Keynote Speakers
Philippe Bacchetta
University of Lausanne
Philippe Bacchetta is Swiss Finance Institute professor of economics at the University of Lausanne, chairman of the economics department and a research fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR, London). He was director of the Study Center Gerzensee from 1998 to 2007. He received his Ph.D. and M.A. in economics from Harvard University and his B.A. and M.S. in economics from the University of Lausanne. Philippe Bacchetta has taught at several universities in Europe and in the US. He has been visiting scholar at Harvard University, the IMF and the NBER and an academic consultant at various central banks. He is a fellow of the European Economic Association and has been president of the Swiss Society of Economics and Statistics and a member of the Swiss National Research Council. In 2011 he was awarded an Advanced Researcher Grant by the European Research Council. His research interests include open economy macroeconomics, financial crises, and monetary economics. people.unil.ch/philippebacchetta/
Livio Stracca
Deputy Director General, Europan Central Bank
Livio Stracca is the Deputy Director General International and European Relations at the European Central Bank and an adjunct Professor at the University of Frankfurt J.-W. Goethe. His work experience at the ECB also includes Counsellor to the Executive Board and Senior Adviser in International and European Relations; his previous work experience was in the Research Department of the Banca d’Italia. He holds a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Leicester (UK) and a postgraduate degree in European Union Law from King’s College (UK). He teaches at the Master in Money and Finance at the University of Frankfurt J.-W. Goethe and has published extensively in macroeconomics and international economics.
Andreas Waldkirch
The Mitchell Family Professor of Economics, Colby College
Andreas Waldkirch is the Mitchell Family Professor of Economics at Colby College in Maine, USA. He is an international trade economist and his research has explored the determinants of foreign direct investment (FDI) in emerging and developing countries, the impact of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) on FDI and spatial FDI effects in the United States. He currently focuses on the impact of multinational enterprises and the international fragmentation of production on productivity, wages, and growth. At Colby, he teaches courses in international trade and global production as well as Research Methods. Professor Waldkirch has also been a visiting researcher at the Research Institute of Industrial Economics in Stockholm, the Kiel Institute for the World Economy in Germany and the International School of Economics at Tbilisi State University in the Republic of Georgia.
