Speakers

Suzanna Khalifa

Suzanna Khalifa is a PhD candidate in Economics at Aix-Marseille School of Economics (AMSE) and a teaching assistant at Aix-Marseille University, France. Her research focuses on topics related to violence against women, gender norms and marriage in Middle East. Suzanna graduated from AMSE with a master's degree in Macroeconomics and Development and an MSc in Data Analysis.

Shafaat Khan

I am an Economist at the World Bank Development Research Group. I am interested in International Trade and International Macroeconomics. My ongoing projects study the dynamic effects of changes in international trade policy and gains from trade. I completed my Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Rochester in 2020.

Laura Khoury

I am a postdoctoral researcher at the Norwegian School of Economics, interested in Labor, Public and Crime economics. I completed my PhD in 2019 at the Paris School of Economics, where I studied optimal unemployment insurance, considering on-the-job behavioral responses from workers and from firms. While I continue to explore the role of social insurance on the labor market, my current projects focus on the impact of incarceration on different outcomes related to both the offender and his network.

Seongeun Kim

Seongeun Kim is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at Sejong University, Seoul, Korea from 2017. Kim's research focuses on Macroeconomics and his interests include inequality, price stickiness, and networks. Kim has served as the Chief Editor of the Journal of Economic Integration since 2019 and had previously served as the deputy director of the Ministry of Strategy and Finance in South Korea from 2007 to 2012. Kim received his B.A. in Economics and Physics from Seoul National University and completed his Ph.D. in International Economics and Finance at Brandeis University in 2017.

Jin Yeub Kim

Jin Yeub Kim is an Assistant Professor in the School of Economics at Yonsei University in Seoul, South Korea. Previously, she worked at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Kim completed her Ph.D. at the University of Chicago in 2014 under supervision of Roger Myerson. Kim’s research interests are in bargaining theory, mechanism design, political economy and law & economics.

Lavinia Kinne

PhD student at the Department for the Economics of Education at ifo Institute, Munich, Germany; Master of Science in Economic and Social Sciences at Bocconi University, Milan, Italy; currently working on international comparisons of educational systems and the determinants of international achievement differences (especially culture, migration, and compulsory schooling reforms) as well as gender differences in the labor market in terms of salaries as well as labor-market relevant skills

Lars Kirkebøen

Lars J. Kirkebøen works on the economics of education. Topics include choices of and effects of field in higher education, school quality in primary and lower secondary school and effects of interventions in schools. While most previous studies use quasi-experimental methods, the paper presented at EEA builds on a large scale RCT. He has extensive experience from collaboration with local and central educational authorities, and has previously published in the QJE, Labour Economics and the SJE.

Rene Kirkegaard

Burcin Kisacikoglu

Burçin Kısacıkoğlu is an assistant professor of economics at the Department of Economics, Bilkent University. He received his BA and MA degrees from Bilkent University and PhD from Johns Hopkins University in 2016. He was a visiting scholar in Banque de France in 2018. His research interests are macro-finance and monetary economics.

Joris Klingen

Joris Klingen is a PhD Candidate at the department of Spatial Economics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (expected graduation 2020). He holds an MPhil in Economics and Econometrics from Tinbergen Institute, and an MSc in Spatial Transport and Environmental Economics from VU Amsterdam. His research focuses on empirical applications in transport economics and environmental economics. Currently he works on road safety, immediate effects of air pollution, and urban cycling related topics.