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Visiting Faculty and Visiting Fellows

Visiting Faculty

 
Visiting Assistant Professor, 2011-12
420 West 118th St MC 3308
New York, NY 10027
1012 International Affairs Building, (212)-854-4520, fk2282@columbia.edu
 
Wesley Clair Mitchell Visiting Research Professor, 2011-12
420 West 118th St MC 3308
New York, NY 10027
1125 International Affairs Building, (212)-851-5942, dm2871@columbia.edu
 
Fabio Sanchez Torres
Edward Laroque Tinker Visiting Professor, Fall 2011
420 West 118th St MC 3339
New York, NY 10027
828-C International Affairs Building, 212-854-4643, fs2433@columbia.edu
 

Visiting Fellows

 
Chris Blattman is an Assistant Professor of Political Science and Economics at Yale University, where he teaches on African development, applied econometrics, and the political economy of warfare. He holds a PhD in Economics from the University of California at Berkeley, and a Master’s in Public Administration and International Development (MPA/ID) from the Harvard Kennedy School.  Dr. Blattman’s research examines the causes and consequences of civil war, post-conflict recovery, poverty alleviation through firms and micro-enterprises, as well as youth employment in Africa–especially among troubled or unstable populations, like ex-combatants, street youth, and refugees. Much of his work employs field experiments and natural experiments in conflict and post-conflict regions. He has ongoing studies in Liberia, Uganda, and Ethiopia.
 
Giovanni di Iasio received a PhD in Economics at University of Rome and currently works at the Bank of Italy, Economic Research Department. His research interests focus on corporate finance, banking, prudential regulation, financial stability.

Stefano Federico received an M. Phil. in Economics at Cambridge, and has worked for the Bank of Italy for a decade, most recently in the Balance of Payments unit.  His publications have focused on issues of outsourcing, FDI, and general issues of international economics and political economy. 

Yonghong Gu is finishing his Ph.D. in Management Science and Technology at Southeast University in Nanjing.  His research focuses on development and industrial organization in China.

Rema Hanna is Assistant Professor of Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School, and an NBER Associate.  Her research focuses on understanding how to improve the provision of public services in developing countries. For example, she is currently working on a project to assess the effectiveness of different methods for targeting the poor in Indonesia, and also analyzing data from a field experiment in rural Orissa, India, that looks at the impacts of "clean" cooking stoves on indoor air pollution and health.

Sissel Jensen is an Assistant Professor at the Norwegian School of Economics.  Her main research areas focus on Pricing of telecommunications, price discrimination, economics of telecommunications, and industrial organization. 

Hiau Looi Kee received her Ph.D. in Economics from the University of California, Davis, in 2000, and is currently Senior Economist in the International Trade Team of the Development Research Group at the World Bank.  Her main research interests focus on applied empirical trade issues that have policy relevance.

Jinwoo Kim is Associate Professor of Economics at Yonsei University.  Prof. Kim received his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin at Madison in 2003, and his research interests have focused on issues of game theory and contract theory.  Kim has co-authored several papers with Yeon-Koo Che, and is currently Associate Editor of the Korean Economic Review. He is visiting Columbia through the Fulbright Fellowship.

Xiumin Li is Professor of Economics at Northeast Normal University, where she also received her Ph.D. in 1998.  Her studies have focused on economic development issues in China, a topic on which she has authored several books. She is visiting Columbia through the Fulbright Fellowship.

Yanting Li is finishing her Ph.D. in Economics at Lanzhou University, where she is also a Senior Lecturer.  Her research interests focus particularly on issues of regional growth and industrial organization in China. 

Leonardo Melosi is Assistant Professor of Economics at London Business School.  His research interests are in Macroeconomics, Applied Econometrics, and Monetary Economics.

Guillermo Ordoñez is Assistant Professor of Economics at Yale University.  He received his Ph.D. from UCLA in 2008, and is interested in macroeconomics, applied game theory and international economics.

Kjell Salvanes is a Professor at the Norwegian School of Economics. His research centers on issues related to Labor Economics, Economics of Education and Family Economics have been widely published.

José Scheinkman is Theodore A Wells '29 Professor of Economics at Princeton University.  Previously, Scheinkman was the Alvin H. Baum Distinguished Service Professor and Chairman of the Department of Economics at the University of Chicago, Blaise Pascal Research Professor (France), Visiting Professor at Collège de France, Vice President in the Financial Strategies Group of Goldman, Sachs & Co. and co-editor of the Journal of Political Economy.  He has published influential research on a wide range of subjects.

Luca Sessa received his Ph.D. in Economics from Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, and a Ph.D. in Economic Theory and Institutions at the Università Tor Vergata, Roma.  He is Senior Economist at the Bank of Italy in the Economic Outlook and Monetary Policy Department and the Monetary Analysis Division.  His research focuses on European monetary policy and the nexus between finance and macroeconomic stability.

Etsuro Shioji received his Ph.D. from Yale University in 1995, and is currently a Professor at the Graduate School of Economics at Hitotsubashi University in Tokyo.  He is visiting here as a Fulbright Scholar, and his research interests center on issues of macroeconomics, microeconomics and growth in Japan.  Currently, he is focusing his work on the impact of the 2008 financial crisis on Japanese productivity and inflation dynamics.

Roseli da Silva is on leave from the University of São Paolo at Riberão Preto, where she is a Lecturer in Economics.  Her research while here focuses on theory and empirical evidence in monetary policy analysis.