Speakers

Hannah Paule-Paludkiewicz

Matteo Pazzona

Teemu Pekkarinen

I am a PhD candidate at the Helsinki Graduate School of Economics (Helsinki GSE). My research interests are in information economics and game theory. I work on questions related to auctions and mechanism design. Otherwise, I am an art lover and a fledgling painter.

Panu Pelkonen

Panu Pelkonen (PhD: UCL) has a decade of research experience in Economics of Education and Skills. His work on education connects to Political Economy topics such as voting and electoral cycles, Labour and Population Economics, as well as the underpinnings of productivity and economic growth. His work has been published in Journal of Human Resources, Journal of the European Economic Association, Public Choice, and Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, among others.

Elena Perazzi

Pietro Peretto

Peretto is a macroeconomist who studies the sources and effects of technological change mainly using endogenous growth theory. With this focus, he has studied international trade, growth and innovation, market structure, corporate taxation, industrial organization, development and the environment, R&D, and more. He has been publishing his research for nearly three decades and has had his work appear in books and leading academic journals. He is Associate Editor of the Journal of Economic Growth.

Anna Pestova

Anna is a third year Ph.D. student at CERGE-EI, a joint workplace of the Charles University in Prague and the Economics Institute of The Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic. Anna received B.A. and M.A. from the Lomonosov Moscow State University and Candidate of Science in Economics from the National Research University – Higher School of Economics (NRU HSE). After graduating, she has worked at the Institute of Economic Forecasting and at the Center for Macroeconomic Analysis and Short-term Forecasting (CMASF) in Moscow, Russia. Anna was the Head of Macro-Financial Research Unit at CMASF and Senior Research Fellow at NRU HSE. There she had worked on the numerous applied projects in the interests of ministries and governmental bodies. Anna received several grants for her research from the Russian Foundation for Fundamental Studies, the Economic Educational and Research Consortium, Grant Agency of the Charles University, and MGIMO University. Her research interests lie in the area of applied macroeconomics, in particular, she is interested in understanding business cycle fluctuations, investigating the effects of credit supply shocks, and cross-border capital flows.

Radomir Pestow

Maria Petrova

Maria Petrova is an ICREA Research Professor at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra. She received my PhD from Harvard University in 2008. She is a Co-Editor of the Journal of Public Economics and a member of the Editorial Board of the Review of Economic Studies. She recently got a European Research Council Starting Grant for a five-year project EXTREME ("The Rise and Fall of Populism and Extremism") for 2019-2024.

Vincenzo Pezone

I am an Assistant Professor of Finance at the Goethe University in Frankfurt, Germany. My research interests are in Corporate Finance and Behavioral Economics.