Keynote Speakers

Andrea Weber

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Andrea Weber is an applied labor economist. She is professor of economics at the  Central European University, and also affiliated to the ROCKWOOL Foundation Berlin Institute and a Research Fellow at IZA and at CESifo. She received her Doctorate at the Vienna University of Technology in 2002. Prior to joining CEU she was professor of labor economics at the Vienna University of Economics and Business, professor of economics at the University of Mannheim, and visiting assistant professor at UC Berkeley.  Andrea has numerous publications in top and top-field economic journals including the Quarterly Journal of Economics, Econometrica, the AER, the Economic Journal and the Journal of the European Economic Association. Her current research focuses on the interaction of labor markets with social insurance systems, the dynamics of unemployment, gender differences in the labor market, and the mobility of workers in the European Union. She is co-editor at the Journal of the European Economic Association.

https://sites.google.com/site/andreaweberkirchweger/.

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Matthew Sutton

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Matthew (Matt) Sutton is professor of Health Economics and Centre Lead for the Manchester Centre for Health Economics. He is also Deputy Director of the Institute of Population Health and Lead for the Faculty Cross-Cutting Theme on Health and Social Inequalities at the University of Manchester. He received his MSc and his PhD in Health Economics from the University of York. He has worked at the Universities of York, New South Wales, Lund, Glasgow, Aberdeen and Manchester. He has over 90 publications in peer-reviewed journals including health economics journals (Health Economics, Journal of Health Economics), medical journals (New England Journal of Medicine, British Medical Journal, Lancet) and economics journals (Economic Journal, Journal of Public Economics). He is an expert in policy evaluation and applied econometrics. His research focuses on the use and impact of financial incentives in health care, the healthcare workforce, influences on health behaviours and equity in health and healthcare. He has been an Associate Editor of Health Economics since 2007.

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https://research.manchester.ac.uk/en/persons/matt.sutton

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