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Juan Carlos Parra-Alvarez

Title

Associate Professor

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Areas of expertise

  • Dynamic Macroeconomics
  • Macrofinance
  • Asset Pricing
  • Housing Markets
  • Numerical Methods

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Profile

Juan Carlos is an Associate Professor at the Department of Economics and Business Economics, Aarhus Univeristy. He is also a research fellow at the Danish Finance Institute (DFI) and the Center for Research in Energy: Economics and Markets (CORE). Juan Carlos holds a PhD in Economics and Business Economics from Aarhus University. 

More details on Juan Carlos and his research can be found on his personal website: https://jcparra-alvarez.weebly.com

Research

Juan Carlos' research centers around macroeconomics and financial economics. His work combines stochastic optimal control methods and econometric techniques to answer relevant questions in asset pricing, asset allocation, business cycles, housing markets, and migration. 

Teaching activities

Juan Carlos currently teaches two 10 ECTS graduate courses at the Department of Economics and Business Economics during the Spring semester: Derivatives for the students in the Master in Finance (cand.merc) and Advanced Macrofinance for the students in the Master in Economics (cand.oecon). Juan Carlos also supervises bachelor theses, master theses, and topic reports. 

In the past, Juan Carlos has taught courses in Macroeconomics, Real Estate Economics, and Housing Markets and the Macroeconomy.

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