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

Placement Committee:
Prof. David Easley (Chair) dae3@cornell.edu (607) 255-6283
Prof. John Abowd jma7@cornell.edu (607) 255-8024
Prof. Talia Bar tb97@cornell.edu (607) 255-6209
Prof. Dan Benjamin db468@cornell.edu (607) 255-2355
Prof. John Cawley jhc38@cornell.edu (607) 255-0952
Prof. Uri Possen ump1@cornell.edu (607) 255-4019
Prof. Francesca Molinari fm75@cornell.edu (607) 255-6367
Placement Coordinator:
em75@cornell.edu (607) 255-4893

 

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-mail 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

Jiyoun An

ja256@cornell.edu

http://assets.wharton.upenn.edu/~jiyounan/

Financial Economics
International Finance
Empirical Asset Pricing
Can the Long-Run Risks Model Explain the International Value Premium?
Evidence Using Last Century Data

May 2010 David Ng, Chair, dtn4@cornell.edu
Warren B. Bailey, wbb1@cornell.edu
Hazem Daouk, hd35@cornell.edu
Xiaoyan Zhang, xz69@cornell.edu

 

Vidya Atal

va34@cornell.edu

http://sites.google.com/site/vidyaatal/

Development Economics

Industrial Organization

Applied Microeconomic Theory

Female Power, Patents and Peer-review:
Essays in Applied Microeconomic Theory
May 2010

Kaushik Basu, Chair, kb40@cornell.edu
Talia Bar, tb97@cornell.edu
Tapan Mitra, tm19@cornell.edu

 

Jessica Bean

jsb77@cornell.edu

http://www.jessicasbean.com/

Economic History

Labor Economics


Development Economics

Women's Work and the Household Economy: Poverty, Policy and Female Labor Supply in Britain, 1897-1931 May 2010

George R. Boyer, Chair, grb3@cornell.edu

Francine D. Blau, fdb4@cornell.edu

George Jakubson, gj10@cornell.edu

Hwan-sik Choi

hwansik.choi@tamu.edu

http://econweb.tamu.edu/hchoi/

Econometrics

Financial Economics

Applied Econometrics

Model Selection Testing for Diffusion Processes with Applications to Interest Rate and Exchange Rate Models (with M. Jeong and Joon Y. Park) 2007 Nicholas M. Kiefer, Chair nmk1@cornell.edu

Joon Y. Park, joon@indiana.edu

Yongmiao Hong, yh20@cornell.edu

 

Paul Moon Sub Choi

mc369@cornell.edu

http://www.paulchoi.me

Finance

Empirical Market Microstructure

Asset Pricing

Corporate Finance

Cross-Border Finance

Three Essays in Cross-Border Finance May 2010

Warren B. Bailey, Chair, wbb1@cornell.edu
Charles Chang, cc378@cornell.edu
Yaniv Grinstein,yg33@cornell.edu
Yongmiao Hong, yh20@cornell.edu

John Gray

jwg34@cornell.edu

https://sites.google.com/a/cornell.edu/johngray/

Development

Applied Theory

Essays on Identity: Its Endogenous Formation, Relevance to US Credit Markets and Implications for Poverty Assessment May 2010

Kaushik Basu, Chair, kb4@cornell.edu
Ravi Kanbur,sk145@cornell.edu
Robert Masson, rtm2@cornell.edu

Jeff Larrimore

jhl42@cornell.edu

http://www.jeff-larrimore.com

Health Economics

Economic Inequality


Labor Economics

Three Essays on Inequalities in Income and Health May 2010

Richard Burkhauser, Chair rvb1@cornell.edu

John Cawley, jhc38@cornell.edu

Donald Kenkel, dsk10@cornell.edu

 

Fernanda Leite Lopez de Leon

fl58@cornell.edu

http://www.arts.cornell.edu/econ/fl58/

Political Economy

Public Economics

Applied Econometrics

Essays about Newspaper Political Endorsements May 2010

Jeffrey Prince, Chair, jtp35@cornell.edu
Stephen Coate, sc163@cornell.edu
Benjamin Ho, bth26@cornell.edu

 

Annemie Maertens

am445@cornell.edu

http://sites.google.com/site/maertensannemie/

Development Economics

Applied Microeconomic Theory

Applied Econometrics

Social Networks, Identity and Economic Behavior: Empirical Evidence from India May 2010

Chris Barrett, Chair, cbb2@cornell.edu
Kaushik Basu, kb40@cornell.edu
George Jakubson, George.Jakubson@cornell.edu
Stephen Coate, sc163@cornell.edu

 

Jonathan Peterson

jrp45@cornell.edu

www.jonathanpeterson.info

Organizational Economics

Industrial Organization


Applied Microeconomic Theory

Essays on Employee Turnover May 2010

Michael Waldman, Chair, mw46@cornell.edu
Justin Johnson, jpj25@cornell.edu
Talia Bar, tb97@cornell.edu
Henry Schnieder, henry.schneider@cornell.edu

 

 

Ian Schmutte

ims28@cornell.edu

http://www.vrdc.cornell.edu/~ims28

Labor Economics

Microeconomic Theory

Applied Econometrics

Computer Science

Essays on Networks and Labor Market Mobility May 2010

John M. Abowd, Chair, John.Abowd@cornell.edu
Larry Blume, lb19@cornell.edu
Matthew Freedman, mf439@cornell.edu
Jon Kleinberg, kleinber@cs.cornell.edu

Daniel Wilmoth

drw42@cornell.edu

Health Economics,

Behavioral Economics,

Empirical Economics

Three Essays on Intelligence and Its Correlates July 2010

Donald Kenkel, Chair, dsk10@cornell.edu
Ted O'Donoghue, edo1@cornell.edu.
Sean Nicholson, sn243@cornell.edu

 

Mao Ye

my87@cornell.edu

Finance

Applied Econometrics

Price Discovery and Liquidity in Fragmented Stock Market May 2010

David Easley , Chair, dae3@cornell.edu
Maureen O'Hara, mo19@cornell.edu
Gideon Saar, gs25@cornell.edu



At Cornell, economists are distributed in many departments and colleges. In addition to the Department of Economics candidates listed above, Ph.D. job candidates with training in economics can also be found on the following department web sites:

Department of Applied Economics and Management
Department of Policy Analysis and Management