Speakers

Damien de Walque

Senior Economist, Development Research Group

Benoit Decerf

Benoit Decerf is currently assistant professor at the University of Namur. Benoit will join the DEC Poverty and Inequality research group of the World Bank as of early 2021.

Marco Del Negro

Marco Del Negro is a Vice President in the Macroeconomics and Monetary Studies Function of the Research and Statistics Group. Mr. Del Negro's research focuses on the use of general equilibrium models in forecasting and policy analysis.

Alexia Delfino

Alexia Delfino is an applied microeconomist with interests in Personnel, Development and Behavioral Economics. Her current research explores the interplay between norms, institutions and identity in explaining differences in labour market outcomes between groups and in affecting firms’ productivity through group-based sorting. She uses a variety of research methods, such as field experiments and survey-based techniques, and frequently collaborates with organizations in both developed and developing countries. She is currently working on the impact of firms’ recruitment strategies in increasing gender diversity in public-sector frontline jobs, on the role of contract enforcement in fostering female entrepreneurship in Sub-Saharan Africa and on employee culture in a multinational bank Alexia received her PhD in Economics from the London School of Economics in May 2020. In September 2020, she will join the Department of Economics at Bocconi University as Assistant Professor.

Cyril Dell'Eva

I am currently a postdoc at university of Pretoria. During my postdoc I was also a research fellow at the South African Reserve Bank where I worked on the QPM. My fields of research are macroeconomics and international finance. I am particularly interested in the links between the Foreign Exchange market and exchange rates movements which could alter economies stability. I tackle these issues noth from an empirical and a theoritical point of view. I also explore models with adaptive learning which allows to consider non fully rational agents.

Ishak Demir

Minjie Deng

Minjie Deng is an assistant professor of Economics at Simon Fraser University. She received her PhD in economics from University of Rochester. Her research field is international macroeconomics.

Weiguang Deng

I am an associate professor of Hunan University. I received a Ph.D. from the Chinese University of Hong Kong. My research lies in the area of labor economics, behavioral and experimental economics, and applied micro-econometrics. Several academic papers have been published in authoritative journals in recent years, including Journal of Population Economics and China Economic Review. I study various topics in microeconomics mainly using dataset derived from field experiments and self-designed survey.

Ilya Dergunov

Ilya Dergunov is a postdoctoral researcher at the Research School of Finance, Actuarial Studies and Statistics at the Australian National University. He has obtained PhD in Finance at the Goethe University Frankfurt. His research interests are in the areas of asset pricing and macro finance. In particular, in his papers he analyzes how information acquisition, learning mechanisms and disagreement among investors impact economy, asset prices and investors' behavior.

Pranav Desai

I am a financial economist with interests in behavioral corporate finance, discrimination, and innovation. My current research focuses on role of cognitive biases in regulatory decisions.