Economics

A quick look at Indonesia's current account and balance of trade using World Bank's API in Python featured image

A quick look at Indonesia's current account and balance of trade using World Bank's API in Python

Indonesia has been always famed for its lack of depth and innovation in its financial market. Banks are powerful and aim mostly at consumer banking. Indeed, the role of foreign …

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Krisna Gupta

The heterogeneous impacts of tariffs and NTM on total factor productivity of Indonesian firms

A milestone in my PhD. I present the findings of one of my thesis chapters.

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Krisna Gupta

Running a PPML regression in python using GME package from USITC

A couple of month ago, I just learned from a professor from my course about the new gravity dataset made by the United States International Trade Commission (USITC). Turns out, the …

The Value of Everything: A Review

Not long ago, I finished one of the most talked-about books among economists: “The Value of Everything: Making and Taking in the Global Economy” by Mariana Mazzucato. In my view, …

Industri 4.0 sebagai solusi daya saing industri indonesia? featured image

Industri 4.0 sebagai solusi daya saing industri indonesia?

A book chapter written in Indonesia. Available at online stores in Indonesia. Book Title: Mewujudkan Indonesia 4.0: Kumpulan Pemikiran Pelajar Indonesia di Australia. Editors: …

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Krisna Gupta

Book Review of "World Trade Evolution: Growth, Productivity and Employment ‐ edited by Lili Yan Ing and Miaojie Yu (eds)"

A review on the book World Trade Evolution: Growth, Productivity and Employment ‐ edited by Lili Yan Ing and Miaojie Yu (eds)

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Krisna Gupta
The Importance of Financial Liberalisation to Economic Growth: The Case of Indonesia featured image

The Importance of Financial Liberalisation to Economic Growth: The Case of Indonesia

In this article, I examine Indonesia's experience with capital account liberalisation. To be successful in fulfilling its development plan, capital access become essential.

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Krisna Gupta

Looking for the relationship between ministry budgets and industrial growth

Hi everyone. In this post, I will continue from my previous post on Industrial Policy which argued that to advance the manufacturing sector, Indonesia needs more than just the …

The Brazilian Chicken Import Dispute: Where There's Corn, There's Chicken

Another week, another trade related post! Recently, netizens were startled (again) by news that Indonesia would import chicken from Brazil. This was the result of Brazil filing a …

Learning non-linear estimation of Constant Elasticity of Substitution (CES) with ADMB

I recently discovered a free software called ADMB. Its function is to estimate non-linear regressions. I need non-linear regression estimation to get an elasticity parameter that …