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Catch up on all the latest news and events from the Economics Department at @Princeton in our October newsletter. https://bit.ly/4qPFB1g
November 9, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Introducing our 2025 candidates on the economics job market:
November 6, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Ziqiao Zhang’s job market paper studies how mortgage credit policy has reshaped the U.S. housing market. He documents a boom in mortgage borrowing among older households from the 1990s, driven by credit policy reforms. ziqiaozhang.weebly.com
November 6, 2025 at 10:23 PM
So Hye Yoon’s job market paper examines the challenges financial intermediaries face when using algorithmic pricing in housing markets with multidimensional private information. www.sohyeyoon.com/assets/paper...
November 6, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Jesse Silbert’s job market paper studies how Large Language Models (LLMs) like ChatGPT, through automating writing, disrupt labor markets that rely on writing as a costly signal of match quality. jesse-silbert.github.io/website/silb...
November 6, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Kim Sarnoff’s job market paper experimentally studies belief updating when information arrives sequentially. ksarnoff.github.io/files/sarnof...

She finds: (1) signal order matters only for a minority, who overreact to late, conflicting information;
November 6, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Yinan Qiu’s job market paper shows that VC syndication (co-investment) networks transmit startup knowledge back to the investor’s country. yinan-qiu.github.io/files/JMP_Qi...
November 6, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Eric Qian’s job market paper develops a test of unobserved heterogeneity for structural econometric estimation. These settings often use moment conditions that are only valid for a representative economic agent. www.eric-qian.com/research/het...
November 6, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Eugenia Menaguale's job market paper studies how market power in technology-specific capital markets shapes the direction of firms' technology adoption and workers' specific human capital accumulation. eumena.github.io/files/em_jmp...
November 6, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Casey McQuillan’s job market paper studies how unemployment insurance (UI) generosity affects take-up and optimal policy design. esd.wa.gov/media/pdf/42...
November 6, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Yuyang Jiang’s job market paper studies how local authorities distort transportation networks when they fail to cooperate. www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/2dgfq...
November 6, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Michael Jenuwine’s job market paper measures the cost of inflation in sticky-price models by exploiting vintage, or the duration of price spell, as an observable. www.michaeljenuwine.com/files/papers...
November 6, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Nicolas Hommel’s @nhommel.bsky.social job market paper studies firms’ currency hedging. Using a novel dataset of 1.5 million derivatives contracts, he shows that a few firms bear significant currency risk. nicolashommel.github.io/files/jmp_ho...
November 6, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Sebastián Guarda’s job market paper studies bounded rationality in the context of macroeconomic models with heterogeneous agents and aggregate uncertainty. www.sebastianguarda.com/research
November 6, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Richard De Thorpe’s job market paper studies how remote work reshapes residential sorting and local public finance.
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November 6, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Pier Paolo Creanza’s job market paper studies how the Great Merger Wave (1895-1904) shaped American innovation before WW2. www.ppcreanza.com
November 6, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Christine Blandhol’s job market paper examines the trade-offs policymakers face when using out-migration taxes to curb capital tax flight. www.christineblandhol.com/research
November 6, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Marcelo Barbosa Ferreira’s job market paper studies how a large, permanent, unconditional pension for adult daughters of Brazilian military personnel changes their labor supply. drive.google.com/file/d/12iDs...
November 6, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Mark Bamba’s job market paper evaluates the impact of Tokyo's train system on the location of economic activity and welfare using a class of urban commuting models. markbamba.com/wp-content/u...
November 6, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Narek Alexanian’s job market paper examines how wage indexation—the extent wages adjust to unexpected inflation—shapes macroeconomic fluctuations. sites.google.com/princeton.ed...
November 6, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Elena Aguilar’s job market paper studies location choices as a human capital investment. High-opportunity cities like New York offer superior learning environments but require paying high upfront housing costs. www.elena-aguilar.net
November 6, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Attend our upcoming book talk featuring John Cassidy on his latest book, "Capitalism and Its Critics."

Open to the public on Monday, November 10, the event will also be live-streamed via Princeton's Media Central.

Learn more: https://bit.ly/4hKXWIz
November 5, 2025 at 10:50 PM
@princetonecon.bsky.social is proud to present our Ph.D. candidates on this year's economics job market.

Learn more about their research, fields of study, and more on our website: economics.princeton.edu/graduate-pro...
November 4, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Watch now: Loretta Mester, former president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, and Alan Blinder, Gordon S. Rentschler Memorial Professor of Economics and Public Affairs at @Princeton, discuss the economy and monetary policy.

https://bit.ly/4qAiUxN
October 31, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Join us for a panel discussion on CHIPS Implementation with Michael Schmidt, distinguished visitor at Princeton's Griswold Center for Economic Policy Studies and the inaugural director of the CHIPS Program Office, US Department of Commerce.

November 6 at 4:30 PM in JRR 399. https://bit.ly/4ocjmRh
Panel Discussion: CHIPS Implementation Retrospective: Perspectives on Future Industrial Policy - Princeton University - Department of Economics
Michael Schmidt, former director of the CHIPS Program Office Julis Romo Rabinowitz Building, Room 399 Open to the Public and the Princeton University Community; Livestream available on Media Central P...
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October 28, 2025 at 9:00 PM