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Jakob Oberhammer
Jakob is a pre-doctoral research assistant at the Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics (SITE). He holds a master’s degree in economics from the Stockholm School of Economics and a bachelor’s degree in economics from the Vienna University of Economics and Business.
Violaine D’Ortona
Violaine is a master’s student in the Advanced Economics program at the École Normale Supérieure (ENS) de Lyon, where she also completed her bachelor’s degree. She is currently working as a research assistant at the Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics (SITE).
Violaine primary research interests lie in political economics, with a particular focus on its intersection with media.
Agnes Lubloy
Agnes Lubloy is a Professor of Accounting and Finance at the Stockholm School of Economics in Riga and a Lead Researcher at the Baltic International Centre for Economic Policy Studies (BICEPS).
Her research focuses on public health, health economics, health literacy, and sustainable finance. She has led and contributed to several cross-country research projects and published in leading international academic journals. Her recent work also examines corporate greenwashing and social washing.
(Last updated June 2026)
Mara Dzene
Mara Dzene is completing her BSc in Business and Economics at the Stockholm School of Economics in Riga, specializing in Finance and Data & AI. She has also worked as a part-time research assistant at the Baltic International Centre for Economic Policy Studies (BICEPS). Her academic interests include health economics, evidence-based public policy, and finance.
Maija Kāle
Maija Kāle is an Associated Research Fellow at the Baltic International Centre for Economic Policy Studies (BICEPS). She holds a PhD in Computer Science from University of Latvia. Her research focuses on food computing, sustainable food systems, big data, and the societal impacts of artificial intelligence.
Dariia Mykhailyshyna
Dariia Mykhailyshyna is a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Economics at Kyiv School of Economics. Her research focuses on political economy and applied microeconomics. She received her PhD in Economics from the University of Bologna in 2025.
Olle Folke
Olle Folke is a Professor of Political Science at the Department of Government at Uppsala University, and currently a full-time researcher at SITE. His research focuses on political economics and gender & politics, with a particular emphasis on gender equality in the labor market and political representation. His work has been published in leading journals across economics, political science, sociology and business administration, and he has previously taught at Columbia University and Yale University.
(Last updated March 2026)
Anastasiia Arbuzova
Anastasiia Arbuzova is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics (SITE). She holds a PhD in Economics from Boston University and an undergraduate degree from the New Economic School (NES).
Her research focuses on political economy, particularly non-democratic regimes, as well as development economics and gender.
(Last updated February 2026)
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.
Andris Saulītis
Andris Saulitis received his PhD in sociology from the European University Institute in Florence, Italy. He focuses on household financial behavior and experimental methodology. He works on both qualitative and quantitative projects to study individual behavior and how social contexts influence decision making.