Speakers

Prasanthi Ramakrishnan

Rodney Ramcharan

Associate Professor of Finance, Marshall School of Business

Roberto Ramos

Ziwei Rao

Ziwei Rao is a PhD candidate in economics at University of Groningen. She is mainly interested in labor, household and health topics. Her recent work has been focused on old-age support and elderly well-being from the household perspective.

Terhi Ravaska

Terhi Ravaska is a senior researcher at VATT Institute for Economic Research in the areas of social security, taxation and income distribution. In her research, Ms. Ravaska has studied optimal taxation, Finland’s top earners and the Finnish pension system. In these studies, she uses full-population data available in the Finnish registers. Currently, she is studying the Finnish disability insurance system and how the current system affects the work incentives of the partially disabled workers.

Francesco Ravazzolo

Francesco Ravazzolo is a full professor of econometrics at Free University of Bozen-Bolzano. He was previously principal researcher and deputy director at Norges Bank and adjunct professor at BI Norwegian Business School. His research focuses on Bayesian econometrics, energy economics, financial econometrics and macroeconometrics. He has published in several leading academic journals. Francesco is in the editorial board of several top-field journals and is member of the executive committee of Society of Nonlinear Dynamics and Econometrics.

Stephen Redding

Stephen Redding's research interests include international trade, economic geography, and productivity growth. He is currently the Harold T. Shapiro *64 Professor in Economics in the Economics Department and Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University and Director of the International Trade and Investment (ITI) Program of the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER).

Thomas Renstrom

Thomas’s main research fields are optimal taxation, environmental economics, population economics, health economics, sustainable finance, energy economics, political economy, and endogenous firm objectives. He obtained his DPhil is from Brasenose College, Oxford, under the supervision of Nobel Laureate Sir James A. Mirrlees. He has held positions at Rochester, Tilburg, and Birmingham (UK). He is Associate Editor of the Bulletin of Economic Research and Review of Business and Economics Studies.

Rafael Repullo

Rafael Repullo is Director of the Centre for Monetary and Financial Studies (CEMFI). He is Fellow of the Econometric Society and of the European Economic Association, and Research Fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR). He has been President of the Spanish Economic Association, Executive Vice-President of the Econometric Society, Chair of the Scientific Council of Toulouse School of Economics, and Co-Editor of the International Journal of Central Banking. He has also been Houblon-Norman Fellow at the Bank of England and Wim Duisenberg Research Fellow at the European Central Bank.

André Reslow

I am a Ph.D candidate in economics at Uppsala University and affiliated with Sveriges Riksbank and UCFS. My research interests are in the fields of Macroeconomics and Political Economy. My Ph.D. thesis studies the behavior (or misbehavior) of macroeconomic forecasters and how this affects other agents in the economy. Especially the relationship between forecasters and voters are in focus.