Blog posts

I finally got the time to watch this excellent lecture by Professor Keyu Jin from LSE. She talked about techno-nationalism and discuss whether it’s good or bad. Her discssion is quite detailed in that she started with the basic: why the high-tech economy is different.

Traveling isn’t really my forte. However, The year-end free entry to Tidbinbilla Natural Reserve can’t really be missed can’t it? Tidbinbilla is a natural reserve in Canberra, Australia. Reachable from the city center by car, and you would prolly need around 40 minutes driving to get there.

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.

Just a bit of stats on RCEP. To connect it a bit with the Global Value Chain, I am using Stage of Production (SoP) UNCTAD: .dataframe tbody tr th:only-of-type { vertical-align: middle; } .

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?

This is an updated figures on COVID-19-related goods export and import in Indonesia. I was once presenting about it in ANU Indonesia Project’s global seminar series, and I cited Indonesian monthly trade data until March 2020.

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 investment is quite central to Joko ‘Jokowi’ Widodo’s development policy, from building infrastructures and the same-price gasoline policy, both relies on SOE’s corporate bonds, to attracting FDI to provide jobs.

This morning, as usual, I prepared breakfast, did the dishes, all while listening to a podcast. One of my favorite, Babbage aired the recent development of COVID-19, including the decreasing death rate across the world.

One problem with IV is weak instrument, which may worsen an OLS. A course from CBE demonstrate weak instrument issue with R

Just recently I finished a book titled The Gene: an Intimate History by Siddharta Mukherjee. The book started by a touching stories about Dr. Mukherjee and his family history, that his gene is ‘tainted’ by abnormality.