People
Affiliated Faculty
Michael Woodford
John Bates Clark Professor of Political Economy, Columbia University
Areas of Interest: Endogenous Allocation of Attention, Dynamic Models of Evidence Accumulation and Choice, Statistical Inference as a Source of Behavioral Biases
Mark Dean
Professor of Economics, Columbia University
Areas of Interest: Neuroscience and Economics, Microeconomic Theory, Behavioral Economics, Experimental
Hassan Afrouzi
Associate Professor of Economics (without tenure), Columbia University
Areas of Interest: Expectation Formation, Endogenous Allocation of Attention, and the Macroeconomic Implications of Imperfect Information
Affiliated Researchers
Ph.D. Students
Alumni
Former Post Doctoral Research Scholars
- Arthur Prat-Carrabin – Post Doctoral Fellow at Harvard University
- Brandon Ashinoff – Data Scientist at Tetricus Labs
- Mel Win Khaw – Post Doctoral Fellow at Duke University
Former Ph.D. Students
- Lucas de Lara – 2025 Ph.D. in Economics. Placement: Assistant Professor, SUNY Binghamton
- Edward Peter Shore – 2024 Ph.D. in Economics. Placement: Assistant Professor, University of New South Wales
- Susannah Scanlan – 2024 Ph.D. in Economics. Placement: Capital Fund Management
- Shin Oblander – 2024 Ph.D. in Marketing. Placement: Assistant Professor, University of British Columbia
- Yeji Sung – 2023 Ph.D. in Economics. Placement: Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
- Bruno de Albuquerque Furtado – 2023 Ph.D. in Economics. Placement: Postdoctoral Research Assistant, Royal Holloway University of London
- Guy Aridor – 2022 Ph.D. in Economics. Placement: Kellogg School of Management
- Silvio Ravaioli – 2022 Ph.D. in Economics. Placement: Cornerstone Research
- Teresa Esteban-Casanelles – 2021 Ph.D. in Economics. Placement: J-Pal Governance Initiative in 2021/King's College starting in 2022
- Duarte Goncalves – 2021 Ph.D. in Economics. Placement: University College London
- Dilip Ravindran – 2021 Ph.D. in Economics. Placement: Postdoctoral Researcher at Berlin School of Economics
- Evan Friedman – 2020 Ph.D. in Economics. Placement: University of Essex
- Han Huynh – 2020 Ph.D. in Economics. Placement: Bates White
- RC Lim – 2020 Ph.D. in Economics. Placement: Antai, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
- Oskar Zorrilla – 2019 Ph.D. in Economics. Placement: United States Naval Academy
- Nate Neligh – 2018 Ph.D. in Economics. Placement: Post Doctoral Fellow at Chapman University (now University of Tennessee)
- Ambuj Dewan – 2017 Ph.D. in Economics. Placement: Post Doctoral Fellow at University of Southern California
- Valentin Somma – 2017 Ph.D. in Economics. Placement: Boston Consulting Group
- Pablo Egana del Sol – 2016 Ph.D. in Sustainable Development. Placement: Post Doctoral Fellow at MIT
Former Undergraduate Students
- Fahad Algifari – School of General Studies 2023. Placement: Pre-Doctoral program at the University of Pennsylvania
- Sarah Wang – Columbia College 2024. Placement: Pre-Doctoral program at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York
- Justinas Grigaitis – School of General Studies 2019. Placement: NERA Economic Consulting
- Ziang Li – Visiting Student 2016-2017; Pre-doctoral Researcher 2017-2018. Placement: Ph.D. program at Princeton University
- Shambhavi Tiwari – Columbia College 2018. Placement: Pre-Doctoral program at Stanford University
- Luis Sanchez – Columbia College 2017. Placement: Ph.D. program at Cornell University
- Adriano Fernandes – Columbia College 2016. Placement: Ph.D. program at Harvard University
- Omeed Maghzian – Columbia College 2016. Placement: Ph.D. program at Harvard University