Jaroslava Hlouskova is currently a Senior Researcher in the research group Business Cycles, Growth and Public Finances and is also a member of IHS economic forecast group. She obtained her doctoral degree in Mathematics from the Comenius University, Bratislava, graduated from the two-year Program in Quantitative Finance at IHS in 1998 and afterwards joined the Institute. She has been a visiting fellow/consultant/member at different international universities and institutions, such as ECB, IIASA, University of Waterloo, Thompson Rivers University, Economic University in Bratislava, and Slovak Research and Development Agency (APVV).

Her research focuses on behavioral economics and finance which acknowledges that households or investors are not fully rational. Another focus of her research is applied econometrics, namely modelling and forecasting exchange rates and commodities. Lately she started to be interested in sustainable finance. Her work was published in international journals such as Management Science, Journal of Banking and Finance, Journal of Forecasting, Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, and Econometric Reviews.