Job Market Candidates 2022-23

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Yiming Cao

Fields: Development Economics, Political Economy, Economic History
Job Market Paper: The Social Costs of Patronage Ties: Lessons from the 2008 Sichuan Earthquake
CV | Website | yiming@bu.edu
References: Raymond Fisman, Dilip Mookherjee, Siddharth George, Samuel Bazzi, Nathan Nunn

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Shuowen Chen

Fields: Econometrics, Empirical Industrial Organization, Economics of Innovation
Job Market Paper: An Indirect Fixed Effects Estimator for Nonlinear Panel
CV| Website | swchen@bu.edu
References: Ivan Fernandez-Val, Hiroaki Kaido, Jean-Jacques Forneron

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Enrico De Magistris

Fields: Microeconomic Theory, Game Theory, Mechanism Design
Job Market Paper: Choice of Outside Options in a Bargaining Model
CV | Website | enricodm@bu.edu
References: Bart Lipman, Juan Ortner, Chiara Margaria

 

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Mengqi Deng

Fields: Applied Microeconomic Theory, Law and Economics, Political Economy
Job Market Paper: Biased Medias, a Bayesian Persuasion Analysis
CV | Website | mdeng@bu.edu
References: Juan Ortner, Andrew Newman, Alex White

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Vittoria Dicandia

Fields: Labor Economics, Public Economics
Job Market Paper: Technological Change and Racial Disparities
CV | Website | dicandia@bu.edu
References: Kevin Lang, Daniele Paserman, Joshua Goodman

 

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Chen Gao

Fields: Empirical Industrial Organization, Applied Microeconomics
Job Market Paper: Bargaining and Merger in Vertical Relationships: Empirics of Packaged Food with Limited Data
CV| Website | cgao14@bu.edu
References: Marc Rysman, Jihye Jeon,  Albert Ma, Jordi Jaumandreu(Teaching)

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Pablo Guzman-Pinto

Fields: Labor Economics, Development Economics
Job Market Paper: Unemployment Insurance with Individual Savings Accounts
CV| Website | pguzmanp@bu.edu
References: Johannes Schmieder, Kevin Lang, Daniele Paserman

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Alex Hoagland

Fields: Health Economics, Industrial Organization, Applied Econometrics
Job Market Paper: An Ounce of Prevention or a Pound of Cure? The Value of Health Risk Information
CV | Website | alcobe@bu.edu
References: Randall Ellis (co-advisor), Tal Gross (co-advisor), Marc Rysman, Jihye Jeon

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Md. Deen Islam

Fields: International Economics, Development Economics, Macroeconomics
Job Market Paper: The Geography of Automation
CV | Website | mdislam@bu.edu
References: Stefania Garetto, Pascual Restrepo, Yuhei Miyauchi

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Miaoqing Jia

Fields: Health Economics, Applied Microeconomics, Industrial Organization
Job Market Paper: The demand uncertainty of medicine consumption with policy implication
CV| Website | jiam@bu.edu
References: Albert Ma, Randall Ellis, Marc Rysman

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Sung-Yup Jung

Fields: Regional Economics, Urban Economics, Empirical Microeconomics
Job Market Paper: Industrial Parks and Regional Development: Evidence from South Korean Industrial Park Policy
CV| Website | sungyup@bu.edu
References: Yuhei Miyauchi, Siddarth George, Robert G King

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Enjar Lkhagvajav

Fields: Macroeconomics, Economic Growth, Economics of Innovation
Job Market Paper: Exploitative Innovation and Growth
CV | Website | enjar@bu.edu
References: Stephen Terry, Pascual Restrepo, Adam Guren, Michael Meurer

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Max McDevitt

Fields: Economic, History Political Economy, Applied Econometrics
Job Market Paper: Between the Board Room and Parliament: Special Legislation, Capital Investment, and Railway Directors in Parliament, 1854-1901
CV | Website | mjmcd@bu.edu
                        References: Robert Margo, Martin Fiszbein, James Feigenbaum

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Ian Meeker

Fields: Industrial Organization, Quantitative marketing
Job Market Paper: Does Peter Piper Pick a Package of Pepper Inattentively? The Consumer Response to Product Size Changes
CV| Website | imeeker@bu.edu
References: Marc Rysman, Andrey Fradkin, Jihye Jeon

