CEBI People

Claus Thustrup Kreiner is Director of CEBI and professor of economics. His main research area is Public Economics. His recent research focuses on wealth inequality, optimal redistribution policy and behavioral responses to public policy. 

Email: ctk@econ.ku.dk
Telephone: +45 35 32 30 20

Søren Leth-Petersen is deputy director of CEBI and professor of economics. He does applied research with a primary focus on understanding individual level financial behaviour and decisions about consumption, savings, and labor supply.

Email:soren.leth-petersen@econ.ku.dk
Telephone: +45 35 32 30 84

Asger Lau Andersen is Associate Professor at Department of Economics, University of Copenhagen. His work focuses on the financial and economic behavior of individual households, with a particular emphasis on decisions about consumption, borrowing and saving. He also does research in political economics.

Email: asger.lau.andersen@econ.ku.dk
Telephone: +45 35 33 31 33

Martin Browning is Professor of Economics at Department of Economics, University of Copenhagen. His research interests are applied microeconometrics; the economics of the family; demand and consumption analysis and levering lots of heterogeneity into any empirical micro model.

E-mail: martin.browning@econ.ku.dk /  Martin.Browning@nuffield.ox.ac.ukTelephone: +45 35 33 30 89 / Mobile, UK: + 44 7447 673 966

E-mail: meltem.daysal@econ.ku.dk
Telephone: 45 35 32 83 47

Jeppe Druedahl is Associate professor at Department of Economics, University of Copenhagen. His research lies in the intersection of macroeconomic questions, microeconomic data and computational methods. He has a special focus on consumption-saving behavior.

Email: jeppe.druedahl@econ.ku.dk
Telephone: +45 35 32 44 25

Mette Ejrnæs is Professor of Economics at Department of Economics, University of Copenhagen. Her work lies within the field of applied micro econometrics and focuses on topics such as unemployment insurance, income/earning processes and consumption with a life cycle framework.                 

Email: mette.ejrnes@econ.ku.dk
Telephone: +45 35 32 30 62

Christina Gravert is Associate Professor at the Department of Economics, University of Copenhagen. Her research focuses on understanding how preferences and beliefs affect decision making and on designing optimal behavioral policies. She studies these questions through field and laboratory experiments.

E-mail: cag@econ.ku.dk
Telephone: +45 35 33 47 82

Mette Gørtz is Professor of Economics at Department of Economics, University of Copenhagen. Gørtz is also deputy head of Centre for Health Economics and Policy (CHEP). Her research areas are health economics, labour economics, family economics, and applied microeconometrics.

Email: mette.gortz@econ.ku.dk
Phone: +45 35 32 30 14

Niels Johannesen is Professor of Economics at Department of Economics, University of Copenhagen. Much of his research revolves around tax evasion, including a recent paper on offshore wealth and inequality. A more recent line of research studies households’ financial responses to economic shocks.

Email: niels.johannesen@econ.ku.dk
Telephone: +45 35 32 44 15

Thomas Høgholm Jørgensen is Associate Professor at Department of Economics, University of Copenhagen. His primary interests are the dynamics of household behavior, computational methods and applied microeconometrics.

Email: thomas.h.jorgensen@econ.ku.dk
Telephone: +45 35 32 39 94

Torben Heien Nielsen is Associate Professor at Department of Economics, University of Copenhagen. His research uses administrative micro-data to understand interactions between households’ economic choices and health behaviors. In his Sapere Aude project, he studies how career opportunities and inequalities are shaped in the highly specialized labor market for physicians.

Email: thn@econ.ku.dk
Telephone: +45 35 32 30 25

Miriam Wüst is Associate Professor at Department of Economics, University of Copenhagen. Her research revolves around child health and well-being, as well as policies to promote it. In particular, she focuses on the impact of universal health and social policies and their interaction with parental investments. 

Email: miriam.w@econ.ku.dk
Telephone: +45 35 32 13 65

Felix Chopra is Assistant professor at Department of Economics, University of Copenhagen. His research interests lie in political economy, household finance, and behavioral economics.

Email: felix.chopra@econ.ku.dk               
Telephone: + 45 35 33 51 67

Kristoffer Balle Hvidberg is Post Doc at Department of Economics, University of Copenhagen. His research interests lies within applied micro econometrics, education and financial behavior.

Email: kristoffer.balle.hvidberg@econ.ku.dk
Telephone: +45 35 33 09 22

Ida Lykke Kristiansen is Post Doc at the Department of Economics, University of Copenhagen. Her research interests lies within health economics and early childhood investments.

E-Mail: ilk@econ.ku.dk
Telephone: +45 35 33 75 96

Kristian Urup Olesen Larsen is Post Doc at the Department of Economics, University of Copenhagen. His research interest lies within applied micro econometrics, health economics and inequality.

