In this page you can find information regarding my research interests, publications, personal background, and other things that I enjoy when I am not doing Economics. Currently, I am an Associate Professor at the Department of Economics at the Monash University. My main research interests are: * Understanding the relationships between monetary policy, financial sector behavior and macroeconomic performance * Assessing how volatility affects optimal monetary policy * Applying dynamical systems to economics * Search theory * Aspects of health that incorporates elements from family and health economics into a macroeconomic framework |