ECONOMIC STUDIES - Key Persons
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- Member of the Executive Board
- President of CESifo ( and the Ifo Institute ) since April 2016.
Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Clemens Fuest, President of CESifo (and the ifo Institute) since April 2016.
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- Executive Department, Research Group Taxation and Fiscal Policy Director EconPol Europe
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- Member of the Executive Board
- Member of the Executive Board of CESifo ( and the Ifo Institute ) since September 2017
Dr. Stephanie Dittmer, member of the Executive Board of CESifo (and the ifo Institute) since September 2017.
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- Assistant Professor at the University of Virginia
- Economist
- Guest Researcher
Emma Harrington is an Assistant Professor at the University of Virginia and is an affiliate of the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab. She received her PhD in Economics from Harvard University in 2021 and did a postdoctoral fellowship in Princeton University's Industrial Relations Section for the 2021-2022 academic year. Before arriving at the University of Virginia, Harrington was an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Iowa.
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- Assistant Professor of Finance at ITAM
- Economist
- Guest Researcher
Mr. Barrero is an applied economist with interests in finance, macro, and labor economics. While at CESifo he hopes to engage with researchers who work with the ifo Institute's extensive set of business surveys as well as applied researchers working on big trends related to labor markets, including the recent shift to working from home. Together with Nick Bloom (Stanford University) and Steven J. Davis he is a co-founder of WFH Research, a project that studies the big shift to working from home after 2020 and its consequences for workers, managers, and the macroeconomy. They run the monthly Survey of Working Arrangements and Attitudes (SWAA) in the US and the annual Global Survey of Working Arrangements that also includes ifo Senior Economist Mathias Dolls, as well as Cevat Giray Aksoy (King's College London and EBRD) and Pablo Zárate (Stanford University). While at CESifo Mr. Barrero hopes to update the empirical analyses in his working paper on "Why Working From Home Will Stick" (Barrero et al., 2021) using SWAA data, and quantify the impact of remote work on aggregate output and productivity using a simple equilibrium model.
Jose Maria Barrero is an Assistant Professor of Finance at ITAM (Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México) Business School in Mexico City. He obtained his PhD in Economics from Stanford University in 2019 and a BA in Economics and Mathematics from the University of Pennsylvania in 2013.
Job Titles:
- Research Network Manager and Conference Organizer
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- Director of the Ifo Center for Public Finance and Political Economy
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- Professor of Economics at the National University of Singapore
Ruben Duranteis is Professor of Economics at the National University of Singapore and ICREA Research Professor at Pompeu Fabra University (on leave). He is also Research Fellow at CEPR, CESifo, and IZA, and Research Advisor at Gallup US. Between 2010 and 2018 he was Assistant Professor and then Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at Sciences Po. He has held visiting positions at Yale University, the Paris School of Economics, and INSEAD. He served as associated editor of the Journal of the European Economic Association and the European Economic Review, and was part of the editorial panel of Economic Policy. His work has been published in top journals in economics, political science, and management and is regularly featured in the popular press. He holds a BA in Economics from the University of Messina, a Master's in Political Economy from Sorbonne University, and a Master's and a PhD in Economics from Brown University.
Job Titles:
- Director of Administration
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- Junior Economist and Doctoral Student