Cristina Amado
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. Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Minho, Portugal, and an international research fellow at CREATES, Aarhus University. She is also a research member at the Economic Policies Research Centre (NIPE). Her main research interests lie within the fields of time-series analysis, nonlinear modelling and mathematical statistics.
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), University of Minho. Her research work has been published, among others, in the Journal of Econometrics, Journal of Business & Economic Statistics, Journal of Empirical Finance and Econometric Reviews. Her main research interests lie within the fields of time series econometrics, nonlinear time series modelling, model specification testing, model uncertainty and statistical decision theory.
