Hi! I am a PhD candidate in Economics at CERGE-EI, a joint workplace of Charles University and the Economics Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences. My supervisors are Marek Kapička and Ctirad Slavik.

My research lies at the intersection of household finance and macroeconomics. I use microdata and quantitative models to study how financial constraints and behavioral frictions shape consumption and household balance sheets over the life cycle and use these models to evaluate policy counterfactuals. 

I have been a visiting student at the University of Copenhagen and the University of Chicago in 2025, and BI Norwegian Business School in 2026. 

I'm on the 2026/2027 job market!

My CV is linked here.

Contact: ilisa.goenka[at]cerge-ei.cz