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Biography
Benjamin Wong is an Associate Professor at the Department of Econometrics and Business Statistics at Monash University. He is a macroeconomist who has research interests in macroeconometrics and time series analysis, with a focus on issues related to estimation, inference and interpretation of sources of business cycle fluctuations. A theme of his work has been the development of tools to inform policy analysis through the estimation and understanding key inputs for macroeconomic policy analysis, such as the output gap and trend inflation.
He was previously a research economist at the Reserve Bank of New Zealand and is a regular visitor at central banks and policy institutions. These include a stint as a central bank research fellow at the Bank for International Settlements, and also a research visitor at, among others, various regional Federal Reserve Banks, Reserve Bank of Australia, Bank of Canada, the European Central Bank, the International Monetary Fund, and the SEACEN Research and Training Centre.
He holds a PhD in Economics from The Australian National University and a Bachelor of Economics (Honours) from The University of Queensland and has published work in international peer reviewed journals such as the Review of Economics and Statistics, Journal of International Economics, European Economics Review, Journal of Econometrics, Journal of Business & Economic Statistics, Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, and Journal of Applied Econometrics.
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Research area keywords
- Applied Econometrics
- Macroeconomics
- Time Series Analysis
Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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Implications of Global Economic Forces for Domestic Monetary Policy
Wong, B. (Primary Chief Investigator (PCI)), Du, Q. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Morley, J. (Chief Investigator (CI)) & Haque, Q. (Chief Investigator (CI))
ARC - Australian Research Council
26/11/24 → 25/11/27
Project: Research
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Financial Cycles and the Macroeconomy
Wong, B. (Primary Chief Investigator (PCI))
ARC - Australian Research Council
21/02/20 → 28/03/25
Project: Research
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Understanding the Sources of Secular Stagnation
Morley, J. (Primary Chief Investigator (PCI)), Wong, B. (Chief Investigator (CI)) & Eo, Y. (Chief Investigator (CI))
5/03/19 → 4/03/22
Project: Research
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New Methods for Incorporating Financial Factors in Estimating Potential Output
Wong, B. (Primary Chief Investigator (PCI)), Berger, T. (Chief Investigator (CI)) & Richter, J. (Chief Investigator (CI))
1/01/19 → 31/12/22
Project: Research
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Trend-cycle decomposition in the presence of large shocks
Kamber, G., Morley, J. & Wong, B., Apr 2025, In: Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control. 173, 15 p., 105066.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
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A simple correction for misspecification in trend-cycle decompositions with an application to estimating r*
Morley, J., Tran, T. D. & Wong, B., 2024, In: Journal of Business and Economic Statistics. 42, 2, p. 665-680 16 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
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Random subspace local projections
Dinh, V. H., Nibbering, D. & Wong, B., 2024, (Accepted/In press) In: The Review of Economics and Statistics. 33 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
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Estimating the euro area output gap using multivariate information and addressing the COVID-19 pandemic
Morley, J., Rodríguez-Palenzuela, D., Sun, Y. & Wong, B., 2023, In: European Economic Review. 153, 21 p., 104385.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
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Nowcasting the output gap
Berger, T., Morley, J. & Wong, B., Jan 2023, In: Journal of Econometrics. 232, 1, p. 18-34 17 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
Open AccessFile21 Citations (Scopus)