CURRICULUM VITAE
ALEKSANDAR Z. VASILEV
August 6, 2012
 
Aleksandar Z. Vasilev                               
Bulgarian Citizenship                            
alvasilev@yahoo.com                                
Office: +44 (0)141 330 2276
University of Glasgow, 
Business School, Department of Economics,
Adam Smith Building, G12 8RT
United Kingdom 
 
Research Focus 
Dynamic Macroeconomics, DSGE models, Real Business Cycles, Fiscal Policy & Public Sector Labor Markets, Political Economy

Education
Ph.D. Economics, University of Glasgow, 2009 – present (expected June 2013)
* Dissertation topic: “Essays in Real-Business-Cycle Modeling and the Public Sector”
* Advisors: Prof. Jim Malley and Dr. Konstantinos Angelopoulos
Ph.D. Student, Bonn Graduate School of Economics, Bonn, Germany 2008-09
M.S. Economics, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, May 2008 
M.A. Economics (with Merit), Central European Univ., Budapest, Hungary, June 2006 
B.A. Economics, Minor in Mathematics, Cum Laude, American University in Bulgaria, Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria, May 2004 

Additional Training
The Science and Art of DSGE Modeling: Construction, Calibration and Policy Exercises, Glasgow, July 20-21, 2011. Lecturer: Paul Levine
Amsterdam Macroeconomic Summer School: Solving DSGE models with heterogeneous agents, August 16 – 20, 2010. Lecturer: Wouter den Haan
Lectures on Fiscal Policy in General Equilibrium: University of Glasgow, May 24-27, 2010. Lecturer: Prof. Apostolis Philippopoulos
Postgraduate Teaching Assistant/Tutor Workshop, Napier University, UK. Oct. 7, 2009
14th ZEI Summer School “Heterogeneity in Macroeconomics,” Bonn, Germany. June 22 –30, 2009. Lecturers: Per Krusell and Eduardo Engel
Optimal Ramsey Policies, Bonn, Germany. June 16-20, 2009. Lecturer: Ester Faia.
Topics in Growth Theory, Bonn, Germany. June 24-28, 2009. Lecturer: Berthold Herrendorf.
SEEC Summer School 2008 “Applied Economics using MATLAB,” University of Salento, Italy. 

Awards, Honors and Scholarships 
HEA Associate Fellow, 2012 - present
SIRE Scholarship, 2009-12
BGSE Grant (DFG), 2008 -2009
ASU Graduate Teaching Assistantship, 2006 – 2008
ASU GPSA Conference Grant, 2008
ASU University Scholar Fellowship 2006-2007
CEU Research Grant, 2006
CEU Fellowship 2004-2006
AUBG GPA Scholarship 2000-2004
AUBG Dean’s List 2001, 2003

Professional Experience 
Department of Economics, Business School, University of Glasgow 
• Graduate Teaching Assistant, Economics 1A and Econometrics 1, Fall ‘09, Fall ‘10, Fall ‘11.
• Graduate Teaching Assistant, Economics 1B, Spring 2010, Spring 2011, Spring 2012.

Institute of Int. Economics, University of Bonn, Adenauerallee 24, 53113 Bonn, Germany 
• Teaching assistant (TA), Dynamic Macroeconomics for MSc students, Spring 2009 

Department of Economics, W.P. Carey Business School, Arizona State University
• TA, Principles of Macroeconomics and Managerial Economics, Fall 06 - Spring 08 

Department of Economics, Central European University
• Teaching assistant, Macroeconomics for Public Policy, Spring 2006 

Budapest Economics
• Part-time Assistant Macroeconomist, April-June 2005 

Bulgarian National Bank 
• Project internship at the Treasury Directorate: “Modeling sovereign yield spreads”, Summer 03

Department of Economics, American University in Bulgaria
• Student Assistant, Principles of Macroeconomics, Spring 2002 - Spring 2004
• Student Assistant, Money and Banking, Fall 2003 
• Student Assistant, Econometrics, Fall 2004
• Student Assistant, Principles of Microeconomics and Public Finance, Spring 2004

Committee Service and Other Activities
Ordinary Board Member, Glasgow University Bulgarian Society, 2010 - 2011
Organizer of “Heterogeneous-agents Macroeconomics” reading group, 2009-10
Higher Degrees Committee University of Glasgow student representative, 2009-10
Student Senator, American University in Bulgaria, 2003 – 2004
Sports Reporter in the student-run newspaper Aspecter, American University in Bulgaria, 2002
President of the Economics Club, American University in Bulgaria, Jan.-May, 2004.

Publications
“Business Cycles in Bulgaria and the Baltic Countries: An RBC approach,” International Journal of Computational Economics and Econometrics, vol.1, No.2, 2009

Work in progress 
“Cyclical and welfare effects of public sector unions in a Real-Business-Cycle model”
“Fiscal policy in a RBC model with labor-intensive government services, and endogenously-determined public hours and wages”
“On the cost of rent-seeking by government bureaucrats in a Real-Business-Cycle model”

Presentations 
University of Glasgow PhD Seminar, 2009 (discussant), 2010 (discussant), 2011 (presenter), 2012 (presenter).

BGSE Brown Bag Seminar, Bonn, Germany, May 2009.

5th European Workshop in Macroeconomics, Mannheim, Germany, June 12-13, 2009.
International Conference on Applied Economics (ICOAE), Kastoria, Greece, May 15-18, 2008.
2nd IAPSS-CEU In-house Conference, Budapest, Hungary, June 6, 2006

Professional Affiliation
Member of the Scottish Economic Society, Royal Economic Society, European Economic Association, American Economic Association, Econometric Society; Euro Area Business Cycle Network Fellow, Higher Education Academy Associate Fellow.

Language Skills 
Bulgarian - native, English – fluent, Russian - fluent, German - intermediate

Computer Skills 
MATLAB, MAPLE, DYNARE++, LaTeX , SPSS, Eviews, MS Office

References
Available upon request