Job Market Candidates 2025-26

Job Market Candidates

Afonso Rodrigues

Afonso is a PhD Candidate in Economics at the University of Oxford.

His research interests include Industrial Organisation and Applied Microeconomics.

He is on the 2025-26 Job Market.

Job Market Paper

Consumer Choice over Shopping Baskets: A Linear Demand Approach

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Chenchuan Shi

Chenchuan is a PhD Candidate in Economics at the University of Oxford.

She is on the 2025-26 Job Market.

Job Market Paper

Knowledge Generality, Competition and Growth

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Eszter Kabos

Eszter is a PhD Candidate in Economics at the University of Oxford.

Eszter’s research interests lie in industrial organisation, competition, regulation, and microeconomic theory. Before starting her PhD, she gained experience in management and the public sector.

She is on the 2025-26 Job Market.

Job Market Paper

Eszter Kabos - Research

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Giulio Gottardo

Giulio is a is a PhD Candidate in Economics at the University of Oxford.

His area of research is Empirical Industrial Organisation, with a focus on the estimation of market power and production functions with firm data.

He is on the 2025-2026 Job Market.

Job Market Paper

Production Functions with Noisy Data: A Flexible Cost Share Approach

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Giulio Schinaia

Giulio is a Postdoctoral Scholar at the University of Chicago. He received his PhD in Economics at the University of Oxford. He is an applied microeconomist specialising in development, behavioural, and labour economics. Using innovative microdata and field experiments, his research studies how digital and financial innovations shape economic decisions, livelihoods, and market outcomes in low-income settings.

He is on the 2025-2026 Job Market.

Job Market Paper

Information Frictions and Bargaining: Experimental Evidence From Rural Guinea-Bissau

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Hannah Römer

Hannah is a PhD Candidate in Economics at the University of Oxford.

Her research interests are in environmental economics and macroeconomics, with a particular focus on how uncertainty, disagreement, and heterogeneity matter for optimal climate policy making.

She is on the 2025-26 Job Market.

Job Market Paper

Climate change beliefs and savings behaviour: a macroeconomic perspective

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Karthik Abhiramapuram Sridhar

Karthik is a PhD Candidate in Economics at the University of Oxford.

He is on the 2025-2026 Job Market.

Job Market Paper

Macroeconomic Effects of Scheduled and Unscheduled Monetary Policy Surprises

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Lidia Smitkova

Lidia is a PhD Candidate in Economics at the University of Oxford.

She is a macroeconomist working at the intersection of firms and growth, structural change, trade and international macroeconomics.

She is on the 2025-26 Job Market.

Job Market Paper

Export Subsidies as Industrial Policy: the Case of the 19th Century Sugar Industry

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Lukas Boehnert

Lukas is a PhD Candidate in Economics at the University of Oxford.

His research is on international macroeconomics, macro-development and regional growth.

He is on the 2025-26 Job Market.

Job Market Paper

The Regional Specialization Trade-off

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Mathias Fjællegaard Jensen

Mathias is a Senior Research Fellow at the Department of Economics at the University of Oxford.

He is an applied microeconomist working at the intersection of labour, public, and health economics, studying parent–child dynamics across the life course and how policy, skills, and digitalisation shape inequality within and across generations.

He is on the 2025-26 Job Market.

Job Market Paper

Intergenerational Mobility by Sexuality

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Max Marczinek

Max is a PhD Candidate in Economics at the University of Oxford.

His main field of research is International Trade. He is also interested in Growth, Economic History, and Labour Economics.

He is on the 2025-26 Job Market.

Job Market Paper

Labour Scarcity and Productivity: Insights from the Last Nordic Plague

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Sarah Duffy

Sarah is a PhD Candidate in Economics at the University of Oxford.

She studies the macroeconomic and financial effects of climate change and climate policy. Her research combines structural models from international economics and finance with empirical evidence, utilising text based and machine learning methods.

She is on the 2025-26 Job Market.

Job Market Paper

Climate Change, Adaptation, and Sovereign Risk

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Timothy Hunt

Timothy is a PhD Candidate in Economics at the University of Oxford.

He is on the 2025-2026 Job Market.

Job Market Paper

Sharing the caring? Dynamic interaction between siblings in the provision of care to parents

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Shaheen Naseer

Shaheen is an applied microeconomist and a Senior Postdoctoral Researcher at University of Oxford. Affiliated with the Department of Economics and Future of Development Programme at Oxford Martin School.

She studies the personnel economics of the state, focusing on how assignment designs shape exposure, evaluation, and career outcomes.

She is on the 2025-26 Job Market.

Job Market Paper
Assignment Matters: Early Exposure and Career Outcomes

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Tobias Kawalec

Tobias is a PhD Candidate in Economics at the University of Oxford.

His research is on macroeconomics, especially dynamic interactions of fiscal and monetary policy.

He is on the 2025-26 Job Market.

Job Market Paper

Debt Indexation, Determinacy, and Inflation

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Zhao Dong

Zhao is a PhD Candidate in Economics at the University of Oxford.

Her work sits at the intersection of economic history and political economy, examining the long-run relationship between political institutions, elite recruitment, and economic performance in imperial China within a broader Eurasian comparison.

She is on the 2025-26 Job Market.

Job Market Paper

External Shocks and Elite Selection in Imperial China: Consequences for State Capacity

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Job Market Candidates 2025-26