Speakers

Merike Kukk

Dr. Merike Kukk is Assoc. Prof. at Tallinn University of Technology (Taltech), head of the master program in Applied Economics, and a part-time researcher at the central bank of Estonia. Her research topics cover household borrowing, saving, consumption and tax behaviour, gender inequality and intra-household resource allocation, as well as interactions between financial markets and the real economy. She is teaching master seminar, microeconomics and public economics in the master program.

Yuliya Kulikova

Yuliya Kulikova graduated from Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona in 2016. Since then she is a Research Economist at the Bank of Spain. Her main interests are in Labour Economics and Family Economics, with the special focus on Health, Intergenerational Mobility and interaction of Economics with Genetics.

Michael Kumhof

Michael Kumhof is Senior Advisor in the Bank of England’s Research Hub. His previous position was Deputy Division Chief, Economic Modeling Division, IMF. His main research interests are monetary reform (CBDC and full reserve banking), the macroeconomic role of banks, economic inequality, and fossil fuel depletion. Michael taught economics at Stanford University from 1998 to 2004. He worked in corporate banking, for Barclays Bank PLC, from 1988 to 1993. His work has been published by AER, JME, AEJ Macro, JIE, JEDC, JMCB, EER, and JoMacro, among others. Dr. Kumhof is a citizen of Germany.

Martin Kuncl

Santanu Kundu

I am a PhD student at the University of Mannheim, Germany. My research interests lies in empirical corporate finance, climate finance and understanding the role of finance in society (very broadly). Prior to joining University of Mannheim in 2017, I completed my M.Sc. in Finance from the Erasmus University Rotterdam.

Yusuke Kuroishi

I am a PhD Candidate in Economics at the London School of Economics. I am on the academic job market this year and will be available for interviews at the 2020 EEA meetings and the 2020 ASSA meetings. My primary fields are development economics and international trade and my secondary field is environmental economics.

Hyeokmoon Kweon

Hyeokmoon Kweon studied English linguistics and economics during his bachelor. After completing a Msc in development economics at the University of Manchester, he continued his study in the research master program at Tinbergen Institute. He is now a PhD candidate in economics at VU Amsterdam, where his main research uses genetic and brain-imaging data to investigate the intergenereational transmission of socioeconomic outcomes and health.

Olexiy Kyrychenko

Olexiy Kyrychenko is a PhD Candidate at CERGE, Charles University, and a Junior Researcher at the Economics Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences. He received his MA in Economics, CERGE-EI, Czechia (2015). Recently, he held visiting positions at UC Berkeley and Princeton University. Before CERGE-EI, he was an Associate Professor at ZNTU, Ukraine (2012), and a Fulbright Scholar Award recipient (2011). He received his Ukrainian MA and PhD in International Economic Relations in 1999 and 2010.

Daniel te Kaat

I am an Assistant Professor of Finance at the University of Groningen, working mostly on issues related to international finance, in particular on the interaction between international capital flows, financial system stability and the real economy.

Katharina Wedel

I am a doctoral student at the ifo institute for the Economics of Education (Munich). After graduating from Lund University, Sweden, with a Master in Economics, I started my PhD studies in July 2019. My main interests are the economics of education and labor economics. I work on a project evaluating the effectiveness of a mentoring program for students in Germany. Besides, I examine the relation between instruction time, teacher qualifications and student achievement in an international context.