Education
University of Pennsylvania, Ph.D., Economics
University of Pennsylvania, M.S., Economics
University of Brasilia, M.S., Economic Policy
University of Brasilia, B.S., Economics
Research
Time Series Analysis and Forecasting
Macroeconomics
Empirical Finance
Monetary Economics
Energy Economics
Latin American Economics
Academic Employment
Chair, Department of Economics , Professor, University of California Riverside, Department of Economics (Present)
Professor, Department of Economics, Professor, University of California Riverside, Department of Economics (Present)
Graduate Advisor, Department of Economics, University of California Riverside
Chair, Latin American Studies Program, University of California, Riverside
University of California Riverside, Department of Economics, Associate Professor
University of California Riverside, Department of Economics, Assistant Professor
University of Brasilia, Department of Economics, Visiting Professor
Catholic University of Brasilia, Lecturer
Non-Academic Positions
Director, International Association for Applied Econometrics (Present)
Director, Rimini Centre for Economic Analysis Headquarter (Present)
Member, Business Cycles Dating Committee Brazil (CODACE) (Present)
Visiting Scholar, International Monetary Fund
Visiting Scholar, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
Academic Advisor, Research Affiliates, LLC
Associate Policy Adviser & Senior Research Economist, Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta.
Consultant, Statistical Analysis Inc., California.
Consultant, Economics Department, Central Bank of Brasil (BACEN), Brasilia, Brazil.
Consultant, Research Department, Central Bank of Brasil (BACEN), Brasilia, Brazil.
Macroeconomist/Consultant, Arbi Asset Management, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Intern, The World Bank, Washington, D.C.
Intern, Inter-American Development Bank, Washington, D.C.
Economic Advisor, Ministry of Industry - SEBRAE, Brasilia, Brazil.
Intern, TELEBRAS - Brazilian Telecommunication Company, Brasilia, Brazil.
Teaching
Undergraduate
Introduction, Intermediate, and Advanced Macroeconomics
Intermediate Microeconomics
Forecasting in Business & Economics
Natural Resources Economics
Latin American Studies
Graduate
Advanced Macroeconomic Theory
Empirical Macroeconomics
Monetary Economics
Time Series Econometrics
Advanced Econometrics
Colloquium in Macroeconomics/Economic Theory
Editorial Board
Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Business Cycle Research, 2021-present
Assist. Editor, Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2013-present
Co-Editor, Replication Series, Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2018
Co-Editor, Contemporary Economic Policy, 2012-2017
Associated Editor, Macroeconomic Dynamics, 2003-present
Board Member, Journal of Business Cycle Research (JBCY), 2011-2020
Publications
"The Credit-Card-Services Augment Divisia Monetary Aggregates," with W.A. Barnnett, D. Leiva-Leon, L. Su, Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, Forthcoming 2024 (online version published July 2023) .
Nonlinear Relationship between Monetary Policy and Stock Returns: Evidence from the U.S., with C. Jian, Global Finance Journal, 2023, Vol 55, 100796.
"Incomplete Price Adjustment and Inflation Persistence," with Insu Kim. (Formerly circulated as "Microfoundations of Inflation Persistence in the New Keynesian Phillips Curve"), Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, 2021. Vol. 53, 1337-1371.
"International Stock Market Linkages," with B.Y. Chen, Handbook of Global Financial Market: Transformations, Dependence, and Risk Spillovers. Ed. S. Boubaker and D.K. Nguyen, World Scientific Publishing, March 2019.
"Assessment of Hybrid Phillips Curve Specifications,' with J. Hur and I. Kim, Economics Letters, Vol. 156, 53-57, 2017.
"The End of the Brazilian Big Inflation: Lessons to Monetary Policy from a Standard New Keynesian Model," with L.S. Lopes and J.E. Lima, Empirical Economics, 2017, 1-31
"Mortgage Default Risk: New Evidence from Internet Search Queries", with S. Gabriel and C. Lutz, Journal of Urban Economics. Vol. 96, November, 91-111, 2016.
"Real-Time Nowcasting of Nominal GDP with Structural Breaks", with W. Barnett and D. Leiva-Leon, Journal of Econometrics. Vol. 191, April, 312-324, 2016.
"A Dynamic Factor Model of the Yield Curve Components as a Predictor of the Economy", with Z. Senyuz, International Journal of Forecasting. Vol. 32, April-June 2016, 324-343, 2016.
"What Does Financial Volatility Tell Us About Macroeconomic Fluctuations?", with Z. Senyuz, Z. and E. Yoldas, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control. Vol. 52, March, 340–360, 2015.
"Nonlinear Relationship Between Permanent and Transitory Components of Monetary Aggregates and the Economy," B. Jones, R. Anderson, Econometrics Review, vol. 34:1-2, 228-254, 2014.
"The Future of Oil: Geology versus Technology", with Benes, J., Kamenik, O., Kumhof, M., Laxton, D., Mursula, S., Selody, J., International Journal of Forecasting, vol. 31:1, 207-221, 2014. Recipient of the 2015-2016 Outstanding Paper Award from the International Journal of Forecasting
"Monetary Policy Regimes and the Stock Market," with Chuanlei Sun, in Business Cycles in Economics: Types, Challenges and Impacts on Monetary Policies. Ed. Jason Hsu, Nova Science Chapter 6, 87-1116, 2014
"Chronology and Prediction of Business Cycles in Minas Gerais" ("Cronologia e Previsão de Ciclos Econômicos de Minas Gerais"). Cadernos BDMG. February, 7-44, 2013.
"Nonstationarities and Markov Switching Models," with Y. Su, in Recent Advances in Estimating Nonlinear Models, Springer, 123-148, 2013.
"Forecasting Output," with Simon Potter, in Handbook of Economic Forecasting, vol. 2, ed. A. Timmermann and G. Elliott, Elsevier/North Holland, 1-56, 2013.
"Employment and the Business Cycle," with Jeremy Piger, Manchester School, Vol 81, S2, 16-42, 2013
"Leading Indicators of the Capital Goods Industry in Brazil," with Igor Morais, Brazilian Review of Econometrics, Vol. 31, No. 1, 137-171, 2011. Recipient of Honor Award from the National Confederation of Industries of Brazil - Confederacao Nacional das Industrias, CNI (LeadingCapital)
"How Better Monetary Statistics Could Have Signaled the Financial Crisis," with William Barnett, Journal of Econometrics, Vol. 161, No. 1, 6-23, 2011.
"Business Cycle Monitoring with Structural Changes,” with Simon Potter, International Journal of Forecasting, Vol. 6, No. 4, 777-793, 2010 (Repec or MonitorBreaks).
"Measurement Error in Monetary Aggregates: A Markov Switching Factor Approach,” with William Barnett and Heather Tierney, Macroeconomic Dynamics, Vol 13, 381-412, 2009. (Repec or MeasErrMoney)
“International Financial Aggregation and Index Number Theory: A Chronological Half-Century Empirical Overview,” with William Barnett, Open Economies Review, Vol. 20, No. 1, 2009.
