Project Team

Mert Akan is a Predoctoral Research Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR). He graduated from Claremont McKenna College with a double major in Economics and Neuroscience. 

Jose Maria Barrero is an Assistant Professor of Finance at Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM). He is an applied economist interested in finance, macro, and labor, using empirical and quantitative methods. He has a BA in Economics and Mathematics from the University of Pennsylvania and an MA and PhD in Economics from Stanford University.

Nicholas (Nick) Bloom is the William Eberle Professor of Economics at Stanford University, a Senior Fellow of SIEPR and the Co-Director of the Productivity, Innovation and Entrepreneurship program at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He has a BA from Cambridge, an MPhil from Oxford, and a PhD from University College London. His research focuses on management practices and uncertainty.

Steven J. Davis is the William H. Abbott Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution. He is a co-founder of the Economic Policy Uncertainty project, the Survey of Business Uncertainty, and the Stock Market Jumps project. He co-organizes the Asian Monetary Policy Forum, held annually in Singapore.

Cevat Giray Aksoy is an Associate Director, Senior Research Economist in the Office of the Chief Economist at European Bank for Reconstruction and Development in London and Assistant Professor of Economics at King’s College London, Department of Political Economy.

Mathias Dolls is a Senior Economist and Deputy Director at the ifo Institute’s Center for Macroeconomics and Surveys. He received his PhD in Economics from the University of Cologne. His research interests include public economics, labor economics and political economy.

Prof. Jinhua Zhao integrates behavioral and computational thinking to decarbonize the global mobility system. He shapes sustainable travel behavior and designs multimodal mobility system. He runs the JTL Urban Mobility Lab and Transit Lab at MIT. He is the co-founder and chief scientist for TRAM, a mobility decarbonization venture. He founded and directs the MIT Mobility Initiative.
Link: web.mit.edu/jinhua/www

Paul Mizen is Professor in Economics, King’s Business School, London.  Paul has taught at the University of Nottingham, European University Institute, Princeton University and the University of Vienna. He is Principal Investigator on the ESRC funded Decision Maker Panel project and Deputy Director of ESCoE.

Shivani Taneja is a Lecturer at the University of Kent. Previously she was a Research Fellow in the School of Economics at the University of Nottingham, and a Research Fellow in the School of Economics at the University of Surrey and the University of Manchester. She holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Essex and her thesis focused on topics in labour economics.