Recent Academic Placement of Our Ph.D. Graduates
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Behavioral Decision Making
Joseph Reiff (Ph.D. '23)
First academic placement: University of Maryland
Dissertation Title: Implicit Communication Through Behavioral Policy Design
Dissertation Chair: Professor Hershfield
Jon Bogard (Ph.D. '22)
First academic placement: Washington University in St. Louis
Dissertation Title: Three Essays on Norms
Dissertation Co-Chairs: Professor Fox and Professor Goldsein
David Zimmerman (Ph.D. '22)
Placement: Securities and Exchange Commission
Dissertation Title: Essays on the Uncertainty of Continuous Outcomes
Dissertation Co-Chairs: Professor Shu and Professor Spiller
Finance
Gabriel Cuevas Rodriguez (Ph.D. '23)
First placement: Cornerstone Research
Dissertation Title: Essays on Asset Pricing
Dissertation Co-Chairs: Professor Herskovic and Professor Panageas
Paul Momtaz (Ph.D. '23)
First academic placement: TUM School of Management
Dissertation Title: Essays on Innovation and Entrepreneurial Finance
Dissertation Co-Chairs: Professor Bernardo and Professor Welch
Denis Mokanov (Ph.D. '23)
First placement: Norwegian School of Economics (NHH)
Dissertation Title: Deviations from Rational Expectations and Asset Prices
Dissertation Chair: Professor Lochstoer
Edward Kim (Ph.D. '23)
First placement: University of Michigan
Dissertation Title: Essays in Financial Economics
Dissertation Chair: Professor Eisfeldt
Paul Huebner (Ph.D. '23)
First placement: Stockholm School of Economics
Dissertation Title: Two Essays on Demand-Based Asset Pricing
Dissertation Chair: Professor Haddad
Salil Gadgil (Ph.D. '22)
First placement: Department of the Treasury
Dissertation Title: Three Essays in Financial Economics
Dissertation Chair: Professor Avanidhar Subrahmanyam
Ljubica Georgievska (Ph.D. '22)
First academic placement: BI Norwegian Business School (BI)
Dissertation Title: Essays on Cross-Currency Arbitrage and Premia
Dissertation Chair: Professor Longstaff, Professor Muir
Wenyu Meng (Ph.D. '22)
First placement: Morgan Stanley
Dissertation Title: Timing Manipulation in Firm Disclosures
Dissertation Chair: Professor Avanidhar Subrahmanyam
James O'Neill (Ph.D. '22)
First placement: Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Dissertation Title: The Market View of Mortgage Credit Risk
Dissertation Chair: Professor Andrea Eisfeldt
Clinton Tepper (Ph.D. '21)
First placement: iCapital Network
Dissertation Title: A Study of Investment Capacity and an Essay About Interest Rates
Dissertation Chair: Professor Welch, Professor Lochstoer
Yu Shi (Ph.D. '21)
First academic placement: Nankai University
Dissertation Title: Essays in Financial Economics
Dissertation Chair: Professor Andrea Eisfeldt
Brett Dunn (Ph.D. '20)
First placement: CFO and CIO for GoodLife Home Loans
Dissertation Title: The Valuation of Mortgage-Backed Securities
Dissertation Chair: Professor Chernov, Professor Longstaff
Geoffery Zheng (Ph.D. '20)
First placement: NYU Shanghai
Dissertation Title: Essays in Financial Economics
Dissertation Chair: Professor Panageas
Alex Fabisiak (Ph.D. '19)
First placement: Zillow
Dissertation Title: Applications of Machine Learning to PDEs in Finance
Dissertation Chair: Professor Bernardo
Chady Gemayel (Ph.D. '19)
First Placement: Cornerstone Research
Dissertation Title: Three Essays in Empirical Finance
Dissertation Chair: Professor Garmaise
Mahyar Kargar (Ph.D. '19)
First academic placement: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Dissertation Title: Essays in Finance
Dissertation Co-Chairs: Professor Eisfeldt and Professor Chernov
Darren Aiello (Ph.D. '18)
First academic placement: Brigham Young University
Dissertation Title: Three Essays Concerning Financial Economics of Mortgage Markets
Dissertation Chair: Professor Garmaise
Patrick Kiefer (Ph.D. '18)
First Placement: Raylient
Dissertation Title: Essays on Asset Pricing and Financial Institutions
Dissertation Chair: Professor Grinblatt
Zhipeng Li (Ph.D. '18)
First academic placement: Shanghai University
Dissertation Title: Labor Risk and Credit Spreads
Dissertation Chair: Professor Eisfeldt
Rafael Porsani (Ph.D. '18)
