic Allyship? Feeling authentic increases allyship behavior via greater psychological standing."
Research Interests: Allyship, diversity, inequity, inclusion
![Ph.D. Candidate in Operations (TOPS)](/sites/default/files/styles/480w_x_590h/public/2023-09/Ziran%20Liu.jpg?h=f7495f53&itok=qRSDVMZP)
Ziran Liu
Ph.D. Candidate in Operations (TOPS)
Advisors: Joshua Reed (Chair), Peter Lakner
Paper: "Reflected Brownian motion with drift in a wedge"
Research Interests: Probability theory and its applications (e.g. OR, Machine Learning/Deep
Learning, stochastic modeling, etc.); with differential geometry methods and their interactions and applications to probability theory.
Weiqing Zhang
Ph.D. Candidate in Marketing
Advisors: Masakazu Ishihara (Co-Chair)
Paper: "The Value of Content Inclusiveness: Evidence from a Social Media Platform"
Research Interests: Structural Models, Causal Inference, Natural Language Processing, Field
Experiments, Empirical IO
![Ph.D. Candidate in Accounting](/sites/default/files/styles/480w_x_590h/public/2023-10/Stephanie%20Dong_potrait_final_0.jpg?h=01e15906&itok=8uxFB1dw)
Stephanie Dong
Ph.D. Candidate in Accounting
Advisors: Eli Bartov (Chair), Viral Acharya, Christine Cuny, Vivian Fang
Paper: "Strategic Disclosure of Recession Risk"
Research Interests: Disclosure, macroeconomic and firm risks, risk incentives, blockchain and fintech.
Anuraag Aekka
Ph.D. Candidate in Economics
Advisors: Venky Venkateswaran (Chair), Michael Waugh, Jess Benhabib
Paper: "Customers, Suppliers, and Firm Dynamics in India"
Research Interests: Macroeconomics, Firm Dynamics, Development
![Ph.D. Candidate in Finance](/sites/default/files/styles/480w_x_590h/public/2023-11/Julia%20Selgrad.jpg?h=2fcacbff&itok=LPGy9dA0)
Julia Selgrad
Ph.D. Candidate in Finance
Advisors: Alexi Savov (Chair), Robert Richmond, Philipp Schnabl, Bruce Tuckman
Paper: "Testing the Portfolio Rebalancing Channel of Quantitative Easing"
Research Interests: Asset Pricing, Monetary Policy, Macro-Finance
![Ph.D. Candidate in Finance](/sites/default/files/styles/480w_x_590h/public/2023-11/Quinn%20Maingi.jpg?h=707be63d&itok=FpXuSiMH)
Quinn Maingi
Ph.D. Candidate in Finance
Advisors: Holger Mueller (Chair), Alexi Savov, Philipp Schnabl, Simone Lenzu, Daniel Waldinger
Paper: "Regional Banks, Aggregate Effects"
Research Interests: Financial Intermediation and Banking, Applied Macroeconomics, Spatial Economics, Industrial Organization, Climate Finance
![Ph.D. Candidate in Accounting](/sites/default/files/styles/480w_x_590h/public/2023-11/Shuqing%20Huang.jpg?h=2fcacbff&itok=Mnxfm71l)
Shuqing Huang
Ph.D. Candidate in Accounting
Advisors: Ilan Guttman (Co-chair), April Klein (Co-chair), Chongho Kim, Xiaojing Meng
Paper: "The Effects of Mandatory Environmental Disclosures on Environmental Alliances"
Research Interests: Disclosures, Regulations, ESG, M&A