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Brian Amorim Cabaço

Email: [email protected]

My primary fields of research are health economics and development economics. I am particularly interested in identifying and quantifying the economic causes of health-related problems, link between social economic status and health outcomes.

Email:   [email protected] Website:  sites.google.com/view/ruiminao

Elena Ashtari Tafti

Elena’s research interests lie in the field of microeconomics including theoretical work and empirical applications. Her research focuses on healthcare markets with specific attention on healthcare professionals decision making. She is affiliated with the Institute of Fiscal Studies (IFS) and the Centre for Research & Analysis of Migration (CReAM) Email:   [email protected] CV: 

Elena Ashtari Tafti [pdf]

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Courtney Brell

Email:  [email protected]

Max Bricker

Email:  [email protected]

Marco Castelluccio

Marco is a PhD Scholar at the IFS and a PhD Candidate in Economics at UCL. His main research interest lies within the field of applied microeconomics, with a special focus on environmental economics and firms. Marco’s current research agenda aims at assessing how public policies shape the direction of innovation and firms’ production choices.

Location: 4th Floor, IFS

Email:   [email protected]

Nicolas Cerkez

Nick's interests are in development economics, political economy, and environmental economics. Email:  [email protected] Website:   nicolascerkez.com

Minsok Chae

Email:  [email protected]

Lichao Chen

Email:  [email protected]

Tao's research interests are Empirical Industrial Organisation; Microeconometrics

Email:   [email protected]

Wenhao Cheng

Email:  [email protected]

Email:  [email protected]

Website :  https://alexanderclyde.com

Riccardo D'Adamo

Email:  riccardo.d'[email protected] Website:  sites.google.com/view/riccardodadamo 

Stan De Ruijter Van Steveninck

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Madigan Dockrill

Cristian espinosa diaz.

Cristian's fields of interest include international macroeconomics, trade and production networks, and empirical macroeconomics.

His current research has focused on studying the effect of import tariffs at the aggregate and industry level.

Email:  [email protected] Website: www.cristianespinosa.com

Sebastian Esoinoza Rojas

Sebastan's research interwsts include Labor Economics, Development Economics, Inequality, Economics of Education and Urban Economics.

Email:   [email protected] CV:  Sebastian_Espinoza

Andrew Eyles

Email:   [email protected]

Giuseppe Forte

Giuseppe (2020-2024) has research interests in industrial organisation and applied microeconometrics.

Email:  [email protected] Twitter: @gfrt0 Website: https://gfrt0.github.io/

Hugo Freeman

Hugo's research interests are in Panel data econometrics.

Email:  [email protected] Website:   sites.google.com/view/hugofreeman

Carl's main interests are in labour economics, public economics and policy evaluation. He is also affiliated with the Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM). 

Twitter: @c_gergs Email:  [email protected]

Ararat Gocmen

Ararat's research interest's include Labor and Finance, Income and Wealth Inequality, Macroeconomic Policy, Modern European History.

Room : 329, Drayton House

Email :  [email protected]

Anusha Guha

Email:   [email protected]

Dongxian Guo

Dongxian's research interest's lie in IO and Applied Micro.

Room : G01, Drayton House

Email :  [email protected]

Jamie Hentall Maccuish

Email:   [email protected]

Hao's research interest's lie in the field of development economics, labor economics, and organizational economics. I am particularly interested in firms' production and state capacity in developing countries, as well as the organizational frictions that hinder their performance.

Email :  [email protected]

Lorenzo Incoronato

Lorenzo's research interest's lie in Labor economics and Urban Economics.

Room : 325, Drayton House

Email:  [email protected] CV: 

Lorenzo_Incoronato.pdf

Huilei kang.

Email:   [email protected]

Hikaru Kawarazaki

Hikaru's research interest's include Economics of Education, Economics of Crime, Development Economics, Labour Economics, and Applied Econometrics.

Room : 3rd Floor, IFS

Email :  [email protected]

hikaru_kawarazaki.pdf

Eric's main research interests are in Applied Microeconomics, in particular Labor Economics. He is also affiliated with the Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM). 

