Syamsul Hidayat Pasaribu received his Ph.D degree in Economics from Georg-August University of Goettingen, Germany in 2014. Currently, he serves as a faculty member at Department of Economics, IPB University and an executive secretary at International Center for Applied Finance and Economics (InterCAFE) at the same university. He is also an associate fellow on the Australia – Indonesia Centre (AIC). His main areas of research interest are development economics, labour economics, financial economics and applied econometrics. Previously, he worked on some international and national projects/consultancies such as with World Bank, GIZ, Bank Indonesia, Indonesia Deposit Insurance Indonesia Eximbank, Bank BTN, Bappenas, and Ministry of Agriculture. Some of his works have been published on the Journal of Economic Inequality, Bulletin of Monetary Economics and Banking and International Journal of Economics and Financial Issues.