Experts

Gábor Békés is a senior research fellow at the KRTK — Centre for Economic and Regional Studies’ Institute of Economics, an assistant professor of economics at the Central European University, and a research affiliate at Centre for Economic Policy Research. His research is focused on internationalization of firms, agglomeration and location choice, supply chains and business groups.  

His work was published among others by the Global Strategy Journal, Journal of International Economics, Regional Science and Urban Economics, and Economic Policy. His latest textbook “Data Analysis for Business, Economics, and Policy” with Gábor Kézdi was published by Cambridge University Press in May 2021.  

Gábor worked in several projects of the European Commission and the European Central Bank. Within the RETHINK-GSC project, he participates in open source software development and company surveys.  

Expertise:

• International economics 
• Economic geography 
• Applied international  

Márta Bisztray is a research fellow at the KRTK — Centre for Economic and Regional Studies’ Institute of Economics. Her research areas are international trade and empirical industrial organization.  

She has participated in several research projects of the European Commission. In the European Union’s Horizon 2020 project MICROPROD, Márta was the institute and work package lead. In the RETHINK-GSC project, she participates in research connected to the company surveys, and will act again as institute and work package lead.  

Previously, she taught at the Corvinus University of Budapest and at the Eötvös Loránd University, and also worked as a researcher at the Regional Centre for Energy Policy Research in Budapest. 

Expertise:

• International trade 
• Firm performance 
• Empirical industrial organisation 

Pierre Cotterlaz economist at CEPII (Centre d’études prospectives et d’informations internationales) and CIREM (Centre for International Research and Economic Modeling). 

He holds a PhD from Sciences Po. His research focuses on empirical aspects of international trade. He is also in charge of developing the CEPII trade datasets.   

Expertise:

• International trade

Ron Davies has been a professor of Economics at University College Dublin since 2008. After earning his PhD at the Pennsylvania State University in 1999, he joined the University of Oregon where he remained until relocating to Dublin. Specializing in trade and foreign investment, he has a particular focus on the tax and trade policies that affect globalization.  

He is Editor-in-Chief of International Tax and Public Finance and an associate editor of Review of International Economics and Economic and Social Review. In addition to his primary affiliation with UCD, Ron is a fellow with the Oxford University Centre for Business Taxation and the CES-Ifö. 

Expertise:

• Foreign direct investment 
• Trade policy 
• International taxation 

Amanda De Pirro is a postdoctoral fellow at the KRTK — Centre for Economic and Regional Studies’ Institute of Economics.

Her main research interests are firm innovation decisions, trade policy and their intersection with political economy.

Amanda holds a PhD in Economics from Lancaster University and a MSc in Economics and Management of Government and International Organizations from Bocconi University.

Within the RETHINK-GSC project she works on the cross-country company survey, including data work.

Expertise:

• Inovation
• Political economy
• Trade policy 

Klaus S. Friesenbichler is Senior Economist at WIFO, where he has been working in the Research Group “Industrial Economics, Innovation and International Competition” since 2005. Thematically, he is interested in economic integration topics and industrial economics and policy. Holding a doctoral degree in Economics, he teaches development economics at the Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU Vienna), is a former World Bank staff, and was a visiting scholar at Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies Pisa (Italy), Sheffield University (UK) and the Ratio Institute (Sweden). He has consulted both national and international institutions, and his work has been published in a wide range of academic outlets.

Expertise

• Digital transformation
• European and Austrian competition policy and regulation
• Industrial dynamics
• Industrial economics and industrial policy
• Industrial structure, growth and competitiveness 

Inga Heiland is an associate researcher at the University of Oslo focusing on trade policy. Her research interests include the benefits and challenges of international supply chains and the importance of container shipping for regional economies. In addition, she conducts research on dealing with risks in opening up new markets for trade and investment and is concerned with the opportunities and challenges of European integration.

Inga Heiland studied international economics and finance at the University of Tübingen. After completing her doctorate at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich and the Ifo Institute, she worked at the University of Oslo, Statistics Norway and the Kiel Institute for the World Economy before returning to Oslo University in 2023.

