PhD Candidates on the Job Market
Questions regarding candidates should be directed to:
Bin Chen, Job Placement Director and Associate Professor of Economics
binchen@rochester.edu
(585) 275-5781
For administrative questions please contact Graduate Coordinator Elizabeth Proctor by email at ealouisa@ur.rochester.edu or by phone at (585) 275-8625.
2024-2025 Job Market Candidates
Interested in hiring a department graduate? See our brochure of current job market candidates or review the list below.

Chunya Bu
Job market paper: Business Cycle Accounting with Goods and Capital Market (Dis)Integration
Fields: International Macro, International Finance, Monetary Policy
References: Yan Bai, George Alessandria, Gaston Chaumont
Email: cbu2@ur.rochester.edu
Website
Woosuk Choi
Job market paper: Risk Aversion, Occupation Choice, and Earnings Dynamics
Fields: Labor Economics, Personnel Economics, Applied Microeconometrics
References: Ronni Pavan, Lisa Kahn, John Singleton
Email: woosuk.choi@rochester.edu
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Lorenz Ekerdt
Job market paper: Self-Selection and the Diminishing Returns of Research (with Kai-Jie Wu)
Fields: Macroeconomics, Growth, Economics of Innovation
References: Mark Bils, George Alessandria, Martha Stinson
Email: lekerdt@gmail.com
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Lena Harris
Job market paper: Drought and Investment in Electricity Markets
Fields: Enviornment and Resource Economics, Health Economics
References: John Singleton, Lisa Kahn, Elaine Hill
Email: h.harris@rochester.edu
Website
Xiaonan Ma
Job market paper: Earnings Dynamics, Transitions, and Stepping-stone Employers
Fields: Macroeconomics, Labor Economoics
References: Mark Bils, Yan Bai, Narayana Kocherlakota
Email: xiaonan.ma@rochester.edu or economics.ma@outlook.com
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Marcos Mac Mullen
Job market paper: Government Spending and International Transmission: Fiscal Rules in Imperfect Financial Markets
Fields: Macroeconomics, International Finance, International Trade
References: George Alessandria, Yan Bai, Gaston Chaumont
Email: mmacmull@ur.rochester.edu
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Changwoo Park
Job market paper: Stable matchings under two-sided asymmetric incomplete information
Fields: Microeconomic Theory, Market Design, Game Theory
References: William Thomson, Paulo Barelli, Yu Awaya
Email: cpark47@ur.rochester.edu
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Joao Rudge Leite
Job market paper: Heterogeneous Banks and Transmission of Monetary Policy
Fields: Macroeconomics, Banking, International Finance
References: Yan Bai, George Alessandria, Matias Moretti
Email: jrudgele@ur.rochester.edu
Website
Jose Villegas Gomez
Job market paper: Consumer Debt Moratoria
Fields: Household Finance, Corporate Finance, Labor Economics, International Macroeconomics
References: Yan Bai, George Alessandria
Email: jose.villegas.eco@gmail.com
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