Ph.D. Students on the Job Market

Our students will be available for interviews at the 2010 AFA meetings in Atlanta, Georgia. Their references, whose email and telephone numbers are listed below, will be happy to discuss their progress should you wish a more detailed assessment of their research and scholarly potential.

Andrew Abel	Itay Goldstein	Susan Collins	3620 Locust Walk, 2413 SH-DH
Coordinator PhD Program	Co-Director of PhD Placement	Staff Assistant	Philadelphia, PA 19104-6367
Office Phone: 215-898-4801	Office Phone: 215-746-0499	Office Phone: 215-898-1118	Fax: 215-573-9419

Student	Job Market Paper	Research Interests	References
Indraneel Chakraborty CV/Abstract Website Cell Phone: 312-208-1283	"Investment and Financing Under Reverse Asset Distribution"	• Corporate Finance • Financial Intermediation • Capital Structure & Investment • Applied Econometrics • Contract Theory • Small Business & Entrepreneurship	David Musto, Chair, 215-898-4239 Franklin Allen, Co-Chair, 215-898-3629 Joao F. Gomes, 215-898-3666 A. Craig MacKinlay, 215-898-5309 David S. Scharfstein (HBS) 617-496-5067
Nickolay Gantchev CV/Abstract Website Cell Phone: 215-837-8288	"The Costs of Activist Monitoring: Evidence from a Sequential Decision Model"	• Corporate Finance • Corporate Governance • Entrepreneurial Finance • Financial Intermediation • Private Equity and Venture Capital • Shareholder Activism	Luke Taylor, Chair, 215-898-4802 Franklin Allen, 215-898-3629 Itay Goldstein, 215-898-0499
Edith Liu CV/Abstract Website Cell Phone: 267-304-6262	"Corporate Bonds and International Portfolio Allocation"	• Empirical Asset Pricing • International Finance and Macroeconomics • Portfolio Diversification and Risk Sharing	Karen Lewis, Chair, 609-258-8531 Frank X. Diebold, 215-898-1507 Urban Jermann, 215-898-4184 A. Craig MacKinlay, 215-898-5309
Marcelo Verdini Maia CV/Abstract Website Cell Phone: 215-917-7542	"On the Relation Between Financial Leverage and Stock Returns"	• Empirical Asset Pricing • Empirical Corporate Finance • Corporate Investments and Asset Prices • Dynamic Capital Structure • Financial Econometrics	Joao F. Gomes, Chair, 215-898-3666 Donald Keim, 215-898-7685 Dana Kiku, 215-898-1198
Michael Michaux CV/Abstract Website Cell Phone: 404-518-4958	"Pass-Through, Exposure, and the Currency Composition of Debt"	• Corporate Finance • Dynamic Contracting • International Finance	Joao F. Gomes, Chair, 215-898-3666 Andrew Abel, 215-898-4801 Urban Jermann, 215-898-4184

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