Luis F. Martins (1973) is Associate Professor with "Agregação" of Economics at ISCTE - Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, since 1998. Previously he has been Junior Assistant of Quantitative Methods at the University of Algarve (1996-1998). He studied economics and econometrics at ISEG-UL, (Licenciatura in Economics, 1995; M.S. in Mathematical Modeling for Economics and Management, 1998) and economics at the Pennsylvania State University (PhD in economics, 2005). His research focus on econometrics and applied macroeconomics and applied finance and he has published a number of articles in refereed journals including Econometric Theory, Econometrics Journal, Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, Tourism Management, Econometric Reviews, Journal of Time Series Analysis, Quantitative Finance, European Financial Management, and Empirical Economics. He was a member of the LOC of the 2017 Annual Congress of the EEA/ESEM held in Lisbon 2017 (UL and ISCTE-IUL). He was co-director of the PhD program in economics (February 2019 - September 2021). More at the personal webpage: https://sites.google.com/view/luismartinseconomics/