Stefano Soccorsi is a Lecturer in Financial Economics at the Lancaster University Management School - Department of Economics. He holds a PhD in Economics and Finance from Sapienza University of Rome (2015), a MSc in Econometrics from the University of Southampton, MSc and BSc in Statistics and Economics from Sapienza. Stefano joined the Department in December 2017; before he was employed at the Univeristy of Bristol and at the European Center for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics (ECARES) - Université libre de Bruxelles. His research interests are: Dynamic Factor models, Forecasting, Macroeconometrics, Time Series analysis, Financial Econometrics, Dynamic Macroeconomics.