Speakers

Christian Höynck

Kirstin Hubrich

Kirstin Hubrich, Program Direction of Research and Statistics, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. Prior to the current assignment Kirstin was Chief of the Prices and Wages Section in the Research and Statistics Division, Principal economist in the Macroeconomic and Quantitative Studies Section, and held various positions in the Research Department of the European Central Bank. She received her Ph.D. from Humboldt University Berlin, has been a Lecturer at Goethe University Frankfurt and served in the Scientific Committee of the Euro Area Business Cycle Network.

Paul Hufe

I am a Ph.D student at the University of Munich. Throughout my Ph.D I have been visiting Cornell University (March 2017, Nov 2018) and Princeton University (Feb-Oct 2019) and FAIR at NHH Bergen (March/April 2020). My research interests lie at the intersection of public, labor and normative economics.

Quynh Huynh

I am a third year PhD student in Economics at University of Padova, Italy. I mainly work in development field and applied microeconomics. My PhD thesis focuses on the topic of education, equality and childhood poverty in Vietnam. Through empirical analysis, I study the impacts of anti-poverty program on educational achievement of children and address the issue of the widespread “shadow” education in parallel with the formal schooling system.