## Recent Finance Faculty Placements

Stern's Finance department has one of the top PhD placement records in the country. The following is a list of where PhD graduates supervised by our faculty members (as chair or co-chair of the PhD committee) have taken faculty positions.

**2017**   Vadim Elenev Johns Hopkins University   Kate Waldock Georgetown University   Davide Tomio University of Virginia   Aaditya Iyer AQR Capital         **2016**   Jim Albertus Carnegie Mellon University   Matteo Crosignani Federal Reserve Board of Governors       **2015**   Bernard Herskovic  University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA)   Xuyang Ma University of Waterloo   Emil Siriwardane Harvard Business School (HBS)   Michael Smolyansky Federal Reserve Board of Governors         **2014**   Diane Pierret HEC Lausanne   Stoyan Stoyanov Berkeley Research Group, LLC   Shaojun Zhang  Hong Kong University       **2013**   Alex Chinco University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   Gabriela Coiculescu Yeshiva University   Hanh Le University of Illinois at Chicago   Jason Levine Congressional Budget Office   Oliver Randall Emory University   Farzad Saidi Judge Business School, University of Cambridge   Erin Smith University of Rochester       **2012**   Justin Birru Ohio State University   Esben Hedegaard Arizona State University   Rustom Irani University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   Or Shachar Federal Reserve Bank of New York   Michelle Zemel Pomona College       **2011**   Christian Brownlees Universitat Pompeu Fabra   Farhang Farazmand Cornerstone Research   Xavier Giroud MIT Sloan   Joan Farre Mensa HBS Entrepreneurship   Andre de Souza Fordham University       **2010**   Jaewon Choi Penn State University   Robert Tumarkin Australian School of Business   Bryan Kelly University of Chicago       **2009**   Lorenzo Naranjo ESSEC   Haejin Chung Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology   Yuanzhi Li Temple University   Rik Sen Hong Kong University of Science and Technology       **2008**   Anh Le UNC Chapel Hill       **2007**   Zheng Sun UC Irvine   Jack Favilukis London School of Economics   Nikolay Halov UC San Diego       **2006**   Walter Boudry University of North Carolina   Prachi Deuskar University of Illinois   Victoria Ivashina Harvard Business School   Jonathan Spitzer University of Virginia       **2005**   Olesya Grishchenko Penn State   Antonios Sangvinatsos University of Southern California   Sinan Tan Fordham University       **2004**   Vinay Nair Wharton   Lei Yu Notre Dame       **2003**   Sreedhar Bharath University of Michigan-Ann Arbor   Paolo Pasquariello University of Michigan-Ann Arbor   Jayanthi Sunder Cornell University       **2002**   Martijn Cremers Yale University   Yiming Qian University of Iowa   Charu G. Raheja Vanderbilt University   David Weinbaum Cornell University

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