California Institute of Technology

Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences

Alumni of the Social Science Ph.D. Program

Caltech conferred its first Ph.D. in Social Science in 1978. The following is a list of all 120 of those who have received their Ph.D. or who have completed all the requirements and will receive their degree next June. Degrees are listed by the year granted, not the year completed. As all degrees are officially granted in June, the degree requirements may actually have been completed the previous year.

Entries include links to contact information, dissertation title, initial appointment, current position if known, and significant honors. There may be inaccuracies in job titles and we may not be fully up to date.

Any errors or additional information should be reported to the Option Admin.


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1978

Naim Al-Adhadh
Essays in Economic and Political Choice
First position: Not known.
Current position: Economic Development Advisor, UN/UNESCO (deceased).
Steven Matthews
Directional and Static Equilibrium in Social Decision Processes
First position: Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign.
Current position: Professor of Economics, University of Pennsylvania.
Fellow of the Econometric Society.
Barry Weingast
A Representative Legislature and Regulatory Agency Capture
First position: Assistant Professor of Economics, Washington University in St. Louis.
Current position: Professor of Political Science, Stanford University. Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and National Academy of Sciences.

1979

Brian Binger
Essays in Forward Markets and Uranium Industry
First position: Research Associate, Committee on Public Policy Studies, University of Chicago.
Current position: Adjunct Associate Professor of Economics, Iowa State University.
Linda Cohen
Essays on Safety regulation in the Atomic Energy Commission
First position: Assistant Professor of Public Policy, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.
Current position: Professor of Economics, University of California, Irvine.
Elizabeth Hoffman
Essays in Optimal Resource Allocation under Uncertainty with Capacity Constraints
First position: Assistant Professor of Economics, Northwestern University.
Current position: Executive Vice President and Provost, Iowa State University.
Tom Lee
Microeconomic Foundations of Research and Development
First position: Assistant Professor of Economics, University of California, San Diego.
Current position: Not known.
Matthew Spitzer
Axiomatic Analysis of Legal/Inst. Issues
First position: Assistant Professor of Law, School of Law, Northwestern University.
Current position: Director of the Massey Prize in Law, Innovation and Capital Markets and Director of the Center for Law, Business and Economics at the University of Texas at Austin.

1980

Randall Calvert
On the Role of Imperfect Information in Electoral Politics
First position: Assistant Professor of Political Science, Washington University in St. Louis.
Current position: Professor of Political Science, Washington University in St. Louis.
Lee Sparling
Regulatory Distortions in Transportation and Telecommunications
First position: Not known, U.S. Department of Justice.
Current position: Utility Program Director, State of Oregon Public Utilities Commission.

1981

Robert Hahn
An Assessment of the Viability of Marketable Permits
First position: Assistant Professor of Economics, SUPA, Carnegie-Mellon University.
Current position: Executive Director, AEI-Brookings Joint Center for Regulatory Studies, American Enterprise Institute and the Brookings Institution.
R. Mark Isaac
Essays on the Role of Information in Natural Resource Exploration and Development
First position: Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Arizona.
Current position: John & Hallie Quinn Eminent Scholar, Florida State University.
Thomas Palfrey
Theoretical and Institutional Perspectives on Bidding Processes
First position: Assistant Professor of Economics, GSIA, Carnegie-Mellon University.
Current position: Flintridge Foundation Professor of Economics and Political Science, California Institute of Technology. Member of the Econometric Society and American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
William Rogerson
Legal Remedies and Reputation as Solutions to Moral Hazard in Contracting
First position: Assistant Professor of Economics, Stanford University.
Current position: Professor of Economics, Northwestern University.

1982

Joel Balbien
Essays in the Econ of Sponsored Research
First position: Strategic Planning Analyst, Unocal Corporation.
Current position: Entrepreneur, Renewables for a Sustainable Future.