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Thomas Pearson

Fields: Labor Economics, Development Economics
Job Market Paper: U.S. Immigration Enforcement and Mexican Labor Markets
CV| Website | tpearson@bu.edu
References: Samuel Bazzi, Daniele Paserman, David Lagakos

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Stefano Pica

Fields: Macroeconomics, Monetary Economics, Household Finance
Job Market Paper: Housing Markets and the Heterogeneous Effects of Monetary Policy Across the Euro Area
CV | Website | stpica@bu.edu
References: Adam Guren, Stephen Terry, Robert G King

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Alden Porter

Fields: Labor Economics, Macroeconomics, Econometrics
Job Market Paper: On the Incomplete Ordering of Skills: A Study of Occupational Mobility and the Careers of Young Men
CV | Website | porteraw@bu.edu
References: Pascual Restrepo, Johannes Schmieder, Kevin Lang

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Anlong Qin

Fields: Econometrics, Time Series Econometrics, Financial Econometrics
Job Market Paper: Modeling Regime Switching in High Dimensional Data with Applications to U.S. Business Cycles
CV| Website | qal@bu.edu
References: Zhongjun Qu,  Pierre Perron, Hiroaki Kaido

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Hanna Schwank

Fields: Economic History, Labor Economics, Gender Economics
Job Market Paper: Disruptive Effects of Natural Disasters: The 1906 San Francisco Fire
CV | Website | hschwank@bu.edu
References: Samuel Bazzi, James Feigenbaum, Johannes Schmieder, Robert Margo

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Martin Shu

Fields: Macroeconomics, Development Economics, Labor Economics
Job Market Paper: Selection, Structural Transformation, and the Cost Disease of Services
CV| Website | syshu@bu.edu
References: David Lagakos (co-advisor), Pascual Restrepo (co-advisor), Kevin Lang

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Joseph Simmons

Fields: Macroeconomics, Monetary Economics, Industrial Organization
Job Market Paper: Real Rigidities Strike Back: Retailers, Sticky Basket Prices, and Monetary Non-Neutrality
CV | Website | jrsimmon@bu.edu
References: Adam Guren (co-advisor), Stephen Terry (co-advisor), Pascual Restrepo

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Dongling Su

Fields: Macroeconomics, Finance
Job Market Paper: Fiscal and Monetary Policy Interactions in a Model with Low-Interest Rates
CV | Website | dlsu@bu.edu
References: Jianjun Miao, Adam Guren, Stephen Terry

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Jingye Wang

Fields: International Finance, International Macroeconomics, Asset Pricing
Job Market Paper: Currency Risk and Capital Accumulation
CV| Website | wjytx@bu.edu
References: Tarek Hassan, Stephen Terry, Andrea Vedolin, Thomas Mertens

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Meng Wu

Fields: Political Economy, Development Economics and Applied Microeconomics
Job Market Paper: Ownership, Partisanship, and Media Slant: Evidence from the U.S. Media during the Sino-U.S. Trade Conflict
CV| Website | wumeng@bu.edu
References: Raymond Fisman, Martin Fiszbein, Dilip Mookherjee

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Fangning Yan

Fields: Empirical Industrial Organization, Applied Econometrics, Economics of Digitization 
Job Market Paper: Freewheeling: A Spatial Structural Analysis of the Bike-Sharing Industry
CV| Website | riyan@bu.edu
References: Marc Rysman, Jihye Jeon, Randall Ellis, Andrey Fradkin

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Guangzhi Ye

Fields: Macroeconomics, Corporate Finance
Job Market Paper: The Macro Impact of the Recovery Rate
CV| Website | gye@bu.edu
References: Stephen Terry, Adam Guren, Robert G King

 

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Victor Yifan Ye

Fields: Computational Economics, Public Finance, Urban Economics
Job Market Paper: Simulating Endogenous Global Automation
CV| Website | victor@yifanye.com
References: Laurence Kotlikoff, Seth Benzell, David Altig, Charles Becker

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Yoshifumi Yokota

Fields: Microeconomic Theory, Information Economics, Behavioral Economics
Job Market Paper: The Limits of Robust Information Design
CV| Website | yyokota@bu.edu
References: Bart Lipman, Larry Epstein, Juan Ortner

