Speakers

Paolo Santini

After graduating from the University of Bologna in 2015, Paolo worked as a research assistant for Oliver Vanden Eynde. In 2017, he passed a second master's degree at the Paris School of Economics and is now a PhD student there. He is interested in the study of the economic and sociological logic of group formation and particularly of trade unions. The aim is to understand the de-unionization that characterizes the labour market of most developed countries, particularly in France the United States.

Pietro Santoleri

Pietro is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute of Economics at Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies (Pisa, Italy). He recently earned a PhD in Economics jointly from Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies and Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne. He worked as consultant for UN-ECLAC, the OECD and the Bank of Italy. His primary fields are firm dynamics and entrepreneurship, with a focus on innovative young firms and the evaluation of public policies targeting them.

Carlos Sanz

Carlos Sanz is a research economist at the Banco de España. He received his Ph.D. in Economics from Princeton University (2016). His research interests lie in political economy, public economics, gender economics, and econometrics. His work has been published at the Review of Economic Studies, Scandinavian Journal of Economics, Comparative Political Studies, and Political Science Research and Methods.

Kafeel Sarwar

I am graduating from the Chair of Development Economics, Heidelberg University, Germany, in summer 2020. My research interests are in the domains of applied microeconomics and development economics. My doctoral thesis covers the three major issues of development economics. First, I analyze the poverty convergence at the subnational level of India and Pakistan. I find the presence of poverty convergence clubs in India. In the second paper, I analyze the inequality convergence at the subnational level. In the last paper, I examine how decentralized school funding helps to improve school achievements.

Aurélien Saussay

Aurélien Saussay is a Research Officer at the Grantham Research Institute at the London School of Economics. His research focuses on the economic consequences of the transition to a low carbon economy, in order to identify the social and political acceptance challenges that hamper the implementation of effective decarbonisation. More specifically, he aims to estimate the impacts of climate change mitigation on economic agents empirically to help improve the design of decarbonisation policies.

Anthony Savagar

Anthony is a senior lecturer in macroeconomics at the University of Kent. He is a visiting researcher at the Bank of England and National Institute of Economic and Social Research. He is a fellow of the Centre for Macroeconomics. His research interests are in macroeconomic theory and industrial organization. His current work focuses on endogenous entry costs in dynamic general equilibrium. He has empirical work studying market power in the UK economy.

Daniel Schaefer

Assistant Professor of Economics. Alma mater: University of Edinburgh. Areas: Macroeconomics and Labour Economics.

Sebastian Schaefers

My name is Sebastian Schaefers and I am a PhD candidate at the University of Basel. My focus is on applied economic theory and industrial organization. I am mainly interested in energy markets and economic questions arising from sustainability concerns.

Mark Schelker

Since 2013 Professor of Economics at the University of Fribourg. From 2009 to 2013 Assistant Professor at the University of St. Gallen. 2009 consultant at Oliver Wyman. 2007 PhD University of Fribourg.

Niklas Scheuer