Guillermo Cruces (PhD in Economics, LSE) is the deputy director of the Center for Distributive, Labor and Social Studies (CEDLAS) at the Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina (UNLP). He is also a researcher at Argentina's National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET). His research is focused on labor economics, distributional analysis and social protection policies in Latin America and the Caribbean. He teaches at the graduate and undergraduate level at the Economics Department of the UNLP, and he is invited professor of labor economics at the Universidad de San Andrés (UdeSA), Argentina. He is in charge of CEDLAS' labor markets program, and he is the project leader of the CEDLAS-based and IDRC-funded research program on Labour markets for inclusive growth in Latin America. He has published in journals such as the Journal of Public Economics, the Journal of Population Studies, Labour Economics, Journal of Development Studies and Economia, and he has edited books and contributed to collective volumes and reports.
He has worked previously for the UK's Department for Work and Pensions and for the Development Studies Division of the UN’s Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean. He has also been a researcher at STICERD, London School of Economics and Political Science, where he obtained an MSc and a PhD in Economics. He has also been a visiting scholar at Harvard's David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies (2013).He joined IZA as a Research Fellow in October 2010.
Sebastian Galiani is a Professor of Economics at University of Maryland and Visiting Professor at Universidad de San Andres, Argentina. He is a member of the executive committee of LACEA. In the past, he held positions at Universidad Torcuato Di Tella and Universidad de San Andres in Argentina and was Tinker Visiting Professor at Columbia University and Universidad de Los Andes (Colombia) and visiting Scholar at Stanford and UC Berkeley. He was the chairman of the Network of Inequality and Poverty of LACEA during 2004 and 2005 and a member of its executive committee between 2004 and 2008. Sebastian obtained his Ph.D. in Economics from Oxford University and works in the areas of Development Economics and Applied Microeconomics. He published papers in the Journal of Political Economy, Quarterly Journal of Economics, American Economic Journal, Review of Economics and Statistics, Journal of Public Economics, Journal of Development Economics, Economic Development and Cultural Change, Regional Science and Urban Economics and Labour Economics, among others. His work has been featured in Science, The Economist, The Wall Street Journal, The Times and various other newspapers around the world. Sebastian has also worked as consultant for United Nations, Inter-American Development Bank, World Bank, and the governments of Argentina, Mexico, Panama and South Africa.
Martin Guzman is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Columbia University Graduate School of Business and an Associate
Professor at University of Buenos Aires. He is a co-chair of Columbia IPD's Taskforce on Debt Restructuring and Sovereign Bankruptcy,
and a member of the INET Research Group on "Macroeconomic Efficiency and Stability", chaired by Joseph Stiglitz.
He holds a PhD in Economics from Brown University.
His research fields are Macroeconomics, Monetary Economics, and Economic Growth.
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Daniel Heymann is Director of the Interdisciplinary Institute of Economic Research (IIEP BAIRES), a joint project of the University of Buenos Aires and the National Research Commission of Argentina (Conicet). He is also Professor of Economics at the Universities of Buenos Aires, San Andrés and La Plata. His research interests and extensive publications cover the areas of macroeconomics, development, and complex system analysis. He received bachelor degrees in Economics and Physics from the University of Buenos Aires and a PhD in Economics from UCLA. He has been president of the Argentine Association of Political Economy (2008- 2010) and is member of the Argentine Academy of Economic Sciences.
Arjun Jayadev is an assistant professor of economics at the University Of Massachusetts, Boston. His research focuses on the ways in which policy shifts that have occurred globally over the last three decades have impacted distributional outcomes (measured in terms of income, wealth and power). He has been a fellow at Columbia University’s Committee on Global Thought and a fellow at the Roosevelt Institute in New York. His work has appeared in a number of journals including the Journal of Development Economics, World Development, Economics Letters, The Cambridge Journal of Economics, Health Affairs and others.
Axel Stig Bengt Leijonhufvud was born in Sweden. He came to the United States in 1960 to do graduate work and obtained his Ph.D. from Northwestern University. He taught at the University of California at Los Angeles from 1964 to 1994 and served repeatedly as Chairman of the Economics Department. In 1991, he started the Center for Computable Economics at UCLA and remained its Director until 1997. In 1995 he was appointed Professor of Monetary Theory and Policy at the University of Trento, Italy. His research has particularly dealt with the limits to an economy's ability to coordinate activities as revealed by great depressions, high inflations and (recently) transitions from socialist towards market economies.
