ALEXANDRE XAVIER YWATA DE CARVALHO
PhD in Statistics. Researcher at the Institute of Applied Economic Research (IPEA).
Former Secretary of Infrastructure Development at the Secretariat of Productivity and Competitiveness (Sepec) of the Ministry of Economy.
He has a degree in Mechanical-Aeronautical Engineering (1994) and a specialization in Air Armament Engineering (1995) from the Instituto Tecnológico de Aeronáutica, a master's degree in Statistics and Quantitative Methods from the University of Brasília (1999) and a doctorate in Statistics from Northwestern University (2002). Former Secretary of Infrastructure Development at the Secretariat of Productivity and Competitiveness (Sepec) of the Ministry of Economy and was Vice President of Investment Funds at Caixa Econômica Federal, having previously held the position of Vice President of Risks and Internal Controls. His areas of interest for methodological research are: discrete choice models, expert mixture, non-linear time series, simultaneous optimization and learning in dynamic problems, spatial econometrics, statistical models for risk analysis, spatial clusters.
Courses he teaches:
Bachelor's Degree Economics, Professional Master's Degree in Economics, Public Policy and Development
Featured works:
DE CARVALHO, AX; TANNER, MA Modeling nonlinear count time series with local mixtures of Poisson autoregressions. Computational Statistics & Data Analysis, v. 51, p. 5266-5294, 2007. Access: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0167947306003586
RESENDE, GM; DE CARVALHO, AXY; SAKOWSKI, PAM; CRAVO, TA Evaluating multiple spatial dimensions of economic growth in Brazil using spatial panel data models. The Annals of Regional Science, vol. 56, p. 1-31, 2015. Access: https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s00168-015-0706-9.pdf