Economics

Economics BE4158 First meeting IBE at Petra Krisna Gupta Monday, February $8^{th}$ 2021 Today’s content ☀ housekeeping about studying economics some main principles Who am I? 👀 A PhD student of Economics at Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University (ANU).

Feb 4, 2021

Ekspor sebagai strategi economic recovery pasca COVID-19 Krisna Gupta IDM Coop: Badai Pandemi, Vaksinasi dan Harapan Pemulihan Ekonomi Sabtu, 27 Februari 2021 Siapa saya? Mahasiswa doktoral di Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University

Feb 4, 2021

Recently, Indonesia has been buzzing about the MoU between Indonesia and LG Energy Solution, a South Korean battery cell manufacturer. The deal roughly entails LG Energy Solution making a massive upstream-to-downstream investment in battery cell production in Indonesia. My colleague Wishnu Mahraddika and I wrote about this at The Conversation Indonesia. We were fairly optimistic about this development and hoped it would become a momentum for the automotive industry in Indonesia, particularly in electric vehicles.

Jan 16, 2021

Mengapa tren kendaraan listrik adalah momentum transformasi industri otomotif Indonesia Krisna Gupta, Australian National University and Wishnu Mahraddika, Australian National University Tren mobil listrik mulai datang dan Indonesia berada di waktu serta tempat yang tepat.

Jan 15, 2021

COVID-19 has certainly hit exports and imports. However, in recent months, Indonesia’s trade balance has been showing increasing signs of surplus. I often explain that Indonesian manufacturing is heavily linked to Global Value Chains (GVCs), so imports are needed for production and exports. Of course, amid COVID-19, production appears to have been hampered, and Indonesia’s imports of semi-finished goods and capital seem to have declined. The government also dislikes imports, especially expensive capital imports that erode the rupiah.

Dec 4, 2020

Artikel ini telah diterima untuk diterbitkan di Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies (BIES) dan sedang mengalami proses edit. Artikel versi pre-edit dapat diakses di sini. Artikel ini telah dipresentasikan di Economics PhD Seminar di Crawford School of Public Policy. Slide presentasi dapat diakses di sini

Dec 4, 2020

I discussed this theme in my medium blog(https://medium.com/@imedkrisna/extending-a-simple-2-period-consumption-problem-the-third-period-afterlife-9223cf5467d). I recycle this with a bit of an addition to a more generalised utility function and exploiting python this time so I don’t have to do it by hand, which is nice. One reason why I left Medium ha ha ha.

Dec 2, 2020

I was invited to give a guest lecture on literature review. I use some sources from Australian universities and my own experience as a researcher

Nov 16, 2020

This post briefly discusses FDI developments in Indonesia. FDI Trends Since 1970 The chart below shows Indonesia’s net FDI inflows as a percentage of GDP. The data source is the World Bank’s World Development Indicators.

Nov 11, 2020

A couple of weeks ago, a colleague of mine, Deasy Pane from Bappenas, invited me for a discussion about Indonesia’s trade and investment situation policy. Indeed, that’s the beauty of zoom right? Collabs know no boundaries! With us was Donny and Chandra, also trade anthusiast at ANU. Some of Bappenas’ employee were also there.

Nov 5, 2020