Raul Guarini Riva PhD Candidate at Northwestern University

Teaching Experience

I particularly enjoy teaching and find it very rewarding. You can find one example of my teaching evaluations clicking here.

Below, I outline some courses for which I have served as a teaching assistant both during my period at Northwestern and during my years at FGV in Brazil.

Northwestern University

Econometrics (2020, 2021, 2022, 2023)

  • Instructor: Viktor Todorov;
  • Level: first-year PhD class;
  • Duties: weekly lectures both on econometric theory and empirical implementations of different econometric methods to demonstrate to students real-world difficulties in applied research.

Derivatives (2020, 2021, 2022, 2023)

  • Instructor: Viktor Todorov;
  • Level: honors undergraduate class and MBA class;
  • Duties: weekly lectures on theoretical aspects of derivatives markets, plus empirical examples with real-world data.

Capital Markets (2020, 2021, 2022, 2023)

  • Instructors: Philip Braun, Ian Dew-Becker, Viktor Todorov (on different years);
  • Level: honors undergraduate class and MBA class;
  • Duties: weekly lectures on both theory and empirical question related to asset pricing (mean-variance theory, CAPM, bond pricing), plus MBA-type cases with Python and R.

Fundacao Getulio Vargas (EPGE FGV)

Statistics I and II (2018)

  • Instructor: Marcelo Moreira;
  • Level: first-year PhD classes;
  • Duties: weekly sessions reviewing theoretical aspects of estimation and inference.

Data Science

  • Instructor: Genaro Lins;
  • Level: MBA-type equivalent;
  • Duties: weekly lectures on how to implement different Machine Learning methods in R.
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