Speakers

On job market

Anne Brenøe

University of Zurich

Anne Brenøe is an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Zurich. She received her PhD in 2018 from the University of Copenhagen. Her primary research interests are in applied microeconomics --particularly within child development, gender, education, and labor economics. She studies how childhood conditions and experiences affect the accumulation of human capital. In current projects, she focuses on gender differences in human capital formation and behavior, causal effects of breastfeeding, parenting style, and parental leave from the perspective of firms.

Olga Briukhova

University of Zurich, Swiss Finance Institute

Olga Briukhova is a Swiss Finance Institute PhD Candidate in Finance at the University of Zurich. Olga works on topics of financial regulation, systemic risk, financial stability, complex networks, derivatives markets, and macroprudential policy tools. She holds a Master degree in Economics from the University of Bonn (Germany) and a Bachelor degree in Economics from the National Research University Higher School of Economics (Russia).

Dmitry Brizhatyuk

University of Washington

Dmitry Brizhatyuk holds a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Washington. In fall 2020 he starts as a research economist in Moody’s Analytics, London. Main fields: macroeconomics, international economics, applied time series.

Anne Brockmeyer

World Bank

Anne Brockmeyer is a Senior Economist at the World Bank and a Research Fellow at the Institute for Fiscal Studies and at Oxford’s Centre for Business Taxation. Anne’s research lies at the intersection of development economics and public finance. She studies the determinants of taxpayers’ compliance decisions; the optimal design of tax systems in a context of weak institutional capacity and high inequality; and the impact of technological change on tax systems. She also has an interest in the economics of the Middle East. Anne holds a PhD from the London School of Economics.

James Brookes

Bank of England

I am a senior research data scientist in the Advanced Analytics Division at the Bank of England, with particular specialism in natural language processing and computational psycholinguistics.

Konstantin Büchel

University of Bern

I am a postdoctoral researcher and lecturer at the University of Bern, Switzerland. My primary research interests cover development and urban economics. I completed my PhD in Economics at the University of Bern in 2017.

Vitus Buehl

FernUniversitaet in Hagen

Vitus Buehl holds a master’s degree in aerospace engineering (TU Munich) as well as in economics (FernUniversitaet in Hagen). His main research interests lie in environmentally sustainable energy and ways to minimize anthropogenic climate change. Currently, he is a Ph.D. candidate at the FernUniversitaet in Hagen at the department of Microeconomics and working on game theoretic models for international climate cooperation.

Daniel Buncic

Stockholm University

Before joining Stockholm University in March 2019, Daniel was a research economist in the Financial Stability Department of the Riksbank. From 2010 to 2017, he was an Assistant Professor in the School of Economics and Political Sciences at the University of St.Gallen. He has held consulting appointments at the World Bank, the European Central Bank, as well as the private sector throughout his academic career. Daniel earned his PhD in Economics from the University of New South Wales (Sydney).

Simon Bunel

Insee & PSE

Simon Bunel is an economist at Insee, PhD candidate at the Paris School of Economics and associate researcher at Collège de France (Innovation Lab). His fields of research are innovation, technological change, growth and labor.

Anna Burova

Bank of Russia

Consultant with the Bank of Russia, Research and Forecasting Department. PhD (The University of Tokyo) FCCA