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Kewei Zhang

Fields: Development Economics, Public Economics, Political Economy
Job Market Paper: Finding Credit at the Bottom of the Pyramid: Chinese State Lending and Corporate Investment in Impoverished Areas
CV| Website | zhangkw@bu.edu
References: Raymond Fisman, Dilip Mookherjee, Siddharth George, Martin Fiszbein

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Kexin Zhang

Fields: Development Economics, Applied Microeconomics
Job Market Paper: The Long-run Impact of Higher Education: Evidence from the Gaokao (NCEE) Reinstatement in China
CV| Website | kz628@bu.edu
References: Samuel Bazzi, Daniele Paserman, Dilip Mookherjee, Mahesh Karra

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Luke Zinnen

Fields: Macroeconomics, Banking, Financial Engineering
Job Market Paper: How Do You Solve a Problem Like Nomura? Remedies for Fraud with Market-Level Consequences
CV| Website | lzinnen@bu.eduw
References: Robert G King, Pascual Restrepo, Christophe Chamley

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Undral Byambadalai

Fields: Econometrics, Applied Microeconomics
Job Market Paper: Identification and Inference for Welfare
C.V. | Website | undral@bu.edu
References: Hiroaki Kaido, Ivan Fernandez-Val, Albert Ma, Jean-Jacques Forneron

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Lester Chan

Fields: Microeconomic Theory, Industrial Organization
Job Market Paper: Weight-Ranked Divide-and-Conquer Contracts
C.V.| Website | lctlabc@bu.edu
References: Albert Ma, Bart Lipman, Alex White

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Pablo Cuellar Tapia

Fields: Applied Microeconomic Theory, Law and Economics
Job Market Paper: Voluntary disclosure of evidence in plea bargaining
C.V. | Website | pcuel@bu.edu
References: Juan Ortner, Bart Lipman, Dilip Mookherjee

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Taosong Deng

Fields: Econometrics, Quantitative Macroeconomics, Empirical Finance
Job Market Paper: Inference in Predictive Regressions with Persistent Predictors
C.V.| Website | tsdeng@bu.edu
References: Zhongjun Qu, Pierre Perron, Jean-Jacques Forneron

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Gerard Domenech Arumi

Fields: Labor Economics, Public Economics, Political Economy
Job Market Paper: Neighborhoods, Perceived Inequality and Preferences for Redistribution: Evidence from Barcelona
C.V. | Website | domenech@bu.edu
References: Daniele Paserman, Ray Fisman, Johannes Schmieder

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Thomas Gautier

Fields: Empirical Industrial Organization, Applied microeconomics
Job Market Paper: Bargaining and Merger in Vertical Relationships: Empirics of Packaged Food with Limited Data
C.V.| Website | cgao14@bu.edu
References: Marc Rysman, Jihye Jeon, Jordi Jaumandreu

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Youming Liu

Fields: Industrial Organization, Environmental Economics, Chinese Economy
Job Market Paper: Competition for Exclusivity and Customer Lock-in
C.V. | Website | yorkliu@bu.edu
References: Marc Rysman, Shanjun Li, Jihye Jeon, Panle Jia Barwick

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Sophia Ying Liu

Fields: Health Economics, Economic History, Empirical Microeconomics
Job Market Paper: Re-evaluating the Effects of the 1918 Influenza Pandemic on Human Capital Development: The Role of the Great Depression
C.V. | Website | yliu0518@bu.edu
References: Robert Margo, Daniele Paserman, Randall Ellis, Jay Zagorsky

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Enkhjargal Lkhagvajav

Fields: Macroeconomics, Economic Growth, Economics of Innovation
Job Market Paper: The Effect of Patent Disclosure on Firm Innovation and Growth
C.V. | Website | enjar@bu.edu
References: Stephen Terry, Pascual Restrepo, Adam Guren, Michael Meurer

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Yang Ming

Fields: Macroeconomics, Economics of Innovation, Applied Econometrics
Job Market Paper: Good Dispersion in Bad Times: A Story of R&D Heterogeneity
C.V. | Website | mingyang@bu.edu
References: Christophe Chamley, Stephen Terry, Jianjun Miao, Robert G. King

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Julio Ortiz

Fields: Macroeconomics, Econometrics
Job Market Paper: Spread too Thin: The Impact of Lean Inventories
C.V. | Website | jlortiz@bu.edu
References: Stephen Terry, Adam Guren, Pascual Restrepo

