Initial Preparation
Duke Economics students' preparation for the job market begins early and extends well beyond authoring a job market paper. As early as the third year, students are encouraged to present papers, including their own preliminary research, in departmental seminars. Students present their job market papers again in a formal departmental seminar at the end of the fourth year. Faculty and students from a variety of disciplines are encouraged to attend. Faculty from outside the candidate's field of interest challenge the student to consider new perspectives and address potential obstacles. In the fall of the job market year students are provided assistance creating professional web pages and polishing curricula vitae. Students present their final job market papers once more in departmental seminars and begin responding to calls for applications. As the annual American Economic Association conference approaches at the beginning of the new year, students participate in two mock interviews, the final stage of job market preparation. Throughout the process the department's faculty job placement director acts as a secondary advisor to the candidates, with particular emphasis on issues related to the job market.
Placements
Click on the dates below to see positions of our doctoral graduates for that year.
| Name | Position | Institution |
|---|---|---|
| Saketh Aleti | Senior Analyst | PanAgora Asset Management |
| Xinyue Bei | Asst. Professor | University of Texas, Austin |
| Erin Denison | Associate | Analysis Group |
| Seohee Kim | Asst. Professor | Indiana University Kelley School of Business |
| Eun-Seok Lee | Research Economist | POSCO Research Institute |
| JoonYup Park | Asst. Professor | University of Hawai'i, Manoa |
| Alison Pei | Senior Associate | Charles River Associates |
| Ignacio Rodriguez Hurtado | Senior Associate | Charles River Associates |
| Sung-Ju Wu | Asst. Research Fellow | U of Nottingham post-doc; Academia Sinica Institute of Economics |
| Anna Ziff | Asst. Professor | Texas A&M University |
| Name | Position | Institution |
|---|---|---|
| Federico Bennett | Economist | World Bank |
| Luca Bertuzzi | Sr. Associate | Charles River Associates |
| Paul Diegert | Assistant Professor | Toulouse School of Economics |
| Luke Fesko | Assistant Professor | Marist College |
| Alan Jaske | Sr. Associate | Charles River Associates |
| Dongyoung Kim | Economist | Korea Development Institute |
| Yonggyun Kim | Visiting Asst. Professor | Florida State University |
| Riley League | Assistant Professor | NBER post-doc; University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Gies College of Business |
| David Min | Associate | Dimensional Fund Advisors |
| Sarah Raviola | Associate | Analysis Group |
| Kevin Roberts | Post-doc | Stanford University Graduate School of Business |
| Taishi Sassano | Assistant Professor | Tokyo University of Science |
| Adam Soliman | Assistant Professor | London School of Economics post-doc; Clemson University |
| Zichang Wang | Assistant Professor | Xiamen University |
| Kelly Kaili Yang | Assistant Professor | Indiana University Kelley School of Business |
| Haozhe Zhang | Quantitative Researcher | Two Sigma |
| Name | Position | Institution |
|---|---|---|
| Scott Abrahams | Assistant Professor | Louisiana State University |
| Usaid Awan | Economist | Amazon |
| Aram Grigoryan | Assistant Teaching Professor | University of California, San Diego |
| Yuxuan He | Economist | Amazon |
| Ranae Jabri | Assistant Professor | NBER (post-doc); University of Sydney |
| Xian Jiang | Assistant Professor | University of California, Davis |
| Ilia Kozis | Applied Scientist II | Uber |
| Jeremy Lebow | Young Professionals Program | World Bank |
| Tyler Moran | Applied Scientist II | Uber |
| Mirjam Szillery | Economist | Wayfair |
| Feifan Zhang | Assistant Professor | Duke Kunshan University |
| Xirui Zhang | Economist | Amazon |
| Name | Position | Institution |
|---|---|---|
| Michael Boutros | Senior Economist | Bank of Canada |
| Jackson Bunting | Assistant Professor | Texas A&M |
| Elessar Chen | VP - Model Development Specialist |
BNY Mellon |
| Tiancheng Chen | Economist | Amazon |
