I am currently an Associate Professor of Economics at Middle Tennessee State University (MTSU), where I am also an affiliated faculty of the Political Economy Research Institute (PERI). I earned my Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2016 and then became a visiting assistant professor at Vanderbilt University, before joining MTSU in 2017. I regularly join Puey Ungphakorn Institute for Economic Research and Chulalongkorn University as visiting fellow.

My research interests include international trade, optimal tariffs/taxation, the WTO, trade agreements, behavioral agents, Asian economies, Thailand's military coups, and search models.

Shrijata Chattopadhyay is an Assistant Professor (Finance) in the School of Management at Binghamton University, SUNY. She holds a Ph.D. in Finance from Purdue University in 2023. Shrijata’s research focuses on Corporate Finance with particular interest in Private Equity, Venture Capital, Entrepreneurial Finance, and Corporate political activism. Her work aims to study the role that private markets play in allocation of capital. Shrijata is passionate about mentoring students, especially in economics and finance with quantitative skills. She has mentored undergraduate and master’s students at Binghamton University. She believes that access to guidance from a diverse network of mentors is essential to academic success.

Dixit Poudel is a Postdoctoral Scientist in International Economics at the University of Georgia (starting August) and an Economist at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). His research focuses on international trade, development, and applied econometrics, using quasi-experimental, experimental, and causal inference methods to examine trade and development issues in the U.S. and Asia. At FAO, he contributes to research and policy work on agriculture, climate, and food-nutrition systems across multiple UN member countries, and co-organizes the Junior Economist Research Club.

He has received several prestigious fellowships, including the Pacific Trade and Development Fellowship, IMF Youth Fellowship, Adam Smith Fellowship at George Mason University, and recognition from the Association for International Agriculture and Rural Development (AIARD). His work has been presented at leading forums, including the annual meetings of the American Economic Association (AEA), the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association (AAEA), and seminars at FAO. He holds both an M.S. and Ph.D. in Applied Economics from the University of Georgia in the United States.

Sophie Mitra is professor of economics at Fordham University in New York City and founder of the Disability Data Initiative. Her research agenda has documented economic insecurity and evaluated policies that try to reduce it, in particular in relation to disability and aging. She received her doctorate in economics from Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and is a fellow of the Human Development and Capability Association, an IZA fellow and an elected member of the National Academic of Social Insurance.

I am an environmental economist working on the design and evaluation of economic policies that address market failures in the provision of environmental services, with particular emphasis on payment for ecosystem services (PES) programs, nature-based climate solutions, and environmental credit markets. My recent research examined: (i) the cost-effectiveness of payment for ecosystem services programs in mitigating flood damage, (ii) the optimal structure of payments and penalties to enhance the performance of environmental services programs, and (iii) the interaction between land conservation subsidies and environmental credit markets.

Frank Adusah-Poku is an applied micro economist whose research focuses on energy and environmental economics issues such as energy poverty, energy access, energy efficiency, climate change impacts on micro and macroeconomic outcomes, environmental pollution and evaluation of energy policy instruments. He is currently a Lecturer at the Department of Economics, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Kumasi-Ghana. He is a Research Fellow at the ENRRI-EfD Ghana. He is also Fellow of the 2022-2023 EfD Early Career Fellowship Program and a STAAARS+ Cohort 4 Fellow. He is also an Editor at the Humanities and Social Sciences Communications (Springer). He teaches Economics courses both at the graduate and undergraduate levels. He holds a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D) degree in Economics from Kobe University, Japan. He also hold a Master of Philosophy (M.Phil) degree in Economics and Bachelor of Arts (B.A) degree in Economics with Statistics, both from the University of Ghana.

Kara Reynolds is a Professor in the Department of Economics at American University. She studies the political economy of international trade policy and welfare impacts of globalization. Specific research interests include the World Trade Organization’s dispute settlement system, antidumping protection, Trade Adjustment Assistance, and the impact of globalization on innovation. Her current research project analyzes the determinants of trade policy preferences, and particularly why opposition to trade liberalization efforts seems to be growing in the United States and abroad.

Aditi Routh is an Economist in the Economic Research Department at the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City. Her research focuses on payment behavior of consumers, the financially underserved population, implications of new age financial services for consumers, and financial education. She is also studying payment system preferences of small businesses in the U.S.

Aditi joined the Bank in June 2022, after earning her Ph.D. in Consumer Economics at University of Georgia, Athens. She also holds a M.A. in Economics from University of California, Riverside, and a B.A. in Economics from Jadavpur University, India.

I am an Assistant Professor of Economics at Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, specializing in open-economy macroeconomics, international finance, and machine learning applications. I completed my PhD in Economics from Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India.

At IIT Roorkee, I teach courses on international finance, artificial intelligence, and machine learning, with a focus on their applications in economics and public policy. I am passionate about mentoring PhD students and job market candidates, supporting them in their academic and professional journeys.

For more details, visit my website: https://harivenkatesh.netlify.app/

I study macro-financial dynamics and develop computational and time-series econometric methods. My current work focuses on understanding the transmission of monetary policy, the role of commercial banks in propagating macro-financial shocks, and the shared dynamics of community banks in the U.S.