Juan Carlos Parra-Alvarez
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Juan Carlos Parra-Alvarez Department of Economics and Business Economics Fuglesangs Allé 4
Building 2631, room 129
8210 Aarhus V
Denmark
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.