| Craig Fratrik | Economist |
Amazon |
| Attila Gyetvai | Research Economist | Bank of Portugal |
| Taehoon Kim | Associate Researcher | Korea Institute for Industrial Economics and Trade |
| Andrea Kiss | Postdoctoral Fellow | Carnegie Mellon |
| Jonathan Moreno Medina | Assistant Professor | University of Texas at San Antonio |
| Dieu Linh Nguyen | Data Scientist II | Uber |
| Gabor Palinko | Associate | Cornerstone Research |
| Leonardo Salim Saker Chaves | Senior Data Scientist | Moody's Analytics |
| Vytautas Valaitis |
Max-Webber Fellow (2021-2022) Lecturer (Starting Fall 2022) |
European University Institute (2021-2022) University of Surrey (Starting Fall 2022) |
| Alessandro Villa | Economist | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago |
| Andrew Vollmer | Economist | U.S. Department of Justice |
| Qiushi Zhang | Assistant Professor | School of Banking and Finance at the University of International Business and Economics |
| Name | Position | Institution |
|---|---|---|
| Yanyou Chen | Assistant Professor | University of Toronto |
| Jiayun Dong | Data Scientist | Airbnb |
| Daniel Garrett | Assistant Professor* | Wharton, Finance Department |
| Amanda Grittner | Economist | Abt Associates |
| Benjamin Heebsh | Economist | Federal Trade Commission |
| Joshua Jacobs | Lecturer | University of Washington |
| Zhao Liu | Assistant Professor | Warwick Business School |
| Zachary Nolan | Assistant Professor of Marketing | University of Delaware |
| Rudolf-Harri Oberg | Assistant Professor | Deakin Business School, Department of Marketing |
| Andrey Ordin | Assistant Professor | University of Texas-Austin, Finance |
| Rachel Sayers | Senior Research Analyst | AidData |
| Guilherme Salomé | Data Scientist | Eli Lilly |
| Wen Wang | Assistant Professor | Hong Kong University of Science and Technology |
| Mingzhe Yi | Investment Strategies Researcher | Dimensional Fund Advisors |
| Chuhang Yin Geissler | Economist | Bates White Economic Consulting |
| Congshan Zhang | Research Scientist |
*beginning 2021
| Name | Position | Institution |
|---|---|---|
| Yilin Jiang | Associate | McKinsey & Company |
| Kate Maxwell Koegel | Associate | Cornerstone Research |
| Gábor Nyéki | Postdoctoral Scholar | Princeton/African School of Economics |
| Thomas Polley | Associate | Analysis Group |
| Javier Romero Haaker | Young Professional | World Bank |
| Eugene Tan | Assistant Professor | University of Toronto (Rotman) |
| Mengke Wang | Lecturer | University of Sydney |
| Laurel Wheeler | Assistant Professor | University of Alberta, Economics Department |
| Maria Zhu | Assistant Professor | Syracuse University, Economics Department |
| Name | Position | Institution |
|---|---|---|
| Volodymyr Baranovskyi | Postdoctoral Associate | University of Rochester, Wallis Institute of Political Economy |
| Soroush Ghazi | Assistant Professor | University of Alabama, Culverhouse College of Commerce |
| Adam Bergeron | Senior Associate | PwC |
| Linxi Chen | Quantitative Researcher | BlackRock |
| Vasco de Castro Botelho | Economist | European Central Bank |
| Paul Eliason | Assistant Professor | Brigham Young University, Economics Department |
| Margaux Luflade | Assistant Professor | University of Pennsylvania, Economics Department |
| Elisa Maffioli | Assistant Professor | University of Michigan, School of Public Health |
| Jose Alejandro Martinez | Economist | Inter-American Development Bank |
| Catherine Moon | Economist | Keystone Strategy |
| Andrew Steck | Assistant Professor | University of Toronto Mississauga, Rotman School of Business |
| Gina Turrini | CDC Prevention Effectiveness Fellow | Department of Health and Human Services |
| Xiaohua Wu | Visiting Professor | University of Indiana, Kelley School of Business |
| Yuan Xue | Data Scientist | Quora |
| Su Zhang | Associate | Analysis Group |
| Name | Position | Institution |
|---|---|---|
| Hasan Arik | Senior Consultant | Ernst & Young |
| Luis Candelaria Barrera | Assistant Professor | University of Warwick |
| Robert Davies | Economist | Amazon |
| Xiaomin Fu | Economist | Amazon |
| Olga Kozlova | Associate | Analysis Group |
| Marat Kussainov | Assistant Vice President | Citi Bank |
