Alesandro Arcuri

Ph.D. Candidate in Economics

Arcuri CV |  Arcuri Personal Webpage  | aa2336@cornell.edu

Job Market Paper: “Persuasion Through Trial Design”

Research Interests: Applied Theory, Economics of Information, Economic Theory, Game Theory 

References: David Easley (chair), Lawrence Blume, Tommaso Denti

Nikolai Boboshko

Ph.D. Candidate in Economics

Yang (Jaden) Chen

Ph.D. Candidate in Economics 

Chen CV  | Chen Personal Webpage | yc2325@cornell.edu

Job Market Paper: “Sequential Learning Under Informational Ambiguity” 

Research Interests: Microeconomic Theory

References: David Easley (chair), Lawrence Blume, Tommaso Denti

Muye Chen

Ph.D. Candidate in Economics

Chen CV | Chen Personal Webpage | mc2636@cornell.edu

Job Market Paper: “Labor Market Effects of Environmental Disasters and Information Shocks: Evidence from Inland Oil Spills”

Research Interests: Environmental Economics, Labor Economics, Health Economics, Applied Microeconomics

References: Nick Sanders (chair), Doug Miller, Ivan Rudik

Vitor Costa

Ph.D. Candidate in Economics

Costa CV | Costa Personal Webpage | jrc466@cornell.edu

Job Market Paper: “Local Wage Effects of Mergers and Acquisitions: Evidence from Brazil”

Research Interests: Economic Theory, Labor Economics, Public Finance 

References: Seth Sanders (chair), Doug Miller, Hyunseob Kim

Rene Crespin

Ph.D. Candidate in Policy Analysis and Management 

Crespin CV | Crespin Personal Webpage | rac437@cornell.edu 

Job Market Paper: “The Value of School Social Climate Information: Evidence from Chicago Housing Transactions”

Research Interests: Economics of Education, Public Economics, Labor Economics

References: Maria Fitzpatrick (chair), Michael Lovenheim, Douglas Miller,

Zhou Fan

Ph.D. Candidate in Economics

Fan CV | Fan Personal Webpage | zf84@cornell.edu 

Job Market Paper: “Trading During Credit-Fueled Stock Market Booms and Busts”

Research Interests: International Finance 

References: Andrew Karolyi (chair), Eswar Prasad, Matthew Baron 

Martha Johnson

Ph.D. Candidate in Economics

Johnson CV | Johnson Personal Webpage | mcj49@cornell.edu

Job Market Paper: “Funding Schools During Fiscal Crises: The Effects of Federal Recessionary Aid on State Support for Public Education”

Research Interests: Public Economics, Labor Economics, Economics of Education

References: Maria Fitzpatrick (chair), Evan Riehl, Michael Lovenheim

Shaoshu Li

Ph.D. Candidate in Economics

Li CV | Li Personal Webpage | sl2555@cornell.edu

Job Market Paper: “A New Approach to Self-Normalization”

Research Interests: Financial Econometrics, Macroeconomics 

References:  Yongmiao Hong (chair), Matthew Baron, Robert Jarrow

Siguang Li

Ph.D. Candidate in Economics

Li CV | Li Personal Webpage | sl2932@cornell.edu 

Job Market Paper: “Media Trading Groups and Short Selling Manipulation”

Research Interests: Financial Economics, Applied Microeconomics Theory, Information
Economics

References: Robert Jarrow (co-chair), Lin Cong (co-chair), Yongmiao Hong

Raul Morales

Ph.D. Candidate in Economics

Morales CV | Morales Personal Webpage | ram526@cornell.edu

Job Market Paper: “Liability Protection and Firm Growth”

Research Interests: Macroeconomics, Firm Dynamics 

References: Julieta Caunedo (chair), Mathieu Taschereau-Dumouchel, Kristoffer Nimark

Kevin Ng

Ph.D. Candidate in Economics

Ng CV | Ng Personal Webpage | kcn38@cornell.edu 

Job Market Paper: “The Effects of Teacher Tenure on Productivity and Selection”

Research Interests: Economics of Education and Labor Economics

References: Michael Lovenheim (chair), Evan Riehl, Zhuan Pei

Adam Shumway

Ph.D. Candidate in Economics

Shumway CV | Shumway Personal Webpage | as3594@cornell.edu 

Job Market Paper: “Where Do Doctors Practice? Medical School Access and the Rural Physician Shortage”

Research Interests: Labor Economics, Public Economics

References: Seth Sanders (chair), George Jakubson, Ron Ehrenberg, Kevin Hallock

Qinshu Xue

Ph.D. Candidate in Economics

Xue CV  | Xue Personal Webpage  | qx48@cornell.edu

Job Market Paper: “Demand Risk, Upstream Market Power and Vertical Relation in the U.S. Automobile Industry”

Research Interests: Empirical Industrial Organization, Firm Dynamics

References: Julieta Caunedo (co-chair), Panle Barwick (co-chair), Giulia Brancaccio, Joerg Stoye

Pengfei (Franco) Zhang

Ph.D. Candidate in Economics

Zhang CV  | Zhang Personal Webpage | pz82@cornell.edu 

Job Market Paper: “The Human Side of Cyber Takedowns: Theory and Evidence from
GitHub”

Research Interests: Law and Economics, Public Policy, Applied Theory, Economics Development 

References: Kaushik Basu (chair), Steve Coate, Edward Stiglitz, Yi Chen

Haimeng (Hester) Zhang

Ph.D. Candidate in Economics

Zhang CV | Zhang Personal Webpage | hz398@cornell.edu 

Job Market Paper: “Jump Bidding as a Signaling Game”

Research Interests: Industrial Organization, Applied Microeconomics 

References: Panle Barwick (co-chair), Michael Waldman (co-chair), Joerg Stoye, Julieta Caunedo

Bin Zhao

Ph.D. Candidate in Economics

Zhao CV  | Zhao Personal Webpage | bz279@cornell.edu 

Job Market Paper: “Input Specificity, Frictional Input Market and Firm Growth”

Research Interests: Firm Dynamics, Trade

References: Nancy Chau (chair), Justin Johnson, Ravi Kanbur 

Julia Zhu

Ph.D. Candidate in Policy Analysis and Management 

Zhu CV | Zhu Personal Webpage | lz452@cornell.edu 

Job Market Paper: “Comparative Immigration Policies and the Effect of International Students in U.S. Higher Education”

Research Interests: Labor Economics, Economics of Migration, Economics of Education

References: Douglas Miller (chair), Francine Blau, Michael Lovenheim