Speakers

Milian Bachem

Milian Bachem got his first degree in Economics at the University of Amsterdam. He went on to obtain an MSc degree in Financial Economics with honours at the Erasmus University in Rotterdam. Currently, he is doing research at the Dept. of Economics at the Erasmus University.

Benjamin Bachi

Benjamin Bachi is a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) at the University of Haifa, Department of Economics. He obtained his Ph.D. in Economics from Tel Aviv University in 2015 and then spent two years as senior research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods in Bonn. His research interests include Microeconomic Theory, Industrial organization, Bounded Rationality and Behavioural Economics.

Anton Badev

Ivo Bakota

Ivo is a Post-doctoral researcher at Munich Center for the Economics of Aging, Max Planck Institute for Social Law and Social Policy. He is interested in macroeconomics, macro-finance, macro-models with heterogeneous agentseconomics of aging, and computational economics.

Fabian Bald

I am a third-year PhD student at the Chair of Economics at the Mercator School of Management (University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany) and the doctoral program of the Ruhr Graduate School in Economics (RGS). Before joining the RGS in October 2017 I obtained degrees in Economics from the Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen (B.Sc.) and the Université Catholique de Louvain (M.Sc.). During my research I'm currently working on topics related to regional and urban economics as well as international trade.

Luis Baldomero-Quintana

Luis Baldomero-Quintana is an Assistant Professor at William & Mary (starting August 2020). He received his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Michigan and his B.A. in Economics from Tecnologico de Monterrey. His research interests lie in the intersection of international trade and development economics. Before his graduate studies, he worked in different government agencies in Mexico such as the Office of the President, the Ministry of Finance, and the Ministry of Communications and Transportation.

Oriana Bandiera

Oriana Bandiera is the Sir Anthony Atkinson Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics, and a fellow of the British Academy, the Econometric Society, CEPR, BREAD and IZA. She is co-editor of Econometrica, vice-president of the European Economic Association, and director of the Gender, Growth and Labour Markets in Low-Income Countries (G²LM|LIC) programme. She serves on the council of the Econometric Society, on board of the International Growth Centre and as vice-president of the Collegio Carlo Alberto. Her research focuses on how monetary incentives and social relationships interact to shape individual choices within organisations, how this shapes labor markets, the allocation of talent and, ultimately, living standards. Her research has been awarded the IZA Young Labor Economist Prize (2008), the Carlo Alberto Medal (2011), the Ester Boserup Prize (2018) and the Yrjö Jahnsson Award(2019). At the LSE she teaches the undergraduate Development Economics course, for which she won a Student Union Award in 2020

Prasenjit Banerjee

I am a lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Economics at the University of Manchester, UK. I use applied game theory, behavioural economics, and experiments (lab and lab-in-the-field) in the field of development economics, environmental and resource economics, and political economy.

Zsofia Barany

Zsofia Barany is a macroeconomist interested in economic growth, technological change and its impact on the labor market. A large part of her work aims at understanding the driving forces behind long-run trends in the evolution of labor market outcomes, such as inequality, or job polarization, taking into account individual heterogeneity.

Kristina Barauskaite Griskeviciene

I am a PhD candidate in Economics at the ISM University of Management and Economics in Vilnius, Lithuania and the Economist-Researcher at the Bank of Lithuania. My research mainly focuses on the production networks and the role of network channel in propagating shocks, both micro and macro, to the macroeconomic level. Currently I am a summer intern at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) where my research project focuses on the US-China trade tensions and shifts in GVCs.