| Milenka Moschella | Senior Researcher | Central Bank of Peru |
| Fu Ouyang | Assistant Professor | Nankai University-School of Finance |
| Matthew Panhans | Economist | Federal Trade Commission |
| Tyler Ransom | Assistant Professor | University of Oklahoma |
| Christopher Roark | Lecturer | University of Chicago |
| Alex Robinson | Associate | Analysis Group |
| Eli Sellinger-Liebman | Assistant Professor | University of Georgia |
| John Singleton | Assistant Professor | University of Rochester |
| Tedi Skiti | Research Assistant Professor | Temple University-Fox School of Business |
| Bingzhi Zhao | Associate Quantitative Researcher | Numeric Investors |
| Name | Position | Institution |
|---|---|---|
| Brian Clark | Economist | Federal Trade Commission |
| Eduardo Jardim | Economist | Amazon |
| Aaron Kolb | Assistant Professor | Indiana University, Kelley School of Business |
| Roman Levkin | Economist | Amazon |
| Pamela Medina Quispe | Assistant Professor | University of Toronto, Rotman School of Management |
| Veronica Montalva | Contractual | Inter-American Development Bank |
| Ekaterina Roshchina | Postdoctoral Associate | University of Washington-Seattle, Evans School of Public Policy |
| James Thomas | Postdoctoral Associate | Yale University |
| Takuya Ura | Assistant Professor of Economics | University of California, Davis |
| Ashley Vissing | Postdoctoral Associate | University of Chicago |
| Yang Yu | Assistant Professor | Shanghai University of Finance and Economics |
| Yichong Zhang | Assistant Professor | Singapore Management University |
| Name | Position | Institution |
|---|---|---|
| Merve Akbas | Behavioral Scientist | Morningstar |
| Jared Ashworth | Assistant Professor, Economics | Pepperdine University |
| David Bielen | Energy and Environmental Policy Analyst | National Renewable Energy Laboratory |
| Irving De Lira Salvatierra | Adjunct General Director | Mexican Ministry of Finance |
| Marie Hull | Assistant Professor, Economics | UNC Greensboro |
| Li Song (Nixon) Li | Economist | Amazon |
| Ying Li | Associate | Cornerstone Research |
| Lily Liu | Financial Economist | Boston Federal Reserve Bank |
| Joe Mazur | Assistant Professor, Economics | Purdue University |
| Tyler Ransom | Postdoctoral Associate, SSRI | Duke University |
| Rosen Valchev | Assistant Professor, Economics | Boston College |
| Name | Position | Institution |
|---|---|---|
| Ryan Brown | Assistant Professor, Economics | UC Denver |
| Gabriela Farfan | Textended Term Consultant | Development Research Group, World Bank |
| Felix Feng | Assistant Professor, Economics | University of Notre Dame |
| Domenico Ferraro | Assistant Professor, Economics | Arizona State University |
| Kristoph Kleiner | Assistant Professor, Finance | Indiana University, Kelly School of Business |
| Chung-Ying Lee | Assistant Professor | National Taiwan University |
| Lala Ma | Assistant Professor, Economics | University of Kentucky |
| Dong Hwan Oh | Assistant Professor, Economics | Federal Reserve Board |
| Deborah Rho | Assistant Professor | University of St. Thomas |
| Teresa Romano | Assistant Professor | Goucher College |
| Yair Taylor | — | U.S. Department of Justice |
| Chutima Tontarawongsa | Senior Economist | Siam Commercial Bank |
| Andrea Velasquez | Assistant Professor, Economics | UC Denver |
| Erik Vogt | Economist | Federal Reserve Bank of New York |
| Wenjing Wang | Research Associate | Moody's Analytics |
| Lai Xu | Assistant Professor, Finance | Syracuse University |
| Name | Position | Institution |
|---|---|---|
| Correa Alvaro | Assistant Professor | Charles III University of Madrid |
| Emily Lynch Anderson | Data Scientist | CoreComplete, LLC |
| Jonas Arias | Economist | Federal Reserve Board |
| Benjamin Carlston | Assistant Professor | University of the Pacific, Eberhandt School of Business |
| Patrick Coate | Postdoctoral Associate | University of Michigan, Population Center |
| Michael Dalton | Research Economist | Bureau of Labor Statistics |
| Christopher Geissler | Economist | ISO New England |
| Songman Kang | Assistant Professor | Hanyang University |