Email :  [email protected]

Yongsoo Kim

Email:   [email protected]

Yannis Kastis

My fields of interest are labour economics, applied microeconomics and economics of migration. My research focuses on the phenomenon of immigration and more specifically on its impact on local labour markets and the labour market outcomes of natives in the host country. I am affiliated with CReAM.

Email:   [email protected] Website:   cream-migration.org/personneldetail.php?id=302 CV:

Arthur Laroche

Arthur's research interest's include Development, Political Economy.

Email :  [email protected]

cv_laroche_arthur_laroche.pdf

Chiara lattanzio.

Chiara's reaearch interests include Banking and Corporate Finance.

Email :  [email protected]

chiara_lattanzio.pdf

Thomas lazarowicz.

Email:   [email protected]

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Jiangnan Liao

My research interests are in Labour Economics, in particular topics on gender, migration, and inequality.

Email:   [email protected]

Jiangnan Liao CV.pdf

Justinas Markauskas

My research interests lie in macroeconomics and monetary policy with a focus on sticky price models. In particular, I am investigating heterogeneity of price rigidity at a firm-level and its implications for monetary policy.

Email:  [email protected] Linkedin:   linkedin.com/in/justinas-markauskas-65068120

Didac Marti Pinto

Email:  [email protected]

Enrico Miglino

Enrico's research focuses on public economics, urban economics, search and matching theory and applied structural microeconometrics. He also received a scholarship from the Fondazione Luigi Einaudi.

Email:  [email protected] Website :  sites.google.com/view/enricomiglino

Ivan Olszak

Ivan's research focuses on IO and Education.

Location : IFS

Email:   [email protected] Twitter:   @IvanOlszak Linkedin :   linkedin.com/in/ivan-olszak-36192b15

Joern Onken

Joern's research interests are  in macroeconomics, in particular the interaction between micro heterogeneity and macro outcomes such as inequality and business cycles.

Email: [email protected]

Website: joernonken.com

Julen Ortiz de Zarate Pina

Room: G01-4, Drayton House Email: [email protected]

Filippo Pallotti

Email:   [email protected]

Oscar Perello Perez

Oscar's research covers topics in international trade and economic development with a focus on production networks. His ongoing projects analyse trade intermediation in buyer-seller networks, the dynamics of global supply chains, and the role of imperfect competition in international trade.

Email:  [email protected] Twitter:  @oiperello Website:   sites.google.com/view/oscarperellop

Jon Piqueras

Jon's research interests include Labor and Public Economics.

Email :  [email protected]

Website:  https://jonpiqueras.github.io/ 

Andrew Preston 

My research interests lie in Macro, Finace.

Email:  [email protected] Twitter:  @andypreston_UK Website:   sites.google.com/view/andrew-preston

andrew_preston.pdf

Alexander ralphs.

Email:  [email protected]

Morgane Richard

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Andrea Smurra

Room : G01-4, Drayton House Email:  [email protected]

David Sturrock

My current research is based in the microeconomic analysis of household wealth-holding behaviour. My ongoing projects examine the determinants and effects of intergenerational wealth transfers in the UK and the Netherlands, with a focus on the intergenerational transmission of inequality and the role of housing wealth. I am a Senior Research Economist at the IFS.

Website:   sites.google.com/site/davidjsturrock/home Email:  [email protected]

Rachel Yi Tan

Email:  [email protected]

Alessandro Toppeta

Email:  [email protected]

Andres Trejos Medina

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Clara Von Bismarck-Osten

Clara is currently pursuing a Masters of Research at UCL's Department of Economics, for which she earned a co-funded scholarship by the Center for Research and Analysis of Migration and the Institute for Fiscal Studies. Her current research is devoted to the impact of maternity leave on mothers’ labour supply and children’s outcomes. She received her MSc in Economics from UCL in 2020 after a year of work experience as a Research Associate at the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL). She also holds a BA in Economics from the University of Mannheim, where she simultaneously worked for the Center for Evaluation and Development (C4ED).

