Job Market Candidates
PhD Students on the Job Market
Placement Directors
Thomas Holmes
holmes@umn.edu
Ellen McGrattan
612-625-6714
erm@umn.edu
Placement Coordinator
Caty Bach
612-625-6859
c-bach@umn.edu
Thomas Holmes
holmes@umn.edu
Ellen McGrattan
612-625-6714
erm@umn.edu
Placement Coordinator
Caty Bach
612-625-6859
c-bach@umn.edu
Please find below the placement of each of the Minnesota Economics Ph.D. students on the job market this year.
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.
| Candidate | Institution | Position |
|---|---|---|
| Shahid Ahmed | PricewaterhouseCoopers | Transfer Pricing Economist |
| Brian Albrecht | Coles College of Business Kennesaw State University |
Assistant Professor |
| Payam Alipour | The Pennsylvania State University | Visiting Assistant Professor |
| Job Boerma | University of Wisconsin-Madison | Assistant Professor |
| Jonathan Borowsky | Boston University School of Social Work |
Post Doctoral Associate |
| J. Carter Braxton | University of Wisconsin-Madison | Assistant Professor |
| Adway De | Minnesota Department of Commerce | Principal Planner |
| Son Dinh | Dennison University | Assistant Professor |
| Carlos Esquivel | Rutgers University | Assistant Professor |
| Salomón Garcia | Bank of Spain | Research Economist |
| Sergiy Golovin | Amazon | Economist |
| Shijun Gu | Central University of Economics and Finance | Assistant Professor |
| Mohammad Khani | PricewaterhouseCoopers | Transfer Pricing Economist |
| John Kumcu | Analysis Group Boston | Associate |
| Veronica Postal | NERA | Consultant |
| Anthony Priolo | Lancaster University | Lecturer |
| Vladimir Smirnyagin | Yale University School of Management | Post Doc |
| Aradhya Sood | University of Toronto (joint appointment with Rotman and the University of Toronto Scarborough) |
Assistant Professor |
| Will Speagle | University of Connecticut | Assistant Professor in Residence |
| Isaac Swift | Hong Kong Baptist University | Assistant Professor |
| Monica Tran Xuan | SUNY - Buffalo | Assistant Professor |
| Lichen Zhang | The University of Hong Kong | Assistant Professor |