The Centre for Economic and Regional Studies of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (CERS-HAS)
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László Halpern is senior research fellow and deputy director of Institute of Economics of CERS-HAS. He is a research fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) and recurrent visiting professor at the Central European University. He has written widely on exchange rate theory, central and eastern European exchange rate policies, macroeconomic stabilization theory, enterprise behavior and international trade. He has advised different Hungarian governmental agencies. He has participated in numerous international research projects supported by the European Commission.
Bruegel
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Guntram Wolff is the Deputy Director of Bruegel. His research focuses on the euro area economy and governance, on fiscal policy, global finance and Germany. He has joined Bruegel from the European Commission, where he worked on the macroeconomics of the euro area and the reform of euro area governance. Prior to that he was an economist at the Deutsche Bundesbank, where he coordinated research on fiscal policy. He also worked as an adviser to the International Monetary Fund. He holds a PhD from the University of Bonn. He has published numerous papers in leading academic journals. His columns and policy work are published and cited in leading international media such as the Financial Times, the New York Times, Wall Street Journal and others.
Centro Studi Luca d’Agliano (LdA)
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Giorgio Barba Navaretti is Scientific Director of LdA and a Full Professor of International Economics at the University of Milan. He holds a PhD in Economics from Oxford University. He is specialized in international and development economics. He has been working extensively on the economics of multinational firms, on the link between trade, foreign direct investments and technology diffusion, on international economic policy and on firms’ dynamics in developing countries. He is currently the team leader of the Collaborative project “European Firms in the Global Economy (EFIGE)”.
Institute for Applied Economic Research (IAW)
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Katja Neugebauer has been a research associate at the IAW since January 2010. Before, she worked as a research assistant at the department of International Finance and Macroeconomics at the chair of Professor Buch and as an associated research fellow at the IAW. She studied Economics with a focus on quantitative methods and banking at the Eberhard-Karls-University of Tübingen, where she received her Diploma in 2004, and at the University of Edinburgh. In 2010, she received her Ph.D. in economics. Her current research focus is on financing restrictions for firms during the recent crisis, the link between bank risk and the real economy, and cross-border banking.
Paris School of Economics (PSE)
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Lionel Fontagné is Professor of economics at the Paris School of Economics, Université Paris I Panthéon Sorbonne and Part-Time professor at the European University Institute (Florence). He is also a consultant for the Banque de France (SEC2E), a scientific advisor to CEPII, and an advisor to the International Trade Center (UNCTAD-WTO, Geneva). He has been the Director of the Centre d’Etudes Prospectiveset d’Informations Internationales (CEPII, Paris) from 2000 to 2006 and a member of the Conseil d’Analyse Economique (Council of Economic Analysis to the French Prime Minister) from 2001 to 2010. He has written numerous studies on international trade and integration issues. He has been awarded for his contribution to the debate on the shocks in monetary unions, for his works in the fields of global databases for modelers and for his contribution to the understanding of the economic impact of the competition of emerging countries.
Sciences Po
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Philippe Martin is Professor of economics at Sciences Po, where he is Chairman of the department of economics. He is a CEPR Research Fellow. He has been previously Professor at the Paris School of Economics, Economist, Federal Reserve Bank of New York and Assistant Professor, Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva. He was awarded best French young economist in 2002.His works have been extensively published in top rated academic journals in the fields of international macroeconomics and trade, economic geography and military conflicts.