Email:  [email protected] Twitter: @claravobi Website:   cream-migration.org/personneldetail.php?id=313

Guglielmo Ventura

Email:  [email protected]

Anna Vitali

I study firms and labour markets in developing countries. My research interests lie at the intersection of development, labor economics and industrial organization. Email:  [email protected] Website:   annavitali.com

Guanyi Wang

Guanyi is mainly interested in using statistical methods to study optimal policy intervention, social network and spillover effects, strategic interaction, and general econometrics. He has piblished his works in  major peer-reviewed journals in economics including Journal of Econometrics. Email: [email protected] Website:   www.guanyi-wang.com

Linda Audrey Wu

Linda's main interests are in labour economics and public economics. Email:  [email protected]

Website:  www.sites.google.com/view/lindawu

Room: G01-4, Drayton House Email: [email protected] IRIS profile: Yiming Xia

Tian's research interests include Econometric Theory and Applied Economics

Room : G06, Drayton House Email:  [email protected]  

Linhua Zeng

Linhua's research interests are in Financial Econometrics

Email:  [email protected]

Weisheng Zhang

Weisheng's research interest include Econometrics.

Email:  [email protected]

Yimeng Zhang

Email:  [email protected]

Ruolei's research interests include Discrete Choice Models, Rational Inattention Models.

Room : G06, Drayton House Email:  [email protected]

Davide Zufacchi

Davide's research interests include Development Economics, Economics of Crime, Forensic Economics.

Email:  [email protected]

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UCL Economics has an outstanding international reputation in the areas of game theory, fiscal policy, econometrics, applied microeconomics, development and labour economics. The department is a global leader in policy-oriented research, with members directing and holding senior positions in research centres involved in policy design and evaluation. UCL Economics was the top-ranked department in the UK for Economics and Econometrics in the Research Excellence Framework 2014, as well as the top-ranked department in any field in any UK university, according to the grade point average on the overall score. This reflects the high quality of policy-relevant academic research being undertaken by staff, and the excellent research and teaching environment for graduate students.

In recent years, our PhD students have obtained posts in leading universities and research centres such as University of Chicago, University of Arizona, Carlos III University, Edinburgh University, University of Manchester, NYU Stern School of Business, Pompeu Fabra University, Princeton University, Singapore Management University, Sogang University, Stanford University, Stockholm University, UBC, UCLA, University of British Columbia, University of Essex, University of Mannheim, University of Oxford, University of Rochester, University of Texas at Austin and University of Wisconsin. They have also done very well in policy institutions, such us the Bank of England, EBRD, IFS, McKinsey, RAND Corporation and the World Bank.

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Undertaking the UCL Economics doctorate programme affords students excellent networking opportunities from the outset, and outstanding employment options upon completion. The department is committed to maximising PhD students’ ability to gain employment in leading academic departments, research centres and financial and public policy organisations worldwide. The rigorous doctoral programme ensures students graduate with a wide range of highly valued technical, analytical, teaching and research skills. Senior PhD students have the option to go on the Economics Job Market.

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Applicants must have a Master’s degree in Economics or closely related subject with distinction-level performance. Applicants must demonstrate that they are qualified to proceed to research work. The GRE General Test is a required part of the application, except for applicants with an Economics MSc from UCL or those currently enrolled on the UCL Economics MSc programme.

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UCL Economics is a world-class academic department with a commitment to research excellence. The Economics MRes + MPhil/PhD aims to attract, educate and develop students of the highest academic calibre. Our graduates are employed by the world's foremost academic, international and governmental institutions.

On this programme you will undertake a significant research project in Economics, beginning with a one year MRes which will train you in the skills and techniques needed to complete a piece of original research. In order to successfully move on to the MPhil and PhD you'll need to meet certain conditions.

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The MRes and PhD in Financial Economics is a joint programme between the UCL Department of Economics and the UCL School of Management. The MRes programme will provide you with training in research methods together with an advanced understanding of financial economics and shares modules with the MRes in Economics. The Mphil year covers topics such as Corporate Finance, Asset Pricing, Financial Intermediation, Financial Econometrics, and Market Microstructure. Funding : Admitted students are fully funded, including full fee waiver and a competitive stipend. To apply : https://www.ucl.ac.uk/prospective-students/graduate/apply , after clicking 'accept and apply', you need to use the search by Department function. Under 'UCL School of Management' you'll see MRes Financial Economics listed as one of the options. More details on the programme can be found here: https://www.mgmt.ucl.ac.uk/phd-financial-economics Deadline:  mid-February (but we’ll keep considering applications until all scholarships are awarded).

