PhD Students

ordered from least to most recent

Name 

Current Job

Title of PhD

Year of PhD

First Job

Salman AliIslamic Development Bank Institute Social Norms and Trade InstitutionsPenn 1995International Islamic University
Maharukh BhiladwallaNYUDynamic Bilateral Trading: Rational Learning and Ex Post EfficiencyPenn 1995Economy.com
Sadiq CurrimbhoyVulpes Investment Management Pricing Labor in an Uncertain WorldPenn 1995Merrill Lynch
Nilson TeixeiraMacro Capital Gestao de Recursos Three Essays on Asymmetric Information and Hedging in Financial Markets Penn 1995Credit Suisse 
Illtae Ahn   Chung-AngThree Essays on Repeated Games Without Perfect Information Penn 1996Chung-Ang
Kimberly Katz Three Applications of Game TheoryPenn 1996Mount Holyoke
Marcos Lisboa*INSPERThree Essays on General Equilibrium Models with Imperfect Financial MarketsPenn 1996Stanford
Alvaro SandroniNorthwester-MEDSEssays on Asset Pricing and Learning Foundations of EquilibriumPenn 1996Northwestern-MEDS
Juuso ValimakiAalto University-HelsinkiThree Essays on Learning and Strategic InteractionsPenn 1996Northwestern
Adel VargheseTexas A&M & IFMR Formal and Informal Credit Markets: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis Penn 1996St. Louis University
Matthias Kahl UCLA AndersonThree Essays on Financial Distress and LiquidationPenn 1997UCLA Anderson
Ayse MumcuBogaziciOrganizational Forms and IncentivesPenn 1997Bogazici
Peter NormanNorth Carolina A Game Theoretic Approach to Economic Policy AnalysisPenn 1997Wisconsin
Stefania ScandizzoMarylandInternational Protection of Intellectual Property Rights Penn 1997Texas A&M
Matti SuominenAalto University-HelsinkiInformation Transmission and Incentives in Markets Penn 1997INSEAD
Richard Hynes*Virginia Law SchoolThree Essays on Consumer Bankruptcy and Exemptions Penn 1998William and Mary Law School
Andrea MoroVanderbiltStatistical Discrimination in the Labor MarketPenn 1998Minnesota
Anna IlyinaIMFThree Essays on Bargaining and Cheap TalkPenn 2000IMF
Ricky LamSEEKLearning Through Stories and Other EssaysYale 2000Northwestern
Amil Dasgupta*LSEDynamic Coordination Games: Theory and Applications Yale 2001LSE
Yiannis SarafidisCharles River Associates Release of Information with Imperfect MemoryYale 2001INSEAD
Fumiko TakedaTokyoThree Essays on Twin CrisesYale 2001 Yokohama City
Rupa Athreya*High Note AdvisoryModelling Beliefs in Games with Generalized Preferences Yale 2002McKinsey
Michael McBrideUC IrvineCollective Action Under UncertaintyYale 2002UC Irvine 
Ylva SovikHandelsbankenSpeculation and Models of Rational Beliefs Oslo 2002Norwegian Central Bank
Katsutoshi Wakai*KyotoLinking Behavioral Economics, Axiomatic Decision Theory and General Equilibrium Yale 2002SUNY Buffalo
Talia BarConnecticutPatent Races and Disclosure: Theory and Testable Implications Yale 2003Cornell
Stephanie Lau*U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission Asymmetric Information in the Hold-Up ProblemYale 2003Washington at St.Louis
Luis Madrazo*LML ECONOMISTASThe Political Economy of IdeologyYale 2003Mexican Finance Ministry
Bernardo Guimaraes*Sao Paulo School of Economics, FGV/SPExpectations and Crises: Theory, Empirics and PolicyYale 2004LSE
Dunia Lopez-PintadoPablo de OlavideDiffusion, Networks, and Games: Theory and Experiments Alicante 2004Caltech postdoc
Lily Qiu PHEThree Essays in Financial EconomicsYale 2004Brown
Sergio TurnerTuftsWelfare Impact of Policy in Incomplete MarketsYale 2004Brown
Rossella Argenziano*EssexNetwork Markets and Coordination GamesYale 2005Essex
Anat Bracha*Hebrew UniversityMultiple Selves and Endogenous Beliefs Yale 2005MIT postdoc/ Tel Aviv
Caterina Calsamiglia*Barcelona IPEGDecentralizing Equality of Opportunity Yale 2005Autonoma Barcelona
Ying ChenJohns HopkinsBehavioral Types and Partially Informed Decision Makers in Communication Games Yale 2005Arizona
Andrew Lemon*LexeconReputational Concerns in Political Agency ModelsYale 2005Lexecon
Deran Ozmen Boyner Buyuk Magazacilik A.S.Information Transmission and Recommender SystemsYale 2005BCG
Pei-Yu Melody Lo*National Taiwan UniversityCommon Knowledge of Language and Iterated Admissability in Cheap Talk GamesYale 2006Hong Kong 
Marzena RostekWisconsinReasoning in Strategic and Non-Strategic InteractionsYale 2006Wisconsin
Dmitry Shapiro*Seoul National University Essays on Evolution, Reputation and RationalityYale 2006UNC Charlotte 
Jakub SteinerCERGE-EI Essays on Coordination ProblemsCERGE 2006Edinburgh
Colin Stewart* TorontoCoordination in Dynamic EnvironmentsYale 2006Toronto
Daniel MonteSao Paulo School of Economics-FGV-EESPBounded Memory, Reputation and Learning Yale 2007Simon Fraser
Xianwen ShiToronto Mechanism Design with Endogenous Information Acquisition, Status, and ParticipationYale 2007Toronto 
David DillenbergerPennsylvania Essays on Decision TheoryPrinceton 2008Pennsylvania 