1983

Gary Cox
Party and Constituency in Victorian Britain
First position: Assistant Professor of Government, University of Texas, Austin.
Current position: Chair and Professor of Political Science, University of California, San Diego. Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and National Academy of Sciences.
Mathew McCubbins
Rational Individual Behavior and Collective Irrationality: the Legislative Choice of Regulatory Form
First position: Assistant Professor of Government, University of Texas, Austin.
Current position: Provost Professor of Business, Law and Political Economy, USC Gould School of Law. Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Venkatraman Sadanand
Imperfect Information and Oligopoly with Endogenous Market Power
First position: Assistant Professor of Economics, University of British Columbia.
Current position: Adjunct Professor of Economics, University of Guelph.

1984

Kenneth McCue
The Structure of Individuial Decisions in American Elections: The Influence of Relevant Alternatives
First position: Research Scientist, Private political consulting.
Current position: Staff Scientist, Applied and Computational Mathematics.
Asha Sadanand
Three Essays on Law and Economics
First position: Assistant Professor of Economics, University of British Columbia.
Current position: Professor of Economics, University of Guelph.
Stephen Selinger
Three Essays in Applied and Normative Economics
First position: Private real estate consulting, Not known.
Current position: Not known, Not known.

1985

Rodney Fort
Theory and Practice in the Analysis of Futures Price Distributions
First position: Assistant Professor of Economics, Washington State University.
Current position: Professor of Economics, Washington State University.
James Gerard
Three Essays on Markets with Imperfect Information
First position: Assistant Professor of Economics, Rutgers University.
Current position: Not known, Not known.
James Snyder
Political and Market Equilibria with Income Taxes
First position: Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Chicago.
Current position: Professor of Government, Harvard University.

1986

Jeffrey Banks
Signaling Games: Theory and Applications
First position: Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Rochester.
Current position: Professor of Political Science, Caltech (deceased).
Paul Bjorn
Games in Econometrics With Application to Labor Economics
First position: Not known, AT&T.
Current position: Surgeon, Clevelend Clinic.
Da-Hsiang Lien
Essays on Speculation and Future Markets
First position: Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Kansas.
Current position: Professor of Economics and Dir. of International Business Program and East Asian Business Studies, University of Texas, San Antonio.

1987

José Campos
The Political Economy of Price Supports
First position: Assistant Professor of Economics, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.
Current position: Senior Economist, Asian Development Bank.
Jack Williamson
Financial Equilibrium, Voting Procedures, & Coalition Structures in Allocational Mechanisms
First position: Assistant Professor of Economics, McGill University.
Current position: Not known, CRA International, Inc.

1988

Farid Gasmi
Econometrics of Duopolistic Games in Prices and Advertising: The Case of the U.S. Soft Drink Industry
First position: Member of Technical Staff (Researcher), Bell Communications Research.
Current position: Professor of Economics, Institut D'Economie Industrielle et Groupe de Recherche en Economie; Mathematique et Quantitative (U. de Toulouse).
Wendy Hansen
Regulatory Theory and its Application to Trade Policy: A Study of ITC Decision-Making
First position: Assistant Professor of Political Science, State University of New York, Stony Brook.
Current position: Associate Professor of Political Science, University of New Mexico.
Jean-Laurent Rosenthal
The Fruits of Revolution: Property Rights, Litigation and French Agriculture 1700-1860
First position: Assistant Professor of Economics, University of California, Los Angeles.
Current position: Axline Professor of Business Economics, California Institute of Technology.

1989

Patrick Legros
Efficiency and Stability in Partnerships
First position: Assistant Professor of Economics, Cornell University.
Current position: Professor of Economics, Universite Libre de Bruxelles.
Jonathan Nagler
An Examination of Strategic Opportunities Provided by the Conference Committee Procedure in the U.S. Congress
First position: Assistant Professor of Political Science, Texas A&M University.
Current position: Professor of Politics, New York University.
William Pegram
The Federal Photovoltaic Commercialization Program
First position: Not known, Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
Current position: Adjunct Assistant Professor, Northern Virginia Community College.