For more information, please contact Prof. Frederic Malherbe at [email protected]

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This is a joint programme between the UCL School of Management and the Department of Economics offering a unique education and research experience to give students an advanced understanding of financial economics. This highly selective programme provides students with the skills needed to conduct insightful and original research, preparing them for an academic career in the field. The MRes will firstly provide quantitative training in microeconomics, macroeconomics, econometrics, and finance. These will be taught in the context of cutting-edge research and relevant applications. Secondly, it will provide you with analytic frameworks and transferable skills that will allow you to identify relevant and promising research topics, present ideas in order to obtain feedback, and provide feedback yourself.

We expect our PhD graduates to be striving towards an academic career as a faculty member in a top business school or economics department or in the research group of an international institution or a central bank.

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Applicants must hold a distinction in a Master's degree in Economics (or closely related subject) or an overseas qualification of an equivalent standard. Applicants must demonstrate a high level of analytical and quantitative skills (such as in mathematics and statistics), evidenced by strong performance in relevant modules taken on previous degree programmes and/or through relevant standardised test performances (such as GRE Quantitative of at least 160). Submitting your GRE test result is encouraged but not compulsory and is only one of the components used to assess the strength of applications.

UCL (University College London) is consistently ranked among the top ten universities in the world, conducting leading research across a wide range of subject areas. Throughout its long and prestigious history, it has inspired and educated countless minds and produced 30 Nobel prize recipients. With one campus located in the heart of Bloomsbury and a second campus in vibrant east London, the university is home to around 42,000 students... more

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The Ph.D. Program in Economics at UCLA prepares students for careers as economists in academia, business and government. The program combines rigorous work in economic theory and careful study of real-world problems and institutions. Graduates from this program work at major universities around the world, national and international government agencies, banks, research centers and in private businesses. Some of our graduates have achieved great prominence, such as William Sharpe , who earned both his B.A. and Ph.D. degrees at UCLA, and was co-recipient of the 1990 Nobel Prize in Economics for his work on the capital asset pricing model.

The department includes internationally recognized scholars in economic theory, econometrics, and all the major applied fields. These outstanding scholars form one of the foremost departments of economics in the world.

The Economics Department is situated within one of the world’s most youthful and vibrant universities. Founded in 1919, UCLA first developed into a major university in the 1950’s. After so short a history, the university was ranked second in the United States among public research universities by the Conference Board of Associated Research Councils in 1982. Thirty-one of its Ph.D. programs are currently ranked in the top 20 in their field–third best in the nation.

The Ph.D. is the degree objective of the graduate program. This degree is awarded to students who demonstrate professional competence by passing written qualifying exams and by completing a major piece of individual research (the Ph.D. dissertation).

Preparation for the qualifying exams through coursework and independent study occupies most student time for the first two years. Thereafter the focus shifts to independent research and finally to the writing of a Ph.D. dissertation. Research in progress by our graduate students as well as our faculty is presented at workshops that meet weekly throughout the academic year. Currently, the Dept. has workshops in Theory and Mathematical Economics, International and Development Economics, Labor and Population Economics, Business Organization and Regulation Economics, Economic History, Econometrics, and Monetary Theory. In addition, many graduate students work as research or teaching assistants for faculty members. The normal time to degree is six years.

This degree program classifies as STEM (CIP Code 45.0603: Econometrics and Quantitative Economics).

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The Ph.D. in economics of UCLouvain prepares candidate for research and teaching positions in academia and private or public organizations across the world. The Ph.d.D program is built as a three-year training program (180 ECTS).

The school offers doctoral students a broad choice of advanced courses in various fields of economics.

