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JOB MARKET CANDIDATES 2009-2010
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DISSERTATION/JOB MARKET TITLE
FIELDS
ADVISOR
Marina Agranov
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Flip-flopping: Contrasting Effects of Intense Primaries and General Elections on Selection of Candidates

Economic Theory
Experimental Economics
Political Economy 

Andrew Schotter, Chair
Alessandro Lizzeri
Andrew Caplin
Rebecca Morton
Guillaume Frechette

Francisco Barillas
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Unspanned Predictability in Bond Markets

Asset Pricing
Macroeconomics 
Financial Econometrics 

 

Thomas Sargent, Chair
Pierre Collin-Dufresne
David Backus
Moussa Blimpo
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Essays in Development Economics and Economics of Education in Africa

Development Economics
Political Economy
Applied Microeconomics
Leonard Wantchekon, Co-Chair
Nicola Perscio, Co-Chair
David K. Evans
William Easterly
Matthew R. Grennan
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Bargaining Ability and Competitive Advantage: Empirical Evidence from Medical Devices

Competitive Strategy
Empirical Industrial Organization 

Adam M. Brandenburger, Chair
Michael L. Katz
Bernard Yeung
John Asker
Allan Collard-Wexler

Prithviraj Guha
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Essays in Indian Political Cycles

Development Economics
Political Economy
Public Economics 
William Easterly, Chair
Shanker Satyanath
Leonard Wantchekon
Anna Ingster
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Essays in Sequential Auctions

Empirical Industrial Organization
Applied Microeconomics
Applied Econometrics
Luis Cabral, Chair
John Asker
Andrew Schotter
Yilmaz Kocer
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Endogenous Learning with Bounded Memory 

Microeconomic Theory
Bounded Rationality
Behavioral Economics

David Pearce, Chair
Ennio Stacchetti
Andrea Wilson
Christian Matthes
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Figuring Out the Fed - Beliefs about Policymakers and Gains from Transparency

Macroeonomics
Econometrics
Timothy Cogley, Co-Chair
Thomas Sargent, Co-Chair
Tao Zha 
Silvana Melitsko
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Interpreting Gender Differences in Intergenerational Mobility

Labor Economics
Applied Microeconomics
Development Economics
Christopher Flinn, Chair
Raquel Fernandez
Matthew Wiswall
Paolo Riccardo Morganti
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Estimating Auction Models from Transaction Prices with Extreme Value Theory

Industrial Organization
Applied Microeconomics
Econometrics

 

Nicola Persico, Chair
Joerg Stoye
John Asker

Gulseren Mutlu
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Optimal Compensation Schemes in a Repeated Monitoring Relationship Economic Theory
Contract Theory
Nicola Persico, Chair
Michael Katz
Tomasz Sadzik
Breno Neri
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Impact of Hedging Costs on the Option's Bid and Ask Spread Financial Econometrics
Robert Engle, Chair
Joel Hasbrouck
Peter Kolm


Guido Ruta
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Securitization: positive and normative implications Financial Economics
Corporate Finance
Macroeconomics
Alberto Bisin, Chair
Gian Luca Clementi
Douglas Gale

Anja Sautmann
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Partner Search and Demographics: The Marriage Squeeze in India

Applied Microeconomic Theory Development  Economics
Experimental Economcs

Debraj Ray, Chair
Guillaume Frechette
Ricardo Lagos
Ahu Gemici

Ofer Setty
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Unemployment Accounts Macroeconomics
Applied Microeconomics 

Gianluca Violante, Chair
Gian Luca Clementi
Lars Ljungqvist

Chloe Jeanne Tergiman
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Entrepreneurship Does Pay Macroeconomics
Applied Microeconomics
Experimental Economics
Management Firms & Organizations
Boyan Jovanovic, Chair
Virgiliu Midrigan 
Guillaume Frechette

Shenghao Zhu
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Essays on Wealth Distribution and Incomplete Markets

Macroeconomics
Financial Economics

Jess Benhabib, Chair
Alberto Bisin
Thomas Sargent