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About Professor Genaro Sucarrat

Genaro Sucarrat is Professor of Econometrics at BI Norwegian Business School since April 2024. He studied economics and politics (Cand.Mag. in economics, politics and philosopy at the University of Oslo, MA in international political economy at the University of Warwick) before obtaining an MA and a PhD in Economics at Université catolique de Louvain. After his doctoral studies, he worked a total of four years as a Marie Curie individual fellow and visiting professor at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, before joining BI Norwegian Business School as an econometrician in 2010. In addition, he has spent several research visits at other institutions, including University of Cambridge, University of Oxford, CREST (Paris), Université de Lille, and Pontificia universidad catolica de Chile.

Sucarrat's research lies within financial econometrics, econometric theory and statistical model selection. His research has been published in international peer-reviewed journals like Journal of Time Series Analysis, Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, Journal of Financial Econometrics, Journal of Multivariate Analysis, Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, International Journal of Forecasting, Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, Journal of Statistical Software, and Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, amongst other. He has also developed several R packages (statistical software), available via the Comprehensive R-Archive Network (CRAN), which has been downloaded about 400 000 times from the 0-cloud server alone.

Since 2010 he is been responsible for the forecasting prize
("Prognoseprisen") of the Norwegian Association of Economists, which is awarded every year to the best forecaster of the Norwegian economy. He is also responsible for MATIA, a yearly independent assessment of the macroeconomic forecasts that Statsbudsjettet (the National State Budget) are based upon. In his leisure time, his favourite activity is Ski mountaineering.

For more information on Sucarrat's research, please visit his webpage.