Speakers

Kirstin Hubrich

Kirstin Hubrich, Program Direction of Research and Statistics, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. Prior to the current assignment Kirstin was Chief of the Prices and Wages Section in the Research and Statistics Division, Principal economist in the Macroeconomic and Quantitative Studies Section, and held various positions in the Research Department of the European Central Bank. She received her Ph.D. from Humboldt University Berlin, has been a Lecturer at Goethe University Frankfurt and served in the Scientific Committee of the Euro Area Business Cycle Network.

Paul Hufe

I am a Ph.D student at the University of Munich. Throughout my Ph.D I have been visiting Cornell University (March 2017, Nov 2018) and Princeton University (Feb-Oct 2019) and FAIR at NHH Bergen (March/April 2020). My research interests lie at the intersection of public, labor and normative economics.

Quynh Huynh

I am a third year PhD student in Economics at University of Padova, Italy. I mainly work in development field and applied microeconomics. My PhD thesis focuses on the topic of education, equality and childhood poverty in Vietnam. Through empirical analysis, I study the impacts of anti-poverty program on educational achievement of children and address the issue of the widespread “shadow” education in parallel with the formal schooling system.

Maurizio Iacopetta

Francisco Ilabaca

Francisco E. Ilabaca recently joined the Office of Financial Research, U.S. Department of the Treasury as a research economist. He received his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of California, Irvine. His research examines open economy macroeconomic models under indeterminacy, inflation expectations, and the effects of unconventional U.S. policy on international markets. He has previously worked as a consultant for the World Bank, and was an IMF intern in 2018.

Yuko Imura

Yuko Imura is a Principal Researcher in the International Economic Analysis Department at the Bank of Canada. Her primary research fields are international macroeconomics and trade, monetary economics, and computational economics.

Belén Inguanzo

Current PhD student in the University of the Basque Country (UPV-EHU) and member of the BiRTE (Bilbao Research Team in Economics). The main field of research in the thesis is empirical fisheries socio-economics. Particular analyses include the distribution of common fishery resources across countries, the role of production factors on the catches inequality across European countries, the determinants of catches discarded by countries and the determinants of fish consumption in Spain.

Ka-Kit Iong

Ka-Kit Iong is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Luxembourg. He received his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Luxembourg in February 2020. His areas of research include economic growth, the economics of innovation, and population economics.

Alberto Iozzi

I am Professor of Economics at the Dept. of Economics and Finance of the Università di Roma "Tor Vergata" and Professorial Research Associate in the School of Finance and Management of SOAS, University of London. My main research areas are industrial economics and public economics. I have published articles in the J. of Public Economics, American Economic J.: Micro, J. of Urban Economics, J. of Economics & Management Strategy, J. of Regulatory Economics, J. of Public Economic Theory and Annals of Regional Sciences.

Michael Irlacher

I am an assistant professor of economics at JKU Linz and a research affiliate at CESifo. I hold a PhD from the University of Munich. My main area of specialization is international economics. Recently, I visited UC San Diego.