Max Weber Fellows & Team 2010-2011 Table of contents List of All Max Weber Fellows (MWF) 2 Department of Economics ECO Max Weber Fellows Biosketches 3 Department of History and Civilization HEC Max Weber Fellows Biosketches 13 Department of Law LAW Max Weber Fellows Biosketches 27 Department of Political and Social Sciences SPS Max Weber Fellows Biosketches 39 Max Weber Programme (MWP) Team 55 MAX WEBER FELLOWS List of All Max Weber Fellows (in alphabetical order) ¾ AFONSO, Alexandre (SPS) ¾ KÜHNER, Christian (HEC) ¾ ANDRIGHETTO, Giulia (SPS) ¾ LARISE, Dunja (SPS) ¾ BESSUDNOV, Alexey (SPS) ¾ MARCUS, Nathan (HEC) ¾ CONTISSA, Giuseppe (LAW) ¾ MARTINICO, Giuseppe (LAW) ¾ D’ALBIS, Cécile (HEC) ¾ NANOU, Kyriaki (SPS) ¾ DEKKER, Willem Martijn (SPS) ¾ NOVAK, Stéphanie Julie (SPS) ¾ DERMINEUR, Elise (HEC) ¾ PACCAGNINI, Alessia (ECO) ¾ DIECKHOFF, Martina (SPS) ¾ RICHARD, Anne-Isabelle (HEC) ¾ DOSEMECI, Mehmet (HEC) ¾ RITTER, Daniel (SPS) ¾ EASTERBY-SMITH, Sarah C. (HEC) ¾ SCHAEFER, Tali (LAW) ¾ FLETCHER, Catherine (HEC) ¾ SEN, Uditi (HEC) ¾ FOROWICZ, Magdalena (LAW) ¾ SEVEL, Michael (LAW) ¾ GABALLO, Gaetano (ECO) ¾ SHNAYDERMAN, Ronen (SPS) ¾ GATTA, Giunia (SPS) ¾ STAUDIGL, Mathias (ECO) ¾ GAZZINI, Claudia Anna (HEC) ¾ SURAK, Kristin (SPS) ¾ GOBBATO, Marco (LAW) ¾ SVETIEV, Yane (LAW) ¾ HOELLE, Matthew (ECO) ¾ TASKIN, Temel (ECO) ¾ HOSNE, Ana Carolina (HEC) ¾ VAN WEELDEN, Richard (ECO) ¾ JURSKA-GAWRYSIAK, Aneta K. (LAW) ¾ VULETIC, Dean (HEC) ¾ KASHIWAGI, Masanori (ECO) ¾ WANG, Heng (LAW) ¾ KLINE, Reuben (SPS) ¾ ZAHN, Rebecca Lisa (LAW) ¾ KLINGELHÖFER, Jan (ECO) ¾ ZAKELJ, Blaz (ECO) ¾ KOUSSENS, David (SPS) ¾ ZAPRYANOVA, Galina (SPS) – 2 – ECO Max Weber Fellows Biosketches MAX WEBER FELLOWS GABALLO, Gaetano Email: [email protected] Tel.: +39-055-4685-684 Office nr. VF 28 Homepage: http://www.columbia.edu/~gg2389/ European University Institute Max Weber Programme Via delle Fontanelle, 10 I-50014 San Domenico Departmental affiliation: Economics Mentor: Ramon Marimon My research interests are in Information and Learning with emphasis on expectational coordination problems in Macroeconomics. My work aims to assess the effect of perturbed knowledge of others' expectations. In particular, I'm developing the concept of Rational Exuberance, a coordination failure equilibrium in which expectational interdependence is self-fulfilled, and non-fundamental volatility arises. My preferred applications are inflation volatility and asset pricing. I am also interested in the trade-off between market competition and expectational stability and related policy recommendations. I expect to extend my research to the concrete case of the electricity market. After being a visiting Ph.D. student at the University of Cambridge for the academic year 2007- 2008, and at the University of St. Andrews for the Fall Term 2008, I obtained my Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Siena in September 2009. My dissertation, ‘Behavioural Uncertainty, Expectations and Learning in Macroeconomics’, was examined by Professors Nicola Dimitri (University of Siena), George W. Evans (University of Oregon) and Roger Guesnerie (College de France). In 2009 I received the Best Ph.D. Paper Award from the Society of Computational Economics. Over the academic year 2009-2010 I have been at Columbia University as Robert Solow Postdoc Fellow, under the guidance of Professor Michael Woodford. Expertise for Teaching and Mentoring of Ph.D. Researchers Economic Dynamics. – 4 – ECO HOELLE, Matthew Email: [email protected] Tel.: +39-055-4685-671 Office nr. VF 41 Homepage: http://economics.sas.upenn.edu/~mhoelle/ European University Institute Max Weber Programme Via delle Fontanelle, 10 I-50014 San Domenico Departmental affiliation: Economics Mentor: Piero Gottardi I received my Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania in May 2010 with a dissertation titled ‘Bankruptcy and Transaction Costs in General Financial Models’. As the title suggests, my research interests lie in the field of General Equilibrium, specifically the study of frictions in general financial models (GEI models). The specific frictions that I have considered to date have been bankruptcy and transaction costs and my research analyzes their effects on both price and allocation. My additional research interests lie in the field of Mathematical Economics and the applications of General Equilibrium theory in the field of Financial Macroeconomics. I have presented my research at numerous conferences both in the United States and in Europe. My Ph.D. dissertation committee consisted of Professors Felix Kubler, Dirk Krueger, and Andrew Postlewaite. Professors Kubler is now at the University of Zurich and the Swiss Finance Institute. During my doctoral studies, I spent one year as the ‘Assistant to