Expertise:

• Trade policy
• International integration of goods markets, capital markets and labor markets
• International sea transport
• Global supply chains

Julian Hinz is an empirical economist working on topics in international trade, migration and applied econometrics. He is a member of the Kiel Institute’s Trade Policy research center and Assistant Professor for International Economics at Bielefeld University.

Julian Hinz studies international trade, in particular its political economy and connection with foreign policy, the spatial dimension of international trade and migration, often in the context of the so-called gravity equation. His work is characterized by policy-relevant research questions that make use of state-of-the-art quantitative methods often involving big data, as well as devising and implementing econometric techniques to handle such types of data.

Expertise:

• International Trade
• International Political Economy
• International Migration

Michael Koch is an associate professor at the Department of Economics and Business Economics at Aarhus University and member of the FIND Research Centre for Firms and Industry Dynamics. He received his PhD at the University of Bayreuth and was scholarships holder at the BGPE (Bavarian Graduate Program in Economics). He is doing theoretical and empirical research in international economics, with a particular focus on the labor market effects of globalization. He has worked on topics such as how globalization affects residual wage inequality through internal labor market reorganization or how foreign ownership effects demand for workers with different skills. He has also an interest in the implications of offshoring, and more recently, the impact of automation on labor market outcomes. 

Expertise

• International Economics
• Industrial Organization
• Labor Markets
• Technological Change
• Inequality  

Miklós Koren is a senior research fellow at the KRTK – Institute of Economics and a professor of economics at the Central European University (CEU). He is the founder of the Business Analytics MSc program and the CEU MicroData research group.  

His research focuses on international trade and economic development. He publishes regularly in leading international academic journals, and has participated in numerous international research projects, including a large-scale Starting Grant of the European Research Council.  

He also participated in the EFIGE project, and has additional survey experience from the Business Relations Survey conducted in Central-Eastern Europe and from the World Management Survey conducted in Hungary.  

Miklós is a recipient of the Peter Kenen Fellowhsip and the Nicholas Káldor Prize. He received his PhD from Harvard University in 2005.  

Previously, he worked at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and at Princeton University. 

Expertise:

• International trade, 
• Growth and development 

Agnes Kügler is Senior Economist at WIFO in the Research Group “Industrial Economics, Innovation and International Competition”. She holds a Master’s degree in Economics from the Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU Vienna) and a Master of Science from the Institute for Advances Studies (IHS) and the Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien) and a doctoral degree from the WU Vienna.

She is responsible for the WIFO Research Seminar, is member of the Board of the Austrian Economic Association and has been deputy member of the Austrian Competition Commission since 2018. Her research focuses on structural change, industrial economics and competitiveness.

Agnes Kügler has participated in various international and national projects. Recently, her research focus has been on the effects of value chain integration into the Single Market and economic institutions on sectoral competitiveness, and the impact of import competition from China on European firms’ market strategies and productivity. 

Expertise

• Industrial economics and industrial policy 
• Industrial structure and competitiveness 
• Innovation and technological development 
• Digital transformation 

Balázs Lengyel is a senior research fellow and the head of the Agglomeration and Social Networks Research Lab at the KRTK — Centre for Economic and Regional Studies’ Institute of Economics. He is also a research fellow at the NeTI Lab, Centre for Advanced Studies, Corvinus University of Budapest.  

Balázs is an economic geographer and works on topics at the intersection of economic geography, innovation studies, and network science. He aims to understand how social interaction facilitates economic and technological progress embedded in geographical space.  

Previously, he was a visiting scholar at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’ Human Mobility and Networks Lab.  

As part of the RETHINK-GSC project, he conducts research connected to the company surveys. 

Expertise:

• Economic geography 
• Social networks 
• Innovation and learning 

Aaron Lohmann studied Economics and Applied Statistics in Bielefeld, Lisbon and Göttingen. During this time, he worked as research assistant in econometrics and development economics. Since October 2022 he is a doctoral student at the IfW in Kiel and the University Bielefeld. His research mainly focuses on using unconventional data in the field of economics and on understanding the nexus of software advancement and economic development. As part of this research project, he contributes to ideas how software development can be understood in terms of supply chain models.  