E-mail: kuol@econ.ku.dk
Telephone: +45 35 33 42 79

Sarah Sander is Postdoc at the Department of Economics, University of Copenhagen and at University College London. Her research focuses on understanding how early life circumstances, such as universal childcare and parental investments, affect people’s life course and societal inequality.

E-mail: sarah.sander@econ.ku.dk
Telephone: +45 35 32 72 89

Florian Schneider is Assistant professor at the Department of Economics, University of Copenhagen. His research interests lie in behavioral economics, experimental economics, health economics and labor economics. In particular, his research focuses on how incentives interact with prosocial motivations and beliefs to shape people's economic behavior.

E-mail: flsc@econ.ku.dk 
Telephone: +45 35 32 39 39

Jonas Loft Skals is  Scientific assistant  at the Department of Economics, University of Copenhagen, , working on the project “The Role of Preferences and Beliefs in Shaping Physician Careers”. His research interests lie within applied micro, health economics, and labor economics.

E-mail: jls@econ.ku.dk 
Phone: +45 35 33 77 71

Johan Sæverud is Researcher at the  Department of Economics, University of Copenhagen. His research interests lies within applied micro, labor, and public economics with focus on the combination of surveys and register data. Johan also serves as data manager.

Email: js@econ.ku.dk 
Telephone: +45 35 33 51 87

Jakob Egholt Søgaard is Assistant professor at Department of Economics, University of Copenhagen. His research lies in the core areas of public and labor economics with focus on taxation, labor supply optimization frictions and inequality.

Email: jes@econ.ku.dk
Telephone: +45 31 32 65 41

Ekaterina Travova is  Postdoc at Department of Economics, University of Copenhagen. Her research interests fall into the fields of Economics of Crime, Public Economics, Labor Economics, Political Economy, and their intersections. 

E-mail: ekta@econ.ku.dk
Telephone: +45 35 33 21 72

Franziska Valder is a Postdoc at Department of Economics, University of Copenhagen. Her research is in health and labor economics. In labor economics, she is interested in individual responses to incentives in labor supply decisions and the connection between the labor and the marriage market. In health economics, she works on the effect of payment schemes on health care provision.

E-mail: Franziskavalder@econ.ku.dk
Telephone:

Simon Kyllebæk Andersen is PhD student at Department of Economics, University of Copenhagen. His research interests lie within public economics, gender economics and labor economics.

E-mail: ska@econ.ku.dk
Telephone: + 45 35 32 61 16

Hjalte Fejerskov Boas  is PhD student at Department of Economics, University of Copenhagen and The Ministry of Taxation. His research interests lie within international taxation, tax evasion and public economics.

E-mail: hfb@econ.ku.dk
Telephone: + 45 35 33 19 03

Camilla Skovbo Christensen PhD student at Department of Economics, University of Copenhagen. Her research interests lie within public economics, applied micro econometrics, savings behavior, and inequality.

E-mail: csch@econ.ku.dk
Telephone: +45 35 32 45 97 

Lykke Sterll Christensen is PhD student at the Department of Economics, University of Copenhagen. Her research interests lie within the areas of education, inequality and applied micro econometrics.

E-mail: Lykke.s.christensen@econ.ku.dk
Telephone: +45 35 32 08 95

Astrid Fugleholm is PhD student at Department of Economics, University of Copenhagen. Her research interests lie within applied microeconometrics, inequality, and health economics with a particular focus on the impact of behavior in networks on health and inequality.

E-mail: Astridsf@econ.ku.dk
Telephone: +45 35 33 40 71

Ida Maria Hartmann is PhD student at Department of Economics, University of Copenhagen. Her research interests lie within applied micro econometrics and labor economics with a focus on the formation and characterization of expectations and their role in shaping individual behavior.

E-mail: imh@econ.ku.dk
Telephone: +45 35 33 40 29

Adam Hallengreen Jørgensen  is a PhD student at the Department of Economics, University of Copenhagen. His research interest lies within labor economics, household decisions, and structural modeling.

E-mail: adamhallengreen@econ.ku.dk
Telephone: 35 32 97 81

Mads Rahbek Jørgensen is a PhD student at the Department of Economics, University of Copenhagen and Danske Bank. His research interests lie within applied micro econometrics, household finance, and macroeconomics with a focus on the propagation of economic shocks through consumption and savings behavior.

E-mail: mads.jorgensen@econ.ku.dk
Telephone: +45 35 32 99 81

E-mail: ltl@econ.ku.dk
Telephone: + 45 35 33 79 16

Malene Callesøe Fuglsang Laczek is PhD student at Department of Economics, University of Copenhagen. Her research interest lies within public economics, applied micro econometrics and structural modelling.

