Martin Simmler is a Research Fellow at the Oxford University Centre for Business Taxation. His research interest is in applied public economics, in particular the impact of taxation and public good provision on firm behaviour. Martin holds a PhD from the Free University Berlin.  Before starting his PhD, he worked as a tax policy consultant. Martin has written several policy reports and his work has been published in the Journal of Public Economics, Canadian Journal of Economics and Research Policy among others.

Debora Revoltella is Director of the Economics Department of the European Investment Bank, serving as Chief Economist. Since her arrival at the EIB in 2011, Debora Revoltella has designed and led the work for flagship publications such as the EIB Investment Report. She launched the idea and led the process for the design and implementation of the EIB Investment Survey, a new survey covering 12,500 European firms which has become a unique asset in terms of understanding investment dynamics in Europe.

Claudia Sahm is founder of Stay-at-Home Macro (SAHM) Consulting. She is a regular opinion writer at Bloomberg. She has policy and research expertise on consumer spending, fiscal stimulus, and the financial well-being of households. She is the author of the “Sahm Rule,” a reliable early signal of recessions that she developed as a way to automatically trigger stimulus payments to individuals in a recession.

Marita Laukkanen is chief researcher and research leader at the VATT Institute for Economic Research and adjunct professor of economics at the University of Helsinki. She holds a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley and has international work experience from the Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei research centre in Italy, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Toulouse School of Economics. In 2016-2019 Marita was a member of the Finnish Climate Change Panel. Marita’s research field includes environmental and energy matters.

Antonia Díaz is a full Professor of Economics at the Carlos III University of Madrid. She holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Minnesota. Her research covers topics related to wealth and income distribution with a special focus on housing. She is also interested in growth and misallocation, as well as in the sustainability of energy, innovation, and growth.

Ted Loch-Temzelides, Ph.D., is the George and Cynthia Mitchell Professor in Sustainable Development at the Department of Economics and a James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy Center for Energy Studies Scholar at Rice University. He has taught and given keynote and research seminars at numerous universities and conferences around the world. He has worked and consulted for several institutions, including the Central Bank of Portugal, the European Central Bank, the Federal Reserve, the International Monetary Fund, and the World Bank.

Klaus Weyerstrass is Senior Researcher at the Institute for Advanced Studies (IHS), Vienna, Austria, in the research group “Macroeconomics and Business Cycles”. He obtained his Master’s degree in economics from the University of Osnabrück (Ger-many), and his PhD as well as the venia docendi (“Habilitation”) from the University of Klagenfurt (Austria). His main research interests are business cycle analysis and forecasting, productivity analyses, fiscal policy, European economic integration, and macroeconometric modelling.

Beau Soederhuizen is an Economist at CPB Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis, a think-tank of the Dutch government, and a lecturer at Nyenrode Business University. He holds a PhD in macroeconomics from Nyenrode Business University in 2018. In his dissertation, he investigated the implications of monetary- and macroeconomic policies in a monetary union and fiscal multipliers at the zero lower bound.

Lisa Windsteiger has been a Senior Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Tax Law and Public Finance in Munich since 2017. Her research interests lie in the fields of Public Economics and Political Economy, as well as Behavioral Economics. In particular, she has worked on (perceptions of) inequality, socio-economic segregation and demand for redistribution, often using survey experiments in her research.

Dirk Foremny is an Associate Professor at the UB School of Economics at the University of Barcelona and he is affiliated with the Institut d'Economia de Barcelona (I.E.B.) and the CESifo in Munich. Mr Foremny works in the area of Public Economics, with a focus on applied research in Public Finance. He currently studies the effects of taxation on (internal) migration, tax evasion and income shifting, fiscal capacity of governments, and what shapes preferences for redistribution.