Presenters

Andis Sofianos

University of Heidelberg

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

Budapest University of Technology and Economics

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

Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf

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

Paris School of Economics

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

Asian Growth Research Institute

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

Uppsala University, Research Institute of Industrial Economics

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

Pennsylvania State University

Ph.D. student at Penn State.

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

Marco Tabellini

Harvard Business School

Marco Tabellini is an assistant professor in the Business, Government, and International Economy unit and a Research Affiliate at the Center for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), the Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), and at IZA. He earned his Ph.D. in Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2018, and spent the academic year 2018-2019 as a Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard Business School. He also holds a B.S. and M.S. in Economics and

Daniel te Kaat

University of Groningen

I am an Assistant Professor of Finance at the University of Groningen. My research areas are International Finance, in particular the interaction between international capital flows, financial stability and the real economy, and Monetary Policy, where I focus on the effects of non-conventional monetary policy on macroeconomic outcomes.

Eileen Tipoe

Queen Mary University of London

Eileen Tipoe obtained her PhD (DPhil) from the University of Oxford in 2017 and was a Career Development Fellow at Mansfield College before joining Queen Mary University of London in 2021 as a Senior Lecturer and Education Expert. Her research is in applied microeconomics and econometrics, covering a diverse range of topics such as creativity, time use, and subjective wellbeing.