Spencer Banzhaf is a professor of agricultural and resource economics at North Carolina State University and the director of The Center for Environmental and Resource Economic Policy. He is also the editor of the Review of Environmental Economics and Policy. Previously, he was a professor of economics at Georgia State University’s Andrew Young School of Policy Studies. Banzhaf’s primary field of study is environmental policy analysis, especially related to the urban environment (such as sprawl and land use) and to issues related to energy and air pollution. One common theme in his work is the interaction among local environmental quality, local real estate markets, and the demographic composition of cities, which together can drive the correlations observed between pollution and poverty, as described by the environmental justice movement. He received his Ph.D., M.A., and B.A. in economics from Duke University.
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Federico Huneeus
Federico Huneeus is a senior economist at the research department (DIE) at the Central Bank of Chile. His research lies at the intersection of macroeconomics and trade, with a focus on understanding the aggregate implications of firm behavior. In particular, he has studied the market of business-to-business linkages and how it affects the propagation of shocks. He is currently studying how this market of business-to-business linkages influences workers, and in particular earnings inequality, in the context of imperfect competition in the labor market. He earned his Ph.D. in economics from Princeton University.
Thomas Wollmann
Thomas Wollmann is an associate professor in the microeconomics group at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and a National Bureau of Economic Research faculty research fellow. Wollmann studies industrial organization economics, antitrust law, competition policy, and innovation. His most recent work studies a "loophole" in U.S. law that allows firms engaging in anticompetitive mergers to avoid detection by the antitrust authorities, resulting in significant consolidation of economically important industries. His work has appeared in top economics journals such as the American Economic Review and American Economic Review: Insights. At Booth, Wollmann teaches "Competitive Strategy," an MBA-level course. He received his Ph.D. in economics at Harvard University.
R. Jisung Park
R. Jisung Park is an assistant professor at the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Social Policy and Practice. He is an economist whose work focuses on environmental economics, labor economics, and the interactions between climate change and economic inequality. He received his Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University and M.Sc. degrees in environmental change and management and development economics from Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar.
Fenaba Addo
Fenaba R. Addo is an associate professor of public policy. Her recent work examines debt and wealth inequality with a focus on family and relationships and higher education, and union formation and economic strain as a social determinant of health and well-being. She has also focused on the role that consumer and family policies serve in reinforcing these relationships. Prior to her current position, Addo was the Lorna Jorgensen Wendt Associate Professor of Money, Relationships, and Equality (MORE) in the School of Human Ecology’s Department of Consumer Science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She received her Ph.D. in Policy Analysis and Management from Cornell University and holds a B.S. in Economics from Duke University.
Jose Joaquín Lopez
Jose Joaquín Lopez is an assistant professor of economics at the Fogelman College of Business and Economics at the University of Memphis. He is an economist whose work spans the fields of macroeconomics, economic development, labor economics, and public finance. He received a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Chicago and is a graduate of the AEA Summer Training Program in economics. He earned his M.A in economics from the University of Chicago and his M.Sc. in economics from the University of Texas at El Paso.
Jamein Cunningham
Jamein P. Cunningham is an assistant professor in the Department of Policy Analysis and Management and the Department of Economics at Cornell University. His teaching and research interests include labor economics, urban economics, economics of crime, and microeconometrics. He completed his Ph.D. in economics at the University of Michigan, where he was a Population Studies Center graduate trainee and the recipient of the Rackham Merit Fellowship and the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute in Child Health and Development Fellowship. He earned his M.A. in economics from the University of North Texas and his B.A in economics at Michigan State University.
Dominik Supera
Dominik Supera is an assistant professor of finance at Columbia Business School. Prior, he worked in the Research Department of the European Central Bank. His research interests are macro-finance, asset pricing, corporate finance, and banking. He received a Ph.D. in finance from the University of Pennsylvania, and an M.A. and B.A. in quantitative economics from the Warsaw School of Economics.
Martina Jasova
Martina Jasova is an assistant professor of economics at Barnard College, Columbia University. Her research combines empirical evidence and economic theory at the intersection of macroeconomics and finance. She works with granular microlevel data to provide answers to macro questions on topics related to financial frictions, central bank policies, and the labor market. Prior to joining Barnard, she was a visiting fellow at Princeton University and worked at the European Central Bank and the Bank for International Settlements. She received a Ph.D. in economics from Charles University in Prague.
Siwei Cheng
Siwei Cheng is an associate professor of sociology at New York University. Prior to joining the faculty of NYU, she was assistant professor of sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her research focuses on inequality, mobility, the labor market, and public opinions on inequality. Her current work uses network methods to study occupational mobility in the labor market. Another project examines the polarization of jobs and wages between and within occupations. She received a Ph.D. in sociology and public policy and M.A. in statistics, both from the University of Michigan, and a B.A. in economics and mathematical statistics from Peking University.