Research Assistant at NUS Business School

Description:

From Sep 2024 to Present, I served as a full-time Research Assistant under Professor Karsten Mueller at the Department of Finance, NUS Business School. During this period, I assisted Professor Mueller with the following tasks:

The Global Industrial Policy Race: Evidence from Export Credits

• Conducted data collection and analysis from OECD, BIS, and External Data Hub databases, identifying bilateral export credit data. Integrated this data with export credit records published by national exportimport banks and Chinese export credit information from the AidDataset.
• Utilized descriptive statistics and visualizations to map the structure of the global export credit market, assessing its role within industrial policy.
• Contributed to empirical modeling to examine the impact of the U.S. Export-Import Bank shutdown on global export credit market dynamics and evaluated the influence of geopolitical factors in shaping export credit policies.

The Global Macro Project

• Built a comprehensive global macroeconomic database spanning over 200 years, covering key macroeconomic indicators.
• Gathered data from diverse sources, including academic papers, yearbooks, and databases, converting and consolidating these into consistent long-term macroeconomic time series.
• Managed data processing across various sources, ensuring compatibility and accuracy for seamless integration into a unified dataset