Menelaos karanasos Karanasos Brunel University   ,   menelaos.karanasos@brunel.ac.uk     Biographical Sketch: I am a Professor of Financial Economics at Brunel University, London. Prior to taking up his current position, he was a Lecturer at Keele University; a Lecturer at York University; Professor of Financial Economics at Newcastle University. He obtained his masters and doctoral degrees in Financial Economics from the University of London (Birkbeck College).   Primary Research Focus: My research interests include financial econometrics, applied macroeconomics, mathematical finance and time series analysis.   JEL Areas: C5 : Econometric Modeling: General E : Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics