Graduates of our PhD program have gone on to become leading scholars at top universities.
Our recent academic placements are listed by year of graduation, with their dissertation title.
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Accounting
Kyle (Jaehoon) Jung, ’25
New York University, Stern
Green Moral Hazard: Estimating the Financial and Non-financial Impacts of CEO Incentives
Rishabh Aggarwal, ’24
Indian School of Business
Monetary Policy Exposure Uncertainty and Voluntary Disclosure
Shawn Shi, ’22
University of Washington
How Does Better Public Firm Disclosure Affect Private Firm Financing?
Andrew Baker, ’21
Stanford University (Post-doc); UC Berkeley (2022)
Essays in Corporate Governance
Stefan Huber, ’21
Rice University
Loan Loss Measurement and Bank Lending
Sara Malik, ’21
University of Utah
Without a Word of WARN-ing: Advance Notice, Information Quality, and Labor Market Outcomes
Edward M. Watts, ’20
Yale School of Management
Lemons or Unicorns: The Market for Pre-IPO Employee Equity
Chloe L. Xie, ’20
MIT Sloan School of Management
The Signal Quality of Earnings Announcements: Evidence From an Informed Trading Cartel
Economic Analysis & Policy
Brad Ross, ’25
University of Pennsylvania, Wharton
Essays in Urban Economics and Econometrics
Cody Cook, ’24
Yale University
Where to Build Affordable Housing? Evaluating the Tradeoffs of Location
Evan Munro, ’24
University of Chicago, Booth
Causal Inference in Equilibrium
Frank Yang, ’24
Stanford University, Economics Department
Nested Bundling
Martino Banchio, ’23
Bocconi University (2024)
Adaptive Algorithms and Collusion via Coupling
Daniel Chen, ’23
Princeton University
Analysis of Modern Market Structures
Zi Yang Kang, ’23
Harvard University (postdoc); University of Toronto (2024)
The Public Option and Optimal Redistribution
Finance
Susan Cherry, ’25
University of Texas, Austin
Regulating Credit: The Impact of Price Regulations and Lender Technologies on Financial Inclusion
Hala Moussawi, ’25
Georgia Institute of Technology
Regulatory Competition In Financial Markets: Lessons from Municipal Bonds and Global Banks
Joseph Peterson Hall, ’24
Georgia Tech Scheller School of Business (post-doc)
Technology, Costs, and Competition: the Case of Credit Cards
Timur Sobolev, ’24
New Economic School
Essays on Political and Corporate Governance
Xu Lu, ’23
University of Washington, Foster School of Business
Monetary Transmission and Portfolio Rebalancing: A Cross-Sectional Approach
Amy Wang Huber, ’22
University of Pennsylvania, Wharton School
Lender Preference, Borrower Market Power, and the Effect of RRP
Dan Luo, ’22
Chicago Booth (postdoc); Chinese University of Hong Kong
Raising Capital from Investor Syndicates with Strategic Communication
Samuel Antill, ’20
Harvard Business School
Essays in Financial Economics
Jonathan Wallen, ’20
Harvard Business School
Markups to Financial Intermediation in Foreign Exchange Markets
Marketing
Samina Lutfeali, ’25
Stony Brook University
Morality in the Marketplace: Essays on Consumer Responses to Corporate Prosociality
Mohamed A. Hussein, ’24
Columbia University, GSB
From Meddle to Muzzle: Emerging Trends Around Meddling, Receptiveness, and Censorship in a Politically Polarized World
Ivan Li, ’24
University of Texas at Dallas
Name, Image, and Likeness in Marketing
George (Zhida) Gui, ’23
Columbia University, GSB
Designing Promises with Reference-Dependent Customers: The Case of Online GroceryDelivery Time
Rupali Kaul, ’23
INSEAD
Using Marketing Technology to Grow Small Businesses: Evidence from Field Experiments in Emerging Markets
Wendy J. De La Rosa, ’22
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA, WHARTON SCHOOL
The Impact of Resource Timing on Consumers' Resource Perceptions, Justifications, and Discretionary Spending
Jessica Yu, ’22
University of Michigan, Ross School of Business
Search, Selectivity, and Market Thickness in Two Sided Markets
Christopher J. Bechler, ’21
University of Notre Dame
A Categorical Perspective on Attitudes: Implications for Perceived Change, Persuasive Targeting, and the Attitude-Behavior Relationship
Rhia Catapano, ’21
University of Toronto
Essays on the Role of Values in Changing Minds
Megan Hunter, ’20
Boston College, Carroll School of Management
Strategic Utilization and Communication of Information
Ilya Morozov, ’20
Northwestern University, Kellogg School of Management
Consumer Behavior, Pricing, and Product Entry in Markets with Information Frictions
Operations, Information & Technology
Bryce McLaughlin, ’24
University of Pennsylvania, Wharton (postdoc)
Designing Prediction and Recommendation Algorithms to Improve Human Decision-Making
Mingxi Zhu, ’23
Georgia Tech, Scheller College of Business
Essays on Optimization Algorithms and its Applications in Online Platform Revenue Management
Wenjia Ba, ’22
University of British Columbia
Sequential Decision Making in Online Platforms
Wanning Chen, ’22
University of Washington
Learning and Decision-Making with Matrix-Shaped Data
Bar Light, ’21
Microsoft Research (Post Doc); Tel Aviv University
Market Design for Platforms and the Analysis of Large Games
Danqi Luo, ’21
University of California, San Diego
Impacts of Emergency Department Crowding: from Identification to Mitigation
Xavier Sebastian Warnes, ’21
Stanford University, Wood Institute (Post-doc)
Social Good, Fairness, and Efficiency in Operations Management
Organizational Behavior
Shilaan Alzahawi, ’25
Texas A&M University
Adverse Leader Selection and Evaluation
Lambert Zixin Li, ’25
National University of Singapore
Charles Chu, ’22
Boston University
Essays on Self, Meaning, and Polarization
Shiya Wang, ’22
Harvard Business School (Post-Doc)
Pay-Setting, Gender Inequality, and Initial Salary Offers
Matt Cummins, ’21
ESSEC Business School
Essays in Nonverbal Organizational Design
Chunchen Xu, ’21
Stanford University (Post-doc)
Know yourself: centrality of beliefs to the self predicts an interest in exploration
Anjali M. Bhatt, ’20
Santa Fe Institute (Postdoc); Harvard Business School (2021)
Neither blank slate nor set in stone: Cultural behaviors of organizational newcomers
Naomi M. Fa-Kaji, ’20
Rice University (Postdoc)
Seeing Harm, Thinking, "Humans": Perceptions of Harm Prompt Human-Driven Explanations
Political Economics
Mitchell Harvey, ’25
University of Florida
The Price of a Nation: The Effect of Financial Incentives on the 1707 Union of Scotland and England
Thomas Qitong Cao, ’24
Tufts University, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy
Essays on the Political Economics of Information
Jake Alton Jares, ’24
Texas A&M University; Stanford Hoover Institute (postdoc)
The Political Engagement of Vested Interests
Marcos Salgado, ’22
Fundação Getulio Vargas
Building Loyalty through Personal Connections: Evidence from the Spanish Empire
Ashutosh Thakur, ’21
National University of Singapore
Matching Theory Applications in Political Economy
Hugh Xiaolong Wu, ’21
Washington University in St. Louis (Postdoc); Washington University in St. Louis
Field Experiments in Firms