Rok Spruk

Rok Spruk, PhD, is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Economics, University of Ljubljana. His academic work focuses on advanced econometric methods and causal inference, with a particular emphasis on time series analysis, dynamic panel data modeling, and policy evaluation techniques such as difference-in-differences and synthetic control estimators.

• Causal inference frameworks (matching, instrumental variables, regression discontinuity)
• Time series econometrics (ARIMAX, GARCH, VAR models)
• Dynamic panel data methods (Arellano-Bond, Blundell-Bond, LSDVc)
• Big-data analytics and kernel-regularized least squares
• Policy evaluation with synthetic control estimators