SPEAKERS

Michel Beine has been Full Professor in International Economics at the University of Luxembourg since January 2009. He graduated in Economics at the University of Namur, Belgium (1991) and got a PhD in Economics at the Université Libre de Bruxelles (1997). One key aspect of his recent research is the issue of the brain drain from developing countries to developed countries, and its welfare aspects. His work looks also at the determinants and the impact of international migration. This includes among others the investigation of the importance of networks for international migration, the application of microfounded gravity models to international migration and the development of the IMPALA project aiming at providing a database of immigration policies that are comparable across countries and over time. His work has been published in international journals such as the European Economic Review, the Journal of Development Economics, or the Economic Journal.

Frédéric Docquier is Research Associate at the National Fund for Economic Research and Professor of Economics at the Universite Catholique de Louvain. He holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Aix-Marseille 2. His research interests are in quantitative development theory, economic growth and international migration. He has been acting as a ST Consultant for the World Bank since 2004, and as an external expert for the United Nations (UNESCO and High-Level Panel on the post-2015 Development Agenda) and Agence Française de Développement. He served as Research Director of IRES at UCLouvain between 2008 and 2012. He edited four books and published articles in Journal of Economic Theory, Journal of Economic Literature, Economic Journal, Journal of Development Economics, and many other journals.

Christina Gathmann joined Heidelberg University as full Professor of Labor Economics and Political Economy at the Alfred-Weber-Institute for Economics in 2011. Since 2013 she is a member of the Board of Academic Advisors to the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology, Berlin. She is also a research fellow at CESifo, the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) and the Center for European Economic Research (ZEW) and Associate Editor of the European Economic Review. After having obtained her Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 2004, she moved to Stanford University as a Postdoctoral Fellow and a National Fellow at the Hoover Institution. In 2009, she returned to Germany as an assistant professor at the University of Mannheim. Her research focuses on public economics, labor economics, policy evaluation, migration and political economy. Her work has been published in international journals such as the Journal of the European Economic Association, the Economic Journal, the Journal of Labor Economics, and the Journal of Public Economics.