ZERVOU ANASTASIA

Dr. Anastasia (Natassa) Zervou-Velez is a macroeconomist specializing in monetary policy and its interaction with financial markets and labor market dynamics. She holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Washington University in St. Louis and has held faculty positions at the University of Texas at San Antonio, the University of Texas at Austin, and Texas A&M University. Her research examines the transmission mechanisms of monetary policy, its interaction with financial markets, and the heterogeneous effects of monetary policy across households and firms, with recent work focusing on labor market outcomes. Her research has been published in journals including the European Economic Review, the Scandinavian Journal of Economics, Macroeconomic Dynamics, AEA Papers & Proceedings, and Economics Letters. She has presented her work at international conferences and has been invited to give talks at several central banks, policy institutions, and universities, including the Federal Reserve Banks of St. Louis, Cleveland, and Dallas, the Bank for International Settlements, the Bank of Spain, the Bank of Greece, De Nederlandsche Bank, the Polish Central Bank, the Center for Latin American Monetary Studies, the Einaudi Institute for Economics and Finance, the European University Institute, National Taiwan University, the University of International Business and Economics Beijing, and Los Andes University in Colombia, among others. Alongside her research, Dr. Zervou has been actively involved in program development and student mentoring. Together with Dr. Rodrigo Velez, she designed the xQuant@ACOB program, which was awarded a $2.8 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education PPOHA, to expand graduate programs and create research career pathways for students at the Alvarez College of Business at UTSA; she served as the program's Research Pathway Director. Moreover, she served as Academic Placement Director for the Master of Arts in Economics program at the University of Texas at Austin, where she guided students into doctoral programs and professional positions at institutions including Harvard, MIT Sloan, Chicago Booth, Columbia, Berkeley, among others, and several Federal Reserve Banks. She is also committed to diversity and inclusion mentoring in Economics and related fields.