Hites Ahir is a Senior Research Officer at the International Monetary Fund. His research interests include: global housing markets, forecast assessment, and measuring global uncertainty. He previously worked at the Inter-American Development Bank where he assisted with analysis of the Southern Cone economies. He did his graduate work in economics at Johns Hopkins University.
Nicholas (Nick) Bloom is the William Eberle Professor of Economics at Stanford University, a Senior Fellow of SIEPR, and the Co-Director of the Productivity, Innovation and Entrepreneurship programme at the National Bureau of Economic Research. His research focuses on management practices and uncertainty. He previously worked at the UK Treasury and McKinsey & Company. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the recipient of the Alfred Sloan Fellowship, the Bernacer Prize, the European Investment Bank Prize, the Frisch Medal, the Kauffman Medal and a National Science Foundation Career Award. He has a BA from Cambridge, an MPhil from Oxford, and a PhD from University College London.
Davide Furceri is the Division Chief of the Fiscal Policy and Surveillance Division within the Fiscal Affairs Department of the IMF. Previously, he served as the Mission Chief for Cambodia and Brunei and as Deputy Division Chief in the Asia and Pacific Department. His prior positions at the IMF include roles in the Research Department and the Middle East and Central Asia Department. Furceri has published extensively in policy-oriented and prominent academic journals—such as American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, Review of Economists and Statistics and Journal of the European Economic Association—on various topics, including macroeconomics, public finance, international macroeconomics, and structural reforms. He is a highly cited economist, with nearly 20,000 citations in scholarly journals. He is ranked in the top 1 percent of economists, according to RePEc. His work has also gained significant attention in the financial press.
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