Speakers

Max Mayer

Maximilian Mayer is a PhD student at the Goethe University Frankfurt. He received his B.Sc. in Economics at Humboldt University Berlin, his M.Sc. in Money and Finance at Goethe University Frankfurt. His research focuses on the theoretical and empirical analysis of labor markets with assortative matching. His recent research tries to understand the effects of automation and globalization on labor markets and the role of firm networks for the transmission of information.

Massimiliano Mazzanti

Massimiliano Mazzanti is Full Professor of Economic Policy at the University of Ferrara. He researches the economic, social and environmental effects of policies on development, labour, innovation and ecological issues. He is the Director of the Interuniversity Centre SEEDS (www.sustainability-seeds.org) and CERCIS research centre on circular economy innovation and SMEs. He is part of the Waste and Materials in a Green Economy project funded by the EEA (https://www.eionet.europa.eu/etc-wmge).

Francesco Mazzola

Francesco Mazzola is a PhD candidate in Finance at Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University. He has previously worked for the European Central Bank in the Macroprudential Policies Directorate, has received the "particularly deserving" B.Stringher scholarship by the Bank of Italy and the International program award by the Unicredit&Universities foundation. Francesco holds a double-degree MSc in Finance from Nova School of Business and Economics, in Lisbon, and LUISS Guido Carli University, in Rome. His research interests focus on financial intermediaries and corporate finance, with a special interest in banking regulation, macroprudental policies and market illiquidity.

Luca Mazzone

I have defended my PhD thesis in Spring 2020, and will be awarded a PhD from the University of Zürich. Over the past two years, I have been a visiting scholar at the University of Pennsylvania. I will join the Fiscal Affairs Department of the International Monetary Fund starting September 2020

Nigel McClung

Nigel McClung is a research economist at the Bank of Finland. His research interests include macroeconomics and learning.

Greta Meggiorini

Greta Meggiorini is a Ph.D. Candidate in Economics at the University of California, Irvine. Her research interests are macroeconomics, monetary policy and Bayesian macroeconometrics. Her work focuses on models with bounded rationality. She is currently a trainee in the Monetary Policy Strategy Division at the ECB.

Sultan Mehmood

Sultan Mehmood is a postdoctoral fellow at the Aix Marseille School of Economics. He completed his PhD in economics from University of Paris in October 2019. He will join as an assistant professor of Economics at the New Economic School in Moscow in January. His research interests are in development economics and political economy. Particularly, his research seeks to understand the conditions for establishment of Rule of Law in societies and its consequences for institutional design and development.

Valentina Melentyeva

I am currently a third-year PhD student at the Faculty of Economics in the University of Mannheim. Since September 2019 I also work as a researcher at ZEW – Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research in the "Social Policy and redistribution" department. I obtained my Bachelor degree in Economics at the joint program of the Higher School of Economics and New Economic School in Moscow. My research interests are at the intersection of Labor Economics, Gender Economics and Economics of Education.

Marko Melolinna

Diogo Mendes