Rate My Professor Leandro Magnusson

Leandro Magnusson is an Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Economics in the UWA Business School at the University of Western Australia. He earned his Bachelor of Arts in Economics from the University of Sao Paulo in 1995, Master of Arts in Economics from the University of Sao Paulo in 2000, and Ph.D. from Brown University in 2007. His professional career includes positions as Assistant Professor at Tulane University from 2007 to 2011 and Researcher at the Institute of Applied Economic Research in Brazil from 2000 to 2001. Currently, as Head of Department, he leads the Economics discipline within the Business School, contributing to a strong research and teaching environment.

Magnusson's research focuses on applied econometrics and econometrics, particularly the identification of causal relationships in economic variables using time series and cross-section models, hypothesis testing with weak instruments, and new-Keynesian models. He was awarded the BHP Billiton Distinguished Research Award in 2014. Key publications include "Empirical evidence on the U.S. monetary–fiscal policy mix" (with Carlevaro and Haque, Economics Letters, 2026), "Empirical evidence on the Euler equation for investment in the US" (with Ascari, Haque, Magnusson, and Mavroeidis, Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2024), "Trust, risk, and gender: Evidence from the Black Saturday Fires in Victoria, Australia" (with Roth, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2024), "Identification Robust Empirical Evidence on the Open Economy IS-Curve" (with Haque, Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2023), "Monetary policy regimes: a global assessment" (with Paranavithana, Tyers, and Schiffmann, The World Economy, 2022), and "Implementing weak-instrument robust tests for a general class of instrumental-variables models" (with Finlay). He also authored the WEAKIV Stata module for performing weak-instrument-robust tests. Magnusson has served on programme committees for the 2019 Econometric Society Australasian Meeting, the Fourth annual conference of the International Association for Applied Econometrics (2017), the 22nd International Panel Data Conference (2016), and the 2014 Latin American Meeting of the Econometric Society.