Job Market Candidates for the 2008-09 Academic Year
Below is brief placement history of recent graduates as well as information on candidates who are on the market for the 2008-09 academic year. By clicking on the candidate's name, you will be linked to the candidate's profile that includes more detailed information consisting of their c.v., dissertation abstract, and teaching and research interests. Should you have any questions, please contact the appropriate individual listed below.
Placement Director and Director of Graduate Studies
Professor D. Roderick Kiewiet
Telephone: 626-395-4032
Email: drk@hss.caltech.edu
Placement Coordinator/Graduate Secretary
Laurel Auchampaugh
Telephone: 626-395-4206
Fax: 626-405-9841
Email: gradsec@hss.caltech.edu
Mailing Address
Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences
228-77
California Institute of Technology
Pasadena, CA 91125
Brief Placement History of Recent Graduates
The Caltech Social Science Ph.D. program prepares students to work at top universities and organizations by maximizing their research productivity during the course of their graduate career. To that end, our program is designed to build skills to conduct original research thereby leading the students to write a dissertation, which will contribute something original to scientific knowledge.
The unique combination we provide our students has prepared them to be placed in various academic institutions recently including, but not limited to: the University of California at Los Angeles, the University of California at Santa Barbara, Carnegie-Mellon University, University of Chicago, Harvard Business School, the University of Iowa, Michigan State University, Northwestern University, Ohio State University, Pennsylvania State University, University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign, Texas A&M, University of Texas - Austin, and the University of Rhode Island.
Other students chose other equally challenging career paths leading them to industries and organizations (non-academic positions) including, but not limited to: Baylor College of Medicine, Charles River Associates,the Economic Analysis Group, Hewlett-Packard Labs, McKinsey and Company, and Telcordia Technologies.
For complete information on our long-standing placement history, please click here.
Caltech Job Market Candidates - 2008-09
Michael Alton
Field of Specialization: Economics
Research Fields - Market Microstructure.
Teaching Fields - TBD.
(Preliminary) Dissertation: " Continuous Market Microstructure"
Dissertation Committee: Charles Plott (chair), Jaksa Cvitanic and Robert Sherman.
References: TBD.
C.V. (Includes papers, work in progress, conference participation and papers, brief explanation of research and teaching experience.)
Field of Specialization: Economics
Research Fields - Neuroeconomics and Behavioral Economics.
Teaching Fields - Neuroeconomics, Behavioral Economics.
(Preliminary) Dissertation: "Neurally Revealed Preference"• Abstract
Dissertation Committee: Colin F. Camerer (chair), Antonio Rangel and Ralph Adolphs.
References: Colin Camerer, Antonio Rangel and Ralph Adolphs.
C.V. (Includes papers, work in progress, conference participation and papers, brief explanation of research and teaching experience.)
Field of Specialization: Economics
Research Fields - Microeconomic Theory, Game Theory, Mechanism Design, Applied Microeconomics.
Teaching Fields - Microeconomic Theory, Game Theory, Mechanism Design.
(Preliminary) Dissertation: "Incentives and Institutions: Essays in Game Theory and Mechanism Design with Applications"• Abstract
Dissertation Committee: John Ledyard (chair), Federico Echenique and Thomas Palfrey.
References: John Ledyard, Federico Echenique, and Thomas Palfrey.
C.V. (Includes papers, work in progress, conference participation and papers, brief explanation of research and teaching experience.)
Field of Specialization: Political Science
Research Fields - American institutions and the design and testing of formal models of candidate and voter behavior.
Teaching Fields - American institutions, Political Methodology, Formal Theory.
Dissertation: "Sequential Primary Elections and Political Representation"• Abstract
Dissertation Committee: Michael Alvarez (chair), Jonathan Katz, and Roderick Kiewiet.
References: Michael Alvarez (chair), Jonathan Katz, and Roderick Kiewiet.
C.V. (Includes papers, work in progress, conference participation and papers, brief explanation of research and teaching experience.)
Field of Specialization: Economics
Research Fields - Microeconomics, Contract Theory, Game Theory, and Financial Economics.
Teaching Fields - Microeconomics, Contract Theory, Game Theory, and Financial Economics.
Dissertation: "Markets and Contracts"
Dissertation Committee: John Ledyard (Chair), Federico Echenique, and Jaksa Cvitanic.
References: John Ledyard, Federico Echenique, and Jaksa Cvitanic.
C.V. (Includes papers, work in progress, conference participation and papers, brief explanation of research and teaching experience.)
Field of Specialization: Economics
Research Fields - Microeconomics, Game Theory, Law and Economics, Political Economy, and Social Choice.
Teaching Fields - Microeconomics, Game Theory, Law and Economics, Political Economy, and Social Choice.
Dissertation: "A Model of Community Standards"• Abstract
Dissertation Committee: R. Preston McAfee (chair), William Zame, Matthew Spitzer, and Chris Chambers.
References: R. Preston McAfee, William Zame, Matthew Spitzer, and Chris Chambers.
C.V. (Includes papers, work in progress, conference participation and papers, brief explanation of research and teaching experience.)
Field of Specialization: Economics
Research Fields - Organizational Economics, Corporate Governance, Financial Economics.
Teaching Fields - Experimental Economics, Microeconomics and Game Theory, Strategy and Organization, and Political Economy.
Dissertation: " Theoretical and Experimental Approaches to Organizational and Financial Economics"• Abstract
Dissertation Committee: Jaksa Cvitanic and Federico Echenique (co-chairs), Charles Plott and Colin Camerer.
References: Colin Camerer, Jaksa Cvitanic, Federico Echenique, and Charles Plott.
C.V.(Includes papers, work in progress, conference participation and papers, brief explanation of research and teaching experience.)
Post-doc Candidates - 2008-09
Field of Specialization: Economics
Research Fields - Microeconomic Theory (Game Theory, Selection Dynamics and Mechanism Design), Public Economics (Environmental Economics, Public Goods and Public Finance) and Mathematical Economics (Optimal Control Theory, Economic Dynamics and Stochastic Processes).
Teaching Fields - Microeconomic Theory, Game Theory, Industrial Organization, Regulatory Economics, Mathematical Economics, Financial Economics, Public Economics and Public Finance.
Job Market Paper: "Implementation of Dynamic Public Projects with Endogenous Planning Horizons under Incomplete Information"• Abstract
References: John Ledyard (Caltech), Charles Plott (Caltech), John Quiggin (University of Queensland), and Jie Zhang (National University of Singapore).
C.V.(Includes papers, work in progress, conference participation and papers, brief explanation of research and teaching experience.)
Field of Specialization: Economics
Research Fields - Microeconomic Theory, Industrial Organization, Mechanism Design, Auction Theory, Experimental Economics.
Teaching Fields - Microeconomic Theory, Game Theory, Industrial Organization, Auction Theory.
Job Market Paper: "Second Best Efficiency In Auctions" (with Hernando-Veciana)• Abstract
References: Jacob Goeree (Caltech), Philippe Jehiel (University College London and Paris School of Economics), and Claudio Mezzetti (university of Warwick).
C.V.(Includes papers, work in progress, conference participation and papers, brief explanation of research and teaching experience.)