Here you can download a pdf version of my CV (AncaISirbuCV)
EDUCATION:
• Ph.D.(Economics) - University of California, Riverside, September 2012
Dissertation Title: “Essays on Expectations-Driven Business Cycles”
Dissertation Committee: Jang-Ting Guo (co-chair), Richard M.H. Suen (co-chair), Richard Arnott,
Robert R. Russell
• M.A.(Economics) - University of Southern California, December 2006
• M.S.(Finance) - Doctoral School of Finance and Banking, Bucharest University of Economic Studies, July 2004
• B.S.(Finance) - Bucharest University of Economic Studies, September 2003
EMPLOYMENT:
• Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Western Washington University, September 2014-present
• Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, The College of Wooster, August 2013-August 2014
• Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, West Virginia University, August 2012-May 2013
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Macroeconomics
TEACHING INTERESTS:
• Undergraduate: Introductory Micro/Macroeconomics, Intermediate Micro/Macroeconomics, Money, Banking,and Credit, Statistics for Economists, Introductory Econometrics, Financial Economics
• Graduate: Macroeconomics
AWARDS, SCHOLARSHIPS, AND FELLOWSHIPS:
• Walter D. Foss Research Endowment, The College of Wooster 2013-2014
• Tubitak scholarship at the 20th Annual Symposium of SNDE, Istanbul, Turkey, 2012
• Southern Economic Association Graduate Student Award, 2011
• Economics Department Travel Grant, UC Riverside, 2011, 2012
• Graduate Student Association Travel Grant, UC Riverside, 2011, 2012
• Graduate Division Fellowship, UC Riverside 2007 - 2012
• Merit Fellowship, University of Southern California, 2005-2006
• Special prize, Student Scientific Communication Session, Bucharest University of Economic Studies, 2003
• 2nd prize, Student Scientific Communication Session, Bucharest University of Economic Studies, 2002
• 1st prize (max GPA for the academic year 2000-2001), Bucharest University of Economic Studies, 2001
• Merit Scholarship, Bucharest University of Economic Studies, 1999-2003
PUBLICATIONS:
• “News about Aggregate Demand and the Business Cycle, " with Jang-Ting Guo and Mark Weder, forthcoming in Journal of Monetary
Economics
• “On Expectations-Driven Business Cycles in Economies with Production Externalities: A Comment,” with Jang-Ting Guo and Richard M.H. Suen, International Journal of Economic Theory, Vol. 8, No 3, September 2012, 313-319
WORKING PAPERS:
• News About Taxes and Expectations-Driven Business Cycles
• Aggregate Demand Shocks in a Two-Sector RBC Model
TEACHING EXPERIENCE:
Instructor:
• Western Washington University
Introduction to Macroeconomics (Fall 2014, Winter 2015), Intermediate Macroeconomics (Spring 2015, scheduled)
• The College of Wooster
Principles of Economics (Fall 2013), Intermediate Macroeconomic Theory (Fall 2013, Spring 2014), Applied Regression (Spring 2014), Junior Independent Study Colloquium (Spring 2014)
• West Virginia University
Macroeconomic Theory 1, 1st year PhD (Fall 2012), Macroeconomics, MS in Finance (Fall 2012), Principles of Macroeconomics (Spring 2013), Intermediate Macroeconomic Theory (Spring 2013)
• University of California, Riverside
Money, Banking , and Credit (Summer 2011), Introduction to Macroeconomics (Summer 2010)
• Santa Monica College, Los Angeles
Principles of Macroeconomics (Spring 2007)
• Bucharest University of Economic Studies Bank Accounting (Spring 2005), International Monetary and Financial Decisions (Spring 2005)
Teaching Assistant
• University of California, Riverside, 2008-2012
Undergraduate: Introduction to Microeconomics, Introduction to Macroeconomics, Intermediate Microeconomics, Intermediate Macroeconomics, Money, Banking, and Credit
Graduate: Microeconomic Theory (1st year Ph.D.)
• Bucharest University of Economic Studies, 2003-2005
Financial and Monetary Decision Modeling, Bank Accounting
CONFERENCE/SEMINAR PRESENTATIONS AND SUMMER SCHOOLS:
• Western Washington University, February 2014
• The College of Wooster, February 2014
• Miami University of Ohio, January 2014
• 13th Society for Advancement in Economic Theory Conference, Paris, July 2013 (presenter)
• Annual Conference of the Association for Public Economic Theory, Lisbon, Portugal, July 2013 (presenter)
• 2013 Midwest Macro Meeting, Urbana - Champaign, May 2013 (presenter)
• Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania, April 2013
• Economics Seminar Series, West Virginia University, April 2013
• 18th International Conference on Computing in Economics and Finance, Prague, June 2012 (presenter)
• 20th Annual Symposium of the Society for Nonlinear Dynamics and Econometrics, Istanbul, April 2012 (presenter)
• 81st Annual Meetings of the Southern Economic Association, Washington, D.C., November 2011 (presenter)
• Economic Theory Seminar Series, University of California, Riverside, September 2011
• Econometric Society Australasian Meeting, Adelaide, July 2011 (presenter)
• 86th Annual Conference of the Western Economic Association, San Diego, June – July 2011 (presenter)
• 17th International Conference on Computing in Economics and Finance, San Francisco, June-July 2011 (presenter)
• Conference on Business Cycles: Theoretical and Empirical Advances, UC Riverside, April 2008 (attendee)
• First Economic Policy Summer School – “Reforming the Welfare State: Balancing Equity and Efficiency”,
Kiel Institute for the World Economy, Kiel, Germany, July 2007 (attendee)
STUDENT SUPERVISION:
• Logan Fitch (Business Economics major, The College of Wooster, 2014)
• Mary McClain (International Relations major, The College of Wooster, 2014)
• Ian Reid (Business Economics major, The College of Wooster, 2014)
• Usman Shabbir (Business Economics and Political Science double major, The College of Wooster, 2014)
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS:
American Economic Association
COMPUTER SKILLS:
EViews, Matlab, MS Office, Scientific WorkPlace, Stata
CITIZENSHIP/VISA STATUS:
Romanian (European Union)/H1B
LANGUAGES: Romanian (native), English (fluent), French (intermediate)