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Academic Job Market Candidates 2009-10

The 2009-10 site will be updated as information becomes available. For more information, please contact the Stanford Graduate School of Business:
Email: PhD Program Administrator
Phone: (650) 723-2831
Fax: (650) 725-7462

Accounting

Daniel Taylor
Email: djtaylor@stanford.edu

Research Interests

  • Capital Markets
  • Individual Investors
  • Market Imperfections
  • Regulation

Dissertation Title / Advisors

" Individual Investors and Corporate Earnings "

David Larcker Co-advisor
William Beaver Co-advisor
Charles M.C. Lee

Email:

Research Interests

Dissertation Title / Advisor

Economic Analysis and Policy

Patrick Hummel
Email: phummel@stanford.edu

Research Interests

  • Formal Political Theory

Dissertation Title / Advisor

"Essays in Formal Political Theory"

Ken Shotts
Przemyslaw Jeziorski
Email: przemekj@stanford.edu

Research Interests

  • Industrial Organization
  • Dynamic Games
  • Econometrics
  • Microeconomic Theory

Dissertation Title / Advisors

"Essays in Industrial Organization and Regulation"

Lanier Benkard
Peter Reiss
M. Bumin Yenmez
Email: byenmez@stanford.edu

Research Interests

  • Market Design
  • Game Theory

Dissertation Title / Advisors

"Essays on Market Design"

Michael Ostrovsky
Andy Skrzypacz
Robert Wilson

Finance

Alexander S. Gorbenko
Email: gorbenko@stanford.edu

Research Interests

  • Dynamic Capital Structure
  • Security Design
  • Executive Compensation and Financial Auctions

Dissertation Title / Advisor

Ilya Strebulaev

Doron Levit
Email: dlevit@stanford.edu

Research Interests

  • Corporate Finance Theory
  • Corporate Governance
  • Mergers and Acquisitions
  • Game Theory

Dissertation Title / Advisor

“Communications Between Managers and Shareholders ”

Anat Admati
Jeffrey Zwiebel

Vojislav Sesum
Email: vsesum@stanford.edu

Research Interests

  • Empirical Corporate Finance
  • Corporate Governance
  • Capital Markets

Dissertation Title / Advisor

“ Essays in Empirical Corporate Finance and Capital Markets ”

Dirk Jenter

Marketing

Aner Sela
Email: sela_aner@gsb.stanford.edu

Research Interests

  • Consumer judgment and decision making
  • Nonconscious influences on judgment and decision making
  • Metacognition, Consumer goals

Dissertation Title / Advisor

“'Beating the Market': The Role of Unintended Outcomes in Consumers’ Responses to Marketing Offers”

Itamar Simonson

Operations, Information, and Technology

Xingwen Zhang
Email: xingwenz@stanford.edu

Research Interests

  • Economics of Innovations and Innovation Alliances
  • Economics of Information Technology
  • Operations and Finance Interface
  • Stochastic Dynamic Optimization and its Applications
  • Empirical Research in Technological Innovations

Dissertation Title / Advisor

" Contracting on the Process of Discovery "

Sunil Kumar

Email:

Research Interests

Dissertation Title / Advisor

Organizational Behavior

Caitlin Hogan
Email: hogan_caitlin@gsb.stanford.edu

Research Interests

  • Status
  • White Racial Identity
  • Social Dominance
  • Morality
  • Helping Behavior

Dissertation Title / Advisor

"The Self-Protective Function of the Positive Asian American Stereotype"

Brian Lowery

Ming D. Leung
Email: mdleung@stanford.edu

Research Interests (Macro OB)

  • Organizational Theory
  • Economic Sociology
  • Markets
  • Categorization
  • Strategy

Dissertation Title / Advisor

"Sequential Category Membership and Credibility in an Online Marketplace for Services"

Hayagreeva Rao


Email:

Research Interests

Dissertation Title / Advisor

Political Economics

Alexander V. Hirsch
Email: ahirsch@stanford.edu

Research Interests

  • Formal Theory
  • Legislative Studies
  • Bureaucracy
  • Lobbying

Dissertation Title / Advisors

" Essays on Political Institutions"

Christopher Paik
Email: cpaik@stanford.edu

Research Interests

  • International Comparative Politics
  • Political Methodology
  • Economic History

Dissertation Title / Advisors

"Historical Underpinnings of Institutions: Evidence from the Neolithic Revolution"