Juan Carlos Parra-Alvarez
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Juan Carlos Parra-Alvarez Department of Economics and Business Economics Universitetsbyen 51
Building 1816, room 524
8000 Aarhus C
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 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 Financial Economics for PhD students. Juan Carlos also supervises bachelor theses, master theses, and topic reports.
In the past, Juan Carlos has taught courses in Macroeconomics, Real Estate Economics, Financial markets and the real economy, and Housing Markets and the Macroeconomy.
Job responsibilities
Juan Carlos is the programme coordinator for the Master's in Finance degree programme (cand.merc with specialisation in Finance) and teaching coordinator for finance courses at HA/BSc(B)/HA(jur).