Josefina’s research interests lie at the intersection of macroeconomics, finance, and behavioral economics. Using insights from behavioral economics, she explores the impact of personal economic experiences on individuals’ beliefs about the macroeconomy, the underlying mechanisms, and the resulting economic and financial consequences, employing a combination of theory and empirical methods. Her research has been published in the Journal of Monetary Economics. She is a former la Caixa Foundation Fellow and a current UniCredit Foundation Fellow. Josefina received her PhD in Economics from Pompeu Fabra and was a visiting PhD student at Bocconi.

Martin studies the financial and legal institutions of corporate financing and their broader economic ramifications. His research was published in the Review of Financial Studies, the NBER Macroeconomics Annual, was covered by the Economist, leading German news outlets and received the Best Paper Award of the EFA Doctoral Tutorial in 2023. Martin was a visiting PhD student at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and will be visiting Columbia Business School in spring 2025. He is fellow at the Macro-Finance and Macro-History Lab at the Kiel Institute for the World Economy.

Marco is an economist working at the intersection of industrial organization and financial economics. In his research, he uses structural methodologies from the empirical industrial organization literature to assess the well-functioning of financial markets, to identify preferences and technology primitives that rationalize observed market outcomes, and to determine whether policy corrects or exacerbates market inefficiencies.­ Marco received his PhD in Economics from the University of Chicago in 2024.