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Economic Researcher | Sovereign Risk & Climate‑Finance Specialist | Economist Published in Leading Peer‑Reviewed Journal

Profile Summary

Economist and published researcher specialising in sovereign risk, climate‑related fiscal resilience, catastrophe bonds, and macro‑financial policy. Author of multiple peer‑reviewed articles in leading journals such as Review of World Economics, Eurasian Economic Review, Economics of Disasters & Climate Change, and Finance Research Letters. Former analyst at the European Commission, European Central Bank, European Securities and Markets Authority, and OECD. I provide econometric modelling, policy analysis, climate‑finance research, and high‑quality technical reports for international organisations, think tanks, and research teams.

Subject Matter Expertise

• ☆ Statistics
• ☆ Development Economics
• ☆ Excel
• ☆ STATA
• ☆ R
• ☆ Sustainable Development
• ☆ Environmental Economics
• ☆ Macroeconomics
• ☆ Econometrics
• ☆ Microeconomics
• ☆ Economic Evaluation
• ☆ Banking

Services

• Writing
• Research
• Research
• Consulting
• Data & AI

Writing Technical Writing, General Proofreading & Editing, Translation

Research Meta-Research, Fact Checking, Scientific and Technical Research, Systematic Literature Review, Secondary Data Collection

Consulting Scientific and Technical Consulting

Data & AI Statistical Analysis, Data Visualization, Big Data Analytics, Text Mining & Analytics, Data Mining, Data Cleaning

Work Experience

Independent Researcher

Independent Researcher

May 2026 - Present

Junior Economist

OECD

March 2020 - Present

Statistical Assistant

European Commission

December 2017 - February 2020

Intern

European Securities and Markets Authority

January 2017 - November 2017

Financial Stability Expert

European Central Bank

August 2016 - December 2016

Intern

European Central Bank

October 2015 - July 2016

Economic Analyst of Financial Markets

European Commission

March 2015 - September 2015

Blue Book Trainee

European Commission

October 2014 - February 2015

Education

Master's Degree (Financial Economics)

Universitatea de Vest din Timişoara Facultatea de Economie şi de Administrare a Afacerilor

October 2011 - July 2014

Master's Degree (Financial Economics)

Université d'Angers UFR Droit Économie et Gestion

September 2012 - September 2013

Bachelor's Degree (Finance and Banking)

Universitatea Babeş-Bolyai Facultatea de Ştiinţe Economice şi Gestiunea Afacerilor

October 2008 - July 2011

Erasmus Scholarship

Université d'Orléans Faculté de Droit d'Economie et de Gestion

September 2009 - January 2010

Certifications

• Certification details not provided.

Publications

JOURNAL ARTICLE

Raluca Maran, Eugenia Ramona Mara (2025). Spillover Effects of Australia's Conventional and Unconventional Monetary Policy Shocks on the Philippine Stock Market: An SVAR Approach . Asian-Pacific Economic Literature.

Raluca Maran (2025). Do investors reward sovereign catastrophe bond issuance? Evidence from a panel of 26 disaster-prone countries . Review of World Economics.

Eugenia Ramona Mara, Raluca Maran (2024). Are fiscal rules efficient on public debt restraint in the presence of shadow economy? . Finance Research Letters.

Raluca Maran (2023). Impact of macroprudential policy on economic growth in Indonesia: a growth-at-risk approach . Eurasian Economic Review.

Raluca Maran(2023). Do Sovereign Catastrophe Bonds Improve Fiscal Resilience? An Application of Synthetic Control Method to Mexico . Economics of Disasters and Climate Change. Springer Science and Business Media {LLC}

Raluca Maran (2023). Drivers of sovereign catastrophe bond issuance: an empirical analysis . SN Business & Economics.

Raluca MARAN(2022). Improving Micro-, Small and Medium Enterprise’s Access to Start-up Financing in ASEAN Countries . Journal of Research, Innovation and Technologies (JoRIT). 1. (2). {SCIRES} {WEB} - {RITHA} Publishing