Charles Brendon

Exeter College
Turl Street
Oxford, OX1 3DP

Phone: +44 (0)7732418409 | .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) | Web site link

Thesis Title:
Essays in Macroeconomic Theory

Supervisor(s): Simon Wren-Lewis

Research Field: Macroeconomics - particularly optimal policy theory, monetary economics, general equilibrium models with credit frictions, and dynamic models with incomplete information

Banu Demir

Department of Economics
University of Oxford
Manor Road
Oxford, OX1 3UQ

Phone: +44 (0)7551986501 | .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) | Web site link

Thesis Title:
Firm Behaviour in International Markets

Supervisor(s): Professor J. Peter Neary

Research Field: International Trade, Multinational Firms

Andrew Mell

Nuffield College
New Road
Oxford, OX1 1NF

Phone: +44 (0)7958 134484 | .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) | Web site link

Thesis Title:
Essays on the Economics of Reputation

Supervisor(s): Peyton Young and Margaret Meyer

Research Field: Applied Microeconomic Theory; Economics of Reputation; Economics of Illicit Markets.

Cavit Pakel

Oxford-Man Institute
Eagle House
Walton-Well Road
Oxford OX2 6ED

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Thesis Title:
Essays in Panel Data and Financial Econometrics

Supervisor(s): Professor Neil Shephard

Job Market Paper:

Bias Reduction under Dependence, in a Nonlinear and Dynamic Panel Setting: the Case of GARCH Panels

Research Field: Panel Data Econometrics, Financial Econometrics, Econometric Theory.

David Williams

Department of Economics
University of Oxford
Manor Road Building
Oxford
OX1 3UQ
United Kingdom

Phone: +44 (0)7711 900527 | .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) | Web site link

Thesis Title:
Financial liberalisation and innovation in Australia: the impact on house prices, mortgage markets and consumption

Supervisor(s): Professor John Muellbauer, Nuffield College, Oxford

Research Field: Macroeconomics, consumption, housing and credit markets

Liam Wren-Lewis

Ministry of Finance and Development Planning
PO BOX 30136
Lilongwe 3
Malawi

Phone: +265 99 1386671 | .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) | Web site link

Thesis Title:
Regulation of Utilities in Developing Countries

Supervisor(s): John Vickers and Steve Bond

Research Field: Microeconomics, Public Economics, Political Economy, Development Economics, Industrial Organisation

Roberto Bonfatti

Department of Economics
University of Oxford
Manor Road Building
Oxford, OX1 3UQ

PhD, London School of Economics 

Phone: +447726709587 | .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) | Web site link

Job Market Paper:

Trade and the Pattern of European Imperialism, 1492-1970

Reference(s): Tim Besley (LSE), Maitreesh Ghatak (LSE), Kevin O' Rourke (Oxford), Rick van Der Ploeg (Oxford), Tony Venables (Oxford)

Research Field: International Trade, Political Economy, Economic History, Development Economics

Torfinn Harding

University of Oxford
Department of Economics
Manor Road Building
Oxford, OX1 3UQ

PhD, Norwegian University of Science and Technology

Phone: +44 759 584 3110 | .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) | Web site link

Job Market Paper:

Foreign Direct Investment and Export Upgrading

Reference(s): Beata Smarzynska Javorcik (Oxford), Rick van der Ploeg (Oxford), Tony Venables (Oxford)

Research Field: International Trade, Economic Development

Michal Horvath

Department of Economics
Manor Road Building
Oxford, OX1 3UQ, UK

PhD, University of St Andrews

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Job Market Paper:

Tax Reform and Automatic Stabilization: A Quantitative Theoretical Assessment

Research Field: Heterogeneity in Macroeconomics, Tax Reform, Monetary and Fiscal Policy Interactions

Shin Kanaya

The Oxford-Man Institute
University of Oxford
Eagle House, Walton Well Road
Oxford, OX2 6ED, UK

PhD, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Phone: +44 (0) 1865 616637 | .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) | Web site link

Job Market Paper:

Paper 1: "A Nonparametric Test for Stationarity in Continuous-Time Markov Processes"
Paper 2: "Nonparametric Estimation for Mixed-Frequency Time Series: A Convolution Approach"

Reference(s): Bruce E. Hansen (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Dennis Kristensen (University College London), Joon Y. Park (Indiana University), Neil Shephard (University of Oxford)

Research Field: Econometric Theory, Macro & Financial Econometrics, Microeconometrics

Christopher Ksoll

Centre for the Study of African Economies
Department of Economics
University of Oxford
Manor Road Building
Oxford, OX1 3UQ

PhD, Yale University

Phone: +44 7919623966 | .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) | Web site link

Thesis Title:
Family networks and orphans in Tanzania

Supervisor(s): Christopher Udry, Mark Rosenzweig, T. Paul Schultz (Yale University)

Research Field: Development economics, labor economics

Karlygash Kuralbayeva

Department of Economics,
Manor Road Building,
Manor Road,
Oxford, OX1 3UQ

PhD, University of Oxford

Phone: +44 (0)7775521080 | .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) | Web site link

Thesis Title:
Macroeconomic adjustment to resource shock in a growing two-sector economy

Supervisor(s): David Vines

Reference(s): David Vines, Rick van der Ploeg, Tony Venables

Research Field: International Finance, Macroeconomics, Development, Applied econometrics

Guy Mayraz

Nuffield College
New Road
Oxford, OX1 1NF, U.K.

PhD, London School of Economics 

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Job Market Paper:

1. Priors and Desires - A Model of Payoff-Dependent Beliefs
2. Wishful-Thinking (experimental paper)

Reference(s): Erik Eyster (LSE), Vincent Crawford (Oxford, UCSD), Stephen Nickell (Oxford)

Research Field: Behavioral Economics

Antonio Mele

Department of Economics
University of Oxford
Manor Road Building
Oxford, OX1 3UQ

PhD, Universitat Pompeu Fabra

Phone: +44 1865 614 997 | .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) | Web site link

Job Market Paper:

The suboptimality of commitment equilibrium when agents are learning

Reference(s): Albert Marcet, Martin Ellison, Andrea Caggese

Research Field: Macroeconomics, Dynamic Contracts, Fiscal and Monetary Policy, Computational Methods

Radoslaw (Radek) Stefanski

University of Oxford
Department of Economics
Manor Road Building
Oxford, OX1 3UQ

Phd University of Minnesota

Phone: +44 7832 632106 | .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) | Web site link

Job Market Paper:

Windfalls, Structural Transformation and Specialization

Reference(s): Timothy Kehoe (University of Minnesota), Fabrizio Perri (University of Minnesota), Rick van der Ploeg (University of Oxford), Tony Venables (University of Oxford)

Research Field: International Trade, Macroeconomics, Growth and Development

Andrew Zeitlin

Centre for the Study of African Economies
Department of Economics
University of Oxford
Manor Road Building
Oxford, OX1 3UQ

PhD, University of Oxford

Phone: +44 (0) 7733 263636 | .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) | Web site link

Job Market Paper:

Understanding heterogeneity: Risk and learning in the adoption of agricultural technologies

Reference(s): Stefan Dercon, Marcel Fafchamps, Francis Teal.

Research Field: Development, applied microeconometrics, experimental economics.