Placement Director
Prof. Ken Hendricks
608-263-3869
hendrick@ssc.wisc.edu
Placement Administrator
Becca George
608-263-3879
becca.george@wisc.edu
Md Moshi Ul Alam
Credentials: Pronouns: he/him/his
CV · Personal Website · alam4@wisc.edu
Job Market Paper: “Employee Side Discrimination: Beliefs and Preferences”
Areas of Concentration: Labor Economics, Public Economics, Development Economics, Applied Econometrics
References: Christopher Taber, Jeffrey Smith, Jesse Gregory, Korinna Hansen (teaching)
Nicolás Badaracco
Credentials: Pronouns: he/him/his
CV · Personal Website · badaracco@wisc.edu
Job Market Paper: “Time Investment Responses of Parents and Students to School Inputs”
Areas of Concentration: Labor Economics, Economics of Education, Applied Econometrics
References: Christopher Taber (chair), Jeffrey Smith, Matthew Wiswall, Chao Fu
Gary Baker
Credentials: Pronouns: he/him/his
CV · Personal Website · gary.baker@wisc.edu
Job Market Paper: “Consumer theory for cheap information”
Areas of Concentration: Economic Theory, Information Economics, Statistical Decision Theory
References: Lones Smith (advisor), Daniel Quint, Marek Weretka, Elizabeth Kelly (teaching)
Eirik Brandsaas
CV · Personal Website · eebrandsaas@gmail.com
Job Market Paper: “Illiquid Homeownership and the Bank of Mom and Dad”
Areas of Concentration: Macroeconomics, Household Finance, Housing/Urban, and Family Economics
References: Dean Corbae, Erwan Quintin, Ananth Seshadri, Corina Mommaerts
Francesco Celentano
CV · Personal Website · celentano@wisc.edu
Job Market Paper: “How do Independent Boards Affect Shareholder Value? Evidence from a Structural Estimation”
Areas of Concentration: Corporate Finance, Banking, Macroeconomics
References: Dean Corbae, Oliver Levine, Antonio Mello, Erwan Quintin
Kohei Iwasaki
CV · Personal Website · kiwasaki@wisc.edu
Job Market Paper: “Cryptocurrency Bubbles and Costly Mining”
Areas of Concentration: Macroeconomics, Monetary Theory, Finance
References: Randall Wright (Chair), Erwan Quintin, Marzena Rostek
Junhyong Kim
CV · Personal Website · jkim666@wisc.edu
Job Market Paper: “The Impact of Uncertainty Shocks on the Investment of Small and Large Firms: Micro Evidence and Macro Implications”
Areas of Concentration: International Economics, Macroeconomics
References: Charles Engel (Main advisor), Kenneth West, Dean Corbae
Lu Liao
CV · Personal Website · lu.liao@wisc.edu
Job Market Paper: “Advertising Incentives of National Brands against Private Labels”
Areas of Concentration: Industrial Organization, Health Economics, Advertising, Applied Econometrics
References: Alan Sorensen, Kenneth Hendricks, Lorenzo Magnolfi
Daniel McLeod
CV · Personal Website · dpmcleod@wisc.edu
Job Market Paper: “Pooling Passenger Flows During Recession in the Airline Industry: Are Economies of Density Strong Enough?”
Areas of Concentration: Industrial Organization, Applied Econometrics
References: Kenneth Hendricks, Lorenzo Magnolfi, Alan Sorensen
Arpita Patnaik
CV · Personal Website · patnaik3@wisc.edu
Job Market Paper: “Pricing, Income and College Major Choice”
Areas of Concentration: Labor Economics, Economics of Education, Public Economics
References: Matthew Wiswall (Chair), John Kennan, Ananth Seshadri
Diwakar Raisingh
CV · Personal Website · raisingh@wisc.edu
Job Market Paper: “The Effect of Pre-Announcements on Participation and Bidding in Dynamic Auctions”
Areas of Concentration: Industrial Organization/Finance, Auctions, Dynamic Games
References: Kenneth Hendricks, Jean-François Houde, Alan Sorensen
Elan Segarra
Credentials: Pronouns: he/him/his
CV · Personal Website · segarra@wisc.edu
Job Market Paper: “Birth, Death, and Record Linkage: Conducting Survival Analysis in the Presence of Linkage Error”
Areas of Concentration: Econometrics and Public Economics
References: Jack Porter (main adviser), Christopher Taber, and Felix Elwert
Xiaoye Tian
Credentials: Pronouns: she/her/hers
CV · Personal Website · xtian37@wisc.edu
Job Market Paper: “The Role of Long-Term Contracting in Business Lending”
Areas of Concentration: Industrial Organization, Financial Economics, Applied Econometrics
References: Jean-François Houde, Kenneth Hendricks, Dean Corbae
Joanna Venator
Credentials: Pronouns: she/her/hers
CV · Personal Website · venator@wisc.edu
Job Market Paper: “Dual Earner Migration, Earnings, and Unemployment Insurance”
Areas of Concentration: Labor Economics, Public Economics, Urban Economics
References: John Kennan, Matthew Wiswall, Jesse Gregory, Jason Fletcher
Yingtong Xie
CV · Personal Website · yingtong.xie@wisc.edu
Job Market Paper: “The Impact of Pension Plan Shift on Household Risk Exposure”
Areas of Concentration: Macroeconomics, Household Finance
References: Ananth Seshadri, Dean Corbae, Erwan Quintin, Gwen Eudey (teaching), Noah Williams (teaching)
Yu (Alan) Yang
CV · Personal Website · alan.yang@wisc.edu
Job Market Paper: “Place-Based College Admission, Migration and the Spatial Distribution of Human Capital: Evidence from China”
Areas of Concentration: Public Economics, Labor Economics, Economics of Education
References: Jeffrey Smith, Christopher Taber, Matthew Wiswall
Chen Zheng
Credentials: Pronouns: he/him/his
CV · Personal Website · czheng37@wisc.edu
Job Market Paper: “Unintended Consequences of Policy Interventions: Evidence from Home Affordable Refinance Program”
Areas of Concentration: Industrial Organization, Finance, Public Economics
References: Jean-François Houde (main advisor), Alan Sorensen, Kenneth Hendricks
Andrey Zubanov
CV · Personal Website · zubanov@wisc.edu
Job Market Paper: “The TV Advertising Market: Demographic Segmentation and the Impact of Viewership Decline”
Areas of Concentration: Industrial Organization, Applied Microeconomics
References: Alan Sorensen, Jean-François Houde, Lorenzo Magnolfi, Jesse Gregory
Post-Doctoral Candidates
Wontae Han
CV · Personal Webpage · hanwontae@cuhk.edu.cn
Job Market Paper: “Pricing-to-Market, Imperfect Financial Market Integration, and Optimal Monetary Policy”
Areas of Concentration: International Macroeconomics, Business Cycle and Monetary Policy in Open Economies
References: Charles Engel, Kenneth West, Jian Wang
Ryan Veiga
CV · Personal Website · ryan.veiga@gmail.com
Job Market Paper: “School-Level Heterogeneity in Selective Teacher Retention”
Areas of Concentration: Economics of Education, Educational Evaluation, Inequality in Education Access
References: Robert Meyer, Christopher Taber, Anthony Milanowski