Presenters

Emil Verner

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Heike Vethaak

Leiden University

Alejandro Vicondoa

Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile

Assistant Professor at Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile. I hold a Ph.D. in Economics from the European University Institute since 2017. My research focuses mainly on the macroeconomics of emerging market economies, monetary policy, and on the effects of uncertainty shocks.

Hugo Vilares

Sergio Villalvazo

Ernesto Villanueva

Banco de España/Bank of Spain

My name is Ernesto Villanueva, and I am an economist at the DG Economics, Statistics and Research at Banco de España (BdE), the Central Bank of Spain. Since November 2018, I am the Head of the Microeconomic Studies Division. My research mainly focuses on the determinants of household saving and borrowing, different forms of human capital and on the study of wage differentials. I also work on the implementation of large surveys on household finances (EFF) and on financial competences (ECF).

Francesca Vinci

European Central Bank

I am am a Graduate Programme Participant at the European Central Bank. I hold a PhD in Economics from the University of Nottingham and my research focuses on the nexus between long term growth, business cycles and monetary policy. I am also interested in structural transformation and firm dynamics.

Gianluca Violante

Princeton University

Gianluca Violante is a Professor of Economics at Princeton University. He is also a Research Associate of NBER and CEPR, and a Fellow of the Econometric Society. After receiving his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania, he taught at UCL and NYU. He was the Managing Editor of RED, and one of the Co-Editors of Econometrica. His main research interests are in macroeconomics, labor economics, and public economics. He won the Economics in Central Banking Award in 2019.

Ludo Visschers

University of Edinburgh

Davide Viviano

UC San Diego

I am a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Economics at UC San Diego. My research combines Economics and Data Science to develop novel statistical methods for applications in social sciences. Before joining UC San Diego, I received an MSc in Data Science at BGSE/Pompeu Fabra.