Welcome to my website! I am a PhD candidate in Economics and Data Science at the University of Montreal.


My research interests include Econometrics, Big Data, Machine Learning/Text as Data (NLP), and Climate Finance. I am also interested in applying Artificial Intelligence methods to answer macro-finance and causal inference questions.


I hold an MSc. in Statistics and Economics, and have worked as an economist at the IMF and World Bank, as well as an AI Scientist in the IT Industry.


I will be on the job market in the 2023-2024 academic year, and I will be available for interviews at the ASSA and at the EJME virtual meetings.


Please see my CV for more details.


Recent and Upcoming Talks:

  • 2023 NBER-NSF Time Series Conference, poster session
  • 17th International Conference on Computational and Financial Econometrics (Berlin, December 2023)
  • Conference on Recent Developments in Econometrics
  • 1st CIREQ Interdisciplinary Conference on Big Data and Artificial Intelligence
  • Annual Meetings of the Canadian Economics Association (CEA)
  • CIREQ Montreal Econometrics Conference in Honor of Eric Renault

    • Contacts:

    Email: firmin.ayivodji@umontreal.ca

    Phone: (514) 343-6111 #37386

    Office: Lionel-Groulx Building, Office C-6070-10

    3150 Jean brillant, Université de Montréal

    Montréal, Québec, H3T 1N8, Canada.


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