Cristina Amado

Cristina Amado is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Minho, Portugal, and an international research fellow at CREATES, Aarhus University. She holds a PhD in Economic Statistics from the Stockholm School of Economics with a thesis entitled "Four essays on the econometric modelling of volatility and durations" since 2009 under the supervision of Professor Timo Teräsvirta. She is also a research member at the Centre for Research in Economics and Management (NIPE). Her main research interests lie within the fields of non-stationary time series analysis, nonlinear time series modelling, model specification testing, model uncertainty and statistical decision theory.