“A Comparison of the Real-Time Performance of Business Cycle Dating Methods,” with Jeremy Piger, Journal of Business Economics and Statistics, Vol. 26, No. 1, 42-49, 2008. (Repec or BC_RealTime)
“Increased Stabilization and the G7 Business Cycles” with Fang Dong, in Business Fluctuations and Cycles, ed. T. Nagakawa, 265-283, 2007. (StableG7)
“Dating Business Cycle Turning Points in Real Time,” with James D. Hamilton, “Nonlinear Time Series Analysis of Business Cycles,” ed. Van Dijk, Milas, and Rothman, Elsevier’s Contributions to Economic Analysis series, 1-54, 2006. (DatingBC
“International Business Cycles: G7 and OECD Countries,” with Chengxuan Yu; Economic Review, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, First Quarter, Vol. 91 No. 1, 43-54, 2006.(Repec or Bc_G7OECD)
"Forecasting Brazilian Output and its Turning Points in the Presence of Breaks: A Comparison of Linear and Nonlinear Models,” with E. Lima, G. Domingues, and B. Vasquez, Economic Studies (Estudos Economicos), Vol. 36, No.1, 5-46, 2006. (Repec or BR_TPBreak)
"Forecasting Recessions Using the Yield Curve,” with S. Potter, Journal of Forecasting, 24, 2, 77-103, 2005. (Repec or ForecYield)
"Leading Indicators of Country Risk and Currency Crises “ The Asian Experience,” with Fang Dong , Economic Review, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, First Quarter, Vol. 89, No. 1, 26-37, 2004.(Repec or CountryRisk)
“Identifying Business Cycle Turning Points in Real Time,” with Jeremy Piger, Federal Reserve Bank of Saint Louis Review, March/April, 47-62, 2003.(Repec or TPrealtime)
Cited in Boston Globe and Dow Jones Newswires 12/12/2002
“Sunspots, Animal Spirits, and Economic Fluctuations,” with J.T. Guo, Macroeconomic Dynamics, Vol. 7, No. 1, February 2003.(SSRN or sunspots)
"Maturing Capitalism and Stabilization: International Evidence,” with G. Popli in Journal of Business and Economics, Vol. 1, No. 12, 5-22, 2003.
"Markov Switching in Disaggregate Unemployment Rates,” with C. Juhn and S. Potter, Empirical Economics, Vol. 27, No.2, 205-232, 2002.(Repec or MSunemployment)
Reprint in: Advances in Markov Switching Models, ed. J.D. Hamilton and B. Raj. Studies in Empirical Economics. Physica-Verlag, 61-88, 2002.
“Predicting Recessions: Evidence from the Yield Curve in the Presence of Structural Breaks,” with S. Potter, Economics Letters, Vol. 77, No. 2, 245-253, 2002. (Repec or PredicBreaks)
“The Brazilian Business Cycle and Growth Cycle,” Brazilian Economic Journal (Revista Brasileira de Economia), Vol. 56 nº 1, 75-106, 2002. (Repec or BrazilBCGC)
“Nonlinear Risk,” with S. Potter, Macroeconomic Dynamics, Vol. 5, No. 4, 621-646, 2001.(Repec or Nonlinearrisk)
“Recent Changes in the U.S. Business Cycle,” with S. Potter, Manchester School, Vol. 69, No. 5, 481-508, 2001. (Repec or ChangesBC)
Cited in Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones Newswires May 9, 2001
Cited in Folha de São Paulo (Brazil) June 26, 2001
“A Monthly Indicator of Brazilian GDP,” in Brazilian Review of Econometrics Vol. 21, No. 1, 1-15, 2001 – Recipient of Honor Award from the Brazilian Econometric Society. (BrazilIndicatorGDP)
“Leading Indicators of the Brazilian Inflation,” Economic Research and Planning (Pesquisa e Planejamento Economico), Vol. 31, 1, 323-354, 2001 (Repec - English or BrazilLeadingInflation-Portuguese).
“Coincident and Leading Indicators of the Stock Market,” with S. Potter, Journal of Empirical Finance, Vol. 7, No. 1, 87-111, 2000.(Repec or CoinleadSM)
“Stock Market Fluctuations and the Business Cycle,” Journal of Economic and Social Measurement, Vol. 25, No. 3, 235-258, 1998/1999.(SSRN or SMBC)
“An Econometric Characterization of Business Cycle Dynamics with Factor Structure and Regime Switches,” International Economic Review, Vol. 39, No. 4, 969-96, 1998. (Working Paper or IER)
Cited in Folha de São Paulo (Brazil) June 28, 2008
Cited in Folha de São Paulo (Brazil) February 6, 2008
Cited in Washington Post January 20, 2008
Cited in Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones Newswires March 28, 2002
Books
“Financial Aggregation and Index Number Theory: Implication for Monetary Policy and Financial Modeling, A Survey,” with W.A. Barnett, World Scientific Publishing, 2011.
“Calling the Business Cycle,” with James Hamilton and Kevin Hassett, The American Enterprise Institute Press, forthcoming.
Conference Proceedings
"Nonlinear Measurement Errors in Monetary Aggregates," with W.A. Barnett and H. Tierney in American Statistical Association, JSM Proceedings of Business and Economics, 2009 (invited).
"The End of the Great Moderation? How Better Monetary Statistics Could Have Signaled the Systemic Risk Precipitating the Financial Crisis," with W.A. Barnett in American Statistical Association, JSM Proceedings of Business and Economics, 2009 (invited).
"Predicting Recessions in Brazil," Latin American Meetings of the Economeric Society and Latin American and Caribbean Economic Association Meetings, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2008 (electronic).
“Real Time Changes in Monetary Policy: A Nonparametric Approach,” in Proceedings of the 27th International Forecasting Symposium, New York, June 2007 (electronic).
“Leading Indicators of Recession for the Brazilian Economy,” with Jose A. B. da Silva, in Proceedings of the XXVI Meetings of the Brazilian Econometric Society, 2004, Joao Pessoa, Paraiba, Brazil.
“International Economic Stabilization: Empirical Evidence,” with G. Popli, in Proceedings of the XXIV Meetings of the Brazilian Econometric Society, 2002, Nova Friburgo, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
“Forecasting Brazilian Output in the Presence of Structural Breaks – A Comparison of Linear and Nonlinear Models,” with E. Lima and B. Vasquez, in Proceedings of the XXIV Meetings of the Brazilian Econometric Society, 2002, Nova Friburgo, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1-20.
“Coincident Indicators of the Brazilian Business Cycle,” in Proceedings of the 2001 Meeting of the Brazilian Econometric Society (SBE), Brazil, December 2001.
“The Brazilian Economic Fluctuations,” in Proceedings of the 2001 Meeting of the Brazilian Economic Association (ANPEC), Brazil, December 2001.
“Recessions and the Term Structure of Interest Rates,” with S. Potter, in Proceedings of the 2001 Meeting of the Brazilian Finance Society, Brazil, October 2001.
“Forecasting in the Presence of Structural Breaks” with S. Potter, in Proceedings of the 2001 International Business & Economics Research Conference, Reno, Nevada, October 2001, Refereed.
