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January 2026. New working paper Perceived Monetary Policy Rules: Evidence from Professional Forecasters in Australia

January 2026. New working paper National hydrogen strategies: Policy impacts and adoption drivers

October 2025.  Promoted to Associate Professor at The University of Adelaide

June 2025. New working paper Empirical evidence on the U.S. monetary-fiscal policy mix

May 2025. Monetary Policy in the Euro Area: Active or Passive? published in the European Economic Review.

May 2025. Endogenous Business Cycles with Small and Large Firms published in the European Economic Review.

January 2025. Exchange rates, uncovered interest parity and time-varying Fama regressions published in the Journal of Applied Econometrics.

December 2024. Awarded the Faculty of Arts, Business, Law and Economics, University of Adelaide Excellence in Research Award.

July 2024. Awarded the School of Economics and Public Policy, University of Adelaide Research Excellence Award

July 2024. YouTube Link to Governor Lisa D. Cook's (US Federal Reserve Board) keynote address at the Australian Conference of Economists (ACE) 2024 and my Q/A session with the Governor following her talk.

May 2024. New working paper Time-Varying Inflation Target and Unbiased Taylor Rule Estimation (Updated Jan 2025)

April 2024.  Revisiting the Macroeconomic Effects of Monetary Policy Shocks published in the Economic Record.

February 2024.  Can We Use High-frequency Yield Data to Better Understand the Effects of Monetary Policy and Its Communication? Yes and No! published in the Economic Record.

January 2024.  Promoted to Senior Lecturer at The University of Adelaide

November 2023. Co-organized (jointly with Firmin Doko Tchatoka and Dessie Ambaw) the 31st Australia New Zealand Econometric Study Group Meeting hosted by the School of Economics and Public Policy, The University of Adelaide. Link to the program

October 2023. Awarded ARC Discovery Grant on "Implications of Global Economic Forces for Domestic Monetary Policy", with Benjamin Wong (Lead CI), James Morley, and Qingyuan Du)

August 2023. Empirical evidence on the Euler equation for investment in the US accepted for publication in the Journal of Applied Econometrics

August 2023.Updated version of working paper: The Long-Run Phillips Curve is ... a Curve

July 2023. Updated version of working paper: Monetary policy shocks and exchange rate dynamics in small open economies

May 2023. New working paper Can We Use High-frequency Yield Data to Better Understand the Effects of Monetary Policy and Its Communication? Yes and No!  Media coverage: Financial markets don't fully understand how Reserve Bank reacts to data in its cash rate decisions: research. The West Australian. (Link)

March 2023. On Bootstrapping Tests of Equal Forecast Accuracy for Nested Models accepted for publication in the Journal of Forecasting

February 2023. Appointed as the Secretary in the Executive Board of The Australasian Macroeconomics Society

January 2023. The (Ir)Relevance of Rule-of-Thumb Consumers for U.S. Business Cycle Fluctuations accepted for publication in the Journal of Money, Credit and Banking

September 2022. Identification robust empirical evidence on the open economy IS-curve accepted for publication in the Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics.

January 2022. Joined the School of Economics and Public Policy at the University of Adelaide as a Lecturer/Assistant Professor

July 2021. Monetary Policy, Inflation Target and the Great Moderation: An Empirical Investigation accepted for publication in the International Journal of Central Banking (IJCB).

March 2021. Uncertainty shocks and inflation dynamics in the U.S. accepted for publication in Economics Letters and now available online.

February 2021. Empirical evidence on the dynamics of investment under uncertainty in the U.S. published in the Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics

February 2021. Joined at The University of Adelaide as an ARC-Grant Funded Researcher

December 2020. Do We Really Know that U.S. Monetary Policy was Destabilizing in the 1970s? published in the European Economic Review