Speakers

Cristina Barceló

Cristina Barceló works at the Banco de España since 2003. There she is in charge of imputing the Spanish Survey of Household Finances (in Spanish, Encuesta Financiera de las Familias, EFF) since the first wave. She completed her PhD in Economics at CEMFI and Universidad Complutense in Madrid. Her research and policy work focus on labour economics and household finance with particular concern on precautionary savings, borrowing constraints, housing, the risk of job loss and household formation.

Andrés Barrios Fernández

I am a Senior Researcher at VATT and an Associate in the Centre for Economic Performance. I completed my Ph.D. at the Department of Economics of LSE. My research interests cover topics on labor and public economics.

Cyprien Batut

Anja Bauer

Anja Bauer studied at the University Erlangen-Nuremberg. Afterwards she joined the Institute for Employment Research (IAB, Nuremberg, Germany) and completed her PhD in 2015. Currently, she is senior researcher at the department of forecasts and macroeconomic analyses and since 2019 head of the working group occupations. In her research, she focuses on search and matching, mismatch and the role of occupations therein.

Michael Bauer

Since February 2020 Michael Bauer is a professor of financial economics at Universität Hamburg. Previously he was an economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco from 2010 to 2020. His research focuses on macro-finance, monetary policy and the term structure of interest rates.

Sergej Bechtoldt

Sergej Bechtoldt is a young research assistant at the beginning of his doctoral studies. In October 2018, Sergej joined the Ruhr Graduate School of Economics and since October 2019, he works for the Chair of Health Economics of the University of Duisburg-Essen. Sergej is interested in the field of applied micro-econometrics, in health and labor economics.

Piera Bello

I am a Swiss National Foundation post-doctoral fellow at University College London. I am also affiliated to the Institute of Economics at Università della Svizzera Italiana, and the Dondena Gender Initiative and the Baffi-CAREFIN Centre (Pension economics Unit) at Bocconi University. Prior to joining UCL, I worked as postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Economics at Ca’ Foscari University. I completed my PhD in December 2016 at Università della Svizzera Italiana. From January to July 2015, I was a Visiting Scholar at the Department of Economics of Boston College. I hold a Masters degree in economics from Bocconi University. My work is on public economics. My research focuses on gender issues, migration and population ageing. I am particularly interested in private and public pension systems and the impact of long-term financial decisions. My recent papers investigate the functioning of annuity markets. My work has been published in the Journal of Public Economics, Journal of Economic Geography and International Tax and Public Finance.

Paula Beltran

Paula is a Ph.D. candidate in Economics from UCLA. She holds a B.A. and an M.A. in Economics from Universidad de los Andes in Bogota, Colombia. Her research focuses on macroeconomics, monetary policy, and international economics.

Jonathan Benchimol

I am a research economist at the Bank of Israel, Research Department. I was a visiting scholar at Harvard University, Department of Economics. I am also a research associate at the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas (Globalization and Monetary Policy Institute), at the Henan University (Center for Financial Development and Stability), and the Queen’s University (Conflict Analytics Lab). My research interests are in macroeconomics and monetary economics, financial economics, and econometrics.

Pilar Beneito

Pilar Beneito is Associate Professor at the Department of Economic Analysis of the University of Valencia, Spain, and affiliated researcher to the Social and Economic Behaviour Interdisciplinary Research Network, ERI-CES in Valencia. She received her Degree in Economics from the University of Valencia, and a Master of Science in Economics from University College London. Her main research areas are focused on applied industrial organization (with especial interest on competition issues, industry property rights and innovation), education economics and gender economics. She has published in Journal of Industrial Economics, International Journal of Industrial Organization, Research Policy, Oxford Economic Papers and Economics of Education Review, among others.