Speakers

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Piera Bello

Università della Svizzera italiana/University College London

I am a Swiss National Foundation post-doctoral fellow at University College London. I am also affiliated to the Institute of Economics at Università della Svizzera Italiana, and the Dondena Gender Initiative and the Baffi-CAREFIN Centre (Pension economics Unit) at Bocconi University. Prior to joining UCL, I worked as postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Economics at Ca’ Foscari University. I completed my PhD in December 2016 at Università della Svizzera Italiana. From January to July 2015, I was a Visiting Scholar at the Department of Economics of Boston College. I hold a Masters degree in economics from Bocconi University. My work is on public economics. My research focuses on gender issues, migration and population ageing. I am particularly interested in private and public pension systems and the impact of long-term financial decisions. My recent papers investigate the functioning of annuity markets. My work has been published in the Journal of Public Economics, Journal of Economic Geography and International Tax and Public Finance.

Paul Berenberg-Gossler

Hertie School, Berlin

Paul Berenberg-Gossler is currently pursuing a PhD in Economics at the Hertie School, under the supervision of Henrik Enderlein. His reserach focuses on the intersection of macroeconomics, finance, and political economy. Previously, he worked as a Research Assistant at the French PM’s Council of Economic Analysis (Conseil d’Analyse économique) and as an Affiliate Fellow at the Jacques Delors Institute. He taught at FU Berlin, Georgetown University, and the University of Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne. Paul holds a BSc. in Economics from the University of Paris II Panthéon-Assas, a Master of Public Administration from Sciences Po Paris and a Master of Public Policy from the Hertie School. Paul is fluent in German, English and French.

Luis Gustavo Bettoni

Insper

PhD candidate at Insper, Brazil. Graduation: 2020 (expected). Main fields of interest: macroeconomics and finance. In particular, Macro Labor, Firm Dynamics, Incomplete Markets and Business Cycle.

Suzanne Bijkerk

Erasmus University Rotterdam

After a master’s in economics, I worked for an international audit firm and bank for almost 10 years before returning to academia to pursue a PhD in economics. My research is published in the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization and forthcoming in the Journal of Labor Economics. I am interested in applied economic theory with regard to markets and organizations, information economics, and labor markets.

Laura Birg

University of Göttingen

Research interests: Industrial organization, health economics, environmental economics, international economics. Last position: Postdoc at Center for European, Governance, and Economic Development Research, University of Göttingen. PhD student at University of Kiel, Germany.

Pietro Biroli

University of Zurich

I am an assistant professor of Economics at the University of Zurich. I obtained my PhD in economics from the University of Chicago. My research focuses on the early origins and life cycle evolution of health and human capital. I explore the importance of genetics, family investment, and early childhood interventions in explaining health and economic inequality. More broadly, I am interested in Health Economics, Social Science Genomics, and Applied Econometrics.

Sylvia Blom

Cornell University

Sylvia Blom is a PhD candidate in applied economics at Cornell University. Her research focuses on issues in development, health, behavior, and nutrition especially in relation to climate change and urbanization. She previously worked at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and the International Food Policy Research Institute.

Leda Maria Bonazzi

University of Essex

I am a research assistant at the Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER) at the University of Essex. I have obtained my PhD from the DEFAP PhD Program of University of Milano- Bicocca (2019). My research interests lie primarily in the field of Microeconomic Theory with a focus on Industrial Organization and Contract Theory.

Nicola Borri

LUISS University

I am a macro-finance economist in the Department of Economics and Finance at LUISS University, Rome. I joined the faculty at LUISS in 2009, after completing my PhD in economics at Boston University. I also hold a BA and a MA in economics from Bocconi University, Milan. My research interests are at the intersection of macroeconomics and finance. Some of my recent papers appeared on the Journal of Empirical Finance, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Economic Letters, Critical Finance Review, Finance Research Letters. My paper Sovereign Risk Premia (joint with Adrien Verdelhan, MIT) received the ABI Country Forum Best Paper Award at the International Risk Management Conference 2010, and the 2010 WRDS Best Paper Award at the European Financial Management Association Conference.

Olga Briukhova

University of Zurich, Swiss Finance Institute

Olga Briukhova is a Swiss Finance Institute PhD Candidate in Finance at the University of Zurich. Olga works on topics of financial regulation, systemic risk, financial stability, complex networks, derivatives markets, and macroprudential policy tools. She holds a Master degree in Economics from the University of Bonn (Germany) and a Bachelor degree in Economics from the National Research University Higher School of Economics (Russia).