Rode the MRT3 at the Taft Ave. Station this afternoon. In a little over 4 minutes, we arrived at Ayala Station! Rail transport 🚇 really provides for a fast, comfortable, and convenient commute. #RailwayEnthusiast

ADB has lowered its forecasts for economic growth in Asia & the Pacific, amid mounting challenges including monetary tightening, the conflict in Ukraine, and renewed lockdowns in the People’s Republic of China. Read #ADO2022 Update to find out more: adb.org/outlook

More than two years since the outbreak of COVID-19, Asia and the Pacific faces new economic headwinds.      Abdul Abiad joins ADB Insight to discuss the actions policymakers should be focusing on over the short and longer term: ow.ly/rxrH50KQWxf

The #ADBAnnualMeeting is happening next week. 📌 I encourage you to attend the online discussions, where we’ll discuss how to create a more climate-resilient, green economy for Asia and the Pacific. REGISTER ⬇️ adb.org/annual-meeting…

There's been a lot of talk about the US #Fed raising interest rates. In this piece, my ADB colleagues explain the impact on economies in Asia and the Pacific, and how policymakers will need to carefully navigate the situation. ⬇️ blogs.adb.org/blog/your-ques…

BREAKING NEWS: The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2022 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel to Ben S. Bernanke, Douglas W. Diamond and Philip H. Dybvig “for research on banks and financial crises.” #NobelPrize

Money and Business Cycles: A Historial Comparison irelandp.com/papers/mhistor…

Looking forward to this discussion with Professor Joseph E. Stiglitz and my ADB colleagues about the role of innovation in human capital development for climate action in Asia and the Pacific. Join us on Nov. 3! REGISTER ⬇️ events.development.asia/learning-event…

Looking for colleagues in the Warwick Economics department. Positions open at Assistant Prof and Post-doc level. UK's top-2 research department! Apply in the next 3 weeks, econjobmarket.org/positions/8871 econjobmarket.org/positions/9040

Students affected by school closures during the pandemic are at risk of lower future productivity and decreased well-being. In this blog, my colleagues and I outline urgent steps to recover lost learning. READ ⬇️ blogs.adb.org/blog/these-6-u…

Dark clouds gathering: the risk of major economies slipping into recession is significant. blogs.adb.org/blog/your-ques…

Wishing everyone a happy and prosperous New Year! It is a privilege to work for an organization committed to making prosperity not just a wish but a reality. adb.org/news/videos/se…

In the 1990s, a team led by professor Martin Ravallion created a framework to quantify the world’s poorest people. Thirty years on, their “dollar-a-day” poverty line is still essential to measure progress in poverty reduction. ow.ly/tJoB50MCPq8

Here, my colleagues assess the possibility of a global recession, how it could affect Asia, and how policymakers in Asia should respond to it. ⬇️ blogs.adb.org/blog/your-ques…

A nice summary of our just accepted paper "Bayesian Local Projections" at The Review of Economics and Statistics (REStat) by my coauthor Leonardo Ferreira

Very happy to see our paper, "Identification with External Instruments in Structural VARs" (w/ Silvia Miranda-Agrippino ), on the latest issue of the Journal of Monetary Economics sciencedirect.com/journal/journa…

My conversation with Reza Baqir at Princeton University on the way forward for Pakistan youtu.be/1a0-ybXBIKg

This question has been asked in several of my recent interviews. Although the US banking turmoil is unlikely to affect Asia and the Pacific, policymakers in the region should still find ways to strengthen financial systems, because a severe crisis would have significant

Please consider submitting your work to the Workshop on Empirical Monetary Economics OFCE devi Banque de France, 12-13 December in Paris Keynote speakers: Anna Cieslak and Giorgio Primiceri Submission deadline 15 September