Dissertations
2023
| Name | Title | Advisor |
|---|---|---|
| Cristian Aguilera Arellano | Essays in Labor Economics | Guvenen, Lise |
| Mahdi Ansari | Essays in Macroeconomics and Firm Dynamics | McGrattan, Chari |
| Fil Babalievsky | Essays in Macroeconomics | Lise |
| Lejvi Dalani | Essays on Decentralized Asset Markets | Phelan, Karabarbounis |
| Dhananjay Ghei | Why do couples retire when they do? | De Nardi |
| Patrick Kiernan | Essays on agriculture in macro-development | Storesletten |
| Sang Min Lee | Essays on International Trade, Growth and Development | Amador, T. Kehoe |
| Paul Phillips | A Tale of Two Recessions: Decomposing Import Patterns After 2020 and 2008 | Amador, T. Kehoe |
| Joseph Pickens | Essays in Labor Economics | Rahman |
| Filip Premik | Procurement with Bid Preference and Buyer's Switching Costs | Petrin, Holmes |
| Hayagreev Ramesh | Essays on International Macroeconomics | Amador, T. Kehoe |
| Jorge Ramos-Mercado | Essays on Dynamic Learning on Market Design and Dynamic Contracting under Limited Commitment | Rahman |
| Nicolo Russo | Essays on Household Health and Taxation | De Nardi |
| Juyoung Yang | Essays on Sovereign Bond Markets | Amador, T. Kehoe |
| Jiheum Yeon | Essays in Macroeconomics with Institutions | Karabarbounis |
| Dan Yu | The Value of Certification to Consumers: Evidence from the U.S. Organic Food Market | Petrin |
2022
| Name | Title | Advisor |
|---|---|---|
| Sergio Barrera | Background, Beliefs and Economic Outcomes: How Family and Peers Relate to Beliefs, Early Pregnancy, Crime and Labor Market Outcomes | De Nardi, Lise |
| Ross Batzer | Essays on Income Taxation | Chari |
| Maria Carreras Valle | Essays on Trade under Uncertainty | Amador, T. Kehoe |
| Joao Paulo Fonseca Rodrigues | Essays on Land Markets and Development | McGrattan |
| Stelios Fourakis | Essays on Sovereign Debt with Information Frictions | Amador, T. Kehoe |
| Yue Hua | Essays on Macroeconomics and Labor Economics | Karabarbounis |
| Tobey Kass | Essays on Policies in Labor and Urban Economics | Holmes, Lise |
| Egor Malkov | Essays in Inequality and Public Economics | Jones |
| Mark Ponder | Essays in Industrial Organization | Petrin |
| Peter Pusztai | Essays in Bargaining in Networks | Werner |
| Albert Raya Munte | Essays on Inequality and Macroeconomics | Amador, T. Kehoe |
| Samuel Wascher | Essays in Market Microstructure | Werner |
| Yuki Yao | Essays in Macroeconomics | McGrattan |
| Zhixiu Yu | Essays on Macroeconomics | De Nardi, Jones |
| Xiaohan Zhang | Essays on Structural Change | McGrattan |
| Yan Zhao | Savings, Retirement Behavior and Required Minimum Distributions | Phelan |
2021
| Name | Title | Advisor |
|---|---|---|
| Shahid Ahmed | Essays in Labor Economics | Guvenen |
| Camilo Alvarez | As Time Goes By: Essays on Maturity and Sovereign Debt | Amador, T. Kehoe |
| Fernando Arce Munoz | Essays on International Private Debt | Amador, T. Kehoe |
| Samuel Bailey | Essays on the Industrial Organization of Ocean Shipping | Holmes |
| Victor Borges de Almeida | Essays on Sovereign Debt Restructuring | T. Kehoe, Amador |
| Han Gao | Essays in Labor and Monetary Economics | McGrattan |
| Sergio Marin Aranega | The Economics of Traffic Congestion: A Quantitative Analysis | Holmes |
| Amy Handlan Neff | Text Shocks and Monetary Surprises | Phelan |
| Jordan Pandolfo | Essays on Bank Regulation and Risk | McGrattan |
| Vitoria Rabello de Castro | Value Creation and Competition in the Grocery Delivery Market | Petrin |
| Conor Ryan | Essays on Competition in Health Insurance | Holmes |
| Agustin Samano | Essays on the Accumulation of International Reserves | Amador, T. Kehoe |
| Pedro Tanure Veloso | Essays on Economic Misallocation | Amador, McGrattan |
| Klevi Xhaxho | Essays in Immigration Economics | Jones |
| Yang Zhou | Essays on International Trade | T. Kehoe, Amador |
2020
| Name | Title | Advisor |
|---|---|---|
| Brian Albrecht | Information and Persuasion in Competitive Markets and Politics | Rahman |
| Payam Alipour | Information and Persuasion in Competitive Markets and Politics | Rustichini |
| Job Boerma | Essays on Macroeconomics and Fiscal Policy | Jones |