1990

Kemal Güler
Pre-auction Investment and Equivalence of Auctions
First position: Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Houston.
Current position: Senior Scientist, Hewlett Packard Laboratories.
Guofu Tan
Optimal Procurement & Contracting with Research and Development
First position: Assistant Professor of Economics, University of British Columbia.
Current position: Professor of Economics, University of Southern California.

1991

Richard Boylan
Essays On the Analysis of Repeated Games Through Evolution and Learning
First position: Assistant Professor of Managerial Economics, Washington University in St. Louis.
Current position: Associate Professor of Economics, Rice University.
Shawn Kantor
Property Rights and the Dynamics of Institutional Change: The Closing of the Georgia Open Range, 1870-1900
First position: Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Arizona.
Current position: Professor and Department Head, Department of Economics, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
Arthur Lupia
The Effect of Information on Political Strategies and Outcomes in Direct Democracy
First position: Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of California, San Diego.
Current position: Professor of Political Science; Research Professor, Institute for Social Research., University of Michigan. Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Mark Olson
An Examination of the Assignment Problem: Theory and Experiments
First position: Visiting Assistant Professor/Research Fellow for the Economic Science Lab, University of Arizona.
Current position: Research Professor, George Mason University.

1993

Robert Cull
A Comparative Study of Capital Market Failure and Institutional Innovation
First position: Economist/Telecommunications Policy Analyst, U.S. Department of Commerce (NTIA/OPAD).
Current position: Senior Economist, Development Economics Research Group at World Bank.
Peng Lian
Fiscal Policies, Optimal Growth, and Political Elections Under Different Economic Systems
First position: Postdoctoral Fellow in Positive Political Economy, Harvard University.
Current position: Corporate Economist, Agilent Technologies.
Charles Noussair
A Theoretical and Experimental Investigation of Auctions in Multi-Unit Demand Environments
First position: Assistant Professor of Mathematical Economics, Erasmus University.
Current position: Professor of Economics, Emory University.
Charles Polk
The Organization of Production: Moral Hazard and R&D
First position: Not known, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology.
Current position: President, Net Exchange.
Jeffrey Prisbrey
Cooperation in Reciprocity Games & In The Voluntary Contributions Mechanism
First position: Visiting Assistant Professor of Economics, Universitat Pompeu Fabra.
Current position: Senior Economist, Competition Policy Associates.
Langche Zeng
Individual Choice in Political Economy
First position: Postdoctoral Fellow in Political Economy, GSIA, Carnegie-Mellon University.
Current position: Professor of Political Science, University of California, San Diego.

1994

Kay-yut Chen
The Strategic Behavior of Rational Novices
First position: Research Intern, Hewlett Packard Laboratories.
Current position: Senior Scientist, Hewlett Packard Laboratories.
David Schmidt
Equilibrium in Dynamic Economic Models
First position: Assistant Professor of Economics, Indiana University - Bloomington.
Current position: Economist, Bureau of Econ., Federal Trade Commission.
Kristin Szakaly-Moore
The Political Economy of State Department: An Analysis of Constitutional Limitations (1961-1990)
First position: Visiting Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of California, Los Angeles.
Current position: Director of Policy Research, California Debt and Investment Advisory Commission.

