Luiggi Donayre

About me

 I'm an Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Minnesota - Duluth (UMD). I received my Ph.D. from Washington University in St. Louis in May 2010 and joined the Department of Economics at UMD in August 2011. 

I do research and teach courses in Macroeconomics and Econometrics. From a macroeconomics perspective, my research involves the use of statistical tools to understand a number of empirical issues, such as the nature of asymmetries in business cycle fluctuations, regime-switching dynamics in macroeconomic relationships, and the effectiveness of policy responses to aggregate shocks. From an econometrics perspective, I work with different time series models to address economic questions, including threshold autoregressive (TAR), smooth transition autoregressive (STAR) and Markov-switching model. Therefore, my research also focuses on statistical issues such as constructing confidence intervals for threshold parameters and making inferences about nonlinearity in the presence of outliers.

My research has been published in peer-reviewed journals, including the Journal of International Money and Finance, Macroeconomic Dynamics, Economics Letters, Journal of Macroeconomics, Studies in Nonlinear Dynamics and Econometrics, Economic Modelling, among others. 

Upcoming and recent presentations

June 29th - July 3rd, 2024: I will be presenting "The Transitory Component of Health Care Employment" (joint with Lacey Loomer)" at the 2024 Annual IAAE Conference, University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki, Greece.

June 25th - 27th, 2024: I will be presenting "The Transitory Component of Health Care Employment" (joint with Lacey Loomer)" at the 99th Annual WEAI Conference, Seattle, WA.

May 20th - 22nd, 2024: I will be presenting "The Transitory Component of Health Care Employment" (joint with Lacey Loomer)" at the 2024 RCEA International Conference on Economics, Econometrics, and Finance, Brunel University, London, UK.

2023: SNDE (Orlando, FL), International WEAI (Melbourne, Australia - virtual), Annual WEAI (San Diego, CA - virtual), Universidad del Pacifico (Lima, Perú), CES (Tokyo, Japan - virtual), MERG (Duluth, MN), COMPSTAT (London, UK - virtual), SEA (New Orleans, LA).

2022: MERG (La Crosse, WI), COMPSTAT (Bologna, Italy - virtual), LACEA-LAMES (Lima, Perú), CFE (London, UK - virtual).

2021: WEAI (virtual), UMD (virtual), IAES (virtual), AMES (Sarawak, Malaysia - virtual), WEAI (Honolulu, HI - virtual), MERG (Whitewater, WI - virtual), LACEA-LAMES (Bogotá, Colombia - virtual), CFE (London, UK - virtual).

2020: CFE (London, England - virtual), INFER (Paris, France - virtual), UMD (virtual), MVEA (virtual), SNDE (Zagreb, Croatia - virtual), MERG (Duluth, Minnesota - virtual), CEF (Warsaw, Poland - cancelled).