A CIRANO Researcher and Fellow since 1999, Silvia Gonçalves is Professor in the Department of Economics at McGill University. She is also Co-Editor of the Journal of Financial Econometrics, Associate Editor of the ournal of Econometrics, of the Journal of Time Series Analysis, of the Journal of Business and Economics Statistics, of the Econometrics Journal and of the Portuguese Economic Journal.

Holding a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of California, San Diego, her areas of specialization are financial econometrics, time-series analysis and econometric theory. She is a specialist in the bootstrap technique.