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Ana Jesús López is Professor of Statistics and Econometrics at the University of Oviedo (Spain), Department of Applied Economics.
She has Ph.D. in Economics (1991) and Bachelor in Economic and Management Sciences at the University of Oviedo (1986) and her research activities are related to three different fields: the measurement of economic inequality, the regional modelling and forecasting, and the socio-economic impact of the Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs).
She has supervised several PhD and research projects and she is author of some publications in international journals including Economics Letters, Regional Studies, Applied Economics Letters, Test, Journal of Forecasting, Empirical Economics, Information & Management and Instructional Technology and Distance Learning (ITDL). She has also worked as an expert evaluator for the European Commission Lifelong Learning Programme, through the Spanish National Agency (OAPEE).
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Gene Grossman is the Jacob Viner Professor of International Economics, the Chair of the Economics Department, and the Director of the International Economics Section at Princeton University. He has worked on a broad range of topics in international trade theory and trade policy. Most recently, his work has focused on "task trade"; i.e., the fragmentation and internationalization of the production process in many industries. He has studied both the choice between direct foreign investment and international outsourcing, and the consequences of "offshoring" for domestic labor market. He is also working on models of trade in vertically differentiated goods in the presence of non-homothetic demands. These models can explain the high volumes of trade and FDI between countries with similar levels of income. Finally, he is working on the economic underpinnings of various features of international trade agreements, such as the GATT/WTO.
While in STICERD, he will be sitting in R529, and can be contacted on grossman@princeton.edu.
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Dr. Jean Grossman is an economist with an expertise in social policy evaluation. She has over two decades of experience conducting evaluations, including 11 random clinical trials, on a variety of social programs—youth programs, employment and training, welfare, dropout prevention, teen pregnancy prevention, and health interventions. She recently served as the first Chief Evaluation Officer for the U.S. Department of Labor (2010-2011) where she oversaw all the Department’s program evaluations (on unemployment insurance, employment and training and worker protection programs). Her current research interests include studying the effects of after-school programs, adult-youth mentoring, and education programs. She is a lecturer at Princeton University in the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. She can be reached at jgrossma@princeton.edu or in R517 while at LSE.
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Tony Fahey (Professor of Social Policy, University College Dublin) is a sociologist by training and has research interests in family and demography, poverty and living standards, housing and neighbourhood disadvantage. While in CASE (LSE), he is working on two main projects. One is a first round of analysis of data from the Growing Up in Ireland (GUI) survey, which is a large-scale longitudinal study of children in Ireland launched in 2007. His particular focus in this study is on the couple relationship in families, looked because both as an object of interest in its own right and because of its significance for the well-being of children. His other activity arises from the GINI project, which is an international FP7-funded study of the social, cultural and political impacts of inequalities in income, wealth and education in EU countries, the US, Japan, Australia and Canada (both the LSE and Prof Fahey’s home university, UCD, are taking part in this project). One strand of the project examines the social impacts of income and educational inequalities, and under this heading Prof Fahey is analysing the impact of income and educational inequalities on family patterns and structures. He can be contacted on tony.fahey@ucd.ie and in in R509 while in CASE.
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Dean Yang is Associate Professor of Public Policy and Economics. His research is on the economic problems of developing countries. His specific areas of interest include: international migration, microfinance, health, corruption, and the economics of disasters. Dean teaches Ford School courses in the economics of developing countries and in microeconomics, as well as a Ph.D. course in development economics. He received his undergraduate and Ph.D. degrees in Economics from Harvard University.
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Dr. Neeraj Kaushal is Associate Professor of Social Work, and Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. She is also a Research Fellow at IZA - the Institute for the Study of Labor, Bonn, Germany. She is a labor and health economist, and her research focus is on how policies and events affect the well-being of low-income families with special emphasis on immigrants.
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Walker Hanlon is visiting LSE through the Actors, Markets, and Institutions in Development (AMID) program until the end of July. He is a PhD student in the Columbia University Economics Department. His research focuses on development, international trade, economic geography, and economic growth. His main development research focuses the quality of leadership in small groups using data from Ugandan farmer associations. He can be reached at wwh2104@columbia.edu.
