Speakers

Juuso Vanhala

Juuso Vanhala works as a Senior Advisor at the Monetary Policy and Research Department at the Bank of Finland. His research interests include firm growth and productivity dynamics using firm level data, search and matching models of the labour market and labor market and policy analysis using DSGE models embedding search frictions. His current responsibilities at the Bank of Finland include forecasting and monitoring the Finnish economy and the analysis of firm dynamics and labour markets from a macroeconomic perspective. He joined the Bank of Finland in 2006. He completed his doctoral studies at the University of Helsinki and University College London (UCL) and received his doctoral degree in economics in 2007. Before his current position at the Forecasting Division of Monetary Policy and Research Department at the Bank of Finland, he has worked as a Senior Research Economist at the Bank of Finland Research Unit, as an economist at the Monetary Policy and Research Department/Office for Monitoring (World Economy Team), as well as a researcher at the Department of Economics at the University of Helsinki. He is former chairman of the Finnish Economic Association.

Enrico Vanino

I am an Assistant Professor (Lecturer) at the Department of Economics of the University of Sheffield. I work on issues related to international economics, regional economics, firms' productivity and the economics of innovation. I am currently collaborating with the NIESR, and prior to joining the University of Sheffield, I have worked as a Fellow in Economic Geography at the London School of Economics.

Alexandra Varadi

Stefanija Veljanoska

Stefanija Veljanoska is a post-doctoral researcher at the Université Catholique de Louvain (Belgium). Prior to joining UCLouvain, she worked as a climate change adaptation consultant at FAO of the UN. She holds a Ph.D. from Paris School of Economics and Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. Her research interests cover adaptation to climate change, migration and remittances, agricultural production decisions and agricultural policy, water consumption, pollution and child health outcomes.

Fabrizio Venditti

Fabrizio Venditti is Senior Lead Economist in the Directorate General International at the European Central Bank (ECB) where he works on global finance and commodities. His research focuses on econometrics, the global financial cycle, commodity markets and forecasting. Before joining the ECB he worked at the Bank of Italy. He holds an MPhil in economics from Oxford University and a Ph.D. in economics from Queen Mary University of London.

Dmitry Veselov

Associate professor, Senior Researcher, International Laboratory for Macroeconomic Analysis. Research interests: Economic growth, Political economy of development, Macroeconomics. Publications: https://ideas.repec.org/f/pve274.html

Francesca Vinci

I am a doctoral candidate in macroeconomics at the University of Nottingham and a PhD Intern at the Bank of England. My research focuses on the nexus between long term growth, business cycles and monetary policy. I am also interested in structural transformation and firm dynamics. Prior to starting the PhD, I worked as an industry analyst in the tech sector, obtained a master’s degree in Economics from Nottingham and a bachelor’s degree in Economics from the University of Rome Tor Vergata.

Astrid Volckaert

After obtaining Master degrees in biomedical sciences and environmental technology, I worked for 12 years for the European ceramic trade organization, where I was mainly responsible for the environmental and innovation policies. I also managed the European and World Refractories Association. Since 2017 I am pursuing a PhD in Economics at the KU Leuven University. My main interests are in industrial organization, clusters, granularity, business dynamism and industrial competitiveness.

Paula von Haaren

Paula von Haaren holds a position as research associate and pursues her PhD at the department of Development Economics at the South Asia Institute, University of Heidelberg, Germany.
Ms. von Haaren studied Economics at the University of Heidelberg and Development Economics at Göttingen University. During her studies, she worked as a research assistant for both universities and the Courant Research Center for Poverty, Inequality and Growth. Ms. von Haaren gathered relevant practical experience in international and development cooperation during several internships and research stays at the German Development Bank (KfW), the United Nations Research Institute for Justice and Crime (UNICRI) in Turin, the International Institute of Technology (IIT) Gandhinagar and large-scale household level data collection for her research in Bihar, India. In her research, she seeks to understand poverty and inequality and their connection to female empowerment, health and social capital. A further focus of her research lies on the evaluation of welfare policies aiming to improve the lives of the poor, such as cash transfers.

Katharina von Plessen