{Professor Dr. Alex Garivaltis.}
"The man of action has the present, but the thinker controls the future." --Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
I am an Assistant Professor of Economics at Northern Illinois University in DeKalb, Illinois.
I have M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Quantitative Economics from the University of Minnesota (Minneapolis, MN).
[> Dissertation Title: Essays on Universal Portfolios.
[> Dissertation Committee: Aldo Rustichini (Thesis Advisor), David Rahman (Co-Advisor), Jan Werner (Dissertation Reviewer), Terry Roe (Outside Examiner for Thesis Defense), Hengjie Ai (Outside Examiner for Prelim Oral).
Teaching Fields: Sports Economics & Analytics; Intermediate Microeconomics; Optimal Portfolio Choice; Algorithmic Trading; Financial Engineering; Mathematical Economics; Research Tools & Methods. [Teaching Statement]
Research Fields: Quantitative Finance; Financial Engineering; Decision Theory and Robust Procedures; Financial Intermediation; Game Theory; Financial Econometrics; Algorithmic Trading; Computational Finance; Financial Machine Learning; Sports Economics; Pricing Analytics; Sabermetrics; Economics of Education. [Research Statement]
Prelim Fields: Econometrics; Labor Economics.
[> ORCID-iD: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0944-8517.
[> ArXiv Author Identifier: https://arxiv.org/a/garivaltis_a_1.html.
[> LinkedIn Profile.
[> E-Mail: agarivaltis1@niu.edu.
Office Hours for Fall 2022:
F2F: Fridays from 2-4 p.m., and by appointment, in 514 Zulauf Hall.
The regular way: phone & Zoom®, by appointment.
Campus Address:
514 Zulauf Hall,
Department of Economics,
School of Public and Global Affairs,
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences,
Northern Illinois University,
DeKalb, Illinois, 60115-2828.