Juan Carlos Parra-Alvarez is Postodoctoral researcher affiliated with the Finance Research Group at Aalborg University Business School. He is also is research fellow at CREATES, Aarhus University, and the Danish Finance Institute. Juan Carlos holds a PhD in Economics and Business from Aarhus University. His research interests lie within the fields of quantitative macroeconomics and finance with a particular focus on the solution and estimation of equilibrium dynamic economies.