Field of research: Political Economy
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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.
Liam Wren-Lewis
Liam is an Assistant Professor at the Paris School of Economics and INRA. He holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Oxford. He was an Overseas Development Institute Fellow, employed as anEconomist in the Ministry of Finance and Development Planning in Malawi. He also worked as a consultant for the Center for Global Development, Institute for Fiscal Studies, Inter-American Development Bank, Resolution Foundation, Tax Justice Network and World Bank.
Sebastian Hohmann
Sebastian completed his PhD in Economics at London Business School in 2018. The same fall, he joined SITE as an Assistant Professor.
His research interests include development, political economy and trade.
Michel Serafinelli
Michel Serafinelli is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Essex and holds a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley. Previous to Essex, he was at the University of Toronto.
His primary research fields are Labor Economics, Urban and Regional Economics, Political Economy, and Productivity and Technology.
Pamela Campa
Pamela is Associate Professor of Economics at SITE – Stockholm School of Economics. Before joining SITE she was an Assistant Professor at University of Calgary. Pamela holds a PhD in Economics from the Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES) at Stockholm University. She is also a Research Affiliate at CEPR (Labor, Public and Political Economy), the Mistra Center for Sustainable Markets (MISUM), and the Dondena Gender Initiative, and an invited researcher at J-PAL Europe.
(Last updated November 2025)
Scott Gehlbach
Scott Gehlbach is Professor of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. A political economist and comparativst, Gehlbach’s work is motivated by the contemporary and historical experience of Russia and other post-communist states.
Gehlbach has at various times been affiliated with both the New Economic School and the Higher School of Economics in Moscow. He received his Ph.D. in political science and economics from the University of California, Berkeley.
Vincenzo Bove
Vincenzo Bove is an Associate Professor at the Department of Politics and International Studies, University of Warwick, and a member of the Warwick Q-Step Centre. He received his Ph.D. in Economics from Birkbeck College, University of London in 2011. Bove has held teaching and research appointments at the University of Essex, the University of Genoa, IMT Lucca and Sciences Po, Paris.
Nicolas Gavoille
Nicolas Gavoille is an Associate Professor at the Stockholm School of Economics in Riga and a Research Fellow at BICEPS. He holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Rennes 1, France. He is Treasurer of the Baltic Economic Association and a member of the European Economic Association.
Nicolas’ main research interests are in the field of public economics, labour economics, and political economy. He has published articles in journals such as the European Economic Review, the European Journal of Political Economy and the IMF Economic Review.
(Last updated October 2022)
Tom Coupe
Tom Coupé is Associate Professor at Kyiv School of Economics. He obtained his Ph.D. from the Free University of Brussels (ULB) in 2002. Besides writing academic articles, Coupé regularly writes columns for newspapers and magazines and has done consultancy work for the European Economic Association, Routledge, UNESCO and the World Bank.