| Peter Landry | Assistant Professor | University of Toronto, Rotman School of Management |
| Kai Li | Assistant Professor | Hong Kong University of Science and Technology |
| Zhengzi (Sophia) Li | Assistant Professor | Michigan State University, Broad College of Business |
| Marcelo Ochoa | Economist | Federal Reserve Board |
| Mehmet Ozsoy | Assistant Professor | Ozyegin University |
| Evan Peet | Postdoctoral Associate | Harvard School of Public Health |
| Kalina Staub | Lecturer | University of Toronto-Mississauga |
| Sergiu Ungureanu | Lecturer | City University London |
| Name | Position | Institution |
|---|---|---|
| Eric Aldrich | Assistant Professor | UC Santa Cruz |
| Esteban Aucejo | Lecturer | London School of Economics |
| Jeremy Chiu | Economist | Bank of England |
| Alex Groves | Postdoctoral Associate | European Center for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics |
| Iaryna Grynkiv | Quantitative Associate | Barclay's Capital |
| Kristin Johnson | Research Manager | Harvard Business School |
| Edward Kung | Assistant Professor | UCLA |
| Tatyana Kuzmenko | Visiting Associate Professor | College of William and Mary |
| Daniel Lafave | Assistant Professor | Colby College |
| Kyle Mangum | Assistant Professor | Georgia State University |
| Ralph Mastromonaco | Assistant Professor | University of Oregon |
| Barry Rafferty | Lecturer | University of Melbourne |
| Name | Position | Institution |
|---|---|---|
| Elliot Anenberg | Economist | Federal Reserve Board of Governors |
| Christoph Bauner | Post-doc | University of Massachusetts, Amherst |
| Marcus Casey | Assistant Professor | University of Illinois, Chicago |
| John Clithero | Post-doc | California Institute of Technology |
| Bruno Veunou | Senior Analyst | Bank of Canada |
| Andrew Foerster | Kansas City Federal Reserve Bank | |
| Aurel Hizmo | Assistant Professor | NYU, Stern School of Business |
| Jon James | Research Economist | Cleveland Federal Reserve Bank |
| Tae Bong Kim | Research Fellow | Korea Development Institute |
| Scott Lustic | VP in Decision Management | Citicards |
| Erika Martinez | Assistant Professor | University of South Florida |
| Nujin Prasertsom | Post-doc | ETH-Zurich |
| Michiru Sakane | Assistant Professor | Sophia University, Tokyo |
| Hernan Seoane | Assistant Professor | Universidad Carlos Ill de Madrid |
| Beia Spiller | Post-doc Research Fellow | Resources for the Future |
| Béla Személy | Post-doc Associate and Lecturer | Boston University |
| Alexandra Tabova | Economist | Federal Reserve Board of Governors |
| Justin Valasek | Post-doc | European Economic Institute (Florence) |
| Emily Wang | Assistant Professor | University of Massachusetts, Amherst |
| Name | Position | Institution |
|---|---|---|
| Jason Blevins | Assistant Professor | The Ohio State University |
| Angelo Marsiglia-Fasolo | Analyst | Central Bank of Brazil |
| Roberto Pancrazi | Assistant Professor | Toulouse School of Economics |
| Marija Vukotic | Research Economist | Bank of France |
| Nurgul Ukueva | Visiting Assistant Professor | Old Dominion University |
| Sarah Zubairy | Senior Analyst | Bank of Canada |
| Name | Position | Institution |
|---|---|---|
| Andrew Beauchamp | Assistant Professor | Boston College |
| Ralph Boleslavsky | Assistant Professor | University of Miami |
| Javier Garcia Cicco | Economist | Central Bank of Chile |
| Tongyai Iyavarakul | Economist | Office of the Prime Minister of Thailand |
| Silvana Krasteva | Assistant Professor | Texas A&M University |
| Ivan Shaliastovich | Assistant Professor | Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania |
| Natalisa Sizova | Assistant Professor | Rice University |
| Liad Wagman | Assistant Professor | Illinois Institute of Technology |
| Yang Wang | Assistant Professor | Lafayette College |
| Name | Position | Institution |
|---|---|---|
| Padmaja Ayyagari | Assistant Professor | University of Iowa |
| Kelly Bishop | Assistant Professor | Washington University in St. Louis |
| Jeremy Burke | Associate Economist | RAND Corporation |
| Dong Chen | Assistant Professor | University of Baltimore |
| Patrick Dudley | Senior Economist | U.S. Government Accountability Office |