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Cheonghum Park

Fields: Political Economy, Behavioral Finance, Labor Economics
Job Market Paper: Investor Attention to Firm versus Market-wide Information Shocks: Evidence from North Korean Missile Tests
C.V. | Website | chpark@bu.edu
References: Ray Fisman, Daniele Paserman, Sam Bazzi

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Fernando Payro Chew

Fields: Microeconomic Theory, Decision Theory, Behavioral Economics
Job Market Paper: Mixture-Dependent Preference for Commitment
C.V. | Website | fpayro@bu.edu
References: Larry Epstein, Jawwad Noor, Bart Lipman

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Anlong Qin

Fields: Econometrics, Time Series Econometrics, Financial Econometrics
Job Market Paper: Modeling Regime Switching in High Dimensional Data with Applications to U.S. Business Cycles
C.V. | Website | qal@bu.edu
References: Zhongjun Qu, Pierre Perron, Hiroaki Kaido

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Zhouxiang Shen

Fields: Macroeconomics, Finance
Job Market Paper: Production of private safe assets and macroprudential policy
C.V. | Website | zxshen@bu.edu
References: Jianjun Miao, Stephen Terry, Adam Guren

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Chenlu Song

Fields: Health Economics, Applied Microeconomics
Job Market Paper: What Saves More: Coinsurance or Copayment?
C.V. | Website | csong@bu.edu
References: Randall Ellis, Albert Ma, Robert Margo

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Lisa Tarquinio

Fields: Development Economics, Political Economy, Environmental Economics
Job Market Paper: The Politics of Drought Relief: Evidence from Southern India
C.V. | Website | LTarq@bu.edu
References: Dilip Mookherjee, Tarek Hassan, Ray Fisman

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Silvia Vannutelli

Fields: Public Economics, Political Economy, Labor Economics
Job Market Paper: From Lapdogs to Watchdogs: Random Auditor Assignment and Municipal Fiscal Performance in Italy
C.V. | Website | svann@bu.edu
References: Ray Fisman, Daniele Paserman, Ilyana Kuziemko, Johannes Schmieder

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Shuang Wang

Fields: Industrial Organization, Applied Microeconometrics
Job Market Paper: Price Competition with Endogenous Entry: The Effects of Marriott & Starwood’s Merger in Texas
C.V. | Website | shuangw@bu.edu
References: Marc Rysman, Hiroaki Kaido, Jihye Jeon, Jacob LaRiviere

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Anna Weber

Fields: Labor Economics, Public Economics
Job Market Paper: The Big House Far From Home: Spatial Distance and Criminal Recidivism
C.V. | Website | eaweber@bu.edu
References: Kevin Lang, Daniele Paserman, James Feigenbaum

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Meng Wu

Fields: Applied Microeconomics, Development Economics, Political Economy
Job Market Paper: Readers vs owner? What drives media attention on China in the United States during the Sino-US trade conflict
C.V. | Website | wumeng@bu.edu
References: Raymond Fisman, Martin Fiszbein, Dilip Mookherjee

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Dongwei Xu

Fields: Macroeconomics, Asset Pricing, International Economics
Job Market Paper: Labor Adjustment Cost: Implications for Asset Prices
C.V. | Website | xud@bu.edu
References: Marianne Baxter, Stephen Terry, Andrea Vedolin

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Guang Zhang

Fields: Econometrics, Empirical Finance
Job Market Paper: Quasi Monte Carlo Kalman Filter for Nonlinear and Non-Gaussian State Space Models
C.V. | Website | gzhang46@bu.edu
References: Zhongjun Qu, Pierre Perron, Jean-Jacques Forneron

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Nan Zhao

Fields: Microeconomic Theory, Contract Theory
Job Market Paper: Dynamic Incentive Provision When Evaluation Takes Time
C.V. | Website | zhaonan@bu.edu
References: Bart Lipman, Juan Ortner, Chiara Margaria

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Xiaoxi Zhao

Fields: Health Economics, Industrial Organization
Job Market Paper: The Effect of Medical Loss Ratio Regulation on Insurers’ Pricing
C.V. | Website | xiaoxiz@bu.edu
References: Randall Ellis, Marc Rysman, Leila Agha, Christopher Whaley

