Dominic Cucic
Danmarks NationalbankDominic Cucic is an Economist in the Research Unit of Danmarks Nationalbank. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from CEMFI (2020) and a B.Sc. From the University of Mannheim. His research focuses on Financial Intermediation, Financial Regulation and Corporate Finance.
Vincenzo Cuciniello
Bank of ItalyVincenzo Cuciniello is an advisor at the Monetary Analysis Division of the Bank of Italy. Before joining the Bank of Italy in 2009 he was postdoctoral faculty fellow at the Chair of International Finance of the EPFL. His main research interests are in macroeconomics, with a focus on monetary policy, business cycle, and banking. He was a Visiting Scholar at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra and Einaudi Institute for Economics and Finance. He earned his Ph.D. in Economics at the University of Siena.
Fergus Cumming
Bank of EnglandFergus joined the Bank in September 2010 and is currently a Senior Economist in the Bank’s Monetary Strategy Team where he advises policymakers on the medium-term path of policy interest rates and conducts research using multiple micro-data sources. In particular, he uses household-level and firm-level data to answer questions about the transmission of macroeconomic policy.
Ana Cusolito
World Bank GroupAna Paula Cusolito is a Senior Economist currently working at the World Bank Group (WBG) in the Finance, Competitiveness, and Innovation Global Practice. Her research interests focus on firm-level productivity, the digital economy, innovation, entrepreneurship and trade. More recently, she has been involved in several experiments to evaluate programs aimed at increasing productivity, improving access to finance, and facilitating access to markets for SMEs. During her career, Ana Paula has conducted analytical work on firm-level productivity, innovation, entrepreneurship and international trade. In recent years, Ana had a development assignment with the Chief Economist Office of the Equity, Finance, and Institutions Vice-Presidency to work on the productivity agenda. She is the co-editor of the WBG book Productivity Revisited: Shifting Paradigms in Analysis and Policy. She has also participated as core team member of WBG World Development Report 2019, Changing Nature of Work. Ana Paula has experience working mainly in the Latin America, Europa and Central Asia and Middle East regions. Ana Paula’s work has been published at the Review of Economics and Statistics, Journal of Development Economics, Journal of Banking and Financial Economics, IZA Journal of Labor and Development, and Journal of Development Effectiveness. Before working at the WBG, Ana Paula worked at the Inter-American Development Bank, as Country Economist. She has a Ph.D. in Economics from Universitat Pompeu Fabra.
Kamila Cygan-Rehm
FAU University Erlangen-NürnbergI am a postdoc in applied microeconomics at the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), where I also received my PhD in Economics in 2013. I am a Research Affiliate at CESifo, IZA, and LASER. I am also a holder of an "Add-on Fellowship for Interdisciplinary Economics" granted by the Joachim Herz Stiftung, and a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Research Data Centre (FDZ) of the German Statistical Office. My research fields include family economics, education and labor economics, and public health. Currently, I mostly focus on determinants of early childhood development.
Kristina Czura
University of GronigenI am a micro development economist based at the University of Groningen. My research focuses on i) markets and products for coping with risks and shocks, ii) organizational structures, and iii) microeconomic determinants of labor productivity and I study these topics in particular in the context of microfinance. I use both applied micro-econometric and experimental economics methods, such as randomized controlled trials, natural experiments, and lab-in-the-field experiments, and I usually collect primary data in low income countries.
Charlotte Ringdal
University of Amsterdam/Chr. Michelsen InstitutePost-doc at CREED at the University of Amsterdam and starting a new post-doc at Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI) on September 1. Also affiliated with FAIR at the Norwegian School of Economics. My main research interests are in the economics of the household, with a focus intra-household resource allocation and determinants of bargaining power.