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
Rishabh Aggarwal, ’24
Indian School of Business
Monetary Policy Exposure Uncertainty and Voluntary Disclosure
Andrew Baker, ’21
Stanford University (Post-doc); UC Berkeley (2022)
Essays in Corporate Governance
Kurt H. Gee, ’18
Penn State University, Smeal College of Business
Readability, Profitability, and Discretionary MD&A Text
Stefan Huber, ’21
Rice University
Loan Loss Measurement and Bank Lending
Douglas Laporte, ’23
Washington University in St. Louis
Measuring Cross-Sectional Variation in Expected Returns: A Machine Learning Approach
Ken Li, ’19
McMaster University
Linguistics Fundamentals in Earnings Press Releases
Sara Malik, ’21
University of Utah
Without a Word of WARN-ing: Advance Notice, Information Quality, and Labor Market Outcomes
Charles McClure, ’18
University of Chicago, Booth School of Business
Determinants of Tax Avoidance
Steven Mitsuda, ’20
University of Montana
The Effect of Chief Accounting Officers on Financial Reporting Quality
Trung Nguyen, ’18
Harvard Business School
The Effectiveness of White-Collar Crime Enforcement: Evidence from the War on Terror
Shawn Shi, ’22
University of Washington
How Does Better Public Firm Disclosure Affect Private Firm Financing?
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
Christina Zhu, ’19
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA, WHARTON SCHOOL
Big Data as a Governance Mechanism
Economic Analysis & Policy
Dmitry Arkhangelsky, ’18
Center for Monetary and Financial Studies (CEMFI)
Essays in Econometrics
Martino Banchio, ’23
Bocconi University (2024)
Adaptive Algorithms and Collusion via Coupling
Daniel Chen, ’23
Princeton University
Analysis of Modern Market Structures
Cody Cook, ’24
Yale University
Where to Build Affordable Housing? Evaluating the Tradeoffs of Location
Enrique Ide, ’20
IESE Business School
Reorganizations
Zi Yang Kang, ’23
Harvard University (postdoc); University of Toronto (2024)
The Public Option and Optimal Redistribution
Yucheng Liang, ’20
briq Institute (Postdoc); Carnegie Mellon University (2021)
Learning from unknown information sources
Shannon Liu, ’18
University of Toronto, Rotman School of Management
Theory and Applications of Collective Investment
Suraj Malladi, ’21
Cornell University
Delegated Screening and Robustness
Evan Munro, ’24
University of Chicago, Booth
Causal Inference in Equilibrium
Frank Yang, ’24
Stanford University, Economics Department
Nested Bundling
Anthony Lee Zhang, ’19
University of Chicago, Booth School of Business
Competition and Manipulation in Derivative Contract Markets
Finanzbranche
Yu An, ’19
Johns Hopkins University, Carey Business School
Competing with Inventory in Dealership Markets
Samuel Antill, ’20
Harvard Business School
Essays in Financial Economics
Joseph Peterson Hall, ’24
Georgia Tech Scheller School of Business (post-doc)
Technology, Costs, and Competition: the Case of Credit Cards
Amy Wang Huber, ’22
University of Pennsylvania, Wharton School
Lender Preference, Borrower Market Power, and the Effect of RRP
Jiacui Li, ’19
University of Utah, David Eccles School of Business
Sophisticated Inattention and Investor Underreaction
Wenhao Li, ’19
University of Southern California
Public Liquidity and Financial Crises
Xu Lu, ’23
University of Washington, Foster School of Business
Monetary Transmission and Portfolio Rebalancing: A Cross-Sectional Approach
Dan Luo, ’22
Chicago Booth (postdoc); Chinese University of Hong Kong
Raising Capital from Investor Syndicates with Strategic Communication
Yiming Ma, ’18
Columbia Business School
Intermediation in the Interbank Lending Market
Timur Sobolev, ’24
New Economic School
Essays on Political and Corporate Governance
Yang Song, ’18
University of Washington, Foster School of Business
Essays in Financial Economics
Jonathan Wallen, ’20
Harvard Business School
Markups to Financial Intermediation in Foreign Exchange Markets
Lulu Wang (Yichuan), ’23
Northwestern University, Kellogg School of Management
Payment Network Competition
Yilin (David) Yang, ’22
The City University of Hong Kong
What Quantity of Reserves Is Sufficient?
