Dr. Sudipta Sarangi
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Sudipta Sarangi is Professor and Head of the Department of Economics at Virginia Tech. Previously, he has been Distinguished Professor at Louisiana State University and Program Director at the National Science Foundation. His research interests range from network theory, experimental and behavioral economics, to development economics. He is a research associate at the University of Lyon-St. Etienne and the Lima School of Economics, a consultant to organizations such as the World Bank and FAO, and serves on the editorial boards of several journals. His book “The Economics of Small Things”, which explains economics using everyday phenomena, was recently launched. He has also recently co-edited the book “The Political Economy of Corruption: Emerging Issues”. His research has been published in The Review of Economic and Statistics, The Journal of Development Economics, The Journal of Economic Theory, among others. |
Dr. Saki Bigio
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Saki Bigio is an Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at UCLA. Prior to joining UCLA, he was an Assistant Professor at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Business. Dr. Bigio has held Visiting Research Fellow positions at Princeton University and the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco. He received his Ph.D. in Economics from NYU. Dr. Bigio’s research agenda aims to understand how financial architectures and their imperfections impact macroeconomic performance, with the goal of providing insights on how economic policy can take advantage of these imperfections to improve outcomes. His research has been published in Econometrica, The American Economic Review, The Quarterly Journal of Economics, among others. |