“Real Time Leading Indicators of the Brazilian Inflation,” Proceedings of the XXII Meetings of the Brazilian Econometric Society, Vol. 1, December 2000, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
“An Empirical Analysis of Sunspots and the Business Cycles,” with J.T. Guo, in Proceedings of the II International Colloquium in Economic Dynamics and Economic Policy, ed. J.R. Teixeira and F.G. Carneiro, Brasilia, Brazil, 1999, 193-214.
"Trend-Cycle Decomposition of the Brazilian GDP: New Facts for the period between 1947 and 2012." Anais of the 45th National Economic Meeting (ANPEC). 2017, Natal, RN, Brazil.
Economic Outlook
“Tumbling Dice,” Op-ed article on New York Times, Feb 28 2009, with Kevin Hassett. (dice)
“The Facts Say No,” Op-ed article on New York Times, Dec 16 2007, with Kevin Hassett. ( NoRecessionYet)
“Is the U.S. Recession Over Yet?” CREFC Economic Letter, March No. 2002-01. (Recession2001)
“Recuperacao Lenta ou Risco de Recessao?”, International Economic Conditions, August 2002, 1-4, International Relation Secretary (SAIN), Ministry of Finance of Brazil (Fazenda).
“Slow Recovery or a Double Dip Recession?” CREFC Economic Letter, November No. 2002-02.
Economic Policy Papers
Master's Thesis (MSc in Economic Policy): Analysis of Taxation Policy in the Rice Market of Sao Paulo, University of Brasilia (under fellowship from CNPq and PNPE/IPEA).
Master's Thesis: The Economic Impact of Changes in Value-Added Tax on Basic Food, University of Pennsylvania (under fellowship from OAS - Organization of American States)
Comparative Experience in the Electricity Sector of Selected Countries, (prepared for the World Bank, Africa Division)
Analysis of Economic Policy in Brazil: 1979-1988, (prepared for the Ministry of Industry, Brazil)
Financial Simulation Models for Measuring Performance and Decision Making, (prepared for the Ministry of Industry, Brazil)
The Liquidity Question in the Cruzado Plan, (under a grant from the University of Brasilia)
Grants, Honors, and Awards
Founding Fellow, International Association for Applied Econometrics
Senior Fellow, Rimini Centre for Economic Analysis
Founding Fellow, Society for Economic Measurement.
Research Fellow, Centre for Applied Financial Economics (CAFE), University of Southern California
Top 3% Female Economist and Top 7% Economist (All authors), Repec - Research Papers in Economics (as of July 2024)
Recipient of Paper Award, 2022, “Dissecting Brazilian Credit Cycle in High-Dimensional and Time-Irregular Span Context” from Federation of Brazilian Banks (FEBRABAN)
Outstanding Paper Award, 2018, "The Future of Oil: Geology versus Technology" (IJF https://ijf.forecasters.org/iif-tao-hong-award-for-energy-forecasting/)
Recipient of Honors Award, 2011, "Leading Indicators of the Capital Goods Industry in Brazil," from the National Confederation of Industries of Brazil - Confederacao Nacional das Industrias, CNI
Retention Research Grant 2010-2014, University of California, Riverside.
Retention Research Grant 2002-2007, University of California, Riverside.
Academic Senate Research Grant, 1995-Present, University of California, Riverside.
Committee on Research Grant 2018-2019, University of California, Riverside.
Pronex/FGV, 1997-2002, Brazil.
Regents’ Faculty Fellowship 1999-2000, University of California, Riverside.
Dean's Faculty Research Incentive 1997-1998, University of California, Riverside.
Initial Research Grant, University of California, Riverside.
Doctoral fellowship, CNPq, Ministry of Science and Technology, Brazil.
Master fellowship, Organization of American States.
Selected Thesis Fellowship, IPEA, Economic Research Institute, Brazil.
Master fellowship, CNPq, Ministry of Science and Technology, Brazil.
Scientific Initiation Scholarship, CNPq, Ministry of Science and Technology, Brazil.
Undergraduate Scholarship, PET, CAPES, Ministry of Education, Brazil.
Entry in ‘Who is Who in America’
Honors’ Award Paper: “A Monthly Indicator of Brazilian GDP” in The Brazilian Review of Econometrics, Vol. 21, No. 1, May 2002, Brazilian Econometric Society, December 2003.
Best Paper Award “Maturing Capitalism and Stabilization: International Evidence,” with Gurleen Popli, Journal of Business and Economics, November 2003.
Professional Activities
Keynote, 2024 Annual Conference of the International Association for Applied Econometrics, Xiamen University, China
Panelist, 2023, “Past, Present and Future of Macroeconometrics and Empirical Macroeconomics,” Advances in Econometrics in Honor of Joon Y. Park
Keynote, 2019, Seminar on Business Cycle Dating, National Institute of Statistics and Geography (INEGI), Mexico City
Invited Speaker, 2019, Workshop on Energy Economics: Econometric Analysis of Energy Demand and Climate Change, Seoul, Korea
Keynote, 2018, 36th CIRET Conference, Centre for International Research on Economic Tendency Surveys/FGV, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Invited Lecture, 2018, "International Scientific Production Seminar/Mentoring Faculty and Graduate Students, University of Brasilia, Brazil
Invited Speaker, 2016, Workshop on Nowcasting and Real Time Forecasting Energy Prices, Korea Power Exchange, Seoul, Korea
Keynote, 2016, Conference on Coincident and Leading Indicators, Economics and Statistics Foundation (FEE)/Bank of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil
Keynote, 2016, Seminar on Economic Indicators, Bank of Rio Grande do Sul (Banrisul), Porto Alegre, Brazil
Panelist, 2016, Mentoring Junior Female Economists, Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession/American Economic Association, San Francisco
Plenary Speaker, 2014, Meeting of the Heads of Research of the European System of Central Banks," European System of Central Banks, Malta.
Keynote, 2011, "Growth and Business Cycle in Theory and Practice," Manchester School
Invited Speaker, 2011, "Leading Indicators and Business Cycles in Emerging Economies". Koç University, TUSIAD, Economic Research Forum, Istanbul/Turkey
Invited Speaker, 2009, 13th ESTE Meeting of the Brazilian Statistics Association, School of Time Series & Econometrics, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Plenary Speaker, 2008, 29th CIRET Conference - Santiago, Chile, Centre for International Research on Economic Tendency Surveys, CEPAL/ECLAC/FGV.
Panelist, 2008, Mentoring Junior Female Economists, Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession/American Economic Association, New Orleans
Invited Speaker, 2006, Speaker Series of the A. Gary Anderson Graduate School of Management, UC Riverside.
Keynote, 2003, Conference of the American Home Surfaces Association, Naples, Florida
Invited Speaker, 2002, Ministry of Finance (Fazenda), Brasilia, Brazil.
Invited Speaker, 2000, 14th SINAPE - National Symposium of Probability and Statistics, Brazilian Association of Statistics, Caxambu, Brazil.
Keynote, 2000, Central Bank of Brazil (Teleconference), Brasilia, Brazil.
