Oleksandr Talavera - Curriculum Vitae#

EMPLOYMENT

• Jan 2019 - present Professor in Financial Economics, Birmingham Business School, University of Birmingham
  
• Dec 2016 - Dec 2018 Professor in Finance, School of Management, Swansea University
  
• Oct 2012 - Dec 2016 Reader in Finance, Management School, University of Sheffield
  
• Aug 2011 - Sep 2012 Senior Lecturer in Finance, Durham Business School, Durham University
  
• Aug 2009 - Jul 2011 Lecturer in Economics, School of Economics, University of East Anglia
  
• Apr 2008 - Jun 2009 Lecturer in Finance, Aberdeen Business School, The Robert Gordon University
  
• Sep 2004 - Mar 2008 Research Associate, German Institute for Economic Research (DIW-Berlin)

EDUCATION

• 2005 Ph. D. in Economics, European University Viadrina, Germany
  
• 2002 M.A. in Economics, Boston College, USA
  
• 2001 M.A. in Economics, Kyiv School of Economics, Ukraine
  
• 1999 B.A. in Economics, Ostroh Academy, Ukraine
  

EXTERNAL RESEARCH FUNDING

• British Academy Small Grant, Market Reactions to Managers' Accents in Earnings Conference Calls: a Machine Learning Approach (9,000 GBP) - October 2024
  
• Newton Fund Research Environment Links UK/Vietnam Grant (114,000 GBP, PI) - November 2017
  
• ESRC-NSFC Research Grant ES/P004741/1 Peer-to-peer lending market in China: pricing, risk management and regulation (322,732 GBP) - January 2017
  
• UNU-WIDER Research Project Grant on Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises in Vietnam (3,000 USD
  
• Google Research Award (26,383 USD) - May 2011
  
• British Academy Small Grant (6,926 GBP) - February 2010
  
• Royal Society of Edinburgh - Natural Science Foundation of China (10,640 GBP) - December 2008

Examiner/Reviewer:

External examiner: Xian Jiaotong Liverpool (2024 - present), Bath (2018 - 2022), Glasgow (2019 - 2021), Loughborough (2016 - 2019), Keele (2015 - 2017), Birmingham (2012 - 2015).

PhD External Examiner: UEA (2022), Durham (2020), Middlesex (2019), Cardiff (2018), Nottingham (2017), Salford (2017), Birmingham (2016), Glasgow (2016), RGU (2015), Hull (2014).

External Program Reviewer: Reading (2020), Cardiff (2020), Open (2019), Liverpool (2013).

Funding Evaluation: British Council, ESRC, DFG (Germany), Swiss National Science Foundation, Narodowe Centrum Nauki (Poland), Carnegie Trust.

CONSULTANCY:

International Monetary Fund (IMF) expert, Monetary and Capital Markets Department, missions to the National Bank of Ukraine, 2017-2020.

EDITORSHIP:

Economic Modelling (Editor 2025-present, Associate Editor 2019-2024), Emerging Markets Finance and Trade (Associate Editor, 2019-2020), Bank i Kredyt (Journal of the Narodowy Bank Polski), Visnyk NBU (Herald of the National Bank of Ukraine), VoxUkraine.org

Conference Organizer/Program Committee:

Econometric Society World Congress 2025, Swansea Workshop on Prices and Nowcasting 2018, Frontiers in Empirical Finance Workshop 2017, Durham-Fudan Workshop, KSE World Congress.