Institution: BICEPS
Lauris Gravelis
Contacts:
E-mail: lauris.gravelis[at]gmail.com
Ija Trapeznikova
Dominik Gerber
Contacts:
E-mail: dominik.gerber[at]sseriga.edu
Zane Varpina
Expertise:
- Higher Education
- Demography
- Labour Market
Education:
- PhD in Demography, University of Latvia
- Inter University Diploma in EU Studies, Universite Nancy II, Ex-en-Provence Institute of Political Science, June 2004
- MA of Science in Mathematical Economics, University of Latvia, June 2003
- BA of Science in Analytical Economics, University of Latvia, June 2001
Contacts:
Phone: (+371) 67015828
E-mail: zane.varpina[at]sseriga.edu
Kata Fredheim
About:
Kata is Research Associate at BICEPS and Assistant Professor at SSE Riga. Dr Kata Fredheim is a social anthropologist. Her research is on migration, internationalization of higher education and Brexit. Her early research and PhD explored the social and economic effects of migration looking at the role of creative industries and entrepreneurs. She investigated how entrepreneurs (first, second and third generation migrants) in cultural and creative industries simultaneously represent and challenge discourses of cultural diversity. Her later work focused on building research-based strategy and policy advice on Brexit. She investigated the Brexit’s impact on migrants in education and research.
Contacts:
E-mail: kata.fredheim[at]sseriga.edu
Talis Putnins
Education:
- Ph.D. in economics, University of Sydney (2010)
- Bachelor of Engineering with First Class Honours, University of Adelaide (2005)
- Bachelor of Finance, University of Adelaide (2005)
Research interests:
- Financial market microstructure, including market manipulation, insider trading, liquidity, price discovery, short selling, dark trading, high-frequency trading
- Shadow economies
- Asset pricing
About:
Talis Putnins is a research associate at the Stockholm School of Economics in Riga and Baltic International Centre for Economic Policy Studies. His research interests include financial market integrity, market manipulation, short selling, partial detection modelling and topics in market microstructure. He actively presents his research at international conferences and universities in Europe, Australia, Asia and the US.
Contacts:
E-mail: talis.putnins[at]sseriga.edu
Dmitrijs Kravcenko
Contacts:
E-mail: dmitrijs.kravcenko[at]sseriga.edu
Andris Saulitis
About:
Andris Saulitis received his MA in Social Anthropology from The New School (New York, USA) and PhD in sociology from the European University Institute in Florence, Italy (thesis title: Can a Nudge Make Debtors Budge? Four Field Experiments on Payment Reminders). He focuses on household financial behaviour and experimental methodology. He works on both qualitative and quantitative projects to study individual behaviour and how social contexts influence financial decisions.
Andris studies the reasons for the willingness of people to pay taxes by analysing factors that stem from the shadow economy and create preconditions for unfair competition, social inequality and insufficient protection of some population groups.
Contacts:
E-mail: andris.saulitis[at]sseriga.edu
Vitalijs Jascisens
About:
Vitalijs Jascisens is Research Associate at BICEPS and an assistant professor at Higher School of Economics (HSE) in Moscow. He holds PhD in Economics from the Toulouse School of Economics (TSE), MPhil in economics from TSE, BSc in economics and business administration from Stockholm School of Economics in Riga, and BSc in physics from the University of Latvia. During his PhD studies, he was also a visiting researcher at the Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics (SITE). Vitalijs’ research interests primarily lie in development economics, industrial organisation and public finance. In particular, he has developed an expertise in using large-scale administrative data to analyse various policy failures.
Contacts:
E-mail: jascisen[at]gmail.com
Morten Hansen
Expertise:
- Monetary Policy
- EU economics
- Economics of Education
- Regional disparities
About:
Morten Hansen is Head of Economics Department, Stockholm School of Economics in Riga, Vice-President of the Latvian European Community Studies Association (LECSA), Research Associate at BICEPS and Research Fellow at the Centre for European and Transition Studies (CETS) at University of Latvia. He was formerly with EuroFaculty, University of Latvia and has resided in Latvia since 1994. He holds an MSc in economics from Aarhus University, Denmark, where he specialized in econometrics.
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