Lead economist in the World Bank's research department, in the unit dealing with poverty and inequality. Senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Washington. Working on the issues of globalization, income distribution, and democracy. Previously, worked as World Bank country economist for Poland (1988-91) and research fellow at the Institute of Economic Sciences in Belgrade, Yugoslavia (1980-83 and 1986-88). Since 1996, adjunct professor teaching Economics of Transition at the School for Advanced International Studies Johns Hopkins University. Ph.D. in economics 1987, Belgrade University.
I am Associate Professor in Public Economics at Università Bocconi, Milano, and coordinator of the Dondena Gender Initiative at the Dondena Centre for Research on Social Dynamics and Public Policy. I was undergraduate at Bocconi. I received a PhD in Economics from Universitat Pompeu Fabra of Barcelona. My research interests are in Public Economics (social security, welfare and redistributive public policies, education, comparative tax systems and tax policy), Political Economics, Gender Economics and Policies. I am member of the editorial board of European Journal of Political Economy and CESifo Economic Studies. I am member of CESifo Research Network and Research Associate at CHILD.
Sanjay G. Reddy is an associate professor of economics at The New School for Social Research. His areas of work include development economics, international economics, and economics and philosophy Professor Reddy possesses a Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University, an M.Phil. in social anthropology from the University of Cambridge, and an A.B. in applied mathematics with physics from Harvard University. Sanjay has held fellowships from the Center for Ethics and the Professions, the Center for Population and Development Studies at Harvard University, and the Center for Human Values at Princeton University. He has conducted extensive research for development agencies and international institutions, including the G-24 (group of developing countries), ILO, Oxfam, UNDESA (Department of Economic and Social Affairs, UN Secretariat), UNICEF, UNDP, UNU-WIDER (World Institute for Development Economics Research), UNRISD (UN Research Institute for Social Development), and the World Bank. Professor Reddy has been a member of the advisory panel of the UNDP's Human Development Report, and of the UN Statistics Division's Steering Committee on Poverty Statistics. He has been or is a member of the editorial advisory boards of Development, Ethics & International Affairs, the European Journal of Development Research, Humanity, the Review of Income and Wealth, and the Journal of Globalization and Development. He is Associate Editor of the Journal of Human Development and Capabilities and is Editor of the New School’s India China Institute working paper series.
Enrico Zaninotto is professor of Business Economics at the University of Trento. He was educated at the University of Venice and at the Catholic University of Louvain la Neuve. He joined the University of Trento in 1994, after the University of Venice and the University L. Bocconi of Milan. At the University of Trento he leaded the Rock, group of Research on Organisation, Coordination and Knowledge. He published papers on production theory, standard diffusion and modularization. Current research is focussed on two main topics: coordination theory and entrepreneurship and firm dynamics.
Former Professor of Economics at University College London and at Stockholm University, Fabrizio Zilibotti (born 07.09.1964) currently holds the Chair of Macroeconomics and Political Economy of the Department of Economics at the University of Zurich. He is the President Elect of the European Economic Association (of which he will become President in 2016). He is the Scientific Director and Deputy Director of the UBS International Center of Economics in Society. He is a joint recipient of the Yrjo Jahnsson 2009 award from the European Economic Association and of the Sun Yefang 2012 Award from the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (prize granted for the paper "Growing Like China"). He is a designated co-editor of Econometrica (in office as of 01.07.2015), the former chief editor (2009-14) of the Journal of the European Economic Association, a former director and managing editor (2002-06) of the Review of Economic Studies, and an Associate Editor of the Journal of Economic Growth and of China Economic Review. He has been the Principal Investigator of an ERC Advanced Grant. He is a director of the NBER Economic Fluctuations Group on Income Distribution and Macroeconomics. He is a Fellow of the Econometric Society, EEA, CEPR and CESifo. His research interests include economic growth and development, political economy, macroeconomics, and the economic development of China. He has published papers in all top-five journals in economics: American Economic Review, Econometrica, Journal of Political Economy, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Review of Economic Studies . In addition, he has published papers (among others) in several top-field journals.