Speakers

Eleonora Freddi

I’m a behavioral economist and I use experimental and econometrics methods to investigate strategic behaviors of individuals. I have a specific interest in empirical applications of strategic ignorance, discrimination and bequest motives. After obtaining a PhD from Stockholm School of Economics and spending two years as assistant professor at Tilburg University, I joined Telenor Research, where I am working on attitudes towards privacy, trust and consumer perceptions of fair pricing.

Naomi Friedman-Sokuler

Naomi is an assistant professor (tenure-track) in the Economics department at Bar-Ilan University in Israel. Her research focuses on the complex relationships between gender and ethnicity/race and economic outcomes. Specifically the ways social norms and institutions foster or inhibit processes of social mobility, inclusion and equality. She received her PhD from Ben Gurion University in 2017 for her dissertation using administrative data on Israeli students to empirically analyze gender streaming patterns in STEM matriculation electives, focusing on choice and its relationship to ethnicity and individual characteristics. Naomi is also a member of Masar Institute for Education, Nazareth, in the development of innovative and sustainable educational practices and theory, as tools for social inclusion and community empowerment.

Christian Friedrich

Christian Friedrich is a Principal Researcher in the International Economic Analysis Department at the Bank of Canada. His research interests are located in the fields of international macroeconomics and international finance. Christian Friedrich holds a Ph.D. in International Economics from the Graduate Institute in Geneva, Switzerland.

Fulvia Fringuellotti

Fulvia Fringuellotti is an economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Her current research focuses on financial intermediation, household finance and corporate finance. Fulvia holds a Ph.D. in banking and finance from the University of Zurich in Switzerland.

Jan Philipp Fritsche

Jan Philipp Fritsche is a research associate at DIW. His research concentrates on applied macroeconomics and financial economics. He is part of the research group on “Macroeconomic fundamentals and asset prices – state dependence and implications for the conduct of monetary policy”. Moreover, he conducts research on monetary policy, money and swap markets, systemic risk & uncertainty, and fiscal policy. He wrote policy publications on the euro as a common currency, the ECBs toolbox, helicopter money, the Basel III regulatory framework, the negative income tax and policy responses to the corona pandemic.

Maren Froemel

Jonathan Fu

Jonathan Fu is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Zurich's Department of Banking and Finance, affiliated with the Center for Sustainable Finance and Private Wealth and Center for Human Rights Studies. He completed his PhD in Management and Economics in 2019 at the University of Zurich. He also holds a Master's degree in Public and Economic Policy from the London School of Economics and Bachelors degrees in Economics and Political Science from the University of California, San Diego. His research interests include financial intermediation (particularly in underbanked or unbanked areas), digital finance and fintech, development economics, and political economy.

Cristina Fuentes-Albero

Cristina Fuentes-Albero holds a BA and a MSc in Economics from the Universitat de Valencia and a MA and a PhD in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania. She worked as an Assistant Professor in Economics at Rutgers University from 2010 to 2013, when she joined the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System as an economist. Currently, she is a Principal Economist at the Research and Statistics Division of the Federal Reserve Board. She has published her work on macroeconomics and econometrics at Journal of Monetary Economics, Journal of Econometrics, European Economic Review, and Journal of Money, Credit and Banking.

Luisa Fuster

Fédéric Holm-Hadulla

Fédéric Holm-Hadulla is an Adviser in the Directorate General Monetary Policy of the ECB. Before joining the ECB, Fédéric worked as a researcher at the Ifo Institute for Economic Research in Munich. He holds a Master’s degree and a PhD in economics from Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich and from Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg, respectively. His research interests cover monetary, urban and financial economics.