First academic placement: UCLA Statistics (Lecturer)
Dissertation Title: Machine Learning and Asset Pricing Models
Dissertation Co-Chairs: Professor Subrahmanyam and Professor Roll
Eric Cho (Ph.D. '17)
Placement: KIS Pricing
Dissertation Title: The Impact of Local Media on Household Investment Decisions
Dissertation Co-Chairs: Professor Subrahmanyam and Professor Gabriel
Shenje Hshieh (Ph.D. '17)
First academic placement: City University of Hong Kong
Dissertation Title: Essays in Corporate Goverance and Innovation
Dissertation Chair: Professor Garmaise
Nimesh Patel (Ph.D. '17)
First academic placement: University of Hawaii, Shidler College of Business
Dissertation Title: Essays in Empirical Finance
Dissertation Chair: Professor Welch
Jiasun Li (Ph.D. '16)
First academic placement: George Mason University
Dissertation Title: The Role of Information in Financial Markets, Security Design, and Theory of the Firm
Dissertation Chair: Professor Grinblatt
Robert Richmond (Ph.D. '16)
First academic placement: New York University Stern School of Business
Dissertation Title: Essays on the Fundamental Determinants of International Asset Prices
Dissertation Chair: Professor Chernov
Yuji Sakurai (Ph.D. '16)
Placement: Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond
Dissertation Title: How Does the Bond Market Perceive Macroeconomic Risks under Zero Lower Bound?
Dissertation Co-Chairs: Professor Longstaff and Professor Chernov
Yaron Levi (Ph.D. '15)
First academic placement: USC
Dissertation Title: Information Architecture and Intertemporal Choice: A Randomized Field Experiment in the United States
Dissertation Chair: Professor Welch
Aurelien Philippot (Ph.D. '15)
First academic placement: Universite Laval, Canada
Dissertation Title: Essays in Empirical Finance
Dissertation Chair: Professor Garmaise
Brian Waters (Ph.D. '15)
First academic placement: University of Colorado, Boulder
Dissertation TItle: Essays in Finance
Dissertation Chair: Professor Carlin
Florian Schulz (Ph.D. '14)
First academic placement: University of Washington
Dissertation Title: Essays in Finance and Economics
Dissertation Chair: Professor Garmaise
Xiaolan Zhang (Ph.D. '14)
First academic placement: University of Texas
Dissertation Title: Human Capital Investment, Cash Flow Risk and Capital Structure Dynamics
Dissertation Chair: Professor Lustig
Shaun Davies (Ph.D. '13)
First academic placement: University of Colorado, Boulder
Dissertation Title: Essays in Finance
Dissertation Chair: Professor Carlin
Phillip Wool (Ph.D. '13)
First academic placement: State University of New York, Buffalo
Dissertation Title: Essays Concerning the Network Structure of Mutual Fund Holdings and the Behavior of Institutional Investors
Dissertation Chair: Professor Roll
Saurabh Ahluwalia (Ph.D. '12)
First academic placement: University of New Mexico
Dissertation Title: Three Essays in Empirical Finance
Dissertation Co-Chairs: Professor Bernardo and Professor Subrahmanyam
Priyank Gandhi (Ph.D. '12)
First academic placement: Notre Dame University
Dissertation Title: Systemic Risks, Financial Intermediaries and Asset Markets
Dissertation Chair: Professor Longstaff
Michael Nowotny (Ph.D. '11)
First academic placement: Boston University
Dissertation Title: Asset Pricing with Heterogeneous Agents and Disaster Risk
Dissertation Chair: Professor Grinblatt
Konark Saxena (Ph.D. '11)
First academic placement: University of New South Wales
Dissertation Title: Essays in Empirical Finance
Dissertation Co-Chairs: Professor Chowdhry and Professor Roll
Alberto Plazzi (Ph.D. '10)
First academic placement: Swiss Institute of Finance, Switzerland
Dissertation Title: Essays on Real Estate and International Asset Pricing
Dissertation Chair: Professor Torous
Cesare Fracassi (Ph.D. '09)
First academic placement: University of Texas at Austin
Dissertation Title: Social Networks and Finance
Dissertation Co-Chairs: Professor Grinblatt and Professor Tate
Albert Sheen (Ph.D. '09)
First academic placement: Harvard Business School
Dissertation Title: Essays on Corporate Investment
Dissertation Chair: Professor Bernardo
Ehud Peleg (Ph.D. '08)
First academic placement: USC Marshall School
