Job Market Candidates of 2021/22 Job Market Candidates of 2021/22

Doctoral Students

Felix Chopra

Media Persuasion and Consumption: Evidence from the Dave Ramsey Show¹

Areas: Applied Microeconomics, Behavioral Economics

References: Armin Falk, Lorenz Goette, Florian Zimmermann, Thomas Graeber

Websites: https://www.felixchopra.com²

Twitter: @FelixChopra³

Rubén Domínguez Díaz

Precautionary Savings and Financial Frictions⁴

Areas: Macroeconomics, inequality, fiscal, monetary, and labor market policies

References: Keith Kuester, Christian Bayer, Thomas Hintermaier

Website: https://www.rubendominguezdiaz.com/⁵ 

Sven Heuser

The Effects of Face-To-Face Conversations on Polarization: Evidence from a Quasi-Experiment⁶

Areas: Applied Microeconomics, Behavioral Economics, Political Economy

References: Armin Falk, Simon Jäger, David Huffman, Florian Zimmermann

Website: https://www.svenheuser.com/⁷

Twitter: @Sven__Heuser⁸

Nadezhda Zhuravleva

How Bad Is Labor Market Concentration? Evidence From Soviet (Urban) Satellites⁹

Area: Empirical macroeconomics, labor and macro labor, economic history

References: Christian Bayer, Moritz Schularick, Felipe Valencia Caicedo

Websites: https://sites.google.com/view/nadiazhuravleva/home¹⁰ 

Postdocs

Dr. Christian Kubitza

Investor-Driven Corporate Finance: Evidence from Insurance Markets¹¹

Areas: Financial economics, with a focus on financial intermediation, insurance, corporate finance, and financial stability

References: Farzad Saidi, Martin Oehmke, Loriana Pelizzon

Website: www.christiankubitza.com ¹²

Twitter: @ChrisKubitza¹³

Ludmila Matyskova, Ph.D.

Bayesian Persuasion With Costly Information Acquisition¹⁴

Areas: microeconomic theory, game theory, information economics, behavioral economics with application to industrial organization

References: Dezsö Szalay, Jakub Steiner, Mark Dean

Website: https://sites.google.com/site/matyskovaludmila/home¹⁵

Boaz Zik, P.h.D

Coarse Learning and Strategic Communication¹⁶

Areas: Economics theory, mechanism design, and information economics, with applications in public economics and industrial organization.

References: Benny Moldovanu, Stephan Lauermann, Alex Gershkov

Website: https://sites.google.com/mail.huji.ac.il/boaz-zik/home¹⁷

Placement Director: Prof. Stephan Lauermann

Placement Office: Dr. Silke Kinzig, placement.bgse@uni-bonn.de

In the years before (2016-2021), graduates of the Department of Economics received job offers from universities such as Harvard, Arizona State, University of Arizona, Notre Dame, Carnegie Mellon, Carlos III de Madrid, Florence (EUI), Copenhagen (Business School), Rotterdam (Erasmus University), University College London, Vienna, Berlin (HU) and Mannheim as well as by non-academic organizations such as the U. S. Federal Reserve Board, the International Monetary Fund, the European Central Bank and the Bank of Canada.