Presenters

Peiyuan Li

I am a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Colorado Boulder, economics department. My research interests are Economic History and Political Economy.

Wenhui Li

I am an Economics Ph.D. candidate at the Goethe University Frankfurt. My current research uses laboratory experiments to study individuals' belief formation and belief updating under ambiguity, as well as their aversion against ambiguity. I also study investors' trading behaviors and their market outcomes in financial markets.

Melika Liporace

I like theory. I am particularly curious about the spread of information in networks, but my wider interests range from networks and game theory to political economy.

I am a PhD candidate at Bocconi University (Milan), on the Job Market in 2021-22. I previously graduated from HEC Lausanne, Switzerland, where I grew up.

Elizaveta Lukmanova

I am a postdoctoral fellow at CORE, Université catholique de Louvain. I will join the Finance Group at KU Leuven in fall 2021. My research focuses on Monetary Policy, International Economics, and Banking.

W. Bentley MacLeod

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

Paolina Medina

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

Lukas Mergele

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

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

PhD student in Economics and Finance at Bocconi University.