Current Job Market Candidates
Placement Director: Prof. Susan Vroman
Phone: (202) 687-6024
Email: susan.vroman@georgetown.edu
Placement Administrator: Julius J. Shapiro
Phone: 202-687-6260
Email: js3900@georgetown.edu (new window)
Welcome to the Placement website of the Department of Economics. I am pleased to provide information describing the Georgetown University Department of Economics Ph.D. candidates who are on the job market this year. Each candidate’s website includes a CV, research description, and links to papers. All will be attending the ASSA meeting in January 2020 and will be available for interviews. Some of the candidates will attend the EEA meeting. I am happy to provide any additional information.
Sincerely,
Susan Vroman, Placement Director
JOB MARKET CANDIDATES 2019-2020 SUMMARY PAGE
Alexander Billy
Job Market Paper:
“Immigration and Crime: Evidence from the Mariel Boatlift”
Fields:
Primary: Applied Public Choice
Secondary: Applied Microeconomics, Public Economics
References:
Arik Levinson (Main Advisor), Josh Teitelbaum, Neel Sukhatme
Muran Chen
Job Market Paper:
“Cyclical Price Volatility: Role of Shopping Behavior and Customer Capital”
Fields:
Primary: Macroeconomics
Secondary: Computational Economics, Consumer Behavior
References:
Mark Huggett, Dan Cao, Toshihiko Mukoyama
Francisco Garrido
Job Market Paper:
“Mergers Between Multi-Product Firms With Endogenous Variety: Theory and an Application to the RTE-Cereal Industry”
Fields:
Primary: Industrial Organization, Structural Econometrics
Secondary: Marketing, Applied Microeconomics
References:
John Rust (co-advisor), Nathan Miller (co-advisor), Roger Lagunoff
Yidan Jin
Job Market Paper:
“Special Economic Zones: A Welfare Analysis of Labor Market Spillover Effect“
Fields:
Primary: International Trade, Applied Microeconomics
Secondary: Labor Economics, Development Economics
References:
Rodney Ludema (Main Advisor), Anna Maria Mayda, Ferdinando Monte
Madhulika Khanna
Job Market Paper:
“The Precocious Period: Impact of Early Menarche on School Enrollment in India”
Fields:
Primary: Applied Microeconomics
Secondary: Development Economics
References:
Martin Ravallion (co-advisor), Garance Genicot (co-advisor), Shareen Joshi
Arsenii Mishin
Job Market Paper:
“Dynamic Bank Capital Regulation and Optimal Macroprudential Policies in the Presence of Shadow Banks”
Fields:
Primary: Macroeconomics, Financial Economics
Secondary: International Economics, Mathematical and Quantitative Methods
References:
Behzad Diba (Main Advisor), Matthew Canzoneri, Luca Guerrieri (Federal Reserve Board)
Milan Thomas
Job Market Paper:
“Group-Based Nudges and Loan Repayment: Evidence from Farmers in Kenya”
Fields:
Primary: Development Economics
Secondary: Applied Econometrics
References: Garance Genicot, Martin Ravallion, Ian Gale, and Michael Kremer (Harvard University)