Anel Abdykarimova
Research Assistant
Anel Abdykarimova is a Barnard sophomore studying economics and psychology. She is interested in the effects of cognitive bias in decision making and their outcomes in the real world. She won a bronze medal in the first International Economics Olympiad in 2019. Anel is looking forward to working with an amazing team in the Unintended Consequences Lab.
Pietro Battiston
Co-Director
Pietro Battiston is an assistant professor of Economics at University of Parma, Italy. His main research interests are experimental economics, economic networks analysis and tax compliance. Previously, Pietro was a researcher at University of Milan Bicocca, where he obtained his PhD in Economics in 2014, and at Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies (Pisa). His research has been published on the Scandinavian Journal of Economics and on the Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, among others. Pietro is also a passionate Python programmer, an Open Source enthusiast, and a core developer of pandas, the reference Python library for data manipulation. See https://pietrobattiston.it for more info.
Lorán Chollete
Co-Director
Lorán Chollete is an Associate Professor of Finance at the Jack Welch College of Business and Technology. Previously, he taught at University of St Andrews in the UK, and before that at the University of Stavanger Business School in Norway. Chollete’s research concentrates on financial markets, decisionmaking under uncertainty and CEO compensation. He also has an interest in Latin American Economics. His research is funded by several grants from the Research Council of Norway. His work has been published in the Journal of Financial Econometrics, Journal of Financial Stability, Journal of Banking and Finance, and Journal of Financial Markets. For further details, see www.loranchollete.com
Jeffrey Guo
Research Assistant
Jeffrey Guo is a PhD student in the Columbia Economics department. His research interests lie at the intersection of behavioral economics and political economy; broadly speaking, he is interested in how human behavior may differ from what is ostensibly rational, and how those deviations may materialize in political systems. Guo received his BA in Economics from Yale in 2016.
Sharon Harrison
Co-Director
Sharon Harrison is Professor of Economics at Barnard College. Her early research focused on general equilibrium models of the business cycle in which the equilibrium is indeterminate, and fluctuations are driven by sunspot shocks. That is, shocks that are extrinsic to the economy. These are most easily thought of as self-fulfilling expectations on the parts of agents. More recently, she has begun to think about the behavioral aspects of these self-fulfilling expectations, seeking evidence for them by carrying out experiments in the lab. Experimental work is now another main focus of her research, including experiments about the unintended consequences of policies. Learn more at https://barnard.edu/profiles/sharon-harrison.