Conference Organization
2024
Co-Organizer, 2024 Workshop on Energy Economics and Climate Change, Los Angeles
Co-Chair, 2024 14th RCEA Bayesian Econometrics workshop Rimini Centre for Economic Analysis
Co-Chair, 2024 8th RCEA Time Series Econometrics Workshop Rimini Centre for Economic Analysis
Co-Chair, 2024 RCEA International Conference in Economics Econometrics and Finance, Rimini Centre for Economic Analysis, Brunel University, London
Co-Organizer and Coordinator, 2024 Annual Conference of the International Association for Applied Econometrics, IAAE, Thessaloniki, Greece
Co-Organizer and Coordinator, 2024 Annual Conference of the International Association for Applied Econometrics, Xiamen University, China
Co-Organizer, 2024, “Macroeconomic Regime Changes: Theory, Evidence, and Policy Challenges Ahead,” Rimini Centre for Economic Analysis RCEA, Centre for Macroeconomics, London School of Economics, London, U.K.
2023
Co-Organizer, 2023, "The Costs of Non-Europe and the European Integration Project: Economic, Legal, and Political Opportunities and Hindrances" Rimini Centre for Economic Analysis RCEA and Center for European Studies CefES, University of Milano-Bicocca
Co-Organizer, 2023, RCEA 5th International Conference on European Studies, Rimini Centre for Economic Analysis and Swiss Economic Institute, ETH, Zurich, Switzerland
Scientific Committee 2023, RCEA Global Threats to the World Economy, Rimini Centre for Economic Analysis, Virtual based at University of Milano-Bicocca
Program Committee, 2023, 7th International Workshop on “Financial Markets and Nonlinear Dynamics,” Society for Nonlinear Dynamics and Econometrics (SNDE)/IAE Lille University School of Management/International Association for Applied Econometrics, Paris, France
Co-Organizer, 2023, First RCEA Panel on Predictability in Science and Society, Rimini Centre for Economic Analysis, Virtual based at the University of Bicocca-Milano and University of California Riverside
Co-Organizer and Coordinator, 2023 Annual Conference of the International Association for Applied Econometrics, IAAE, BI Norway Business School, Oslo, Norway
2022
Co-Organizer, 2022, RCEA Conference "Forecasting Financial Markets" Rimini Centre for Economic Analysis University of Milano-Biccoca and University of California Riverside
Co-Organizer, 2022, RCEA Conference "The European Union Between Crises to be Faced and Institutions to be Reformed" Rimini Centre for Economic Analysis University of Milano-Biccoca and University of California Riverside
Co-Organizer, 2022, “RCEA Big Data and Machine Learning Conference,” Rimini Centre for Economic Analysis RCEA and University of California Riverside
Co-Organizer, 2022, RCEA 4th International Conference on European Studies Rimini Centre for Economic Analysis RCEA, University of Milano-Biccoca
Co-Organizer, 2022, RCEA Conference on Recent Developments in Economics, Econometrics, and Finance, Rimini Centre for Economic Analysis and University of California Riverside, virtual based at the University of Milano-Biccoca
Organizer, 2022 RCEA Webinar Series Rimini Centre for Economic Analysis RCEA, Virtual based at University of California Riverside
Co-Organizer and Chair, 2022, Special Panel in Honor of Hashem Pesaran, Annual Conference of the International Association for Applied Econometrics IAAE, King's College London
Co-Organizer and Coordinator, 2022 Annual Conference of the International Association for Applied Econometrics, IAAE King's College London, UK Program Committee, 2022, 6th International Workshop on “Financial Markets and Nonlinear Dynamics,” Society for Nonlinear Dynamics and Econometrics (SNDE)/IAE Lille University School of Management/International Association for Applied Econometrics, Paris, France
Co-Chair, 2022, “Rethinking Capitalism (ReCap) Webinar Series,” Rimini Centre for Economic Analysis RCEA and Center for European Studies CefES-DEMS, Virtual based at University of Milano-Biccoca and University of California Riverside
Chair, 2022, IAAE Session at the ASSA 2022 Annual Meeting - American Economic Association, IAAE International Association for Applied Econometrics
2021
Organizer, 2021 RCEA Webinar Series Rimini Centre for Economic Analysis RCEA, Virtual based at University of California Riverside
Co-Organizer, 2021, “The Political Economy of Brexit,” Rimini Centre for Economic Analysis RCEA, virtual based at the University of California Riverside the University of Milano-Biccoca
Organizer, 2021, IAAE Webinar Series, International Association for Applied Econometrics, Virtual based at University of California Riverside
Organizer and Chair, 2021, IAAE Session at the ASSA 2021 Annual Meeting - American Economic Association, IAAE
Co-Organizer and Coordinator, 2021 Annual Conference of the International Association for Applied Econometrics IAAE Virtual, organized by the University of Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Program Committee, 2021, 5th International Workshop on “Financial Markets and Nonlinear Dynamics” (FMND) Society for Nonlinear Dynamics and Econometrics (SNDE)/IAE Lille University School of Management (LUMEN)/International Association for Applied Econometrics, Paris
2020
Organizer, 2020, IAAE Webinar Series, International Association for Applied Econometrics, Virtual based at University of California Riverside
2019
Co-Organizer and Coordinator, 2019 Annual Conference of the International Association for Applied Econometrics IAAE, University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus
Program Committee, 2019, 4th International Workshop on “Financial Markets and Nonlinear Dynamics,” Society for Nonlinear Dynamics and Econometrics (SNDE)/IAE Lille University School of Management/International Association for Applied Econometrics (IAAE), Paris
2018
Co-Organizer and Coordinator, 2018 Annual Conference of the International Association for Applied Econometrics IAAE, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) and Université de Montréal (UdeM), Montreal, Canada
Co-Organizer, 2018, International Conference on The Economics of Oil Getulio Vargas Foundation (FGV)/CAMP BI Norwegian Business School/PETROBRAS Brazilian Petroleum Company, International FGV Getulio Vargas Foundation, Rio de Janeiro
2017
Co-Organizer and Coordinator, 2017 Annual Conference of the International Association for Applied Econometrics IAAE, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan
Co-Organizer and Coordinator, 2017 Mentoring Workshop for Female Economists, International Association for Applied Econometrics (IAAE), Sapporo, Japan
2016
Co-Organizer and Coordinator, 2016 Annual Conference of the International Association for Applied Econometrics IAAE, University of Milan-Bicocca
Session Chair, 2016 Conference Computation in Economic and Finance (CEF), Bordeaux
2015
Co-Organizer and Coordinator, 2015 Annual Conference of the International Association for Applied Econometrics IAAE, University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki, Greece
2014
Co-Organizer, Coordinator, and Program Co-Chair, 2014 Annual Conference of the International Association for Applied Econometrics IAAE, Queen Mary University of London,
Session Chair, 2014, CAMP Workshop on Commodity Price Dynamics and Financialization, BI Norwegian Business School/CAMP - Centre for Applied Macro- and Petroleum economics
Session Chair, 2014, 32nd CIRET Conference Centre for International Research on Economic Tendency Surveys/FGV, Hangzhou, China
2013
