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I am a macroconomist at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. My general research interests are applied macroeconometrics and time series analysis. Click here for my university webpage and here for my full CV.

"Economists were created to make weather forecasters look good"

Contact:

Email: benjamin[dot]wong[at]monash[dot]edu
Postal Address:
900 Dandenong RoadDepartment of Econometrics and Business Statistics, Monash Business SchoolLevel 5, Building H, Caulfield Campus, Monash UniversityCaulfield East, VIC 3145, Australia

What's New?

May 28, 2026 How important is global r-star for open economies? (with James Morley) is accepted at the European Economic Review.
October 29, 2025 Disentangling structural breaks in factor models for macroeconomic data, (with Bonsoo Koo and Ze-Yu Zhong) has been accepted at Journal of Business & Economic Statistics. An updated draft can be found here. Replication files are available here.
April 22, 2025 New working paper How important is global r-star for open economies? (with James Morley)
February 18, 2025 Trend-cycle decomposition in the presence of large shocks, (with Güneş Kamber and James Morley) has been accepted at Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control. BNfiltering.com implements the procedure. Replication files are available here.
September 26, 2024 Random subspace local projections (with Viet Hoang Dinh and Didier Nibbering) is now forthcoming at the Review of Economics and Statistics. Replication files can be found here.
August 22, 2024 Updated working paper Trend-cycle decomposition in the presence of large shocks (with Güneş Kamber and James Morley)

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