Presenters

Pierre M Picard

Thomas Piketty

Thomas Piketty is Professor at EHESS and at the Paris School of Economics. He is the author of research articles published in journals such as the Quarterly Journal of Economics, the Journal of Political Economy, the American Economic Review, the Review of Economic Studies, Explorations in Economic History, Annales: Histoire, Sciences Sociales. He has done historical and theoretical work on the interplay between economic development, the distribution of income and wealth, and political conflict.

Paolo Pin

Erika Pini

Hi! I am a Ph.D candidate in Economics at CORE, Université catholique de Louvain.

My field of research is Political Economy. I am mainly interested in exploring the interconnections between economic and political outcomes, notably polarization and turnout. I work mostly on theory, but I am also interested in empirics.

Jean-Yves Pitarakis

Francisco Pitthan

Francisco Pitthan is a PhD candidate in economics at the Faculty of Business and Economics of KU Leuven. His research is focused on behavioural finance, economics of education and insurance demand, with particular interest in the role of financial literacy to reduce the effects of cognitive biases and improve the financial decisions and financial well-being of the population.

Mikkel Plagborg-Moller

Regina Pleninger

I am a postdoctoral researcher at the Chair of Applied Macroeconomics at ETH Zurich. My research interests include topics on income and wealth inequality, panel data econometrics, migration and natural disasters. I enjoy working with administrative, survey and remote-sensing data.

Ruben Poblete-Cazenave

I am a Post-Doctoral Researcher at the Department of Economics at Erasmus University Rotterdam. I work on topics in the intersection of Political Economy, Development Economics and Law & Economics.

Maximilian Pöhnlein