Petre Caraiani is Senior Researcher at the Institute for Economic Forecasting as well as a PhD advisor and professor at the School for Advanced Studies, Romanian Academy. His research focuses on modeling macroeconomic and financial phenomena with a focus on the links between the two. He has published many articles in peer-reviewed journals, including Economics Letters, Journal of Macroeconomics, Empirical Economics, Economic Modelling and International Review of Economics & Finance. His main topics of interest include business cycles, forecasting, nonlinear modeling and networks.