Presenters

Simon Voigts

IMF

Alessio Volpicella

University of Surrey

Lieke Voorintholt

University of Groningen

I am a first-year PhD candidate at the University of Groningen. My key research interest is altruism, which I investigate empirically. Topics that I am working on include charitable giving, climate change concerns, social norms and valuation of the very long run.

Sareh Vosooghi

University of Oxford - Department of Economics

Van Anh Vuong

Christoph Walsh

Tilburg University

I am an assistant professor at Tilburg University. My fields of interest are Empirical Industrial Organization, Development Economics, and the Economics of Crime.

Haomin Wang

University of Konstanz

I am an assistant professor at the University of Konstanz.
My broad fields of interest are Labor Economics and Macroeconomics.

Xuan Wang

Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and Tinbergen Institute

I am an Assistant Professor of Finance at SBE Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. I am also a Candidate Fellow and Lecturer at Tinbergen Institute. My research interests include international macro, money and financial intermediation and bankruptcy, sustainable macro-finance.
I teach Macroeconomics with Financial Frictions (MPhil core module) at Tinbergen Institute, and International Finance at VU Amsterdam.

Yas Watanabe

University of Tokyo

Matthias Weber

University of St. Gallen

Nina Weber

King's College London

I am a doctoral candidate in the department of Political Economy at King’s College London. My research focuses on prosocial preferences and economic inequalities. Specifically, I am interested in how procedural fairness concerns affect preferences and behaviours. My current projects look at (1) the role of externalities, social norms, and personal experience in shaping prosocial preferences and (2) the effects of procedural fairness beliefs on effort provision.

Katharina Wedel

ifo Institute

I am a Ph.D. candidate at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University (LMU) and a Junior Economist at the ifo Institute in Munich. I studied at the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen (B.Sc.) and the University of Lund in Sweden (M.Sc.). I work on designing surveys about education policies and perceptions in Germany to better understand the public opinion about these topics. My work is about education inequality, fairness views and redistribution, but also on the automation of jobs and further training.

Siqi Wei

Cemfi

Ran Weksler

University of Haifa

Tobias Wendler

University of Bremen

Mirjam Wentzel

Norwegian Institute for Social Research

Marek Weretka

UW Madison

Madeline Werthschulte

ZEW Mannheim

Andreas Westermark

Sveriges Riksbank

Mark Whitmeyer

Arizona State University

I am an AP at Arizona State University. I am interested in information economics. In recent work, I have studied questions related to the following topics:

◾Information acquisition/rational inattention
◾Consumer search
◾Bayesian persuasion/information design
◾Communication and disclosure
◾Contests

Basil Williams

New York University

I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at New York University. I study finance theory, with a focus on problems involving asymmetric information. My papers have examined banking, market microstructure, organizational economics, and incentive contracting.

Cole Williams

University of Vienna

Lionel Wilner

Insee-Crest

Frank Windmeijer

University of Oxford

Lisa Windsteiger

Max Planck Institute for Tax Law and Public Finance

Max Winkler

Harvard

I am a Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard University with Joseph Henrich’s Culture, Cognition, and Coevolution Lab. I hold a PhD in economics from the University of Zurich.

I will join the Economics Department at the University of Exeter as Assistant Professor in September 2022.

My research interests lie in Development, Culture, Economic History, and Political Economy.

Julia Wirtz

University of Bristol

I work in the field of Microeconomic Theory with applications in management and education. In particular, I am interested in information economics, learning, and the strategic use of information or feedback within different incentive schemes and incentives for innovation. I did my PhD at the University of Warwick, followed by a postdoc at the University of Bonn. I am now a lecturer at the University of Bristol.

Milena Wittwer

Boston College

Carlo Wix

Federal Reserve Board

I am a senior economist at the Federal Reserve Board. My current research interests are in banking regulation, financial intermediation, and consumer credit.

