Your Professors
Industrial and Development Policies: EU, US, and beyond
Microeconomics
Micael Castanheira (SBS-EM faculty) is a senior research fellow with the Belgian National Science Foundation and works at ECARES and a professor at Solvay, where he also teaches microeconomics and political economics. His main research topics include the political economics of collective decisions, and of reforms.
Micael is a contributor to leading scientific journals, such as Econometrica, The Journal of the European Economic Association, The Economic Journal, Games and Economic Behavior, International Economic Review, International Tax and Public Finance and the Journal of Public Economics. He is also a member of the scientific board of the Price Observatory of the Belgian government and the National Bank of Belgium, and has worked as an external expert for several companies and institutions (a.o. the World Bank, and the Bertelsmann Foundation)
International Trade and EU Trade Policy
Paola Conconi (SBS-EM faculty) is a Professor of Economics at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, a member of the European Center for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics (ECARES) and Research Associate of the Fund for Scientific Research (FNRS).
She received a B.A. in Political Science from the University of Bologna, a M.A. in International Relations from the School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) of Johns Hopkins University, a M.Sc. and a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Warwick. Her main research interests are in international trade, firm organization, and political economy.
She is a Research Fellow of the CEPR International Trade and Regional Economics Program, a CESifo Research Fellow, a Research Associate of the Centre for Economic Performance of the London School of Economics, and the Director of the CEPR Research Network on Global Value Chains, Trade and Development.
She has published in several leading economics journals including the American Economic Review, the Review of Economic Studies, and the Journal of Political Economy.
Mathematical Methods (BOOTCAMP)
Thomas Demuynck has a Phd in Economics (Ghent University, 2008). He held a postdoc position at the K.U.Leuven from 2009 until 2013 and held a position at Maastricht University from 2013 until 2016. He’s currently professor of economics at the Université Libre de Bruxelles and a member of the European Center for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics (ECARES).
His main research interests are revealed preference theory, choice and demand theory and theoretical economics in general.
Mathematical Methods (BOOTCAMP)
Bram De Rock (SBS-EM faculty) holds a Ph.D. in Mathematics (KULeuven, 2006) and a Ph.D. in Economics (KULeuven, 2007). He teaches advanced mathematics courses to students in economics at SBS-EM. His research interests are household consumer behavior, revealed preference theory and nonparametric production and efficiency analysis.
International Trade and EU Trade Policy
Tomás García-Azcárate holds a Ph.D. in Agricultural Economics (Polytechnic University of Madrid) and he is a Senior Researcher in the Spanish National Research, a member of the French Académie de l´Agriculture and the Italian Accademia dei Georgofili, Civil Servant in the European Commission (1986-2015) and President of the Spanish Association of Agricultural Economists. His main research interest are agricultural, food and territorial policies.
Mathematical Methods (BOOTCAMP)
Marjorie Gassner (SBS-EM faculty) holds a PhD in Mathematics, ULB (1989). Her main research fields are Political Economics and Collective Decisions. She is member of CRISP and CEVIPOL. She teaches mathematics at ULB.
Impact Evaluation
Tatiana Goetghebuer obtained her PhD in Economics from the University of Namur (Belgium) under the supervision of Prof.Jean-Philippe Platteau. She has been working at ADE (a large consultancy firm) for the last 5 years as a consultant in evaluation, and became the head of the Impact Evaluation Unit. She has been involved in many different impact evaluations for the Belgian government and for other bilateral donors and international organisations, including evaluation design, first hand data collection, drafting reports and results communication to policy makers. She has working experience in Tanzania, Peru, Burundi, Rwanda and Mali among others. She teaches impact evaluation in practice at Solvay Business School and at Namur University. Her academic work has been published in the Journal of Development Economics.
Microeconomics
Georg Kirchsteiger (SBS-EM faculty) holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Vienna (1993). Before he moved to Brussels in 2004, he worked at the University of Vienna, at the CentER in Tilburg, and at the University of Maastricht. In 2000 he received the Hicks-Tinbergen Medal of the EEA (with E. Fehr and A. Riedl).
