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About > Fellowship Awardees Fellowship Awardees
Juliane Begenau
(January 2013 Awardee)
Ph.D. Candidate in Economics
Stanford University
Juliane Begenau is a Ph.D. Candidate in Economics at Stanford University. Before joining the Ph.D. program at the Economics Department of Stanford she completed her undergraduate studies at Humboldt-University of Berlin, Germany.
Her research agenda is centered at the intersection of Macroeconomics and Finance. In particular, she is interested in building dynamic stochastic general equilibrium models in order to assess the quantitative effects of financial regulation on the economy. Her other projects include the measurement of banks’ risk exposure (joint with Martin Schneider and Monika Piazzesi) and the relationship between firm financing and the business cycle (joint with Juliana Salomao).
Juliane was awarded the 2012/13 Kohlhagen Fellowship by the Kohlhagen Fellowship Fund endowed by Steve and Gale Kohlhagen through a grant to the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research.
Luigi Bocola
(January 2013 Awardee)
Ph.D. Candidate in Economics
University of Pennsylvania
Luigi Bocola is a Ph.D. candidate in Economics at the University of Pennsylvania. His research interests focus on empirical macroeconomics and on the linkages between macroeconomics and the financial sector.
His current research projects are related to the measurement of sovereign default risk and to the study of its consequences on financial intermediation and on aggregate economic activity. A second portion of his research focuses on the development of tools for the empirical evaluation of nonlinear macroeconomic models.
He was awarded the "Albert Ando and Franco Modigliani" scholarship by the Bank of Italy in 2008, the 2012 "Dean Scholar" award by the University of Pennsylvania and the 2012 "Hiram Haney Fellowship" for best third year research paper at the Economics Department of the University of Pennsylvania.
Currently Luigi is a research assistant at the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia. Prior to joining the Ph.D. at the University of Pennsylvania, Luigi earned his Bachelor Degree in International Studies and a graduate degree in Economics at the University of Turin.
Ji Huang
(January 2013 Awardee)
Ph.D. Candidate in Economics
Princeton University
Ji Huang is a Ph.D. candidate in the Economics Department at Princeton University.
His current research focuses on shadow banking, including its pro-cyclicality, its interaction with traditional banking, and its implications for financial instability and government intervention.
Prior to attending Princeton University, Ji obtained his bachelor’s degree from Southwestern University of Finance and Economics at Chengdu and his master’s degree from Nankai University at Tianjin.
Andrea Prestipino
(January 2013 Awardee)
Ph.D. Candidate in Economics
New York University
Andrea Prestipino is a Ph.D. candidate in the Economics department of New York University.
His research interests include financial frictions, contract theory, and information economics. He completed his Bachelor's and M.Sc. degrees at Bocconi University with a thesis on epistemic game theory.
His current research project aims at developing a framework for studying the effects of systemic risk on the macroeconomy and deriving implications for macroprudential regulation.
Roberto Robatto
(September 2012 Awardee)
Ph.D. Candidate in Economics
University of Chicago
Roberto Robatto completed his Bachelor and Masters at Bocconi University and Pompeu Fabra University before joining the PhD program at the Economics Department of the University of Chicago.
His main research interests are monetary economics and the linkages between macroeconomics and the financial system, with emphasis on theoretical analysis and on interactions with economic theory.
He was awarded the 2009 "Crivelli" scholarship by the Unicredit & Universities Foundation and the 2011 Macro Field Lee Prize by the Economics Department of the University of Chicago.
He was the co-president of the Political Economy Club in 2011-2012, managing the organization of student social activities at the Department of Economics of the University of Chicago.
Emil N. Siriwardane
(January 2013 Awardee)
Ph.D. Candidate in Finance
New York University Stern School of Business
Emil N. Siriwardane is a Ph.D. candidate at the NYU Stern School of Business finance department under Professor Robert Engle. His research interests primarily focus on systemic risk in financial markets, financial intermediation, disaster risk in finance, and volatility econometrics.
His recent projects are related to the measurement and asset pricing implications of disaster risk, as well as leverage and volatility cycles. Another portion of his research agenda investigates whether the organization of credit default swap markets has broader effects on the macroeconomy.
Emil is a research aide for the Office of Financial Research at the U.S. Department of Treasury in Washington, DC. Earlier in his Ph.D. program, Emil received the David M. Graifman Memorial award, which recognizes the best second year research paper in the Stern Finance department. Prior to his Ph.D. work at Stern, Emil earned his B.S.E. in Operations Research and Financial Engineering from Princeton University, graduating magna cum laude.
Daan Struyven
(January 2013 Awardee)
Ph.D. Student in Economics
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Daan Struyven is a third year PhD student at the Department of Economics of MIT. His research interests cover macro-financial institutions and household finance using micro-data.
Currently Daan is pursuing projects on the corporate debt tax bias, central bank collateral policy and mortgage modifications.
Before joining the PhD program at MIT, Daan worked as an economic consultant for the World Bank and on a banking acquisition in the Benelux.
As an undergraduate he studied Business Engineering and Political Sciences at the Université Libre de Bruxelles.
Amy Y. Zhou
(September 2012 Awardee) 
Ph.D. Candidate in Finance
MIT Sloan School of Management
Amy Y. Zhou is a PhD student at the MIT Sloan finance group. Her research interests include systemic risk, currency carry trades, and liquidity.
Her recent projects focus on conducting an empirical comparison among systemic risk measures, and generating early-warning signals for major US/international financial crises.
Amy received her bachelor's degrees in Physics and Electrical Engineering from Caltech, and is also a published author in quantum physics. She has worked at IMF’s Strategy, Policy, and Review Department in Washington DC, and JPMorgan's Proprietary Positioning Business and Fixed Income Strategies in New York. Earlier this year she received MIT's Graduate Teaching Award and Sloan's Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award.
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