1) Vivin Vinod
Vivin Vinod has a master’s degree in Economics from the University of Pisa and Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies, Italy. He has an undergraduate degree in Physics with honours from Delhi University (St. Stephen’s College), India. He has pursued various fields of research including modelling electrons in a square lattice to study quantum effects, cellular automata and their implications for microeconomic theory, and machine learning methods for pricing financial derivatives (CAT swaps). His current research focuses on creating augmented complex indicators of poverty using big data analytics and deep learning models. Vivin enjoys reading, poetry, gardening, and a good ABBA-filled evening. He can be contacted at his e-mail: v.vinod@studenti.unipi.it.
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2) Nicolò Geri, Edoardo Massacesi and Anna Natalicchio
Nicolò, Edoardo and Anna are second-year students of the Master of Science in Economics at the University of Pisa.
3) Chiara Malavasi
Chiara is a PhD student in Economics at the University of Mannheim. She will join the Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW) as researcher in September 2021. Previously, she completed a Bachelor Degree in Economics at the University of Rome Tor Vergata and a Master of Science in Economics at University of Pisa and Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies. During her studies, she worked as trainee at the Italian National Institute of Statistics (ISTAT) and as teaching assistant at the University of Pisa. Before starting the PhD, she also worked as trainee in the Directorate General Statistics at the European Central Bank. She is a member of the Italian Economic History Association (ASE) since 2016. Her research interests lay in the area of applied microeconometrics, with a focus on labour and health economics.