Speakers

Andreas Ziegler

I am a second-year PhD student at CREED at the University of Amsterdam, working in behavioral and experimental economics under the supervision of Theo Offerman and Giorgia Romagnoli. I am especially interested in information effects, often within market settings.

Vinzenz Ziesemer

Kaspar Zimmermann

Kaspar Zimmermann is a PhD candidate at the Bonn Graduate School of Economics. He obtained a BSc and a MSc from the University of Bonn and was a visiting student at Yale University, the Paris School of Economics and University Pompeu Fabra during his studies. His doctoral research focuses on the intersection of macroeconomics, finance and economic history.

Thomas O. Zoerner

I am an assistant professor in macroeconomics with research interests in macroeconometrics, credit/business cycles, and non-linear models. I hold a PhD and an MSc in Economics, a BA in Anthropology. Prior to this position, I was Research Associate on a project about heterogeneous expectations in macro models. Since 2018, I am principle investigator for a project about forecasting exchange rates in a unified econometric framework. Moreover, I am a consultant for the UNIDO, visiting researcher at the Masaryk University, and the University of Salzburg.

Roberto Zotti

I am an Assistant Professor of Public Economics (tenure track) at the University of Torino and I have obtained the National Scientific Qualificationas Associate Professor of Public Economics (13/A3). I received a PhD in Public Economics from the University of Salerno and a MSc degree in Public Economics from the University of York. I am a faculty member of the PhD in Innovation for the Circular Economy (University of Torino) and Associate Editor of the Elsevier journal Socio-Economic Planning Sciences. My research interests are in the field of economics of education with a focus on higher education and local economic development, and in the field of public finance with a focus on regional economics, elections, taxation and tax competition.

Aline Zucco

Aline is a postdoctoral research at the Institute of Economic and Social Research at the Hans Boeckler Foundation. She obtained her PhD at the German Institute of Economic Research (DIW) and at the Free University Berlin in 2020. Her research interest is in gender economics and labour economics. The focus of her research is on gender pay gaps and on the evaluation of labour market policies on wages.

Gabriel Züllig

I am a PhD candidate at the University of Copenhagen and a research assistant at the Danish central bank. My research revolves around the production and pricing decisions of firms and their roles in business cycles. I apply microeconometric methods to study firms’ adjustment to shocks and derive macroeconomic implications in terms of labor markets or inflation.

Robert Zymek

Robert Zymek is a lecturer at the University of Edinburgh. He is also an affiliate of the CESifo Network, a consultant at the Bank of England, and the executive director of the centre on the “Credit and Labour-Market Foundations of the Macroeconomy” (MacCaLM). His research interests are international trade and macroeconomics. His research has addressed topics such as the origins of trade imbalances; trade and productivity; the benefits of currency unions; and the costs of sovereign default.

Lennard Zyska

I am a Ph.D candidate in economics at KU Eichstätt-Ingolstadt. My fields of research are Applied Microeconomics, Public Economics and Distributional Economics. I am interested in exploring how tax and social policy causes behavioral responses of individuals and the (unintended) economic consequences thereof. Prior to KU Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, I received a B.A. from BSEL and an M.Sc. from FU Berlin. I visited NHH Bergen in 2018 and NYU in 2019.