economics

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.

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

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 USITC has not only a gravity dataset, but a dedicated page called “gravity portal” which contain some other data and software related to gravity estimation.

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

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: Denny Irawan, Wasisto Raharjo Jati, Oscar Karnalim, Asrul Sidiq (Eds)

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

This article is originally appears here on my medium blog. I remake it in this blog because here I can use $$\LaTeX$$!! yay!! I don’t change anything so if you’ve red this in my medium domain then skip this.