Visiting Faculty and Research Scholars

Marianne P. Bitler, UC Davis, (December 2017 - March 2018) Marianne Bitler has expertise in public economics, labor economics, health economics and applied microeconomics. She is a research associate with the National Bureau of Economic Research and a research fellow at IZA.




Domenico Depalo, Bank of Italy, (September 2017 - May 2018) Economist at the Bank of Italy - Public Finance Dept. Ph.D. from Tor Vergata University (Rome) in 2008. Current research interests are: public economics, labor economics, health economics, applied econometrics.




Nicole Fortin, University of British Columbia, (September 2017 - December 2017) Full Professor in the Vancouver School of Economics at UBC in Vancouver, BC where she teaches courses in labour economics and empirical economics, at the graduate and undergraduate levels.

Thomas Lemieux, University of British Columbia, (September 2017 - December 2017) Professor at the Vancouver School of Economics at the UBC. Most of his recent research revolves around the issue of earnings inequality in Canada and other countries. He is also interested in econometric methods used to analyze the earnings distribution and regression discontinuity designs.




David Loschiavo, Bank of Italy, (January 2018 - July 2018) Economist at the Bank of Italy. His research focuses on the relationship between income inequality and household debt. He also studies the effects of urban agglomeration on subjective well-being.




Aleksandra Parteka, Gdansk University of Technology, (January 2018 - June 2018) Associate Professor at the Faculty of Management and Economics at Gdansk University of Technology (Gdansk, Poland). Fulbright Senior Awardee 2018




Barbara Pertold-Gebická, Charles University, (January 2018 - June 2018) Barbara Pertold Gebicka is an assistant professor at Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic. Her research evolves around family economics, economics of education and applied microeconometrics.

	Filip Pertold, CERGE-EI, (January 2018 - June 2018) Filip Pertold is a senior researcher at CERGE-EI and Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic. His research interest are empirical labour economics, public economics and economics of education.

Ian M. Schmutte, University of Georgia, (September 2017 - May 2018) Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Georgia. His research focuses on the role of social interactions in the labor market, as well as the econometrics of matched employer-employee data. He also studies the economics of privacy in the collection and dissemination of sensitive data.

Visiting Student Researchers

Maria Brunborg Hoen, Frisch Centre, (August 2017 - December 2017) Labour economics, Immigration, Entrepreneurship

	Tuomo Virkola, European University Institute. (August 2017 - December 2017) He is currently researching the role of internships in early career outcomes for college graduates and the effects of migration inflows on local communities.

Post Doctoral Researchers

Yukiko Asai, Fellow at Institute of Social Science, the University of Tokyo (September 2015 - March 2018) Yukiko Asai, is a JSPS Postdoctoral Fellow at Institute of Social Science, the University of Tokyo.