Amazing Math

Call for Papers: Summer Workshop on Money, Banking, Payments, and Finance. Submissions due May 8, 2022. More information: federalreserve.gov/conferences/su…

Happiness is coming home and seeing your family after 3 years

I am happy to share that I am starting a new position as a Senior Economist at the Bank of Canada!

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The time has come: hello #EconTwitter! I am a microeconomist & on the 2022-2023 job market. My research agenda focuses on ways to encourage inmates’ social reintegration. See a thread below! My website: williamarbour.com My job market paper: github.com/williamarbour/…

I came across this tree today that got damaged by a tornado 5 weeks ago, but is still blooming. It seemed to me a symbol of perseverance in the face of adversity. I hope someone finds it as inspiring as I did!

In early May, #MarkusAcademy had the pleasure of hosting John Campbell, who presented on "Mortgage Choice and Monetary Policy." Highlights from the webinar include: 1. (13:00) Campbell shares why the U.S. mortgage system is a weak monetary transmission channel. (1/3)

Very happy to study this beautiful paper; learned a lot! In my discussion, I also talked about whether the recent household debt boom in 🇨🇦Canada🇨🇦 is a concern of financial fragility by making their balance sheets more sensitive to large interest rate hikes as well as income and

I am excited to present my paper on monetary policy transmission to mortgage rates at the Bank of Portugal

Had an opportunity to listen to Amir Sufi’s work on investing in customer capital:)

The Fed just voted to cut capital regulations for large banks. I favor higher capital regulations in general. But this move is to cut the enhanced supplemental leverage ratio (eSLR) -- a mouthful -- and I am somewhat sympathetic to this. A few thoughts. 1/

Is macroeconomic policy in emerging markets any different from macro policy elsewhere? Should it be? Worth thinking about.

Happy to share that I am joining the Monetary Analysis directorate at the Bank of England!