Job Market Candidates

2025-2026 Candidates

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Ruolong Xiao

Job Market Paper: "Optimal Disclosure in Electoral Accountability"

Committee: Cesar Martinelli (advisor), Timothy Groseclose, Desiree Desierto

Research Fields: Applied Game Theory, Political Economy, Industrial Organization, Experimental Economics

Teaching Fields: Microeconomic Theory, Game Theory, Political Economy. Industrial Organization

Email: rxiao2@gmu.edu

2024-2025 Candidates

William Hickman

Job Market Paper: "Working for Others - or Not: An Experimental Analysis of Effort Provision in Redistributive Systems"

Committee: Johanna Mollerstrom (advisor), Joy Buchanan, Daniel Houser, Kevin McCabe

Research Fields: Applied Microeconomics, Experimental Economics, Behavioral Economics, Law & Economics, Political Economy, Public Economics, Gender Economics

Teaching Fields: Applied Microeconomics, Environmental Economics, Econometrics, Experimental Economics, Behavioral Economics, Gender Economics

Email: whickma@gmu.edu

Gareth Markel

Job Market Paper: TBD

Committee: Jonathan Beauchamp (advisor), Garett Jones, and Jonathan Schulz

Research Fields: Econometrics, Quantitative Genetics, Applied Microeconomics

Email: gmarkel@gmu.edu