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Please welcome Dr. Ana I. Rosado Cubero who is visiting STICERD from the Business School Department of the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Dr. Cubero is sitting in desk R5z11A; extension 020 78523544 email: arosado@ccee.ucm.es
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May Elsayyad is visiting the Public Economics Programme until mid April. She is a PhD-student at the Munich Graduate School of Economics and the Max Planck Institute for Tax Law and Public Finance.
Her fields of interest are Public Economics, International Taxation and International Public Goods. May is sitting in desk zone 18c. Her telephone number 0207955 7855. email: may.elsayyad@tax.mpg.de
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Stefano Gagliarducci, from the Universita di Roma Tor Vergata is visiting STICERD under the Economics of Public Policy Programme (EOPP) until the end of March. He is currently working on institutional features driving the selection of politicians.
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Dr. Elena Paltseva from the Department of Economics, University of Copenhagen is visiting STICERD under the Public Economics Programme from 22nd November to 11th December. Dr. Paltseva’s research interests are as follows:political economics, industrial organization, public economics and applied microeconomics.
Dr. Paltseva is sitting in office R517, tel: 0207 955 6698; email: Elena.paltseva@econ.ku.dk; website http://web.econ.ku.dk/okoep
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STICERD Visitors Programme Academic Session 2010/11
Professor Edward W. Soja, Distinguished Professor of Urban Planning, UCLA has been invited under the STICERD Visitors Programme and LSE Cities Programme to visit the Cities Programme in November and December 2010. During this period he will give a series of three master classes for students on the MSc City Design and Social Science and graduate students on related urban programmes across the School, and participate in doctoral research seminars. He will also offer individual consultations to doctoral students. An evening lecture has also been planned on the subject of his current book, Seeking Spatial Justice (Minnesota, 2010) on 25 November 2010.
Professor Soja’s office is V810, ext. 6828 or email: e.soja@lse.ac.uk/esoja@ucla.edu
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Dr. Janne Turkiainen is a Visiting Fellow in the Economics of Industry Group from the Helsinki Center of Economic Research, where he is a Postdoctural Fellow and a Senior Researcher at the Finnish Government for Economic Research.
Janne is working on the fields of empirical industrial organisation and empirical political economics. His research interests include auctions, public procurement, analysis of discrete games and local politics. Janne is interested in applying and developing both structural and program evaluation type microeconometric tools.
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Professor Pranab Bardhan, is visiting STICERD from the Dept. of Economics, University of California, Berkeley, on a BP Centennial Professorship (associated with STICERD and DESTIN) for the summer terms in 2010 and 2011.
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Lucie Gadenne is a visiting PhD student from the Paris School of Economics. Her research interests are political economy, public finance and development economics. She is currently working on understanding whether and how financing government expenditures through taxes leads to better public spending in developing countries.
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Claudio Ferraz, Assistant Professor from the Department of Economics, PUC-Rio, Brazil, is visiting STICERD under the Economics of Public Policy Programme (EOPP) from the 8th October - 6th November 2009. Claudio is visiting STICERD on an award from the ESRC Collaborative Visiting Fellowship Scheme 2009.
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Marcelo Caetano is a senior researcher at IPEA (Brazilian Institute for Applied Economic Research), and is visiting CASE from 29th September to 28th November 2009. In recent years, Marcelo has been studying how pension systems affect Brazilian sub national fiscal policies, and the effects of pension system on regional inequalities in Brazil. During his period as a CASE visitor, Marcelo’s research seeks to focus on the determinants of internal migration and especially on spillovers arising from regional and social policies. He can be contacted via email at marcelo.caetano@ipea.gov.br.
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Christian Odendahl is a visiting ph.d student for one year from the University of Stockholm. Christian's main areas of interest are political economics and development economics.
