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Economics Department

Placements of Graduates

The Rochester economics program has produced many intellectual leaders of this generation. Rochester graduates are found on the faculties of a wide range of U.S. institutions. In the last ten years, we have placed our Ph.D.'s at many top schools, including Chicago, Harvard, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Stanford, UCLA, and Wisconsin, as well as other universities and colleges throughout the world.

Between 10 and 15 per cent of our graduates are initially placed in the top 20 economics departments.

Placements in 2008

Year Person Institution
2008 Kyoungwon Seo Northwestern University,
Kellogg School of Management
2007 Baris Kaymak University of Montreal, Canada
2007 Youngki Shin University of Western Ontario
2006 Karen Kopecky University of Western Ontario
2006 Richard Suen University of California at Riverside
2005 Onur Kesten Carnegie Mellon University
2005 Jawwad Noor Boston University
2004 Fernando Leiva Bertran University of Iowa
2004 Takashi Hayashi University of Texas, Austin
2004 Marina Azzimonti Renzo University of Iowa
2004 Guillaume Vandenbroucke University of Southern California
2003 Christopher Chambers California Institute of Technology
2003 Jianjun Miao Boston University
2002 Burhanettin Kuruscu University of Texas at Austin
2002 Aysegul Sahin Purdue University
2001 Juan-Carlos Cordoba Rice University
2001 Biung-Ghi Ju University of Kansas
2000 Atila Abdukadiroglu Northwestern University
2000 Gianluca Clementi Carnegie Mellon University
2000 Daniel Coen Pirani Carnegie Mellon University
2000 Ananthakrishan Seshadri University of Wisconsin
2000 Andrzej Skrzypacz Stanford Business School
1999 Rui Alburquerque William E. Simon School of Business
1999 Nezih Guner Penn State
1998 John Knowles University of Pennsylvania
1998 Eiichi Miyagawa Columbia University
1997 Yongsung Chang University of Pennsylvania
1997 Joao Gomes Wharton School of Business
1997 Matthew Mitchell University of Minnesota
1997 James Schummer Kellogg School of Business
1996 Mehmet Yorukoglu University of Chicago
1996 Pierre Sarte Federal Reserve Bank at Richmond
1995 Tayfun Sonmez University of Michigan
1995 Mark Dwyer UCLA
1994 Thomas Nechyba Stanford University
1994 Hideo Konishi Southern Methodist University
1993 Lee Ohanian University of Pennsylvania
1993 James Dolmas Southern Methodist University
1992 Sang-Won Lee Indiana University
1992 Baizhu Chen University of Southern California
1991 J. Tomas Sjostrom Harvard University
1991 Miguel Gouveia University of Pennsylvania
1990 Ingrid Werner Stanford University
1990 John Conley University of Illinois
1989 Sergio Rebelo Kellogg School of Business
1989 Alejandro Hernandez University of Wisconsin

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