How do borrowing constraints shape firms’ responses to global shocks in emerging markets? @nimisha2610 finds that when the dollar strengthens, firms borrowing against collateral cut investment, while earnings-based borrowers remain resilient. Read more: economics.uchicago.edu/directory/nimi…

When should governments target industries in specific places? Aditya Bhandari shows that optimal industrial policy is place-based when productivity is Hicks-neutral, but uniform when it is Harrod-neutral. Read more: economics.uchicago.edu/directory/adit… #UChicago #EconJobMarket

What happens when overlapping jurisdictions tax the same homes? Francesco Ruggieri's JMP uses new data on all U.S. local governments to estimate fiscal spillovers and proposes symmetric transfers to internalize them. Read more: economics.uchicago.edu/directory/fran… #UChicago #EconJobMarket

Ashton Pallottini is an environmental economist. His JMP shows that enhancing the visibility of environmental goods boosts WTP by up to 87% due to social rewards. These social rewards decrease rapidly in good commonness. Read more: economics.uchicago.edu/directory/asht… #UChicago #EconJobMarket

Xianglong (Sean) Kong studies how supplier-buyer learning drives productivity growth in endogenous networks. He shows that firms upgrade networks to learn from productive partners, amplifying welfare gains from trade. Read more: economics.uchicago.edu/directory/xian… #UChicago #EconJobMarket

Through 2 field experiments, Rebecca Wu shows that correcting misbeliefs about demand elasticity and their abilities helps workers in LMICs secure jobs and overcome reputation barriers in online labor markets. Read more: economics.uchicago.edu/directory/ruox… #UChicago #EconJobMarket

Haruka Uchida studies labor & education. Her JMP runs 2 field experiments to measure & disentangle forms of discrimination. She finds that hiding applicant names changes representation without reducing quality. Read more: economics.uchicago.edu/directory/haru… #UChicago #EconJobMarket

joanna harris develops a market-based measure that puts diverse state-level GHG regulations on a common scale. She combines this measure with emissions and economic data to quantify impacts of climate policy in a spatial model. Read more: economics.uchicago.edu/directory/joan… #EconJobMarket

How much do consumers benefit from the presence of local-service firms from other cities? The benefit can be limited, as they displace existing firms when competing for scarce high-demand locations. Read more: economics.uchicago.edu/directory/feng… #UChicago #EconJobMarket

Government debt insures households if repaid through progressive taxation. Rising debt levels alter future taxes, and thus household risks. This shifts demand for risky and safe assets, impacting bond prices. Read more: economics.uchicago.edu/directory/fili… #UChicago #EconJobMarket

Michael Cuna’s JMP studies the hidden curriculum—unwritten rules for success. Combining data and field experiments, he finds first-gen students engage less in key actions, e.g. networking, due to low awareness. Read more: economics.uchicago.edu/directory/mich… #UChicago #EconJobMarket

Karen's JMP shows how an auction designer facing unknown collusive arrangements should optimally design her auction in response. The optimal mechanism is to post a price and bring efficient collusion in-house. Read more: economics.uchicago.edu/directory/kare… #UChicago #EconJobMarket

Pharmacy exits cause temp. declines in medication use but long-run increases. Closure-induced reallocations to higher-dispensing pharmacies combined with meaningful impacts of pharmacies drive the increases. Read more about Joseph Battles: economics.uchicago.edu/directory/jose… #EconJobMarket

Do poverty traps exist? Ed Jee's study of 27 RCTs finds they're real but rare. Though fixed costs make traps common, forward-looking behavior & productivity differences mean they only affect 25% of households. Read more: economics.uchicago.edu/directory/edwa… #UChicago #EconJobMarket

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#NEUDC2025 | Session: Firm hiring decisions Chair: Benjamin Roth Featuring: Kartik Srivastava; Nathan Barker; Jennifer Kades; Tess Lallemant; Rebecca Wu #TuftsUniversity

Clara Kyung works in labor and education. In her JMP, she studies the impacts of a reform that introduced financial bonuses for school districts based on graduates' outcomes. Learn more at ckyung.github.io. Read more: economics.uchicago.edu/directory/clar… #UChicago #EconJobMarket

Conroy's JMP studies how to aggregate treatment effects across multiple outcomes. He evaluates several existing methods and proposes a new method for optimal aggregation that ensures weights with good properties. Read more: economics.uchicago.edu/directory/chun… #UChicago #EconJobMarket

Can governments in developing countries identify and selectively promote high-growth startups? Raman Chhina (Raman Singh Chhina) provides new data, theory and empirical evidence from India. Read more: economics.uchicago.edu/directory/rama… #UChicago #EconJobMarket

Thanks to World Bank Development Impact Blog for featuring my JMP! I study how misbeliefs about demand and one's own performance hinder market entry for new online freelancers in LMICs. Check out what I find here: blogs.worldbank.org/en/impactevalu…