Teachers

I studyed economics at Stanford. I am most grateful to my thesis advisor, Paul Milgrom, for his help, support and guidance. At Stanford, I took classes in industrial organization from Tim Bresnahan and Roger Noll. The second member of my thesis committee was Mike Riordan. While I did not take any class from him, I learned a lot from Mike, some of which in the process of writing papers together. My decision to apply to Stanford was greatly influenced by the example and encouragement of Antonio Borges and Diogo Lucena, who were my teachers in Lisbon (and themselves Stanford graduates).

To all of you, thank you.

My Erdos number is a lousy 5. Alternative paths (courtesy of MATHSCINET) include:
1. Mike Riordan > David Sappington > Arup Bose > Gutti Jogesh Babu > Paul Erdős
2. Axel Anderson > Lones Smith > Kenneth Williams > John Chalk > Paul Erdős
3. Andy Schotter > Roy Radner > Yitzhak Katznelson > Vitaly Bergelson > Paul Erdős
Any number 3 or better willing to work together: send me a note!

Here's my academic tree (advisor, advisor's advisor, etc), courtesy of the Mathematics Genealogy Project. Very proud (and somewhat embarrassed) that my "ancestors" list includes Hilbert, Poisson, Fourier, Lagrange, Laplace, Euler, d'Alambert, Bernoulli, and (OMG!) my (advisor)^11 and greatest hero Carl Friedrich Gauss.

Doctoral advisees (first and/or current job)

1. Pedro Pita Barros (Nova, 1993), Professor, Universidade Nova de Lisboa
2. Margarida Catalão Lopes (Nova, 1999), Associate Professor, I.S.T., Technical University of Lisbon
3. Tobias Kretschmer (LBS, 2001), Professor, University of Munich
4. Flavio Toxvaerd (LBS, 2002), Professor, University of Cambridge
5. Cristian Dezso (NYU Stern, 2006), Professor, University of Maryland
6. Ali Yurukoglu (NYU Stern, 2009; co-chair with Ariel Pakes), Professor, Stanford University
7. Anna Ingster (NYU GSAS, 2010), Economics Instructor, Auburn University
8. Hong Luo (NYU Stern, 2011), Associate Professor, U Toronto (first job at HBS)
9. Lai Jiang (NYU Stern, 2012; co-chair with John Asker), Senior Data Scientist, Apple (first job at University of British Columbia)
10. Yunok Cho (NYU Stern, 2014), Assistant Professor, Southern Methodist University
11. Sandy Yu (NYU Stern, 2015; co-chair with Adam Brandenburger), Assistant Professor, University of Minnesota
12. Jihye Jeon (NYU Stern, 2017; co-chair with Ariel Pakes), Assistant Professor, Boston University
13. Sonia Gilbukh (NYU Stern, 2018), Assistant Professor, Baruch College
14. Tommaso Bondi (NYU Stern, 2020), Assistant Professor, Cornell University
15. Weichen Yan (NYU GSAS, 2020; co-chair with Quang Vuong), Economist, Amazon
16. German Gutierrez (NYU Stern, 2022; co-chair with Thomas Philippon), Assistant Professor, University of Washington
17. Kazimier Smith (NYU Stern, 2025), Post-Doc, MIT

Doctoral students (not primary advisor)

1. Alessandro Gavazza (NYU GSAS, 2005), Professor, LSE
2. Giovanni Serio (NYU GSAS, 2006), Economist, Goldman Sachs, London
3. Martin Paredes (NYU GSAS, 2007), Professor, Universidad de Piura (Peru)
4. Ashton Hawk (NYU Stern, 2009), Assistant Professor, U Colorado at Boulder (previously Ohio State U)
5. Selvin Akkus-Clemens (NYU Stern, 2013), Economist, US SEC
6. Krzysztof Wozniak (NYU Stern, 2013), Section Chief, Payment System Studies, Federal Reserve Board
7. Vivian Figer (NYU GSAS, 2014), Researcher at FGV CERI
8. Malika Krishna (NYU Stern, 2016), Economist, Department of Justice Antitrust Division
9. Lei Xu (McGill, 2016), Senior Economist, Bank of Canada
10. Peifan Wu (NYU Stern, 2019), Postdoctoral Fellow, Vancouver School of Economics
11. Fiona Feng (NYU Stern, 2019), Data Scientist, Enigma Technologies
12. Bang Nguyen (NYU Stern, 2020), Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Bayreuth
13. Dmitry Sorokin (NYU GSAS, 2021), Economist, Upwork
14. Lena Song (NYU GSAS, 2022), Assistant Professor, U Illinois Urbana-Champaign
15. Anna Airoldi (NYU Stern, 2023), Economist, Revelio Labs
16. Chitra Marti (NYU Stern, 2025), Associate Consultant, Cornerstone Research
17. Chiara Gardenghi (NYU Stern, 2025), Post-Doc, U Rochester

External examiner

1. Paul Povel (LSE, 1998), Professor, University of Houston (previously at Minnesota)
2. Vasco Rodrigues (Catolica, 2002), Associate Professor, Universidade Catolica do Porto
3. Helder Vasconcelos (European University Institute, 2002), Professor, Universidade do Porto (previously at Bocconi)
4. Jeanine Miklos-Thal (Toulouse, 2006), Associate Professor, University of Rochester (previously at Mannheim)
5. Joao Montez (Lausanne, 2007), Assistant Professor, HEC Lausanne (previously, Columbia and LBS)
6. Thomas Fagart (PSE, 2016), Post-Doc, University of Cergy-Pontoise
7. Paul Hünermund (KU Leuven, 2017), Assistant Professor, Maastricht University SBE

MSQE students

In 2022, the NYU economics departments of GSAS and Stern jointly started a MS in Quantitative Economics. Here is the list of students who worked as my research assistants and for whom I wrote recommendation letters:

1. Dev Gupta (2023), PhD program, NYU Stern
2. Junrui Lin (2023), PhD program, U Texas - Austin
3. Shucheng Liao (2024), PhD program, Johns Hopkins U
4. Jiayi Chen (2024), PhD program, Penn State U
5. Yangchen Liu (2024), PhD program, Rice U
6. Gaurav Choudhary (2025), Pre-doc, Columbia U