Ali Shourideh
Research
New Papers
Information Disclosure in Matching Markets
with Hugo Hopenhayn and Maryam Saeedi
Coming Soon
Publications
External Financing and the Role of Financial Frictions over the Business Cycle: Measurement and Theory
with Ariel Zetlin-Jones
December 2017, Journal of Monetary Economics, Supplementary Appendix
Optimal Contracting and Dynamic Altruism: Consumption and Family Size
with Roozbeh Hosseini and Larry E. Jones
September 2013, Journal of Economic Theory
Working Papers
Optimal Taxation of Wealthy Individual
with Nick Hoffman
New Version Coming Soon
PhD Students
Over the course of my academic career at Penn and CMU, I have had the privilege of working with several bright PhD students.
Field: Microeconomics, Political Economy
Paper: Populism as Persuasion without Common Knowledge
Current
CMU
Field: Macro
Paper: Differential Impact of AI on workers: A Multi-Factor Approach
Current
CMU
Field: Public Finance, Applied Economics
Paper: Matching and Optimal Taxation
Current
CMU
Field: Environmental, Microeconomics
Paper: A Delegation Approach to Environmental Treaties
Current
CMU
Field: Macroeconomics, Applied Economics
Paper: Saving Policies with Persistent Shocks (with Liyan Shi and me)
Current
CMU
Field: Microeconomics, Media Economics
Paper: Catering to the Bias (with Maryam Saeedi and me)
Current
CMU
Field: Microeconomics, Information Economics
Thesis: Essays on Consumer Information in Online Markets
Current
CMU
Field: Macroeconomics, Public Economics
Thesis: Wealth, Entrepreneurship, and Economic Policy
Current
CMU
Field: Microeconomics, Organizational Economics
Job Market Paper: Hierarchical Bayesian Persuasion: Importance of Vice Presidents
2023
University of Central Florida
CMU
Field: Macroeconomics, Labor Economics
Job Market Paper: Firm-Bias, Skill-Bias, and Wage Inequality
2022
Wake Forest University
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Xuege Zhang
CMU
Field: Macroeconomics, Trade, Urban
Job Market Paper: External Economies of Scale and Place-Based Industrial Policies
2022
IMF​
CMU
Field: Macroeconomics, Trade
Job Market Paper: A Tale of Many Cities: Industrial Networks and Urban Productivity
2019
Amazon​
CMU
Field: Macroeconomics, Labor
Job Market Paper: Technological Advancements and Labor Reallocation
2020
Revelio Labs​
Daniel Wills
UPenn
Field: Macroeconomics, Public Finance
Job Market Paper: Taxing Firms Facing Financial Frictions
2017
Asofondos de Colombia
Resources
A while ago I gave a presentation to our students on research in economics - slides
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AEAs resources on Job Market Preparations - link
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William Thomson's book on how to be an academic economist - link
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You can never spend enough time on writing! Check out the book by Zinser, On Writing Well - link
Coauthors
Nothing is more enjoyable than working with and learning from other smart people. I have been lucky to work with many.
Maryam Saeedi, Carnegie Mellon University
Ariel Zetlin-Jones, Carnegie Mellon University
Alexey Kushnir, Carnegie Mellon University
James Best, Carnegie Mellon University
Liyan Shi, Carnegie Mellon University
Majid Mahzoon, Carnegie Mellon University
Nick Hoffman, Carnegie Mellon University
Yikang Shen, Carnegie Mellon University
Shuoqi Sun, Carnegie Mellon University
Hoang-Anh Nguyen, Carnegie Mellon University
Larry E Jones, University of Minnesota
V. V. Chari, University of Minnesota
Roozbeh Hosseini, University of Georgia
Benjamin Lester, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia
Venky Venkateswaran, New York University
Mikhail Golosov, University of Chicago
Aleh Tsyvinski, Yale University
Alessandro Dovis, University of Pennsylvania
Dan Quigley, University of Oxford
Maryam Farboodi, MIT
Nima Haghpanah, Penn State University
Mostafa Beshkar, Indiana University at Bloomington
Maxim Troshkin, University of Exeter
Teaching
(at CMU)
PhD Classes
​Mechanism Design - Syllabus - Older Page
Microeconomics 3 - Syllabus
Macroeconomics 1 - Syllabus - Older Page
Macroeconomics 2 - Older Page
Macroeconomics 3 - Older Page
Public Economics - Syllabus
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MBA and Undergraduate Classes
Fundamentals of Business - Syllabus
Strategies in Information Markets - Syllabus
Statistical Decision Making - Syllabus
Intermediate Macroeconomics - Syllabus
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