Policy Workshop: Competition policy in the Single Market
Kai-Uwe Kühn is a senior consultant to the Competition Practice of CRA. He is a Professor of Economics at the University of East Anglia School of Economics, where he is also Deputy Director of the Center for Competition Policy, and Visiting Professor at the Düsseldorf Institute for Competition Economics (DICE), Heinrich-Heine University Düsseldorf.
From May 2011 to August 2013, Dr. Kühn was Chief Economist at DG Competition where he led a team of 25 economists involved in merger, antitrust, litigation, state aid and policy work. In this role, he led economic analyses in several high-profile mergers (from WesternDigital/Hitachi
Dr. Kühn is Research Fellow of the Center for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) in London and has been the co-editor of the Journal of Industrial Economics. He has published in leading journals such as the Journal of Political Economy, the RAND Journal of Economics, the American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, and the Journal of the European Economic Association. His research interests are in theoretical, experimental, and empirical industrial organization and cover a wide range of topics including competition in durable goods, vertical integration and vertical restraints, collusion, coordinated effects of mergers, market foreclosure, and the impact of credit constraints on market behaviour. Before joining DG Comp, Dr. Kühn was an academic affiliate with Charles River Associates, advising private companies and competition authorities on a large number of competition cases. Prior to joining the faculty at the University of East Anglia in January 2016, Dr Kühn was an Associate Professor (with tenure) at the University of Michigan from 1998 until 2015, and previously taught at the Instituto de Analisis Economico (CSIC) in Barcelona and the Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI) in Madrid.
Policy Workshop: Competition policy in the Single Market
Patrick Legros (SBS-EM faculty) has a doctorate in economics from the University of Paris and a Ph.D. from the California Institute of Technology. He started his career at Cornell University and is currently full professor of economics at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, a fellow of its research center ECARES as well as a fellow of CEPR. He is currently the managing editor of the Journal of Industrial Economics and a member of the European Advisory Group on Competition Policy at the European Commission. He has served as economic expert on many antitrust cases for private firms and the European Commission. He has recently been granted an ERC Advanced grant to develop an “Organizational Industrial Organization”.
International Trade and EU Trade Policy
Mathieu Parenti (SBS-EM faculty) joined the Université Libre de Bruxelles as an Assistant Professor of Economics in September 2015. Previously, he was an assistant professor at Université Catholique de Louvain. He has received his Ph.D. in Economics at the Paris School of Economics in 2012.
His research is at the intersection of International Trade and Industrial Organization.
Industrial and Development Policies: EU, US, and beyond
André Sapir (SBS-EM faculty) is University Professor at the Université Libre de Bruxelles and Senior Fellow of Bruegel, the Brussels-based think tank. Previously, he has taught at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, the Graduate Institute in Geneva, the College of Europe in Bruges, and has been a visiting fellow at the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank and the World Trade Organization. He served for nearly 13 years at the European Commission, first as Economic Advisor to the Director-General for Economic and Financial Affairs and then as Principal Economic Advisor to President Prodi. After leaving the Commission, he first served as External Member of President Barroso’s Economic Advisory Group and then as Member of the General Board (and Chair of the Advisory Scientific Committee) of the European Systemic Risk Board based at the European Central Bank in Frankfurt. André Sapir has written extensively on European integration, international trade, and globalisation. He received his PhD in Economics from the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, where he worked under the supervision of Béla Balassa. He is an elected Member of the Academia Europaea and of the Royal Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts.
