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Placement

The department assists students, both financial and practically, to prepare and distribute job market materials to potential employers. We have an excellent record of placing students with leading research universities, liberal arts colleges, government agencies and the private sector. Each year we graduate about fifteen new Ph.D.s.

Listed below is the initial placement for all 152 of our graduates receiving a Ph.D. in the ten years between 2002 and 2011. The unemployment rate was 0%. For academic positions, appointment is in an Economics Department except where indicated.

North American Research Universities
Boston University (2)
California Institute of Technology
Carnegie-Mellon University
College of William and Mary
Cornell University (3)
Duke University (4)
East Carolina University
Harvard Business School
Harvard University
McGill University
Michigan State University
Middle Tennessee State University
New York University (2)
New York University (Stern School) (3)
North Carolina State University
Northwestern University (Business School)
Pennsylvania State University
Princeton University
Rice University
Stanford University (2)
State University of New York, Albany
University of British Columbia (4)
University of British Columbia (Business School)
University of California, Berkeley
University of California, San Diego
University of Chicago
University of Cincinnati
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (2)
University of Maryland
University of Michigan (2)
University of Minnesota
University of Minnesota (Business School) (2)
University of Montreal (Business School)
University of North Carolina
University of Notre Dame
University of Pennsylvania (2)
University of Rochester (Business School)
University of Southern Florida
University of Tennessee
University of Texas, Austin (3)
University of Texas, Dallas
University of Toronto
University of Toronto (Business School)
University of Western Ontario (2)
Virginia Tech University
Wayne State University

North American Liberal Arts Colleges
Bowdoin College
Carleton College
Colby College
Knox College
Middlebury College
Reed College
Swarthmore College

International Universities
Aarhus University, Denmark
Ben-Gurion University, Israel
Bocconi University, Italy
Bosphorus University, Turkey
Chinese University of Hong Kong (2)
City University of Hong Kong
Collegio Carlo Alberto, Turin, Italy
European University Institute, Italy
Free University of Balzano, Italy
IMT Lucca Institute for Advanced Studies, Italy
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Germany
London School of Economics
National Taiwan University
National University of Singapore (2)
Royal Holloway College, United Kingdom
St Gallen University, Switzerland
Chinese University of Hong Kong
Tilburg University, Netherlands
Universidad Nueva de Lisboa, Portugal (2)
Universidad Pompeu i Fabra, Spain
Université de Toulouse
University College London
University of Haifa, Israel
University of Luxembourg (Business School)
University of New South Wales, Australia
University of Oxford
University of Salerno, Italy
University of Southampton, United Kingdom
Uppsala University, Sweden
Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand (2)
Yokohama City University, Japan

Government
Bank of Canada
Bank of Japan
Central Bank of Chile
Einaudi Institute, Bank of Italy
Federal Reserve Bank Board of Governors (6)
Federal Reserve Bank of New York (2)
Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis
Federal Trade Commission
International Monetary Fund (2)
U.S. Congressional Budget Office (2)
U.S. Department of Justice (2)
U.S. Department of the Treasury
U.S. Federal Communications Commission
World Bank

Private Industry and Consulting
Acumen LLC, San Francisco
Barclays Global Investors, San Francisco
Bates White, Washington DC (4)
Cambridge Group, Chicago
Compass Lexecon, Chicago (2)
Cornerstone Research, Boston (2)
Criterion Economics, Washington DC
Deloitte, Transfer Pricing Practice, Chicago
Goldman Sachs, New York City
PJM Interconnection, Norristown PA
Lehman Brothers, New York City (2)
McKinsey and Company, Minneapolis
McKinsey and Company, Moscow, Russia
PIMCO, Newport Beach CA (2)
PriceWaterhouseCoopers, Chicago