| Stephen Finger | Assistant Professor | University of South Carolina |
| Stephanie Houghton | Assistant Professor | Texas A&M University |
| Anna Kormilitsina | Assistant Professor | Southern Methodist University |
| Kata Mihaly | Associate Economist | RAND Corporation |
| Alvin Murphy | Assistant Professor | Washington University in St. Louis |
| Nathan Anil | Assistant Professor | College of the Holy Cross |
| Denis Nekipelov | Assistant Professor | UC Berkeley |
| Anamaria Pieschacon | Acting Assistant Professor | Stanford University |
| Nelson Sa | Assistant Professor | Vassar College |
| Name | Position | Institution |
|---|---|---|
| Florin Dorobantu | Associate | The Brattle Group |
| Pedro Duarte | Postdoctoral Fellow | The University of Sao Paulo |
| Xin Huang | Assistant Professor | University of Oklahoma |
| Joshua Kinsler | Assistant Professor | University of Rochester |
| Nataliya Khmilevska | Senior Associate | Lehman Brothers |
| Shanjun Li | Assistant Professor | State University of New York at Stony Brook |
| Xuan Liu | Assistant Professor | East Carolina University |
| Omari Swinton | Assistant Professor | Howard University |
| Viktor Todorov | Assistant Professor | Kellog School of Management, Northwestern University |
| Duy Tran | Lecturer | The University of Western Australia |
| Name | Position | Institution |
|---|---|---|
| Jane Cooley | Assistant Professor | University of Wisconsin-Madison |
| Maxym Dedov | Quantitative Researcher | Citadel Investment Group |
| Natalie Goodpaster | Consultant | Analysis Group, Inc. |
| Andrew Hussey | Assistant Professor | University of Memphis |
| Jinhan Jung | Senior Researcher | Korea Information Strategy Development Institute |
| Dana Kiku | Assistant Professor | University of Pennsylvania, Wharton School of Business |
| Nataliya Kuribko | Research Associate | Cornerstone Research |
| Kyoobok Lee | Research Fellow | Korea Institute of Finance |
| Renzo Massari | Research Economist | ERS Group |
| Alessandro Palandri | Assistant Professor | University of Warwick |
| Martin Salm | Associate Professor | Tilburg University |
| Kotaro Yoshida | Assistant Professor |
Albion College |
| Wei Zheng | Investment Manager | New York Asset Management Fund |
| Name | Position | Institution |
|---|---|---|
| Bentley Coffey | Assistant Professor | Clemson University |
| C. Allan Bester | Assistant Professor | University of Chicago, Graduate School of Business |
| Cristina Arellano | Senior Economist | The Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis |
| Derek Brown | Economist | Research Triangle Institute |
| Julia Litvinova | Consultant | The Brattle Group |
| Justin Trogdon | Health Economist | Research Triangle Institute |
| Varoujan Khatchatrian | Senior Quantitative Analyst | State Street |
| Name | Position | Institution |
|---|---|---|
| Jeremy Ascher | Equity Derivatives Trader | Group One Trading, LP |
| Haofei Chen | Senior Vice President | China International Capital Corporation |
| Hong Leng Chuah | Director, Asia & Emerging Markets Active Equities | BlackRock |
| Huayu Fang | Quantitative Research Analyst | Numeric Investors |
| Ming Guo | Assistant Professor | Shanghai Advanced Institute of Finance |
| Michael Hoffman | Economist | Center for Economics, U.S.Government Accoutnability Office |
| Daniel Hungerman | Assistant Professor | University of Notre Dame |
| Bo Jiang | Assistant Professor | The Chinese University of Hong Kong |
| Chi Leng | Managing Economist | Nathan Associates, Inc. |
| Sandra Lizarazo | Assistant Professor | Instituto Tecnologico Autonomo de Mexico |
| Oksana Loginova | Assistant Professor | University of Missouri |
| Cathleen McHugh | Research Analyst/Field Representative | Center for Naval Analysis |
| Maria PiaOlivero | Assistant Professor | Drexel University |
| Lijing Ouyang | Researcher | Centers for Disease Control and Prevention |
| Stephen Ryan | Assistant Professor | Massachussetts Institute of Technology |
| Joanna Vinluan Tobiason | Associate | Cornerstone Research |
| Jingshu Wang | Health Economist | Merck Research Laboratories |
| Jianguo Xu | Assistant Professor | McGill University |
| Hanwook Yoo | Economist | Korean Development Institute |