E-mail: mcf@econ.ku.dk
Telephone: + 45 35 33 55 48

E-mail: kalo@econ.ku.dk
Telephone: +45 35 32 45 97

Annasofie Marckstrøm Olesen is PhD student at the Department of Economics, University of Copenhagen. Her interests lie within labor economics, household decisions, and structural modelling.

E-mail: aso@econ.ku.dk
Telephone: 35 33 39 16

Isabel Skak Olufsen is PhD student at the Department of Economics, University of Copenhagen. Her research interests lie within experimental economics, behavioral economics, and inequality.

E-mail: iso@econ.ku.dk
Telephone: +45 35 32 53 22

Jens Brøndum Petersen is a PhD student at the Department of Economics, University of Copenhagen. His research interests lies within applied micro econometrics, household finance and behavioral economics.

E-mail: jbp@econ.ku.dk
Telephone + 45 35 32 97 85

Asbjørn Juul Petersen is PhD student at the Department of Economics, University of Copenhagen. His interests lie within life course research, public economics, and applied microeconometrics.

E-mail: asbjornjp@econ.ku.dk
Telephone: + 45 35 32 45 98

Jacob Emil Thorn Røpke is PhD student at the Department of Economics, University of Copenhagen. His interests lie within Computational economics, heterogenous-agent models and bounded rationality.

E-mail: jro@econ.ku.dk
Telephone: + 45 35 32 66 55

Naeim Simmelkjær Samandari is PhD student at the Department of Economics, University of Copenhagen and at the Rockwool Foundation. His research interests lie within applied micro, health economics, and labor economics.

E-mail: nsa@econ.ku.dk 
Telephone: +45 35 32 70 91

Andrew Caplin is Silver Professor of Economics and Director of Scientific Agenda of the HUMAN project at New York University. Caplin does research within a bread range of topics, e.g. rational inattention, the economics of aging, and the development of survey methods including strategic survey questions.

Thomas Epper is is Research Director at the CNRS (French National Center for Scientific Research; LEM - UMR 9221) and a Full Professor in Economics at the IÉSEG School of Management (Lille & Paris). His research interests lie within applied microeconomics, decision theory, microeconometrics, and experimental economics.

Email: thomas.epper@cnrs.fr  
Telephone:  +33 3 20 54 58 92

Ernst Fehr is professor of Economics and Director of the UBS International Center of Economics in Society at University of Zürich. His work is a combination of game theoretic tools with experimental methods and the use of insights from economics, social psychology, sociology, biology and neuroscience for a better understanding of human social behavior.

Email: ernst.fehr@econ.uzh.ch
Telephone: +41 44 634 37 09

Henrik Kleven is professor of Economics at Princeton University. Kleven's research combines empirical evidence and economic theory to show ways of designing more effective government policies. His work on tax and transfer policy has had policy impact in both developed and developing countries.

Email: Kleven@princeton.edu
Telephone: +1 609-986-6890

José Luis-Peydró is ICREA Professor of Economics, University of Pompeu Fabra

Email: jose.peydro@upf.edu
Telephone: +34 93 542 1756

Sonja Settele is Associate professor at the University of Cologne. Her research interests lie in health economics, behavioral economics and political economy. 

E-mail: Sonja.settele@econ.ku.dk
Telephone: +45 35 33 21 72

Stefanie Stantcheva is the Nathaniel Ropes Professor of Political Economy at Harvard University and founder of the Social Economics Lab. She studies the taxation of firms and individuals, as well as how people understand, perceive, and form their attitudes towards public policies. Her work is centered around the long-lasting effects of tax policy – on innovation, education, and wealth.

E-mail: sstantcheva@fas.harvard.edu 

Johannes Wohlfart is an Associate professor at the  University of Cologne. His research interests lie in household finance, behavioral economics and macroeconomics. In particular, his research focuses on the formation of beliefs and expectations and their role in shaping people's economic behavior. 

E-mail: Johannes.wohlfart@econ.ku.dk
Telephone: +45 35 33 20 61

Gabriel Zucman is the Director of the James M. and Cathleen D. Stone Center on Wealth and Income Inequality at the University of California at Berkeley. His research focuses on the accumulation, distribution, and taxation of global wealth and analyzes the macro-distributional implications of globalization.

E-mail: zucman@berkeley.edu 

Anne Ardila Brenøe is Assistant Professor at University of Zurich. Her research is within applied microeconomics with focus on education and labor economics. In particular, she is interested in how childhood conditions and experiences affect human capital development.

E-mail: anne.brenoe@econ.uzh.ch

Pol Campos-Mercade is a Assistant professor at Lund University.  He is an applied microeconomist who uses field experiments, lab experiments, and theory to investigate issues related to education and behavioral economics.

