Economic Research Opportunities at NYUSH

Faculty/Email

Fields of Research

Possible RA Job Description

Adam M. Brandenburgeradam.brandenburger@stern.nyu.edu
  • Game Theory
  • Information Theory
  • Business Strategy
  

Eric Brendan Set ericset@nyu.edu
  • Behavioral and experimental (cheating, persuasion, political economy)
  • Interdisciplinary (esp. brains/genes/bio/psych)

RA Job Description:

Should be able to participate in weekly lab meetings.

May sponsor well-considered student projects, especially involving experiments and improving social welfare.

General problem solving (programming, finding developers, writing, etc.)

Fun: Word2vec or similar experience.

Kyle Chauvinkyle.chauvin@nyu.edu

Topics in Behavioral Economics, Microeconomic Theory, and Market Design

In particular:

  • Biases in Beliefs and Learning
  • Motivated Reasoning
  • Strategic Communication
  • Discrimination
  • Social Networks

RA Job Description:

Responsibilities vary on a case-by-case basis and may include

  • Data cleaning and analysis
  • Literature reviews
  • Proof checking
  • Project design

If interested, email me or come by my office (S803). I’m happy to chat, give general advice, and discuss potential RA arrangements.

Emiliano Catoniniemiliano.catonini@nyu.edu
  • Game Theory
  • Decision Theory
  • Mechanism Design
  • Information Economics

RA Job Description:

An RA would typically help me in the early stage of the research process:

  • defining the research question
  • finding relevant examples and applications
  • reviewing the related literature
  • deriving preliminary findings / solving a beta version of the model  in some special cases.

I would not require proof-reading.

Ye Jin wendyjin@nyu.edu
  • Experimental Game Theory

RA Job Description:

(1) Summaries of literature

(2) Analysis of experimental data

Skills: Python, Stata

Amanda Yu Zhou yz8556@nyu.edu

Industrial Organization

Econometrics/Applied Econometrics

Development Economics

Household Finance/Economics

RA Job Description:

  • Review Literature
  • Data Cleaning
  • Basic Regression Analysis

Skills: Stata or Matlab or R or Python
Office: S834

No research experience required. There is an orientation session before RA work.

Nan Xu nan.xu@nyu.edu

Free Trade Agreement 

Labor market frictions and trade liberalization

RA Job Description:

1. Review literature 

2. Collect data 

Skills: Python, Stata

Ilaf Elard ilaf.elard@nyu.edu
  • Blockchain
  • Cryptocurrencies
  • Bitcoin, Ethereum
  • NFTs
  • FinTech

Apply for a research position:

See Handshake

(Reference number 5560399).

Aleksandar Stojanovicas14902@nyu.edu
  • Institutional Economics
  • Law and Economics
  • Money and Banking
  • Monetary economics
  • China’s financial markets
  • International finance

RA Job Description:

Data collection and empirical analysis of China’s financial markets with a focus on: 

  • Market infrastructure
  • Liquidity provisioning
  • Monetary policy transmission mechanisms
  • RMB internationalization

Sukjoon Lee sukjoon.lee@nyu.edu
  • Macroeconomic theory
  • Applied macroeconomics

RA Job Description:

The main job will be collecting and cleaning data. You will be paid at the standard rate.

Two projects are ongoing:

  • Collecting network data;
  • Collecting institutional data.

More details about the projects will be provided when we meet.

Weiwei Weng ww48@nyu.edu
  • Experimental Investigation of Beliefs and Perception
  • Market Design
  • Applied Game Theory

RA Job Description:

  • Collect information and review literature to help define research questions
  • Search for relevant real-life examples
  • Discuss experimental design
  • Help with pilot experiments
  • Conduct simple statistical analyses, tests, and econometric analyses

Peio Zuazo-Garin peio.zuazo.garin@nyu.edu
  • Game Theory
  • Decision Theory

RA Job Description:

  • Literature review
  • Proof-reading
  • Developing examples

Mariann Ollár mo2639@nyu.edu
  • Robust Mechanism Design
  • Robust Predictions in Game Theory

RA Job Description

A range of tasks are available depending on the student’s interest

  • Creating and Solving simple illustrative problems
  • Literature Review of Economics and/or Mathematical tools
  • Proofreading of Drafts
  • Reading and Presenting recent papers in the research area

Qingyuan Chaiqingyuan.chai@nyu.edu
  • Labor Economics
  • Development Economics

RA Position Description:

I am looking for research assistants to support three ongoing projects: one on the Chinese marriage market, another on generative AI, and a third on elite intergenerational mobility in China.

Possible tasks include:
Reviewing related literature
Collecting and organizing data
Conducting simple data analyses

No prior research experience is required. If you are interested, please email me or stop by my office (S701). I’m happy to meet, share general advice, and explore possible RA opportunities together.