Vytautas Valaitis
Duke UniversityI am a doctoral candidate at Duke University interested in macro-labor and fiscal policy. Before my studies at Duke I obtained a master degree from the Central European University and completed my undergraduate studies in Lithuania. I expect to be on the market in Fall of 2020
Francesca Vinci
University of NottinghamI am a doctoral candidate in macroeconomics at the University of Nottingham and a PhD Intern at the Bank of England. My research focuses on the nexus between long term growth, business cycles and monetary policy. I am also interested in structural transformation and firm dynamics. Prior to starting the PhD, I worked as an industry analyst in the tech sector, obtained a master’s degree in Economics from Nottingham and a bachelor’s degree in Economics from the University of Rome Tor Vergata.
Tong Wang
Erasmus University RotterdamI’m currently an Assistant Professor of Behavioral Economics at Erasmus University Rotterdam. My research is in developing/testing/improving wisdom-of-the-crowd algorithms. Other research interests include decision making under risk and uncertainty and looking into people’s real-life decisions (e.g., players picking lottery numbers and students filling in online teaching evaluations).
Zijian Wang
University of Western OntarioI am a PhD student at the University of Western Ontario in Canada. My research interests include monetary economics, macroeconomics, and search theory.
Inês Xavier
Universitat Pompeu FabraI am a PhD Candidate interested in Macroeconomics and Inequality. My work addresses two important issues facing developed economies today. First, it speaks to the question “why is wealth so concentrated?”. Using empirical and theoretical techniques, I highlight the importance of heterogeneous returns to wealth as a driver of wealth disparity. Secondly, my work contributes to our understanding of the dynamics of low growth, low interest rate economies and the impact of asset price bubbles in such environments.
Fei Xu
Sciences PoI am a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Economics at Sciences Po and my interests are in the areas of microeconomics and political economy. My work explores issues related to corruption, institutions, public expenditures, incentives and the political causes of economic growth in China. I am also interested in law and economics with a focus on innovation and development. I completed my Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Manchester in 2018.
Yuanwei Xu
Leibniz University HannoverI am a PhD candidate in Economics from University of Hannover, a member of the research training group "Globalization and Development", and a guest researcher in DIW Berlin. My research are focused on development economics, Chinese economy, and global health. In my main research papers, I study the health effects of housing price appreciation, the rising sex ratios and marriage payments, as well as internal migration and political perceptions in China.
Yang Yang
Toulouse School of EconomicsI am a PhD candidate at Toulouse School of Economics. My main research fields are: Applied Microeconomic Theory, and Industrial Organization.
C. Y. Kelvin Yuen
Washington University in St. LouisI am a Ph.D. candidate in Economics at Washington University in St. Louis. My research interests center primarily around the macroeconomics of the labor market. Currently I use equilibrium search models to study issues related to entrepreneurship, unemployment, skill mismatch, health, and their aggregate impacts.
Dianzhuo Zhu
University of Paris-Dauphine, PSLI obtained my Ph.D. at University of Paris-Dauphine, PSL. The three papers in my thesis aim at understanding ridesharing behavior using empirical data. I collaborated with a French ridesharing start-up and conducted two field experiments on monetary and non-monetary motivations of drivers for daily trips in rural areas. I have also been collecting long-distance, inter-city ridesharing data of BlaBlaCar, the largest ridesharing platform in Europe, via its API. My latest working paper analyzes the impact of the 2018 French railway strike on ridesharing. In general, I am interested in the digital economy, sharing economy platforms, behavioral and experimental economics, empirical IO, and transportation economics. I will start my post-doc at PSL to continue working on transportation user data and regulatory issues in September 2020. I will be on the job market next fall.