Francisco Pinto Avalos

Francisco Pinto is lecturer in finance at the Alliance Manchester Business School. He joined the School in 2017 as a Ph.D. researcher. After his doctoral studies, Francisco started his current position as a lecturer. Previous to his Ph.D., Francisco performed as an economist at the Monetary Policy Division of the Central Bank of Chile.

Fields of interest

• International finance
• Time-series econometrics
• Macroeconomics

Current working papers

• Financial advisory firms, asset reallocation and price pressure in the FOREX market
• Asymptotic dependence and exchange rate forecasting
• Commodity market spillovers? Revisiting the impact on financial markets.

M.Sc. dissertations

• I am currently available to supervise M.Sc. dissertations. The main topic I supervise corresponds to the impact of monetary policy decisions and asset prices.
• Some examples of dissertations supervised in previous years: “Unexpected monetary policy changes and equity markets”, “Unconventional monetary policy and equity prices”, and “Monetary policy in China and its effect on the stock market”.

Experience as a lecturer at the Alliance Manchester Business School:

• International Finance (BMAN30060)
• Investment analysis (BMAN20072)
• Financial decision-making (BMAN10522)
• Empirical Finance (BMAN30190)

Experience as a teaching assistant at the University of Manchester

• Quantitative methods (undergraduate)
• Advisor/estimation support to student writing thesis (both undergraduate and graduate)
• Introductory econometrics (graduate)
• Macroeconomics (undergraduate) 

Previous teaching experience

• Macroeconomics (lecturer, University of Santiago, Chile)
• Econometrics (lecturer, SEK University, Chile)

Presentation in international conferences

• IFABS, University of Naples Federico II (Naples, Italy, 2022)
• EFMA, Campus Bio-Medico University (Rome, Italy, 2022)
• EFMA conference, The University of Leeds (Leeds, UK, 2021)
• EFMA PhD student seminar, The University of Leeds (Leeds, UK, 2021)
• Research and Policy Seminars, Central Bank of Chile (Santiago, Chile, 2014, 2021)
• Chilean Economic Society [SECHI], annual meeting (Viña del Mar, Chile, 2014, 2015)

Awards and scholarships

• Teaching Excellence, Alliance MBS, The University of Manchester, UK (2022)
• Ph.D. scholarship, ANID (former CONICYT), Chile (2020)
• Ph.D. scholarship, Alliance MBS, The University of Manchester, UK (2017)
• M.Sc. scholarship, Central Bank of Chile (2016)

• Contreras, G. and Pinto, F., (2016) “Exchange rate pass-through to disaggregate inflation in Chile”, Journal Economía Chilena, vol. 19, no. 2, pp. 154–170.
• Contreras, G. and Pinto, F., (2015) “Vulnerability to changes in external financing due to global factors”, Journal Economía Chilena, vol. 18, no. 2, pp. 98–119.
• Contreras, G. and Pinto, F., (2015) “Empirical evidence of conditional convergence in Chile”, Journal Economía Chilena, vol. 18, no. 2, pp. 120–137.