Speakers

Rhys Llewellyn Thomas

Rhys is an applied Economist completing a PhD at the University of Southampton. His speciality is in applying econometric methods to health-related research questions. He has a particular interest in public policy and inequality, however, his job market paper has more of a behavioural focus. Before starting his PhD studies, Rhys obtained a BSc. and MSc. in Economics both also at the University of Southampton. During his PhD studies, Rhys has also spent some time at the Department for Education.

Anna Thoresson

Anna Thoresson is a Ph.D. Candidate at the Department of Economics, Uppsala University and IFAU. Anna's research interests are in labour economics and applied microeconomics, with a focus on wage determination and wage differences. She is currently working on topics related to wages and monopsony power, and native-immigrant earnings gaps and firm productivity. Anna was a Visiting Fellow at Harvard University in autumn 2018. She holds a master’s degree in economics from UCL.

Claire Thürwächter

I am a Ph.D. student at the Institute for International Economic Studies at Stockholm University. In current work I investigate the role of firm heterogeneity for monetary policy transmission using both empirical methods and macroeconomic models. I started my graduate studies in the fall of 2017. Previously, I worked as a research assistant at the Bundesbank and the ifo Institute, and as a trainee in the Monetary Policy Strategy Division at the European Central Bank.

Yuan Tian

Yuan Tian is an assistant professor at the University of Nottingham. She received her Ph.D. in economics from the University of California, Los Angeles in 2018 and worked at Carnegie Mellon University from 2018 to 2020 as a postdoc researcher. She is an applied-micro economist working at the intersection of trade and development, and her research focuses on how increased opportunities in trade and migration affect economic institutions, economic outcomes, and individual behavior.

Johanna Tiedemann

Johanna Tiedemann is a PhD candidate in Economics at the Adam Smith Business School , University of Glasgow. Currently, she is part of the Fund Internship Programme 2020 at the International Monetary Fund. She works in the fields of Labour Economics and Macroeconomics and her research aims to understand factors that affect income risk and the underlying income dynamics and this is combined with real-policy evaluation to understand the mitigation of income risk in the United Kingdom. She applies empirical methods together with quantitative structural models to address questions of measurement of labour income risk, evaluation of insurance mechanisms, and the impact on labour market mobility. Tiedemann holds a MSc in Economic Development, with Merit from the University of Glasgow (2016) and a BSc in Economics and Business Economics from Maastricht University (2015).

Joris Tielens

Linh Tô

Linh Tô is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at Boston University. Linh works on topics in labor, public, and behavioral economics. Her work involves using quasi-experimental methods and administrative datasets as well as experimental methods to understand labor market outcomes, social interactions, and household decisions with an emphasis on the role of information and beliefs.

Lukas Tomberg

Lukas Tomberg studied economics at the universities of Cologne and Bochum, Germany. Since 2018 he is a PhD student at RWI - Leibniz Institute for Economic Research and at the Ruhr Graduate School in Economics. His research interests are experimental economics, applied econometrics, behavioral economics, environmental economics, and energy economics

Sebastian Tonke

I am a PostDoc at the Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods in Bonn. I completed my PhD in 2019 at the University of Cologne. My research focuses on behavioral public policy, development and environmental economics. I conduct large-scale field experiments to study how social norms, information provision, identity concerns and self-control shape human behavior.

Alessandro Toppeta

I am currently a PhD student in Economics at University College London. I hold a BSc in Economics and Social Sciences from Bocconi University and an MSc in Economics from University College London. I am interested in labour economics, with a focus on human capital accumulation in developed and developing countries. I study the role of expectation formation in fostering investment in skills and reducing poverty.