Speakers

Francesco Mazzola

Francesco Mazzola is a PhD candidate in Finance at Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University. He has previously worked for the European Central Bank in the Macroprudential Policies Directorate, has received the "particularly deserving" B.Stringher scholarship by the Bank of Italy and the International program award by the Unicredit&Universities foundation. Francesco holds a double-degree MSc in Finance from Nova School of Business and Economics, in Lisbon, and LUISS Guido Carli University, in Rome. His research interests focus on financial intermediaries and corporate finance, with a special interest in banking regulation, macroprudental policies and market illiquidity.

Luca Mazzone

I have defended my PhD thesis in Spring 2020, and will be awarded a PhD from the University of Zürich. Over the past two years, I have been a visiting scholar at the University of Pennsylvania. I will join the Fiscal Affairs Department of the International Monetary Fund starting September 2020

Nigel McClung

Nigel McClung is a research economist at the Bank of Finland. His research interests include macroeconomics and learning.

Greta Meggiorini

Greta Meggiorini is a Ph.D. Candidate in Economics at the University of California, Irvine. Her research interests are macroeconomics, monetary policy and Bayesian macroeconometrics. Her work focuses on models with bounded rationality. She is currently a trainee in the Monetary Policy Strategy Division at the ECB.

Sultan Mehmood

Sultan Mehmood is a postdoctoral fellow at the Aix Marseille School of Economics. He completed his PhD in economics from University of Paris in October 2019. He will join as an assistant professor of Economics at the New Economic School in Moscow in January. His research interests are in development economics and political economy. Particularly, his research seeks to understand the conditions for establishment of Rule of Law in societies and its consequences for institutional design and development.

Valentina Melentyeva

I am currently a third-year PhD student at the Faculty of Economics in the University of Mannheim. Since September 2019 I also work as a researcher at ZEW – Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research in the "Social Policy and redistribution" department. I obtained my Bachelor degree in Economics at the joint program of the Higher School of Economics and New Economic School in Moscow. My research interests are at the intersection of Labor Economics, Gender Economics and Economics of Education.

Marko Melolinna

Diogo Mendes

Caterina Mendicino

Caterina Mendicino is Lead Economist at the Monetary Policy Research Division of the DG-Research of the European Central Bank. Her major field of expertise is quantitative macroeconomics, with particular emphasis on the real and redistributive effects of financial frictions, monetary and macro-prudential policy. She holds a Ph.D from the Stockholm School of Economics - Stockholm, Sweden - and a B.S. from the University of Rome III - Rome, Italy. Prior to joining the Monetary Policy Research Division, Caterina was ESCB/IO Economist in the Financial Research Division of the European Central Bank (2013-2015) and Economist in the Department of Economic Studies of the Bank of Portugal (2008-2013), and in the Department of Monetary and Financial Analysis of the Bank of Canada (2006-2008).

Friederike Mengel

Friederike Mengel is a Professor of Economics at the University of Essex (UK). She is also a Guest Professor at Lund University (SWE). She is also a Co-Editor of the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, an Associate Editor at the Economic Journal and the European Economic Review and on the Editorial Board of Experimental Economics and the Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics. Friederike is a Behavioural Economist with research interests in (Evolutionary) Game Theory and Learning and in particular learning across games and categorization as well as models of (bounded) rationality more generally. Another focus of her research is the study of behavior in social networks and the emergence of social norms. In 2018 she received the ERC Starting Grant for a project on Opinion Dynamics in Networks.