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Shu Yu

World Bank

Shu Yu is an Economist with the Prospects Group of the World Bank. Her main research interests are in areas of international economics, development economics, and political economy. Prior to joining the World Bank, Shu held a post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Rochester and worked at the IMF and the Conference Board. She received her PhD in economics from the University of Groningen in 2014. Her recent papers include work on the impact of national leaders on political stability and long-run growth, measuring the informal economy and its business cyles, China’s outward direct investment, and the impact of institutional quality on trade.

C. Y. Kelvin Yuen

Washington University in St. Louis

I am a Ph.D. candidate in Economics at Washington University in St. Louis. My research interests center primarily around the macroeconomics of the labor market. Currently I use equilibrium search models to study issues related to entrepreneurship, unemployment, skill mismatch, health, and their aggregate impacts.

Vladimir Zabolotskiy

University of Bologna; Higher School of Economics ICSID

Vladimir is a Ph.D. student at the University of Bologna and a junior researcher at the HSE ICSID. He holds his MA in Economics from the Higher School of Economics and the University of Luxembourg and he is Economist Club Luxembourg and Prix Germain Dondelinger prize-winner for the best Master's thesis. Vladimir's research interests revolve around the determinants of socioeconomic preferences, norms, and values, and how these are affected by historical shocks.

Marios Zachariadis

University of Cyprus

Marios Zachariadis is a professor at the Department of Economics of the University of Cyprus specializing in macroeconomics, international economics and economic growth. He received his Ph.D. from the Ohio State University in 2000. He has published in some of the leading journals of economics such as the American Economic Review and the Journal of International Economics. His recent work focuses on the formation and impact of economic expectations, and on talent misallocation in the macroeconomy

Riccardo Zago

Banque de France

I am a macro-labor economist. My research studies the effects of technological change on the labor market, mobility and the allocation of human capital.

Diego Zambiasi

University College Dublin

Diego Zambiasi is a PhD candidate in Economics at University College Dublin. He specializes in the economic and social consequences of illicit drug policies. Diego holds a BA in Philosophy from the University of Milan, a Masters in Public Policy from the Free University of Bolzano and a Masters in Economics from the University of the Basque Country.

Leopold Zessner-Spitzenberg

University of Vienna

PhD at the University of Vienna 2020; Postdoc at Humboldt University, Berlin starting Fall 2020

Lichen Zhang

University of Minnesota; University of Hong Kong

Lichen Zhang is currently a PhD candidate in economics at the University of Minnesota and a research analyst at the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. She will join the University of Hong Kong as an Assistant Professor of Economics in summer 2020. Her research interest lies in macroeconomics with a particular focus on heterogeneous agents and firm dynamics, both empirically and theoretically. Her papers attempt to contribute to the research agenda that centers on using micro data to inform aggregate quantitative structural models, emphasizing the link between micro-level heterogeneity—especially firm heterogeneity—and macro- level outcomes.

Yaoyuan Zhang

The University of Hong Kong

Hello! I am a 1st year PhD student in The University of Hong Kong. My research interests span asset pricing, macro-finance interaction.

Haiping Zhang

University of Auckland

Haiping Zhang joined the Department of Economics at the University of Auckland in July 2016. Prior to this, he held positions as assistant professor of economics at Singapore Management University and research fellow at Bonn University. Haiping received his PhD in Economics from Bonn University in Germany. His research focuses on International Macroeconomics and Trade, Financial Development and Structural Changes.