Hites Ahir

I am a Senior Research Officer at the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Previously, I worked at the Inter-American Development Bank where I assisted with analysis of the Southern Cone economies, and in the IMF's communications department and also in the IMF's Independent Evaluation Office. I did my graduate work in economics at Johns Hopkins University.

My areas of work include: global housing markets, measuring uncertainty and financial stress, assessing forecasts, and evaluation of IMF's response to Covid-19. 

My work has been cited in Bloomberg, The Economist, Financial Times, Wall Street Journal, and other outlets. For academic citations, see my profile in Google Scholar.