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Working papers & commentary · Vienna

Nik
Khosravipour

Economics student at WU Vienna, open to research & analyst internships. Get in touch →

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Abstract

I study how monetary policy and institutions move the economy, and what the data says once they do. I'm an economics student at WU Vienna and I 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

    Europe Is the Frog in the Pot

    Friedrich Merz called Milei's reforms "trampling on the people." A year into his chancellorship, his coalition has announced a milder version of the same medicine, and it is afraid to pass it.

  2. 02

    Writing · Essay

    The Omniscient Planner

    Grant a planner every fact in the world and a machine that never errs. He still cannot choose between steel and aluminium, because the number that choice needs is made by a contest he has abolished.

    Economics · Advanced

  3. 03

    Writing · Essay

    Speculators and Markets: The Role of Risk-Takers in the Economy

    The speculator is the market's most useful villain. He produces nothing you can hold and profits when others panic, which makes him the natural suspect whenever a market breaks. But the risk he is blamed for existed before he arrived, and most of what gets pinned on speculation turns out to be the work of whoever distorted the price he was only reading.

    Economics · Advanced

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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, financial markets. Coursework at WU Vienna on one side, my own econometric work in R on the other.

Research · Analysis

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Students For Liberty Austria

Active

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

Leadership · Coordination

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Writing & commentary

Developing

Notes, essays, and commentary on how economics plays out in the real world, from a single central-bank decision to the shape of a whole market.

Policy · Outreach

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About me

I'm a sixth-semester economics student at WU Vienna. The one question that runs through most of my work: how do monetary policy and institutions actually move the economy, and does the data back that story up? Since 2023 I've also run Students For Liberty Austria, building its network of students and think-tank partners 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 research shops working on monetary policy or macro. Email is the fastest way to reach me. I read everything and usually reply within a day, and I'm happy to talk about a collaboration or a project too.

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