Speakers

Elena Perazzi

Pietro Peretto

Peretto is a macroeconomist who studies the sources and effects of technological change mainly using endogenous growth theory. With this focus, he has studied international trade, growth and innovation, market structure, corporate taxation, industrial organization, development and the environment, R&D, and more. He has been publishing his research for nearly three decades and has had his work appear in books and leading academic journals. He is Associate Editor of the Journal of Economic Growth.

Anna Pestova

Anna is a third year Ph.D. student at CERGE-EI, a joint workplace of the Charles University in Prague and the Economics Institute of The Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic. Anna received B.A. and M.A. from the Lomonosov Moscow State University and Candidate of Science in Economics from the National Research University – Higher School of Economics (NRU HSE). After graduating, she has worked at the Institute of Economic Forecasting and at the Center for Macroeconomic Analysis and Short-term Forecasting (CMASF) in Moscow, Russia. Anna was the Head of Macro-Financial Research Unit at CMASF and Senior Research Fellow at NRU HSE. There she had worked on the numerous applied projects in the interests of ministries and governmental bodies. Anna received several grants for her research from the Russian Foundation for Fundamental Studies, the Economic Educational and Research Consortium, Grant Agency of the Charles University, and MGIMO University. Her research interests lie in the area of applied macroeconomics, in particular, she is interested in understanding business cycle fluctuations, investigating the effects of credit supply shocks, and cross-border capital flows.

Radomir Pestow

Maria Petrova

Maria Petrova is an ICREA Research Professor at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra. She received my PhD from Harvard University in 2008. She is a Co-Editor of the Journal of Public Economics and a member of the Editorial Board of the Review of Economic Studies. She recently got a European Research Council Starting Grant for a five-year project EXTREME ("The Rise and Fall of Populism and Extremism") for 2019-2024.

Vincenzo Pezone

I am an Assistant Professor of Finance at the Goethe University in Frankfurt, Germany. My research interests are in Corporate Finance and Behavioral Economics.

Myroslav Pidkuyko

Research Economist at the DG Economics, Statistics and Research (Microeconomic Studies Division) at Banco de España. Received my PhD in Economics from The University of Manchester in 2019.

Paolo Pinotti

Paolo Pinotti is an applied economist with interests in labor and political economy. He is Endowed Associate Professor in the Economic Analysis of Crime at Bocconi University, where he directs the CLEAN Centre for the Economic Analysis of Crime. He currently holds an ERC Consolidator Grant for the project "Clean Evidence on Dirty Deeds". He obtained his Ph.D. from Universitat Pompeu Fabra in 2009, and worked at the Research Department of the Bank of Italy between 2007 and 2011.

Gabor Pinter

Gabor Pinter is a Senior Adviser at the Bank of England. He studied Economics at Cardiff (MSc), Cambridge (PhD, 2013) and Princeton (Visiting), and Mathematics at King’s College London (Diploma). His research interest lies in the interaction between financial markets and the macroeconomy. He published in leading academic journals such as the American Economic Review, International Economic Review and Economic Journal.

Thibaut Piquard

I am an economist at the macroprudential policy division - financial stability department at Banque de France, and currently a PhD student at Paris School of Economics. My research interests lie in the field of financial economics, I currently work on central clearing and financial derivatives.