1995

Paul Brewer
Allocation & Computation In Rail Networks: A Binary Conflict Ascending Price Mechanism (BICAP) For the Decentralized Allocation of the Right To Use Railroad Tracks
First position: Assistant Professor of Economics, Georgia State University.
Current position: Not known, Not known.
Yan Chen
A Theoretical Study of Political Institutions & Economic Policies
First position: Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Michigan.
Current position: Associate Professor of Information, University of Michigan.
John Duggan
Bayesian Implementation
First position: Assistant Professor of Economics, Queen's University.
Current position: Professor of Political Science and Economics and Director of the W. Allen Wallis Institute of Political Economy.
Mark Fey
Three Aspects of Multicandidate Competition in Plurality Rule Elections
First position: Assistant Professor of Political Science, Princeton University.
Current position: Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Rochester.
Katerina Sherstyuk
The Foundation of Teams Under Incomplete Information
First position: Lecturer in Economics, University of Melbourne.
Current position: Associate Professor of Economics, University of Hawaii, Manoa.
Olga Shvetsova
The Design of Electoral Institutions
First position: Visiting Instructor in Political Science, Washington University in St. Louis.
Current position: Assistant Professor of Political Science, Binghamton University (SUNY).
Michael Udell
Essays in Applied Economics with Application to Tax Evasion and the Political Business Cycle
First position: Economist, Joint Committee on Taxation, U.S. Congress.

1996

Kaoru Dahm
Stochastic Bargaining Theory and Order Flow
First position: Senior Economist in Nat'l Tax Analysis & Economics Group, Ernst & Young LLP.
Current position: Economist/Principal, Deloitte Tax LLP.
Szilvia Pápai
Dominant Strategy Implementation on Private Goods Domains with Indivisibilities
First position: Assistant Professor of Economics, Koc University, Istanbul.
Current position: Assistant Professor of Finance and Bus. Economics, University of Notre Dame.
Jason Saving
Welfare Magnets, the Labor-Leisure Decision and Economic Efficiency
First position: Postdoctoral Fellow in Economics, George Mason University.
Current position: Senior Economist, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas.

1997

Gretchen Kalsow
A Microeconometric Analysis of Consumer Response to Direct Marketing and Mail Order
First position: Assistant Professor of Business Administration, Darden Graduate School of Business, University of Virginia.
Current position: Not known, Not known.
Mishel Myagkov
Three Essays on Russia's Transition to Democracy
First position: Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Oregon.
Current position: Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Oregon.

1998

Micah Altman
Districting Principles and Democratic Representation
First position: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Government, Harvard University.
Current position: Senior Research Scientist, Institute for Quantitative Social Science, Harvard University; Archival Director, Henry A. Murray Archive, Harvard University; Non-Resident Senior Fellow, Brookings Instution.
Oleg Bondarenko
Testing Rationality of Financial Markets
First position: Assistant Professor of Finance, College of Business Administration, University of Illinois - Chicago.
Current position: Associate Professor of Finance, College of Business Administration, University of Illinois - Chicago.
Mikhail Filippov
Political Competition in Federations
First position: Visiting Lecturer in Political Methodology, Dept. of Pol. Sci., Washington University in St. Louis.
Current position: Assistant Professor of Political Science, Binghamton University (SUNY).
Robin Hanson
Four Puzzles in Information and Politics: Product Bans, Informed Voters, Social Insurance, & Persistent Disagreement
First position: Visiting Postdoc - RWJF Health Policy Scholar, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley.
Current position: Associate Professor of Economics, George Mason University.
Fang Wang
Nativism in the 1990s
First position: Research Analyst, First Quadrant.
Current position: Not known, Mellon Capital Management.

1999

Peter Coughlan
Public Institutions and Private Incentives: Three Essays
First position: Assistant Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School.
Current position: Associate Professor of Business Strategy and Managerial Economics at the Naval Postgraduate School (GSB and Public Policy).
Garrett Glasgow
Issue Publics in American Politics
First position: Research Fellow, Department of Government, Harvard University.
Current position: Associate Professor of Political Science, University of California, Santa Barbara.
Christina Kitchen
Statistical and Econometric Analysis of the Treatment of HIV/AIDS
First position: Postdoctoral Fellow in Biostatistics, Dept of Biostatistics, UCLA and Assist. Research Scientist - AIDS Institute, UCLA.
Current position: Associate Professor of Biostatistics, UCLA.
Dean Williamson
The Design of Agency Relations: Four Essays on Contract Theory, Applications, and Experimentation.
First position: Economist, Economic Analysis Group.
Current position: Economist, Antitrust Division, US Dept. of Justice.
Jin Yu
Discrete Approximations of Continuous Allocation Mechanisms
First position: Senior Research Economist, FinEcon.
Current position: Principal, McKinsey & Company.

