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

2021-22 Job Market Candidates

Alison Andrew

Revealed Beliefs and the Marriage Market Return to Education

Main research: Development, Applied Microeconomics
Secondary research: Family Economics
Email: alison_a@ifs.org.uk
Website: sites.google.com/view/alisonandrew/home

Karolos Arapakis

Transition Costs and the Optimal U.S. Social Security System

Main research: Applied Micro,
Secondary research: Public, Computational economics
Email: karolos.arapakis.14@ucl.ac.uk
Website: sites.google.com/view/karolosarapakis

Anna Becker

Shamed to Death: Social Image Concerns and War Participation

Main research: Political Economy
Secondary research: Applied Microeconomics, Behavioural Economics
Email: anna.becker.14@ucl.ac.uk
Website: annabecker.net

Uta Bolt

What is the Source of the Health Gradient? The Case of Obesity

Research fields: Applied Micro, Health, Human Capital
Email: uta.bolt@ucl.ac.uk
Website: sites.google.com/view/utabolt

Gherardo Gennaro Caracciolo

'Parole, parole, parole' (the importance of Central Bank communication)

Main field: Macroeconomics/ Monetary economics
Secondary field: Information economics
Email: gherardo.caracciolo.15@ucl.ac.uk
Webpage: sites.google.com/view/gherardogennarocaracciolo

Nikhil Datta

Local Monopsony Power

Main research: Labour
Secondary research: Urban
Email: nikhil.datta.14@ucl.ac.uk
Website: nikhil-datta.com

Mimosa Distefano

Employment subsidies and the gender gap

Main research: Labour
Secondary research: Public
Email: mimosa.distefano.13@ucl.ac.uk
Website: sites.google.com/view/mimosa-distefano

Wenchao Jin

Occupational polarisation and endogenous task biased technical change

Research field: labour economics, public economics
Email: wenchao_j@ifs.org.uk
Website: sites.google.com/view/wenchao-jin

David Goll

Email: david.goll.11@ucl.ac.uk

Tim Obermeier

Individual Welfare Analysis: What's the Role of Intra-Family Preference Heterogeneity?

Main research: Macroeconomics, Labour Economics
Secondary research: Family Economics, Public Economics
Email: tim_obermeier@ifs.org.uk
Website: sites.google.com/view/timobermeier/home

Fernanda Senra De Moura

Gender Gaps in Parliament: Access to Public Funds by Legislators in Brazil

Main research: Applied Microeconomics
Secondary research: Development and Political Economy
Email: fernanda.moura.13@ucl.ac.uk
Website: sites.google.com/view/fernandademoura/home

Kate Smith

Capital Taxation and Entrepreneurship

Main research: Public Finance
Secondary research: Industrial Organisation, Applied Microeconomics, Entrepreneurship
Email: kate.smith@ifs.org.uk
Website: katesmith.me

Dajana Xhani

Correcting Market Power with Taxation: a Sufficient Statistic Approach

Research Field: Macroeconomics, Public
Email: dajana.xhani.11@ucl.ac.uk
Webpage: sites.google.com/view/dajanaxhani

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

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

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

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)

2019-20 Candidates

Richard Audoly: Assistant Professor, Norwegian School of Economics (NHH)
Javier Brugues: Senior Associate in Charles River Assoiates
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

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