| Jonathan Borowsky | Applications of Demand Estimation to the Child Care Market | Holmes |
| John Carter Braxton | Essays on Macroeconomics and Labor Economics | McGrattan, Herkenhoff |
| Adway De | Essays on Nonlinear Environmental Dynamics and the Social Cost of Carbon | Chari |
| Son Dinh | Essays on Macroeconomics | Chari |
| Carlos Esquivel | Essays on International Economics | Amador, T. Kehoe |
| Salomon Garcia | Essays on Financial Intermediation and Taxation | McGrattan |
| Sergiy Golovin | Essays in Industrial Organization | Petrin |
| Eugenia Gonzalez-Aguado | Essays in Macroeconomics | Chari |
| Shijun Gu | Essays in Macroeconomics | McGrattan |
| Mohammad Khani | Essays on Banking Regulations | Chari |
| John Kumcu | Essays in International Trade | T. Kehoe |
| Veronica Postal | Essays in Urban Economics | Holmes |
| Anthony Priolo | Essays in International Economics | T. Kehoe |
| Vladimir Smirnyagin | Essays in International Economics | Chari |
| Aradhya Sood | Essays in Spatial Economics | Holmes |
| Will Speagle | Essays in Public Economics | Lise |
| Isaac Swift | Applications of Information Design to Finance, Politics, and Education | Rahman |
| Xuan Anh (Monica) Tran Xuan | Essays on Fiscal Policies in Open Economies | Chari |
| Lichen Zhang | Essays on Macroeconomics with Firm Heterogeneity | T, Kehoe, Amador |
2019
| Name | Title | Advisor |
|---|---|---|
| Serdar Birinci | Essays on Governmental Transfers and Labor Markets | McGrattan |
| David Bradley | Essays on Immigration | McGrattan |
| Guillermo Cabral Lassalle | Essays on Public Economics | Jones |
| Taylor J. Canann | Essays in Applied and Computational Game Theory | Werner |
| Marcos Dinerstein Madenfrost | Essays on Government Policy and Productivity | McGrattan |
| Keyvan Eslami | Essays in Health Economics | Chari, Jones |
| Elena Falcettoni | Essays in Industrial Organization and Health Economics | Holmes |
| Sora Lee | Essays on International Economics | Amador, T. Kehoe |
| Keler Marku | Robustness and Games with Linear Best Replies: Theory and Applications | Rahman |
| Jorge Mondragon Minero | Essays on Terms of Trade | Amador, T. Kehoe |
| Emily Moschini | Essays on Child Care Subsidies | McGrattan |
| Vegard Nygaard | Essays on the Macroeconomics of Health Care | Amador, T. Kehoe |
| Sergio Ocampo Diaz | Essays in Inequality and Heterogeneity | Guvenen |
| Junghyun Oh | Essays on Game Theory | Rustichini |
| Fausto Patino Pena | Essays on Governmental Policies and the Allocation of Resources | McGrattan |
| Rafael Roos Guthmann | Pricing and Imperfect Awareness | Werner |
| Sergio Salgado Ibanez | Essays in Macroeconomics | Guvenen |
| Kurt See | The Effect of Social Insurance Plans on Labor Markets | McGrattan |
| Dominic Smith | Towards a Better Understanding of Peer-Produced Structured Content Value | Holmes |
| Jaroslaw Strzalkowski | Essays on International Macroeconomics | Amador, T. Kehoe |
2018
| Name | Title | Advisor |
|---|---|---|
| Ignacio Campomanes | Essays in Political Economy | Chari |
| Mons Chan | Essays in Trade and Productivity | Petrin |
| Yinxiao Chu | Information Acquisition and Revelation in Financial Markets | Werner |
| Luis Diez Catalan | Essays in Macroeconomics and Labor Economics | Guvenen |
| Shiv Dixit | Essays on Contract Theory and Institution Design | Chari |
| Fatih Fazilet | Essays in Financial Economics | McGrattan |
| Joaquin Garcia-Cabo Herrero | Essays in Labor Markets and Human Capital | McGrattan |
| Parisa Jamalkamali | Essays on Intermediation in International Economics | Amador, T. Kehoe |
| Arun Kandanchatha | Essays in Computation of Heterogeneous Agent Models | Guvenen |
| Hyunju Lee | Essays on International Finance and Financial Crises | Amador, T. Kehoe |
| Weiwen Leung | Essays in Behavioral Economics | Rustichini |
| Marcos Marcolino | Essays on Structural Transformation | Jones |
| Kathleen McKiernan Schlehuber | Essays on Social Security Reform: A Study of the 1981 and 2008 Chilean Reforms | McGrattan |
| Robert Mrkonich | Essays in Heterogeneous Agent Macroeconomics | Amador, T. Kehoe |
| Thomas Phelan | Essays on Dynamic Agency, Inequality, and Optimal Taxation | Phelan |
