Faculty and Staff Profiles

• Interests: Macroeconomics/Monetary Policy Analysis, International Economics, Applied Econometrics
  
• Citizenship: Ukraine (U.S. Permanent Resident)
  
• Date of birth: March 21, 1979

• Ph.D. Economics - University of Houston - 2008
• MA Economics - Economics Education and Research Consortium - 2003
• MSc Physics - Odessa National University - 2001

• Assistant Professor, Economics - University of Memphis - 2008-present

• Summer Research Grant $5,000 - Fogelman College - 2011
• Summer Research Grant $10,000 - Fogelman College - 2010
• Travel Grant (Cambridge, MA) $500 - CIBER - 2010
• Summer Research Grant $10,000 - Fogelman College - 2009
• Travel Grant (Montreal, Canada) $500 - CIBER - 2009
• Travel Grant (San Antonio, TX) $500 - CIBER - 2009

• Advanced Quantitative Economic Analysis - University of Memphis
• Quantitative Economic Analysis - University of Memphis
• Econometrics II - University of Memphis
• Advanced Macroeconomics I - University of Memphis
• Advanced Macroeconomics II - University of Memphis
• Introduction to Macroeconomics - University of Memphis
• Principles of Macroeconomics - Univeristy of Houston

• MBA. Ph.D. in progress - Jay Walker - 2012 (expected)
• MA. Ph.D. in progress - Ioana Sofia Pacurar - 2012 (expected)
• ABD - Michael Jetter - 2011 (expected)
• ABD - Stephanie Steinberg - 2011 (expected)
• Ph.D. - Deepjar Mukherjee - 2010
• Ph.D. - Dennis Arvik - 2009

• OECD Real-Time Historical Database - with Adriana Fernandez & Evan Koenig - 2008-2011 - Project supported by the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas

• University of Memphis - Graduate Curriculum Committee Member - 2008-present
• University of Memphis - Econometrics Comprehensive Exam Committee - 2008-present
• University of Memphis - Macroeconomics Comprehensive Exam Committee - 2008-present
• University of Memphis - Economics Department Research Seminar Organizer - 2009-present
• University of Memphis - Department Representative to the Library - 2010-present
• University of Memphis - Graduate Student Presentations Organizer - 2010-present
• University of Memphis - Faculty Hiring Committee - 2009-2010

• Referee for the "Review of Economics and Statistics" -  
• Referee for the "Journal of Macroeconomics" -  
• Referee for the "International Journal of Forecasting" -  
• Referee for the "Economic Inquiry" -  
• Referee for the "Studies of Nonlinear Dynamics and Econometrics" -  
• Referee for the "Canadian Economic Journal" -  

• “Monetary Policy Estimation in Real Time: Forward-Looking Taylor Rules without Forward-Looking Data,” Journal of Money, Credit and Banking (forthcoming)
• “Taylor Rules and the Euro,” with Tanya Molodtsova and David Papell, Journal of Money, Credit and Banking Vol. 43, No. 2–3 (March–April 2011)
• “Can Alternative Taylor-rule Specifications Describe the Federal Reserve Decisions?,” with Adriana Fernandez. Journal of Policy Modeling, Volume 32, Issue 6, November-December 2010, Pages 733-757
• “The Changing Nature of the U.S. Economic Influence in the World,” with Adriana Fernandez  and Evan F. Koenig, Journal of Policy Modeling, Volume 32, Issue 2, March-April (2010), Pages 196-209
• “Taylor Rules and Real-Time Data: A Tale of Two Countries and One Exchange Rate,” with Tanya Molodtsova and David Papell, 2008. Journal of Monetary Economics 55 (2008) S63-S79
• “Globalization and the Changing Nature of the U.S. Economy’s Influence in the World,” with Adriana Fernandez, 2008. Economic Letter, Vol. 3, No. 11, November.
• “The Relative Performance of Alternative Taylor Rule Specifications,” with Adriana Fernandez and Evan F. Koenig, 2008. Dallas Fed Staff Papers, No. 6, June.
• “Measuring the Taylor Rule's Performance,” with Adriana Fernandez, 2007. Economic Letter, Vol. 2, No. 6, June.

• 2011: University of South Florida
• 2010: SSSA International Annual Meetings, NBER IFM Summer Institute (participant), Conference on Real-Time Data Analysis, Methods, and Applications (participant)
• 2009: 5th Annual CIRANO Workshop on Data Revision, NBER IFM Summer Institute, Midwest Annual Meetings in Cleveland, 9th Annual Missouri Economics Conference, 79th Annual Meetings of the Southern Economic Association
• 2008: Emory University, St. Louis Fed Workshop on Macro Policy Analysis
• 2007: Midwest Econometrics Group Meetings, European Economic Association & Econometric Society Meetings, North American Summer Meeting of the Econometric Society, 7th Annual Missouri Economics Conference, Texas Econometrics Camp
• 2006: Symposium of the Society for Nonlinear Dynamics and Econometric