Field of research: Behavioral Economics
Monica Pompeo
Monika Pompeo is an Assistant Professor at the Kyiv School of Economics. She received her PhD in Behavioural Economics in 2022 from the University of Nottingham, where she was part of the CeDEx research group.
Her research focuses on behavioural and experimental economics, with particular interests in nudges and policy-based interventions. She has conducted online, field, and lab experiments on topics including gender effects, childhood traits, and corruption. Her publications include “Choosing Competition on Behalf of Others” published in Management Science.
Daniel Spiro
Daniel Spiro is an Associate Professor in economics at Uppsala University, Sweden. His work sits at the intersection of environmental and resource economics, behavioral economics, political economics, and development, with a strong focus on how policy shapes real-world environmental and geopolitical outcomes.
His recent research includes working papers on firm ownership and pollution, integrated assessment of biodiversity and agriculture, and the geopolitical externalities of climate policy. Across these projects, he combines economic modeling with policy analysis to understand incentives, distributional effects, and strategic interactions in climate and resource decisions.
Daniel Spiro also contributes actively to public debate and applied policy work. Recent outputs address Western oil sanctions on Russia, nuclear power subsidies under new economic and geopolitical conditions, and the security benefits of climate policy. Through teaching and widely shared pedagogical materials, he brings complex topics, such as energy markets, growth, inequality, and “energy war” dynamics, into the classroom and public discussion.
(Last updated November 2025)
Ellam Kulati
Ellam is a Ph.D. researcher at CenEA and a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Warsaw. He holds a MA in Economics from the University of Warsaw, and a Bachelor’s in Economics from the University of Nairobi. His research interests include the economics of ageing, household, labour and behavioural economics.
Elene Seturidze
Elene Seturidze is a Senior Researcher at the Agricultural and Rural Policy Research Center at the ISET Policy Institute. She completed her Master’s degree in Economics at the International School of Economics at Tbilisi State University (ISET) and holds a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University (TSU).
During her undergraduate studies, she interned at the Ministry of Economy and Sustainable Development of Georgia in the department of foreign trade. While pursuing her Master’s degree, she served as a student expert at the National Center for Educational Quality Enhancement, participating in accreditation processes. In 2019, Elene undertook an internship at the ISET-PI Governance and Social Policy Research Center, and in 2020, she worked as a research assistant for a project at Colliers International.
[Last updated March 2024]
Colin R. Kuehnhanss
Colin Kuehnhanss is Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of Applied Economics of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) and PhD-Fellow of the Research Foundation Flanders (FWO). Colin holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the VUB and recently spent a six-month research visit at the SSE Riga.
His research is related to political economy, public choice, and behavioural economics, and his research has appeared in, e.g., European Journal of Political Economy, Journal of Common Market Studies, Journal of Economic Psychology, and Public Administration.
Elena Nikishina
Elena Nikishina is a research fellow at the Centre for the Study of Cultural Diversity and Economic Development of the Moscow State University. She received her master’s degree in Economics and candidate of economic sciences degree at the Moscow State University.
Lasha Lanchava
Lasha Lanchava received a Ph.D. degree from the Center for Economic Research and Graduate Education-Economics Institute (CERGE-EI). He has worked as a Research Fellow at the International School of Economics – Tbilisi State University Policy Institute (ISET-PI).
Lasha Lanchava holds expertise in an introductory and advanced level economics and math concepts. In his research, Lasha takes an interdisciplinary approach that bridges insights from behavioral economics, evolutionary, cultural and social psychology, law and economics and evolutionary biology and uses the techniques of experimental economics, to understand observed heterogeneity in economic preferences.
*Last updated April 2021