Speakers

Christian Proebsting

I am a scientific collaborator at EPFL in Lausanne. I received my Ph.D. in Economics at the University of Michigan in 2016. Prior to starting the Ph.D., I received a Diploma in International Economics from the University of Tuebingen in Germany. My research interests lie in the area of International Finance and mainly focus on the effects of fiscal, monetary and labor market policy in integrated economies. An additional line of research covers mergers and acquisitions in emerging countries.

Elisabeth Proehl

I am an Assistant Professor in Economics at the University of Amsterdam. I received a PhD in Finance from the University of Geneva and the Swiss Finance Institute in June 2018. My research is focused on the theory and computation of general equilibrium models with heterogeneity and its application to macro-financial models. I am interested in the implications for wealth inequality, stock market participation, asset prices and firm financing.

Carol Propper

Zhaoxin Pu

Zhaoxin is a PhD Candidate and Research Fellow at LMU Munich and the MPI for Innovation and Competition, under the advisory of Dietmar Harhoff, Monika Schnitzer and Christian Fons-Rosen. Her research interests are in Innovation Economics, Entrepreneurship, Industrial Organisation and International Economics. She holds degrees in Economics from LSE (MSc) and the University of Mannheim (BSc). Prior to graduate studies, Zhaoxin worked for several years as an Economic Consultant at NERA in London and at the International Trade Centre (UN/WTO) in Geneva.

Patrick Puhani

Patrick Puhani is professor of Labour Economics at Leibniz University of Hannover. Previously, he was professor of Applied Econometrics at Darmstadt University of Technology.

Filippo Pusterla

Filippo Pusterla is a researcher and doctoral student at the Chair of Education Systems at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich. He hold a master’s degree in economics from the University of Zurich. His research interests are economics of education and labor economics, with a particular focus on the youth labor market. In his PhD thesis, he analyses the complementarities between vocational and professional education and training and digitalization.

Simon Rabaté

Lukasz Rachel

Lukasz Rachel is a Senior Research Advisor at the Financial Stability Directorate at the Bank of England. Lukasz has completed his PhD at the LSE. In 2018 he was awarded Fulbright Fellowship and spent a year visiting the Department of Economics at Harvard University. Prior to commencing his PhD in September 2015 Lukasz spent seven years working at the Bank in various policy roles analysing UK and global economies.

Lucas Radke

My name is Lucas Radke and I'm a PhD student at the University of Cologne. I received my B.Sc. from the University of Mannheim and my M.Sc. from the University of Bonn. My research interests lie in the field of Macroeconomics. In particular, I'm interested in any kind of heterogeneity that affects the business cycle and both fiscal and monetary policy.

Jaana Rahko

I am a tenure track assistant professor in economics at University of Vaasa. I completed my PhD in economics in 2016 at University of Vaasa. My research interests include economics of innovation, corporate R&D, patenting, knowledge spillovers, energy and environmental economics.