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Atanas Pekanov

  • Ex-Deputy Prime Minister, Bulgaria

Atanas Pekanov is a macroeconomist, based in Vienna, and working at the Vienna Institute of Economic Research (WIFO) with a focus on monetary and fiscal policy and the EMU. He is also a PhD student at the Vienna University of Business and Economics (WU Wien) with a main focus on distributional macroeconomics, open economy macro and HANK models. Most recently, he served in the Bulgarian caretaker government as Deputy Prime Minister for EU Funds Management.

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Young Scholars Initiative Early Career Days, Second Session

Event Conference | Mar 11–12, 2022

As young scholars we are confronted with many challenges: publishing, teaching, the job market, work-life balance and institutional barriers, often we face these demands alone and without much institutional or even moral support.