The recent placement record of our students reflects the strength of our program and the overall quality and hard work of our students. Roughly half of our students take academic positions. Many others take research-oriented positions in government institutions like the Federal Reserve System, the US Treasury, the Department of Justice, and the Bank of England or in prestigious international organizations like the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. Others choose to continue their research in the research divisions of firms such as Moody’s Analytics and Freddie Mac.
2026
Ph.D. Student
Job Title
Initial Placement
Thesis Title
Christopher Johns
Economist
Office of Management and Budget
Global Exchange Rate and Tariff Pass-Through: A Novel Methodology for Estimating Pass-Through to Firm-Level Producer Prices and Its Macroeconomic Implications
Jifan Wang
Data Scientist
TikTok Ads
Economic Policy Uncertainty and the Firm–Bank Nexus : Investment, Liquidity, and Bank Risk-Taking Under Uncertainty
2025
Ph.D. Student
Job Title
Initial Placement
Thesis Title
Devika Chirimar
Instructor
University of Colorado Denver, International College Beijing
Essays in Environmental Economics: Unequal Exposure, Unequal Response
Camila Gomes
Economist
International Monetary Fund (IMF)
Essays on the Political Economy of Affirmative Action and Judicial Politics
Cam Healy
Senior Economist
U.S. Congressional Joint Economic Committee
Essays on Production and Labor
Adrienne Judson
Assistant Teaching Professor of Economics and Member of the Wilson Sheehan Lab for Economic Opportunities
University of Notre Dame
Essays on Disability Insurance Take-up and the Labor Supply of Disabled Workers
Yanbin “Tracy” Xu
Fritz Family Postdoctoral Fellow
Georgetown University (Tech & Society)
Mobility Constraints and Spatial Frictions: Macroeconomic Perspectives on Growth and Regional Development
Yi Yao
Senior Associate
Charles River Associates
The Welfare Effects of Eco-labeling: Evidence from Consumer Products
2024
Ph.D. Student
Job Title
Initial Placement
Thesis Title
Tae Hun Chang
Associate Research Fellow
Korea Energy Economics Institute (KEEI)
Essays on Latent Variables in Time-Series and Panel Econometrics
Juno Kim
Associate Research Fellow
Korea Institute for Industrial Economics and Trade (KIET)
Essays in Migration
Anwita Mahajan
Postdoctoral Scholar
UC San Diego
Essays in Public Economics
Kyle Monk
Data Scientist
Meta
Essays on the Economics of Digital Ranking Algorithms
Tianshi Mu
Assistant Professor
Tsinghua University
Essays on Industrial Organization in Energy Markets
Pedro Roje Larreboure
Senior Economist
Central Bank of Chile
Macroprudential Policies and Market Competition in Mortgage Lending Markets: Evidence for Chile
Angelica Sanchez Diaz
Lecturer (Assistant Professor)
University of Exeter
Essays in Applied Economics
Bhavya Srivastava
Young Professional
World Bank
Environmental Woes and Their Economic Echoes
Christopher Turansick
Assistant Professor
Bocconi University
Random Utilities and How to Find Them
Yidi Wu
Associate
Cornerstone Research
Essays in Vehicle Safety and Demand Elasticities
Chengjun Zhang
Quant Associate
Morgan Stanley
Essays on Consumer Heterogeneity and Personalized Discounts in an Online Market
2023
Ph.D. Student
Job Title
Initial Placement
Thesis Title
Carolina Concha-Arriagada
Assistant Professor of Economics and Education
Columbia University, Teachers College
“Essays in Education, Mobility, and Political Economy”
Cristian Cuevas
Assistant Professor
Universidad de los Andes (Chile)
“Essays in Safe Assets and the Macroeconomy”
Dongjae Lee
Economist
Central Bank of Korea
“Essays on Macroeconomic Asymmetry and Monetary Policy”
Yihui Fu
China Investment Corporation
“Essays on Competition Effects in the Airline Market”
Menghan Li
JD.com
“Desk Rejection of Submissions to Academic Journals: An Efficient Screening Process?”
