Speakers

Martin Benedikt Busch

I try to improve our understanding of how the structure of social and economic networks affects human behavior. I study how perceptions of one’s social environment shapes one’s decisions, why the structure of our environment matters, and how it evolves over time. Due to the endogenous nature of social networks, I use economic theory to disentangle competing effects that are usually not separable using observational network data. Whenever possible, I use the laboratory to test network effects in isolation.

Thomas Buser

I am an empirical microeconomist who is interested in the origins and economic effects of personality traits. I use a wide range of data collection methods including lab experiments and field experiments as well as administrative and survey data. I am particularly interested in the impact of individual traits on career choices and career outcomes and a lot of my research is concerned with individual differences in willingness to compete and reactions to feedback. I am currently an associate professor at the University of Amsterdam. I have published in leading economics journals including QJE and AEJ: Applied, and recently received an ERC Starting grant.

Christian Bustamante

Christian Bustamante is a Senior Economist in the Financial Stability Department at the Bank of Canada. He is a quantitative macroeconomist with interest in monetary economics, firm dynamics and heterogeneity. His research focuses on understanding the role of financial factors in heterogeneous agent monetary economies. He received his Ph.D. in Economics from the Ohio State University.

Undral Byambadalai

I am a PhD candidate in the Department of Economics at Boston University. My primary research interests are in econometric theory and applied econometrics. I am also interested in applied microeconomics. Prior to my graduate studies, I received a Bachelor of Commerce and Management from Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo, Japan.

Jana Cahlikova

Jana Cahlikova is a postoctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Tax Law and Public Finance in Munich. She received her Ph.D. from CERGE-EI in Prague in 2016. Jana is a behavioral and experimental economist. In her research, Jana focuses mainly on the dark side of human social behavior, such as hostility, discrimination, and behavior under acute stress. She runs economic experiments in various countries to study how social environment affects these types of choices.

Selcen Cakir

I am an economist who uses tools from search theory in labor economics and industrial organizations to model the interactions between political agents and estimate the effects of frictions in the political markets on political outcomes. I use both structural and reduced-form methods in my empirical work. I completed my PhD at the University of Virginia in 2018. Since then, I have been working as an Assistant Professor of Economics at Bogazici University in Istanbul.

Raphael Calel

Daniele Caliari

I am a PhD Student at QMUL. My research interests are Behavioural and Experimental economics with reference to Decision Theory and Stochastic Choice.

Sebastian Camarero Garcia

Sebastian holds a bachelor’s degree in economics from the University of St. Gallen in Switzerland. After gaining professional experience as an analyst at the Deutsche Bundesbank and at Deutsche Bank Research in Frankfurt am Main, he successfully completed the master’s programme in economics at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). Subsequently, he received a second master’s degree in economic research from the University of Mannheim in 2016. In the academic year 2015/16, Sebastian successfully completed the PhD field course sequence in the economics department of the University of California at Berkeley. From 2017 to summer 2020, he has successfully completed his doctoral dissertation in the fields of Labour Economics and Public Finance at University of Mannheim. For this purpose, he was spending the first half of 2018 as a visiting research student at LSE’s economics department and at the Centre for Economic Performance (CEP). He has been a scholarship holder of the German National Merit Foundation and the Cusanuswerk. Since 2017, he has been a researcher at the Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW Mannheim).

Andrea Canidio

I'm assistant professor of Economics at IMT School for Advanced Studies in Lucca (Italy), where I teach Microeconomic Theory to PhD students. I'm also fellow of the Stone research center at INSEAD, Fontainebleau (France), where I teach Game Theory to MBA students. My research interests are political economy, innovation and entrepreneurship, contracts and organizations, development economics.