Faculty Profiles

Wifag Adnan, Associate Professor of Economics Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: wa22@nyu.edu
Education: BS Duke University (magna cum laude with distinction); PhD Princeton University

Research Interests: Labor markets; Job search; Employment; Wage differentials; Female labor force; Education

Robert Allen, Visiting Global Distinguished Professor of Economic History Affiliation: Visiting
Email: bob.allen@nyu.edu
Education: BA Carleton College, MA and PhD Harvard Univesity

Research Interests: Economic History, Technological Change, Public Policy

Mounther Barakat, Professor of Practice of Finance Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: Mounther.Barakat@nyu.edu
Education: PhD Oklahoma State University

Research Interests: Financial Markets; Securities; Corporate Finance, Derivatives; Event Studies; Agency Theory; Investm...

Andrzej Baranski, Associate Professor of Economics; Director of the Social Science Experimental Laboratory (SSEL) Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: a.baranski@nyu.edu
Education: BA Universidad de Costa Rica; MA and PhD The Ohio State University

Research Interests: Game Theory, Experimental Economics

Shivangi Bishnoi, Associate Instructor of Economics Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: shivangi.bishnoi@nyu.edu
Education: BA (Hons.) University of Delhi; MA Delhi School of Economics; M2 APE Paris School of Economics; MSc ...

Research Interests: Applied Microeconometrics, Public Policy, Climate Change

David Blakeslee, Associate Professor of Economics Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: dsb12@nyu.edu
Education: PhD, Columbia University

Research Interests: Political economy of development

Olivier Bochet, Professor of Economics, NYU Abu Dhabi; Global Network Professor of Economics, Faculty of Arts and Science, NYU; Co-Principal Investigator of Center for Behavioral Institutional Design (C-BID) Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: ob16@nyu.edu
Education: PhD Brown University

Research Interests: Incentives; Efficiency; Equity

Barthélémy Bonadio, Assistant Professor of Economics Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: bbonadio@nyu.edu
Education: PhD University of Michigan

Research Interests: International Economics

Konstantinos Chountas, Associate Instructor of Social Science Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: kc4864@nyu.edu
Education: BA in Economics, University of Essex: MA in Economics and Finance, Univeristy of Bath; MA in Economi...

Alessandro Citanna, Professor of Economics, NYU Abu Dhabi; Global Network Professor of Economics, Faculty of Arts and Science, NYU Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: ac6609@nyu.edu
Education: BA Bocconi University; MA Bocconi University; PhD University of Pennsylvania

Research Interests: Economic theory; Quantitative methods; Financial economics; Macroeconomics

Pauline Zélia Eugénie Corblet, Assistant Professor of Economics Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: pauline.corblet@nyu.edu
Education: BA Sorbonne Université - Sciences Po; MA Sorbonne Université - Sciences Po; PhD Sciences Po

Research Interests: Labor economics; education; matching theory

Valentina Corradi, Professor of Economics Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: vc2718@nyu.edu
Education: PhD University of California San Diego

Research Interests: Penalized Regression, Sparsity, Joint Exceedance, Sorting, Bootstrap

Hervé Crès, Professor of Economics, NYU Abu Dhabi; Global Network Professor of Economics, Faculty of Arts and Science, NYU Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: hc59@nyu.edu

Research Interests: General equilibrium theory, Social choice theory, Formal political theory

Aurelie Dariel, Adjunct Associate Professor of Economics; Research Scientist Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: apd5@nyu.edu
Education: PhD Maastricht University, The Netherlands

Research Interests: Behavioral economics, experimental economics, labor economics, gender

Giovanni Federico, Professor of Economic History Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: giovanni.federico@nyu.edu
Education: Laurea University of Pisa; PhD Scuola Normale Superiore (Pisa)

Research Interests: Trade and Globalization; Agriculture; Long-term Population Growth

Torsten Figueiredo Walter, Assistant Professor of Economics Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: t.f.walter@nyu.edu
Education: BSc Bonn University; MRes London School of Economics; PhD London School of Economics

Research Interests: Development Economics

Amit Goyal, Instructor of Social Science Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: amit.goyal@nyu.edu
Education: BA(H) Economics, University of Delhi; MA (Economics), Delhi School of Economics

Research Interests: Microeconomic theory

Christian Haefke, Professor of Economics Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: ch109@nyu.edu
Education: Mag.rer.soc.oec, Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration; Diploma, Institute for ...

