PhD Students on the Job Market

Please find below the curriculum vitae of each of the Minnesota Economics Ph.D. students on the job market this year.

Please do not hesitate to contact us if you would like any additional information about any of our students on the market. We can be reached easily via e-mail at holmes@umn.edu and erm@umn.edu. 

We are proud of the research contributions that our past graduates have made in Economics and expect that this year’s group will continue that tradition. We push them hard here, and they respond well as you can see from the enclosed vita. 

We would also like to emphasize that our students already have extensive teaching experience. Minnesota students in the later years of their program are typically supported by teaching assistantships that give them full responsibility for selected undergraduate courses. Foreign students are first required to demonstrate fluency in spoken English. All students are given classroom critiques as well as other assistance in developing teaching expertise. As a result, each student enters the job market with a full repertoire of notes and techniques for undergraduate economics teaching. Each  c.v.  lists  the courses that  the student has taught.  Our Director of  Undergraduate Studies,  Dr. Simran Sahi, can give you additional information about each student’s teaching performance. She can be reached at (612) 625-6353 or by e-mail at ssahi@umn.edu. 

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Candidate	Fields	Job Market Paper	Advisor(s)
Camilo Alvarez	International Economics Monetary Economics	Puzzling Correlations and When to Find Them: Sovereign Spreads and Inflation	Manuel Amador Timothy Kehoe
Fernando Arce	Macroeconomics International Economics International Finance	Private Overborrowing under Sovereign Risk	Manuel Amador Timothy Kehoe
Samuel Bailey	Industrial Organization International Trade Transportation Economics	Competition and Coordination in Infrastructure: Port Authorities’ Decisions to Become “Big Ship Ready"	Thomas Holmes
Victor Borges de Almeida	International Finance International Economics Macroeconomics	The Holdout Problem in Sovereign Debt Markets	Timothy Kehoe Manuel Amador
Han Gao	Labor Economics Macroeconomics	Social Security and Female Labor Supply in China	Ellen McGrattan
Amy Handlan	Monetary Economics Public Economics Financial Economics	Text Shocks and Monetary Surprises: Text Analysis and Machine Learning	Christopher Phelan
Kaja Kierulf	Macroeconomics Labor Economics Public Economics	Increased Inequality in Income in Retirement	Timothy Kehoe Mariacristina De Nardi
Jordan Pandolfo	Macro-Finance Quantitative Economics Public Economics Pension Systems	Bank Regulation:  Capital and Liquidity Requirements	Ellen McGrattan
Vitoria Rabello de Castro	Industrial Organization Applied Microeconomics	Entry Timing in the Face of Switching Costs and its Welfare Effects: Evidence from Same-Day Grocery Delivery Platforms	Amil Petrin
Conor B. Ryan	Industrial Organization Health Economics Antitrust	How does Insurance Competition Affect Medical Consumption?	Thomas Holmes
Agustin Samano	International Macroeconomics Monetary Economics	International Reserves and Central Bank Independence	Manuel Amador Timothy Kehoe
Pedro Tanure Veloso	Macroeconomics Applied Macroeconomics Urban and Regional Economics	Housing Supply Constraints and the Distribution of Economic Activity: The Case of the Twin Cities	Ellen McGrattan
Yuki Yao	Macroeconomics Firm Dynamics Public Finance	Aggregate Implications of Merger Policy	Ellen McGrattan
Yang Zhou	International Macroeconomics International Trade	The US-China Trade War and Global Value Chains	Timothy Kehoe Manuel Amador