Expertise

• Applied econometrics 
• Big data economics 
• Digital supply chains 

Saskia Meuchelböck (née Mösle) joined the Kiel Institute for the World Economy in 2018. She contributes to the work of the Research Center International Trade and Investment. Her main research interests lie in the area of empirical international economics with a focus on international trade, global supply chains and the effects of globalization. Currently, she is working with German micro data on foreign trade and firm performance. She was also responsible for the Kiel Institute’s foreign trade forecast for Germany for several years in the Research Center Business Cycles and Growth.

Saskia is a doctoral candidate in Quantitative Economics at Kiel University. Before joining the institute she worked at the European Central Bank and interned with the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific in Bangkok. Saskia holds Master’s degrees from the Barcelona Graduate School of Economics and the University of Bayreuth.

Expertise

• International trade
• Global supply chains
• Globalization and firm performance

Birgit Meyer is economist at WIFO and works in the Research Group “Industrial Economics, Innovation and International Competition”. She is also Lecturer at the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration and External Research Fellow at the Kiel Centre for Globalization. She holds a degree in Economics from the University of Bonn and received her PhD from Kiel University in 2016. Her research focuses on the analysis of the effects of globalisation on innovation, investments, and development. In particular, she focuses on the analysis of the effects of foreign direct investment, multinational enterprises and international trade at the firm and industry level. She has carried out several projects in this area, including projects for national and international institutions such as the World Bank and UNIDO. At the annual meeting of the Austrian Economic Association in 2019, she was awarded the Young Economist Award. 

Expertise

• Multinational firms and foreign direct investment
• International trade and trade relations 
• Industrial structure, growth and competitiveness 
• Innovation and technological development 
• Development economics 

Antonella Nocco is Professor of Economics at the University of Salento, where she teaches International Economics and Macroeconomics, and she is Research Fellow at CESifo. She holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Pavia. She spent part of her post-doctoral studies at the Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE) at the Université Catholique de Louvain (Louvain-La-Neuve). Previously, she earned a MSc in Economics at the University of Glasgow and she received her degree in Economics from the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milano.   

She is author of works in international trade, economic geography, and economic growth. Her recent publications focus on the competitiveness of firms in the global economy with imperfect competition in goods and labor markets, and in the presence of vertical linkages among firms, on the optimality properties of monopolistic competition models, as well as on the economic effects of international economic integration on wages, trade flows, labor mobility and technology upgrading decisions. 

Expertise

• International trade
• International integration and selection effects among heterogeneous firms
• Labour market and international trade
• Monopolistic competition and optimal multilateral trade policy with heterogeneous firms
• New economic geography

Aleksandra Parteka is an associate professor at the Gdańsk University of Technology’s Faculty of Management and Economics. Her research focuses on the empirics of international trade, global value chains and technological progress, and their impact on labour markets and productivity.  

She is a graduate of the Sussex University and Gdańsk University of Technology, and holds a PhD from Università Politecnica delle Marche. As a post-doc she stayed at the University of California-Berkeley and at the Pompeu Fabra University. She is an alumnus of the Fulbright Program, the Foundation for Polish Science, and the Center for Economic Research and Graduate Education – Economics Institute (CERGE-EI), and has worked as an expert for the National Science Center, the European Commission, the Polish-U.S. Fulbright Commission, CERGE-EI, and the Polish National Agency for Academic Exchange.  

Aleksandra has published in, inter alia, Review of World Economics, Review of International Economics, and Journal of Economic Inequality, and The World Economy. 

Expertise:

• International economics 
• International trade 
• Specialisation 
• Technological progress 
• Labour economics 

Michael Peneder is Deputy Director at WIFO, responsible for research coordination. He has been working in the Research Group “Industrial Economics, Innovation and International Competition” since 1992. Important international projects under his leadership include the coordination of the EUKLEMS Productivity Accounts for Austria (2003-2007), the annual reports of the European Commission on European Competitiveness (from 2006 to 2014 as head of the international consortium) and a study on efficient energy technologies in the DACH region (2015-2016, co-financed by the Austrian Science Fund). From 2005 to 2019 he was Managing Editor of the Journal of Industry, Competition and Trade. As chairman of the Committee for Evolutionary Economics he was a member of the extended board of the German Economic Association (2018-2019). He studied economics at the University of Vienna and at the Vienna University of Economics and Business (habilitation 2017). In addition to his ongoing teaching activities in Vienna, he was a visiting professor at the Ritsumeikan University in Kyoto (2004, 2008, 2015) and a visiting researcher at the Universities of Harvard (2009, 2018) and Stanford (2003, 2015). His research focusses on competitiveness, productivity, innovation and entrepreneurial finance. 