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Fredrik Willumsen, PhD student at University of Oslo (Norway), is
visiting EOPP from 17th August 2009 to 16th July 2010. His research
interests are within the fields of Development Economics and Political
Economy, especially focusing on conflict, the economics effects of
conflict, and state failure.
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Jon Eguia, Assistant Professor of Politics at New York University is visiting EOPP from 19th May - 12th June 2009. His research interests are Political Economy, Formal Political Theory, Social Choice and Public Economics. http://politics.as.nyu.edu/object/JonEguia.html
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Mili Shrivastava is a visiting Ph.d student from the Max Planck Institute of Economics, Jena, Germany to work with Professor John Sutton.. Her research topic is "Corporate Spinoffs and Industry Dynamics".
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Monica Singhal, Assistant Professor of Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School, is visiting EOPP from January 15 to August 15, 2009. Her current research focuses on behavioral responses to taxation, the determinants of local public spending patterns, and public finance in developing countries.
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Professor Ken Shepsle, George D. Markham Professor of Government, Harvard University is visiting EOPP from 12th January - 18th January 2009.
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Professor Bruno Frey, University of Zurich, Insititute of Empirical Research in Economics will be visiting EOPP from 27th October - 8th November 2008.
Research Interest: political economics, economics and psychology, corporate governance, economics of art and culture
www.iew.uzh.ch/home/frey
www.crema-research.ch
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Professor Dean Karlan, Yale University will be visiting EOPP from 4th August - 9th August
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Chris Coyne is Assistant Professor at West Virginia University and is visiting STICERD as the Hayek Fellow 2008 from 14th June - 13th July 2008 through the generosity of Tim and Alison Frost and STICERD.
Chris is also a Research Fellow at the Mercatus Center, and the North American Editor for The Review of Austrian Economics. His primary areas of research include Austrian economics, economic development, and political economy. Chris is the author of the book, After War: The Political Economy of Exporting Democracy (Stanford, 2007), which analyzes U.S. efforts to spread democracy through military occupation. An overview of his research is available at: http://www.ccoyne.com/.
Chris received his M.A. and Ph.D. in Economics from George Mason University.
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Van C. Tran is currently a doctoral candidate in the Joint Ph.D. Program in Sociology and Social Policy at Harvard University (http://www.wjh.harvard.edu/soc/gs/Tran_Van/). His research seeks to understand the incorporation of immigrants and their children in the U.S. (with a particular focus on Hispanics/Latinos), as well as its implication for intergroup relations, urban poverty and social inequality research. Van will be visiting LSE-CASE from June 8 till July 19, 2008. While here, Van’s research focuses on how ethnicity and social class shape parenting practices among young adults in contemporary United Kingdom. Specifically, the project seeks to investigate how parenting practices vary: (1) across ethnic groups in contemporary United Kingdom; (2) across social classes within the same ethnic group; and (3) across immigrant generations within the same ethnic group, drawing upon three waves of data from the Millennium Cohort Study. In addition, the project investigates how these cultural differences in parenting might affect the developmental trajectory and health outcomes of children from birth to five years of age. Van would very much appreciate the opportunity to meet with LSE faculty, staff and students and can be reached via email at vantran@fas.harvard.edu.
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Dr. Desiree Teobaldelli from University of Urbino, Dept. of Economics and Law, will be visiting DARP from 12th May - 8th June 2008.
Research interests: The shadow economy, federalism, economics of law and legal institutions.
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Dr. Desiree Teobaldelli from University of Urbino, Dept. of Economics and Law, will be visiting DARP from 12th May - 8th June 2008.
Research interests: The shadow economy, federalism, economics of law and legal institutions.
