Leonardo Iania


PhD Student in Economics
(Promotor Prof. Dr. Hans Dewacther)
69 Naamsestraat, Faculty of Business and Economics K.U. Leuven, 3000, Leuven, Belgium
Room 02.149
Telephone: +32 16 326835
Fax: +32 16 326796
Email: leonardo.iania@econ.kuleuven.be

Publications


  • An Extended Macro-Finance Model with Financial Factors, Forthcoming, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis (joint with Hans Dewachter )

    Completed Papers


  • Information in the Yield Curve: A Macro-Finance Approach (joint with Hans Dewachter and Marco Lyrio, Revision invited)

    A New-Keynesian Model of the Yield Curve with Learning Dynamics: A Bayesian Evaluation (joint with Hans Dewachter and Marco Lyrio, Submitted)


    Work In Progress


  • The Information Content of Corporate Bond Spreads: a Macro-Finance Approach (joint with Hans Dewachter , Wolfgang Lemke , and Kristien Smedts)
  • Prior specification in a time varying vector autoregressive model

    Education


  • 2008: Master of Statistics (K.U. Leuven, Centre of Statistics)
  • 2005: Master of Financial Economics (K.U. Leuven, Faculty of Business and Economics)
  • 2004: Laurea in Economia Aziendale (Università Della Calabria, Facoltà di Economia)

  • Teaching Assistant


    Graduate Courses

  • Macro-Finance (Instructor: Prof. Dr. Hans Dewachter)
  • Advanced International Monetary Economics (Instructor: Prof. Dr. Hans Dewachter)
  • Empirics of Financial Markets (Instructor: Prof. Dr. Hans Dewachter)

    Undergraduate Courses

  • Method of Economic Research (Instructor: Prof. Dr. Hans Dewachter)


    Research Interests


  • Macro-Finance;
  • Bayesian Econometrics.

    Links


    PhD's tips

  • Tips for PhD Students (From Monika Piazzesi's web site)
  • Breamer Guide to make nice presentations (By KiJoo Kim)
  • Matlab

  • Malatb tips and tricks (From Kevin Murphy's website)
  • Lightspeed: A package to speed up your Matlab (by Tom Minka)
  • Fun

  • PHD Comics
  • Jokes about economists

  • leonardo.iania@econ.kuleuven.be