Speakers

Sophie Cottet

I am a PhD candidate at Paris School of Economics and a junior economist at Institut des politiques publiques (IPP). I started my PhD in January 2018, after having worked 3 years at the IPP, mostly on the impact of subsidies to firms and on the effects of taxes and transfers on households. My thesis aims at exploring the wide-range effects, both on firm behavior and on workers, of payroll taxes in particular, and of labor costs in general. My research interests are labor and public economics.

Edmund Crawley

Edmund received his PhD from Johns Hopkins University in 2019. He is now an economist at the Federal Reserve Board, having previously worked in finance and at the IMF. He is interested in household finance, consumption and monetary policy.

Bruno Crepon

Daniel Croner

I am currently employed as a postdoctoral researcher on a project about climate policy delegation. My research interests comprise all issues of environmental economics. In my work so far, I was specializing on Directed Technical Change, Input-Output Analysis, Environment and Trade and International Environmental Agreements. I graduated from the University of Regensburg with a Diploma in Mathematics in 2012. In 2017 I obtained my Doctoral Degree in economics from TU Vienna.

Dominic Cucic

Dominic Cucic is an Economist in the Research Unit of Danmarks Nationalbank. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from CEMFI (2020) and a B.Sc. From the University of Mannheim. His research focuses on Financial Intermediation, Financial Regulation and Corporate Finance.

Vincenzo Cuciniello

Vincenzo Cuciniello is an advisor at the Monetary Analysis Division of the Bank of Italy. Before joining the Bank of Italy in 2009 he was postdoctoral faculty fellow at the Chair of International Finance of the EPFL. His main research interests are in macroeconomics, with a focus on monetary policy, business cycle, and banking. He was a Visiting Scholar at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra and Einaudi Institute for Economics and Finance. He earned his Ph.D. in Economics at the University of Siena.

Fergus Cumming

Fergus joined the Bank in September 2010 and is currently a Senior Economist in the Bank’s Monetary Strategy Team where he advises policymakers on the medium-term path of policy interest rates and conducts research using multiple micro-data sources. In particular, he uses household-level and firm-level data to answer questions about the transmission of macroeconomic policy.

Ana Cusolito

Ana Paula Cusolito is a Senior Economist currently working at the World Bank Group (WBG) in the Finance, Competitiveness, and Innovation Global Practice. Her research interests focus on firm-level productivity, the digital economy, innovation, entrepreneurship and trade. More recently, she has been involved in several experiments to evaluate programs aimed at increasing productivity, improving access to finance, and facilitating access to markets for SMEs. During her career, Ana Paula has conducted analytical work on firm-level productivity, innovation, entrepreneurship and international trade. In recent years, Ana had a development assignment with the Chief Economist Office of the Equity, Finance, and Institutions Vice-Presidency to work on the productivity agenda. She is the co-editor of the WBG book Productivity Revisited: Shifting Paradigms in Analysis and Policy. She has also participated as core team member of WBG World Development Report 2019, Changing Nature of Work. Ana Paula has experience working mainly in the Latin America, Europa and Central Asia and Middle East regions. Ana Paula’s work has been published at the Review of Economics and Statistics, Journal of Development Economics, Journal of Banking and Financial Economics, IZA Journal of Labor and Development, and Journal of Development Effectiveness. Before working at the WBG, Ana Paula worked at the Inter-American Development Bank, as Country Economist. She has a Ph.D. in Economics from Universitat Pompeu Fabra.

Kamila Cygan-Rehm

I am a postdoc in applied microeconomics at the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), where I also received my PhD in Economics in 2013. I am a Research Affiliate at CESifo, IZA, and LASER. I am also a holder of an "Add-on Fellowship for Interdisciplinary Economics" granted by the Joachim Herz Stiftung, and a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Research Data Centre (FDZ) of the German Statistical Office. My research fields include family economics, education and labor economics, and public health. Currently, I mostly focus on determinants of early childhood development.

Kristina Czura

I am a micro development economist based at the University of Groningen. My research focuses on i) markets and products for coping with risks and shocks, ii) organizational structures, and iii) microeconomic determinants of labor productivity and I study these topics in particular in the context of microfinance. I use both applied micro-econometric and experimental economics methods, such as randomized controlled trials, natural experiments, and lab-in-the-field experiments, and I usually collect primary data in low income countries.