Speakers

On job market

Sebastian Schuler

Goethe University

PhD candidate at the Graduate School of Economics, Finance, and Management (GSEFM) at Goethe University Frankfurt. I use theoretical models to work on questions in industrial organization and behavioral economics. My research particularly focuses on markets where goods are either sold through intermediaries or where consumers have to learn about the quality of products, and how optimal behavior is affected by regulation as well as non-standard consumer preferences.

Fabian Schupp

ECB

I am currently working as an Economist at the ECB's Capital Markets and Financial Structure Division, where I primarily focus on term structure modelling and policy preparation. Before I worked as an Economist at the Bundesbank's Monetary Policy and Analysis Division, where I was mainly involved in all issues regarding the implementation of monetary policy. I received a Master’s degree in Money and Finance from the Goethe University in Frankfurt and I was a doctoral student at Prof. Tillmann’s chair of Monetary Economics at the Justus-Liebig-University in Giessen.

Helena Schweiger

EBRD

Helena Schweiger is a Senior Economist at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. She received her PhD in economics from University of Maryland, College Park. Her main research interests include applying empirical analysis to try to understand the causes of differences in productivity and growth across countries, businesses and time and their policy implications with a focus on innovation, management practices and green growth.

Jakob Schwerter

University of Tübingen

I am currently working on my Ph.D. at the University of Tübingen, chair of Statistics, Econometrics and Quantitative Analysis under the working title ``Econometric Analysis in Economics of Education'' in which I focus on higher education and e-Learning. I am planning to submit my dissertation in September 2020. Before starting my Ph.D. I studied Economics (b.sc.) at the University of Mannheim (Germany), and afterward, I opted for the Master's program in Econometrics and Mathematical Economics at the University of Tilburg (Netherlands). I am associated with the LEAD Graduate School and Research Network.

Kurt See

Bank of Canada

Kurt is a Senior Economist at the Bank of Canada. He completed his graduate studies from the University of Minnesota. His research mainly focuses on the macroeconomic effects of labor market policies.

Katarzyna Segiet

Statistics Norway

I am a doctoral student at the University of Oslo, researching for Statistics Norway. My areas of research are labor market economics and applied microeconometrics.

Matthieu Segol

Paris School of Economics

I am a PhD candidate in Financial Economics at the Paris School of Economics under the supervision of Prof. Jean Imbs. My research interests are in banking, financial regulations and financial stability. In my latest analysis, I worked with European Investment Bank economists A. Kolev and L. Maurin on the financing of intangible capital in Europe. We document how bank loan terms may have a negative impact on firms’ investment in intangible assets and provide insights on which policies could be suited to remove the existing bottlenecks. In collaboration with S. Daudignon from the Paris School of Economics, I also recently worked on the impact of the changing regulatory landscape for the US banking sector in the aftermath of the 2008 crisis. In our analysis, we focus on the effects of the central clearing requirement for interest rate swaps on banks’ use of derivatives. We provide evidence that a substantial share of end-user banks were able to circumvent part of the requirement by rebalancing their derivative portfolio, allowing them to avoid the different costs associated with central clearing. I graduated in Economics from Ecole Normale Superieure Paris-Saclay and Sciences Po Paris and had the opportunity to work at the OECD (Economics Department), the European Commission (DG ECFIN) and more recently at the European Investment Bank (Economics Department), where I was awarded a one-year research grant. I will be on the 2020/2021 Job Market.

Regina Seibel

University of Zurich

I am a third-year PhD candidate at the Department of Economics at the University of Zurich. My research interests are in the fields of Industrial Organization and Competition Policy, in particular merger and innovation, collusion and platforms. Previous to my PhD, I did my Bachelor’s and Master’s degree at LMU Munich, Department of Economics, during which I visited the Monash University, Melbourne, and the University of California, Berkeley.

Arnim Seidlitz

Humboldt-University Berlin

Arnim Seidlitz is a PhD-candidate in Economics at Humboldt University Berlin and the Berlin School of Economics (BSE). He earned his M. Sc at the University of Bonn and gained working expierence from DIW Berlin, IZA Bonn and ifo institute in Munich. In 2018, Arnim joined the PhD program of the BSE and the Chair of Econometrics at Humboldt University. His supervisor is Bernd Fitzenberger. Arnim is working on the fields of educational and labor economics, especially on the effect of maternity on labor market careers.

Helke Seitz

DIW Berlin

Helke is an applied microeconomist with a research interest in development economics (financial education and financial literacy, constraints of micro and small enterprises) and labour economics (personality traits, on-the-job training, labour supply). In my research I use randomized controlled trials and survey data to study fundamental and applied questions. I am currently a postdoctoral researcher at the German Institue for Economic Research (DIW Berlin) and I hold a PhD from the University of Hannover. I recently published in the Journal of Human Resources, Demography and Economic Development and Cultural Change.