Speakers

Viktor Slavtchev

Pawel Smietanka

Pawel is a Research Economist in the Structural Economics Division in the Monetary Analysis area. His research interests include analysing effects of economic uncertainty and other factors driving corporate decisions, in particular investment and cash holding decisions. Pawel specialises in analysing firm-level and survey data. He is part of the team that developed the Decision Maker Panel with academics from Stanford and Nottingham University. The panel is the largest timely source of firm-level data in the UK.

Jake Smith

Jake Smith is a Finance PhD candidate at the University of Texas at Dallas. His research focuses on empirical corporate finance and public economics. He received a Bachelor of Science in Finance summa cum laude from the University of South Florida Sarasota-Manatee in 2013, where he was awarded the distinction of Outstanding Senior in Finance. He received a Master of Science in Finance from the University of South Florida in 2015.

Ulf Söderström

Ulf Söderström is Head of Research at Sveriges Riksbank (the central bank of Sweden). He was previously Deputy Head of the Monetary Policy Department at the Riksbank and Head of the Modelling Division at the Monetary Policy Department. From 2003 to 2008, he was first Assistant Professor and then Associate Professor of Economics at the Department of Economics of Bocconi University in Milan, Italy, and a Research Fellow at the Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER). Ulf holds a PhD from the Stockholm School of Economics.

Adriaan Soetevent

In my research I focus on how people interact and how firms compete, applied to a range of contexts such as charitable giving, peer effects and coordination in consumption, price competition and collusion between firms. Whenever possible, I implement field experiments to establish causality. At the University of Groningen I coordinate the research line in Behavioral and Experimental economics and chair the signature area on Markets & Sustainability.

Jakob Sogaard

I am a Postdoc researcher at Center for Economic Behavior and Inequality (CEBI) at the Department of Economics, University of Copenhagen. During the academic year 2019/20 I am visiting Princeton University as part of my Maria Skłodowska-Curie fellowship. My research interests lie within the core areas of public and labor economics with focus on taxation, labor supply, optimization frictions, income and gender inequality. I work on these topics with a primarily empirical approach using reduced-form and non-parametric methods. I have a past both in and out of academia. After graduating as MSc in Economics in 2011, I started working in the Danish Ministry of Finance and I remained affiliated to the ministry during my PhD studies between 2012-2015. In the Ministry of Finance - and later the Ministry of Taxation, I worked extensively on practical policy evaluation and policy formulation using both empirical methods and economic modelling, before returning to academia in 2018.

Faisal Sohail

Lecturer (assistant professor) at University fo Melbourne. Lecturer (Assistant Professor) at the University of Melbourne. I received my PhD in economics at Washington University in St. Louis in May 2018. My primary areas of interest are firm dynamics, development economics and inequality.Graduated with a PhD in Economics from Washington University in St. Louis in 2018.

Emilia Soldani

Emilia is Assistant Professor for Labor and Applied Microeconomics at the Department of Applied Econometrics and International Economic Policy at Goethe University in Frankfurt. She received her PhD in Economics from New York University in 2015 and has worked at the NYU-Abu Dhabi Center for Technology and Economics Development (NYU-CTED), the European Training Foundation (ETF), and CeRP-Collegio Carlo Alberto. She is primarily interested in development, environmental and labor economics.

Michal Šoltés

I am a PhD Candidate at CERGE-EI, Prague and an Assistant Professor at the Department of Economics, Faculty of Law Charles University. My area of research is mainly political economy, public economics, and experiments in economics and since recently in criminology.

Jantje Sönksen

Jantje Sönksen holds a PhD from the University of Tübingen. She is an early career scientist working at the intersection of financial econometric analysis and empirical asset pricing with particular interest in assessing rare disaster risk. One of her recent research interests is the use of machine learning methods in financial economics.