Job Market Candidates
2025-2026 Job Market Candidates
Please find below the curriculum vitae 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.
Please do not hesitate to contact us if you want additional information about any of our students on the market. You can reach us via e-mail at [email protected] and [email protected].
We would also like to highlight our students' teaching experience. Each curriculum vitae lists the
courses that the student has taught. Our Director of Undergraduate Studies, Dr. Ayca Ozdogan
Atabay, can give additional information about each student’s teaching performance. She can be
reached via e-mail at [email protected].
| Candidate | Fields | Job Market Paper | References |
|---|---|---|---|
| Balestrini, Teresa | Macroeconomics, International Economics |
"Sovereign Defaults: Maturity Choice and Conditionality" | Professor Manuel Amador, Professor Timothy Kehoe, and Dr. Illenin Kondo |
| Barreto, Leonardo | Macroeconomics, International Economics, Monetary Economics |
"Debt-Financed Fiscal Stimulus, Heterogeneity, and Welfare" | Professor Manuel Amador, Professor Timothy Kehoe, and Dr. Cristina Arellano |
| Bolivar, Carlos | International Economics | "Endogenous networks and aggregate risk" | Professor Manuel Amador, Professor Timothy Kehoe, and Dr. Javier Bianchi |
| Bullano, Francisco | Macroeconomics, Public Economics, Health Economics, Econometrics |
"Health, families and private and public health insurance" | Professor Mariacristina De Nardi, Professor Joseph Mullins, Dr. Alessandra Fogli, and Dr. Andrew Goodman-Bacon |
| Ellul, Christian F. | Macroeconomics, Public Policy, Labor Economics |
"Occupational choices, contingent work and unemployment insurance" | Professor Anmol Bhandari, Professor Kjetil Storesletten, and Dr. Alisdair McKay |
| Gamboa-Arbelaez, Juliana | International Macroeconomics, Macroeconomics |
"When Does Sovereign Borrowing Pay Off? The Case for Public Investment" | Professor Timothy Kehoe, Professor Manuel Amador, Dr. Marco Bassetto, and Dr. Illenin Kondo |
| Karfaki, Eftychia (Effie) | International Finance and Applied Macroeconomics |
"Are Exchange Rate Shocks Contractionary or Expansionary? Evidence From Switzerland" | Professor Loukas Karabarbounis, Professor Kyle Herkenhoff, Professor Juliana Salomao, and Dr. Fahima Aziz |
| Koutsonikolis, Ioannis | Macroeconomics, Public Finance, Financial Economics |
"Stock Market Accounting" | Professor Ellen McGrattan, Dr. Fahima Aziz, and Professor Adam Zhang |
| Rainero, Xavier | Macroeconomics, Public Finance, Environmental Economics |
"A Property Rights Approach to Climate Change Policy" | Professor V. V. Chari, Professor Christopher Phelan, and Professor Larry Jones |
| Shin, Christina | Industrial Organization | "Does Shrinkflation Harm Consumers? — Universal Welfare Gains and Variety Loss in the Ice Cream Market —" |
Professor Thomas J. Holmes, Professor Amil Petrin, and Dr. Ayca Ozdogan Atabay |
| Sommers, Scott | International Macroeconomics, Development Economics, International Trade |
"Land Institutions, Agricultural Productivity, and Climate Shocks" | Professor Timothy Kehoe, Professor Manuel Amador, Dr. Doireann Fitzgerald, and Dr. Michael Waugh |
| Verma, Bipul | Growth, Development Economics, Spatial Economics, Education, Macro Labor | "Higher Education and Economic Development: Evidence from College Expansion in India" | Professor Kjetil Storesletten, Professor Hannes Malmberg, Dr. Todd Schoellman, and Dr. Alessandra Fogli |
| Wright, Jacob | Macro Labor, Education Economics, Spatial Economics, International Macro |
"On the Spatial Distribution of Colleges" | Professor Ellen McGrattan, Dr. Todd Schoellman, and Dr. Michael Waugh |
| Wurdinger, Alexander | Macroeconomics, Labor Economics |
"Declining Teen Employment: Causes and Consequences" | Professor Fatih Guvenen, Professor Kjetil Storesletten, Professor Anmol Bhandari, and Dr. Elena Pastorino |
| Yang, Lieyuan | Macroeconomics, Public Economics, Economic Growth |
"Growth with Regional Redistribution" | Professor Kjetil Storesletten, Professor Loukas Karabarbounis, and Professor Kyle Herkenhoff |