Rachel Kranton is a James B. Duke Professor of Economics at Duke University. She studies how institutions and social settings affect economic outcomes. She develops theories of networks and has introduced identity into economic thinking. Her research contributes to many fields, including microeconomics, economic development, and industrial organization. She has been awarded fellowships at the Russell Sage Foundation in New York and the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. She joined Duke’s faculty in 2007.

Scott Duke Kominers is an Associate Professor in the Entrepreneurial Management Unit at Harvard Business School, cross-appointed in the Harvard Department of Economics. He is also an Affiliate of the Harvard Center of Mathematical Sciences and Applications, an Associate of the Harvard Center for Research on Computation and Society, and a Research Economist at the National Bureau of Economic Research. 

Fabian Kindermann is a Professor of Economics at the University of Regensburg and a Junior Research Fellow at the Network for the Studies on Pensions, Ageing and Retirement (Netspar). Before he has been a Postdoc Visiting Scholar at Northwestern University and Assistant Professor at University of Wuerzburg. His research interests are in Public Economics and Macroeconomics. Dr. Kindermann's current research focuses on education finance and education decisions, family economics, social security, and optimal tax policy.

John Kennes is an Associate Professor at Aarhus Universitet. He is canadian citizen who has lived and worked in Denmark since 2001. He researches the theory of directed search where agents choose actions to overcome problems of coordination and exchange. The agenda is to figure out what actions are important and to theorize why. This research considers a number of basic problems related to the operation of households, such as the matching of workers to firms, men to women, schools to children, and borrowers to lenders.

Michael Keane is Nuffield Professor of Economics at Oxford University. His current research interests include: labor economics, empirical microeconomics, econometrics, consumer choice behavior, and marketing.

Keane received a B.S. in Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Economics from Brown University.

Tim Kautz is a Senior Researcher at Mathematica Policy Research. He was a co-organizer of HCEO's Conference on Measuring and Assessing Skills. Kautz is an editor and co-author of a book that explores the importance of social-emotional skills, “The Myth of Achievement Tests: The GED and the Role of Character in American Life.” His research interests include education, inequality, and health.

Katja Maria Kaufmann is assistant professor at the Department of Economics at Mannheim University. Her research interests are at the intersection of development and labor economics, family economics, economics of education, and the study of inequality and intergenerational mobility.

She received her B.A. and M.A. (Diplom) in Economics from Cologne University (Germany) as well as a Ph.D. and M.A. degree from Economics at Stanford University (USA).

Shachar Kariv is a Professor of Economics at University of California Berkeley. He is the Faculty Director of UC Berkeley Experimental Social Science Laboratory (Xlab), a laboratory for conducting experiment-based investigations of issues of interest to social sciences.

Marek Kapička is an Assistant Professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Professor Kapička specializes in macroeconomics and public finance. His work on optimal tax design has studied how endogenous human capital formation affects optimal income tax policies and schooling subsidies. He has also extended the first-order approach to dynamic private information economies with persistent shocks, and used it to study efficient allocations and optimal taxation.

Benoit Julien is an Associate Professor of Economics at University of New South Wales. His main research focus is on developing theoretical models of frictional markets, and to investigate how different forms of frictions (information, coordination, financial), along with different pricing mechanisms, affect the equilibrium market allocations. In particular, such models are suitable to investigate how the equilibrium choice variables such as asset, consumption, physical and human capital depend on frictions and pricing environments.