Research Interests: Labor markets; Applied econometrics

Naima Hafeez, Instructor of Social Science Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: naima.hafeez@nyu.edu
Education: MPhil in Economics, University of Oxford

Research Interests: Development Economics, Gender Economics, Econometrics

Subhadeep Halder, Assistant Instructor of Social Science Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: sh7991@nyu.edu
Education: BA(H) Economics, Delhi University; MA Economics, Delhi School of Economics; PhD Candidate Indian Sta...

Research Interests: Macro-finance, financial intermediation, sovereign debt

John Ham, Professor of Economics, NYU Abu Dhabi; Global Network Professor of Economics, NYU Wagner School of Public Service Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: jch18@nyu.edu
Education: BA from the University of Toronto; PhD Princeton University

Research Interests: Applied microeconomics; Labor; Health; Experimental economics

Morgan Hardy, Associate Professor of Economics Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: morgan.hardy@nyu.edu
Education: BA Columbia University; PhD Brown University

Research Interests: Development economics; Firms; Labor markets; Social networks

Jean M Imbs, Professor of Economics, NYU Abu Dhabi; Global Network Professor of Economics, Faculty of Arts and Science, NYU Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: jmi5@nyu.edu
Education: PhD New York University

Research Interests: Macroeconomics, International Finance and Macroeconomics, International Trade

Nidhi Jain, Instructor of Social Science Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: nidhi.jain@nyu.edu
Education: BA(H) Economics, Delhi University; MA Economics, Delhi School of Economics

Research Interests: Microeconomic theory

Abdul Kidwai, Instructor of Social Science Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: abdul.kidwai@nyu.edu
Education: BA Aligarh Muslim University; MA Tata Institute of Social Sciences; PhD University of Massachusetts ...

Research Interests: Experimental Economics; Social Dilemmas; Risk and Uncertainty

Aikaterini Kyriazidou, Professor of Economics Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: ak7482@nyu.edu
Education: BA University of Athens; MA Northwestern University; PhD Northwestern University

Research Interests: Econometrics; Applied economics

Shuo Liu, Visiting Associate Professor of Economics Affiliation: Visiting
Email: sl4015@nyu.edu
Education: BA Shenzhen University; MA Toulouse School of Economics; PhD University of Zurich

Research Interests: Information Economics; Organizational Economics; Behavioral Economics; Game Theory

Paul Max Love III, Instructor of Social Science Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: love.paul@nyu.edu
Education: BA University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; MIS North Carolina State University; PhD University ...

Research Interests: European Union; common security and defence policy; European strategic autonomy; strategic culture; ...

Samreen Malik, Associate Dean of Faculty Affairs; Associate Professor of Economics Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: samreen.malik@nyu.edu
Education: MA Cornell University; PhD Cornell University

Research Interests: Applied micro, Development, Macroeconomics

Alais Martin-Baillon, Assistant Professor of Economics Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: alais.martin.baillon@nyu.edu
Education: PhD SciencesPo

Research Interests: Macroeconomic; firm dynamics

Maximilian Mihm, Associate Dean of Graduate Programs and Societal Impact; Associate Program Head of Economics; Associate Professor of Economics Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: mm5826@nyu.edu

Research Interests: Economics of information and uncertainty

Pranav Mimani, Assistant Instructor of Social Science Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: pranav.mimani@nyu.edu
Education: MA Delhi School of Economics; MRes European University Institute; PhD Candidate European University ...

