Presenters

Shengxin Zhang

Xiaoxue Zhao

Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Wesleyan University
Ph.D., Yale University

Jun Zhao

My name is Jun Zhao (I also go by Bean). I am an assistant professor in the Department of Economics, Finance, and Legal Studies at the University of Alabama. My research interests lie in Microeconometrics, Empirical Industrial Organization, and Political Economy. In my job market paper, I develop a two-stage contest model with entry and also a model for voters to study the effects of campaign spending on electoral outcomes given endogenous candidate entry in the U.S. Senate elections.

Jiaxin Zhao

Jiaxin is a Research Associate at the Institute for New Economic Thinking, Oxford. His research interests include the economic effects of environmental policy and the economics of welfare.

Yu Zheng

Yu Zheng is a macroeconomist with research interests in economic growth, development and inequality. Her current research focuses on the role human capital and intangible capital play in generating economic growth and inequality. More generally, she does theoretical and empirical work on economic growth, paying special attention to the aggregate implications of micro-level risks.

Yu Zhou

Nadezhda Zhuravleva

Nicolas R. Ziebarth

Nicolas Ziebarth is an economist whose research focuses on health, public and labor economics. He studies the interaction of (social) insurance systems with labor markets and population health. Another focus of his work is risky health behavior.

Nicolas Ziebarth is an international expert on the economics of sick leave, which has been covered widely by the media, and cited as a reason for several U.S. bills on the topic.

Andreas Ziegler

Christian Zihlmann