Marcin Wolski

European Investment Bank

Ashley Wong

Northwestern University

Francis Wong

Liangjie Wu

Einaudi Institute for Economics and Finance

Jasmine Xiao

University of Notre Dame

Yun Xiao

University of Amsterdam

Dan Xie

Queen Mary University of London

I am a 3rd-year PhD student at School of Economics and Finance, Queen Mary University of London.

My research interests are international trade, foreign direct investment (FDI), cross-border mergers and acquisitions (M&A), and environmental policies.

Huan Xie

Concordia University

David Xiaoyu Xu

University of Texas at Austin

Ming Xu

Queen's University

Ruonan Xu

Rutgers University

I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at Rutgers University. My fields of interest include Econometrics and Applied Econometrics. My current research focuses on finite population inference with cross-sectional dependence.

Tianhao Yao

HEC Paris

Yosuke Yasuda

Osaka University

Moises Yi

US Census Bureau

Yongkun Yin

CEMFI

Yoshifumi Yokota

Boston University

Seung Han Yoo

Erina Ytsma

Carnegie Mellon University

Bin Yu

University of Essex

Li Yu

Toulouse School of Economic

Xiaolun Yu

University of Reading

Sevgi Yüksel

UC, Santa Barbara

Minchul Yum

University of Mannheim

Véra Zabrodina

University of Basel

Dennis Zander

University of Warwick

I am a first year PhD candidate at the University of Warwick.
My research focuses on (non-bank) financial intermediation. In particular, I am interested in understanding the role of market microstructures in money markets and their effects on the implementation and propagation of monetary policy.
I am further working on identifying the role of bank liquidity in the propagation of monetary policy.

Francesco Zanetti

University of Oxford

Associate Professor at the University of Oxford.

Eddy Zanoutene

Jan Zapal

CERGE-EI

Chloé Zapha

Université Paris Dauphine

Guglielmo Zappalà

Paris School of Economics

I am a PhD candidate at the Paris School of Economics.

My research focuses on the human ability to adapt to climate change, as well as how individuals perceive and form their attitudes towards climate and the role of beliefs in adaptive behavior.

Sebastian Zelzner

Johanna Zenzes

University of Cologne

I am a PhD Candidate at the University of Cologne and Data Scientist at AXA Konzern AG.

My research interest lies in the intersection of causal inference and machine learning with applications in health economics. In my research, I mainly focus on pregnancies and early childhood health and evaluate how risk behavior, like smoking during pregnancy, or extreme temperature events during pregnancy influence health of newborns.

Miguel Zerecero

University of California, Irvine

Leopold Zessner-Spitzenberg

Humboldt University of Berlin

Leopold Zessner-Spitzenberg is post-doctoral researcher at the Humboldt University of Berlin. He obtained his PhD from the University of Vienna. His research interests include international and financial macroeconomics and monetary economics.

Jiekai Zhang

Hanken School of Economics

I am Assistant Professor in Economics at Hanken School of Economics and Helsinki GSE.

I do research on Empirical Industrial Organization and Applied Microeconometrics, with a special interest in topics related to competition and regulation. My on-going research projects apply to media, advertising and pharmaceutical industries.

Jipeng Zhang

Jonathan Zhang

McMaster University

Lina Zhang

Sili Zhang

University of Zurich

I am a behavioral economist working on topics such as misperceptions, beliefs, and values, using a combination of applied theory, experimental methods, and surveys.
In Fall 2022, I will join the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (LMU) as an Assistant Professor of Economics.

weilong zhang

Unviersity of Cambridge

Xin Zhang

Sveriges Riksbank

Xu Zhang

Bank of Canada

Yifan Zhang

University of Oxford

I am a PhD candidate in Economics at the University of Oxford. My research interests lie in finance and macroeconomy.

Xueyan Zhao

Monash Univeristy

Angela Zheng

McMaster University

Ling Zhou

University of Padua/University of Nottingham

I am a development economist. My current research is related to migration choice, trade policy, marriage formation, air pollution, and experimental economics.

Liyang Zhou

University of Pittsburgh

Hi, I'm a 5th year Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh. My research interests include environmental economics, public economics, and political economy.

Yanyu Zhou

University of Glasgow