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Senior Research and Policy Advisor at @bankofengland. Same handle on Threads. All views are my own.

Joined February 2022
My personal website is now on github: rharrisonmacro.github.io/ It includes links to (some) replication codes and I plan to add more over time.
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Delighted to see my paper with Emile Marin @UCDavisEcon, “Capital Controls and Trade Policy”, out at @JIntlEcon. We study #trade and #capitalflow policies in unified setting, asking: how does optimal cross-border #financialpolicy change with #trade policies? @BoE_Research (1/4)
New: "Capital controls and trade policy" by Simon Lloyd (@splloyd_econ) and Emile Marin (@UCDavisEcon). How does optimal capital-flow management change with prevailing trade policies? doi.org/10.1016/j.jinteco.20… 1/2
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Our paper "The Brexit Vote, Productivity Growth and Macroeconomic Adjustments in the United Kingdom" with Ben Broadbent @FedeDiPa @rHarrisonMacro and Silvana Tenreyro is now published in REStud! academic.oup.com/restud/adva… @RevEconStudies A brief thread about the paper:
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Boom-bust cycles in house prices & private debt can lay groundwork for deep financial crises. Prof @APFerrero explores this in recently published paper, 'House Price Dynamics, Optimal LTV Limits and the Liquidity Trap' (joint with co-authors). Read here:lnkd.in/e6KPncvY
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Congratulations to @_SiLviA_mA and @ricco_giovanni for their great paper (and work)! The annual American Economic Journal (AEJ) Best Paper Awards: "The Transmission of Monetary Policy Shocks," Silvia Miranda-Agrippino, and Giovanni Ricco 13(3), (pp.74-107) 2021 @lbs @cepr_org
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New CEPR Discussion Paper - DP18943 #Capital Flows and #ExchangeRates: A Quantitative Assessment of the Dilemma Hypothesis @AmbrogioCB @bankofengland, @APFerrero @UniofOxford, Shangshang Li @LivUni ow.ly/o4bt50R15FM #CEPR_IMF #economics
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🧵SWP 1065 by Tim Willems (BoE) + Rick van der Ploeg (Oxford Uni) develops a model where workers and firms can differ in their desired markups, and explores how this affects wage-price dynamics and (optimal) monetary policy... bankofengland.co.uk/working-…
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Very pleased to have (finally) completed an update of my 2017 working paper. Many thanks to @BoE_Research for the great summary thread.
SWP 1063 by Richard Harrison develops a simple portfolio balance model of QE to explore optimal combination of balance sheet + interest rate policy in tightening phase. bankofengland.co.uk/working-…
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I have a new #bankunderground @BoE_Research blogpost out with @BoncianiDario! We study how well a Bayesian VAR forecasts inflation in the face of large terms of trade shocks. Key finding: it turns out the VAR predicts the recent inflation spike surprisingly well if (1/2)
BU post develops Bayesian VAR and explores its ability to forecast in the face of large terms of trade shocks. bankunderground.co.uk/2024/0…
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Happy to share our latest publication on climate and monetary policy. We look at the role of expectations in shaping economic outcomes during a green transition. A big shoutout to my brilliant co-authors @Baannic & @FabioDiDio76. Dive into the findings ➡️sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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BoE's Ryland Thomas blogs about the British Government Securities Database and its move to the BoE-@ESCoEorg-ONS historical data repository.
The British Government Securities Database is moving to ESCoE. Hosted for years by @HeriotWattUni & Faculty of Actuaries this series of fixed interest stocks in the UK will now be curated by ESCoE. Read Ryland Thomas blog on the history of the database at tinyurl.com/w83azt4s
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You have two days left to register for our joint workshop on Behavioural Macro and Finance with the LSE European Institute. Join us on 19th Jan. In person + online registration at: lse.ac.uk/european-institute…
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BU post delves into forces driving global equilibrium real rates. Finds 3pp fall since 1970s driven by falling productivity growth + increased longevity. Unless these trends reverse/new forces emerge to offset them, long-run global R* likely to remain low bankunderground.co.uk/2023/1…
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Global R* has declined over 3% since the mid-70s due to lower productivity growth & increased longevity. Absent a reversal in trends or counteracting forces, a sustained low Global R* is anticipated. @AmbrogioCB, @rHarrisonMacro, Rana Sajedi @bankofengland ow.ly/tCGi50Qejx1
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To form a view on the long-run prospects for global interest rates, it's important to understand the driving forces underlying their secular trends New blog post based on our paper 𝑮𝒍𝒐𝒃𝒂𝒍 𝑹*, with @rHarrisonMacro and Rana Sajedi 👇 bankunderground.co.uk/2023/1…
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Silvana Tenreyro, @LSEEcon, now looks at whether the 2016 #referendum result provided news on a slowdown in future traded sector productivity as a result of a #Brexit. 3/n @NIESRreview
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New CEPR Discussion Paper - DP18595 Measuring Monetary Policy in the UK: the UK Monetary Policy Event-Study Database Robin Braun @robin_braun @federalreserve, Silvia Miranda-Agrippino @_SiLviA_mA @NewYorkFed, Tuli Saha @bankofengland ow.ly/KuiG50Q8Fkk #CEPR_MEF
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