About
Nik Khosravipour
Economics student at WU Vienna. I write about monetary policy, institutions, and what the data says.
I'm in my sixth semester studying Business and Economics at WU Vienna. One question runs through most of what I do: how do monetary policy and institutions actually move the economy, and does the data back the story we tell about them?
Research
Most of my research is about transmission. A central bank moves a rate, and I look at where the effect lands, which depends a great deal on the institutions it has to pass through. Business cycles are where those differences show up most clearly.
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 different countries. I also build the work so that someone else can run it again and get the same answer.
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. They're all in the research archive.
Students For Liberty Austria
Since 2023 I've been National Coordinator for Students For Liberty Austria, the Austrian chapter of the international classical-liberal student network. I took it from almost nothing to a working national network: think-tank partnerships, regular events in Vienna, and students who actually show up.
We've hosted speakers from the Cato Institute and the Austrian Economic Center. When I'm not running logistics, I write the policy-adjacent 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 School and praxeology as the foundation, mainstream methods on top. Institutional economics, monetary theory, and the business cycle.
Financial markets & policy
Fixed income, the yield curve, and central-bank policy, where market mechanics meet the institutions standing behind them.
Systems & dev
PHP, JavaScript, Docker, and enough server admin to keep things running. This site is self-hosted on a VPS I maintain myself, with no framework and no platform doing it for me.
What I'm looking for
I'm looking for research internships and analyst roles at policy institutes, central banks, and research shops working on monetary policy or macro. I'm also up for academic collaboration or a good independent project. Email is the fastest way to reach me.