Expertise

• Competitiveness 
• Innovation and digital transformation 
• Industrial economics and industrial policy 
• Entrepreneurial finance 

Poitiers holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Universitat de Barcelona, where he was also adjunct Lecturer in Economics, a M.Sc. in Economics from Bonn University, and a B.Sc. from University of Mannheim. He was a visiting scholar at Northwestern University. 

He joined Bruegel in September 2019. 

 At Bruegel, his publications mainly deal with International Trade, Global Supply Chains and Industrial Policy. In particular, he writes extensively on the geopolitical aspects of international trade, the new role of China, EU-India trade relations, and the effects of Covid-19 and the US-China conflict on GSC. 

More recently, his research verted on the economic impact of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on Europe, including the consequences of the European decoupling from Russia on the Tech sector. 

Expertise

• International trade 
• International macroeconomics 
• Digital economy and innovation 

Gianluca Santoni is an economist at CEPII (Centre d’études prospectives et d’informations internationales) and CIREM (Centre for International Research and Economic Modelin), a non-profit organization supporting CEPII activities.  

He holds a PhD on International Economics from the University of Rome Tor Vergata. His fields of interest include international trade, global supply chains, and firm competitiveness.  

Before joining CEPII, Gianluca was postdoc researcher at the Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies. His articles have appeared in peer reviewed journals, including European Economic Review, Journal of Economic Geography, Journal of Regional Science, Regional Science, and Urban Economics. 

Expertise:

• International trade 
• Global supply chains 
• Applied network economics 
• Applied micro-econometrics 

Aude Sztulman is an associate professor at the Université Paris Dauphine  PSL and a research associate at CEPII (Centre d’Études Prospectives et d’Informations Internationales). Her research focuses on trade globalisation and its effects. She has worked on the links between trade openness, income inequality and poverty in advanced economies as well as in emerging and developing countries. She has participated in the NOPOOR European research project.

Her main research interests are also the international fragmentation of production and free trade zones. She holds a PhD in economics from the Université Paris Dauphine — PSL and the diploma of ESSEC (École Supérieure des Sciences Économiques et Commerciales).

Expertise:

• International trade 
• Multinational firms 
• Taxation 

Sabina Szymczak is research and teaching assistant at Gdańsk University of Technology, Faculty of Management and Economics. She is a PhD candidate studying the impact of international production fragmentation on labour market outcomes.

In the years 2017-2022, she participated in the research project “Effects of global production networks on employment, earnings and factor allocation in the presence of workers, firms, and tasks heterogeneity”, financed by the National Science Centre, Poland. 

Expertise:

• Global value chains 
• Labour market 
• International economics 

Farid Toubal is a full professor at the Université Paris Dauphine-PSL and a scientific adviser at CEPII (Centre d’études prospectives et d’informations internationales), a French research centre for international economics.

He is also a CESifo Research Network member and a research fellow in the Centre for Economic Policy Research’s International Trade and Regional Economics Program. In addition, Farid is currently Associate Editor for the European Economic Review.  

Expertise:

• International economics 
• Multinational firms 
• Taxation 

Deniz Ünal is an economist at CEPII (Centre d’études prospectives et d’informations internationales) and CIREM (Centre for International Research and Economic Modeling. She has worked on trade specialisation, regional trade areas, international comparisons of productivity levels, trade in services, China, and Turkey. 

At CEPII, she is editor-in-chief of the Panorama du CEPII series which offer statistical insights on issues of the world economy. She also coordinates the CEPII Country Profiles which offer an organized reading of the insertion in international trade through the indicators and databases developed by CEPII.  

