Ph.D. in Economics (2018), GWU

I am Economist at the International Monetary Fund. I specialise in Latin America and the Caribbean economies. My work focuses on economic growth, monetary policy, financial sector, macro-financial linkages, reserve adequacy, external and financing needs, data adequacy, and structural issues.

During my Ph.D. studies I became an expert in Quantitative Studies and Methods (Econometric Modelling and Forecasting), with applications to Macroeconomics, International Finance, Monetary and Energy Economics.

My dissertation, titled "Forecast Evaluation in Macroeconomics and International Finance," was directed by Professors Robert Phillips, Frederick Joutz, and Michael Bradley. In the first essay, I assessed the directional accuracy of the World Economic Survey to predict the U.S. macro indicators. In the second essay, I analysed the forecasting power of the signal approach to force currency crisis episodes. In the third essay, I applied textual analysis to elicit the FOMC forecasts and used encompassing tests to assess informational asymmetry between the FOMC and SPF forecasts for the US GDP.