Impact Evaluation
Philip Verwimp (SBS-EM faculty) obtained his PhD in Economics in 2003 from KU Leuven where his doctoral work was supervised by prof.Stefan Dercon and prof.Lode Berlage. He spent 1,5 years at Yale University, first during his PhD as a Fellow from the Belgian-American Educational Foundation and then as a post-doc with a Fulbright-Hays Scholarship. Philip specialises in the economic causes and consequences of conflict at the micro-level. He has done quantitative work on the death toll of the Rwandan genocide and on the demography of post-genocide Rwanda. In 2004 he received the Jacques Rozenberg Award from the Auschwitz Foundation for his dissertation. He taught Development Economics at the Institute of Social Studies (now Erasmus University of Rotterdam) in The Hague and at the Universities of Antwerp, Leuven and Utrecht and was a research fellow from the Fund for Scientific Research (Flanders, Belgium). He held the Marie and Alain Philippson Chair in Sustainable Human Development at the Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management from 2010 to 2015. Philip is currently engaged in longitudinal studies of health, schooling and nutrition in Burundi where he is the lead researcher in a partnership between his university and UNICEF-Burundi, involving a.o. impact evaluation. In the fall of 2013 Philip visited UC Berkeley for a semester. His work has been published in AER, JDE, EDCC, JHR, WBER among others.
Macroeconomics
Philippe Weil is an SBS-EM faculty member. His research fields are: Macroeconomic Theory, Growth and Cycles, and financial economics. He was Professor of Economics at Sciences Po Paris and Associate Professor of Economics at Harvard University before his appointment at ULB.
Time Series Analysis
Energy Economics
Julie Carey is an energy economist who regularly provides expert evidence in energy-related commercial and regulatory disputes, as well as in international arbitrations. She has more than 20 years of experience addressing economic issues in power, oil and gas, coal, renewables, pipelines, and railroad sectors. Ms. Carey helps clients with issues related to energy market dynamics, competition, energy contracts, economic damages, valuations, regulatory economics, macroeconomic analyses (i.e., jobs, GDP, taxes), and environmental assessments.
Ms. Carey has authored expert reports and provided expert testimony on energy industry matters in US courts, before international arbitration panels, and before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), National Energy Board, and many other regulatory agencies. Her work has involved breach of contract, antitrust, class actions, and other types of disputes within the oil and gas, power, renewables, and transportation sectors. In commercial disputes, Ms. Carey has quantified economic damages and conducted valuation analyses in dozens of cases. Appearing before energy regulatory agencies, Ms. Carey frequently provides competition analyses for approval of market-based rates, negotiated rates and mergers and acquisitions, analysis of market manipulation claims, and other regulatory economic analyses, with substantial experience in power, renewables, oil pipelines, and railroad transportation.
Ms. Carey is an Adjunct Professor at Georgetown University, where she teaches energy economics in the graduate economics program. She frequently speaks at energy industry conferences and provides insights on energy market dynamics and economic issues. Ms. Carey writes extensively and has worked with leading publications and broadcasters, including U.S. News & World Report, Forbes, The Economist, Oil & Gas Journal, and Sinclair Broadcasting.
Data Analysis
Financial Economics
Sebastien Gay is the Assistant Director of the Financial Analysis Division at the Congressional Budget Office. He also teaches in the Department of Economics at Georgetown University since 2016. His research interests are finance and real estate economics. He also works on analysis related to applied microeconomics, behavioral and experimental economics, health economics, empirical industrial organization, and law and economics.
Until July 2016, he was a lecturer and a research associate at the University of Chicago Department of Economics. He was a Director at Berkeley Research Group where he specialized in cases in health care, insurance, banking, consumer protection, and media.
Dr. Gay worked on behavioral interventions for low-income populations, jointly with MRDC, a leading non-profit organization. More specifically, he worked on the design, evaluation, and implementation of a renewal strategy for low-income families social benefits. He was a faculty affiliate at the Center for Health and the Social Sciences (CHeSS) at the University of Chicago. His latest research focuses on empirical analysis of commercial and residential real estate. In particular, he works on buyers’ affordability, real estate agent marketing expertise, and REITs investment strategies.