2000

Frederick Boehmke
Beyond the Ballot: The Influence of Direct Democracy on Interest Group Behavior
First position: Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Iowa.
Current position: Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Iowa.
Alvaro González
Essays on the Industrial Organization of Telecommunications and Network Industries
First position: Research Economist, Bellcore/Telcordia Technologies.
Current position: Program Coordinator, World Bank/Investment Climate Dept.
Anthony Kwasnica
Asymmetric Information and Cooperation
First position: Assistant Professor of Management Science, Pennsylvania State University.
Current position: Assistant Professor of Business Economics, Pennsylvania State University.
Roberto Weber
Interdependence in Organizations and Laboratory Groups
First position: Assistant Professor of Economics, Carnegie Mellon University.
Current position: Associate Professor of Economics and Social and Decision Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University.

2001

Christopher Anderson
Behavioral Models of Strategies in Multi-Armed Bandit Problems
First position: Assistant Professor of Experimental Economics, University of Rhode Island.
Tara Butterfield
Awakening A Sleeping Giant: The Riddle of Latino Political Participation in California and Texas
First position: Not Known, Not Known.
Leslie Fine
Cooperative and Market-Based Solutions to Pollution Abatement Problems
First position: Software Design Engineer, Hewlett-Packard Labs.
Current position: Chief Scientist, Crawdcast, Inc.
Angela Hung
"A Theoretical and Empirical Study of Addiction"
First position: Assistant Professor of Economics (2001) - Postdoc for 2000, Carnegie Mellon University.
Current position: Assistant Professor of Economics and Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University.
John Patty
Voting Games with Incomplete Information
First position: Assistant Professor of Political Science at the Dept. of Social and Decision Sciences, Carnegie-Mellon University.
Current position: Assistant Professor of Government, Harvard University.
Reginald Roberts
Protecting the Public Welfare and Morals: Political Institutions, Federalism, and Prohibition, 1834-1934.
First position: Management Consultant: Associate, McKinsey and Company.
Current position: Not known, Not known.

2002

Valentina Bali
The Initiative Process and The Reform of Educational Policies
First position: Assistant Professor, Dept of Political Science, Michigan State University.
Steven Callander
Voting and Electoral Competition
First position: Assistant Professor of Managerial Economics & Decision Sciences, Northwestern University.
Marco Casari
Understanding an Economic Dilemma: Essays on Common Property Resources
First position: Post Doc (Dept. of Econ), Ohio State University.
Current position: Assistant Professor of Economics, Krannert School of Management, Purdue University.
Sean Gailmard
Principal Agent Models of Bureaucratic and Public Decision Making
First position: Assistant Professor, Harris Graduate School of Public Policy Studies, University of Chicago.
Current position: Assistant Professor, UC Berkeley.

2003

Serena Guarnaschelli
Essays on Uncertainty: An Axiomatization and Economic Applications
First position: Management Consultant, McKinsey and Company.
Current position: Engagement Manager, McKinsey and Company (Currently on LOA).
Christopher Hoag
Three Episodes in Nineteenth Century United States Banking and Finance
First position: Assistant Professor of Business Admin. and Economics, Coe College.
Ben Klemens
Information Aggregation, with Application To Monotone Ordering, Advocacy, and Conviviality
First position: Guest Scholar, Center for Social and Economic Dynamics, the Brookings Institution.
Current position: Guest Scholar, Economic Studies, Center for Social and Economic Dynamics, the Brookings Institution.
Elizabeth M. Penn
Cooperation and Social Choice: How Foresight Can Induce Fairness
First position: Assistant Professor of Political Science and Decision Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University.
Current position: Assistant Professor of Government, Harvard University.
Catherine Wilson
Political Information, Institutions and Citizen Participation in American Politics
First position: Visiting Assistant Professor, Northwestern University.
Kathryn Zeiler
Medical Malpractice and Contract Disclosure: A Study of the Effects of Legal Rules on Behavior in Health Care Markets
First position: Associate Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center.
Current position: Associate Professor of Law and Co-director of the Georgetown Law and Economics Workshop Series, Georgetown University Law Center.

