The Institute of Financial Studies in partnership with the "Alexandru Ioan Cuza" University of Iași invites you on March 19, 2021, at 10:00 to the SmartFIN@ISF Vocational Training Seminar. The seminar includes interactive presentations on the subject of career and presentations of case studies, technical and practical aspects in the field of insurance, capital market, pensions.
Special guests at the March 19 session:
Phd. Prof. Marian SIMINICĂ, Executive Director of ISF and PhD professor at the University of Craiova, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, teaches courses in Economic and Financial Analysis and Financial Diagnosis of the company and is a PhD supervisor in Accounting. He has a rich experience in university management, holding the position of Vice Dean of the Faculty (2008 - 2012), responsible for scientific research and quality assurance of education, as well as Dean, in 2012 - 2016. He was Vice President of the Board of the Association Romanian Faculties of Economics (2012-2016). He is a member of several professional associations in the economic field, respectively: expert evaluator ANEVAR, being General Secretary of the association in the period 2016-2017; expert accountant, CECCAR member; tax consultant, CCFR member. Since 2014 he is Vice President of the Romanian Society of Economic - Financial Analysis (SRAEF). Since 2017 he is a member of the CNATDCU Commission "Economic Sciences and Business Administration", and since 2018 a member of the Commission of permanent experts ARACIS, contributing to the external evaluation of numerous undergraduate and master's degree programs in economics. He has extensive experience in scientific research materialized in the publication of 7 books and university textbooks, over 60 articles in specialized journals, including 12 articles in journals indexed Web of Science with AIS nenul, participation in national and international conferences, participation in scientific research contracts as a grant director or member of the research team. He is a reviewer for several Web of Science indexed journals and a member of the editorial board for several indexed journals in International Databases. The main research directions are: financial performance and business risks; sectoral economic-financial analyzes; business behavior research models.
Crina DRĂGAN has been in NN for 12 years and has experience in developing, coordinating and implementing courses for management and sales force development. During all this time she played a key role in activities such as coordinating teams of managers in implementing and developing performance standards, performance training and coaching with teams of managers on performance objectives, activity and sales management, business development , monitoring the implementation of training and development programs, proposing improvement actions and adapting activities with stakeholders.
Mihnea BĂRBULESCU has over 20 years of experience in the Romanian capital market, with expertise in the field of sales of treasury products, financial investment services as well as collective and individual portfolio management services. The knowledge was accumulated within prestigious (financial) institutions in Romania, such as Raiffesisen Bank, Raiffeisen Capital & Investment S.A., BT Securities, Erste Asset Management Romania. He currently holds the position of Executive Director in the management of Erste Asset Management Romania and coordinates the sales, marketing and product management activities.
Marius ACATRINEI graduated in 2013 with a doctorate from the Institute of Economic Forecasting (Romanian Academy) on market risk modeling and in 2015 a postdoctoral degree from the Romanian Academy entitled “Current trends in financial risk modeling. Applications for Romania ”under the guidance of prof.acad.dr Lucian Albu. He is an alumni of the Joint Vienna Institute training center where he graduated 6 courses during 2011-2017. He participated in the summer school courses at the London School of Economics (2011) on DSGE models (Prof. Wouter den Haan) and CEMFI (2014) on models in the space of states with nowcasting applications held by Prof. Gabriel Perez-Quiros.
He worked at the National Securities Commission within the Center for Research and Vocational Training (CCFP) and within the Financial Supervision Authority as Head of the Modeling Service. He is currently working as Head of Modeling and Risk Assessment in the Directorate-General for Strategy and Financial Stability. He is the ASF representative in the Analyzes Working Group at the European Central Bank and an expert in the CNSM systemic risk working group.
Research topics are related to financial econometrics and macrofinancial models, namely early risk detection, construction of indicators and methodologies to highlight risks in the non-banking financial sector, contagion in financial markets, contagion in the business cycle, detection of latent factors with patterns in space conditions (eg natural interest rate), volatility modeling and correlations with GARCH models, stochastic volatility models, Markov-Switching models for detecting probability regime change, Autoregressive Vector models for macrofinancial models. He has published articles and studies published in specialized journals.
