Speakers

Johannes Beutel

Johannes Beutel studied at the University of California at Berkeley, and at the University of Mannheim from where he received his PhD in Economics in 2017. Since 2015 he is an economist at Deutsche Bundesbank. He has published in the American Economic Review, the Journal of Monetary Economics, and the Journal of Financial Stability.

Daniele Bianchi

Daniel Bias

Postdoctoral Fellow

Patrick Bigler

Patrick is a Swiss citizen and a PhD student at the University of Bern since 2019. He conducts his research in the field of energy economics with a special focus on household preferences for new technologies and renewable resources and the implications for welfare. He graduated with a Master’s in Applied Economic Analysis from the University of Berne. In various positions at Swiss banks and most recently as a research assistant at the World Trade Institute he has gathered his first professional experiences.

Suzanne Bijkerk

After a master’s in economics, I worked for an international audit firm and bank for almost 10 years before returning to academia to pursue a PhD in economics. My research is published in the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization and forthcoming in the Journal of Labor Economics. I am interested in applied economic theory with regard to markets and organizations, information economics, and labor markets.

Katarzyna Bilicka

Katarzyna Bilicka is an Assistant Professor of Economics at Utah State University Jon M. Huntsman School of Business. She is also an International Research Fellow at the Oxford University Centre for Business Taxation. She obtained her PhD (DPhil) in June 2017 from the University of Oxford and Nuffield College. She spent a year at the National Bureau of Economic Research as a Postdoctoral Fellow in Long Term Fiscal Policy. Her research fields are public economics and public finance with a focus on corporate tax avoidance.

Alvin Birdi

Alvin Birdi is Professor of Economics Education and Associate Pro-Vice Chancellor for Education Innovation at the University of Bristol, UK. He is the Director of The Economics Network, a national body that trains lecturers and promotes innovative teaching practice in Economics, and was previously the director of Bristol's Institute for Learning and Teaching. He currently teaches environmental economics and an interdisciplinary online course on data methods for non-economists.

Laura Birg

Research interests: Industrial organization, health economics, environmental economics, international economics. Last position: Postdoc at Center for European, Governance, and Economic Development Research, University of Göttingen. PhD student at University of Kiel, Germany.

Pietro Biroli

I am an assistant professor of Economics at the University of Zurich. I obtained my PhD in economics from the University of Chicago. My research focuses on the early origins and life cycle evolution of health and human capital. I explore the importance of genetics, family investment, and early childhood interventions in explaining health and economic inequality. More broadly, I am interested in Health Economics, Social Science Genomics, and Applied Econometrics.

Sylvia Blom

Sylvia Blom is a PhD candidate in applied economics at Cornell University. Her research focuses on issues in development, health, behavior, and nutrition especially in relation to climate change and urbanization. She previously worked at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and the International Food Policy Research Institute.