1. Public Investment and Industrial Policy: A Case for More European Union Coordination

Tuna Dökmeci is a PhD candidate in Economics at European University Institute (Italy), and a trainee at the EIB (Luxembourg). Her research focuses on industrial policy, industrial organization, and competition policy.

Atanas Kolev is Principal Advisor at the Economics Department of the EIB. He has worked on a wide range of topics related to investment and investment financing at the firm-, sector-, and economy-wide levels. He has been an organiser and contributor to the annual economics conference of the EIB on topics like economic and social cohesion, investment in the energy sector, adaptation to climate change, public investment, and infrastructure investment. Atanas Kolev is currently a coordinator, reviewer, and economics editor for the EIB Annual Investment Report. He holds an Economics PhD from Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.

Debora Revoltella has been Director of the Economics Department of the European Investment Bank since April 2011. The Department comprises thirty economists and provides economic analysis and studies to support the bank in defining its policies and strategies. Before joining the EIB, Debora worked for many years at CESEE, was head of the research department in COMIT, and later worked as Chief Economist for CESEE in UniCredit. Debora holds a PhD in Economics and has also worked as Adjunct Professor at Bocconi University. She is a member of the Steering Committees of the Vienna Initiative and CompNet, an alternate member of the Board of the Joint Vienna Institute, and a member of the boards of SUERF and the Euro 50 Group.

Jochen Schantz is Senior Economist at the European Investment Bank. After completing a PhD in game theory at the European University Institute, he worked at Lehman Brothers, the Bank of England, and the Bank for International Settlements on monetary and financial stability. At the European Investment Bank, he focuses on public investment and human capital.

Annamaria Tueske is an Economist at the Economics Department of the EIB. Her current work focuses on public investment, climate and energy economics and sustainable finance. Prior to joining the EIB, Annamaria worked at the University of Luxembourg, at the OECD and at the Fiscal Council of Hungary. Her academic training focused on industrial organization, networks, and transport economics, she graduated from the Toulouse School of Economics.

Wouter Van Der Wielen is an Economist in the Economics Department of the European Investment Bank (EIB). He is responsible for impact studies of public and private sector policy support schemes and contributes macroeconomic analyses to the EIB’s f lagship publications, such as the EIB Investment Report. Prior to joining the EIB, he worked as an economic analyst at the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre, where he was principally responsible for the research developing macro-fiscal models accounting for output and employment effects of fiscal reforms. His main areas of expertise are macroeconomics, fiscal policy and labour economics. He holds a PhD in Economics as well as an MSc of Advanced Studies in Economics from KU Leuven.