Charles RoddieCambridgeEssays in Economic TheoryPrinceton 2008Oxford postdoc 
Vinayak TripathiAmerican Century Investments Essays on Strategic Voting and Mechanism DesignPrinceton 2008Highbridge Capital Management 
Sambuddha GhoshShanghai University of Finance and Economics Reputation with Multiple Opponents, and Commitment Bias in Voting Princeton 2009Boston
Shivani NayyarUnited Nations Development Program Essays on Repeated Games Princeton 2009United Nations Development Program
Alice HsiawBrandeisEssays on the Economics of Self-Control and Lifestyle Brands Princeton 2010Harvard Postdoc
Rainer SchwabeCornerstone Essays on the Quality of Government Princeton 2010MEDS Postdoc
Thomas EisenbachFederal Reserve Bank of New YorkEssays on MicroeconomicsPrinceton 2010New York Fed
Uliana Popova MakarovData Science at DropboxEssays in the Theory of Communication Princeton 2011Moody's Analytics 
Jose AzarIESE Business School Universidad de Navarra A New Look at Oligopoly: Implicit Collusion through Portfolio DiversificationPrinceton 2012 Charles River Associates 
Adriano BassoPayment Systems Regulator  Essays on Microeconomic TheoryPrinceton 2012 Ofcom
Edoardo Grillo*
University of Padua Essays on Strategic Information TransmissionPrinceton 2012 Collegio Carlo Alberto-Turin 
Andrei Rachkov*
McKinseyThree Essays in Mechanism DesignPrinceton 2012McKinsey
Martin Schonger*
LucerneVouchers, Inequality, and CompetitionPrinceton 2012Lancaster
Takuo Sugaya*Stanford GSBThe Folk Theorem in Repeated Games with Private MonitoringPrinceton 2012Stanford GSB
Ming Yang*University College LondonFlexible Information Acquisition in Strategic SituationsPrinceton 2012Duke Fuqua
Gonzalo CisternasFederal Reserve Bank of New YorkEssays on Continuous Time Games with Learning Princeton 2013MIT Sloan
Leandro GornoFGV Rio Essays on Economics Behavior Under UncertaintyPrinceton 2013FGV Rio
Vadim IaralovFX StrategyEssays in Political Economy and Mechanism DesignPrinceton 2013Bank of America Merrill Lynch 
Giri Parameswaran*HaverfordIncentive and Efficiency Implications of Institutional Rules in Three Political SettingsPrinceton 2013Haverford 
Rohit Lamba*CornellEssays in Dynamic Mechanism DesignPrinceton 2014Penn State
Ben Brooks*ChicagoBelief Extraction in Mechanism DesignPrinceton 2014Chicago
Jay LuUCLAEssays on Beliefs and BehaviorPrinceton 2014Cornell
Nemanya Antic*Northwestern KelloggEssays in Robustness and Mechanism DesignPrinceton 2015Northwestern Kellogg
Liang Dai*Chinese University of Hong KongEssays in Financial Economics Princeton 2015Shanghai Jiaotong University-Antai
Kai SteversonDCI Solutions Essays in Applied Game Theory and Political EconomyPrinceton 2015NYU postdoc
Shaowei KeChina Europe International Business SchoolEssays on Decision TheoryPrinceton 2015Michigan
Cheng SunGuanghua School of Management at Peking UniversityReputation Games and Political EconomyPrinceton 2015Peking
Michael Sockin
McComb School of Business at UT Austin Essays on the Real Effects of Financial Frictions in Financial MarketsPrinceton 2015UT Austin 
Benjamin YoungUniversity of Technology SydneyEssays in Behavioral EconomicsPrinceton 2018UT Sydney
Gabriel Buchbinder*University of OregonEssays on Price Protection and Investor Attention Princeton 2019University of Oregon
Elia Sartori*University of Naples Federico II Essays on Screening in InformationPrinceton 2019University of Naples Federico II
Denis Shishkin*UC San Diego Essays in Information Economics Princeton 2020UC San Diego
Chishio FurukawaYokohama National UniversityThree Essays in EconomicsMIT 2020Yokohama National University 
Joseph AbadiFederal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia Essays on Liquidity, Information, and MacroeconomicsPrinceton 2021Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia 
Thi Mai Anh NguyenNYU Economics Essays on Long-Term Relationships and Networks MIT 2023Microsoft Postdoc, NYU
Joel Flynn Yale Essays in Behavioral Macroeconomics and Mechanism Design MIT 2023Yale
Giacomo Lanzani* U.C. Berkeley Essays in Economic Theory MIT 2023Harvard Postdoc, U.C. Berkeley 
Roberto Corrao*StanfordEssays on the Economics of InformationMIT 2024Cowles Postdoc, Stanford
Ying Gao*University of British ColumbiaEssays on Communication and SignalingMIT 2024University of British Columbia
Bumsoo KimWilliams CollegeEssays in International Economics and MacroeconomicsMIT 2024Williams College
Victor Orestes*Wharton School, University of PennsylvaniaEssays in Financial Economics and EconometricsMIT 2025Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
Roi Orzach*Boston UniversityDynamics of Group Decision-MakingMIT 2025Boston University
Eitan Sapiro-GheilerPrinceton University PostdocEssays in Political EconomyMIT 2025Princeton University Postdoc, Purdue University
Rafael Veiel* University of TexasEssays on Information EconomicsMIT 2025University of Texas
*denotes advisor