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

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

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

Executive Committee Member of the Society for Nonlinear Dynamics and Econometrics (SNDE)

Member of the UCD Earth Institute and the UCD Geary Institute for Public Policy

📊RESEARCH INTERESTS

Econometrics, Applied Econometrics, Classical and Bayesian Econometrics, Time-Series Analysis, Forecasting, Macroeconomics, Applied Macroeconomics, Monetary Policy, DSGE Modeling, Machine Learning, Big Data, and Applied Finance.

📣 NEWS

🚨 I am the Chair of the Local Organising Committee of EEA-ESEM 2026 in Dublin — see you in August!

🚨 I am a Guest Editor of the Journal of International Money and Finance, Special Issue on Climate, Weather and Geopolitical Risk, with an associated workshop at UCD on 18 November 2026, paper submissions by 1 August 2026!

🚨 My graduate textbook Macroeconometrics is out with De Gruyter (2026)!📖

🚨 I contributed to the Financial Times feature "Business school professors' picks: Geopolitics"

🚨 I have co-organized the 2nd Women in Macroeconomics Workshop at the Central Bank of Ireland

📚EDITORIAL ROLES

Associate Editor of the International Journal of Finance and Economics, Europen Journal of Finance, Digital Finance, editorial board member of Forecasting and member of the Advisory Board of the World Scientific Lecture Notes in Economics and Policy

🏆AWARDS

🏆 University College Dublin, College of Business EDI Award (2025)

🏆 STEM Champion prize at the [2024 Diversity in Tech Awards](https://diversityintechawards.online/)

🏆 Best Paper on Gender, Diversity, & Entrepreneurship Kauffman Award 2022 of the Annual Academy of Management Conference

🤩 TEACHING NEWS

Dean's List of Outstanding Teachers Award at University College Dublin, College of Business, for courses taught during 2023/2024 and 2024/2025

CONTACTS

Address: University College Dublin – Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School, Dublin

Email addresses: alessia.paccagnini@ucd.ie; alessia.paccagnini@gmail.com

😀 WEBPAGES

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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

June 23-26, 2026: Invited Speakers at the IAAE 2026, Nova SBE, Carcavelos

March 30-31, 2026: Invited Speaker at the SNDE 2026, Catolica Lisbon, Lisbon

February 11, 2026: Keynote Speaker at the International Day of Women and Girls in Science – Kick-off Event of the Digital Datathon 2026

December 13 - 15, 2025: Invited Speaker at the CFE 2025, London

August 25 - 29, 2025: Invited Speaker at the EEA 2025 , Bordeaux

June 29 - July 2, 2025: Invited Speaker at the ISF2025, Beijing

June 25-27, 2025: Invited Speaker at the IAAE 2025, University of Turin

May 29-31, 2025: Invited Speaker at the ICEEE 2025, University of Palermo

May 27, 2025: Invited Speaker at the X International Seminar on Statistics with R,

April 10, 2025: Invited Speaker at the Vilnius University, Department of Economics

December 14 - 16, 2024: Invited Speaker at the CFE2024, King's College, London

September 2024: Invited Professor at the Central Bank of Ireland

August 26 - 30 2024: Invited Speaker at the EEA-ESEM 2024, Erasmus University Rotterdam

June 25-27 2024: Invited Speaker at the IAAE2024 , Thessaloniki

June 24 2024: Invited Speaker at the ILO Workshop on Reducing Inequality to Promote Social Justice, ILO Geneve

June 17-18 2024: Invited Discussant at the IWH Workshop on Forecasting in Times of Structural Change and Uncertainty, IWH

June 3-4 2024: Invited Professor at the Training School Advances in Data Science and AI for Finance: Bridging Academia and Industry, University of Calabria

March 21-22 2024: Invited Speaker at the SNDE2024, University of Padua

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 the 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

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