2004

Elena Asparouhova
Competition and Equilibration in Financial Markets
First position: Assistant Professor of Finance, University of Utah (David Eccles School of Business).
Carla VanBeselaere
The Shirking Model - A Theory of How People Answer Surveys
First position: Assistant Professor of Economics, Mount Allison University.

2005

Paul Healy
Institutions, Incentives and Behavior: Essays in Public Economics and Mechanism Design
First position: Assistant Professor of Economics, Carnegie Mellon University (Tepper School of Business).
Kevin Roust
Minority Rights in Majoritarian Institutions
First position: Visiting Assistant Professor, Dept. of Political Science, Duke University.

2006

Jernej Copic
Robust BilateralTrade and An Essay on Awareness As An Equilibrium Notion
First position: Postdoc Associate, Cowles Foundation, Yale University.
Current position: Assistant Professor of Economics, UCLA.
Brian Rogers
Learning and Status in Social Networks
First position: Assistant Professor of Managerial Economics and Decision Sciences, Northwestern University, Kellogg School of Management (MEDS).

2007

Delia Bailey
Essays on Causal Inference and Political Representation
First position: Postdoctoral Fellow, CERL, Washington University.
Current position: Senior Analyst, You Gov/Polimetrix.
Jon Eguia
A Theory of Elections and Voting Blocs
First position: Assistant Professor, New York University.
Lauren Feiler
Behavioral Biases in Information Acquisition
First position: Assistant Professor, Carleton College.
Sarah Hill
The Pursuit of Equality through Education Finance Reform
First position: Assistant Professor, Cal State - Fullerton.
Ming Hsu
Three Correlated Essays on the Neural Foundations of Economic Decision-Making
First position: Beckman Postdoc Fellow, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Debrah Meloso
Prices, Holdings, and Learning in Financial Markets: Experiments and Methodology.
First position: Universita Luigi Bocconi.
Deborah Sinclair
Political Networks
First position: Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Chicago.

2008

Meghana Bhatt
Three Papers in Neuroeconomics
First position: Angel Williamson Fellow, Baylor College of Medicine.
Alexander Brown
Investigating Psychology - Influenced Economic Models in Lab, Field and Theory
First position: Assistant Professor of Economics, Texas A&M University.
Laurent Mathevet
Selection, Learning, and Nomination: Essays on Supermodular Games, Design, and Political Theory
First position: Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Texas - Austin.
Kyle Mattes
When Candidates Attack: Who Goes Negative, and Why it Works
First position: Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Iowa.

2009

Michael Alton
Continuous Double Auctions and Microstructure
First position: Consultant, Opera Solutions.
Serkan Kucuksenel
Incentives and Institutions: Essays in Mechanism Design and Game Theory with Applications
First position: Assistant Professor of Economics, Middle East Technical University.
Morgan Llewellyn
Rational Models of Political Behavior: The Effects of Opinion, Information, and Procedures
First position: Assistant Professor of Political Science, IMT - Lucca.
Alan Miller
Essays on Laws and Economics
First position: Lecturer (Faculty of Law and Department of Economics), University of Haifa.
Noah Myung
Organizational and Financial Economics
First position: Graduate School of Business and Public Policy, Naval Postgraduate School, Assistant Professor.
Laura Panattoni
Essays on Industry Concentration, Stock Returns, and the Pharmaceutical Industry
First position: Lecturer, University of Auckland.
David Young
Optimal Capacity Markets
First position: Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Auckland.
Current position: Project Manager, Electric Power Research Institute.

