Job Market Candidates 2026/2027

Here are the PhD students and Postdocs from the Department of Economics who are available on the 2026/2027 job market.

Additional information about the candidates can be conveyed by the Placement Directors: Sampreet Goraya, sampreet.goraya@hhs.se and Patrick Agte, patrick.agte@hhs.se

Johan Callermo
Job Market Paper: Legal Uncertainty in European Merger Control
CV · Web · Email
Fields: Industrial Organization, Institutional and Organizational Economics
References: Richard Friberg (Supervisor) (SSE), Tore Ellingsen (SSE), Jesper Roine (SITE)

Manuel Rosa Cruz
Job Market Paper: Who benefits from firm investment support? Evidence from Portugal's EU Cohesion Policy
CV · Web: To be added soon · Email
Fields: Labor Economics; Firm Dynamics
References: David Domeij (SSE), Johanna Wallenius (SSE), Álvaro Jañez Garcia (SSE)

Shan Huang
Job Market Paper: The Price of Pace: How Quantity Incentives Reshape Physician Effort and Its Externalities
CV · Web · Email
Fields: Health Economics, Labor Economics, Behavioral Economics
References: Amanda Dahlstrand (University of Zurich), Guy Michaels (London School of Economics), Hannes Ullrich (University of Copenhagen)

Akib Khan
Job Market Paper: Residency Prospects and Skilled Immigration
CV · Web · Email
Fields: Economics of migration, development economics
References: Niklas Bengtsson (Uppsala U), Olof Åslund (Uppsala U), Jonathan de Quidt (Queen Mary University of London)

Dominik Wehr
Job Market Paper: TBA
CV: TBA · Web · Email
Fields: Labor Economics
References: TBA

Yifan Yang
Job Market Paper: Effects of Switching Costs on Learning
CV · Web · Email
Fields: Behavioral Economics, Meta Analysis
References: Anna Dreber Almenberg (SSE), Magnus Johannesson (SSE), Joakim Jansson (LNU)