In addition, as a pastime, Deniz is in charge of Turkish literature with Bleu autour Publishing and has translated several books of Turkish modern literature into French under the pseudonym Elif Deniz. 

Expertise:

• International trade 
• International comparisons of productivity levels 
• European Union 
• Turkey 
• China 

Giulio Vannelli is a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Paris-Dauphine – PSL. He holds a PhD in Development Economics and Local Systems from the University of Trento. During his PhD, he was a visiting researcher at CEPII (Centre d’études prospectives et d’informations internationals). His main research interests are trade, foreign direct investments and global supply chains.

Expertise:

• Trade
• Foreign direct investments
• Global supply chains

Vincent Vicard is deputy director and head of the international trade team at the Centre d’études prospectives et d’informations internationales (CEPII), which is supported by the Centre for International Research and Economic Modeling (CIREM). He also teaches international economics at the University Paris Panthéon-Sorbonne.  

Before joining CEPII and CIREM, Vincent was a senior research economist at Banque de France. His current research focuses on: European integration, multinational companies and international taxation, geopolitics and trade, and competitiveness.  

He has published in various international journals, including the Review of Economics and Statistics, the European Economic Review, the IMF Economic Review, and the Journal of International Economics. 

Expertise:

• International trade 
• Multinational firms 
• European integration 
• Geopolitics and trade 
• Globalization impact 

Peio Villanueva started his research as a PhD student at the Université Paris Dauphine-PSL under the supervision of Farid Toubal in October 2022. He holds a Master’s degree in International and Development Economics from Université Paris Dauphine-PSL. His current research focuses on the response of firms to increasingly stringent European environmental regulations and their impact on the evolution of economic activity.

As a member of the RETHINK-GSC project, he will work on the impact of the European Emissions Trading Scheme on investment and trade, and the spill-over of these effects from the regulated sectors to the rest of the economy. 

Expertise:

• International trade 
• Applied microeconometrics 

Yvonne Wolfmayr is Senior Economist at WIFO and has been working in the Research Group “Industrial Economics, Innovation and International Competition” since 1992. From 2013 to 2016 she was Deputy Director of WIFO. She studied Economics at the University of Vienna and the University of Innsbruck with a major in International Economics. Since then, she has spent time abroad at renowned universities in the USA (University of California, Los Angeles, and Stanford University). Her research focusses on the empirical analysis of international trade issues, including foreign direct investment, multinational companies and international outsourcing as well as trade in services, with a special focus on issues of integration of Central and Eastern Europe and the effects of foreign trade and international production integration on the labour market. In these areas she was involved in or led several projects (national and international). She is also an expert in the Austrian Advisory Council for Foreign Trade Policy and a member of the Advisory Council for Foreign Trade Statistics of Statistics Austria.  

Expertise

• Foreign trade 
• International trade relations 

Joanna Wolszczak-Derlacz is an associate professor at the Gdańsk University of Technology, Faculty of Management and Economics. Her research focuses on international economics, economic convergence, productivity and efficiency analysis, economics of education, labour economics.  

She holds PhD from Gdańsk University of Technology. As a visiting scholar, she stayed at Sapienza University of Rome, University of California-Berkeley, and received fellowships from the European University Institute, the Katholieke Universitei Leuven, and Glasgow University. 

She has led research projects on global supply chains and labour market interactions, as well as efficiency of higher education institutions.  

She has published in, inter alia, Review of World Economics, Work, Employment and Society, The World Economy, and Journal of Productivity Analysis. 

Expertise:

• International economics 
• Economic convergence, productivity and efficiency analysis 
• Economics of education 
• Labour economics 

Guohao Yang is a trade economist who studies how infrastructure affects the geographical distribution of production along global supply chains. He develops novel identification strategies to estimate key parameters in trade models and assess welfare gains from trade. Guohao received his Ph.D. from Pompeu Fabra University (UPF) in 2019. Before joining UCD, he worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Namur.

Within the RETHINK-GSC project, Guohao will work on the knowledge input-output tables based on patent data, developing new measures of global supply chains. 

Expertise:

• International trade 
• Global supply chains 
• Government behaviour 
• Infrastructure 
• Environment