Ph.D. students in the Bendheim Center for Finance are admitted through the Department of
Economics, the Department of Operations Research and Financial Engineering, or the
Program in Applied and Computational Mathematics. Six students with finance interests
received their Ph.D. in 2026.
Nicolas Hommel
“Essays on Corporate
Finance and International
Economics: Global Firms'
Hedging, Invoicing, and
Discounting”
Advisors: Markus
Brunnermeier and
Motohiro Yogo
Joined: MIT Sloan
Giulia Crippa
“A Reassessment of
Sustainable Investing: A
Statistical and
Optimization
Perspective”
Advisor: Ronnie Sircar
Joined: Cornell
University
Jiawei Ge
“Toward Reliable AT:
Statistical Foundations
of Generalization,
Modeling, and
Uncertainty
Quantification”
Advisor: Jinqiang Fan
Joined: UC Berkeley 
Narek Alexanian
“Wage Determination
and its Aggregate
Implications”
Advisors: Moritz Lenel
and Motohiro Yogo
Joined: Princeton
University
Jiwon Lee
“Essays on Financial
Institutions and Capital
Markets”
Advisor: Motohiro Yogo
Joined: Analysis Group 
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PH.D. STUDENTS
Yinan Qiu
“Information, Networks,
and Cross-Border
Financer”
Advisors: Ernest Liu and
Motohiro Yogo
Joined: Peking
University

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