E-mail: pol.campos@nek.lu.se 

Miriam Gensowski is Senior Researcher at the Rockwool Foundation. She is IZA Research Affiliate, and part of the HCEO network. She is interested in the role of human capital, including socio-emotional skills, in explaining inequality in educational and labor market outcomes.

Email: mig@rff..dk 

David Dreyer Lassen is Professor of economics. He works on political economy and social data science. He is a member of the Danish Social Science Research Council and was the 2016 recipient of the Elite Researcher Prize from the Danish Ministry of Research and Education.

Email:david.dreyer.lassen@econ.ku.dk

Frederik Plesner Lyngse is assistant professor at Department of Public Health, (Section of Epidemiology, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences) at the University of Copenhagen. His research uses administrative data to study health economic questions within industrial organization, provider and patient behavior, and the labor market for physicians.

E-mail: frederik.lyngse@sund.ku.dk 

Esteban Garcia Miralles is Economist at the research department at the Bank of Spain. His research interest lies within labor and public economics. His research explores topics on economics of ageing, household finance, and program evaluation.

E-mail: esteban.garcia.miralles@bdr.es 

Patrick Moran is Economist at the Federal Reserve Board, USA and external lecturer  at the Department of Economics, University of Copenhagen. He is also a visiting scholar at the Institute for Fiscal Studies. His research lies at the intersection of macroeconomics, applied microeconomics, and public economics, with a particular emphasis on household financial decisions related to consumption, saving, and borrowing.

 E-mail: patrick.moran@econ.ku.dk

Marco Piovesan is Professor of Economics at University of Verona. His research combines lab and field experiments to study social, time and risk preferences in adults and children.

Email: marco.piovesan@univr.it

Benjamin Ly Serena is Assistant professor at the Department of Economics, Copenhagen Business School. His research interests include Public Economics, Health Economics, Health Inequality, and Mental Health Policy.

Email: bse@eco@cbs.dk 

Cortnie Shupe is Economist in the Office of Research at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau in Washington, DC. Her research focuses on empirical labor, public and health economics. In particular, she is interested in how public policies shape opportunities, incentives and economic choices at the individual and household level. 

E-mail: cas@econ.ku.dk

Gianluca Violante is is a professor of economics at Princeton University whose research interests span macroeconomics, labor economics, and public finance. He received the 2019 Central Banking Prize for Economics in Central Banking for his work on HANK models.

E-mail: violante@princeton.edu 

Tianyi Wang is assistant professor at the University of Toronto. His primary research fields are health economics, political economy, and economic history, where he has explored how technological innovations affect health and the labor market, as well as the political impacts of the media.

E-mail: tianyiwang@utoronto.ca 

Helene Willadsen is a Postdoc at the Copenhagen Center for Social Data Science and at the Department of Economics, University of Copenhagen. She works on the interdisciplinary project DISTRACT - the Political Economy of Distraction in Digitized Denmark.

E-mail:

Sarah Zaccagni is assistant professor at the Aarhus University. Her research lies within Health Economics and Behavioral Economics, with a particular focus on individual preferences, behaviors and choices.

E-mail: Sarah.zaccagni@econ.au.dk

CEBI Administrator is Tine Greir Ceccardi. She has several years of experience from the departmental administration. She has collaborated closely with the CEBI management on administrative tasks related to the Economic Policy Research Network (EPRN/ EPRU) and Laboratory for Experimental Economics (CEE).

Email: tine.ceccardi@econ.ku.dk
Telephone: +45 35 32 30 02

Pernille Bang is data manager at CEBI and Department of Economics. She advices on data options and bridges the collaboration with Research Services at Statistics Denmark.

Email: Pernille.Bang@econ.ku.dk

Telephone: +45 35 33 72 95

Aleksandra Bobusic, student assistant (datamanagement)
E-mail: albo@econ.ku.dk

Frederikke Veggerby Andersen
E-mail: zxp311@econ.ku.dk  

Andreas Mackeprang Keldke
E-mail: xlp205@econ.ku.dk 

Martin Andreas Kildemark
E-mail: wrc938@econ.ku.dk 

Viktor Skjold Lindegaard
E-mail: gdl636@econ.ku.dk 

Viktoria Pal
E-mail: vp@math.ku.dk 

Jonathan Wenzel Pedersen
E-mail: jwp@econ.ku.dk 

Jørgen Baun Høst
E-mail: pjz633@econ.ku.dk 

Carl Benjamin Simpson
E-mail: cbs@econ.ku.dk 

Malthe Hauschildt Veje
E-mail: malthehv@econ.ku.dk 

Kristian Veng-Olsen
E-mail: bmv840@econ.ku.dk

Astrid Louise Waltenburg
E-mail: astridlw@econ.ku.dk