Dr. Gay was also a George Mason University School of Law LEC (Law & Economics Center) Privacy Fellow. As a Privacy Fellow, he measured how firms bundle positive news reports with disclosure of a privacy breach. He also worked on cyber insurance questions and the effect of disclosure laws consumer welfare. He focused on economics and behavioral economics of privacy and information security, privacy and security in online social networks, economics of computers and artificial intelligence, and e-commerce.
Dr. Gay has a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Chicago. He also holds a Masters in Finance from the ENSAE in France and an M.A. in Law from Sciences-Po Paris.
Labor Markets and Policies
Jon Lanning is an Economist in the Office of Research at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. His fields of interest include labor economics, discrimination and inequality, and applied search theory. Before joining the Office of Research, Lanning served as an Assistant Professor of economics at Bryn Mawr College, an Assistant Professor of economics and management at Albion College, and a Faculty Associate at the Survey Research Center at the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan. He holds a B.A. in economics from Occidental College and both an M.A. and Ph.D. in economics from the University of Michigan.
Political Economy
Aniol Llorente-Saguer is a Professor in Economics at Queen Mary University of London, specialized in the areas of behavioural and experimental economics and political economy.
His main topic of research has been on voting behaviour and properties of electoral rules. Through the combination of microeconomic theory and experimental methods, he has studied the properties of a number of voting rules to potentially improve collective decision making. He has also studied issues on auctions, tournaments and contests, equilibrium selection and coalition formation.
He received both his PhD and BA in economics from Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Before joining Queen Mary, he held research positions at the California Institute of Technology and at the Max Planck Institute for the Study on Collective Goods, and visited the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and New York University.
Environmental Economics
Alex Marten is an adjunct professor at Georgetown University, and an economist at the National Center for Environmental Economics (U.S. Environmental Protection Agency). He holds a PhD in Economics from North Carolina State University. His current research interests include electricity sector modeling/analysis, energy economics, and climate change economics.
Environmental Economics
Steve Newbold works as an economist & environmental policy analyst at the National Center for Environmental Economics (U.S. Environmental Protection Agency) He holds a PhD in economics from the University of California, Davis. His general research areas include ecological and economic modeling for environmental policy evaluation, especially benefit-cost analysis.
Data Analysis
Franco Peracchi is the Director of Masters Programs in Economics and a Professor of the Practice at Georgetown University. He is also a Fellow of the Einaudi Institute for Economics and Finance (EIEF) in Rome, Italy. After receiving a MSc in Econometrics and Mathematical Economics from the LSE, and a PhD in Economics from Princeton University, he taught at UCLA, NYU, Universidad Carlos III and the University of Rome Tor Vergata. His research interests include econometrics, labor and health economics, and the economics of social security and pensions. He is currently working on a variety of issues including long-term effects of growing up in wartime, cognitive decline among the elderly, distribution regression and approaches to model selection.
Open-Economy Macroeconomics
John Rogers is a Senior Adviser in the International Finance Division of the Federal Reserve Board. He received his BA from the University of Delaware and PhD in economics from the University of Virginia. John was on the economics department faculty at Penn State University, where he rose to Associate Professor in 1996. He began working on the Fed’s multi-country model in the Trade & Financial Studies section, and became section chief in 2003. John is the author of several academic publications in international finance and macroeconomics. He teaches those subjects as an adjunct professor in the economics department at Georgetown University.
Monetary Theory and Policy
Horacio Sapriza is an Adjunct Professor of Economics at Georgetown University and a Principal Economist at the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. Previously, he was a faculty member at the Department of Finance and Economics at Rutgers Business School, and has also been a consultant to the International Monetary Fund. His research interests include banking and macroeconomics, and his work has been published in books and in journals including The Journal of Finance, the International Economic Review, and the Journal of Monetary Economics. He received a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Rochester in 2005.
Law and Economics
Paul R. Zimmerman is an economist with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission in Washington, DC, where he works on investigations of mergers and other potential anti-competitive practices. He was previously employed in the Wireline Competition Bureau of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission. His research interests are in the areas of the economics of crime and antitrust economics. He has also taught economics at Johns Hopkins University and Florida State University.