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Calvin Ackley

Fields: Health Economics, Industrial Organization
Job Market Paper: Equilibrium Effects of Tiered Cost Sharing in the Market for Medical Care
C.V. | Website | ackleycb@bu.edu
References: Randall Ellis, Tal Gross, Marc Rysman

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Fatima Aqeel

Fields: Development Economics, Labor Economics
Job Market Paper: Educational Investment and Marriage Success: Evidence from Pakistan
C.V. | Website | faqeel@bu.edu
References: Samuel Bazzi, Dilip Mookherjee, Daniele Paserman

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Seth Benzell

Fields: Economics of Digitization, Public Economics
Job Market Paper: Multi-Sided Platform Strategy, Taxation, and Regulation: A Quantitative Model and Application to Facebook
C.V. | Website | sbenzell@mit.edu
References: Laurence Kotlikoff, Erik Brynjolfsson, Marshall Van Allstyne, Pascual Restrepo

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Chelsea Carter

Fields: Urban and Regional Economics, Economic History, Empirical Microeconomics
Job Market Paper: Forts and the Frontier: The US Army and the Spatial Distribution of Population
C.V. | Website | cecarter@bu.edu
References: Robert Margo, James Feigenbaum, Megan MacGarvie

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Jacob Fabina

Fields: Labor Economics, Macroeconomics
Job Market Paper: The Effect of Federal Oversight on For-Profit Colleges
C.V. | Website | jfabina@bu.edu
References: Adam Guren, Daniele Paserman, Simon Gilchrist

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Xiangyu Feng

Fields: Macroeconomics, Finance, Applied Microeconomics
Job Market Paper: Growth in China: the Role of Capital Upgrading
C.V. | Website | xyfeng@bu.edu
References: Stephen Terry, Pascual Restrepo, Robert King

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Thea How Choon

Fields: Microeconomic Theory, Political Economy
Job Market Paper: Biased Campaign Advice: Cheap Talk and Bayesian Persuasion
C.V. | Website | theahow@bu.edu
References: Dilip Mookherjee, Bart Lipman, Juan Ortner

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Yeseul Hyun

Fields: Labor Economics, Development Economics
Job Market Paper: Does Intrafamily Time Allocation Respond to Economic Shocks? The Role of Gender Norms
C.V. | Website | yhyun@bu.edu
References: Daniele Paserman, Samuel Bazzi, Johannes Schmieder

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Gedeon Lim

Fields: Development Economics, Political Economy, Economic History
Job Market Paper: Why Pay the Chief? Political Selection & Economic Development in Indonesia
C.V. | Website | gedeonl@bu.edu
References: Samuel Bazzi, Dilip Mookherjee, Robert Margo

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Giovanna Marcolongo

Fields: Political Economy, Development Economics
Job Market Paper: Organized Crime, Earthquakes and Local Public Procurement: Evidence from Italy
C.V. | Website | gio@bu.edu
References: Dilip Mookherjee, Ray Fisman, Pascual Restrepo

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Julian Richers

Fields: Macro Finance, Asset Pricing, Macroeconomics
Job Market Paper: UIP Violations and the Cost of Capital: Firm-level Evidence
C.V. | Website | richersj@bu.edu
References: Tarek Hassan, Simon Gilchrist, Stephen Terry, Andrea Vedolin

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Gianluca Russo

Fields: Political Economy, Economic History, Development Economics
Job Market Paper: Mass Media and Cultural Homogenization: Broadcasting the American Dream on the Radio
C.V. | Website | russog@bu.edu
References: Robert Margo, James Feigenbaum, Daniele Paserman, Martin Fiszbein

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Chenlu Song

Fields: Health Economics, Applied Microeconomics
Job Market Paper: What Saves More: Coinsurance or Copayment?
C.V. | Website | csong@bu.edu
References: Randall Ellis, Ching-to Albert Ma, Robert Margo

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Wendy Xu

Fields: Applied Microeconomic Theory, Behavioral Economics, Organizational Economics
Job Market Paper: Optimal Screening of Multi-Period Discrete Choice
C.V. | Website | wendyx@bu.edu
References: Chiara Margaria, Ching-to Albert Ma, Jawwad Noor

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Manni Yu

Fields: Macroeconomics, Public Finance
Job Market Paper: The Rich Save More: Evidence from the Health and Retirement Study
C.V. | Website | yumanni@bu.edu
References: Laurence Kotlikoff, Adam Guren, Pascual Restrepo

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