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.
Felicia Ionescu is a Principal Economist in the Research Department at the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. She joined the Federal Reserve Bank in July 2013, prior to which she was an Assistant Professor of Economics at Colgate University.
Mark Huggett is a Professor in the department of Economics at Georgetown University. He is a macroeconomist. His work has highlighted the importance of idiosyncratic risk for a number of issues including aggregate wealth accumulation, wealth inequality, lifetime inequality and asset pricing. His most recent work offers a human capital interpretation of lifetime inequality.
Huggett received a Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota in 1991.
Martin Gervais is an Associate Professor in the economics department at the University of Iowa. He is a macroeconomist who works in diverse areas, such as optimal fiscal policy, housing markets, and the determinants and consequences of borrowing constraints, in particular as they relate to human capital accumulation.
Gervais received a B.A. in Accounting and M.B.A. from Universite Laval in 1991 and 1993 respectively, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Western Ontario in 1995 and 1999 respectively.
Robert Gary-Bobo is Professor of Economics at the University of Paris I Pantheon-Sorbonne and at the Paris School of Economics 2003-2007; currently Professor of Economics at ENSAE (National School of Statistics, France) and researcher at CREST.
He mainly worked on Microeconomic Theory, Game Theory and applications to Public Economics. He recently worked on the Economics of Education, both on theory and applied econometrics.
