Fang Yang is an assistant professor at the Dept. of Economics, Louisiana State University. Her research focuses on housing, consumption, wealth inequality, social security, and education. She studies individual optimal choices in an environment with uninsurable risk and the effect of policy changes on the aggregate economic outcomes in such an environment.
Yang received a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Minnesota in 2006.
Gianluca Violante is a Professor of Economics at New York University. He currently holds one of the William R. Berkley Term Endowed Chairs in Economics and Business. His main research interests are in macroeconomics and labor economics. Among other journals, he has published his research in the American Economic Review, Econometrica, Journal of Political Economy, Quarterly Journal of Economics, and Review of Economic Studies.
Michèle Tertilt is Professor of Economics at the University of Mannheim. After finishing her doctorate in 2003 she became an Assistant Professor of Economics at Stanford University. During academic 2006/07, she spent a year visiting the University of Pennsylvania. In 2007/08 she was a National Fellow at the Hoover Institution. In 2009 she was awarded the prestigious Sloan Research Fellowship. Tertilt joined the Economics Department at Mannheim University in September 2010.
Ananth Seshadri is a Professor and chair of the Economics Department at University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he specializes in macroeconomics and public finance. He has written on the causes and consequences of demographic change and the effects of technological change in accounting for various demographic patterns. His research has appeared in leading economics journals, including The American Economic Review, Review of Economic Studies, and the Journal of Political Economy. He was awarded a research fellowship from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in 2006.
Thomas J. Sargent, a macroeconomist, joined New York University as the first W.R. Berkley Professor in September 2002, a joint appointment by the Economics Department at NYU's Faculty of Arts and Sciences and the Stern School of Business. Professor Sargent was a professor of economics at the University of Minnesota from 1975 to 1987, the David Rockefeller Professor at the University of Chicago from 1992 to 1998 and the Donald Lucas Professor of Economics at Stanford University from 1998 to 2002. He has been a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution since 1987.
Peter Rupert serves as Chair of UCSB's Department of Economics, Executive Director of the Economic Forecast Project, and Associate Director of the Laboratory for Aggregate Economics and Finance, founded by Nobel Laureate and Henley Professor of Economics, Finn E. Kydland. Prior to joining UCSB, Dr.
Marla Ripoll is a Professor of Economics at the University of Pittsburgh, where she also serves as Core Faculty of the Center of Latin American Studies and the Global Studies Program.
She is an Associate Editor of the Journal of Macroeconomics, a member of the Advisory Board of the Carnegie-Rochester-NYU Conference, a member of the Human Capital and Economic Opportunity Group, and a member of the Economics Research Network of the Colombia Central Bank.
Nicola Pavoni recently joined the Bocconi University from the University College London where he was Professor of Economics. His work has been published in the Review of Economics Studies, the Journal of Monetary Economics, the Journal of the European Economic Association, and the International Economic Review among others. He is Co-Editor of the BE Journal, Macroeconomics. His research interests are Macroeconomic Theory, Economics of Information, Consumption Theory, Labour Economics, and Public Finance.
Svetlana Pashchenko is an Associate Professor in the Department of Economics of the Terry College of Business at the University of Georgia. She was previously a Lecturer at the University of Surrey and an Assistant Professor at Uppsala Universitet. She is a macroeconomist with an interest in insurance markets and public policy analysis. Pashchenko is particularly interested in the interactions between private insurance, self-insurance and social insurance. Her recent research focuses on the health insurance market and the market for private annuities in the US.
Theodore Papageorgiou is the Felter Family Associate Professor of Economics at Boston College. His main research interests are in labor economics, macroeconomics, as well as the economics of transportation.
In 2022, his article “Geography, Transportation, and Endogenous Trade Costs,” (joint with Giulia Brancaccio and Myrto Kalouptsidi) won the Frisch Medal of the Econometric Society, for the best applied (empirical or theoretical) paper published in Econometrica during the previous four years.
