Speakers

Julie Schnaitmann

Julie Schnaitmann is an earlier career researcher in econometrics. Her research focuses on financial econometrics, empirical asset pricing and simulation-based econometrics. She is also interested in the forecast evaluation of risk measures and regularization in the factor model context.

Cornelius Schneider

After studying Economics and Public Policy at the Humboldt University and the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin, I finished my Master with a focus on Public Economics. Since 2016, I am a research fellow at the Max Planck Institute on Research for Collective Goods in a joint PhD program with the University of Cologne (supervised by Prof. Felix Bierbrauer). Mainly applying experimental methods, my research interests center around questions of optimal taxation and public finance in general.

Mark Schopf

Mark Schopf is postdoctoral researcher at the Chair of Public Economics (Thomas Eichner) at the University of Hagen. He obtained his PhD in Economics (summa cum laude) from the University of Paderborn and his MSc in Economics from the University of Magdeburg. His research interests are self-enforcing environmental agreements, supply-side climate policies, the green paradox, and lobbying.

Jakob Schwerter

I am currently working on my Ph.D. at the University of Tübingen, chair of Statistics, Econometrics and Quantitative Analysis under the working title ``Econometric Analysis in Economics of Education'' in which I focus on higher education and e-Learning. I am planning to submit my dissertation in September 2020. Before starting my Ph.D. I studied Economics (b.sc.) at the University of Mannheim (Germany), and afterward, I opted for the Master's program in Econometrics and Mathematical Economics at the University of Tilburg (Netherlands). I am associated with the LEAD Graduate School and Research Network.

Matthieu Segol

I am a PhD candidate in Financial Economics at the Paris School of Economics under the supervision of Prof. Jean Imbs. My research interests are in banking, financial regulations and financial stability. In my latest analysis, I worked with European Investment Bank economists A. Kolev and L. Maurin on the financing of intangible capital in Europe. We document how bank loan terms may have a negative impact on firms’ investment in intangible assets and provide insights on which policies could be suited to remove the existing bottlenecks. In collaboration with S. Daudignon from the Paris School of Economics, I also recently worked on the impact of the changing regulatory landscape for the US banking sector in the aftermath of the 2008 crisis. In our analysis, we focus on the effects of the central clearing requirement for interest rate swaps on banks’ use of derivatives. We provide evidence that a substantial share of end-user banks were able to circumvent part of the requirement by rebalancing their derivative portfolio, allowing them to avoid the different costs associated with central clearing. I graduated in Economics from Ecole Normale Superieure Paris-Saclay and Sciences Po Paris and had the opportunity to work at the OECD (Economics Department), the European Commission (DG ECFIN) and more recently at the European Investment Bank (Economics Department), where I was awarded a one-year research grant. I will be on the 2020/2021 Job Market.

Gyula Seres

I am Gyula Seres, Research Associate at Humboldt University Berlin (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin). I received my PhD in economics at Tilburg University in 2016. My fields of interest cover topics in industrial organization, microeconomics, experimental economics and competition policy. I am currently an external affiliate of the Tilburg Law and Economics Center, the Economic Science Laboratory at The University of Arizona and acting as a lecturer of Berlin School of Economics (formerly BDPEMS).

Ittai Shacham

Ittai is a PhD candidate in Economics at Tilburg University focusing on empirical industrial organization and media economics. Prior to joining Tilburg, Ittai worked at the Israeli Competition Commission (ICC), where he received the distinguished public service award. As part of his work at the ICC, he participated in the design and establishment of a credit information sharing scheme in Israel. Ittai obtained a joint Bachelor degree in law and economics, and a Research Master degree in economics from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Rasadhika Sharma

Rasadhika Sharma is a research fellow and a PhD candidate in Economics at the Institute for Environmental Economics and World Trade, Leibniz University Hanover. She is part of the Thailand Vietnam Socio Economic Panel (TVSEP) project financed by the German Research Foundation (DFG). She obtained her postgraduate degrees in Economics from the University of Wisconsin, Madison (USA) and the University of Warwick (UK). Her research interests include migration, personality traits and climate change.

Sara Signorelli

I am a PhD candidate at the Paris School of Economics working under the direction of professor Eric Maurin. My research focuses on labour economics, migration and technological change, and I am affiliated to the PSE Labour Chair. From September 2019 to April 2020 I visited the Centre for Economic Performance (CEP) at the London School of Economics. Prior to joining PSE, I worked for the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), and for the World Bank.

Viktor Slavtchev