Organizing Committee, 2013, Vale/EPGE 3rd Global Conference Business Cycles, Graduate School of Economics/EPGE-FGV and Vale do Rio Doce Company, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Program Committee, 2013, 21th Annual Symposium of the Society for Nonlinear Dynamics and Econometrics, Society for Nonlinear Dynamics and Econometrics, Milan, Italy
2012
Co-Organizer and Chair, 2012, “Global Crises and Latin American Economies” USC and UCR - Latin American Studies Program, Riverside
Program Committee and Sessions Organizer, 2012, 20th Annual Symposium of the Society for Nonlinear Dynamics and Econometrics, Istanbul, Turkey
Session Organizer, 87th Annual Conference of the Western Economic Association International WEAI, San Francisco, 2012
2011
Panel Moderator and Session Chair, 2011, III Sustainable Development, Forum das Americas and the United Nations Association – Brazil (ANUBRA), Harvard Club, New York
Program Committee and Sessions Organizer, 2011, 17th International Conference on Computing in Economics and Finance, Society for Computational Economics, San Francisco
Organizer of Invited Sessions, 2011, 19th Annual Symposium of the Society for Nonlinear Dynamics and Econometrics, Washington
Co-Organizer, 2011, Cuba Today Seminar (Cuban Student Academic Exchange), UC Riverside
2010
Program Committee, 2010, 30th International Forecasting Symposium International Institute of Forecasters, San Diego
Organizer and Chair of Program Committee, 2010, “Crises and Opportunities in Latin America,” Latin American Studies Program, UC Riverside
2009
Co-Organizer, 2009, Panel on “End the US Embargo on Cuba” Latin American Studies Program, UC Riverside
Organizer of Invited Sessions, 2009, 17th Symposium of the Society for Nonlinear Dynamics and Econometrics, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
Co-Organizer, 2009 “Business Cycles: Empirical and Theoretical Advances Department of Economics,” UC Riverside
2001-2007
Program Committee, 2007, 27th International Forecasting Symposium, International Institute of Forecasters
Program Committee, 2004, XXVI Meetings of the Brazilian Econometric Society Brazilian Econometric Society, Joao Pessoa, Brazil
Session Chair, 2001, 11th Annual Meeting of the Midwest Econometrics Group, Kansas City
Program Committee, 2001, First Meeting of the Brazilian Finance Society Brazilian Finance Society, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Invited Presentations
2024 Conference in Honor of H.M. Pesaran’s Achievement, University of Southern California
2021 Annual Meeting of the American Economic Association ASSA, Virtual
2021 Female Mentoring Workshop, Midwest Econometric Group, Panelist, Virtual, University of Indiana Bloomington
2020 Seminar Series, Central Bank of Brasil, Virtual from BACEN Brasilia
2020 California State University, Los Angeles
2020 Annual Meeting of the American Economic Association AEA-ASSA, San Diego
2019 North America Conference of the Chinese Economists Society (CES), Chinese Economists Society (CES) and University of Kansas, Lawrence
2019 Seminar Series, University of Brasilia, Brazil
2019, Female Mentoring Workshop, Midwest Econometric Group Conference, Ohio State University, Panelist and Discussant
2018 Female Mentoring Workshop, Midwest Econometric Group Conference, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Discussant
2016 “Time Series Workshop on Macro and Financial Economics,” Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul, Korea, Discussant
2016 Time Series Econometrics and Applications in Macroeconometrics and Finance, Barcelona Graduate School of Economics/ University of Pompeu Fabra
2016, Workshop on Forecasting, Korean Development Institute, Seoul
2016 Mentoring for Female Juniors in Economics, Midwest Econometric Group, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Discussant
2015 “Workshop on “Empirical Macroeconomics," Norges Bank/Centre for Applied Macro- and Petroleum Economics/BI Norwegian Business School, Presenter and Discussant
2014 University of Missouri, Columbia, MO
2014 Workshop on "Counterfactual Analysis for Policy Evaluation," USC Dornsife Institute for New Economic Thinking & Centre for Applied Financial Economics, Discussant
2014 "Applied Time Series Econometrics Workshop,” Federal Reserve Bank of Saint Louis
2014 32nd CIRET Conference Centre for International Research on Economic Tendency Surveys/FGV, Hangzhou, China, Presenter and Discussant
2014 First Annual Conference of the Society for Economic Measurement SEM, University of Chicago
2013 "Workshop on Recent Developments in Forecasting Techniques for Macro and Finance," Centre for Applied Financial Economics (CAFE)/USC
2013 Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, Research Department, Ohio
2013 Oberlin College, Department of Economics, Ohio
2013 University of Kansas, Department of Economics, Lawrence
2013 Female Mentoring Workshop at Midwest Econometric Conference, University of Indiana, Bloomington
2013 IBRE/FGV, Economic Brazilian Institute, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2013 3rd Vale/EPGE Conference "Business Cycles," Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2013 Graduate Student Mentoring Seminar, George Washington University
2013 George Washington University, Department of Economics
2012 Centre for Applied Financial Economics, Conference "Global Crisis and Latin American Economies," USC/UCR - Latin American Studies Program
2012 “Conference on Real-Time Data Analysis," Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia and CIRANO, Philadelphia.
2012 Norges Bank, Research Department, Oslo, Norway.
2012 BI Business School, Oslo, Norway.
2012 “Conference on Nonlinear Advances in Economic Modeling,” BI Norwegian Business School
2012 BNDES, National Economic and Development Bank, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2012 IBRE/FGV, Economic Brazilian Institute, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2012 Banco de Desenvolvimento de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
2012 Central Bank of Brasil, Research Department, BACEN, Brasilia.
2012 Conference in Honor of Charles Nelson. University of Washington
2011 "The Role of Non-Linear Methods in Empirical Macroeconomics and Forecasting," European Central Bank, Frankfurt, Germany
2011 Conference on Brazil's Economy "From Lula to Dilma", UC Riverside
2010 32nd Meetings of the Brazilian Econometric Society. Brazilian Econometric Society. Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
2010 "Central Bank Forecasting," Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas, Kansas City, Presenter and Discussant
2010 6th Colloquium on Modern Tools for Business Cycle Analysis, Luxembourg
2010 IV Oslo Workshop on Economic Policy: "Empirical Business Cycle Modeling and Policy in the Aftermath of the Financial Crisis." BI Norwegian School of Management
2010 XII Annual Inflation Targeting Seminar of the Banco Central do Brasil, Rio de Janeiro
2010 KOF Swiss Economic Institute, Science and Technology University, Zurich, Switzerland
2010 University of Zurich, Dept of Finance, Zurich, Switzerland
2010 University of West Virginia, Dept of Economics, Morgantown, WV
2010 University of Southern California, Dept of Economics, Econometrics Seminar
2010 University of California Irvine, Dept of Economics
2009 University of Southern California, Dept of Economics, Dynamics Seminar
2009 “Times Series Econometrics with Applications to Macroeconomics and Finance,” Federal Reserve Bank of Saint Louis.
