Javier Fernández-Macho is Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Economics and Master of Science (MSc) in Statistics from the London School of Economics (Department of Statistics and Mathematical Science). Currently, he is Coordinator of the Master in Economics: Tools of Economic Analysis, a master degree offered jointly by the Universities of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), Cantabria (UC) and Oviedo (UO), and Full Professor of Econometrics at the Department of Quantitative Methods of the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) where he lectures on Econometrics and Time Series Analysis.