Gabriel Zucman is associate professor of public policy and economics at the University of California, Berkeley and director of the James M. and Cathleen D. Stone Center on Wealth and Income Inequality. He is also Professor of Economics at the Paris School of Economics and the Ecole Normale Supérieure. Since 2015, he has worked as co-director of the World Inequality Lab and World Inequality Database, a database aiming at the provision of access to extensive data series on the world distribution of income and wealth. His research focuses on the accumulation, distribution, and preservation of wealth, in a global and historical perspective. His research papers have been published in the Quarterly Journal of Economics, American Economic Journal, and Journal of Public Economics, among other outlets. He earned his Ph.D. from the Paris School of Economics.
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Gauti Eggertsson
Gauti B. Eggertsson is a macroeconomist and a professor of economics at Brown University. He has worked at Research Departments of the International Monetary Fund and the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. He has also been visiting faculty at Princeton, Yale, and Columbia, where he taught international finance and macroeconomics at both the graduate and undergraduate level. Eggertsson has published in a variety of professional journals such as the American Economic Review and the Quarterly Journal of Economics. The main focus of his work is the analysis of monetary and fiscal policy over the business cycle, both from a modern and historical perspective. He completed his B.S. in economics from the University of Iceland and his Ph.D. in economics from Princeton University.
Gabriel Chodorow-Reich
Gabriel Chodorow-Reich is the George Fisher Baker Professor of Economics at Harvard University, a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, a visiting scholar at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, and co-editor of American Economic Review: Insights. From 2009–2010, he served as an economist on the White House Council of Economic Advisers. His research focuses on macroeconomics, finance, and labor markets. Chodorow-Reich has published articles in the leading economics and finance journals, and his research has been covered by outlets including the Financial Times, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and the Washington Post. He has also been a contributor to the New York Times opinion page and is frequently quoted in national news stories covering the economy. Chodorow-Reich received his A.B. in social studies from Harvard in 2005 and his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley in 2013. He is a 2020 recipient of a Sloan research fellowship.
Ethan Cohen-Cole
Ethan Cohen-Cole is the CEO and co-founder of Capture6. Prior, he was senior advisor at Vega Economics. He is an expert in banking, financial regulation, consumer credit, structured finance, financial markets, econometric methods, capital markets, analysis of networks, and systemic risk. Cohen-Cole has numerous years of experience in financial services, litigation consulting and bank supervision, including experience at the Federal Reserve System as a bank regulator and as a policy and regulation expert. He holds a bachelor’s degree from Harvard University, a master’s degree from Princeton University in public affairs, and master’s and doctoral degrees in economics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Ethan Kaplan
Ethan Kaplan is an associate professor of economics at the University of Maryland at College Park. Kaplan joined the department as an assistant professor in 2011. Before joining the department, he had previously been an assistant professor of economics at the Institute for International Economic Studies at Stockholm University. He obtained his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley in 2005. His main area of research is empirical political economy and applied microeconometrics. His research has focused on media economics, the determination and persistence of political preferences, interest group behavior, and the political economy of U.S. intervention. More recently, in addition to his research on political economy, he has started a sequence of projects using applied microeconometric techniques to investigate macroecononic questions.
Ezra Oberfield
Ezra Oberfield is an associate professor of economics at Princeton University. His research interests lie in the areas of macroeconomics, firm dynamics, and growth. Oberfield formerly was an economist in the Economic Research Department at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. He is a faculty research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research and a CESifo research network affiliate. Oberfield received a bachelor’s degree in mathematics and economics from Yale University and a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Chicago.
Eric Chyn
Eric Chyn is an associate professor at the University of Texas at Austin. Prior, he was an assistant professor in the Department of Economics at Dartmouth College and an assistant professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Virginia. He is also a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). His primary research fields are labor, urban and public economics. In his recent work, he studied the effects of government programs and policies on children. He received his Ph.D. in economics from the University of Michigan.
Enghin Atalay
Enghin Atalay is a Senior Economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia. He holds a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Chicago and received his undergraduate degree from the University of California, Berkeley. His research interests include business cycle fluctuations, productivity, firm organization, and economic networks.
Emily Wiemers
Emily Wiemers is an associate professor of public administration and international affairs, a faculty associate at the Aging Studies Institute, and a faculty affiliate at the Center for Policy Research at Syracuse University. Her work examines economic well-being and intergenerational ties across the life course. Recent work focuses on changes over time in earnings dynamics for working-age adults and on the impact of health and disability on earnings instability and intergenerational transfers across adult ages. Wiemers holds a Ph.D. in economics from the University of California, Los Angeles, an M.A. in finance from University College Dublin, and a B.A. in economics and history from Brown University.
Elliott Ash
Elliott Ash is Assistant Professor of Law, Economics, and Data Science at ETH Zurich's Center for Law & Economics, Switzerland. Prior to joining ETH, Elliott was Assistant Professor of Economics at University of Warwick, and before that a Postdoctoral Research Associate at Princeton University’s Center for the study of Democratic Politics. He received a Ph.D. in economics and J.D. from Columbia University, a B.A. in economics, government, and philosophy from University of Texas at Austin, and an LL.M. in international criminal law from University of Amsterdam.