About
Nik Khosravipour
Economics student at WU Vienna, writing about monetary policy and the institutions behind our markets.
I'm finishing my Business and Economics bachelor at WU Vienna. Markets fascinate me, and most of my work is about trying to understand them, the policies that shape them, and the geopolitical climate that steers them. My main focus is monetary policy and currencies, since to me they are the foundation of any market economy.
Research
Most of my research is about monetary transmission. A central bank moves a rate, and I look at where the effect ends up, which depends a lot on the institutions it has to pass through.
In practice that means a lot of time with time-series data, tracing how a policy rate works its way into credit and output across countries. I also build everything so that someone else can run it again and get the same result.
I write most of it up here. Longer pieces answer a question all the way through, and shorter notes are things I found interesting and wanted on the record. All of it is in the research archive.
Students For Liberty Austria
I've been with Students For Liberty Austria, the Austrian chapter of the international classical-liberal student network, since 2023, and National Coordinator since 2024. I took it from almost nothing to a working national network, with think-tank partners and regular events in Vienna.
We've hosted speakers from the Cato Institute and the Austrian Economic Center. Besides the organizing, I write the policy pieces that go out to students.
Methods & tools
Econometrics
Time series, panel data, and VARs in R and Python. The applied work mostly runs through R, and Python handles the data wrangling and scripting.
Economic theory
Austrian and institutional economics shape the questions I ask, and the answers run through standard empirical methods. Monetary theory and the business cycle.
Financial markets & policy
Fixed income, the yield curve, and central-bank policy.
Systems & dev
PHP, JavaScript, Docker, and enough server admin to keep things running. This site runs on a server I host and maintain myself, without a framework.
What I'm looking for
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.