Speakers

Emilia Soldani

Emilia is Assistant Professor for Labor and Applied Microeconomics at the Department of Applied Econometrics and International Economic Policy at Goethe University in Frankfurt. She received her PhD in Economics from New York University in 2015 and has worked at the NYU-Abu Dhabi Center for Technology and Economics Development (NYU-CTED), the European Training Foundation (ETF), and CeRP-Collegio Carlo Alberto. She is primarily interested in development, environmental and labor economics.

Michal Šoltés

I am a PhD Candidate at CERGE-EI, Prague and an Assistant Professor at the Department of Economics, Faculty of Law Charles University. My area of research is mainly political economy, public economics, and experiments in economics and since recently in criminology.

Jantje Sönksen

Jantje Sönksen holds a PhD from the University of Tübingen. She is an early career scientist working at the intersection of financial econometric analysis and empirical asset pricing with particular interest in assessing rare disaster risk. One of her recent research interests is the use of machine learning methods in financial economics.

Oscar Soons

I am a PhD candidate in the Finance Group of the University of Amsterdam. My main research interest is the economics of monetary unification. Currently, I am working on a paper in which I study the equilibrium consequences of introducing a common safe asset in a diverse monetary union subject to a global shortage of safe assets. Before starting my PhD, I obtained my MPhil in economics at the Tinbergen institute in Amsterdam, and my bachelor’s degree from the University of Rhode Island (USA).

Peter Norman Sørensen

I am a professor of Finance at the Econ department of the University of Copenhagen. My research contributions lie in applied theory modeling of agents with private information. Past research focused on herding behaviour, biased advice from reputation-concerned experts, and biases in prediction markets. Current efforts focus on limited attention to information, informativeness of selected evidence, the taxation of financial transactions, and the informational role of private equity funds.

Aurélie Sotura

Danilo Souza

Danilo Souza is a post doctoral fellow at INSPER, Brazil. He holds a Ph.D in Economics from the University of São Paulo, where he worked as teaching assistant in several undegraduate (international trade and econometrics) and graduate courses (macroeconomics). Danilo also has experience as an undergraduate professor of Principles of Microeconomics and International Trade at INSPER. His main fields of research are economic growth and development, political economy and labor economics. Learning Python and making beautiful Stata codes are his current hobbies.

Andre Souza

Rhiannon Sowerbutts

Rhiannon is a senior economist in the Financial Stability Directorate at the Bank of England. Her PhD is from Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Her research interests include macroprudential policies, financial regulation and international banking slows.

Christian Spielmann