Irina B. Panovska

I am an associate professor of economics at the School of Economic, Political, and Policy Sciences at the University of Texas at Dallas.

My research interests focus on modeling the macroeconomy, in particular the responses of the economy to different policy actions, and on the speed and duration of economic recoveries. The second stream of my research is methodological and focuses on identifying the trend and cyclical movements that define the state of the economy.

Keywords/Expertise for Media: recessions and recoveries (prediction, recession risk, speed of recovery, policy and policy responses), macroeconomic policy, macroeconomic conditions (GDP, inflation, unemployment, employment)

What's New

• July 10-12, 2025: I am organizing sessions at, and plan to attend, the Society for Economic Measurement Conference in Athens, Greece
• March 2025: I plan to attend the Annual Symposium of the Society for Nonlinear Dynamics and Econometrics at the University of Texas San Antonio, where I will present "Estimated Output Gap in a Wage-Inflation Expectations Framework"
• November 23rd-25th, 2024: I attended the Southern Economic Association Meeting, presented "Weak Identification, the Pile-up Problem, and Finite-Sample Inference for ARMA Models", and served as a senior faculty discussant for the Graduate Student Sessions
• November 16th, 2024: I co-organized the Inaugural North Texas Economics Conference, held at the University of North Texas
• October 31st-November 2nd, 2024: I attended the Midwest Econometrics Group Meeting, where I served as a senior mentor for the Mentoring Session for Junior Female Economists
• August 21st, 2024: I gave a keynote talk at the CREW Luncheon for Women in Commercial Real Estate in Dallas, TX
• August 1st, 2024: "Jobless Recoveries and Time Variation in Labor Markets" now forthcoming at the Journal of Macroeconomics
• August 1st-3rd, 2024: I presented "Estimated Output Gap in a Wage-Inflation Expectations Framework" at the Society for Economic Measurement Conference in Atlanta
• June 18th, 2024: "Business Cycle Synchronization and Asymmetry in the European Union" now forthcoming at Economic Modelling
• May 20th-31st, 2024: I visited the University of Zagreb. I am a Visiting Scholar (Affiliated Faculty) at the University of Zagreb 2023/2024 through 2025/2026
• September 30th, 2023: "Output Measurement and Technological Shocks in Business Cycles" accepted for publication at Applied Economics
• May 2023: I won the School of Economic, Political, and Policy Sciences 2023 Teaching Comet Award

Biography

My research statement can be found here.

I received my PhD in economics from Washington University in St. Louis in 2013. I received my MA in economics from Washington University in St. Louis in 2009, and my BA in economics and BS in mathematics from Ohio University in 2007. I have also held visiting scholar positions at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia, and the EFZG in Zagreb, Croatia.

I served as the treasurer (2019-2024) and as an elected member (2017-2024) of the executive committee of the Society for Nonlinear Dynamics and Econometrics.

In the fall semester, I teach Econ 4386 (Contemporary Economic Policy, Advanced Undergraduate) and Econ 6302 (Macroeconomics 1, PhD). In the spring semester, I teach Econ 4385 (Forecasting for Business and Economics).

My teaching philosophy statement can be found here.
A summary of my teaching evaluations can be found here.

I have previously taught Time Series Analysis (at the undergraduate and graduate level), Business, Government, and Macroeconomic Policy (advanced macroeconomics, undergraduate/ MS graduate, writing-intensive), Money and Banking (undergraduate core business class), and the Federal Reserve Challenge (undergraduate experiential learning class on monetary policy).