Maria Pacurar
Associate Professor of Finance; Vice Chair of Senate, Student Affairs
            
Email: Maria.Pacurar@dal.ca
Phone: 902-494-3928
Fax: 902-494-1107
Mailing Address:
Kenneth C. Rowe Management Building 
6100 University Ave, Room 4088 
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada B3H 4R2 
 
            
        Research Topics:- ACD models
 - High-frequency data
 - Market microstructure
 - Financial markets
 - Financial risk assessment
 - Asset pricing
 - FinTech
 
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Education
- PhD (HEC Montréal)
 - MBA (IAE Nantes/ESFAM)
 - BEc (Babes-Bolyai University, Romania)
 
1Current Teaching
- Ìý Introduction to FinTech
 - Ìý Financial Institutions
 - Ìý Foundations of Fintech
 - Ìý Global Markets & Institutions
 
Research Interests
Dr. Pacurar’s research focuses on the use of high-frequency financial data for intraday risk measurement, market microstructure analysis and multi-market trading.
Selected Awards and Honours
- 2015Ìý A. Gordon Archibald Teaching Excellence Award
 - 2015Ìý Rowe Research Grant
 - 2009ÌýÌýFaculty of Management Teaching Excellence Award
 - 2007ÌýÌý2006 Mercure Award for the best doctoral thesis at HEC Montréal
 - 2006ÌýÌýBank of Canada Award for Best Canadian Financial Market Paper at the 2006 Northern Finance Association Conference (with Georges Dionne and Pierre Duchesne)
 
Selected Publications
- Factor investing and risk management: Is smart-beta diversification smart? Nazaire, G., Pacurar, M., & Sy, O. Finance Research Letters, 41, 101854Ìý (2021)
 - Betas versus characteristics: A practical perspectiveÌý Nazaire, G., Pacurar, M., & Sy, O. European Financial Management 26, 1385-1413Ìý (2020)
 - Liquidity-adjusted intraday value-at-risk modeling and risk management: An application to data from Deutsche BörseÌý Dionne, G., Pacurar, M. & Zhou, X.Ìý Journal of Banking and Finance 59, 202-219Ìý (2015)
 - Intraday value-at-risk (IVaR) using tick-by-tick data with application to the Toronto Stock ExchangeÌýÌýDionne, G., Duchesne, P. & Pacurar, M.Ìý Journal of Empirical Finance 16(5), 777-792Ìý (2009)
 - Autoregressive conditional duration (ACD) models in finance: A survey of the theoretical and empirical literatureÌý Pacurar, M.Ìý Journal of Economic Surveys 22(4), 711-751Ìý (2008)