XClose

UCL Department of Economics

Home
Menu

Job Market Candidates

You can find our current job market candidates below as well as information about past placements and careers of recent graduates from the Department of Economics.

Placement Director: Franck Portier (f.portier@ucl.ac.uk)

Administrative Support: Daniella Harper


 

2024-25 Job Market Candidates

 

 

Francesca Arduini

Title: Estimating intra-household sharing from time-use data

Field / Tag(s): Applied microeconomics, household economics, labour economics, public economics, competition economics

Email: francesca.arduini.21@ucl.ac.uk

Personal website: https://sites.google.com/view/francesca-arduini

 

Francesca Arduini

 

 

 

Alexander Clyde

Title: Narrow inference and incentive design

Field / Tag(s): Microeconomic theory, bounded rationality, behavioural economics

Email: alexander.clyde.econ@gmail.com

Personal website: https://alexanderclyde.com

 

Alexander Clyde

 

 

Carl Gergs

Title: To grant or not to grant? Lessons in human capital investment from German student finance

Field / Tag(s): Labor economics, public economics

Email: c.gergs@ucl.ac.uk

Personal website: https://carlgergs.com

 

Carl Gergs
 

 

Cristian Espinosa

Title: From protection to retaliation: the welfare cost of trade wars

Field / Tag(s): International economics (trade and macroeconomics) and empirical macroeconomics.

Email: cristian.espinosa@ucl.ac.uk

Personal website: https://www.cristianespinosa.com

 

Cristian Espinoza

 

 

 

 

 

Quynh Huynh (Erin)

Title: Gender norms and female labour supply: evidence from export shocks in Vietnam

Field / Tag(s): Applied microeconomics, education, inequality and poverty, labour economics, gender norms

Email: q.huynh@ucl.ac.uk

Personal website: https://erinhuynh.com

Erin Quynh Hyun

 

 

 

 

 

Yannis Kastis

Title: Organizational practices and technology adoption: evidence from Jewish immigration and the garment sector in England

Field / Tag(s): Primary: labour economics, organizational economics

Secondary: Industrial development, economic history

Email: yannis.kastis.17@ucl.ac.uk

Personal website: https://www.yanniskastis.com

Yannis Kastis

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Andrew Preston

Title: Risky jobs, risky assets and risky business cycles 

Field / Tag(s): Macroeconomics, finance.

Email: a.preston.17@ucl.ac.uk

Personal website: https://sites.google.com/view/andrew-preston/home

Andrew Preston

 

 

 

 

 

Oscar Perelló

Title: Trade intermediation and resilience in global sourcing

Field / Tag(s): International trade, macroeconomic development

Email: oscar.perello.19@ucl.ac.uk

Personal website: https://sites.google.com/view/oscarperellop

Oscar Perello

 

 

 

 

 

Jeff Rowley

Title: A non-parametric discrete instrumental variable model with application to female labour force participation

Field / Tag(s): Theoetical and applied microeconometrics

Email: jeffreyrowley@duck.com

Personal website: www.jeffrowley.co.uk

 

Jeff Rowley

 

 

 

 

 

Rachel Tan

Title: Parental beliefs and parent investments: a dynamic analysis

Field / Tag(s): Labour economics, economics of education

Email: rachel.tan.20@ucl.ac.uk

Personal website: https://sites.google.com/view/racheltanyi

 

 

Rachel Tan

 

 

 

 

 

Guanyi Wang

Title: Robust network targeting with multiple Nash equilibria

Field / Tag(s): Econometrics, applied microeconomics

Email: guanyi.wang.17@ucl.ac.uk

Personal website: https://www.guanyi-wang.com

 

 

 

Guanyi Wang

 

 

 

 

 

Linda Wu

Title: Behavioural responses to estate taxation: evidence from Taiwan

Field / Tag(s): Public economics, labour economics, development economics

Email: linda.wu.19@ucl.ac.uk

Personal website: https://sites.google.com/view/lindawu

 

 

 

 

Linda Wu

 

 

 

 

FORMER JOB MARKET CANDIDATES

2023-2024 Candidates

  • Nicolas Cerkez: University of Oxford, United Kingdom
  • Wenhao Cheng: Southwestern University of Finance and Economics, Chengdu, China
  • Lorenzo Incoronato: University of Naples Federico II, Italy
  • Jon Piqueras: University Carlos III, Madrid, Spain
  • Morgane Richard: Sciences-Po Paris, France
  • Andrea Salvati: Aarhus University, Denmark
  • Guglielmo Ventura: University of Barcelona, Spain

2022-2023 Candidates

  • Elena Ashtari Tafti
  • Jamie Hentall Maccuish
  • Alessandro Toppeta
  • Julian Costas-Fernandez
  • Hugo Freeman
  • Nathan Hancart
  • Riccardo D'Adamo
  • Gui Bai
  • Enrico Miglino
  • Anna Vitali
  • Tom Zawisza

