Marie-Theres von Schickfus
ifo InstituteMarie is an environmental economist pursuing her PhD at LMU Munich. Based at the ifo Institute for Economic Research, she is a team member of the Center for Energy, Climate and Resources. In research and consultancy projects, she has been working on the impacts of climate policies on regional economies, carbon leakage, and the interaction of climate policy and financial markets.
Angelos Vouldis
European Central BankEconomist, working in the area of Financial Stability and Statistics. Currently working on a book regarding the sovereign-banks loop and the institutional response of the European Union.
Florian Wagener
Universiteit van AmsterdamI have worked at the University of Amsterdam since 1999. Before that, I held research positions at the University of Groningen and Warwick University (UK).
Tong Wang
Erasmus University RotterdamI’m currently an Assistant Professor of Behavioral Economics at Erasmus University Rotterdam. My research is in developing/testing/improving wisdom-of-the-crowd algorithms. Other research interests include decision making under risk and uncertainty and looking into people’s real-life decisions (e.g., players picking lottery numbers and students filling in online teaching evaluations).
Xuan Wang
University of Oxford/VU Amsterdam and Tinbergen InstituteXuan Wang works on money, default and financial frictions in macro and international finance to address the global financial cycles and the design of bankruptcy codes in monetary unions, the interface between financial stability, price stability, and money-financed stimulus policy. Xuan obtained PhD in Financial Economics from Saïd Business School, University of Oxford. Prior to that, Xuan worked as an economist at the Bank of England and received MPhil in Economics with Distinction from Oxford.
Zijian Wang
University of Western OntarioI am a PhD student at the University of Western Ontario in Canada. My research interests include monetary economics, macroeconomics, and search theory.
Tom Waters
Institute for Fiscal StudiesResearch includes labour economics, tax and benefit policy, inequality, and poverty
Michael Waterson
University of WarwickMichael Waterson is Professor of Economics at the University of Warwick, where he has taught since 1991. His research lies broadly within the field of industrial economics, most recently in the areas of supermarket pricing, energy markets at wholesale and retail levels and procurement. He is a past President of the European Association for Research in Industrial Economics, and was also General Editor of the Journal of Industrial Economics for five years. He has had a long involvement with policy matters and is currently a member of the UK Competition Appeal Tribunal.
Katharina Wedel
ifo Institute, Munich, GermanyI am a doctoral student at the ifo institute for the Economics of Education (Munich). After graduating from Lund University, Sweden, with a Master in Economics, I started my PhD studies in July 2019. My main interests are the economics of education and labor economics. I work on a project evaluating the effectiveness of a mentoring program for students in Germany. Besides, I examine the relation between instruction time, teacher qualifications and student achievement in an international context.
Insa Weilage
Leibniz University HannoverInsa Weilage is currently a PhD student at the Leibniz University Hannover, Germany. Her research focus is on labor market and the economics of (adult) education.