Speakers

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

Chuanping Sun

I am a PhD candidate in Economics and I am going to the Job Market this year. My research area spans between financial econometrics and empirical asset pricing. In my Job Market Paper, I aimed to dissect the factor zoo while taking account of high correlations in high dimensionality, which sheds light on a new perspective of the “factor zoo enigma”. My other papers develop econometric theories of a LASSO-related estimator under more general conditions (weak correlations and fat tails) and explore portfolio optimization problems, etc. More details of my research/CV can be found in my personal webpage.

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.

Rhys Llewellyn Thomas

Rhys is an applied Economist completing a PhD at the University of Southampton. His speciality is in applying econometric methods to health-related research questions. He has a particular interest in public policy and inequality, however, his job market paper has more of a behavioural focus. Before starting his PhD studies, Rhys obtained a BSc. and MSc. in Economics both also at the University of Southampton. During his PhD studies, Rhys has also spent some time at the Department for Education.

Anna Thoresson

Anna Thoresson is a Ph.D. Candidate at the Department of Economics, Uppsala University and IFAU. Anna's research interests are in labour economics and applied microeconomics, with a focus on wage determination and wage differences. She is currently working on topics related to wages and monopsony power, and native-immigrant earnings gaps and firm productivity. Anna was a Visiting Fellow at Harvard University in autumn 2018. She holds a master’s degree in economics from UCL.

Johanna Tiedemann

Johanna Tiedemann is a PhD candidate in Economics at the Adam Smith Business School , University of Glasgow. Currently, she is part of the Fund Internship Programme 2020 at the International Monetary Fund. She works in the fields of Labour Economics and Macroeconomics and her research aims to understand factors that affect income risk and the underlying income dynamics and this is combined with real-policy evaluation to understand the mitigation of income risk in the United Kingdom. She applies empirical methods together with quantitative structural models to address questions of measurement of labour income risk, evaluation of insurance mechanisms, and the impact on labour market mobility. Tiedemann holds a MSc in Economic Development, with Merit from the University of Glasgow (2016) and a BSc in Economics and Business Economics from Maastricht University (2015).

Cristian Usala

I am a Post - doc fellow at the Centre for North South Economic Research (CRENoS) of Department of Economics and Business and at the Department of Political and Social Sciences (University of Cagliari). I received my PhD in Economics and Business from the University of Cagliari, Italy. I am an applied economist with specific interest in microeconometric methods and public economics issues.

Magnus Våge Knutsen

I’m a PhD student at BI Norwegian Business School in Oslo. My research interests are in the field of applied micro theory, specifically repeated games with incomplete information and industrial organization, and experimental economics.