Dr Octavio Fernández-Amador

Octavio Fernandez-Amador is a Postdoc Senior Researcher at the World Trade Institute (WTI) of the University of Bern (Switzerland). He holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Innsbruck (Austria) and a degree in Economics from the University of Seville (Spain). He previously worked as a Postdoc Assistant Professor at Johannes Kepler University Linz (Austria). Octavio has collaborated in projects with different institutions like the Austrian Nationalbank (OeNB) and research institutes such as the Austrian Institute of Economic Research (WIFO) and the Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies (WIIW). His field of research is applied econometrics, macroeconomics, and environmental economics. In particular, he has worked on international monetary macroeconomics, time series analysis, and the quantitative analysis of carbon dioxide emissions. Octavio has published in international journals such as Journal of International Money and Finance, Journal of Macroeconomics, and Journal of Empirical Finance.