Wednesday 6 March 2024, 3pm-4pm (London, GMT)

Chair: Antonio Cabrales (University Charles III of Madrid)

Featuring:

Steve DeLoach (Elon University)

Stephen DeLoach is the Martha and Spencer Love Professor and Chair of the Department of Economics at Elon University. He completed his PhD in economics in 1993 from Michigan State University, and joined Elon’s Love School of Business in 1996. He has published 28 peer reviewed journal articles and book chapters, in the areas of development economics, labor economics, and the scholarship of teaching and learning. His most recent projects focus on estimating the impact of access to financial services on household’s ability to cope with economic uncertainty and the job search behavior of young adult workers. He has also been a leader in mentoring undergraduate research, having mentored over 100 undergraduate research projects, 76 of which have resulted in presentations at national undergraduate research or regional professional economics conferences. Under his mentorship, 25 of his students have either co-authored or solo-authored papers in peer-reviewed journals. His work has been published in leading journals like the Journal of International Money and Finance, World Development, the Journal of Development Studies, and the Journal of Economics Education. His work has been cited in numerous national and international media outlets including the Wall Street Journal, Harvard Business Review, the Chicago Tribune, Associated Press, Bloomberg, Financial Times, Freakonomics Blog, The Economic Times, CBS News, Kaiser Health News, WGN, and Wikipedia. Over the years, Professor DeLoach has received honors for both his teaching and his research, having received the Love School of Business’s Dean’s Award for Teaching, the Beta Gamma Sigma Teacher of the Year Award, the Dean’s Award for Scholarship, and the Hollingworth Visiting Scholar Award from Furman University. In 2014, he received Elon’s highest award for scholarship, the Elon University Distinguished Scholar Award.

Antara Roy (Bank of America, and Explore Econ Winner)

Antara Roy is an Associate at Bank of America in the Financial Institutions Group, Transaction Banking division. Antara graduated with a first-class Honours BSc Economics from UCL in 2021, was a winner of Explore Econ 2021 and was a Research Assistant for Professor Wendy Carlin, Professor Daniel Wilhelm and Professor Imran Rasul during her time at UCL. Prior to UCL, Antara worked at IBM with multinational clients implementing Artificial Intelligence solutions. 

Aleksandar Vasilev (University of Lincoln)

Aleksandar Vasilev is a Senior Lecturer in Economics at the Department of Accountancy, Finance and Economics and the Programme Leader of MSc Economics and MSc Economics and Finance at the University of Lincoln, UK. During the 2021-22 academic year, he served as the Programme Leader of BA Business Economics. Aleksandar is an experienced macroeconomist with a PhD from the University of Glasgow (2013), who has written 5 books, 14 book chapters, more than 130 published articles in peer-reviewed journals with impact factor, over 50 reviews, and 25 technical reports. He was recently ranked 45th out of approximately 4570 economists in the UK, based on research output from the last 10 years (‘Authors 10’). Here is a link to his IDEAS profile page: https://ideas.repec.org/f/pva659.html

Aleksandar is currently teaching Monetary Economics (MSc level), Topics in Macroeconomic Theory (MSc level), Intermediate macroeconomics (UG Y2), and Mathematics for Economics and Finance (UG Y1). In the past, he taught modules in Dynamic Macroeconomics (MSc), Advanced Macroeconomics (UG Y3), Econometrics (UG Y3), Macroeconomic Environment for Business (UG Y2), Development Economics (UG Y2), Analysis of Business Data/Business Analytics (UG Y1), and Principles of Economics (UG U1).

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