Apparently the new central bank governor of Afghanistan. Puts a new spin on “whatever it takes”.

🆕 Oxford Bulletin of #Economics & #Statistics: Productivity and Performance: A GMM approach (by Mike Tsionas & Subal Kumbhakar) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ob… #EconTwitter #inputs #productivity #performance #Indonesia #firms #GMMTV cc: Wiley Economics Department of Economics, Oxford

Just published work in Energy Economics on nuclear energy with C. Parmeter and M. Tsionas!  Nuclear power provides reliable, CO2-free energy for 1/5 of the the US. Given the focus on reducing the dependency of fossil-fuels, the potential expansion for nuclear energy is massive!

Announcing LangChain CEO Harrison Chase’s new short course, Functions, Tools, and Agents with LangChain! Covers latest LLM function calling, how to use LLMs to process formatted data (such as JSON) to integrate with other software, and building agents. deeplearning.ai/short-courses/…

The world is dependent on a small number of countries for supplies of key commodities, which in turn are highly vulnerable to trade disruptions. Read more in this blog. bit.ly/46qe23O #WEO

As excessive fiscal consolidation led to a sharp decline in economic activity, public debt ratios (where GDP features in the denominator) continued to increase especially in countries with large fiscal consolidation packages.

We're excited to be partnering with OCN London to improve the way Londoners' skills needs are addressed and boost participation in #HigherEducation 🥳 Read more: bit.ly/3G1ydd3

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Ben Bernanke The Brookings Institution & Olivier Blanchard Peterson Institute present results from a study of the sources and mechanisms of #post-COVID #inflation in 11 economies. The country models can prove useful for central banks to analyse & compare processes in the future. 👉ow.ly/51Ol50QFygh

🧵Together with @petr_janksy, we recently published "Profit shifting of multinational corporations worldwide" in World Development (free pdf at: arxiv.org/abs/2201.08444), where we look at the distributional consequences of profit shifting of multinationals. (1/9)

Διαβάστε συνέντευξη του Διοικητή Γιάννη Στουρνάρα στο Bloomberg: bankofgreece.gr/enimerosi/graf… Interview of the Governor Yannis Stournaras with Bloomberg: bankofgreece.gr/en/news-and-me…

Net Interest Income of Greek Banks: is it a case of Bankflation? In Nov. 2023, the Greek NIM was 4.83%, more than twice the Euro-area NIM. High NIM boost GR bank profitability but at the cost of ineffective financial intermediation. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

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In 2022, the overall life satisfaction in the EU averaged at 7.1 (on a scale from 0 “not satisfied at all” to 10 “fully satisfied”), slightly lower than the 2018 rating of 7.3. ec.europa.eu/eurostat/stati… #Eurostat #StatisticsExplained

14 Birkbeck Alumni and Fellows, including 3 Cabinet Members, elected to Parliament 👏- a reflection of Birkbeck's history as a university of choice for Parliamentarians and policymakers. #UKGeneralElection2024 👉bit.ly/3LbRriK

📚New Publication! 📌Professor Emmanuel Mamatzakis examines the factors underlying the notably high Greek bank net interest margins compared to the euro-area average, with a particular focus on the interplay between bank competition and recapitalisations. 🔗tinyurl.com/m2uk2cry