Ryan Mansley
Economist
US Department of Justice
“Essays in Oligopoly Pricing Behavior”
JJ Naddeo
Economist
US Census Bureau
“Essays on Political Economics and Crime”
Gretchen Sileo
Assistant Professor
Temple University
“Industrial Organization of Public Institutions”
Yingqi Xu
Quant Analysis Senior
Freddie Mac
“Essays on Mortgage Curtailment”
2022
Ph.D. Student
Job Title
Initial Placement
Thesis Title
Kevin Ankney
Associate
Cornerstone Research
“Essays on Environmental Economics and Transportation”
Peter Caradonna
Assistant Professor of Economics
Cal Tech
“Essays in the Empirical Theory of Preferences”
Jiadi Chen
Quantitative Modeler- Associate
Fannie Mae
Lawrence Costa
Economist
Federal Housing Finance Agency
“Essays on Education and Lifecycle Labor Market Outcomes”
Rachel Feldman
Associate
Cornerstone Research
“Three Chapters Evaluating Energy’s Bridges and Barriers: Fracking and Renewables”
Rodimiro Rodrigo
Assistant Professor of International Business
George Washington University School of Business
“Automation and Labor Markets in Developing Countries”
Deniz Sanin
Assistant Professor of Economics
University of South Carolina
“Essays in Development, Labor, and Gender Economics”
Mariel Siravegna
Consultant
World Bank
“Essays on the Gender Wage Gap and Intergenerational Mobility in the Presence of Sample Selection”
Daniel Valderrama-Gonzalez
Extended Term Consultant II
World Bank
“Essays on the Political Economy and Economic Impact of Fiscal Policies”
Lina Yu
Capital One
“Essays on the Monetary Policy, Housing Market, and Business Finance”
Weipeng Zhang
Data Scientist
Meta
“Essays on Artificial Intelligence, Reinforcement Learning, and Structural Econometrics”
2021
Ph.D. Student
Job Title
Initial Placement
Thesis Title
Gaurav Bagwe
Economist
Bates White Economic Consulting
“Essays on the Economics of Voting”
Becka Brolinson
Economist
Federal Housing Finance Agency
“Essays in the Economics of Electricity Consumption”
Maria Hernandez de Benito
Assistant Professor
University of Alicante
“Essays in Gender and Development Economics”
Mosha Huang
Economist
Amazon
“Occupational Polarization Trends in the U.S. Economy and Low-Skilled Career Development”
Pedro Juarros
Economist
International Monetary Fund
“Essays on Fiscal Policy”
Juan Margitic
Economic Consultant
Inter-American Development Bank
“Essays in Poverty and Political Economy”
Umberto Muratori
Assistant Professor of Economics
Universidad del Rosario
“Essays on Firm Dynamics and Labor Markets”
Jacquelyn Pavilon
Deputy Director
Center for Migration Studies in New York
“Essays on the Impact of Immigration in Germany”
Michael Packard
Principal Quantitative Modeler
Capital One
“Essays on the Economic and Social Impacts of Immigrations”
Nikoloz Pkhakadze
Invited Professor
International School of Economics at Tbilisi State University
“Polarization in Communication Games”
Yangfan Sun
Sun Yat-sen University
“Essays on Mortgage Foreclosure and Risks to Lenders”
Yangyang Wang
Amazon
“Consumer Learning and Firm’s Dynamic Pricing Strategy”
2020
PhD Student
Job Title
Initial Placement
Thesis Title
Alexander Billy
Senior Director
Berkeley Research Group
“Essays in Law and Economics”
Muran Chen
Economist
Amazon
“Cyclical Price Volatility: Role of Shopping Behavior and Customer Capital”
Elena Derby
Economist
Joint Committee on Taxation
“Using Large-Scale Administrative Tax Data to Assess Housing and Retirement Policies”
Francisco Garrido
Assistant Professor
ITAM – Business School
“Mergers Between Multi-Product Firms with Endogenous Variety: Theory and Application to the Ready-to-Eat Cereal Industry”
Yidan Jin
People Research Scientist
Mercer
“Essays on Trade Policies and Firm Performance in Developing Countries”
Madhulika Khanna
Economist
EPoD Post Doc
“Essays on Gender in Developing Countries”
Arsenii Mishin
Assistant Professor
National U – Russia
“Essays on Financial Intermediation and Macroeconomic Policy”
Milan Thomas
Economist
Asian Development Bank – Research Section
“Economic Essays on Innovations for Development”
2019
Ph.D. Student
Job Title
Initial Placement
Thesis Title
Lei (Ray) Ge
Quantitative Modeler II
Fannie Mae
“Essays about Credit, Executive Compensation and Real Estate Markets”
Dongbo Guo
Quantitative Researcher
BlackRock
“Production and Consumption in Knowledge Market: Solving the Old Puzzles with New Techniques”
Gong Lee
Associate Fellow
KDI School of Public Policy and Management
“Two Essays on Dynamic Optimal Pricing”
Givi Melkadze
Assistant Professor
Georgia State
“Essays on Uncertainty and Credit Market Frictions”
Dario Sansone
Assistant Professor
University of Exeter
“Essays in Applied Microeconomics”
Veli Safak
Assistant Professor
Carnegie Mellon University-Qatar
“Essays on Multidimensional Search and Matching Models”
Allison Stashko
Assistant Professor
University of Utah (Eccles)
“Essays in Political Economy”
Kin-Ping (Jeremy) Wong
Economist
Digonex
“Essays on For-Hire Vehicle Markets”
2012-2018
Academic
Government and Private Sector
American University
American Institutes for Research
Beijing Normal University
Banque de France
Capital University of Finance and Economics
Central Bank of Chile
Catholic University
Central Bank of Columbia
Christopher Newport University
Central Bank of Turkey
Georgetown University MSB (Post-Doc)
Citibank
Gettysburg College
Ernst and Young
Instituto Tecnologico Autonomo de Mexico (ITAM) Business School
European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD)
Shanghai University of Finance and Economics
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Smith College
Federal Reserve Board of Governors
Tsinghua University
Freddie Mac
United Arab Emirates University
Inter-American Development Bank (IADB)
Universidad Alberto Hurtado
Moody’s Analytics
Universidad del Desarrollo
U.S. Air Force Academy
University of Essex
U.S. Department of Justice
University of Groningen
U.S. Department of the Treasury
University of International Business and Economics
