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Working papers & commentary · Vienna

Nik
Khosravipour

Economics student at WU Vienna, looking for research & analyst internships. Get in touch →

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Abstract

I'm an economics student at WU Vienna. Most of my work is in macroeconomics, with a focus on monetary policy and currencies, since to me they are the foundation of any market economy. I also run Students For Liberty Austria.

Keywords: monetary policy · business cycles · institutional economics

2019
Fig. 1. US Treasury yield curve, 2019–2023. Live 2Y–10Y spread, basis points.

Research · Deep Dive

Argentina's Monetary Report Card: Promise versus Delivery under Milei

Javier Milei won by promising to abolish the central bank and scrap the peso. He kept neither, and now runs the most hands-on monetary regime in the hemisphere. Inflation still collapsed, from 25 percent a month to near 2. The revolution he sold did not do it. A budget surplus propped up by elections and borrowed dollars did, lashed to an exchange-rate band that floats on the very inflation it is meant to kill. The win is real. Nothing makes it last.

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Recent research & writing

  1. 01

    Writing · Op-Ed · 4 min read

    Vote Until You Comply

    More MEPs voted against the EU's Chat Control law than for it, but it survived anyway, because rejection needed an absolute majority in a chamber that had already half emptied for the summer. No rule was broken, and that is the scandal. Brussels has treated a No as a scheduling problem before.

    Institutions · Advanced

  2. 02

    Writing · Essay · 16 min read

    Let Them Eat Facts: Why Inequality Today Isn’t the Real Crisis

    Inequality today is supposedly worse than on the eve of the French Revolution. The comparison fails on its own numbers, and the debate behind it has the moral weight backwards. It is always eat the rich, never feed the poor.

    Economics · Advanced

  3. 03

    Research · Macro Note · 7 min read

    The Deposit Drain That Isn't: MiCA, Stablecoins, and the Lever the ECB Keeps for Itself

    The ECB warns that stablecoins will drain Europe's bank deposits. The entire euro-stablecoin float is 0.007% of the deposit base, and MiCA has already made it deposit-neutral by design. The instrument that could actually move a trillion euros is the ECB's own digital euro, and the ECB sets its dial.

    Monetary Policy

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Projects

Codebase

Promise versus Delivery

A reproducible Python + R pipeline that rebuilds Argentina’s monetary panel from eight primary sources at a locked May 2026 vintage and tests what anchored the 2024–2026 disinflation.

R Python Chart.js

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Codebase

Discretion Over Rules

A reproducible R pipeline that scores the federal funds rate against three Taylor-rule specifications and tests whether the policy gap Granger-causes core PCE inflation.

R FRED Chart.js

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Inheriting Discretion

An R-and-Python pipeline scoring the federal funds rate against four monetary-rule benchmarks: two Taylor variants, Meltzer's k-percent money rule, and Selgin's productivity norm.

R Python FRED Chart.js

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Current work

I.

Economic research

Ongoing

Monetary policy, institutional economics, and financial markets. Coursework at WU Vienna plus my own econometric work in R.

Research · Analysis

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II.

Students For Liberty Austria

Active

I run the national network: events with classical-liberal think tanks, plus speakers I've brought in from the Cato Institute, George Mason, and the Austrian Economic Center.

Leadership · Coordination

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III.

Writing & commentary

Developing

Essays and commentary on how economics plays out in the real world, from policy decisions to the politics around them.

Policy · Outreach

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About me

I'm finishing my Business and Economics bachelor at WU Vienna, focused on monetary policy and the institutions it has to work through. Since 2024 I've also been running Students For Liberty Austria as National Coordinator, building the network from the ground up.

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Get in touch

I'm looking for research internships and analyst roles at policy institutes, central banks, and think tanks working on monetary policy or macro. I'm also open to academic collaborations and independent projects. Email is the fastest way to reach me.

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