Speakers

Keiichiro Kobayashi

1998 Ph.D. from Chicago

Michal Kobielarz

Michal Kobielarz joined KU Leuven in 2018 as an Assistant Professor, after obtaining his PhD at Tilburg University. His main research interests are International Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics, with a particular focus on monetary unions and topics related to the Eurozone Crisis. Michal’s research agenda concentrates on modeling sovereign default and exit from a monetary union, as two separate but interrelated decisions. The first chapter of his thesis, introducing this distinction, was published in the Journal of International Economics.

Pavel Kocourek

After graduating from a Master Degree in Applied Mathematics in Taiwan I switched to Economics and did my PhD in Economic Theory at NYU. I am currently taking a postdoc at CERGE-EI in my home-country.

Johannes Koenig

Graduated with a doctorate from Free University Berlin in 2019 (Advisors: Giacomo Corneo, Carsten Schroeder). Now working as a post-doc at DIW/SOEP on the collection of high-wealth data (SOEP-P) and a DFG funded project on earnings risk over the life-cycle (LINDY).

Robin Koepke

Robin Koepke is an economist at the International Monetary Fund. His research focuses on international capital flows and open-economy macroeconomics. He currently serves in the IMF’s Asia & Pacific Department and previously worked in the Monetary & Capital Markets Department, focusing on market surveillance and financial stability issues. Before joining the IMF in 2016, he spent six years at the Institute of International Finance (IIF), the global association of financial institutions, where he served as an expert on capital flows. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Wuerzburg in Germany.

Tristan Kohl

I am an Assistant Professor of International Economics at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands. My research fields include international trade, political economy, and economic geography, with special interest in trade policy, the World Trade Organization and gravity models.

Nikolaos Kokonas

Philipp Kollenda

Philipp Kollenda is a PhD student at VU Amsterdam. He studies how investors pursue financial returns and social impact; and how farmers collectively negotiate higher prices and access to value chains. Philipp received an economics education from Tinbergen Institute (MSc, cum laude) and Universität Mannheim (BSc) and has studied and worked in Kenya, Nicaragua, Thailand and Uganda. Now stuck in Amsterdam he is looking forward to connect (virtually), explore collaborations and discuss research, data, the future of field work and of teaching (Twitter: @philippkollenda)

Robert Kollmann

PhD (University of Chicago); CEPR Research Fellow; Professor at Université Libre de Bruxelles. Research fields: international finance, macroeconomics. http://www.robertkollmann.com https://ideas.repec.org/e/pko143.html

Olivia Komada

Olivia Komada is a PhD candidate at the Warsaw School of Economics, and researcher, and member of the Board of GRAPE: Group for Research in APplied Economics. Her academic interests concentrate on pension system reforms, taxation, inequality, and family policies. In her free time, she likes visiting fantasy words, especially one created by Sir Terry Pratchett.