2009 Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
2009 CIRANO Fifth Annual Workshop on Macroeconomic Forecasting, Analysis and Policy with Data Revision, Montreal, Canada
2009 Joint Statistical Meetings, American Statistical Association, Washington,
2008 UCR Panel Discussion “Global Financial Crisis,”
2008 “Times Series Econometrics with Applications to Macroeconomics and Finance,” Federal Reserve Bank of Saint Louis
2007 “Real-Time Data Analysis and Methods in Economics,” Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia
2006 University of Kansas, Department of Economics
2006 Claremont Graduate School
2004 Conference Nonlinearity and the Business Cycle, Washington University Saint Louis
2004 University of Southern California, Department of Economics
2004 University of California, Riverside, Department of Statistics
2003 Joint Federal Reserve System Committee on Business and Financial Analysis, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
2003 Central Bank of Brasil, Research Department, Brasilia, Brazil
2003 International Meeting on Income and Productivity Disparity across Country, FGV, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2003 University of South Florida, Tampa
2003 All Bank Staff Conference, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
2002 University of California, Davis
2002 Central Bank of Brazil, Economics Department, Brasilia
2002 Central Bank of Brazil, Research Department/Monetary Policy Division, Brasilia,
2002 Conference “When Does a Downturn Become a Recession?” American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, Washington, D.C
2002 Conference “State-Space Models, Regime Switching, and Identification,” Washington University and the Federal Reserve Bank of Saint Louis, Missouri
2002 Claremont McKenna College/Claremont Graduate School
2002 Washington University at Saint Louis
2002 Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
2002 University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa
2002 University of Kansas, Lawrence
2001 FGV/USP/PUC Macroeconomic Meetings, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2001 IX Meeting of the Brazilian Statistics Association, School of Time Series & Econometrics (ESTE), Belo Horizonte, Brazil
2001 Arizona State University, Phoenix
2000 OECD/CEPAL/IPEA Conference on Leading Economic Indicators, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2000 Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Statistics Department, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil,
2000 Getulio Vargas Foundation (FGV), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2000 Claremont Graduate School, Department of Economics
2000 Conference "One Year of Inflation Targeting," Central Bank of Brazil, Rio de Janeiro
2000 University of California, Riverside, Engineering Department
2022 28th Society for Nonlinear Dynamics and Econometrics SNDE, Virtual based at University of Zagreb, Croatia
2021 Macroeconomic Colloquia, Department of Economics, UC Riverside
2021 IAAE Webinar Series, International Association for Applied Econometrics IAAE, virtual based at University of California Riverside
2021 “Post BREXIT: Uncertainty, Risk Measurement and COVID-19 Challenges,” Virtual based at the University of Liverpool
2019 Annual Conference of the International Association for Applied Econometrics IAAE, Nicosia, Cyprus
2018 Annual Conference of the International Association for Applied Econometrics, IAAE Montreal, Canada
2018 International Conference on the Economics of Oil Getulio Vargas Foundation (FGV)/CAMP BI Norwegian Business School/PETROBRAS Brazilian Petroleum Company, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2018 Joint Seminar BACEN/UnB, Central Bank of Brasil and University of Brasilia
2017 “Research Collaboration and Publishing,” Mentoring for Female Juniors in Economics International Association for Applied Econometrics. Panelist, Sapporo, Japan
2017 Annual Conference of the International Association for Applied Econometrics, IAAE -Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan
2016 Annual Conference of the International Association for Applied Econometrics, IAAE, Milan, Italy
2016 Conference of the Computation in Economic and Finance (CEF) Society for Computational Economics, Bordeaux, France
2015 Annual Conference of the International Association for Applied Econometrics, IAAE, Thessaloniki, Greece
2014 32nd CIRET Conference Centre for International Research on Economic Tendency Surveys/FGV, Hangzhou, China
2014 First Annual Conference of the Society for Economic Measurement SEM - Society for Economic Measurement, University of Chicago
2014 Annual Conference of the International Association for Applied Econometrics, IAAE, Queen Mary University of London
2013 Midwest Econometric Conference, University of Indiana, Bloomington
2013 Allied Social Science Associations, American Economic Association, San Diego (discussant)
2012 “87th Annual Conference of the Western Economic Association International,” Western Economic Association International, San Francisco
2011 “19th Symposium of the Society for Nonlinear Dynamics and Econometrics,” Society for Nonlinear Dynamics and Econometrics/George Washington University, Washington, DC
2010 “32nd Meetings of the Brazilian Econometric Society. Brazilian Econometric Society. Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
2010 30th CIRET Conference - Centre for International Research on Economic Tendency Surveys, CIRET/Conference Board, New York, October (presenter and discussant).
2010 American Economic Association Meeting, Atlanta (discussant).
2009 17th Meeting of the Society for Nonlinear Dynamics and Econometrics, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta.
2009 UCR Conference on Business Cycles: Theoretical and Empirical Advances, Riverside
2008 Midwest Econometrics Group meeting, University of Kansas, Lawrence
2008 5th Colloquium on Modern Tools for Business Cycle Analysis, Luxembourg
2008 23rd Annual Congress of the European Economic Association, Milan, Italy
2008 63rd European Meeting of the Econometric Society, Milan, Italy
2008 16th Meeting of the Society for Nonlinear Dynamics and Econometrics, San Francisco
2007 27th International Forecasting Symposium, New York
2007 North American Summer Meeting of the Econometric Society, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina
2006 14th Annual Meeting of the Society for Nonlinear Dynamics and Econometrics, Saint Louis, Missouri