| David Ruiz | Critical Types in Dynamic Games | Rahman, Rustichini |
| Matthew Shapiro | Essays on the Market Impacts of Regulatory Regimes | Holmes |
| Alexandra Solovyeva | Essays in Macroeconomics | Amador, T. Kehoe |
| Guillaume Sublet | Essays in Macroeconomics and International Trade | Amador, T. Kehoe |
| Dirk van Duym | Essays in Water Economics | Holmes |
| William Walsh | Essays in Economic Sanctions | McGrattan |
| Ming Xu | Essays on Labor Market Dynamics | McGrattan |
| Bora Yunn | Essays on Macroeconomics | Amador, T. Kehoe |
2017
| Name | Title | Advisor |
|---|---|---|
| Joao Ayres Queiroz da Silva | Essays in International Economics and Macroeconomics | T. Kehoe |
| Zhifeng Cai | Essays on Macroeconomics and Finance | Chari |
| Simone Civale | Has the Decline in the Price of Investment Increased Wealth Inequality? | Guvenen |
| Richard Condor | Essays in Financial Macroeconomics | Amador, T. Kehoe |
| Daniela Costa | Essays in International Economics and Labor Economics | T. Kehoe |
| Kai Ding | Essays in Macroeconomics | Chari |
| Alexander Garivaltis | Essays on University Portfolios | Rustichini |
| Matthew Greenblatt | Essays on Monetary Unions and Insurance | Jones |
| Canhui Hong | Essays on Sovereign Default | T. Kehoe, Amador |
| Rocio Madera Holgado | Essays in Idiosyncratic Income Risk | Guvenen |
| Gajendran Raveendranathan | Essays on Consumer Bankruptcy, Employment, Firm Dynamics, and Aging in the U.S. | Amador, T. Kehoe |
| Maria Jose Garcia Rodriguez | Essays on Flows of Capital and Labor Across Countries | T. Kehoe |
| George Stefanidis | Essays in International Financial Economics and Bank Regulation | Amador, T. Kehoe |
2016
| Name | Title | Advisor |
|---|---|---|
| Ramses Armendariz | Essays on Given Behavior and International Trade | Kehoe |
| Kailin Clarke | Essays in Industrial Organization | Holmes, Petrin |
| Bitmaro Kim | The Welfare Effects of Sunday Shopping Regulation in Retail Markets | Holmes |
| Rishabh Kirpalani | Essays on Endogenously Incomplete Markets | Chari, Jones |
| George Krivorotov | Essays on Human Capital and Education Policy | Guvenen |
| Gustavo Leyva Jimenez | Essays on Unemployment and Job Search | Karabarbounis, Rios-Rull |
| Zachary Mahone | Essays on Human Capital and Inequality | Rios-Rull, Jones |
| Radoslaw Paluszynski | Essays on Information Frictions in Economics | Amador, T. Kehoe |
| Filippo Rebessi | Essays on International Economics and Policy | Jones |
| Martin Rostagno | Essays on Banking and the Macroeconomic Effects of Financial Intermediation | Amador, T. Kehoe |
| Boyoung Seo | Essays in Industrial Organization | Petrin |
| Ethan Singer | Import Competition, the Value of Time, and Intermediation in Trade | Holmes |
| Kelvin Wong | Living Together - Essays on Cohabitation | Rios-Rull |
| Leiyu Xie | Essays on Labor Market Frictions and Institutions | Phelan, Rios-Rull |
| Pei-Cheng Yu | Essays in Time Inconsistency | Rahman |
2015
| Name | Title | Advisor |
|---|---|---|
| Neha Bairoliya | Essays in Labor and Health Economics | Rios-Rull |
| Daolu Cai | Essays in Trade and Labor Economics | Kehoe |
| Sebastian Dyrda | Essays in Macroeconomics with Heterogeneity | Chari, Rios-Rull |
| Jingyi Jiang | Essays on Macroeconomics | Chari |
| Jiwoon Kim | Essays in Macroeconomics of the Labor Market | Rios-Rull |
| Jinyue Li | Essays on Urban and International Economics | Kehoe |
| Shihui Ma | Essays in Macro and Labor Economics | Guvenen |
| Keaton Miller | Essays in Industrial Organization | Petrin |
| Ruchika Mohanty | Management Practices | Werner |
| Cloe Ortiz de Mendivil Ribierre | Essays on the Factor Content of Trade and Education | Kehoe |
| Yun Pei | Essays on Optimal Policy Without Commitment | Chari |
| Thomas Quan | Demand Heterogeneity: Implications for Welfare Estimates and Policy | Holmes, Petrin |
| Jack Rossbach | On the Predictability of Growth and Trade | Kehoe |
| John Seliski | Essays on Labor Market Frictions and Macroeconomics | Kehoe |
| Marcelo Zouain Pedroni | Essays on Market Incompleteness | Phelan |
| Brian Zurowski | Essays in Social and Behavioral Economics | Werner |