Simon Soki Hong

@helene_rey Thank you so much!

Very interesting paper.

The programme of the "Emerging Markets Back in the Spotlight: Risks and Policy Options" @econrsa @cepr workshop at @UPTuks 28-29 Nov is (nearly) ready Keynote speakers: Laura Alfaro (Harvard) Javier Bianchi (Minneapolis Fed) @JavierBianchi7 @viegi_nic @RefetGurkaynak

Research involves a *lot* of admin costs that reduce scientific productivity. Here are 8 ways to reduce this (especially in economics), with little cost to journals or grantors. We should pressure organization to make these changes....

We are very happy to announce that the JST Macrohistory Database is now updated with annual data until 2020! It contains long-run macroeconomic and financial series for 18 advanced economies starting in 1870! A 🧵 on the major updates: macrohistory.net/database/ #EconTwitter

Breaking: Today the @federalreserve Board of Governors published the public consultation paper on central bank digital currencies (#CBDC): federalreserve.gov/publications/m…

Thrilled to be presenting 'The Global Transmission of U.S. Monetary Policy', with @RicDegasperi and @ricco_giovanni at the 52nd Annual Conference of the MMF society tomorrow, 10am BST (session 21) #mmf2021 #EconTwitter Check out our paper 👉tinyurl.com/37eau6jk

Thrilled to be presenting 'The Global Transmission of U.S. Monetary Policy', with @SimonHon49 and @ricco_giovanni at the IAAE 2021 on Friday. #IAAE2021 #EconTwitter Paper ➡️ tinyurl.com/m6asp7pw (time zone is CEST)

Thanks to @KShakhnov & colleagues at the University of Surrey for a very friendly virtual visit and a day packed up with great discussions My slides and our paper on the Global Transmission of US Monetary Policy (w/ @Rick_dgs, @SimonHon49) are here: tinyurl.com/3f5x8fv7

Want to see what the world's most promising young economists are working on? Join us for the 2020/2021 edition of the REStud Tour (@RevEconStud). Registration details: sites.google.com/view/restudtou….

📢Call for Papers📢 2nd NuCamp Virtual PhD Conference June 15-16 by @NuCampEconomics and @OxfordEconDept Submit by May 24. All areas of macro welcome! Link to CfP: drive.google.com/file/d/1HT3AsS… Keynotes by @helene_rey & Aysegul Sahin not to be missed!

Great to see this in print. For those of you who are interested in using this: the related codes and estimates are available here: globalcapitalallocation.com Going forward we plan to keep updating them and posting them. So stay tuned for further releases!

The Bayesian Estimation Analysis and Regression (BEAR) toolbox v 5.0 (by Dieppe and van Roye) has been released Newly added: FAVARs Proxy SVARs Trend-cycle VARs Mixed Frequency Bayesian VARs ecb.europa.eu/pub/research/w…

Looking forward to presenting our paper "The Global Transmission of U.S. Monetary Policy", with @SimonHon49 and @ricco_giovanni at the @RoyalEconSoc 2021 Conference tomorrow at 13:45 BST. Great session. Be sure to tune in! #RES2021 #EconTwitter Paper➡️warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/econom…

We just posted a new working paper on LP vs. VAR estimation of macro impulse responses. Comments very welcome, summary below! scholar.princeton.edu/sites/default/…

A new draft of a paper on "The Global Transmission of U.S. Monetary Policy" is out, w/ @Rick_dgs & @SimonHon49 (keep an eye on them - they are excellent PhDs students, on the market next year) Comments/critiques/corrections gratefully accepted! tinyurl.com/3f5x8fv7

Very nice NYFed summary of new work on access to bank credit, including during COVID times: Weathering the Storm: Who Can Access Credit in a Pandemic? feedproxy.google.com/~r/LibertyStre… See scholar.harvard.edu/files/chodorow… for much more, including evidence that PPP recipients repaid non-PPP loans.

For all people doing IV in their work, this brand new paper seems *very* relevant! arxiv.org/abs/2010.05058 One important takeaway msg is: Rule of 1st stage F stats > 10 can be very misleading. Authors also give nice alternative inference tools that can “rescue” us all!

New memo from our AEA cttee on the job market: JOE job openings by sector, 2020 vs 2019. Summary with graphs in subsequent tweets. Memo available at: aeaweb.org/joe/communicat… 1/6

Take a look at the interactive graph, which shows the concentration of banks’ cross-border claims, liabilities and net claims vis-à-vis non-bank financial institutions #NBFIs #BISStatistics bis.org/publ/qtrpdf/r_…

I am pleased to announce a major update of the LobbyView database available for public access at lobbyview.org This database allows researchers to effectively search, visualize, and download lobbying data in the U.S. between 1999 and 2020. Some key features: