Presenters

Jan Schymik

Andis Sofianos

I am a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Economics at the University of Heidelberg at the chair of Economic Theory II (Jörg Oechssler). I completed my PhD at the University of Warwick.

My research interests are within the broad field of Experimental Economics where I study the impact of individual characteristics, like personality traits and intelligence on strategic interactions.

Robert Somogyi

I work as assistant professor at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics, and as research fellow at the Institute of Economics, Centre for Economic and Regional Studies, Hungary.

I completed my PhD in Economics at Ecole Polytechnique and CREST in 2016, after which I joined the CORE research center of Université catholique de Louvain for two years as a postdoctoral researcher.

My main research interests are Microeconomic Theory and Industrial Organization of the Digital Economy.

Daniel Stempel

I am a PhD student and research assistant at Heinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf. My main research interest is the inclusion of heterogeneity in macroeconomic analyses, specifically in New Keynesian models.

Morten Nyborg Støstad

PhD student at the Paris School of Economics (exchange to Berkeley fall 2021). Focused on inequality's effects on society, both theoretically and empirically. Currently working in either the optimal income taxation model, on large-scale surveys, or on modern machine learning techniques. Former astrophysicist.

Pramod Kumar Sur

I am an Assistant Professor at Asian Growth Research Institute (AGI). My research interests include labor economics, economic history, political economy, and the economic and social impact of fragile states/environments among others.

Melinda Suveg

I am a finishing Ph.D. candidate in Economics at Uppsala University with a research interest in Macroeconomics, Firm Dynamics and Monetary Policy. My current projects focus on firms' price setting behavior and firm heterogeneity in quantitative models. I enjoy using both microeconometric and quantitative models in my research. I will start my tenure track in September 2021 at the Research Institute of Industrial Economics in Stockholm.

Yuta Suzuki

Ph.D. student at Penn State.

Research interests:
Spatial Economics, Population Aging, and Trade Policy