Speakers

On job market

Pierre-Edouard Collignon

CREST Ecole polytechnique

Pierre-Edouard Collignon is a 2nd year PhD student in Economics at CREST, Ecole Polytechnique. His research in public economics focuses on the design of tax and transfer systems with a particular interest for capital taxtion, intergenerational taxation, fertility decisions, and pension schemes.

Eve Colson-Sihra

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Dr. Eve Colson-Sihra is an assistant professor in the Department of Economics and the PPE Program at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She obtained her PhD in Economics from SciencesPo Paris in 2017. Her areas of research are development, international trade, inequality, cultural and social economics. She is currently working on projects to better understand how social status, identity or trade integration affect consumption behaviors.

Jeanne Commault

Sciences Po Paris

I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at Sciences Po. I received my Ph.D from Ecole Polytechnique and CREST. My research is in macroeconomics and applied microeconomics with a focus on household consumption and saving behavior.

Mariarosaria Comunale

Bank of Lithuania

Mariarosaria Comunale is a Principal Research Economist at the Bank of Lithuania, Lecturer at Vilnius University and Research Associate at CAMA. She holds a Ph.D. in Money and Finance from the University of Rome Tor Vergata and spent a period as visiting PhD student/researcher at the University of Cambridge, Trinity College Dublin, ECB, De Nederlandsche Bank and the OeNB. She was also ESCB-IO Economist at the ECB and published her works in the Journal of International Money and Finance, Scottish Journal of Political Economy, among others.

Paola Conconi

Université Libre de Bruxelles (ECARES), CEPR,CESifo, CEP

Paola Conconi is a Professor of Economics at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, a member of the European Center for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics (ECARES) and Research Associate of the Fund for Scientific Research (FNRS). She received a B.A. in Political Science from the University of Bologna, a M.A. in International Relations from the School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) of Johns Hopkins University, a M.Sc. and a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Warwick. Her main research interests are in international trade, firm organization, and political economy. She is a Research Fellow of the CEPR International Trade and Regional Economics Program, a CESifo Research Fellow, a Research Associate of the Centre for Economic Performance of the London School of Economics, and the Director of the CEPR Research Network on Global Value Chains, Trade and Development. She has been awarded by the European Research Council (ERC) an Advanced Research Grant to fund her work on “Trade Agreements and Supply Chains”. She has published in several leading economics journals including the American Economic Review, the Review of Economic Studies, and the Journal of Political Economy.

Nathan Converse

Federal Reserve Board

Nathan Converse is a principal economists in the Division of International Finance at the Federal Reserve Board. His research examines the drivers of international capital flows as well as their effects on recipient economies.

Pierluigi Conzo

University of Turin & Collegio Carlo Alberto

I’m Associate Professor of Economics at the Dept. of Economics & Statistics “Cognetti de Martiis” of the Univ. of Turin, and affiliate at Collegio Carlo Alberto. My research topics include social preferences, subjective well-being, immigration and development. I use experimental- and applied-economics methods such as fieldworks, lab-experiments, policy evaluation tools and analysis of survey data. I founded and currently lead the experimental center CLOSER with the aim of bringing together scholars from different fields for a broader understanding of human behavior.

Felix Corell

European University Institute

Felix Corell is a 4th year PhD student at the European University Institute in Florence (Advisors: Piero Gottardi (now University of Essex) and Giacomo Calzolari). Felix is working on banking, financial stability, and sovereign debt topics, both theoretically and empirically. Currently Felix is working at the European Central Bank as a student research assistant (DG Research) under the supervision of Caterina Mendicino and Melina Papoutsi. He will be on the job market in 2021/22.

Lucia Corno

Cattolica University-Milan

Lucia Corno is associate professor in the Department of Economics and Finance at Cattolica University and Executive Director of the Laboratory for Effective Antipoverty Policies (LEAP) at Bocconi University. She received her PhD in Economics from Bocconi (2009) and she was graduate visiting scholar at the University of Berkeley (2008). Before joining Cattolica, she held academic positions at University College London and Queen Mary University. Her primary research field is development economics, focusing on topics such as HIV/AIDS, ethnicity, stereotypes and social norms. Prof. Corno recently received an ERC Starting Grant to study the reasons behind the persistence of harmful traditions (i.e. female genital cutting) in developing countries.

Sena Coskun

University of Mannheim

I am a macroeconomist at Uni Mannheim. I was born in Turkey, received my Masters in Toulouse, France and received my PhD at Northwestern University. I have two children. In my research, I focus on family economics. My current research includes topics on family labor supply, gender differences in employment dynamics, fertility around business cycles.