Department of Economics

2026 Job Market Candidates

We are excited to present Ghent University’s Econ job market candidates for the current academic year. Placement coordinators are Yasin Kürşat Önder and Luis Rocha.

Detailed information about the candidates and their references is readily available upon request. Send your mail to info.eb21@ugent.be.

Yunyue Chen Yunyue Chen

Household finance

Banking

Credit

Haotian Deng Haotian Deng

Labor Economics

Public Economics

Causal Inference

Personal webpage
Levent Gumus CV Levent Gumus

Microeconomics

Neuroeconomics

Cognitive Science

Behavioral and Experimental Economics

Personal webpage
Nikolaos Koutounidis Nikolaos Koutounidis

Empirical Macroeconomics

Household Economics & Finance

Energy Economics (Oil & Gas)

Regional Economics

Personal webpage
Marta Maria Pisa Marta Maria Pisa

Empirical Macroeconomics
Climate Economics
Energy Economics (Gas & Electricity)
Weather Variability and Commodity Markets (Gas and Food)

Personal webpage
Pablo Vicente Pastor Y Camarasa Pablo Pastor

Behavioral Banking

Behavioral Macroeconomics

Network Economics

Personal webpage
Jilong Wu Jilong Wu

Cognitive economics

Behavioral economics

Experimental economics

Risk and ambiguity attitudes

Personal webpage

 

2025 Placement Results

Lara Coulier – European Central Bank (Economics Graduate Programme Participant)

Mathieu Simoens – Ghent University (Post-Doc)

Christophe Van Langenhove - Free University Brussels (VUB, Assistant Professor of Macroeconomics)

Jose Villegas – Central Bank of Mexico (Research Economist)

Christian Walter – University of Vechta (Post-Doc)