Presenters

W. Bentley MacLeod

Columbia University

W. Bentley MacLeod is Sami Mnaymneh Professor of Economics, Professor of International and Public Affairs, and an affiliated Law Faculty at Columbia University in the City of New York. Vice-President 2020-2021 (President 2021-2022), American Law and Economics Association, Past President of the Society of Institutional and Organizational Economics, and Fellow of the Econometric Society and the Society of Labor Economists.

Marcos Marcolino

Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research

Paolina Medina

Texas A&M University

Assistant Professor of Finance doing research on Household Finance and Behavioral Economics.

Lukas Mergele

ifo Institute

Lukas Mergele is an Economist at the ifo Institute for Economic Research at the University of Munich. His research interests cover the economics of the public sector. Lukas studied Economics at the Universities of Konstanz, Hong Kong and Warwick. He received his Ph.D. from the Berlin School of Economics. He has been a visiting scholar at the Department of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley, and is a fellow of the CESifo Research Network.

Marta Morazzoni

Universitat Pompeu Fabra

Marta Morazzoni is a PhD student at Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona. Her research interests lie in the field of macroeconomics, with a focus on entrepreneurship, gender and labor markets. In her projects, she quantitatively explores the role of individual heterogeneities and micro-level frictions in shaping and influencing macro-level outcomes. She holds a Bachelor in Economics from Bocconi, a Master from Barcelona Graduate School of Economics and a MRes from Universitat Pompeu Fabra.

Giovanni Morzenti

Bocconi University

PhD student in Economics and Finance at Bocconi University.

Jacob Moscona

Harvard and MIT

Jacob Moscona is a Prize Fellow in Economics, History, and Politics at Harvard and a postdoctoral fellow at J-PAL at MIT. He completed his PhD in economics at MIT in 2021.