Tatevik Sekhposyan

Tatevik Sekhposyan is an Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at Texas A&M University. She is also a Research Fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research and has held leadership roles, including former president of the Society for Nonlinear Dynamics and Econometrics and newly elected president of the Armenian Economic Association. Her research spans applied macroeconomics, time series analysis, and predictive density evaluations, with a focus on macroeconomic shocks and uncertainty.

• PhD in Economics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• Former economist at the Bank of Canada

Her work combines classical and Bayesian econometric techniques to address model selection, forecast evaluation, and nonlinear dynamics. She has developed uncertainty indices and tools for real-time economic monitoring, notably through electricity demand analysis during the pandemic. Her methodological contributions include Markov switching rationality tests and fixed-horizon density forecasting.

Key scientific awards include the

• International Journal of Forecasting's Outstanding Paper Award (2014)

Tatevik applies her research to corporate settings as an Amazon Scholar, bridging academic insights with inventory management and supply chain optimization. She mentors junior economists and emphasizes the importance of role models in economics education.