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Davide Ticchi is visiting EOPP from 12th May - 8th June 2008. He is Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Urbino. He obtained a Ph.D. in Economics from the University Pompeu Fabra in 2004. His recent research interests focus on the political economy of institutional choice and of inefficient state organizations, the role of the military on politics and the effects of wars on political institutions and regime transitions. He has studied the effect of uncertainty on investment.
http://works.bepress.com/davideticchi
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Christopher A. Bail is a Doctoral Fellow in the Multidisciplinary Program on Inequality and Social Policy at the Kennedy School of Government and a PhD Candidate in the Department of Sociology at Harvard University. His research on immigration policy and xenophobia has appeared in the American Sociological Review and the Revue Europeene des Migrations Internationales. While visiting LSE, he will be conducting fieldwork for his dissertation, which compares the consequences of counter-terrorism policy in the U.S. and U.K. for the social exclusion of Muslim communities. Bail was previously a German Marshall Fund Fellow at the Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques and the receipient of the 2007 Aage B. Sorenson Award. Before beginning his PhD, Bail worked at the United Nations Development Programme in Geneva and received his Bachelor's degree summa cum laude from Bowdoin College.
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Professor Jim Snyder, Arthur and Ruth Sloan Professor of Economics and Political Science at MIT
Research Interests: Empirical and theoretical studies of campaign finance in U.S. Congressional elections and U.S. state elections. Models of electoral competition between political parties. Empirical studies of issue positions and the incumbency advantage in U.S. Congressional elections.
http://econ-www.mit.edu/faculty/snyder/papers
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Simon Luechinger from the University of Zurich is visiting EOPP from 3 March 2008 until 28 February 2009.
Simon's research involves using difference in self-reported life satisfaction between public and private sector employees as an empirical approximation for public sector rents. Using this proxy measure, Simon will investigate the importance of institutional and political factors for bureaucratic rent seeking. By looking at the evolution of the life satisfaction differential over the business cycle, Simom will try to assess the importance of job security.
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Michaela Willert is based at the FB Politik- und Sozialwissenschaften at the Freie Universität Berlin, and is visiting CASE from 8th January to 29th February 2008. She is working on an Anglo-German Foundation funded project called "Combining social inclusion with financial sustainability?
The reconstruction of British and German pension regimes". In particular, she wants to investigate the development of the British private pension market and its political framework.
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Esben Schultz is a PhD student of Economics at The Copenhagen Business School, Denmark. He is also affiliated with the Centre for Economic and Business Research (CEBR) and Centre for Applied Microeconometrics (CAM).
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Emanuele Canegrati is a Ph.d student in Public Economics at UCSC Milan.
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Stijn Vanormelingen is a PhD. student working under the supervision of Professor Jozef Konings at LICOS (Centre for Institutions and Economic Performance), which is a research institute of the KU Leuven. His main research interests are empirical industrial organization, international economics and applied econometrics. He is visiting STICERD from September 2007 through December 2007.
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Professor Bernard Sinclair-Desgagne is visiting from HEC-University of Montreal for the academic year 2007-8. His research interests are the following: Environmental economics; Theory of the Firm; Industrial Organisation and Public Economics.
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Chris Woodruff is Associate Professor of Economics at UC San Diego. His current research uses field experiments in Mexico and Sri Lanka to measure returns to marginal capital investments in low-capital enterprises. The Sri Lanka project also aims to understand the process of recovery of microenterprises following the December 2004 tsunami. Migration from Mexico to the United States, and entrepreneurship among Mexican migrants, are also areas of interest. Chris has also studied the impact of the institutional environment on small scale enterprise in Mexico, Vietnam and Eastern Europe. Recent and forthcoming publications include:
“The Quality of the Legal System, Firm Ownership, and Firm Size” (w/ Luc Laeven), forthcoming Review of Economics and Statistics, 2008
"The Impact of Short-term Credit on Microenterprises: Evidence from the Bimbo Program in Mexico", forthcoming Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2008
“Migration Networks and Microenterprises in Mexico” (w/ Rene Zenteno), Journal of Development Economics, March 2007
Professor Woodruff is visiting STICERD from August 2007 through March 2008.
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Robert Bates is Eaton Professor of the Science of Government at Harvard University. His research focuses on the political economy of development, particularly in Africa, and on violence and state failure.
Robert Bates has conducted field work in Zambia, Sudan, Uganda, Kenya, Columbia and Brazil. Before coming to Harvard, he held faculty appointments at the California Institute of Technology and Duke University and had been a researcher at the Institute of Development Studies of the University of Nairobi, the Institute for Social Research of the University of Zambia, and Fedesarrollo in Bogota, Columbia.