Marketing
Christopher J. Bechler, ’21
University of Notre Dame
A Categorical Perspective on Attitudes: Implications for Perceived Change, Persuasive Targeting, and the Attitude-Behavior Relationship
Melanie Brucks, ’19
Columbia University, GSB
The Creativity Paradox: Encouraging Creative Ideas Blocks Idea Generation
Rhia Catapano, ’21
University of Toronto
Essays on the Role of Values in Changing Minds
Wendy J. De La Rosa, ’22
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA, WHARTON SCHOOL
The Impact of Resource Timing on Consumers' Resource Perceptions, Justifications, and Discretionary Spending
George (Zhida) Gui, ’23
Columbia University, GSB
Designing Promises with Reference-Dependent Customers: The Case of Online GroceryDelivery Time
Justin T. Huang, ’18
University of Michigan, Ross School of Business
Visibility Policy, Seller Incentives, and Pricing Dynamics in a Digital Goods Marketplace
Megan Hunter, ’20
Boston College, Carroll School of Management
Strategic Utilization and Communication of Information
Shreya Kankanhalli, ’21
Pennsylvania State University
Modernizing Retail Firms in Emerging Markets
Rupali Kaul, ’23
INSEAD
Using Marketing Technology to Grow Small Businesses: Evidence from Field Experiments in Emerging Markets
Ivan Li, ’24
University of Texas at Dallas
Name, Image, and Likeness in Marketing
Shwetha Mariadassou, ’23
Erasmus University, Rotterdam School of Management
The Effects of Information Modality on Decision-Making
Ilya Morozov, ’20
Northwestern University, Kellogg School of Management
Consumer Behavior, Pricing, and Product Entry in Markets with Information Frictions
Jen Park, ’22
University of British Columbia
The Role of Response Modes in Consumer Judgment and Choice
Michelle (Yingze) Song, ’22
Boston College
How Do Personalized Recommendations Affect Consumer Exploration: A Field Experiment
Jessica Yu, ’22
University of Michigan, Ross School of Business
Search, Selectivity, and Market Thickness in Two Sided Markets
Operations, Information & Technology
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
Giacomo Mantegazza, ’24
University of Southern California
Acquisition and Use of Information to Improve Coordination and Efficiency in Digital Markets and Supply Chains
Bryce McLaughlin, ’24
University of Pennsylvania, Wharton (postdoc)
Designing Prediction and Recommendation Algorithms to Improve Human Decision-Making
Ilan Morgenstern, ’24
UC Berkeley, Haas; Yale University (postdoc)
Platform Design, Data Tracking, and Competition in Digital Markets
Jae Hyuck Park, ’21
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Post-doc)
Essays in Perishable Inventory Management
Ignacio Andres Rios, ’20
The University of Texas at Dallas
Essays on Behavioral Market Design
Zhengli Wang, ’21
University of Hong Kong
A Stochastic Steepest Descent Approach to Entrepreneurial Opportunity Search
Xavier Sebastian Warnes, ’21
Stanford University, Wood Institute (Post-doc)
Social Good, Fairness, and Efficiency in Operations Management
Mingxi Zhu, ’23
Georgia Tech, Scheller College of Business
Essays on Optimization Algorithms and its Applications in Online Platform Revenue Management
Organizational Behavior
Anjali M. Bhatt, ’20
Santa Fe Institute (Postdoc); Harvard Business School (2021)
Neither blank slate nor set in stone: Cultural behaviors of organizational newcomers
Charles Chu, ’22
Boston University
Essays on Self, Meaning, and Polarization
Matthew Corritore, ’18
McGill University
Essays on the Consequences and Determinants of Cultural Heterogeneity in Firms
Matt Cummins, ’21
ESSEC Business School
Essays in Nonverbal Organizational Design
Jennifer E. Dannals, ’18
Dartmouth College, Tuck School of Business
Essays in Social Norm Perception
Solène Delecourt, ’20
University of California, Berkeley Haas School of Business
Field Experiments in Performance Inequality Among Small Businesses: Evidence from India and Uganda
Naomi M. Fa-Kaji, ’20
Rice University (Postdoc)
Seeing Harm, Thinking, "Humans": Perceptions of Harm Prompt Human-Driven Explanations
Joshuamorris (Josh) Hurwitz, ’24
University of Liverpool
Organizational Essentialism
Arthur Jago, ’18
University of Southern California, Marshall School of Business (Postdoc)
Locating Conviction Within Organizations
Chelsea Lide, ’24
MIT Sloan
Second-Order Prejudice: How, When, and Why our Beliefs about Others' Biases Perpetuate Discrimination in Organizations
Abraham Oshotse, ’23
Emory University
Inferring Social Structure from Digital Trace Data: Applications to Organizations and Markets
Natasha Overmeyer, ’23
University of Oregon
Selling Snake Oil and Unicorns: Performative Standardization in the Evaluation and Socialization Processes of Entrepreneurial Ideas
Amelia M Stillwell, ’20
University of Utah, David Eccles School of Business
Gendered Racial Boundary Maintenance: Social Penalties for White Women in Interracial Relationships
Preeti Vani, ’24
Duke University (post-doc)
The Role of Trust in Allyship: The Divergent Perspectives of Minority and Majority Individuals
Paul Vicinanza, ’23
UC Berkeley, Haas Business School (post doc)
The Social Structure of Knowledge Innovation, Diffusion, and Practice
Shiya Wang, ’22
Harvard Business School (Post-Doc)
Pay-Setting, Gender Inequality, and Initial Salary Offers
Vivian Xiao, ’22
Vanderbilt University (postdoc)
A New Understanding of Race and Gender in Leadership: Punishments and Rewards for Breaking or Adhering to Gender Norms Across Race
Chunchen Xu, ’21
Stanford University (Post-doc)
Know yourself: centrality of beliefs to the self predicts an interest in exploration
Julian J. Zlatev, ’18
Harvard Business School
Self-Interest and Other-Interest Motives in Prosocial Behavior
Political Economics
Nathan Atkinson, ’19
ETH Zurich (Postdoc); University of Wisconsin Law School (2021)
Essays in Law and Business
Thomas Qitong Cao, ’24
Tufts University, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy
Essays on the Political Economics of Information
Thomas Choate, ’19
Duke University (PostDoc); George Washington University (2021)
Essays in Political Economy
Christian Fong, ’19
University of Michigan, Political Science
The Allocation of Rights to Congressional Leaders
Jake Alton Jares, ’24
Texas A&M University; Stanford Hoover Institute (postdoc)
The Political Engagement of Vested Interests
Zhao Li, ’19
Princeton University, Department of Politics
Three Essays on Money in Politics in the United States
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