08.12.2024
In 2024/25, five of our current PhD candidates and one of our postdocs have enrolled for our training programme piloted by the Department's Placement Officer, Moshe Buchinsky.
Dániel Gyetvai is a labour economist who uses simple theoretical models alongside standard econometric techniques to study the effects of labour market policies. His research interests include wage determination, employment, and the formation, upgrading, and allocation of human capital. In his job market paper, he investigates the differential impact of unemployment insurance benefits on wages for eligible versus ineligible individuals.
Job market paper:
The Differential Wage Effect of Unemployment Insurance by Entitlement Status: A New Piece of the UI-Wages Puzzle?
Juan Sebastián Ivars is a microeconomist using theoretical and empirical tools to address applied economic questions. His job market paper identifies and measures how public officials manipulate the value of purchases in response to regulation and examines its welfare implications.
Job market paper:
Contract Shifting vs. Contract Splitting in Public Procurement
Gustave Kenedi is an applied microeconomist whose research lies at the intersection of intergenerational mobility and educational inequalities. In his job market paper, he investigates the determinants of students' higher education choices, focusing particularly on the role played by older schoolmates and teachers.
Job market paper:
Older Schoolmate Spillovers on Higher Education Choices
Leonard Le Roux is an applied microeconomist working on questions at the intersection of development and urban economics. In his job market paper he studies how violence can emerge from economic competition in a legal but informal market as a result of general failures in contract enforcement.
Job market paper:
Informality and Violence: Evidence from South Africa
Itzhak is a behavioural economist whose work blends experimentation (often in the field) with microeconomic theory. His research explores a variety of questions including why double auctions produce equilibrium prices, whether attitudes towards redistribution depend on attitudes towards race, and whether level-k reasoning underpins auction bidding. In his job market paper, he conducts the first large-scale field experiment on the manipulability of prediction markets.
Job market paper:
How Manipulable Are Prediction Markets?
Diego de Sousa Rodrigues is a macroeconomist specialising in heterogeneous agent models and their role in understanding business cycles and optimal policy design. His job market paper explores a new mechanism capturing the cost-of-carry channel of monetary policy, showing how inventory costs influence pricing and link monetary policy to inflation dynamics.
Job market paper:
Inventories Matter for the Transmission of Monetary Policy: Uncovering the Cost-of-Carry Channel