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.
Giovanni Gallipoli is a professor at UBC in Vancouver. Giovanni's research focuses on the origins and consequences of economic inequality with a focus on how heterogeneity shapes individual behaviors and aggregate economic outcomes.
Professor Zvi Eckstein is the Dean of the School of Economics at the Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) Herzelia and visiting professor at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. He served as Deputy Governor of the Bank of Israel from 2006 to 2011. Eckstein gave the Walras-Bowley lecture at the Econometric Society Summer 2008 meetings and he is a fellow of the Econometric Society. He was an Assistant Professor at Yale University, 1980-1983. Eckstein worked at Tel-Aviv University from 1983 - 2012, and took early retirement at 2012 as Professor of Economics.
Matthias Doepke is a Professor of Economics at Northwestern University, an NBER Research Associate, and a CEPR Research Fellow. In 2005, he was awarded an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship. His research interests include economic growth and development, political economy, macroeconomics, and monetary economics. Recently, Doepke has worked population dynamics and economic growth, the political economy of child labor, endogenous preferences in macroeconomics, and redistributional effects of inflation.
Mariacristina De Nardi is currently a Professor at University College London, currently on leave from the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, where she works as a Senior Economist and Research Advisor in the research department. De Nardi is also a Faculty Research Fellow of the National Bureau of Economic Research and a Research Fellow at the Institute of Fiscal Studies (IFS). Her research focuses on savings, health, aging, wealth inequality, social security, entrepreneurship and taxation.
Dean Corbae is a Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He also holds an appointment in the Department of Finance, Investment, and Banking at the Wisconsin School of Business. Corbae has been a Visiting Professor at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and Cambridge University, as well as a Visiting Scholar at the Federal Reserve Banks of Cleveland, Dallas, Minneapolis, and St. Louis. Corbae's research in macroeconomics and econometrics has been published in Econometrica, the Journal of Political Economy, and others.
Daniele Coen-Pirani is an Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Pittsburgh. His research interests are at the intersection of macroeconomics, labor economics, and public economics. His research interests in the area of human capital accumulation include the evolution of educational attainment in the U.S. and around the world, and the implications for inequality and efficiency of alternative approaches to financing primary and secondary education.
Francisco Buera is a Senior Economist and Research Advisor at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. Previously, he was an Associate Professor of Economics at the University of California Los Angeles. Buera is a macroeconomist with a strong interest in economic development.
