Speakers

Alexander Jung

Thomas Jungbauer

My name is Thomas Jungbauer, I am Assistant Professor of Strategy & Business Economics at the Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. I am an applied micro-economic theorist with diverse research interests covering market design, industrial organization, labor economics and entrepreneurship. I have been working on models of misrepresentation and manipulation, matching in the labor market when firms have market power, and the determinants of the branding decision in firms that sell vertically differentiated products. Recently, I started working on models related to the organization of innovation, and as well as the impact of online consumer reviews and online advertising on different industries. My newest paper deals with the connection of employee poaching, turnover, and managerial compensation. I am originally from the region close to Vienna, Austria, and received my PhD in Managerial Economics & Strategy from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University in 2016. Currently I teach Business Strategy across various MBA programs at Johnson.

Štěpán Jurajda

Štěpán Jurajda is the Mellon Endowment Professor with tenure at CERGE-EI, where he earlier served as Director. His research focuses on labor markets, but he also worked on the value of nationalism during wars. Between 2005 and 2010, a member of the Executive Committee of the European Association of Labour Economists. Since 2014, a member of the Research, Development and Innovation Council of the Government of the Czech Republic. http://home.cerge-ei.cz/jurajda/research.htm

Gazi Kabas

I am a PhD student at University of Zurich and Swiss Finance Institute. I obtained my previous degrees from Bogazici University and Middle East Technical University. My research areas are household finance and banking.

Matthias Kaeding

Matthias Kaldorf

I am a PhD-Student at the University of Cologne, where I also obtained my degrees. My research interests lie in the intersection of financial economics and macroeconomics (primary) and financial econometrics (secondary). In particular, I study interactions between default risk and collateralized borrowing arrangements for government and corporate bonds and how Central Bank policy affects these interactions.

Daniel Kaliski

Kaliski completed his graduate work at the University of Oxford in 2019 under the joint supervision of Michael Keane and Ian Crawford, specialising in health and public economics. He is particularly interested in health insurance, health behaviors, and the relationship between assumptions and identification. Birkbeck, part of the University of London, is his first academic position.

Iryna Kaminska

Iryna Kaminska is a Senior Research Advisor in the Monetary Analysis Directorate at the Bank of England. She has previously worked at the International Monetary Fund (2011-2014) and in the Financial Stability area of the Bank of England (2009-2011). Iryna's research interests are in the areas of empirical asset pricing, monetary policy and international finance.

Gazi Kara

Dr. Gazi Kara is a Principal Economist in the Division of Financial Stability at the Federal Reserve Board in Washington, D.C. He received a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2013. Dr. Kara’s research interests are in the fields of Financial Economics and International Finance. His recent research focuses on financial crises, fire sales, regulation of financial institutions, and the intersections of household and corporate finance with banking.

Anastasios Karantounias

Dr. Karantounias is Research Economist and Associate Adviser at the Research department of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta. His research interests lie in fiscal policy, macro-finance, ambiguity aversion and imperfect information.