Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences
Job Market Candidates for the 2012-13 Academic Year
Below is brief placement history of recent graduates as well as information on candidates who are on the market for the 2012-13 academic year. By clicking on the candidate's name, you will be linked to the candidate's profile that includes more detailed information consisting of their c.v., dissertation abstract, and teaching and research interests. Should you have any questions, please contact the appropriate individual listed below.
Placement Director and Director of Graduate Studies
Professor Federico Echenique
Telephone: 626-395-4273
Email: fede@hss.caltech.edu
Placement Coordinator/Option Admin
Option Admin
Telephone: 626-395-4206
Fax: 626-405-9841
Email: gradsec@hss.caltech.edu
Mailing Address
Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences
228-77
California Institute of Technology
Pasadena, CA 91125
Brief Placement History of Recent Graduates
The Caltech Social Science Ph.D. program prepares students to work at top universities and organizations by maximizing their research productivity during the course of their graduate career. To that end, our program is designed to build skills to conduct original research thereby leading the students to write a dissertation, which will contribute something original to scientific knowledge.
The unique combination we provide our students has prepared them to be placed in various academic institutions recently including, but not limited to: the University of California at Los Angeles, the University of California at Santa Barbara, Carnegie-Mellon University, University of Chicago, Haas Business School at UC Berkeley, Harvard Business School, the University of Iowa, Michigan State University, Northwestern University, Ohio State University, Pennsylvania State University, University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign, University of Pittsburg, Purdue University, Texas A&M, University of Texas - Austin, and the University of Rhode Island.
Other students chose other equally challenging career paths leading them to industries and organizations (non-academic positions) including, but not limited to: Alfred-Weber Institut, Baylor College of Medicine, Charles River Associates,the Economic Analysis Group, ECARES, Hewlett-Packard Labs, McKinsey and Company, and Telcordia Technologies.
For complete information on our long-standing placement history, please click here.
Left to right - Gui Freitas, Thomas Ruchti, Nilanjan Roy, Emerson Melo and Muruvvet Buyukboyaci. |
Caltech Job Market Candidates - 2012-13
Muruvvet Buyukboyaci
Research Fields - Game Theory, Behavioral Economics, Experimental Economics
Economics Teaching Fields - Experimental Economics, Microeconomic Theory, Game Theory
Dissertation Title: The Effects of Heterogeneity in Contests, Coordination Games, and Matching.
Dissertation Committee: Leeat Yariv (chair), Thomas Palfrey, and Federico Echenique.
References: Leeat Yariv, Thomas Palfrey, Federico Echenique
Home Page (Includes papers, work in progress, conference participation and papers, brief explanation of research and teaching experience.)
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Guilherme P. de Freitas
Research Fields - Mechanism Design, Industrial Organization.
Economics Teaching Fields - Microeconomic Theory, Game Theory, Mathematical Methods, Statistics
Dissertation Title: TBD.
Dissertation Committee: John Ledyard (chair), Jean Laurent Rosenthal, and Matt Shum.
References: John Ledyard, Jean Laurent Rosenthal, and Matt Shum
Home Page (Includes papers, work in progress, conference participation and papers, brief explanation of research and teaching experience.)
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Emerson Melo
Research Fields - Microeconomic Theory, Game Theory
Economics Teaching Fields - Microeconomic Theory, Game Theory
Dissertation Title: Essays on Economic Networks.
Dissertation Committee: Federico Echenique (Chair), Matt Shum, and Leeat Yariv.
References: Federico Echenique, Bob Sherman, Matt Shum, and Leeat Yariv.
Home Page (Includes papers, work in progress, conference participation and papers, brief explanation of research and teaching experience.)
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Nilanjan Roy
Research Fields - Game Theory, Experimental Economics, Experimental Finance (Markets, Asset Pricing).
Economics Teaching Fields - Experimental Economics, Microeconomic Theory, Game Theory
Dissertation Title: Essays on Cooperation and Reciprocity.
Dissertation Committee: Thomas Palfrey (Chair), Peter Bossaerts, and Federico Echenique.
References: Thomas Palfrey, Peter Bossaerts, and Federico Echenique.
Home Page (Includes papers, work in progress, conference participation and papers, brief explanation of research and teaching experience.)
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John Andrew Sinclair
Research Fields - American Politics, Methodology.
Economics Teaching Fields - American Politics, Methodology.
Dissertation Title: Of Primary Importance: The Changing American Primary Election, 1945-2012.
Dissertation Committee: Michael Alvarez (Chair), Phil Hoffman, Rod Kiewiet, Christian Grose (USC).
References: Michael Alvarez, Phil Hoffman, Rod Kiewiet.
Home Page (Includes papers, work in progress, conference participation and papers, brief explanation of research and teaching experience.)
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Thomas Ruchti
Research Fields - Applied Micro, Finance, Empirical IO, Econometrics.
Economics Teaching Fields - Applied Micro, Finance, Empirical IO, Econometrics.
Dissertation Title: Essays on Market Microstructure.
Dissertation Committee: Matt Shum (Chair), Jaksa Cvitanic, Ben Gillen,and John Ledyard.
References: Jaksa Cvitanic, Ben Gillen, John Ledyard, and Matt Shum.
Home Page (Includes papers, work in progress, conference participation and papers, brief explanation of research and teaching experience.)
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Caltech Post Doc Job Market Candidates - 2012-13
Ian Krajbich (Ph.D. received 2011.)
Research Fields - Experimental Economics, Decision Theory, Behavioral Economics, Neuroeconomics.
Economics Teaching Fields - Experimental Economics, Decision Theory, Behavioral Economics, Neuroeconomics, Game Theory and Mechanism Design.
Dissertation Title: Neurometrically Informed Mechanism Design and the Role of Visual Fixations in Simple Choice.
Dissertation Committee: Antonio Rangel, Colin Camerer, Ralph Adolphs, and John Ledyard .
References: Antonio Rangel, Colin Camerer, Ralph Adolphs, John Ledyard, and Ernst Fehr (University of Zurich).
Home Page (Includes papers, work in progress, conference participation and papers, brief explanation of research and teaching experience.)
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Alec Smith (Ph.D. received 2009)
Research Fields - Behavioral Economics, Experimental Economics, Neuroeconomics, Asset Markets.
Economics Teaching Fields - Behavioral Economics, Experimental Economics, Neuroeconomics, Microeconomics, Game Theory, Strategy.
Dissertation Title: Beliefs and Emotions in Games and Decisions.
Dissertation Committee: Anna Breman, Terry Connolly, Martin Dufwenberg (Advisor).
References: Colin Camerer, Martin Dufwenberg (U. of Arizona), Antonio Rangel.
Home Page (Includes papers, work in progress, conference participation and papers, brief explanation of research and teaching experience.)
