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Ph.D. Job Candidates in the Field of Economics for 2007-2008

Contact Information:  For any information on our candidates, please feel free to contact Yongmiao Hong.

Placement Committee:
Prof. Yongmiao Hong (Chair) yh20@cornell.edu (607) 255-5130
Prof. Talia Bar tb97@cornell.edu (607) 255-6209
Prof. Levon Barseghyan lb247@cornell.edu (607) 255-6284
Prof. Larry Kahn lmk12@cornell.edu (607) 255-0510
Prof. Claudio Lucarelli cl443@cornell.edu (607) 255-1948
Prof. Tapan Mitra tm19@cornell.edu (607) 255-4019
Placement Coordinator:
em75@cornell.edu (607) 255-4893

Candidates

Job Market Candidates are listed below alphabetically with their fields of study, thesis titles, completion date and the people who serve as their committee members. You may view their vitae by clicking on the name of the job candidate, e-mail them by clicking on their e-amil address and view their abstract by clicking on their thesis title. You may contact the Graduate Committee Members via e-mail by clicking on their e-mail adress below their respective names.

NAME FIELDS THESIS TITLE COMPLETION DATE GRADUATE COMMITTEE MEMBERS

Christopher Cotton
<csc35@cornell.edu>
www.people.cornell.edu/pages/csc35

Political Economy
Public Economics
Industrial Organization
Behavioral Economics
Applied Micro Theory

May 2008
Steve Coate (Chair)
<sc163@cornell.edu>
Kaushik Basu
<kb40@cornell.edu>
Ted O'Donoghue
<edo1@cornell.edu>
Talia Bar
<tb97@cornell.edu>

Macroeconomics
International Economics
Monetary Economics
Applied Macroeconomics

May 2008

Karl Shell (Chair)
<ks22@cornell.edu>
Levon Barseghyan
<lb247@cornell.edu>
Tao Zhu
<tz34@cornell.edu>

Labor Economics
Applied Econometrics
Development Economics

July 2008

Gary Fields (Chair)
<gsf2@cornell.edu>
John Abowd
<jma7@cornell.edu>
George Jakubson
<gj10@cornell.edu>

Economic Theory
Financial Economics

May 2008

Lawrence Blume (Co-Chair)
<lb19@cornell.edu>
David Easley (Co-Chair)
<dae3@cornell.edu>
Ani Guerdjikova
<ag334@cornell.edu>
Mukul Majumdar
<mkm5@cornell.edu>

Labor Economics
Organizational and
Personnel Economics
Economics of Crime

July 2008

Jed DeVaro (Chair)
<jld48@cornell.edu>
John Abowd
<jma7@cornell.edu>
Kevin Hallock
<kfh7@cornell.edu>
Naci Mocan
<mocan@lsu.edu>

Applied Microeconomics
Industrial Organization
Organizational Economics

August 2008

Michael Waldman (Chair)
<mw46@cornell.edu>
Robert T. Masson
<rtm2@cornell.edu>
Justin P. Johnson
<jpj25@cornell.edu>

Financial Economics
Economic Theory
Applied Econometrics

May 2008

David Easley (Chair)
<dae3@cornell.edu>
Gideon Saar
<gs25@cornell.edu>
Karl Shell
<ks22@cornell.edu>

Microeconometrics
Finance
Applied Microeconomics

May 2008

Yongmiao Hong (Chair)
<yh20@cornell.edu>
Robert Jarrow
<raj15@cornell.edu>
Nick Kiefer
<nmk1@cornell.edu>

Development Economics
Microeconomics
Economic Theory

May 2007

Kaushik Basu (Chair)
<kb40@cornell.edu>
Erik Thorbecke
<et17@cornell.edu>
David Easley
<dae3@cornell.edu>
Robert T. Masson
<rtm2@cornell.edu>

Development Economics
Macroeconomics
Labor Economics

May 2008

Per Pinstrup-Anderson (Chair)
<pp94@cornell.edu>
Ravi Kanbur
<sk145@cornell.edu>
Erik Thorbecke
<et17@cornell.edu>
Michael Allred
<allredmn@ldsces.org>

Applied Microeconomic Theory
Game Theory
Public Economics
Development Economics

May 2008

Mukul Majumdar (Chair)
<mkm5@cornell.edu>
Kaushik Basu
<kb40@cornell.edu>
Ani Guerdjikova
<ag334@cornell.edu>
Geir Asheim
<g.b.asheim@econ.uio.no>

Cornell University
Department of Economics
429 Uris Hall
Ithaca, NY  14853-7601