Academic Placements

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