2005 North American Winter Meetings of the Econometric Society, Philadelphia
2003 North American Winter Meeting of the Econometric Society, Washington, D.C.
2002 XXIV Meetings of the Brazilian Econometric Society (SBE), Nova Friburgo, Brazil
2002 Conference Common Features in Rio, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2002 Latin American Meeting of the Econometric Society, Sao Paulo, Brazil
2002 Meeting of the Society for Economic Dynamics, New York
2002 North American Summer Meetings of the Econometric Society, Los Angeles
2001 XXIX Meetings of the Brazilian Economic Association (ANPEC), Salvador, Brazil
2001 XXIII Meetings of the Brazilian Econometric Society (SBE), Salvador, Brazil
2001 11th Annual Meeting of the Midwest Econometrics Group, Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, Missouri
2001 I Meeting of the Brazilian Finance Society, Sao Paulo, Brazil
2001 Meeting of the Society for Economic Dynamics, Stockholm, Sweden
2000 XXII Meetings of the Brazilian Econometric Society (SBE), Campinas, Sao Paulo, Brazil
2000 Conference "Growth and Business Cycles in Theory and Practice," University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom
1999 Conference on Nonlinear Modeling of Multivariate Macroeconomic Relations, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Presentation at Conferences
2022 28th Society for Nonlinear Dynamics and Econometrics SNDE, Virtual based at University of Zagreb, Croatia
2021 Macroeconomic Colloquia, Department of Economics, UC Riverside
2021 IAAE Webinar Series, International Association for Applied Econometrics IAAE, virtual based at University of California Riverside
2021 “Post BREXIT: Uncertainty, Risk Measurement and COVID-19 Challenges,” Virtual based at the University of Liverpool
2019 Annual Conference of the International Association for Applied Econometrics IAAE, Nicosia, Cyprus
2018 Annual Conference of the International Association for Applied Econometrics, IAAE Montreal, Canada
2018 International Conference on the Economics of Oil Getulio Vargas Foundation (FGV)/CAMP BI Norwegian Business School/PETROBRAS Brazilian Petroleum Company, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2018 Joint Seminar BACEN/UnB, Central Bank of Brasil and University of Brasilia
2017 “Research Collaboration and Publishing,” Mentoring for Female Juniors in Economics International Association for Applied Econometrics. Panelist, Sapporo, Japan
2017 Annual Conference of the International Association for Applied Econometrics, IAAE -Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan
2016 Annual Conference of the International Association for Applied Econometrics, IAAE, Milan, Italy
2016 Conference of the Computation in Economic and Finance (CEF) Society for Computational Economics, Bordeaux, France
2015 Annual Conference of the International Association for Applied Econometrics, IAAE, Thessaloniki, Greece
2014 32nd CIRET Conference Centre for International Research on Economic Tendency Surveys/FGV, Hangzhou, China
2014 First Annual Conference of the Society for Economic Measurement SEM - Society for Economic Measurement, University of Chicago
2014 Annual Conference of the International Association for Applied Econometrics, IAAE, Queen Mary University of London
2013 Midwest Econometric Conference, University of Indiana, Bloomington
2013 Allied Social Science Associations, American Economic Association, San Diego (discussant)
2012 “87th Annual Conference of the Western Economic Association International,” Western Economic Association International, San Francisco
2011 “19th Symposium of the Society for Nonlinear Dynamics and Econometrics,” Society for Nonlinear Dynamics and Econometrics/George Washington University, Washington, DC
2010 “32nd Meetings of the Brazilian Econometric Society. Brazilian Econometric Society. Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
2010 30th CIRET Conference - Centre for International Research on Economic Tendency Surveys, CIRET/Conference Board, New York, October (presenter and discussant).
2010 American Economic Association Meeting, Atlanta (discussant).
2009 17th Meeting of the Society for Nonlinear Dynamics and Econometrics, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta.
2009 UCR Conference on Business Cycles: Theoretical and Empirical Advances, Riverside
2008 Midwest Econometrics Group meeting, University of Kansas, Lawrence
2008 5th Colloquium on Modern Tools for Business Cycle Analysis, Luxembourg
2008 23rd Annual Congress of the European Economic Association, Milan, Italy
2008 63rd European Meeting of the Econometric Society, Milan, Italy
2008 16th Meeting of the Society for Nonlinear Dynamics and Econometrics, San Francisco
2007 27th International Forecasting Symposium, New York
2007 North American Summer Meeting of the Econometric Society, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina
2006 14th Annual Meeting of the Society for Nonlinear Dynamics and Econometrics, Saint Louis, Missouri
2005 North American Winter Meetings of the Econometric Society, Philadelphia
2003 North American Winter Meeting of the Econometric Society, Washington, D.C.
2002 XXIV Meetings of the Brazilian Econometric Society (SBE), Nova Friburgo, Brazil
2002 Conference Common Features in Rio, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2002 Latin American Meeting of the Econometric Society, Sao Paulo, Brazil
2002 Meeting of the Society for Economic Dynamics, New York
2002 North American Summer Meetings of the Econometric Society, Los Angeles
2001 XXIX Meetings of the Brazilian Economic Association (ANPEC), Salvador, Brazil
2001 XXIII Meetings of the Brazilian Econometric Society (SBE), Salvador, Brazil
2001 11th Annual Meeting of the Midwest Econometrics Group, Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, Missouri
2001 I Meeting of the Brazilian Finance Society, Sao Paulo, Brazil
2001 Meeting of the Society for Economic Dynamics, Stockholm, Sweden
2000 XXII Meetings of the Brazilian Econometric Society (SBE), Campinas, Sao Paulo, Brazil
2000 Conference "Growth and Business Cycles in Theory and Practice," University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom
1999 Conference on Nonlinear Modeling of Multivariate Macroeconomic Relations, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Board Membership
Board Member, Western Economic Association International (WEAI), 2012-2017
Board Member, Centre for International Research on Economic Tendency Surveys (CIRET), 07/2011 - Present
Panel Member, Financial Times/University of Chicago Forecasting Panel of macroeconomists, 2021-Present
Member, Advisory Board of the Institute for Research on World-Systems, July 2009-2020.
Referee (selected)
Journals: American Economic Review, Econometrica, AEJ: Macroeconomics, International Economic Review, Journal of Monetary Economics, Journal of Econometrics, Review of Economic Dynamics, Review of Economics and Statistics, Journal of Business Economics and Statistics, Journal of Applied Econometrics, Macroeconomic Dynamics, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Journal of Forecasting, Journal of Money Credit and Banking, International Journal of Forecasting, Journal of Development Economics, Journal of European Economic Association Empirical Economics, Journal of Finance, Journal of International Money and Finance, Oxford bulletin of economics and statistics, Econometric Reviews, Journal of Portfolio Management, Economic Inquiry, Eastern Economic Journal, Southern Economic Journal, Economic Modelling, Studies in Nonlinear Dynamics & Econometrics, Journal of Macroeconomics, The B.E. Journals in Macroeconomics, The North American Journal of Economics and Finance, Bulletin of Economic Research, International Journal of Business and Economics, Quarterly Journal of Business and Economics, Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance, Financial Review, Review of Finance, Journal of Economic and Social Measurement, Brazilian Review of Econometrics (Revista de Econometria), Brazilian Economic Journal (Revista Brasileira de Economia), Economic Research and Planning (Pesquisa e Planejamento Economico), Applied Economics, Journal of Applied Economics.
Grant Agency: National Science Foundation, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.
Publisher: McGraw-Hill, Irwin Professional, Pearson, Elsevier, MIT Press
Chair, Ph.D. Dissertations
Yong Ju Lee, 2024, Ashland University, Ohio
Yanchao Yang, 2022, DePauw University, Indiana
Taghi Farzad, 2022, Fannie Mae, Washington, D.C.
Mirewuti Muhetaer, 2021, Citi Group , New York
Kai Chen, 2021, Market Intelligence Analyst, Li Auto Company , China
Hien Nguyen, 2019, California State Polytechnic University Pomona, CA
Mingyuan Jia, 2019, South China Normal University, Guangzhou, China
Bo-Yu Chen, 2019, Insight Data Science, NY
Andre Maranhao 2019, Getulio Vargas Foundation of Sao Paulo and Bank of Brasil,
Tasneem Raihan, 2018, A2F Consulting, Bethesda, MD
Ali Bagherpour, 2018, Fanny Mae, Washington. D.C.
