Ph.D. Students

Three generations of students.


It begins with me/us challenging them, and ends with them teaching us some things that we never knew... they go from bright and eager first year PhD students, to struggling with research for the first time to co-authors. It's truly a wonderful transformation to be a part of.



With Aleh and Mike

Three Generations of Students

One of the great things about being at the University of Minnesota is that it has given me a chance to get involved with teaching and advising PhD students. Minnesota has been known for its students for years and I'm very lucky to have been involved with a great group of them during the time I've been here.

With Roozbeh and Ali

One of the best things about the program is the collection of PhD student workshops that we run. In these, a group of advanced students meet regularly (e.g., weekly in our case) with a couple of faculty members to try out their research ideas. It can be a bloody scene, but it is always a learning one as well.

My former advisees - where are they now?

The students I have worked with in the past and am working with now are a remarkable bunch. Here is a list of some that I have worked particularly closely with and who are now out in the cold real world making me proud....

Laurence Ales ('08)

    • Carnegie Mellon University

    • Dissertation: Risk Sharing with Private Information

Michael Bar ('05)

  • San Francisco State University

  • Dissertation: On Labor Force Participation of Married Women: The Case of the U.S. Since 1959

Job Boerma ('20)

  • University of Wisconsin-Madison

  • Dissertation: Essays on Macroeconomics and Fiscal Policy

Sebastien Buttet ('06)

  • CUNY - Guttman Community College Business School

  • Dissertation: Essays in the Economics of Gender: Theory and Quantitative Analysis

Tayar Buyubasaran ('14)

  • Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey

  • Dissertation: Essays on Macroeconomics

Guillermo Cabral Lassalle ('19)

  • Banco de Desarrollo de América Latina

  • Dissertation: Essays in Public Economics

Francesca Carapella ('08)

  • Federal Reserve Board

  • Dissertation: Banking Panics in a Dynamic General Equilibrium Framework

Sangwook "Stanley" Cho ('06)

  • University of New South Wales

  • Dissertation: Household Wealth Accumulation in Korea

Ceyhun Elgin ('10)

  • Bogazici University

  • Dissertation: Essays on Dynamic Macroeconomics

Keyvan Eslami ('19)

  • Ryerson University

  • Dissertation: Essays in Health Economics

Mike Golosov ('04)

  • University of Chicago

  • Dissertation: Essays in Dynamic Fiscal and Monetary Policy

Roozbeh Hosseini ('08)

  • University of Georgia - Terry School

  • Dissertation: Essays on Insurance Markets and the Role for Government

Rishabh Kirpalani ('16)

  • University of Wisconsin-Madison

  • Dissertation: Essays on Endogenously Incomplete Markets

Oksana Leukhina ('05)

  • Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis

  • Dissertation: Essays on Historical Evolution of Output and Population

Stefania Marcassa ('09)

  • Université de Cergy-Pontoise

  • Dissertation: Essays in Family and Labor Economics

Marcos Marcolino ('18)

  • Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research

  • Dissertation: Essays in Macroeconomics

Pricila Maziero ('09)

  • New York University - Stern

  • Dissertation: Optimal Social Insurance and Non-exclusive Contracting

Urvi Neelakantan ('05)

  • Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond

  • Dissertation: Child Support: Trends and Policy

Facundo Piguillem ('09)

  • Einaudi Institute for Economics and Finance

  • Dissertation: Essays on the Political Economy of Taxation in Dynamic Settings

Filippo Rebessi ('16)

  • California State University, East Bay

  • Dissertation: Essays on International Economics and Policy

Erick Sager ('13)

  • Federal Reserve Board

  • Dissertation: Essays on Macroeconomics, Development and Financial Markets

Luis Sanchez Mier ('04)

  • Universidad de Guanajuato

  • Dissertation: Political Influence and Economic Organization

Anderson Schneider ('09)

  • Morgan Stanley

  • Dissertation: Three Essays on Public Economics and Heterogeneity

Alice Schoonbroodt ('06)

  • Black Panther SVE,LLC; University of Georgia Terry School

  • Dissertation: Baby Busts and Baby Booms: The Fertility Response to Economic Shocks

Ali Shourideh ('12)

  • Carnegie Mellon University

  • Dissertation: Essays in Dynamic Macroeconomic Policy

Ctirad Slavik ('10)

  • CERGE-EI, Prague

  • Dissertation: Essays on Dynamic Economies with Frictions

Juan Sole ('03)

  • IMF

  • Dissertation: Essays on International Finance

Simge Tarhan ('09)

  • Project Manager and Research Professional, Market Research and Strategy

  • Dissertation: Essays on Corruption

Michele Tertilt ('03)

  • University of Mannheim

  • Dissertation: The Effects of Family Structure and Property Rights on Fertility and Growth: the Case of Sub-Saharan Africa

Monica Tran Xuan ('20)

  • University at Buffalo

  • Dissertation: Fiscal Policies, Redistribution, and Limited Commitment

Aleh Tsyvinski ('03)

  • Yale University

  • Dissertation: Optimal Dynamic Economic Policy

Maxim Troshkin ('11)

  • University of Pennsylvania - Wharton

  • Dissertation: Essays in Dynamic Optimal Fiscal Policy

Klevi Xhaxho ('18)

  • US Bank

  • Dissertation: Essays in Macroeconomics

Ariel Zetlin-Jones ('12)

  • Carnegie Mellon University

  • Dissertation: Essays on Macroeconomics and Financial Markets

Yuzhe Zhang ('06)

  • Texas A & M University

  • Dissertation: Essays on Dynamic Economies