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Maria Sandström

Uppsala University

Maria Sandström is a Ph.D. student at Uppsala University. Her research area is macroeconomics and she has a particular interest in the role of intangible capital. She is also interested in understanding how globalization and intangible capital pose challenges to economic measurement. Maria Sandström previously worked for the European Central Bank and Sveriges Riksbank.

Sid Sanghi

Washington University in St. Louis

Sid is a PhD Candidate in Economics at Washington University in St. Louis. He works on broad topics of Macro and Labor Economics. His dissertation looks at dynamic investment decisions in human capital, health and entrepreneurship using rich models and micro-datasets.

Ryuji Sano

Yokohama National University

Associate Professor, Department of Economics, Yokohama National University (2017-present), Ph.d in Economics (U of Tokyo 2011)

Paolo Santini

Paris School of Economics

After graduating from the University of Bologna in 2015, Paolo worked as a research assistant for Oliver Vanden Eynde. In 2017, he passed a second master's degree at the Paris School of Economics and is now a PhD student there. He is interested in the study of the economic and sociological logic of group formation and particularly of trade unions. The aim is to understand the de-unionization that characterizes the labour market of most developed countries, particularly in France the United States.

Pietro Santoleri

Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies

Pietro is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute of Economics at Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies (Pisa, Italy). He recently earned a PhD in Economics jointly from Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies and Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne. He worked as consultant for UN-ECLAC, the OECD and the Bank of Italy. His primary fields are firm dynamics and entrepreneurship, with a focus on innovative young firms and the evaluation of public policies targeting them.

Carlos Sanz

Bank of Spain

Carlos Sanz is a research economist at the Banco de España. He received his Ph.D. in Economics from Princeton University (2016). His research interests lie in political economy, public economics, gender economics, and econometrics. His work has been published at the Review of Economic Studies, Scandinavian Journal of Economics, Comparative Political Studies, and Political Science Research and Methods.

Kafeel Sarwar

Heidelberg University, Germany

I am graduating from the Chair of Development Economics, Heidelberg University, Germany, in summer 2020. My research interests are in the domains of applied microeconomics and development economics. My doctoral thesis covers the three major issues of development economics. First, I analyze the poverty convergence at the subnational level of India and Pakistan. I find the presence of poverty convergence clubs in India. In the second paper, I analyze the inequality convergence at the subnational level. In the last paper, I examine how decentralized school funding helps to improve school achievements.

Aurélien Saussay

London School of Economics

Aurélien Saussay is a Research Officer at the Grantham Research Institute at the London School of Economics. His research focuses on the economic consequences of the transition to a low carbon economy, in order to identify the social and political acceptance challenges that hamper the implementation of effective decarbonisation. More specifically, he aims to estimate the impacts of climate change mitigation on economic agents empirically to help improve the design of decarbonisation policies.

Anthony Savagar

University of Kent

Anthony is a senior lecturer in macroeconomics at the University of Kent. He is a visiting researcher at the Bank of England and National Institute of Economic and Social Research. He is a fellow of the Centre for Macroeconomics. His research interests are in macroeconomic theory and industrial organization. His current work focuses on endogenous entry costs in dynamic general equilibrium. He has empirical work studying market power in the UK economy.

Daniel Schaefer

Johannes Kepler University Linz

Assistant Professor of Economics. Alma mater: University of Edinburgh. Areas: Macroeconomics and Labour Economics.