Research Interests: Labor economics; macroeconomics; expectation formation

Jyothi Nair, Instructor of Social Science Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: jyothi.nair@nyu.edu
Education: BA Asian University for Women

Research Interests: Development Economics; Theoretical and Applied Statistics

Saba Najeeb, Instructor of Social Science Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: saba.najeeb@nyu.edu
Education: MSc, New York University

Research Interests: Development Economics

Veda Binod Narasimhan, Assistant Professor of Economics Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: veda.narasimhan@nyu.edu
Education: PhD University of Zurich; MSc London School of Economics; BA McGill University

Research Interests: Rural development; political economy and institutions; migration and urbanisation

Nikos Nikiforakis, Professor of Economics, NYU Abu Dhabi; Global Network Professor of Economics, Faculty of Arts and Science, NYU; Director of the Center for Behavioral Institutional Design (C-BID) Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: nikos.nikiforakis@nyu.edu

Research Interests: Experimental Economics, Behavioral Economics, Public Economics

Jordan Norris, Assistant Professor of Economics Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: jjnorris@nyu.edu
Education: BA/MSci University of Cambridge; MA/PhD Northwestern University

Research Interests: Spatial Economics; International Trade; Macroeconomics; Networks

Yaw Nyarko, Professor of Economics Affiliation: NYU New York
Email: yn1@nyu.edu
Education: BA University of Ghana; MA and PhD Cornell University

Research Interests: Human capital; Economic growth

Ernesto Reuben, Program Head of Business, Organizations and Society; Professor of Economics and Business, Organizations and Society, NYU Abu Dhabi; Global Network Professor of Economics and Business, Organizations and Society, Faculty of Arts and Science - Economics, NYU; Co-Principal Investigator of Center for Behavioral Institutional Design (C-BID) Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: ereuben@nyu.edu
Education: BA University of Maryland; MPhil Tinbergen Institute; PhD University of Amsterdam

Research Interests: Determinants of labor-market outcomes; Social norms; Gender; Stereotypes; Behavioral Public Policy

Luis E. Rojas, Visiting Assistant Professor of Economics Affiliation: Visiting
Email: ler6972@nyu.edu
Education: PhD European University Institute

Research Interests: Macroeconomic policy; optimal taxation; monetary policy

Pauline Rutsaert, Associate Professor of Practice of Economics Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: pauline.rutsaert@nyu.edu
Education: MA Université Catholique de Louvain (Belgium); PhD Cornell University (USA)

Research Interests: Industrial Organisation; Competition and Regulation; Industrial and Strategic Trade Policy; Innovati...

Raul Santaeulalia-Llopis, Associate Professor of Economics Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: rs8561@nyu.edu
Education: BA Valencia; MSc University College London; PhD University of Pennsylvania

Research Interests: Inequality, Intellectual Property Products and the Macroeconomy; Social Insurance, Resource Misalloc...

Nidhi Tiwari, Instructor of Social Science Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: nt2212@nyu.edu
Education: BA Hons Economics, Delhi University; MA Economics, Delhi School of Economics

Research Interests: Behavioral economics, public policy

Karol Jan Tolpa, Associate Instructor of Social Science Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: karol.tolpa@nyu.edu
Education: BA Economics The University of Manchester; MSc Economics New York University Abu Dhabi

Research Interests: Macroeconomics; Dynamical Systems; Energy Modelling; Pedagogy; Climate Change; Economic Growth

Zheng Wang, Assistant Professor of Economics Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: zw966@nyu.edu
Education: PhD European University Institute; MSc London School of Economics

Research Interests: Econometrics; networks; peer effects

Etienne Wasmer, Program Head of Economics; Professor of Economics, NYU Abu Dhabi; Global Network Professor of Economics, Faculty of Arts and Science, NYU Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: ew1555@nyu.edu
Education: Ecole Polytechnique (BSc), Département et Laboratoire d'Economie Théorique et Appliquée (DELTA) (MA)...

Research Interests: Labor Economics; Macroeconomics; Search Theory; Urban Economics

John Wooders, Professor of Economics, NYU Abu Dhabi; Global Network Professor of Economics, Faculty of Arts and Science, NYU; Co-Director of Center for Behavioral Institutional Design (C-BID) Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: jw4725@nyu.edu
Education: BS University of Toronto; PhD Cornell University

Research Interests: Microeconomic Theory, Experimental Economics

Zhuo Xi, Instructor of Social Science Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: zx231@nyu.edu
Education: BS NYU Tandon; MS New York University; PhD The Graduate Center, CUNY

Research Interests: Financial markets; US and China