Dissertation Title: Three Essays on Asset Pricing, Portfolio Choice and Behavioral Finance
Dissertation Co-Chair: Professor Benartzi and Professor Subrahmanyam
Yuzhao Zhang (Ph.D. '08)
First academic placement: Temple University
Dissertation Title: Essays on Return Predictability and Volatility Estimation
Dissertation Chair: Professor Roll
Yi Zhou (Ph.D. '08)
First academic placement: University of Oklahoma
Dissertation Title: Leverage, Asset Pricing and Its Implications
Dissertation Chair: Professor Geske
Brett Myers (Ph.D. '07)
First academic placement: Purdue University
Dissertation Title: Effects of the Political Process on Financial Topics
Dissertation Chair: Professor Garmaise
Juhani Linnainmaa (Ph.D. '06)
First academic placement: University of Chicago
Dissertation Title: Essays on Learning and Investment Behavior
Dissertation Chair: Professor Grinblatt
Alessio Saretto (Ph.D. '06)
First academic placement: Purdue University
Dissertation Title: Three Essays in Empirical Asset Pricing
Dissertation Chair: Professor Roll
Selale Tuzel (Ph.D. '05)
First academic placement: University of Southern California
Dissertation Title: Three Essays in Asset Pricing
Dissertation Chair: Professor Grinblatt
Laura Frieder (Ph.D. '04)
First academic placement: Purdue University
Dissertation Title: An Investigation of the Trading Patterns and Heuristics of Stockholders
Dissertation Co-Chairs: Professor Roll and Professor Subrahmanyam
Justin Sai Pang Chan (Ph.D. '03)
First academic placement: Singapore Management University
Dissertation Title: Essays on Liquidity and Stock Returns
Dissertation Chair: Professor Subrahmanyam
Martin Dierker (Ph.D. '03)
First academic placement: University of Houston, Bauer College of Business
Dissertation Title: The Link between Informational Efficiency and Economic Efficiency: Essays on Corporate Disclosure Policy and Private Information Acquisition
Dissertation Chair: Professor Subrahmanyam
Ashley Wenqing Wang (Ph.D. '03)
First academic placement: University of California, Irvine, Graduate School of Management
Dissertation Title: Three Essays on Empirical Asset Pricing
Dissertation Co-Chairs: Professor Longstaff and Professor Brennan
Shingo Goto (Ph.D. '02)
First academic placement: University of South Carolina
Dissertation Title: Three Essays on Financial Markets and the Macroeconomy
Dissertation Chair: Professor Torous
Amit Goyal (Ph.D. '02)
First academic placement: Emory University
Dissertation Title: Three Essays on the Predictability of Stock Returns
Dissertation Chair: Professor Roll
Bing Han (Ph.D. '02)
First academic placement: Ohio State University
Dissertation Title: Towards a Better Understanding of Stocks Interest Rate Derivatives and Real Estate Investment Trusts: Three Essays in Financial Economics
Dissertation Chair: Professor Grinblatt
Jiang Luo (Ph.D. '01)
First academic placement: Hong Kong University of Science & Technology
Dissertation Title: Three Essays in Finance: Demographics and the Equity Premium, Capital Budgeting and Compensation with Asymmetric Information and Moral Hazard; Risk Sharing, Welfare and a New Security
Dissertation Chair: Professor Brennan
Shu Yan (Ph.D. '01)
First academic placement: University of Arizona
Dissertation Title: Three Essays on Stock Market Volatility and Stock Return Predictability
Dissertation Chair: Professor Roll
Felipe Aguerrevere (Ph.D. '00)
First academic placement: University of Alberta, Canada
Dissertation Title: Essays on Real Options
Dissertation Chair: Professor Schwartz
Augusto Castillo (Ph.D. '00)
First academic placement: Catolica University, Chile
Dissertation Title: Essays on Event Studies and on Numerical Methods
Dissertation Chair: Professor Brennan
Pansy Lin (Ph.D. '00)
First academic placement: Emory University
Dissertation Title: Equity Pricing in International Markets: Three Empirical Essays
Dissertation Chair: Professor Roll
Yihong Xia (Ph.D. '00)
First academic placement: University of Pennsylvania, Wharton School
Dissertation Title: Three Essays on the Effect of Learning and Predictability on Optimal Dynamic Portfolio Strategies and Asset Prices
Dissertation Chair: Professor Brennan