Istvan Konya
Centre for Economic and Regional Studies and University of PécsIstvan Konya earned his PhD in economics from Northwestern University in 2001. He started his carrier at Boston College, then joined the Research Department at the National Bank of Hungary. He is currently a Research Advisor at the Centre for Economic and Regional Studies, a Full Professor at the University of Pécs, and an Adjunct Professor at Central European University. His main research and teaching interests are Economic Growth, Open Economy Macroeconomics, and Macroeconomics of the Labor Market.
Paweł Kopiec
Narodowy Bank PolskiPaweł Kopiec works as an expert at Narodowy Bank Polski (central bank of Poland) and is an assistant professor at Warsaw School of Economics. His main scientific interests include models with heterogeneous agents and fiscal policy. He obtained his PhD in 2016 at the EUI.
Darya Korlyakova
CERGE-EIDarya is a PhD student at CERGE-EI in Prague. Her broad research interests include Experimental economics and Behavioral economics. Currently, she uses survey experiments to identify when raising awareness about ethnic discrimination is particularly effective. She is also interested in (i) individuals' excuses for discriminatory behavior and (ii) consequences of misperceiving discrimination.
Rainer Kotschy
LMU MunichRainer Kotschy is an assistant professor of economics at LMU Munich. He studied economics at LMU Munich and received his doctorate in economics in 2018. In his research, he investigates the determinants of economic development with a particular focus on demography and population health. In his job market paper, he shows that major improvements in population health raised aggregate incomes in the United States over the episode 1960—2000 and that this effect varied across age cohorts.
Anna Koukal
University of Fribourg, and Swiss Distance University InstituteMy research interests lie in the field of political economy, gender economics and cultural economics. I am a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Fribourg and the Swiss Distance University Institute. I am currently working on the following questions: Under which circumstances are citizens willing to share power with non-citizens, women or young adults? How does democratic integration affect integration in more general? How do cultural leaders affect behavior of group members? Under which circumstances is direct democracy harmful for weak societal groups? Which factors drive the political participation of women?
Demetris Koursaros
Cyprus University of TechnologyDr. Demetris Koursaros is a lecturer in the Department of Commerce, Finance and Shipping (CFS) at the Cyprus University of Technology (CUT) since 2012. He holds a Bachelor in Economics, (Honors) from the Department of Economics of the University of Cyprus. He holds 2 postgraduate degrees from Columbia University (MA and MPhil) and a PhD in Macroeconomics and Finance from Columbia University, New York. His main research interests are macroeconomics and monetary policy as well as topics in labor economics and finance. Most of his work focuses in business cycles and specifically investigates ways to mitigate recessions and boost economic growth. In addition, he investigates unemployment and inflation responses during and after a crisis with a focus on policy recommendations that can reverse the adverse effects, especially on the labor market. He is also a board member of the Cyprus Finance Corporation where he is a member of the risk committee and head of the technology committee that oversees the technological upgrade of the firm. He is also a member of a committee that serves as an adviser to members of the parliament in topics in economics and finance for policy analysis.
Roy Kouwenberg
Mahidol UniversityRoy Kouwenberg is Professor Finance and Chair of the Ph.D. Program at Mahidol Unversity in Bangkok, and visiting researcher at the Erasmus School of Economics, Erasmus University Rotterdam, in the Netherlands. His research interests include behavioural economics and finance, especially focusing on the impact of loss aversion and ambiguity aversion on portfolio choice. Roy’s work has been published in the Journal of Financial Economics, Management Science and the Review of Economics & Statistics, amongst others. Roy has worked as a quantitative analyst in asset management and he is a CFA charterholder. He received his Ph.D. in Finance from Erasmus University Rotterdam and serves as an associate editor of the Journal of Pension Economics and Finance.
Peter Kruse-Andersen
University of CopenhagenI am an assistant professor at the Department of Economics, University of Copenhagen. My main areas of research are economic growth and environmental economics.
Per Krusell
IIES StockholmPer Krusell is EEA's current president, a professor at Stockholm University, and a Centennial Professor at the London School of Economics. He obtained a PhD from the University of Minnesota. He subsequently held assistant-professor positions at Northwestern University and the University of Pennsylvania, as well as full-professor positions at the University of Rochester and Princeton University. He has received numerous awards and grants, among them several National Science Foundation grants, the 2007 Söderberg Prize and an advanced ERC grant. Krusell's research focuses on macroeconomics, broadly defined, with particular contributions in the areas of technological change, inequality, political economy, macroeconomic policy, and labor economics. He is also pursuing a long-term project on the interactions between global sustainability, in particular climate change, and the economy. Finally, he is currently studying the implications of the corona virus on the economy.
Balazs Krusper
Central European UniversityI am a PhD candidate at the Department of Economics and Business at Central European University. I spent the 2019 Spring semester at the Department of Economics at Harvard University as a visiting student. My broad research interest lies in behavioral and experimental economics. Currently, I am studying how making a choice affect beliefs about products in the choice set and what are the consequences when individuals interact in a market setting.