The objective is twofold: confronting students with the latest developments in their own field of research and exposing them to recent developments in at least one other field of research. The choice of courses is enlarged thanks to a collaboration with the University of Brussels (ULB) , the University of Namur (UNamur)  and the  Katholieke Universiteit Leuven . Beyond courses, that collaboration also opens the possibility of joint supervisions of thesis and the organisation of a yearly meeting of doctoral students from the three institutions.

The Economics School of Louvain also co-organizes the European Doctoral Program . The EDP is a  network of top economics departments in Europe offering an outstanding breath of courses and research topics, within different research traditions, opening to a great variety of views unified by deep and rigorous thinking, with an emphasis on creativity and intellectual excellence, through high quality supervision and exchanges and mobility between member institutions leading to a large academic and professional alumni network.

The admission to the doctoral school constitutes the FIRST MANDATORY STEP in the doctoral process.

The admission application is to be sent to the Doctoral Bureau in Economics through its administrator  in electronic format (PDF, in a single file)

Admission application The following elements must be contained in the electronic admission file :

• Identity, full name (scanned copies of identity card and/or passport) 
• Contact information (address, telephone and email) 
• CV and copies of obtained university degrees 
• Proof of completion of Master’s degree in economics 120 ECTS with honors or equivalent, terminating undergraduate and graduate university studies of at least 300 ECTS.
• A student with a Master’s degree 120 ECTS obtained with honors or equivalent in a different field may be granted access after validating up to 60 ECTS of graduate coursework in management or equivalent. 
• Documentation showing proficiency in English
• Letter of support from a faculty member to act as supervisor.
• Research proposal 
• Proposal for supervisory panel
• Proposal for a research training programme

Confirmation

The confirmation procedure is a mandatory INTERMEDIATE STEP in the doctoral process with the purpose to assure adequate progress towards the thesis defense in order to meet the statutory objectives in terms of time and quality. The confirmation serves several objectives:

• the confirmation is the critical stage where the candidate has to convince his/her supervisory panel about the prospects of terminating the thesis as initiated. In passing the confirmation, candidate gets an endorsement from the supervisory panel to continue the research along the undertaken direction until the private defense (at least one year later).  
• the confirmation is the occasion for the supervisory panel to more precisely fix objectives and limitations for the candidate and the project, given the intermediate results from the 1-2 years of research. These guidelines are important to focus the final work at fruitful areas for scientific contributions, opportunities for publication and/or data availability.
• the progress and status at the confirmation allows the supervisory panel to identify and isolate potential barriers for the candidate in the realization of the project. These barriers could be both linked to material resources (access to financial resources, tools and proprietary data) and human resources (personal capacity of the candidate to master parts of the methodology, supervisory capacity, international connections, etc). The guidelines from the confirmation should address any potential barriers identified as to ensure that the objectives can be achieved in due time with highest quality.  

Doctoral Defense

When the supervisory panel considers that the candidate’s work and doctoral research training have been satisfactorily completed, it proposes a composition of a doctoral jury. Usually, the private defense can be fixed earliest one year after the passed confirmation.

Research themes

Research in economics at UCLouvain covers the following fields:

• general equilibrium and games,
• industrial organisation, economic geography and international trade,
• growth and fluctuations,
• public policy: health, education, environment and natural resources,
• financial institutions and markets,
• labour markets, social policy and social economics,
• economic history and history of economic thought,
• ethics and social choice,
• econometric methods.

Diploma and certification

The programme leads to a degree of "Docteur en sciences économiques et de gestion" id est  "Doctor in Economics and Management"

Participating Entities

CORE : Center for operations research and econometrics. IRES :   Institut de recherches économiques et sociales ETES : Chaire Hoover d'éthique économique et sociale.

Doctoral Commission

Président : Per Joakim AGRELL Secrétaire académique : François MANIQUET Autre(s) membre(s) académique(s) : Nathalie DELOBBE Florian MAYNERIS Marthe NYSSENS Claude PECHEUX Membre(s) scientifique(s) : Mehdi MADANI

Administration Mrs Isabelle Portzenheim [email protected] SSH/ESPO/ECON Collège Léon Dupriez Place Montesquieu 3, bte L2.06.01 B-1348 Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium) Tel: +32-10-47.39.54 Fax: +32-10-47.32.90Q

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