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Benjamin Wong

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20132022
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Biography

Research Interest: Applied Macroeconomics, Time Series Analysis

I am a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) at the Department of Econometrics and Business Statistics at Monash University. I was previously a research economist at the Reserve Bank of New Zealand (2014-2018) and also a Central Bank Research Fellow at the Bank for International Settlements (2017). I have also been a research visitor at, amongst others, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, Bank of Canada, the European Central Bank and the International Monetary Fund.

My research has been published in peer reviewed international journals such as the Review of Economics and Statistics, Journal of Applied Econometrics and Journal of Money, Credit and Banking.

Research area keywords

  • Applied Econometrics
  • Macroeconomics
  • Time Series Analysis

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Projects 2019 2022

Financial Cycles and the Macroeconomy

Wong, B.

Australian Research Council (ARC)

1/01/20 → 31/12/22

Project: Research

Understanding the Sources of Secular Stagnation

Morley, J., Wong, B. & Eo, Y.

5/03/19 → 4/03/22

Project: Research

New Methods for Incorporating Financial Factors in Estimating Potential Output

Wong, B., Berger, T. & Richter, J.

1/01/19 → 31/12/20

Project: Research

Research Output 2013 2019

Estimating and accounting for the output gap with large Bayesian vector autoregressions

Morley, J. & Wong, B., 2019, (Accepted/In press) In : Journal of Applied Econometrics. 62 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review

Measuring uncertainty for New Zealand using data‐rich approach

Tran, T. D., Vehbi, T. & Wong, B., 11 Sep 2019, In : Australian Economic Review. 52, 3, p. 344-352 9 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Other › peer-review

Review of Time Series Econometerics, by Neusser, Klaus (Springer, Cham, 2016), pp. 409

Wong, B., 18 Sep 2019, In : Economic Record. 95, 310, p. 399-400 2 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Short Review › Other › peer-review

8 Citations (Scopus)

Intuitive and reliable estimates of the output gap from a Beveridge-Nelson filter

Kamber, G., Morley, J. & Wong, B., 1 Jul 2018, In : Review of Economics and Statistics. 100, 3, p. 550-566 17 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review

1 Citation (Scopus)

Measuring uncertainty and its impact on a small open economy

Greig, L., Rice, A., Vehbi, T. & Wong, B., 1 Mar 2018, In : Australian Economic Review. 51, 1, p. 87-98 12 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review