Speakers

Paola Conconi

Paola Conconi is a Professor of Economics at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, a member of the European Center for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics (ECARES) and Research Associate of the Fund for Scientific Research (FNRS). She received a B.A. in Political Science from the University of Bologna, a M.A. in International Relations from the School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) of Johns Hopkins University, a M.Sc. and a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Warwick. Her main research interests are in international trade, firm organization, and political economy. She is a Research Fellow of the CEPR International Trade and Regional Economics Program, a CESifo Research Fellow, a Research Associate of the Centre for Economic Performance of the London School of Economics, and the Director of the CEPR Research Network on Global Value Chains, Trade and Development. She has been awarded by the European Research Council (ERC) an Advanced Research Grant to fund her work on “Trade Agreements and Supply Chains”. She has published in several leading economics journals including the American Economic Review, the Review of Economic Studies, and the Journal of Political Economy.

Nathan Converse

Nathan Converse is a principal economists in the Division of International Finance at the Federal Reserve Board. His research examines the drivers of international capital flows as well as their effects on recipient economies.

Pierluigi Conzo

I’m Associate Professor of Economics at the Dept. of Economics & Statistics “Cognetti de Martiis” of the Univ. of Turin, and affiliate at Collegio Carlo Alberto. My research topics include social preferences, subjective well-being, immigration and development. I use experimental- and applied-economics methods such as fieldworks, lab-experiments, policy evaluation tools and analysis of survey data. I founded and currently lead the experimental center CLOSER with the aim of bringing together scholars from different fields for a broader understanding of human behavior.

Felix Corell

Felix Corell is a 4th year PhD student at the European University Institute in Florence (Advisors: Piero Gottardi (now University of Essex) and Giacomo Calzolari). Felix is working on banking, financial stability, and sovereign debt topics, both theoretically and empirically. Currently Felix is working at the European Central Bank as a student research assistant (DG Research) under the supervision of Caterina Mendicino and Melina Papoutsi. He will be on the job market in 2021/22.

Lucia Corno

Lucia Corno is associate professor in the Department of Economics and Finance at Cattolica University and Executive Director of the Laboratory for Effective Antipoverty Policies (LEAP) at Bocconi University. She received her PhD in Economics from Bocconi (2009) and she was graduate visiting scholar at the University of Berkeley (2008). Before joining Cattolica, she held academic positions at University College London and Queen Mary University. Her primary research field is development economics, focusing on topics such as HIV/AIDS, ethnicity, stereotypes and social norms. Prof. Corno recently received an ERC Starting Grant to study the reasons behind the persistence of harmful traditions (i.e. female genital cutting) in developing countries.

Sena Coskun

I am a macroeconomist at Uni Mannheim. I was born in Turkey, received my Masters in Toulouse, France and received my PhD at Northwestern University. I have two children. In my research, I focus on family economics. My current research includes topics on family labor supply, gender differences in employment dynamics, fertility around business cycles.

Sophie Cottet

I am a PhD candidate at Paris School of Economics and a junior economist at Institut des politiques publiques (IPP). I started my PhD in January 2018, after having worked 3 years at the IPP, mostly on the impact of subsidies to firms and on the effects of taxes and transfers on households. My thesis aims at exploring the wide-range effects, both on firm behavior and on workers, of payroll taxes in particular, and of labor costs in general. My research interests are labor and public economics.

Edmund Crawley

Edmund received his PhD from Johns Hopkins University in 2019. He is now an economist at the Federal Reserve Board, having previously worked in finance and at the IMF. He is interested in household finance, consumption and monetary policy.

Bruno Crepon

Daniel Croner

I am currently employed as a postdoctoral researcher on a project about climate policy delegation. My research interests comprise all issues of environmental economics. In my work so far, I was specializing on Directed Technical Change, Input-Output Analysis, Environment and Trade and International Environmental Agreements. I graduated from the University of Regensburg with a Diploma in Mathematics in 2012. In 2017 I obtained my Doctoral Degree in economics from TU Vienna.