Yulia Zhestkova

PhD candidate in Economics at University Of Chicago

Yulia Zhestkova is a Ph.D. candidate in Economics at the University of Chicago. Her research interests include economics of innovation, firm dynamics and labor. She specializes in applying text analysis, network data and machine learning to economic research. In her dissertation, she studies technology cluster dynamics and the evolution of technology network over time. Yulia got her B.A. degree from New Economic School and her M.A. degree from the University of Chicago.