Speakers

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

Emilia Soldani

Emilia is Assistant Professor for Labor and Applied Microeconomics at the Department of Applied Econometrics and International Economic Policy at Goethe University in Frankfurt. She received her PhD in Economics from New York University in 2015 and has worked at the NYU-Abu Dhabi Center for Technology and Economics Development (NYU-CTED), the European Training Foundation (ETF), and CeRP-Collegio Carlo Alberto. She is primarily interested in development, environmental and labor economics.

Fabian Stöckl

Fabian’s main research interest are growth and production theory with a special focus on the impact of a changing elasticity of substitution between inputs. His research applies to both the classical capital-labor economy as well as to energy-augmented frameworks. Recently, Fabian started to investigate the relationship between the observed decline in the labor income share and the increase of the elasticity of capital-labor substitution in the past decades. He will finish his PhD this summer.

Magnus Strobel

Tiancheng Sun

Tiancheng Sun is a Ph.D. candidate in Economics at the London School of Economics. He is interested in macroeconomics, especially in business cycles. He will be joining the School of Economics at the University of Edinburgh as a lecturer in the coming 2020-2021 academic year.