the Professor’, to Professor Kubler in Zurich. I received my BSChE, graduating with honours (magna cum laude), from Washington University in May 2005, with additional majors in Economics and Mathematics. Expertise for Teaching and Mentoring of Ph.D. Researchers Mathematics for Economists, General Equilibrium, Industrial Organization, Price Theory, and Law and Economics. - 5 - MAX WEBER FELLOWS KASHIWAGI, Masanori Email: [email protected] Tel.: +39-055-4685-656 Office nr. VF 42 Homepage: http://sites.google.com/site/masanorikashiwagi/ European University Institute Max Weber Programme Via delle Fontanelle, 10 I-50014 San Domenico Departmental affiliation: Economics Mentor: Russell Cooper I obtained my Ph.D. in Economics from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in 2010. My doctoral dissertation was supervised by Professor Roger Farmer. I also earned my M.A. from UCLA in 2007. Prior to my doctoral studies, I received my M.A. and B.A. degrees from the University of Tokyo. My fields of interest are macroeconomics, real estate economics, and labour economics. My dissertation studies markets with search friction for labour and houses. The main essay in my dissertation provides an equilibrium framework for the study of recent observations in the U.S. housing market, borrowing ideas from search and matching theory. Closing the model with self-fulfilling beliefs about the housing market, the model generates a housing price bubble as a consequence of multiple underlying steady-state equilibria. At UCLA, I served as a teaching assistant for undergraduate statistics and microeconomics courses. I also served as a teaching assistant for a macroeconomics course at the Graduate School of Public Policy, the University of Tokyo. Expertise for Teaching and Mentoring of Ph.D. Researchers Statistics, Microeconomics, Macroeconomics. – 6 – ECO KLINGELHÖFER, Jan Email: [email protected] Tel.: +39-055-4685-628 Office nr. VF 104 Homepage: http://www.iies.su.se/pub/jsp/polopoly.jsp?d=11889&a=51800 European University Institute Max Weber Programme Via delle Fontanelle, 10 I-50014 San Domenico Departmental affiliation: Economics Mentor: Massimo Morelli I expect to complete my Ph.D. at the Institute for International Economic Studies at Stockholm University in the Autumn 2010. My research interests are in applied game theory and political economics. To date, my research has focused on theory, but in the future I would also like to work empirically. My research is mainly concerned with elections. In ‘The Swing Voters’ Blessing’, I show that lack of information about the quality of candidates for some voters can improve the functioning of democracy by increasing competition in the policy dimension. My other papers deal, for example, with the interaction of elections and lobbying and the compatibility of forward-looking and backward-looking voting. I obtained an M.Sc. in Economics from Tilburg University (2003) and the German degree of Diplomvolkswirt from Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (2002). The title of my Ph.D. dissertation is ‘Essays in Political Economics’ and my principal advisor is Torsten Persson. Expertise for Teaching and Mentoring of Ph.D. Researchers Microeconomics, Macroeconomics, Political Economics. - 7 - MAX WEBER FELLOWS PACCAGNINI, Alessia Email: [email protected] Tel.: +39-055-4685-665 Office nr. VF 38 Homepage: http://sites.google.com/site/alessiapaccagnini/ European University Institute Max Weber Programme Via delle Fontanelle, 10 I-50014 San Domenico Departmental affiliation: Economics Mentor: Massimiliano Marcellino My research areas are Econometrics, Macroeconometrics, Bayesian Econometrics, Macroeconomics and International Macroeconomics. I earned my Ph.D. in Economics in April 2009 from the Department of Economics of the Bocconi University in Milan, with a thesis titled ‘Model Validation in the DSGE Approach’. My advisors are Professors Carlo A. Favero, Luca Sala and Dr. Marco Del Negro. I have an M.Sc. in Economics (2004) and a B.A. in Economics from the Bocconi University (2003). My Ph.D. thesis focuses on Model Validation in the DSGE approach, considering the problems of the statistical representation and of the approximation of these theoretical models by using recent econometrics tools. It consists of three papers: ‘Model Validation in the DSGE Approach: A Survey’; a joint work with Agostino Consolo and Carlo A. Favero titled ‘On the Statistical Identification of DSGE Models’, published in The Journal of Econometrics, (Volume 150, Issue 1, May 2009, Pages 99-115); ‘DSGE Model Evaluation in a Bayesian Framework: an Assessment’. Among my working papers is a joint work with Marcella Nicolini on International Economics, ‘Does Trade Foster Institutions? An Empirical Assessment’. I have