One of the discipline's very prestigious scholarly journals, the American Statistical Association's Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, features an alumnus of the BC EC PhD program in the first two issues of 2010. Nikolai Gospodinov, PhD '2000, is an Associate Professor of Economics in Concordia University, Montréal, where he started his academic career in 2000. He is also a Research Associate at CIREQ (Centre interuniversitaire de recherche en economie quantitative) in Montréal, and has been a visiting professor at McGill University.

The lead article in the January, 2010 issue of JBES is Gospodinov's "Inference in Nearly Nonstationary SVAR Models With Long-Run Identifying Restrictions", while the April 2010 issue contains his article "Modeling Financial Return Dynamics via Decomposition", coauthored with Stanislav Anatolyev of the New Economic School, Moscow. Gospodinov has also published in Econometric Theory, Journal of Financial Econometrics, Journal of Econometrics, Journal of Health Economics, Journal of Forecasting, Canadian Journal of Economics, Econometrics Journal and Econometric Reviews. One of his papers was chosen as the Best Paper in Econometric Reviews in 2004-2005. We congratulate Nikolai on his very productive research agenda!