2010

Christoph Brunner
Information Aggregation and Allocative Efficiency in Complex Environments
First position: Post-doc, Alfred-Weber Institut.
Min Jeong Kang
Three Experimental Studies of Reward and Decision Making
First position: Postdoctoral Scholar, Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley.
Gabriel Katz
Essays in Electoral Behavior and Bayesian Data Analysis
First position: Senior Analyst,YouGov Polimetrix.
Sera Linardi
Information and Motivation in Organizations
First position: Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Pittsburgh.
Guido Maretto
Contracts and Markets
First position: Postdoc, ECARES.
Margaret McConnell
Social Interactions and Giving
First position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Population and Development Studies at Harvard.
Julian Romero
Essays on Cooperation and Coordination
First position: Assistant Professor of Economics, Purdue University - Lafayette.

2011

Ian Krajbich
Neurometrically Informed Mechanism Design and the Role of Visual Fixations in Simple Choice
First position: Post Doc, Caltech.
Andrea Robbett
Experiments on The Dynamics of Community Formation
First position: Assistant Professor of Economics, Middlebury College.

2012

Cary Frydman
Essays in Neurofinance.
First position: Assistant Professor of Finance and Business Economics, University of Southern California, Marshall School of Business.
Vanessa Janowski
Computational Biases in Decision Making.
First position: TBD.
Sang Mok Lee
Three Essays on Microeconomic Theory.
First position: Lecturer in Economics, University of Pennsylvania.
Ines Levin
A New Approach to the Study of Political Participation.
First position: Max Weber Postdoctoral Fellowship, European University Institute (Florence).
Mohammed Mostagir
Robust Dynamic Mechanisms..
First position: Postdoc (Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems), MIT.
Salvatore Nunnari
Essays on Dynamic Political Economy..
First position: Assistant Professor of Political Science, UCSD.

2013

Luke Boosey
Essays on Information, Competition, and Cooperation.
First position: Visiting Assistant Professor, Florida State University.
Current position: Assistant Professor of Economics, Florida State University.
Dustin Beckett
An Economic Approach to Consumer Product Ratings.
First position: Economist, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
Current position: Economist, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
Benjamin Bushong
Essays in Behavioral and Neuroeconomics.
First position: Lead Data Scientist, Government.
Current position: Lead Data Scientist, Government.
Muruvvet Buyukboyaci
Essays on Contests, Coordination Games, and Matching.
First position: Assistant Professor of Economics, Middle East Technical University.
Current position: Assistant Professor of Economics, Middle East Technical University.
Peter Foley
Four Essays on the Empirical Analysis of Political Ideology.
First position: Founder and Director of Science and Technology, Pivotal Targeting.
Current position: Founder and Director of Science and Technology, Pivotal Targeting.
Guilherme Freitas
Essays in Mechanism Design.
First position: Market Economist, OpenX.
Current position: Market Economist, OpenX.
Yutaka Kayaba
Essays on Learning and Econometrics .
First position: Postdoctoral Scholar in Neuroeconomics, Caltech.
Current position: Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Tokyo
Emerson Melo
Essays on Economic Networks.
First position: Post doc associate (Computer Science), Cornell University.
Current position: Post doc associate (Computer Science), Cornell University.
Nilanjan Roy
Essays on Cooperation and Reciprocity.
First position: Assistant Professor, Engineering and Systems Design Pillar, Singapore University of Technology and Design.
Current position: Assistant Professor, Engineering and Systems Design Pillar, Singapore University of Technology and Design.
Thomas Ruchti
Markets and Microstructure.
First position: Visiting Assistant Professor of Accounting, Carnegie Mellon University.
Current position: Visiting Assistant Professor of Accounting, Carnegie Mellon University.
John A. Sinclair
Of Primary Importance: The Changing American Primary Election, 1945-2012.
First position: Postdoc, Caltech.
Current position: Postdoc, Caltech.

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