I consider myself fortunate in having a number of mentors and collaborators from whom I have learned a great deal. Here are some of them (in the order of number of coauthored papers):

• Gary Koop, University of Strathclyde, UK
• Eric Eisenstat, University of Queensland, Australia
• Dirk Kroese, University of Queensland, Australia
• Rodney Strachan, University of Queensland, Australia
• Angelia Grant, Department of the Treasury, Australia
• Justin Tobias, Purdue University, USA
• Dan Zhu, Monash University, Australia
• Xuewen Yu, Fudan University, China
• Roberto Leon-Gonzalez, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies, Japan
• Liana Jacobi, University of Melbourne, Australia
• Ivan Jeliazkov, University of California, Irvine, USA
• Simon Potter, Federal Reserve Bank of New York, USA
• Cody Hsiao, Macau University of Science and Technology, China
• Chenghan Hou, Hunan University, China
• Todd Clark, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, USA
• Tim Brereton, Deutsche Bank, Germany
• Aubrey Poon, University of Kent, UK
• Renée Fry-McKibbin, Australian National University, Australia
• Peter Glynn, Stanford University, USA
• Luca Benati, University of Bern, Switzerland
• Daniel Henderson, University of Alabama, USA
• Christopher Parmeter, University of Miami, USA
• Yong Song, University of Melbourne, Australia
• Thomas Yang, Australian National University, Australia
• Jamie Cross, University of Melbourne, Australia
• Bo Zhang, Wenzhou University, China
• Caterina Santi, HEC Liège, Belgium
• Arnaud Doucet, Oxford University, UK
• Dale Poirier, University of California, Irvine, US
• Edouard Wemy, Clark University, US
• Andrea Carriero, Queen Mary University of London, UK
• Massimiliano Marcellino, Bocconi University, Italy
• Davide Pettenuzzo, Brandeis University, US
• Christian Matthes, Indiana University, US
• Yaling Qi, Purdue University, USA