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Dr. Felix Pretis
Elective Faculty

Dr. Felix Pretis

Associate Professor of Economics

University of Victoria

01/Biography

Felix Pretis is Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Victoria, British Columbia, and deputy co-director of the Climate Econometrics project at Nuffield College, Oxford. His research applies econometric model selection and break detection to climate and policy questions. He develops and maintains the R packages gets and getspanel, which implement general-to-specific model selection and indicator saturation for detecting structural breaks and outliers.

03/Modules taught
  • ●Climate Econometrics
04/Selected works
  • Author of the R packages gets and getspanel.
  • Published in Science, Nature Energy, Environmental and Resource Economics and the Journal of Statistical Software.