Speakers

Elmar Hillebrand

Beat Hintermann

Ph.D. from University of Maryland. In Basel since 2010. Currently associate professor of public and environmental economics. Research interests: Environmental economics, transportaton economics, policy evaluation

Marc Hinterschweiger

Marc Hinterschweiger is a Senior Economist in the Prudential Policy Directorate at the Bank of England. His work focuses on macroprudential housing and bank capital instruments. His research interests include the interaction of policy tools and their disaggregated effects on different sectors of the economy and households.

Brigitte Hochmuth

I am a PhD Student at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (FAU) and a Junior Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies (IHS) Vienna.
Brigitte Hochmuth is a PhD candidate in Macroeconomics at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg and a Junior Fellow at the Institute for Advances Studies Vienna. She holds a Bachelor's degree from the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration and a Masters from the University of Innsbruck. She completed research visits at Deutsche Bundesbank, the European Commission and NYU Abu Dhabi. Her research focuses on macro- and labor economics as well as applied econometrics. My research interests cover Macroeconomics, especially Macro Labor and Open Economy Macro, as well as Applied Econometrics. I work on the macroeconomic effects of labor market policies (such as short-time work and reforms of the unemployment benefit system) in closed and open economies. Currently, I also work on the interaction of financial frictions and the labor market.

Michael Hofmann

Michael Hofmann is a second-year PhD Student in Economics at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich. He completed his bachelor’s and master’s studies at LMU Munich and spent a term abroad at Maastricht University. Michael’s research interests lie in a range of topics in applied microeconomics. Currently he is focusing on behavioral as well as organizational economics.

Tom Holden

Researcher in macroeconomics at the Deutsche Bundesbank. Formerly a Lecturer (AP) at the University of Surrey. DPhil Oxford 2013.

Swarnodeep Homroy

Swarnodeep Homroy is an assistant professor at the University of Groningen. He received a PhD in economics from the University of Lancaster. His main research areas are corporate finance, political economics and the economics of gender.

Mikkel Houmark

I am a Danish PhD student. My main interests are in human development and skill formation. So far, my research has focused on how skills, both cognitive and non-cognitive, are shaped by early life investments, education and the interaction between nature and nurture.

Isabel Hovdahl

Isabel Hovdahl is completing her PhD in the Department of Economics at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). She has held visiting positions at University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy and at BI Norwegian Business School Centre for Applied Macroeconomics and Commodity Prices. Her primary research interest is in environmental economics, with a focus on the estimation of the social and economic impacts of climate change. In her work, she focuses on incorporating new insights from the climate sciences, as well as applying new methods from machine learning, in empirical research on climate change.

Thea How Choon

Thea is a recent PhD graduate of Boston University, with research interests in microeconomic theory and political economy. Her current research looks at special interests' incentives for information revelation and the impact of gender representation on local government in the United States. She holds a Bachelor's Degree from the University of Cambridge and will be joining the Economics department at St Lawrence University in Fall 2020.