Professor Bates currently serves as a researcher and resource person with the Africa Economic Research Consortium, Nairobi; as a member of the Political Instability Task Force of the United States Government; and as Professeur associe, School of Economics, University of Toulouse, where he has taught since 2000.
Among his most recent books are Analytic Narratives with Avner Greif, Margaret Levi, Jean-Laurent Rosenthal, and Barry Weingast ( Princeton: Princeton University Press) 1999 and Prosperity and Violence (W.W. Norton) 2001
Professor Bates visited EOPP in June-July 2007.
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Austan Goolsbee is the Robert P.Gwinn Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business.
He is also a Research Fellow at the American Bar Foundation, Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and a member of the Panel of Economic Advisors to the Congressional Budget Office. He has also been Barack Obama's economic advisor since Obama's successful U.S. Senate campaign in Illinois.
Austan Goolsbee's research focuses on the Internet, the new economy, government policy, and taxes. He currently teaches on 'Economics and Policy in the Telecom, Media and Technology Industries'.
Austan Goolsbee visited EOPP from April to June 2007.
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Raja Kali is Associate Professor at Sam M. Walton College of Business, University of Arkansas. Dr Kali's current work is on institutional context and industrial organization and he has published articles in the Journal of Law, Economics and Organization and the Journal of Economics and Management Strategy. Dr Kali visited EOPP for May-June 2007.
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Wulf Gaertner received his PhD in economics at the University of Bonn. He got his
habilitation at Bielefeld University. He is a full-time professor at the Economics Department of the University of Osnabrueck in Germany . In 2005, the departments of economics and philosophy of the London School of Economics awarded him a Ludwig Lachmann research fellowship for a period of nine months. His main area of research is social choice theory where he recently published two books, namely "Domain Conditions" (CUP, 2001) and "A Primer in Social Choice Theory"(OUP, 2006). The latter is the first volume in a new LSE series called "Perspectives in Economic Analysis", edited by Tim Besley and Frank Cowell.
Gaertner's other interests include the rationalisation of individual choice, measures of the standard of living using Sen's concept of functionings, and empirical social choice, based on questionnaire-experimental investigations where he is collaborating with Frank Cowell, amongst others.
This year he is visiting until 4th May and has his office in T501a of the Lakatos building in the Philosophy Department.
He can be contacted by email
W.Gaertner@lse.ac.uk or by phone on 020 7955 7182 .
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Vincent Vandenberghe was trained as an applied economist and has accumulated research experience in Europe as well as in the US. He is now full-time, tenure-track, professor at the Economics department of the Université Catholique de Louvain.
Over the years, he has acquired a solid background in applying economic analysis and reasoning to educational issues (international comparison of effectiveness and equity, rate of return estimates, formula funding, centraliazation vs. decentralization, education wages and employment, teacher turnover...).
Current research interests include tertiary education finance in the EU context (student loans, transferable vouchers, liquidity constraints...) as well as the effects of an ageing workforce on firms' productivity. He is visiting until 30th April 2007 and is at desk 25D. He can be contacted by email
v.m.vandenberghe@lse.ac.uk or phone on 020 7955 7613.
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D. Rajasekhar is Professor at the Institute of Social and Economic Change, Bangalore, India and visited EOPP in January 2007.
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Matthew Rabin is Edward G. and Nancy S. Jordan Professor of Economics in the Department of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley.
He received a B.A in Economics and Mathematics from University of Wisconsin in 1984 and PhD in Economics from MIT in 1989.
His research is directed , among other economic fields, towards behavioral finance/economics.
Rabin works on the economics of individual self-control problems, reference-dependent preferences, fairness motives and mistakes in probabilistic reasoning.
In 2001 he was awarded the John Bates Clark Medal by the American Economic Association and also the MacArthur Foundation Fellow, 2001-2005.
He visited EOPP in January 2007
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