Speakers

Peter Kruse-Andersen

I am an assistant professor at the Department of Economics, University of Copenhagen. My main areas of research are economic growth and environmental economics.

Per Krusell

Per Krusell is EEA's current president, a professor at Stockholm University, and a Centennial Professor at the London School of Economics. He obtained a PhD from the University of Minnesota. He subsequently held assistant-professor positions at Northwestern University and the University of Pennsylvania, as well as full-professor positions at the University of Rochester and Princeton University. He has received numerous awards and grants, among them several National Science Foundation grants, the 2007 Söderberg Prize and an advanced ERC grant. Krusell's research focuses on macroeconomics, broadly defined, with particular contributions in the areas of technological change, inequality, political economy, macroeconomic policy, and labor economics. He is also pursuing a long-term project on the interactions between global sustainability, in particular climate change, and the economy. Finally, he is currently studying the implications of the corona virus on the economy.

Balazs Krusper

I am a PhD candidate at the Department of Economics and Business at Central European University. I spent the 2019 Spring semester at the Department of Economics at Harvard University as a visiting student. My broad research interest lies in behavioral and experimental economics. Currently, I am studying how making a choice affect beliefs about products in the choice set and what are the consequences when individuals interact in a market setting.

Merike Kukk

Dr. Merike Kukk is Assoc. Prof. at Tallinn University of Technology (Taltech), head of the master program in Applied Economics, and a part-time researcher at the central bank of Estonia. Her research topics cover household borrowing, saving, consumption and tax behaviour, gender inequality and intra-household resource allocation, as well as interactions between financial markets and the real economy. She is teaching master seminar, microeconomics and public economics in the master program.

Yuliya Kulikova

Yuliya Kulikova graduated from Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona in 2016. Since then she is a Research Economist at the Bank of Spain. Her main interests are in Labour Economics and Family Economics, with the special focus on Health, Intergenerational Mobility and interaction of Economics with Genetics.

Michael Kumhof

Michael Kumhof is Senior Advisor in the Bank of England’s Research Hub. His previous position was Deputy Division Chief, Economic Modeling Division, IMF. His main research interests are monetary reform (CBDC and full reserve banking), the macroeconomic role of banks, economic inequality, and fossil fuel depletion. Michael taught economics at Stanford University from 1998 to 2004. He worked in corporate banking, for Barclays Bank PLC, from 1988 to 1993. His work has been published by AER, JME, AEJ Macro, JIE, JEDC, JMCB, EER, and JoMacro, among others. Dr. Kumhof is a citizen of Germany.

Martin Kuncl

Santanu Kundu

I am a PhD student at the University of Mannheim, Germany. My research interests lies in empirical corporate finance, climate finance and understanding the role of finance in society (very broadly). Prior to joining University of Mannheim in 2017, I completed my M.Sc. in Finance from the Erasmus University Rotterdam.

Yusuke Kuroishi

I am a PhD Candidate in Economics at the London School of Economics. I am on the academic job market this year and will be available for interviews at the 2020 EEA meetings and the 2020 ASSA meetings. My primary fields are development economics and international trade and my secondary field is environmental economics.

Hyeokmoon Kweon

Hyeokmoon Kweon studied English linguistics and economics during his bachelor. After completing a Msc in development economics at the University of Manchester, he continued his study in the research master program at Tinbergen Institute. He is now a PhD candidate in economics at VU Amsterdam, where his main research uses genetic and brain-imaging data to investigate the intergenereational transmission of socioeconomic outcomes and health.