Job market candidates
2025/26
Placement officer: Marco Manacorda
Chiara Bernardi

Primary Research Focus:
Labor Economics
Secondary Research Focus:
Productivity and Technology
References:
Anna Raute, Sang Yoon (Tim) Lee
Job Market Paper:
Working From Home and Sorting of Female and Male Workers
Email: c.bernardi@qmul.ac.uk
Website: https://chiara-bernardi.github.io/
Paula Belen Cesana

Primary Research Focus:
Labor Economics
Secondary Research Focus:
Economic Growth and Development
References:
Sang Yoon (Tim) Lee, Xavier Mateos-Planas
Job Market Paper:
Intergenerational Mobility in the Presence of Informal Labor Markets
Email: p.b.cesana@qmul.ac.uk
Website: https://paulacesana.github.io/
Gabriel Chaves Bosch

Primary Research Focus:
Labour Economics
Secondary Research Focus:
Public Economics, Urban Economics
References:
François Gerard, Simon Franklin, Marco Manacorda, Cem Özgüzel
Job Market Paper:
Creating Opportunity: The Impact of Immigration on Native Entrepreneurship
Email: g.chavesbosch@qmul.ac.uk
Website: https://sites.google.com/view/gabrielchavesbosch
Tallon Howie
Primary Research Focus:
Innovation, Macroeconomics, Public Policy
Secondary Research Focus:
Market Power, Firm Dynamics
References:
Job Market Paper:
Who Should Own Government-Sponsored Inventions?
Email: t.t.howie@qmul.ac.uk
Website: www.tallonhowie.com
Antonio José León Fernandez

Primary Research Focus:
Development, Political Economy
Secondary Research Focus:
Labor Economics, Public Economics
References:
Marco Manacorda, Andrea Tesei, Felipe González, Oliver Vanden Eynde
Job Market Paper:
Formal Jobs and the Cultural Right
Email: a.leonfernandez@qmul.ac.uk
Website: https://sites.google.com/view/antonio-leon/home
Fereshteh Mohseninejad

Primary Research Focus:
Behavioural Decision Theory, Stochastic Choice and Random Utility
Secondary Research Focus:
Microeconomics
References:
Marco Mariotti, Christopher Tyson, Kevin Reffett
Job Market Paper:
Randomly Attentive Collective Household Model with Reciprocal Influence
Email: f.mohseninejad@qmul.ac.uk
Website: www.fereshtehmohseninejad.com
Seyed Mojtaba Mousavi

Primary Research Focus:
Empirical Asset Pricing, Climate Finance, Financial Econometrics
References:
George Skiadopoulos, Ilaria Piatti
Job Market Paper:
Climate Risk and Corporate Bond Returns: Decomposing Firm-Level Risk Using 10-K Filings
Email: s.m.mousavi@qmul.ac.uk
Website: tbc
Andrea Gallo

Primary Research Focus:
Microeconomic Theory, Game Theory
References:
Alp Atakan, Jan Knoepfle, Francesco De Sinopoli, Claudia Meroni
Job Market Paper:
Sequential Peer Pressure Games
Email: a.gallo@qmul.ac.uk
Website: https://sites.google.com/view/andreagallo/home
Viola Salvestrini

Primary Research Focus:
Labor Economics, Personnel Economics
Secondary Research Focus:
Gender Economics, Entrepreneurship
References:
François Gerard, Anna Raute, Andrea Ichino, Paola Profeta
Job Market Paper:
Gender diversity and decision-making in teams
Email: v.salvestrini@qmul.ac.uk; viola.salvestrini@unibocconi.it
Website: https://violasalvestrini.weebly.com/