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I am an Associate Professor at Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School University College Dublin

Research Associate at the Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis (CAMA) in the Model Uncertainty and Macro-Econometrics Program

Academic Director of Master in Quantitative Finance at University College Dublin (overview video)

Editorial Board Member of Forecasting

Associate Editor of the International Journal of Finance and Economics

Associate Editor of the European Journal of Finance

Special Issue Editor "New Frontiers in Forecasting the Business Cycle and Financial Markets" (The editorial article)

Editor of the Special Issue of Digital Finance (The editorial article

CA🚨  Co-organizer with Marco Brianti  and Mariarosaria Comunale of the Applied Econometrics for Macroeconomics Workshop

   🚨 I am among the recipients of Best Paper on Gender, Diversity, & Entrepreneurship Kauffman Award 2022 of the Annual Academy of Management Conference


My research interests include Econometrics, Applied Econometrics, Classical and Bayesian Econometrics, Time-Series Analysis, Forecasting, Macroeconomics, Applied Macroeconomics, Monetary Policy, DSGE Modeling, and Applied Finance.


🤩 TEACHING NEWS: 

Glad and honored to be selected as one of the University College Dublin College of Business Teaching Award for 2019/2020!!!! (December 2020)

Professional Diploma University Teaching &Learning (June 2021)


🚨See my Chapter Teaching Courses Online: Practical Implications from an International University Teachers’ Survey  published in the book Synchronous and Asynchronous Approaches to Teaching - Higher Education Lessons in Post-Pandemic Times, edited by Payal Kumar and Jacob Eisenberg for Palgrave MacMillan.



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You can find my CV and detailed information about my research and teaching experience in the corresponding sections.

     

Recent/Upcoming Events

December 16-18 2023: Invited Speaker at the CFE2023, HTW Berlin, University of Applied Science

November 23 - 24 2023: Keynote Speaker at the 16th UNITO-Collegio Carlo Alberto PhD Workshop in Economics

August 28 - September 1: Invited Speaker at the EEA-ESEM at the Barcelona School of Economics

July 3 - 6  2023: Invited Speaker at th 29th International Conference Computing in Economics and Finance at the Université Côte d'Azur

June 29 - 30 2023: Invited Speaker at the 4th Financial Economics Meeting at the EDC Paris Business School

May 26 - 28 2023: Invited Speaker at the Tenth Italian  Congress of Econometrics and Empirical Economics at the University of Cagliari 

April 11 2023: Invited Speaker at the Webinar in Gender and Family Economics

March 28 2023: Invited Speaker at the International Monetary Fund, Research

March 16 - 17 2023: Invited Speaker at the SNDE 2023 at the Central Florida University

January 9 2023: Invited Speaker at the SGH Warsaw School of Economics in the Econometrics seminar series

January 2023: Visiting Professor at the SGH Warsaw School of Economics in the PhD course of Macroeconometrics and Time Series

17-19 December 2022: Invited Speaker at the CFE2022

15 - 16 September 2022: Invited Speaker at the BWES 2022 at University of Bergamo

22 - 26 August 2022: Invited Speaker at the EEA-ESEM 2022 at Bocconi University

21 - 24 June 2022: Invited Speaker at the IAAE 2022 at King's College London

16 - 17 May 2022: Invited Speaker at the Diversity challenges and opportunities in FinTech

7 April 2022: Invited Speaker at the Unibz Blockchain Evening (SLIDES)

10 - 11 March, 2022: Invited Speaker at the virtual SNDE 2022

20 January, 2022: Invited Speaker at the Virtual Seminar at Durham University - Business School

18 - 20 December 2021: Invited Speaker at the CFE 2021

15 - 16 October 2021: Invited Speaker at NBER-NSF Time Series Conference 2021

27 - 30 September 2021: Invited Speaker at MATLAB Computational Finance Conference 2021

17 - 18 September, 2021: Invited Speaker at Workshop on Large Data, Econometrics, and Forecasting

6 - 7 August 2021 : Invited Speaker at NBER-NSF SBIES Conference 2021

1 July 2021: Invited Speaker at the Society of Economic Dynamics 2021

26 June 2021: Invited Speaker at the Armernian Economic Association Annual Meeting 2021

22 June 2021: Invited Speaker at the IAAE 2021

16 June 2021: Invited Speaker at the CEF 2021

14 June 2021: Seminar at the Ca' Foscari University of Venice

10 - 13 June 2021: Invited Speaker at 2021 North American Summer Meeting of the Econometrics Society

11 June 2021: Invited Speaker at UCD College of Business Research Symposium 2021

9 - 10 June 2021: Invited Speaker at V International Seminar on Statistics with R

20 May 2021: Seminar at Central Bank of Ireland

13 May 2021: Seminar at Bank of Greece Research Seminar Series

6 - 7 May 2021: Invited Speaker at  Irish Economic Association

8 - 9 April 2021: Invited Speaker at  Applied Time Series FED St Louis

17 February 2021: Invite Guest Professor Pomona College, US

21 - 23 January 2021: Invited Speaker at ICEEE 2021, Cagliari

19 - 21 December 2020: Invited Speaker & Session Organizer at CFE 2020, London

5 - 6 December 2020: Invited Speaker at the EURAM 2020

29 - 30 October 2020: Invited Speaker at the 2nd Vienna Workshop on Economic Forecasting 2020

30 September 2020: Invited Speaker at the Lisbon Macro Workshop

24 - 25 September 2020: Invited presentation Society for Nonlinear Dynamics and Econometrics Virtual Symposium

4 September 2020: Seminar at Central Bank of Lithuania

24 - 28 August 2020: Invited presentation at Virtual European Economics Congress 

14 May 2020: Seminar at Higher School of Economics, Moscow

13 March 2020: Seminar at Maynooth University

5 February 2020: Seminar at Cardiff Business School

23 - 24 January 2020: Invited presentation at 2nd Italian Workshop of Econometrics and Empirical Economics: “Time Series Models: Theory and Applications”, Ca' Foscari, Venice