Celebrating the success of Stone Centre PhD Scholars in the job market

We're delighted to hear of our PhD scholars achieving great things in the job market.

Our 2024/2025 PhDs Brian Amorim Cabaço, Javier Boncompte Guarda, and Eric Klemm are all about to take the next step in their careers:

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Brian will be taking an Assistant Professor job at the European University Institute.

Javier Boncompte Guarda will be taking an Assistant Professor job at Universidad de los Andes in Chile.

Eric Klemm will continue his links with the Stone Centre via a post-doc at UBC, followed by an Assistant Professor job at University of Hong Kong Business School. He's also working on a Doing Economics project for our friends at CORE Econ.

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We reached out to congratulate them and to find out more about their future plans:

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Brian: "At the European University Institute, I will continue my research on competition policy, corporate concentration, and market power, with a focus on how these forces shape macroeconomic outcomes. Building on my research on the macroeconomic effects of mergers and acquisitions, I am interested in studying the distributional consequences of corporate consolidation and the links between market power and wages."

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Javier: "I am thrilled to be joining Universidad de los Andes in Chile as an Assistant Professor. This new chapter will allow me to continue studying how firms respond to market frictions and policy interventions, and how their decisions shape markets, innovation, and the goods and services that affect people’s daily lives.

I have always been interested in firms not simply as businesses, but as key actors in the economy whose decisions define the way people interact in the economy and help determine whether policies succeed in practice. At Universidad de los Andes, I will have the opportunity to continue developing this research agenda in an academic environment committed to rigorous analysis, applied research, and public relevance.

‍I am also excited for the opportunity to teach undergraduate and master’s courses, teaching students how to use data, theory, and evidence to think clearly about some of today’s most important challenges. In the classroom, my goal is to show that economics is not only an academic discipline, but also a practical and powerful way to understand the world and help people navigate its rapid changes.

I am grateful for the opportunity to begin this new stage of my career and to contribute to the vibrant academic community at Universidad de los Andes."

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Eric: "I'm really excited to be joining the UBC Stone Centre as a Postdoctoral Fellow this autumn, and then University of Hong Kong Business School as an Assistant Professor next year. I believe inequality is among the defining economic questions of our time, and I feel very fortunate to be able to keep working on it in such a supportive network. I'm also looking forward to continuing my work with CORE Econ on an educational resource on inequality. I am deeply grateful to Wendy, Imran, and the whole UCL Stone Centre team for their support during my time as a Stone Centre PhD Scholar — I'm looking forward to contributing to the wider Stone Centre mission in this next chapter."

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Check out Javier's work on the CORE inflation tool.

Discover CORE's Doing Economics.