2021-2022 Candidates

  • Alison Andrew
  • Karolos Arapakis
  • Anna Becker
  • Uta Bolt
  • Gherardo Gennaro Caracciolo
  • Nikhil Datta
  • Mimosa Distefano
  • Wenchao Jin
  • David Goll
  • Tim Obermeier
  • Fernanda Senra De Moura
  • Kate Smith
  • Dajana Xhani

2020-21 Candidates

  • Jan David Bakker: Assistant Professor, Bocconi University, Milan
  • Michele Giannola: Research Fellow, University of Naples Federico II
  • Alice Kügler:Assistant Professor, Central European University
  • Francesca Salvati: Research Fellow, Bank of Italy
  • Silvia Sarpietro: Assistant Professor, University of Bologna
  • David Zentler-Munro: Lecturer, University of Essex

2019-20 Candidates

  • Richard Audoly: Assistant Professor, Norwegian School of Economics (NHH)
  • Javier Brugues: Senior Associate in Charles River Associates
  • Ruben Poblete Cazenave: Post-Doctoral Researcher, Erasmus University Rotterdam
  • Judith Delaney: Assistant Professor, University of Bath
  • Carlo Galli: Assistant Professor, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
  • Amir Habibi: Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Humboldt University of Berlin
  • Chanwoo Kim:  Economist, Bank of Korea
  • Rory McGee: Assistant Professor, University of Western Ontario
  • Gonzalo Paz-Pardo: Senior Economist at DG Research, European Central Bank
  • Gregor Pfeifer: Assistant Professor, University of Sydney
  • Martin O'Connell: Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  • Peter Spittal: Lecturer, University of Bristol

2018-19 Candidates

  • Marta Cardoso Lopes:  European University Institute (PostDoc), Carlos III (Assistant Professor)
  • Julien Combe: Ecole Polytechnique (Assistant Professor)
  • Alejandro Estefan: Notre Dame, South Bend (Assistant Professor)
  • Gavin Kader: Southwestern University of Finance and Economics, Chengdu (Assistant Professor)
  • Dongwoo Kim: Simon Fraser University (Assistant Professor)
  • Kieran Larkin: St Louis Fed
  • Young Jun Li: Copenhagen (PostDoc)
  • Marleen Marra: Science Po (Assistant Professor)
  • Jeremy McCauley: Bristol (Lecturer)
  • Mateusz Mysliwski: Norwegian School of Economics, Bergen (Assistant Professor)
  • Francesca Parodi: Collegio Carlo Alberto, Turin (Assistant Professor)
  • Ravi Somani: DIME, World Bank (PostDoc)
  • Tanya Surovtseva: Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Researcher)

2017-18 Candidates

  • Teodora Boneva: Associate Professor at the University of Oxford
  • Alan Crawford: Assistant Professor at Carlos III in Madrid
  • Ran Gu: Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Economics at the University of Essex
  • Benjamin Hemingway: Senior Economist at the Center for Excellence in Finance and Economic Research (CEFER) of the Bank of Lithuania
  • Thomas Hoe: Assistant Professor at Cornell PAM
  • Davide Melcangi: Research Economist, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
  • Javier Turen Roman: Assistant Professor of the Economics Department at the Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile

2016-17 Candidates

  • Arun Advani: Assistant Professor, Warwick University
  • Neele Balke: Assistant Professor, IIES (Stockholm University). 2017-18, Post doc University of Chicag
  • Vittorio Bassi: Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Southern California
  • Judith Delaney: Post Doc, Economic and Social Research Institute
  • Barbara Flores Arenas
  • Sanghmitra Gautam: Assistant Professor, Washington University in St Louis
  • Cristina Gualdani: Assistant professor, Toulouse School of Economics
  • Cormac O'Dea: 2017-18 academic year as a Cowles Postdoctoral Associate, Assistant Professor starting 2018, Yale University
  • Sandra Polania-Reyes: Visiting fellow at ND during the 2017-2018, U Javeriana in Colombia.
  • Paul Andres Rodriquez Lesmes: Del Rosario University (Colombia)
  • Wongkot Similan Rujiwattanapong: Assistant Professor, Aarhus University 
  • Federico Tagliati: Economists, Bank of Spain

2015-16 Candidates

  • Mario Alloza: Economist, Bank of Spain
  • Eleni Aristodemou: Assistant Professor, University of Amsterdam
  • Laura Blow: Assistant Professor, University of Surrey
  • Simon Gorlach: Assistant Professor, Bocconi University
  • Ines Helm: Assistant Professor, Stockholm University
  • Eeva Mauring: Assistant Professor, University of Vienna
  • Myra Mohnen: Assistant Professor, University of Essex
  • Sandra Polania-Reyes: Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, University of Notre Dame, Indiana US
  • Bryony Reich: Kellogg School of Management-Strategy, Northwestern University
  • Alireza Sepahsalari: Assistant Professor, University of Bristol
  • Alexandros Theloudis: Post-doctoral research economist position, Luxembourg Institute of Socio-economic Research
  • Lukas Wenner: Post-Doctoral Researcher, University of Cologne