Speakers

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Ana Isabel Sá

FEP, University of Porto

Ana Isabel Sá is a Ph.D. Candidate in Economics and teaching assistant at the University of Porto, and a visiting researcher at Banco de Portugal. After working ten years in the banking industry, mainly in risk and regulatory offices, she enrolled in the Ph.D. course with the financial support of FCT-Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia and Banco de Portugal. Her main interests are Banking, Finance, and Monetary Policy. She expects to get her degree by the end of 2020.

Lorien Sabatino

Polytechnic University of Turin

I am a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Polytechnic University of Turin (DIGEP). I received my Ph.D. in economics from the Vilfredo Pareto Doctorate in Economics held by the University of Turin & Collegio Carlo Alberto. My research interests are Applied Microeconomics, Industrial Organization, Market Regulation & Competition Policy, and Digital Economics.

Maria Sandström

Uppsala University

Maria Sandström is a Ph.D. student at Uppsala University. Her research area is macroeconomics and she has a particular interest in the role of intangible capital. She is also interested in understanding how globalization and intangible capital pose challenges to economic measurement. Maria Sandström previously worked for the European Central Bank and Sveriges Riksbank.

Sid Sanghi

Washington University in St. Louis

Sid is a PhD Candidate in Economics at Washington University in St. Louis. He works on broad topics of Macro and Labor Economics. His dissertation looks at dynamic investment decisions in human capital, health and entrepreneurship using rich models and micro-datasets.

Aurélien Saussay

London School of Economics

Aurélien Saussay is a Research Officer at the Grantham Research Institute at the London School of Economics. His research focuses on the economic consequences of the transition to a low carbon economy, in order to identify the social and political acceptance challenges that hamper the implementation of effective decarbonisation. More specifically, he aims to estimate the impacts of climate change mitigation on economic agents empirically to help improve the design of decarbonisation policies.

Tobias Schlegel

University of Zurich

Tobias completed his Bachelor's and Master's studies in Economics at the University of Zurich with an exchange semester in Lyon (France). During his studies, he specialized in empirical labor economics. Before joining our team in September 2017, Tobias worked as a Junior Fellow at the economic think tank Avenir Suisse in Zurich (since 2015) and as an intern at the State Secretariat for Economic Affairs in Bern (2014).

Julie Schnaitmann

University of Konstanz

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

Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods

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

University of Hagen

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

University of Tübingen

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.