Mária Širaňová

University associate professor Mária Širaňová, Ph.D. is with the Faculty of the Social and Economic Sciences since 2023. She also works as a senior research fellow at the Economic Institute of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, where she served as the head of the Department of Macro-financial Analysis. Her key areas of research include topics in empirical monetary economics, international finance—with a particular focus on capital flows and macroeconomic imbalances—and issues in financial geography.  Articles she has co-authored have been published in several prominent academic journals, such as the Journal of Financial Stability, the Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, the Review of International Economics, and European Financial Management. As a researcher, she has participated in several national (APVV, VEGA) and international research projects (Horizon 2020, GACR Czechia, NSC Poland, COST Action).

At the Institute of Economics, she teaches the following courses:

• Banking
• Models of Banking Operations
• Monetary Policy
• Econometric Modeling
• Economic Policy Models