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.

Alexander Monge-Naranjo is a macroeconomist with a wide array of research interests centered on frictions and imperfections in the labor and credit markets. His most recent work has focused on the impact of credit constraints on the formation of human capital, specifically on investments in higher education.

Martí Mestieri's research lies at the intersection of macroeconomics and development economics. He is particularly interested in human capital acquisition and technology adoption. His research topics include the design of educational systems in the presence of private information and borrowing constraints, the effects of the IT revolution on wage inequality and the pattern of specialization, and the study of the interplay between technology diffusion and economic development.

Rasmus Lentz is a Professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Prior to this, he was Assistant Professor at Boston University (2002-2005),  and Assistant Professor at the Wisconsin–Madison, Associate Professor. Lentz's research lies in the intersection of macro and labor economics with a particular focus on the impact of worker and firm heterogeneity on labor market outcomes.

Lentz received an M.A. in Economics from the University of Copenhagen in 1997, and a Ph.D. in Economics from Northwestern University in 2002.

Tom Krebs is a macroeconomist with a strong interest in heterogeneous-agent models. He is currently a professor of economics at Mannheim University. Before joining Mannheim University, he has been on the faculty at Brown University, University of Illinois-UC, and Syracuse University.

Krebs received his B.A. in physics from the University of Hamburg (Germany) and his Ph.D. in economics from Columbia University.

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.

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.