Sungjun Huh, 2018, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI (co-chair)
Zhi Zhao, 2018, Southwestern University of Economics and Finance, Chengdu, Sichuan, China
Walmir Silva, 2018, Central Bank of Brazil, Brasilia, Brazil (co-chair)
Najrin Khanon, 2016, North Central College, Naperville, IL
Riyad Abubaker, 2016, American University in Kuwait and Trinity College, Hartford, CT
Xuefeng Pan, 2016 University of International Business and Economics, Beijing, China
Yanpin Su, 2015, Citibank, Buffalo, NY
Mehdi Naji, 2015, Central Bank of Iran, Tehran, Iran
Jason Cheng Jiang, 2014, Temple University, Business School, Philadelphia, PA
Yinqiao Fan, 2014 Abd, Amazon.com, Seattle, WA
Mi Lu, 2013, Ghent University, Belgium, and Fiduciary Research and Consulting, San Francisco, CA
Venoo Kakar, 2013, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA
Rama Kumar, 2013, Chapman University, CA
Chandler Lutz, 2011, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
Insu Kim, 2010, Central Bank of Korea, and Chonbuk National University, Seoul, Korea
Jie Li, 2010, HSBC Finance, San Francisco, CA
MeiChi Huang, 2009, National Taipei University, Taiwan (first job at Business School, Yuan Ze University)
Zeynep Senyuz, 2008, Federal Reserve Bank, Board of Governors, D.C. (first job at University of New Hampshire)
Heather Tierney, 2005, College of Charleston, SC (co-chair)
Witsaroot Pariyaprasert, 2005, Assumption University, Thailand (co-chair)
Gurleen Popli, University of Sheffield, UK (co-chair)
Fang Dong, Providence College, RI
Chengxuan Yu, Siena College and NY State Health Department, NY
Yun-Mei Yang, (MSc, ABD), Taiwan
Francisco Figueiredo, (MSc, ABD) Central Bank of Brazil
In Progress
Murilo Silva (Ph.D candidate)
Lusha Xu (Ph.D candidate)
Qichen Zhou (Ph.D. candidate)
Ryan Hodge
Han Zhang
Jianbin Chen
Member, Ph.D. Dissertation Committee
Jon Ellingsen (BI Norwegian Business School), 2023, Oslo Economics
Olav Syrstad (Norwegian School of Economics), 2021, BI Norwegian Business School
Kurt Paczkowski, UCR, in progress
Rafael Guimaraes (University of Rio Grande do Sul), 2021, Central Bank of Brasil
Daniel Ehmann (ETH Zürich KOF), 2021, IBM
Raymond Kim (Graduate School of Business, UCR), 2020, Northern Arizona University
Alok Yadav, 2018, Management Development Institute, Gurgaon, India
Luckas Sabioni Lopez, 2014, Federal University of Juiz de Fora, Brazil
Ru Zhang (UCR) 2014, JP Morgan Chase
Zhou Xi (UCR) 2013, JP Morgan Chase
Yingying Sun (UCR), 2013, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan,
Yundong Tu (UCR) 2012, Peking University, China
Emre Yoldas (UCR) 2009, Federal Reserve Bank, Board of Governors (first job Bentley U.)
Zuzana Janko (UCR) 2004, University of Calgary, Canada, San Francisco State University
Sherman Ho (UCR), Providian Financial, San Francisco
Souhir Slim (Faculté de Droit & des Sciences Economiques and Politiques Cité Erriadh)
MSc.Thesis Supervised
Henrique Pires, MSc from University of Brasilia, Ministry of Finance of Brazil
Wenyan Yuan, MA. from University of California Riverside
Undergraduate Students
Research Supervised and Awards
Francisco Ilabaca, UC Riverside Rosemary Schraer Memorial Fund Scholarship 2014, UC Riverside Academic Excellence Award (PhD from UCI, and now Research Economist at the Office of Financial Research, D.C.)
Annie Zhuo, UC Undergraduate Minigrant Fellowship
Francis Hoang , UC President’s Undergraduate Fellowship
Caroline Lee, The University of California Senior Student Award
University Service
Member, Privilege and Tenure Committee
Member, Committee on Academic Integrity
Member, Search Committee for Dean of Anderson Business School
Member, Search Committee for Dean of International Affairs
Chair, Latin American Studies Program
Chair, UCR Extension Center Committee
Member, Global Studies Major Steering Committee
Member, UCR Extension Center Committee
Member, Committee for Latin American Studies
Member, Executive Committee – College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences
Faculty Advisor for the American Marketing Association at UCR
Member, Business Administration Majors Committee
Member, Registration Fee Committee
Member, Committee on Preparatory Education
Faculty Advisor for the American Marketing Association at UCR
Department (UCR)
Chair, Department of Economics, UCR
Vice-Chair, Department of Economics, UCR
Chair, Website Committee
Distinguished Visitor Coordinator
Graduate Economic Advisor
Member, Graduate Affairs Committee
Member, Planning and Advisory Committee
Chair, Undergraduate Affairs Committee
Member, Undergraduate Affairs Committee
Organizer, Macroeconomics Colloquia
Organizer, Economic Theory Colloquia
Chair, Macroeconomic Theory Comprehensive Examination Committee
Member, Macroeconomic Theory Comprehensive Examination Committee
Coordinator, Macroeconomic Theory Core Field
Member, Macroeconomic Theory Core Field
Member, Search Committee for Macroeconomics Assistant Professor
Affirmative Action Officer for Search for Macroeconomics Assistant Professor
Member, Search Committee for International Economics Assistant Professor
Affirmative Action Officer for Search for International Economics Assistant Professor
Member, Computer Committee
Chair, Working Papers Committee
Member, Library Committee
Member, Graduate Students Performance Review Committee
Professional Affiliations
International Association for Applied Econometrics
Rimini Centre for Economic Analysis
American Economic Association
American Finance Association
North American Econometric Society
European Economic Association
European Econometric Society
Committee on the Status of Women in the Economic Profession
Brazilian Econometric Society
Brazilian Finance Association
Regional Council of Economists, Brasilia
Selected Media Coverage
TV Interview
Bloomberg News – four interviews 2008 to 2011
Globo International (Globo Planet) – Nov/2008 and Dec/2008
Interview for Magazines
Magazine, Valor, five articles 2008-2022
Magazine Lola (Editora April – Brazil) Sep/2010
Magazine Exame (Editora April – Brazil) Aug/2009
Magazine Personnalité (Editora Trip – Brazil) Jul/Sep 2008
Magazine 951 – Riverside County, May/Jun 2008
Folha de São Paulo (Brazil) – 22 articles from 2001 to2023
Estado de São Paulo (Brazil) – 11 articles from 2008 to 2023
Globo, Estado de São Paulo, Folha de São Paulo, Jornal do Comércio, Diário do Comércio, Diário do Nordeste, Monitor Mercantil, Gazeta do Povo, Globo,Valor, Invertia, Ansalatina, Yahoo Brasil – 2009
Hiram7 Review (Israel) –2008
Expresso (Portugal) – two articles 2008
New York Times (op-ed, with Kevin Hassett) - Feb 28/2009
Gazeta Mercantil and Jornal do Brasil (op-ed, with Mario Garnero) - Jun 31/2008
Washington Post, Jan 20/2008
Folha de São Paulo, Jornal do Brasil, Correio Popular, Correio Braziliense (op-ed, with Mario Garnero) - Mar 20/2008
New York Times, Dec 16/2007 (op-ed, with Kevin Hassett)
Languages
Fluent in Portuguese, English, and Spanish; intermediate level in French.