PhD program : Job Market Candidates

Discover the list of candidates for this year's Job Market.

Published on 11/28/2024 21:05

Candidates

Primary Field: Applied Microeconomics
Secondary Field: Economic History, Development Economics, Law and Economics
Supervisors: Thomas Piketty, Guilhem Cassan
References: Thomas Piketty, Oliver Vanden Eynde, Samreen Malik, Nishith Prakash
Job Market PAPER: Justice for all? The impact of legal aid in India
Curriculum Vitae: C V
Profile: Nitin is an applied microeconomist, working on topics related to judiciary, education and inequality. His research interests rely on uncovering the systemic bias in institutions and underpinning it to its deep-rooted historical origins.

Secondary Fields: Industrial Organization, Behavioral Economics
Supervisors: Philippe Jehiel, Olivier Compte
Primary Field: Microeconomic Theory
References: Philippe Jehiel, Olivier Compte, Régis Renault
Job Market PAPER: Selling Incremental Products Optimally
Curriculum Vitae: CV
Profile: Wei is a microeconomic theorist with an interest in game theory, bounded rationality, and industrial organization. His research studies the optimal selling mechanisms for incremental products, with a particular emphasis on scenarios where consumers’ private information profoundly influences their preferences across time periods.

Primary Field: Macroeconomics
Secondary Fields: Labor economics, Trade economics, Network Economics
Supervisors: Agnès Bénassy-Quéré, Lionel Fontagné
References: Agnès Bénassy-Quéré, Lionel Fontagné, Benjamin Moll, Vasco Carvalho
Job Market PAPER: The Network Origin of Slow Labor Reallocation
Curriculum Vitae: CV
Profile: Leonard is a macroeconomist with interests in labor and trade economics. In his job market paper he studies how labor markets adjust to technology shocks, using empirical, theoretical, and structural methods.

Primary Field: Applied Microeconomics
Secondary Fields: Market Design, Digital Economics, Industrial Organization
Supervisors: Olivier Tercieux, Liam Wren-Lewis
References: Olivier Tercieux, Liam Wren-Lewis, Yeon-Koo Che, Julien Grenet
Job Market PAPER: Pricing in Markets without Money: Theory and Evidence from Home Exchanges
Curriculum Vitae: CV
Profile: Julius works at the intersection of market design and digital economics. Combining economic theory, recent econometric & machine learning techniques for causal inference as well as structural econometrics, he studies platform design and user behavior.

Primary Field: Public Economics
Secondary Fields: Labor Economics
Supervisor: Antoine Bozio
References: Thomas Piketty, Gabriel Zucman, Eric Zwick
Job Market PAPER: The Firm as Tax Shelter: Micro Evidence and Aggregate Implications of Consumption Through the Firm
Curriculum Vitae: CV
Profile: David’s research interests lie at the intersection of public economics and public finance with a focus on tax system design. Using novel administrative data-sets his research investigates the role of tax evasion and tax enforcement for the measurement of reported and real income inequality.

Primary Field: Microeconomic Theory
Secondary Fields: Behavioral Economics, Experimental Economics
Supervisors: Olivier Compte, Philippe Jehiel
References: Olivier Compte, Roland Benabou, Matthew Elliott, Alessandra Casella
Job Market PAPER: Multidimensional Social Identities and Decision Making: The Pitfalls and Opportunities
Curriculum Vitae: CV
Profile: Caroline’s research connects bounded rationality with social influences on behavior, with a focus on occupational and educational choices. In particular, she studies how people use social identity and culture to simplify complicated choice settings, and analyzes how this behavior contributes to the persistence of inequalities across groups, stereotypes and norms.

Primary Field: Labor Economics
Secondary Field: Personnel Economics
Supervisor: Maurizio Mazzocco
References: Simon Jäger, Maurizio Mazzocco, Cecilia Garcia-Peñalosa, Thomas Breda
Job Market PAPER: Union Ideology
Curriculum Vitae: CV
Profile: Vladimir is an applied labor economist specialized in worker representation, industrial relations, and income inequality. Using original data that combines micro-level administrative sources and rich surveys, his research focuses on the distribution of value added within firms and at broader economic levels.

Primary Field: Applied Microeconomics
Secondary Fields: Industrial Organisation, Energy, Market Design
Supervisors: Laurent Lamy, Philippe Gagnepain
References: Olivier Tercieux, Laurent Lamy, Michael Visser, Philippe Gagnepain
Job Market PAPER: Designing large procurement auctions: India’s utility-scale renewables capacity market
Curriculum Vitae: CV
Profile: Manpreet’s research interests lie in market design, energy economics, and industrial organization. His job market paper focuses on capacity auctions for renewables in India and suggests, adopting a theoretical and structural approach, design improvements to reduce costs and inefficiencies in the allocation of public funds.

Primary Field: International Trade
Secondary Fields: Environment, Labor
Supervisors: Alessandra Bonfiglioli, Gino Gancia, Tom Schmitz
References: Sandra Poncet, Carsten Eckel, Alessandra Bonfiglioli, Tom Schmitz
Job Market PAPER: China’s Manufacturing Pollution, Environmental Regulation and Trade
Curriculum Vitae: CV
Profile: Dan is a trade economist working on the impact of trade and environmental policies on manufacturing pollution at the firm level, with a particular focus on China. Her recent work also covers trade and labor market power, port development and cross-border investment.

Primary Field: Environmental and Resource Economics
Secondary Fields: Development Economics, Applied Microeconomics
Supervisor: Katrin Millock
References: Tamma Carleton, Kelsey Jack, Katrin Millock
Job Market PAPER: Propagation of extreme heat in agriculture across sectors and space
Curriculum Vitae: CV
Profile: Guglielmo is an environmental economist, studying the socio-economic impacts of climate and how human society can adapt to them. In his research, he applies econometric techniques guided by economic theory, combining geospatial datasets with administrative and survey data.