The Barcelona Institute of Economics (IEB) has four new doctorate students studying for their PhDs in economics at the University of Barcelona (UB). The new recruits are Cristina Aranzana, Elisa Muscarella, Anna Chesa and Enoch Ntsiful.
Cristina Aranzana studied a dual degree in economics and international relations at the Rey Juan Carlos University in Madrid and completed a master’s degree in development economics at the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. She has worked as a research assistant at the World Bank, the University of Alcalá de Henares and the Rey Juan Carlos University. Her topics of interest revolve around labour economics, gender, and migration. Her thesis supervisors are IEB researchers Anastasia Terskaya and Javier Vázquez Grenno.
Elisa Muscarella comes from the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan, where she studied a master’s degree in economics. She previously graduated in economics from the same university, and she has since worked as a research assistant at Bocconi University in Milan. Her areas of interest are political economy, public economy, gender economics and labour economics. Her thesis supervisors are IEB researchers Daniel Montolio and Matteo Gamalerio.
Anna Chesa studied economics at the University of Valencia and completed a master’s degree in economics and finance at the Centre for Monetary and Financial Studies (CEMFI). She has worked as a research assistant at the Bank of Spain. Her research topics are in the field of gender economics, the economics of education and labour economics, and her thesis supervisors are IEB researcher Judit Vall and IEA-CSIC researcher Lidia Farré.
Enoch Ntsiful studied economics at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Kumasi, Ghana and completed a master’s degree in quantitative economics at the University of Alicante. His research focuses on energy, environmental and health economics with special emphasis on food nutrition, climate change and the development of sustainable refrigeration solutions for vulnerable communities. His thesis supervisors are IEB researcher François Cohen and UB professor Jordi Teixidó.
