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Bertil Tungodden

Norwegian School of Economics

Bertil Tungodden is a professor of economics at the Department of Economics at NHH Norwegian School of Economics. He is the director of the research center FAIR and co-director of the research group The Choice Lab and . One of his main research fields are experimental economics and behavioral economics, with a focus on economic inequality and fairness.

Camélia Turcu

University of Orléans - LEO CNRS

Camélia Turcu is a Professor of Economics at the University of Orléans (France) and a research fellow at LEO CNRS. She is the co-director of the LEO research team, International Economics and Sustainable Development. Since 2015, Camélia has been the Chair of INFER (International Network For Economic Research), coordinating the INFER research activities and representing the network worldwide. She has published numerous articles in peer-reviewed international journals and several book chapters. Her research areas include international (macro)economics and resource economics.

Ashish Tyagi

Frankfurt School of Finance & Management

Ashish Tyagi is a Post-Doctoral Researcher at the Frankfurt School of Finance & Management under the Robert Bosch Foundation’s research project on the design of climate and energy policy instruments in emerging and developing economies. In 2017, he finished his Ph.D from Penn State University. His research focuses on Environmental, Resource and Energy Economics. He is interested in climate and energy policies, especially in developing economies and the conflict between economic development, sustainability and institutions.

Björn Tyrefors

Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN)

Björn Tyrefors, is a researcher at the Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN) and partly at the Department of Economics at Stockholm University. He received his PhD from the Stockholm School of Economics in December 2007. His research areas of interest are in Political and Labor Economics. His dissertation work focused on how institutions shape policy using quasi-experimental methods. He is currently working on projects dealing with political economics, discrimination, education, integration and economics of crime.

Joanna Tyrowicz

FAME|GRAPE, University of Warsaw and IZA

Joanna Tyrowicz is a Professor of Economics at University of Warsaw and founder of FAME|GRAPE. She is also an IZA Research Fellow (Bonn). She earned her PhD in Economics in 2006 at University of Warsaw, she also holds a degree from Katholike Universiteit Leuven. Between 2007 and 2017 she served as an Economic Advisor at Economic Institute of National Bank of Poland, specializing in labor market and household issues. She has also been a consultant to The World Bank in projects on labor market issues. In 2009 she was a Fulbright Scholar at Columbia University, and in 2010 she was a Mellon Fellow at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies.

Tarik Umar

Rice University

Assistant Professor of Finance at Rice University. PhD from Chicago Booth. BA from Havard University.

Janis Umblijs

Institute for Social Research

Janis Umblijs is a labour economist whose research interests include the integration of migrants, the effect of technological change on the labour market and the role of housing on individual welfare. Janis has a PhD from Trinity College Dublin. He has worked on projects that look at topics such as, labour market outcomes of refugees, discrimination against the children of migrants, and how housing affects education outcomes. Before Janis started at ISF, he was a Senior Economist at the consultancy Oslo Economics where he worked on labour market evaluation projects for the Norwegian labour ministry, Ministry of Local Government and Modernisation and the Norwegian Labour and Welfare administration.

Cristian Usala

University of Cagliari, CRENoS

I am a Post - doc fellow at the Centre for North South Economic Research (CRENoS) of Department of Economics and Business and at the Department of Political and Social Sciences (University of Cagliari). I received my PhD in Economics and Business from the University of Cagliari, Italy. I am an applied economist with specific interest in microeconometric methods and public economics issues.

S. Derya Uysal

LMU Munich

I am an associate professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Munich. I am also an Affiliate at CESifo. My research interests are microeconometrics and applied econometrics in labor economics, with particular emphasis on program evaluation and network effects.

Etienne Vaccaro-Grange

Aix-Marseille School of Economics

Etienne Vaccaro-Grange holds a PhD from Aix-Marseille School of Economics in southern France. His research focuses on monetary policy and macro-finance. Etienne has worked for the European Central Bank, the Norges Bank, and the International Monetary Fund, where he conducted both policy and research projects. He is is an incoming Post-doctoral Associate at New York University, Abu Dhabi.